and set two men, base fellows, before him, and let them testify against him, saying, You did curse God and the king. Then carry him out, and stone him to death.
1 Kings 21:11 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) The men of his city, even the elders and the nobles who lived in his city, did as Izevel had sent to them, according as it was written in the letters which she had sent to them. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And the men of his city, even the elders and the nobles who were the inhabitants in his city, did as Jezebel had sent unto them, and as it was written in the letters which she had sent unto them. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition And the men of his city, the elders and the nobles who dwelt there, did as Jezebel had directed in the letters sent them. American Standard Version (1901) And the men of his city, even the elders and the nobles who dwelt in his city, did as Jezebel had sent unto them, according as it was written in the letters which she had sent unto them. Common English Bible The elders and the officials who lived in Naboth’s town did exactly as Jezebel specified in the letters that she had sent. Catholic Public Domain Version Then his fellow citizens, those greater by birth and the nobles who were living with him in the city, did just as Jezebel had instructed them, and just as it was written in the letters that she had sent to them. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And the men of his city, the ancients and nobles, that dwelt with him in the city, did as Jezabel had commanded them, and as it was written in the letters which she had sent to them. |
and set two men, base fellows, before him, and let them testify against him, saying, You did curse God and the king. Then carry him out, and stone him to death.
They conspired against him, and stoned him with stones at the mitzvah of the king in the court of the house of the LORD.
But the midwives feared God, and didn't do what the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the baby boys alive.
It happened, because the midwives feared God, that he gave them families.
Many seek the ruler's favor, but a man's justice comes from the LORD.
Justice is turned away backward, and righteousness stands afar off; for truth is fallen in the street, and uprightness can't enter.
Efrayim is oppressed, he is crushed in judgment; Because he is intent in his pursuit of idols.
*'You shall do no injustice in judgment: you shall not be partial to the poor, nor show favoritism to the great; but in righteousness shall you judge your neighbor.
For the statutes of `Omri 1 are kept, and all the works of the house of Ach'av. You walk in their counsels, that I may make you a ruin, and her inhabitants a hissing; And you will bear the reproach of my people.*
Being warned in a dream that they shouldn't return to Herod, they went back to their own country another way.
Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked by the wise men, was exceedingly angry, and sent out, and killed all the male children who were in Beit-Lechem and in all the surrounding countryside, from two years old and under, according to the exact time which he had learned from the wise men.
But Kefa and Yochanan answered them, *Whether it is right in the sight of God to listen to you rather than to God, judge for yourselves,
But Kefa and the emissaries answered, *We must obey God rather than men.
The king said to the guard who stood about him, Turn, and kill the Kohanim of the LORD; because their hand also is with David, and because they knew that he fled, and didn't disclose it to me. But the servants of the king wouldn't put forth their hand to fall on the Kohanim of the LORD.
Now therefore, O king, come down, according to all the desire of your soul to come down; and our part shall be to deliver him up into the king's hand.