1 Kings 21:13

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1 Kings 21:13

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Summary

And there came in two men, children of Belial, and sat before him: and the men of Belial witnessed against him, even against Naboth, in the presence of the people, saying, Naboth did blaspheme God and the king. Then they carried him forth out of the city, and stoned him with stones, that he died.

The men of belial

Blaspheme god

The king

They carried him

General references

Bible References

The men of belial

“You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.

‘You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.

If a malicious witness rises up against a man to accuse him of wrongdoing,

Do not deliver me over to the

desire of my adversaries,

For false witnesses have risen against me,
And such as breathe out violence.

Malicious witnesses rise up;

They ask me of things that I do not know.

A false witness who utters lies,
And one who

spreads strife among brothers.

A false witness will not go unpunished,
And he who

tells lies will not escape.

Like a club and a sword and a sharp arrow
Is a man who bears false witness against his neighbor.

“Then I will draw near to you for judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers and against the adulterers and against those who swear falsely, and against those who oppress the wage earner in his wages, the widow and the orphan, and those who turn aside the

alien and do not fear Me,” says the Lord of hosts.

For many were giving false testimony against Him, but their testimony was not consistent.

Blaspheme god

When the days of feasting had completed their cycle, Job would send and consecrate them, rising up early in the morning and offering burnt offerings according to the number of them all; for Job said, “Perhaps my sons have sinned and cursed God in their hearts.” Thus Job did continually.

Then his wife said to him, “Do you still hold fast your integrity? Curse God and die!”

And some of the scribes said to themselves, “This fellow blasphemes.”

Then they secretly induced men to say, “We have heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses and against God.”

The king

Furthermore, in your bedchamber do not curse a king, and in your sleeping rooms do not curse a rich man, for a bird of the heavens will carry the sound and the winged creature will make the matter known.

They will pass through the land hard-pressed and famished, and it will turn out that when they are hungry, they will be enraged and curse their king and their God as they face upward.

Then Amaziah, the priest of Bethel, sent word to Jeroboam king of Israel, saying, “Amos has conspired against you in the midst of the house of Israel; the land is unable to endure all his words.

And they began to accuse Him, saying, “We found this man misleading our nation and forbidding to pay taxes to Caesar, and saying that He Himself is Christ, a King.”

As a result of this Pilate made efforts to release Him, but the Jews cried out saying, “If you release this Man, you are no friend of Caesar; everyone who makes himself out to be a king opposes Caesar.”

For we have found this man a real pest and a fellow who stirs up dissension among all the Jews throughout the world, and a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes.

They carried him

The son of the Israelite woman blasphemed the Name and cursed. So they brought him to Moses. (Now his mother’s name was Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan.)

Then the Lord said to Moses, “The man shall surely be put to death; all the congregation shall stone him with stones outside the camp.”

So you shall stone him to death because he has sought to seduce you from the Lord your God who brought you out from the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.

Then all the men of his city shall stone him to death; so you shall remove the evil from your midst, and all Israel will hear of it and fear.

then they shall bring out the girl to the doorway of her father’s house, and the men of her city shall stone her to death because she has committed an act of folly in Israel by playing the harlot in her father’s house; thus you shall purge the evil from among you.

Then Joshua and all Israel with him, took Achan the son of Zerah, the silver, the mantle, the bar of gold, his sons, his daughters, his oxen, his donkeys, his sheep, his tent and all that belonged to him; and they brought them up to the valley of Achor.

‘Surely I have seen yesterday the blood of Naboth and the blood of his sons,’ says the Lord, ‘and I will repay you in this property,’ says the Lord. Now then, take and cast him into the property, according to the word of the Lord.”

Then I looked again at all the acts of oppression which were being done under the sun. And behold I saw the tears of the oppressed and that they had no one to comfort them; and on the side of their oppressors was power, but they had no one to comfort them.

But they cried out with a loud voice, and covered their ears and rushed at him with one impulse.

General references

Then she spoke to him with these words, “The Hebrew slave, whom you brought to us, came in to me to make sport of me;

“You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.

‘You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.

A trustworthy witness will not lie,
But a false witness

utters lies.

If a ruler pays attention to falsehood,
All his ministers become wicked.

You have heard the blasphemy; how does it seem to you?” And they all condemned Him to be deserving of death.