1 Kings 21:14
And they sent word to Jezebel, saying, Naboth has been stoned and is dead.
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1 Kings 21:14
And they sent word to Jezebel, saying, Naboth has been stoned and is dead.
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Exodus 20:16
Do not give false witness against your neighbour.
Exodus 23:1
Do not let a false statement go further; do not make an agreement with evil-doers to be a false witness.
Deuteronomy 19:16
If a false witness makes a statement against a man, saying that he has done wrong,
Deuteronomy 19:17
Then the two men, between whom the argument has taken place, are to come before the Lord, before the priests and judges who are then in power;
Deuteronomy 19:18
And the judges will have the question looked into with care: and if the witness is seen to be false and to have made a false statement against his brother,
Deuteronomy 19:19
Then do to him what it was his purpose to do to his brother: and so put away the evil from among you.
Deuteronomy 19:20
And the rest of the people, hearing of it, will be full of fear, and never again do such evil among you.
Psalms 27:12
Do not give me into their hands, because false witnesses have come out against me, and men breathing destruction.
Psalms 35:11
False witnesses got up: they put questions to me about crimes of which I had no knowledge.
Proverbs 6:19
A false witness, breathing out untrue words, and one who lets loose violent acts among brothers.
Proverbs 12:17
The breathing out of true words gives knowledge of righteousness; but a false witness gives out deceit.
Proverbs 19:5
A false witness will not go without punishment, and the breather out of deceit will not go free.
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Deuteronomy 1:17
In judging, do not let a man's position have any weight with you; give hearing equally to small and great; have no fear of any man, for it is God who is judge: and any cause in which you are not able to give a decision, you are to put before me and I will give it a hearing.
Proverbs 18:5
To have respect for the person of the evil-doer is not good, or to give a wrong decision against the upright.
Proverbs 29:25
The fear of man is a cause of danger: but whoever puts his faith in the Lord will have a safe place on high.
Proverbs 29:26
The approval of a ruler is desired by great numbers: but the decision in a man's cause comes from the Lord.
Jeremiah 1:17
So make yourself ready, and go and say to them everything I give you orders to say: do not be overcome by fear of them, or I will send fear on you before them.
Matthew 22:16
And they sent to him their disciples, with the Herodians, saying, Master, we see that you are true, and that you are teaching the true way of God, and have no fear of anyone, because you have no respect for a man's position.
Mark 12:14
And when they had come, they said to him, Master, we are certain that you are true, and have no fear of anyone: you have no respect for a man's position, but you are teaching the true way of God: Is it right to give taxes to Caesar or not?
1 Thessalonians 2:4
But even as the good news was given to us by the approval of God, so we give it out; not as pleasing men, but God by whom our hearts are tested.
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Deuteronomy 16:18
You are to make judges and overseers in all your towns which the Lord your God gives you, for every tribe: and they are to be upright men, judging the people in righteousness.
Job 22:8
For it was the man with power who had the land, and the man with an honoured name who was living in it.
Job 29:7
When I went out of my door to go up to the town, and took my seat in the public place,
Job 29:8
The young men saw me, and went away, and the old men got up from their seats;
Job 29:9
The rulers kept quiet, and put their hands on their mouths;
Job 29:10
The chiefs kept back their words, and their tongues were joined to the roofs of their mouths.
Job 29:11
For when it came to their ears, men said that I was truly happy; and when their eyes saw, they gave witness to me;
Job 29:12
For I was a saviour to the poor when he was crying for help, to the child with no father, and to him who had no supporter.
Job 29:13
The blessing of him who was near to destruction came on me, and I put a song of joy into the widow's heart.
Job 29:14
I put on righteousness as my clothing, and was full of it; right decisions were to me a robe and a head-dress.
Job 29:15
I was eyes to the blind, and feet to him who had no power of walking.
Job 29:16
I was a father to the poor, searching out the cause of him who was strange to me.
Job 29:17
By me the great teeth of the evil-doer were broken, and I made him give up what he had violently taken away.
Psalms 12:8
The sinners are walking on every side, and evil is honoured among the children of men.
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1 Samuel 22:17
Then the king said to the runners who were waiting near him, Put the priests of the Lord to death; because they are on David's side, and having knowledge of his flight, did not give me word of it. But the king's servants would not put out their hands to make an attack on the Lord's priests.
1 Samuel 22:18
Then the king said to Doeg, You are to put the priests to death. And Doeg the Edomite, turning on the priests and attacking them, put to death that day eighty-five men who took up the ephod.
1 Samuel 22:19
And Nob, the town of the priests, he put to the sword, all the men and women, children and babies at the breast, and oxen and asses and sheep.
2 Samuel 3:27
And when Abner was back in Hebron, Joab took him on one side by the doorway of the town to have a word with him quietly, and there he gave him a wound in the stomach, causing his death in payment for the death of his brother Asahel.
2 Samuel 20:9
And Joab said to Amasa, Is it well, my brother? And with his right hand he took him by the hair of his chin to give him a kiss.
2 Samuel 20:10
But Amasa did not see danger from the sword which was now in Joab's left hand, and Joab put it through his stomach so that his inside came out on to the earth, and he did not give him another blow. So Joab and his brother Abishai went on after Sheba, the son of Bichri.
1 Kings 2:5
Now you have knowledge of what Joab, the son of Zeruiah, did to me, and to the two captains of the army of Israel, Abner, the son of Ner, and Amasa, the son of Jether, whom he put to death, taking payment for the blood of war in time of peace, and making the band of my clothing and the shoes on my feet red with the blood of one put to death without cause.
1 Kings 2:31
And the king said, Do as he has said and make an attack on him there, and put his body into the earth; so that you may take away from me and from my family the blood of one put to death by Joab without cause.
1 Kings 2:32
And the Lord will send back his blood on his head, because of the attack he made on two men more upright and better than himself, putting them to the sword without my father's knowledge; even Abner, the son of Ner, captain of the army of Israel, and Amasa, the son of Jether, captain of the army of Judah.
1 Kings 2:33
So their blood will be on the head of Joab, and on the head of his seed for ever; but for David and his seed and his family and the seat of his kingdom, there will be peace for ever from the Lord.
1 Kings 2:34
So Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada, went up, and falling on him, put him to death; and his body was put to rest in his house in the waste land.
Proverbs 29:12
If a ruler gives attention to false words, all his servants are evil-doers.
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2 Kings 9:31
And when Jehu was coming into the town, she said, Is all well, O Zimri, taker of your master's life?
2 Kings 9:32
Then, looking up to the window, he said, Who is on my side, who? and two or three unsexed servants put out their heads.
2 Kings 9:35
And they went out to put her body into the earth, but nothing of her was to be seen, only the bones of her head, and her feet, and parts of her hands.
2 Kings 9:36
So they came back and gave him word of it. And he said, This is what the Lord said by his servant Elijah the Tishbite, saying, In the heritage of Jezreel the flesh of Jezebel will become food for dogs;
2 Kings 9:37
And the dead body of Jezebel will be like waste dropped on the face of the earth in the heritage of Jezreel; so that they will not be able to say, This is Jezebel.
2 Kings 10:8
And a man came and said to him, They have come with the heads of the king's sons. And he said, Put them down in two masses at the doorway of the town till the morning.
Revelation 2:20
But I have this against you, that you let the woman Jezebel say she is a prophet and give false teaching, making my servants go after the desires of the flesh and take food offered to false gods.
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1 Samuel 23:20
So now, O king, have your soul's desire and come down, and we, for our part, will give him up into the king's hands.
1 Kings 16:31
And as if copying the evil ways of Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, was a small thing for him, he took as his wife Jezebel, daughter of Ethbaal, king of Zidon, and became a servant and worshipper of Baal.
1 Kings 18:4
For when Jezebel was cutting off the prophets of the Lord, Obadiah took a hundred of them, and kept them secretly in a hole in the rock, fifty at a time, and gave them bread and water.)
1 Kings 18:19
Now send, and get Israel together before me at Mount Carmel, with the four hundred and fifty prophets of Baal who get their food at Jezebel's table.
1 Kings 19:1
Ahab gave Jezebel news of all Elijah had done, and how he had put all the prophets to death with the sword.
1 Kings 19:2
Then Jezebel sent a servant to Elijah, saying, May the gods' punishment be on me if I do not make your life like the life of one of them by tomorrow about this time.
2 Kings 3:2
He did evil in the eyes of the Lord; but not like his father and his mother, for he put away the stone pillar of Baal which his father had made.
2 Kings 9:22
Now when Joram saw Jehu he said, Is it peace, Jehu? And he said in answer, What peace is possible while all the land is full of the disgusting sins of your mother Jezebel, and her secret arts?
2 Kings 9:30
And when Jehu came to Jezreel, Jezebel had news of it; and, painting her eyes and dressing her hair with ornaments, she put her head out of the window.
2 Kings 10:1
Now there were in Samaria seventy of Ahab's sons. And Jehu sent letters to Samaria, to the rulers of the town, and to the responsible men, and to those who had the care of the sons of Ahab, saying,
2 Kings 10:5
So the controller of the king's house, with the ruler of the town, and the responsible men, and those who had the care of Ahab's sons, sent to Jehu, saying, We are your servants and will do all your orders; we will not make any man king; do whatever seems best to you.
Psalms 54:3
For men who are going after me have come out against me, violent men are purposing to take my soul; they have not put God before their eyes. (Selah.)
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Job 31:39
If I have taken its produce without payment, causing the death of its owners;
Isaiah 1:10
Give ear to the word of the Lord, you rulers of Sodom; let your hearts be turned to the law of our God, you people of Gomorrah.
Isaiah 1:15
And when your hands are stretched out to me, my eyes will be turned away from you: even though you go on making prayers, I will not give ear: your hands are full of blood.
Isaiah 59:3
For your hands are unclean with blood, and your fingers with sin; your lips have said false things, and your tongue gives out deceit.
Jeremiah 22:17
But your eyes and your heart are fixed only on profit for yourself, on causing the death of him who has done no wrong, and on violent and cruel acts.
Ezekiel 19:3
And one of her little ones came to growth under her care, and became a young lion, learning to go after beasts for his food; and he took men for his meat.
Ezekiel 19:6
And he went up and down among the lions and became a young lion, learning to go after beasts for his food; and he took men for his meat.
Ezekiel 22:6
See, the rulers of Israel, every one in his family, have been causing death in you.
Ezekiel 22:13
See, then, I have made my hands come together in wrath against your taking of goods by force and against the blood which has been flowing in you.
Ezekiel 22:27
Her rulers in her are like wolves violently taking their food; putting men to death and causing the destruction of souls, so that they may get their profit.
Micah 3:2
You who are haters of good and lovers of evil, pulling off their skin from them and their flesh from their bones;
Micah 3:3
Like meat they take the flesh of my people for their food, skinning them and crushing their bones, yes, cutting them up as if for the pot, like flesh inside the cooking-pot.
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1 Kings 21:19
Say to him, The Lord says, Have you put a man to death and taken his heritage? Then say to him, The Lord says, In the place where dogs have been drinking the blood of Naboth, there will your blood become the drink of dogs.
2 Kings 21:16
More than this, Manasseh took the lives of upright men, till Jerusalem from one end to the other was full of blood; in addition to his sin in making Judah do evil in the eyes of the Lord.
Proverbs 1:19
Such is the fate of everyone who goes in search of profit; it takes away the life of its owners.
Isaiah 5:23
Who for a reward give support to the cause of the sinner, and who take away the righteousness of the upright from him.
Isaiah 26:21
For the Lord is coming out of his place to send punishment on the people of the earth for their evil-doing: the earth will let the blood drained out on her be seen, and will keep her dead covered no longer.
Isaiah 32:7
The designs of the false are evil, purposing the destruction of the poor man by false words, even when he is in the right.
Jeremiah 2:30
I gave your children blows to no purpose; they got no good from training: your sword has been the destruction of your prophets, like a death-giving lion.
Lamentations 4:13
It is because of the sins of her prophets and the evil-doing of her priests, by whom the blood of the upright has been drained out in her.
Ezekiel 22:12
In you they have taken rewards as the price of blood; you have taken interest and great profits, and you have taken away your neighbours' goods by force, and have not kept me in mind, says the Lord.
Micah 3:1
And I said, Give ear, now, you heads of Jacob and rulers of the people of Israel: is it not for you to have knowledge of what is right?
Zephaniah 3:3
Her rulers are like loud-voiced lions in her; her judges are wolves of the evening, crushing up the bones before the morning.
Mark 6:28
And came back with the head on a plate, and gave it to the girl; and the girl gave it to her mother.
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Proverbs 19:9
A false witness will not go without punishment, and the breather out of deceit will be cut off.
Proverbs 25:18
One who gives false witness against his neighbour is a hammer and a sword and a sharp arrow.
Matthew 15:19
For out of the heart come evil thoughts, the taking of life, broken faith between the married, unclean desires of the flesh, taking of property, false witness, bitter words:
Matthew 26:59
Now the chief priests and all the Sanhedrin were looking for false witness against Jesus, so that they might put him to death;
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2 Samuel 11:14
Now in the morning, David gave Uriah a letter to take to Joab.
2 Samuel 11:15
And in the letter he said, Take care to put Uriah in the very front of the line, where the fighting is most violent, and go back from him, so that he may be overcome and put to death.
2 Samuel 11:17
And the men of the town went out and had a fight with Joab: and a number of David's men came to their death in the fight, and with them Uriah the Hittite.
2 Samuel 11:22
So the man went, and came to David, and gave him all the news which Joab had sent him to give; then David was angry with Joab and said, Why did you go so near the town for the fight? was it not certain that their archers would be on the wall? who put Abimelech, the son of Jerubbaal, to death? did not a woman send a great stone down on him from the wall, putting him to death at Thebez? why did you go so near the wall?
2 Samuel 11:23
And the man said to David, Truly the men got the better of us, and came out against us into the open country, but we sent them back to the very doors of the town.
2 Samuel 11:24
And the archers sent their arrows at your servants from the wall, and some of the king's servants are dead, and among them is your servant Uriah the Hittite.
Ecclesiastes 5:8
If you see the poor under a cruel yoke, and law and right being violently overturned in a country, be not surprised, because one authority is keeping watch on another and there are higher than they.
Ecclesiastes 8:14
There is a thing which is to no purpose done on the earth: that there are good men to whom is given the same punishment as those who are evil, and there are evil men who get the reward of the good. I say that this again is to no purpose.
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Isaiah 59:4
No one puts forward an upright cause, or gives a true decision: their hope is in deceit, and their words are false; they are with child with sin, and give birth to evil.
Isaiah 59:14
And the right is turned back, and righteousness is far away: for good faith is not to be seen in the public places, and upright behaviour may not come into the town.
Ezekiel 22:25
Her rulers in her are like a loud-voiced lion violently taking his food; they have made a meal of souls; they have taken wealth and valued property; they have made great the number of widows in her.
Ezekiel 22:26
Her priests have been acting violently against my law; they have made my holy things unclean: they have made no division between what is holy and what is common, and they have not made it clear that the unclean is different from the clean, and their eyes have been shut to my Sabbaths, and I am not honoured among them.
Ezekiel 22:28
And her prophets have been using whitewash, seeing foolish visions and making false use of secret arts, saying, This is what the Lord has said, when the Lord has said nothing.
Ezekiel 33:25
For this cause say to them, This is what the Lord has said: You take your meat with the blood, your eyes are lifted up to your images, and you are takers of life: are you to have the land for your heritage?
Ezekiel 33:26
You put your faith in your swords, you do disgusting things, everyone takes his neighbour's wife: are you to have the land for your heritage?
Ezekiel 34:3
You take the milk and are clothed with the wool, you put the fat beasts to death, but you give the sheep no food.
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2 Samuel 14:30
So he said to his servants, See, Joab's field is near mine, and he has barley in it; go and put it on fire. And Absalom's servants put the field on fire.
Hosea 5:11
Ephraim is troubled; he is crushed by his judges, because he took pleasure in walking after deceit.
Acts 5:29
But Peter and the Apostles, answering, said, We have to do the orders of God, not of man.
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Leviticus 24:16
And he who says evil against the name of the Lord will certainly be put to death; he will be stoned by all the people; the man who is not of your nation and one who is an Israelite by birth, whoever says evil against the holy Name is to be put to death.
2 Chronicles 24:21
But when they had made a secret design against him, he was stoned with stones, by the king's order, in the outer square of the Lord's house.
Matthew 9:3
And some of the scribes said among themselves, This man has no respect for God.
Matthew 21:35
And the workmen made an attack on his servants, giving blows to one, putting another to death, and stoning another.
Matthew 23:37
O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, putting to death the prophets, and stoning those who are sent to her! Again and again would I have taken your children to myself as a bird takes her young ones under her wings, and you would not!
Matthew 26:65
Then the high priest, violently parting his robes, said, He has said evil against God: what more need have we of witnesses? for now his words against God have come to your ears:
Luke 5:21
And the scribes and Pharisees were having an argument, saying, Who is this, who has no respect for God? who is able to give forgiveness for sins, but God only?
John 10:31
Then the Jews took up stones again to send at him.
John 10:32
Jesus said to them in answer, I have let you see a number of good works from the Father; for which of those works are you stoning me?
Acts 7:58
Driving him out of the town and stoning him: and the witnesses put their clothing at the feet of a young man named Saul.
Acts 7:59
And Stephen, while he was being stoned, made prayer to God, saying, Lord Jesus, take my spirit.
Hebrews 11:37
They were stoned, they were cut up with knives, they were tested, they were put to death with the sword, they went about in sheepskins and in goatskins; being poor and in pain and cruelly attacked,
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Luke 13:34
O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, putting to death the prophets, and stoning those who were sent to her! again and again would I have taken your children to myself, as a bird takes her young ones under her wings, but you would not!
Acts 14:19
But some Jews came to that place from Antioch and Iconium, and got control over the people; and after stoning Paul, they had him pulled out of the town, taking him for dead.
2 Corinthians 11:25
Three times I was whipped with rods, once I was stoned, three times the ship I was in came to destruction at sea, a night and a day I have been in the water;
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John 8:3
Now the scribes and Pharisees came, with a woman who had been taken in the act of sinning against the married relation;
John 8:9
And when his words came to their ears, they went out one by one, starting with the oldest even to the last, because they were conscious of what was in their hearts: and Jesus was there by himself with the woman before him.
Acts 4:7
Then sending for Peter and John, they said, By what power and in whose name have you done this?
Acts 5:27
And they took them into the Sanhedrin, and the high priest said to them,
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