1Sa 15:26-31, 1Ki 14:5-18, 21:20, Jer 1:18, Dan 5:17-23, Mat 22:16 | ESV | STEP | And Samuel said to Saul , I will not return with you. For you have rejected the word of the Lord , and the Lord has rejected you from being king over Israel .

26 And Samuel said to Saul, “I will not return with you. ^aFor you have rejected the word of the Lord, ^band the Lord has rejected you from being king over Israel.” 27 ^cAs Samuel turned to go away, Saul seized the skirt of his robe, and it tore. 28 And Samuel said to him, ^d“The Lord has torn the kingdom of Israel from you this day and has given it to a neighbor of yours, who is better than you. 29 And also the Glory of Israel ^ewill not lie or have regret, for he is not a man, that he should have regret.” 30 Then he said, “I have sinned; yet ^fhonor me now before the elders of my people and before Israel, ^gand return with me, that I may bow before the Lord your God.” 31 So Samuel turned back after Saul, and Saul bowed before the Lord.

1 Kings 14:5-18

5 And the Lord said to ^hAhijah, “Behold, the wife of Jeroboam is coming to inquire of you concerning her son, for he is sick. Thus and thus shall you say to her.”

When she came, she pretended to be another woman. 6 But when ⁱAhijah heard the sound of her feet, as she came in at the door, he said, “Come in, wife of Jeroboam. Why do you pretend to be another? For I am charged with unbearable news for you. 7 Go, tell Jeroboam, ‘Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel: ^j“Because I exalted you from among the people and made you leader over my people Israel 8 and ^ktore the kingdom away from the house of David and gave it to you, and yet you have not been ^llike my servant David, who kept my commandments and followed me with all his heart, doing only that which was right in my eyes, 9 but you have done evil above all who were before you and have gone and ^mmade for yourself other gods and ⁿmetal images, provoking me to anger, and ^ohave cast me behind your back, 10 therefore behold, I will bring harm upon the house of Jeroboam and ^pwill cut off from Jeroboam every male, ^qboth bond and free in Israel, and ^rwill burn up the house of Jeroboam, as a man burns up dung until it is all gone. 11 ^sAnyone belonging to Jeroboam who dies in the city the dogs shall eat, and anyone who dies in the open country the birds of the heavens shall eat, for the Lord has spoken it.”’ 12 Arise therefore, go to your house. ^tWhen your feet enter the city, the child shall die. 13 And all Israel shall mourn for him and bury him, for he only of Jeroboam shall come to the grave, because in him ^uthere is found something pleasing to the Lord, the God of Israel, in the house of Jeroboam. 14 ^vMoreover, the Lord will raise up for himself a king over Israel who shall cut off the house of Jeroboam today. And henceforth, 15 the Lord will strike Israel as a reed is shaken in the water, and ^wroot up Israel out of ^xthis good land that he gave to their fathers and scatter them ^ybeyond the Euphrates, ^{▼▼Hebrew the River} because they have made their ^aaAsherim, provoking the Lord to anger. 16 And he will give Israel up because of the sins of Jeroboam, which he sinned and made Israel to sin.”

17 Then Jeroboam’s wife arose and departed and came to ^abTirzah. And ^acas she came to the threshold of the house, the child died. 18 And all Israel buried him and mourned for him, ^adaccording to the word of the Lord, which he spoke by his servant Ahijah the prophet.

1 Kings 21:20

20 Ahab said to Elijah, ^ae“Have you found me, O my enemy?” He answered, “I have found you, because ^afyou have sold yourself to do what is evil in the sight of the Lord.

Jeremiah 1:18

18 And I, behold, I make you this day ^aga fortified city, ^ahan iron pillar, and ^aibronze walls, against the whole land, against the kings of Judah, its officials, its priests, and the people of the land.

Daniel 5:17-23

17 Then Daniel answered and said before the king, ^aj“Let your gifts be for yourself, and give your rewards to another. Nevertheless, I will read the writing to the king and make known to him the interpretation. 18 O king, the ^akMost High God ^algave ^amNebuchadnezzar your father ^ankingship and greatness and glory and majesty. 19 And because of the greatness that he gave him, ^aoall peoples, nations, and languages ^aptrembled and feared before him. Whom he would, he killed, and whom he would, he kept alive; whom he would, he raised up, and whom he would, he humbled. 20 But ^aqwhen his heart was lifted up and his spirit was hardened so that he dealt proudly, ^arhe was brought down from his kingly throne, and his glory was taken from him. 21 ^asHe was driven from among the children of mankind, and his mind was made like that of a beast, and his dwelling was with the wild donkeys. He was fed grass like an ox, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven, ^atuntil he knew that the ^auMost High God rules the kingdom of mankind and sets over it whom he will. 22 And you his son, ^{▼▼Or successor} ^awBelshazzar, ^axhave not humbled your heart, though you knew all this, 23 but you have lifted up yourself against ^aythe Lord of heaven. And ^azthe vessels of his house have been brought in before you, and you and your lords, your wives, and your concubines have drunk wine from them. ^baAnd you have praised the gods of silver and gold, of bronze, iron, wood, and stone, which do not see or hear or know, ^bbbut the God in whose hand is your breath, and ^bcwhose are all your ways, ^bdyou have not honored.

Matthew 22:16

16 And they sent ^betheir disciples to him, along with ^bfthe Herodians, saying, “Teacher, ^bgwe know that you are true and teach ^bhthe way of God truthfully, and you do not care about anyone’s opinion, for ^biyou are not swayed by appearances. ^{▼▼Greek for you do not look at people’s faces}