1Sa 26:19, 2Sa 24:1, 1Ki 11:11, 14, 23, 2Ch 33:11, Ezr 1:1, 5, Isa 10:5-6 | ESV | STEP | Now therefore let my lord the king hear the words of his servant . If it is the Lord who has stirred you up against me, may he accept an offering , but if it is men , may they be cursed before the Lord , for they have driven me out this day that I should have no share in the heritage of the Lord , saying , Go , serve other gods .

1 Samuel 26:19

19 Now therefore let my lord the king hear the words of his servant. If it is the Lord who has stirred you up against me, may he accept an offering, but if it is men, may they be cursed before the Lord, ^afor they have driven me out this day that I should have no share in ^bthe heritage of the Lord, saying, ‘Go, serve other gods.’

2 Samuel 24:1

David’s Census

1 ^c, ^dAgain the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel, and he incited David against them, saying, ^e“Go, number Israel and Judah.”

1 Kings 11:11

11 Therefore the Lord said to Solomon, “Since this has been your practice and you have not kept my covenant and my statutes that I have commanded you, ^fI will surely tear the kingdom from you and will give it to your servant.

1 Kings 11:14

14 And the Lord raised up an adversary against Solomon, Hadad the Edomite. He was of the royal house in Edom.

1 Kings 11:23

23 God also raised up as an adversary to him, Rezon the son of Eliada, who had fled from his master ^gHadadezer king of Zobah.

2 Chronicles 33:11

11 ^hTherefore the Lord brought upon them the commanders of the army of the king of Assyria, who captured Manasseh with hooks and ⁱbound him with chains of bronze and brought him to Babylon.

Ezra 1:1

The Proclamation of Cyrus

1 ^jIn the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, ^kthat the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremiah might be fulfilled, the Lord stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, so ^lthat he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom and also put it in writing:

Ezra 1:5

5 Then rose up the heads of the fathers’ houses of Judah and Benjamin, and the priests and the Levites, ^meveryone whose spirit ⁿGod had stirred to go up to rebuild the house of the Lord that is in Jerusalem.

Isaiah 10:5-6

Judgment on Arrogant Assyria

5 Woe to Assyria, ^othe rod of my anger;
the staff in their hands is my fury!
6 Against a ^pgodless nation I send him,
and against the people of my wrath I command him,
to take ^qspoil and seize plunder,
and to ^rtread them down like the mire of the streets.