2 Kings 1:9
9Then the king sent to him a captain of fifty men with his fifty. He went up to Elijah, who was sitting on the top of a hill, and said to him, a“O man of God, the king says, ‘Come down.’”2 Chronicles 16:10
10Then Asa was angry with the seer and put him bin the stocks in prison, for he was in a rage with him because of this. And Asa inflicted cruelties upon some of the people at the same time.2 Chronicles 24:20-22
Joash’s Treachery
20 cThen the Spirit of God clothed Zechariah dthe son of Jehoiada the priest, and he stood above the people, and said to them, “Thus says God, e‘Why do you break the commandments of the Lord, so that you cannot prosper? fBecause you have forsaken the Lord, he has forsaken you.’” 21But gthey conspired against him, hand by command of the king they stoned him with stones in the court of the house of the Lord. 22Thus Joash the king did not remember the kindness that Jehoiada, Zechariah’s father, had shown him, but killed his son. And when he was dying, he said, “May the Lord see iand avenge!” ▼▼Hebrew and seek
2 Chronicles 36:16
16 kBut they kept mocking the messengers of God, ldespising his words and scoffing at his prophets, muntil the wrath of the Lord rose against his people, until there was no remedy.Nehemiah 9:26
26 n“Nevertheless, they were disobedient and rebelled against you oand cast your law behind their back pand killed your prophets, who qhad warned them in order to turn them back to you, rand they committed great blasphemies.Jeremiah 2:30
30In vain have I sstruck your children;they took no correction;
tyour own sword devoured your prophets
like a ravening lion.
Jeremiah 26:8
8And when Jeremiah had finished speaking all that the Lord had commanded him to speak to all the people, then uthe priests and the prophets and all the people laid hold of him, saying, “You shall die!Jeremiah 26:21-23
21And when vKing Jehoiakim, with all his warriors and all the officials, heard his words, the king sought to put him to death. But when Uriah heard of it, he was afraid and fled and escaped to Egypt. 22Then wKing Jehoiakim sent to Egypt certain men, xElnathan the son of yAchbor and others with him, 23and they took Uriah from Egypt and brought him to King Jehoiakim, zwho struck him down with the sword and dumped his dead body into the burial place of the common people.
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