1 Kings 21:11 Cross References - Thomson

¹¹ And the men of the city, the elders and freemen who dwelt in his city did as Jezabel had sent to them, even as it was written in the letter she sent them.

¹⁷ But the midwives feared God and did not do as the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the males.

²¹ And because the midwives feared God they established families for themselves.

¹ Thou shalt not countenance an idle report, nor conspire with the unrighteous to be a false witness. ² Thou shalt not be with the majority in wickedness, nor join with the multitude to shut out justice.

¹⁵ you shall not do an unjust thing in the execution of justice: thou shalt not respect the face of the poor, nor revere the face of the mighty. With righteousness thou shalt judge thy neighbour.

¹⁷ And the king said to the light infantry who stood before him, Go near and put to death the priests of the Lord, because their hand was with David; and because they knew that he was fleeing, and did not inform me. And when the servants of the king refused to lift their hands against the priests of the Lord,

²⁰ Now therefore every thing answereth the king's desire to induce him to come down. Come down to us. He is shut into the king's hands.

⁶ Thereupon Jehu wrote them a second letter saying, If you are for me and will hearken to my voice, take the heads of the men; the sons of your lord and bring them to me about this time tomorrow to Jezrael. Now the king's sons were seventy men and the nobles of that city brought them up. ⁷ So when this letter reached them, they took the king's sons and slew them, the seventy men, and put their heads in baskets, and sent them to him at Jezrael.

²¹ Upon this they fell upon him and stoned him by the command of the king, in the court of the house of the Lord.

¹² When a king hearkeneth to falsehood, all under him are transgressors.

²⁶ Many court the favour of princes: but justice cometh to a man from the Lord.

¹⁸ But even though he do not, be it known to thee, king, that we cannot serve thy gods, nor will we worship the image which thou hast set up. ¹⁹ At this Nabuchodonosar was filled with wrath, and the form of his countenance was changed against Sedrach, Misach and Abdenago. And he ordered to heat the furnace seven fold, till it was hot as possible: ²⁰ and commanded some strong men to bind Sedrach, Misach and Abdenago, and cast them into the furnace of fire which was heated. ²¹ Then were these men bound, clad as they were with their Babylonish dress and with turbans and boots; and cast into the midst of the furnace of fire which was heated, ²² as the command of the king was peremptory. But though the furnace was heated to an excessive degree and ²³ these three men, Sedrach, Misach and Abdenago fell bound into the midst of the glowing furnace, yet they walked about in the midst of the flame, praising God and blessing the Lord. ²⁴ When Nabuchodonosar heard them singing praise he was amazed and starting up hastily said to his nobles, Did we not cast three men bound into the midst of the fire? And when they said to the king, True, king, ²⁵ the king said, Here I see four men loose and walking about in the midst of the fire unhurt: And the appearance of the fourth is like a son of a god.

¹¹ Ephraim tyrannised over his adversary, he trampled down judgment; because he set the example of going after vanities,

¹⁶ As thou hast kept the statutes of Zambri, and all the works of the house of Achab; and you have walked in their ways, that I might deliver thee up to desolation, and the inhabitants of this city to hissing; therefore you shall bear the reproaches of peoples.

¹² And being warned in a dream not to return to Herod, they went to their own country by another way.

¹⁶ When Herod saw that he was treated with contempt by the magians, he was highly incensed, and he sent and slew all the male children in Bethlehem and all the territory belonging thereto, from those who had entered the second year and under, according to the time, of which he had. got exact information from the magians.

¹⁹ But Peter and John in reply to them, said, Whether it be right in the sight of God to hearken to you rather than to God, judge ye.

²⁹ In reply to which Peter and the apostles said, We must obey God rather than men.