Then Solomon made a solemn promise in the LORD's name, "May God strike me dead if I don't make Adonijah pay with his life for asking this!

but people like that are setting a trap for themselves, a trap in which they will die.

Those who do not find me hurt themselves; anyone who hates me loves death."

Fear an angry king as you would a growling lion; making him angry is suicide.

But your schemes have brought shame on your family; by destroying many nations you have only brought ruin on yourself.

This was a warning to the Israelites that no one who was not a descendant of Aaron should come to the altar to burn incense for the LORD. Otherwise he would be destroyed like Korah and his men. All this was done as the LORD had commanded Eleazar through Moses.

The LORD said to Moses, "Put Aaron's stick back in front of the Covenant Box. It is to be kept as a warning to the rebel Israelites that they will die unless their complaining stops."

The ground opened and swallowed them, and they died with Korah and his followers when fire destroyed 250 men; they became a warning to the people.

I will oppose you. I will make an example of you. I will remove you from the community of my people, so that all of you will know that I am the LORD.

All these things happened to them as examples for others, and they were written down as a warning for us. For we live at a time when the end is about to come.

God condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, destroying them with fire, and made them an example of what will happen to the godless.