Now, as for those enemies of mine who did not want me to be their king, bring them here and kill them in my presence!' "

Ask, and I will give you all the nations; the whole earth will be yours.

You will break them with an iron rod; you will shatter them in pieces like a clay pot.' "

The king will capture all his enemies; he will capture everyone who hates him.

None of their descendants will survive; the king will kill them all.

"He will certainly kill those evil men," they answered, "and rent the vineyard out to other tenants, who will give him his share of the harvest at the right time."

The king was very angry; so he sent his soldiers, who killed those murderers and burned down their city.

But Paul and Barnabas spoke out even more boldly: "It was necessary that the word of God should be spoken first to you. But since you reject it and do not consider yourselves worthy of eternal life, we will leave you and go to the Gentiles.

And now we are slaves in the land that you gave us, this fertile land which gives us food.

What the land produces goes to the kings that you put over us because we sinned. They do as they please with us and our livestock, and we are in deep distress!"