Then he said to the guards standing near him, "Kill the LORD's priests! They conspired with David and did not tell me that he had run away, even though they knew it all along." But the guards refused to lift a hand to kill the LORD's priests.

When the woman saw Samuel, she screamed and said to Saul, "Why have you tricked me? You are King Saul!"

When Herod realized that the visitors from the East had tricked him, he was furious. He gave orders to kill all the boys in Bethlehem and its neighborhood who were two years old and younger---this was done in accordance with what he had learned from the visitors about the time when the star had appeared.

When Ahab saw Elijah, he said, "Have you caught up with me, my enemy?" "Yes, I have," Elijah answered. "You have devoted yourself completely to doing what is wrong in the LORD's sight.

Have I now become your enemy by telling you the truth?

Absalom's officials came to the house and asked the woman, "Where are Ahimaaz and Jonathan?" "They crossed the river," she answered. The men looked for them but could not find them, and so they returned to Jerusalem.

When Saul's men came to get David, Michal told them that he was sick.

But the midwives were God-fearing and so did not obey the king; instead, they let the boys live.

They answered, "The Hebrew women are not like Egyptian women; they give birth easily, and their babies are born before either of us gets there."

Once more Abner said to him, "Stop chasing me! Why force me to kill you? How could I face your brother Joab?"