You shall not bow down to them, nor serve them; for I am the Lord your God, a jealous God, recompensing the sins of the fathers upon the children, to the third and fourth generation to them that hate Me,

And those who are left of you shall perish, because of their sins, and because of the sins of their fathers: in the land of their enemies shall they consume away.

Let it fall upon the head of Joab, and upon all the house of his father; and let there not be wanting of the house of Joab one that has an issue, or a leper, or that leans on a staff, or that falls by the sword, or that wants bread.

And there was a famine in the days of David three years, year after year; and David sought the face of the Lord. And the Lord said, [There is] guilt upon Saul and his house because of his bloody murder, whereby he slew the Gibeonites.

And the king took the two sons of Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, whom she bore to Saul, Armoni and Memphibosheth, and the five sons of Michal daughter of Saul, whom she bore to Adriel son of Barzillai the Meholathite.

And he gave them into the hand of the Gibeonites, and they hanged them up to the sun in the mountain before the lord. And they fell, even the seven together. Moreover they were put to death in the days of harvest at the commencement, in the beginning of the barley harvest.

"So that you testify against yourselves that you are sons of those who killed the prophets.

Serpents! Brood of vipers! How shall you escape from the condemnation of hell?

so that on you may come all the righteous blood being shed on the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah, son of Berechiah, whom you murdered between the temple and the altar.

And he walked in the way of the house of Ahab, and did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord, as did the house of Ahab.

But when Ahaziah king of Judah saw [it], he fled by the way of Beth Haggan. And Jehu pursued after him, and said, [Slay] him also. So one shot him in the chariot at the Ascent of Gur, which is by Ibleam. And he fled to Megiddo, and died there.

And Jehu found the brethren of Ahaziah king of Judah, and said, Who [are] you? And they said, We [are] the brethren of Ahaziah, and we have come down to greet the sons of the king, and the sons of the queen.

And he said, Take them alive. And they killed them at Beth Eked, forty-two men: he left not a man of them.

And Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, and she destroyed all the royal heirs.

And he walked in the way of the house of Ahab; for his mother was his counselor to do evil.

And he did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord as the house of Ahab [had done]; for they were his counselors after the death of his father, to his destruction.

and do not cover [their] iniquity.

I, [even] I, am He that blots out your transgressions for My own sake, and your sins; and I will remember [them] no more.

And You, O Lord, know all their deadly counsel against me: provide no atonement for their iniquities, and do not blot out their sins from before You. Let their weakness come before You; deal with them in the time of Your wrath.