If a ruler pays attention to lies, all his servants are wicked.

Ephraim is oppressed and crushed in judgment, because he has willingly walked, keeping back from the commandments.

For the statutes of Omri are kept, and all the works of the house of Ahab. And you walk in their counsels, so that I may make you a desolation, and your inhabitants a hissing. And you shall bear the reproach of My people.

but you have risen up against my father's house this day, and killed his seventy sons on one stone, and made Abimelech, the son of his maidservant, king over the lords of Shechem, because he is your brother;

But if not, let fire come from Abimelech and devour the lords of Shechem and the house of Millo; and let fire come from the lords of Shechem and from the house of Millo and devour Abimelech!

After Abimelech had reigned over Israel three years,

that the wrong done to the seventy sons of Jerubbaal might be settled and their blood be laid upon Abimelech their brother, who killed them, and upon the lords of Shechem, who strengthened his hands to kill his brothers.

Now Gaal the son of Ebed came with his brothers and went over to Shechem; and the lords of Shechem trusted him.

And Gaal the son of Ebed said, Who is Abimelech, and who is Shechem, that we should serve him? Is he not the son of Jerubbaal, and is not Zebul his officer? Serve the men of Hamor the father of Shechem; but why should we serve him?

And when Zebul, the ruler of the city, heard the words of Gaal the son of Ebed, his anger burned.

Now therefore, rise up by night, you and the people with you, and lie in wait in the field.

So Abimelech and all the people with him rose by night, and lay in wait against Shechem in four companies.

And when Gaal saw the people, he said to Zebul, Behold, people are coming down from the tops of the mountains! But Zebul said to him, You are seeing the shadows of the mountains as if they were men.

Then Zebul said to him, Where indeed is your mouth now, with which you said, Who is Abimelech, that we should serve him? Are not these the people whom you have despised? Go out now and fight with them.

And Abimelech chased him, and he fled before him; and many fell wounded, to the entrance of the gate.

And it came about on the next day that the people went out into the field, and they reported to Abimelech.

And Abimelech and the company that was with him rushed forward and stood at the entrance of the gate of the city; and the other two companies rushed upon all who were in the fields and struck them.

And when all the lords of the tower of Shechem heard it, they entered the underground chambers of the house of the god Berith.

And Abimelech went up to Mount Zalmon, he and all the people with him. And Abimelech took an ax in his hand and cut down a bough from the trees, and took it and laid it on his shoulder; then he said to the people with him, What you have seen me do, make haste and do as I have done.

Then Abimelech went to Thebez, and he encamped against Thebez and took it.

So Abimelech came to the tower and fought against it; and he drew near the door of the tower to burn it with fire.

And he called quickly to the young man, his armorbearer, and said to him, Draw your sword and kill me, that they not say of me, A woman killed him. So his young man thrust him through, and he died.

Thus God repaid the wickedness of Abimelech, which he had done to his father by killing his seventy brothers.

And Saul said to David, Here is my older daughter Merab; I will give her to you as a wife. Only be valiant for me, and fight the battles of Jehovah. For Saul thought, Let my hand not be against him, but let the hand of the Philistines be against him.

And David said to Saul, Who am I, and what is my life or my father's family in Israel, that I should be son-in-law to the king?

But it was contemptible in his eyes to lay hands on Mordecai alone, for they had told him of the people of Mordecai. Therefore, Haman sought to destroy all the Jews who were throughout the whole kingdom of Ahasuerus; the people of Mordecai.

Then Haman said to King Ahasuerus, There is a certain people scattered and dispersed among the people in all the provinces of your kingdom; their laws are different from all other people's, and they do not keep the king's laws. Therefore it is not fitting for the king to let them remain.

So the king took his signet ring from his hand and gave it to Haman, the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, the one harassing the Jews.

Then the king's scribes were called on the thirteenth day of the first month, and a decree was written according to all that Haman commanded; to the king's satraps, to the governors who were over each province, to the rulers of all the people, to every province according to its writing, and to every people in their language. In the name of King Ahasuerus it was written, and sealed with the king's signet ring.

a copy of the document to be issued as law in every province, being published for all people, that they should be ready for that day.

And the heart of the rash shall understand knowledge, and the tongue of those who stutter shall be ready to speak plainly.

For the fool will speak folly, and his heart will work iniquity; to practice hypocrisy and to speak error against Jehovah, to empty the soul of the hungry, and to cause the drink of the thirsty to be lacking.

Then the high priest tore his clothes and said, What further need do we have of witnesses?

And some began to spit on Him, and to cover His face, and to beat Him with the fist, and to say to Him, Prophesy! And the officers struck Him with slaps.

They were sons of fools, yea, sons without a name; they were scourged from the land.

And a vile person shall stand up in his place, and they shall not give to him the honor as king. But he shall come in with quietness and obtain the kingdom by intrigues.