Now when Abner had returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside in the gate to speak with him privately, and there stabbed him in the stomach, so that he died for the blood of Asahel his brother.

Then Joab said to Amasa, "[Are] you in health, my brother?" And Joab took Amasa by the beard with his right hand to kiss him.

The wicked plots against the just, And gnashes at him with his teeth.

He who hates, disguises [it] with his lips, And lays up deceit within himself;

[Though his] hatred is covered by deceit, His wickedness will be revealed before the assembly.

Again, I saw that for all toil and every skillful work a man is envied by his neighbor. This also [is] vanity and grasping for the wind.

in Lod, Ono, [and] the Valley of Craftsmen.

The sons of Elpaal [were] Eber, Misham, and Shemed, who built Ono and Lod with its towns;

They speak idly everyone with his neighbor; [With] flattering lips [and] a double heart they speak.

The wicked plots against the just, And gnashes at him with his teeth.

The wicked watches the righteous, And seeks to slay him.

Then Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and the ten men who were with him, arose and struck Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, with the sword, and killed him whom the king of Babylon had made governor over the land.

"So they come to you as people do, they sit before you [as] My people, and they hear your words, but they do not do them; for with their mouth they show much love, [but] their hearts pursue their [own] gain.

The best of them [is] like a brier; The most upright [is sharper] than a thorn hedge; The day of your watchman and your punishment comes; Now shall be their perplexity.

Do not trust in a friend; Do not put your confidence in a companion; Guard the doors of your mouth From her who lies in your bosom.

And the chief priests and the scribes that very hour sought to lay hands on Him, but they feared the people -- for they knew He had spoken this parable against them.

Then they asked Him, saying, "Teacher, we know that You say and teach rightly, and You do not show personal favoritism, but teach the way of God in truth: