Then Johanan son of Kareah spoke privately to Gedaliah at Mizpah. “Let me go and kill Ishmael son of Nethaniah,” he said. “No one will know it. Why should he take your life and scatter all the people of Judah who have gathered to you, so that the remnant of Judah would perish?”
But Abishai son of Zeruiah came to his aid, struck the Philistine, and killed him. Then David’s men swore to him, “You m
Abishai said to David, “Today God has delivered your enemy into your hand. Now, therefore, please let me thrust the spea
But You know me, O LORD; You see me and test my heart toward You. Drag away the wicked like sheep to the slaughter and s
Jeremiah the prophet and said, “May our petition come before you; pray to the LORD your God on behalf of this entire rem
“Son of man, those living in the ruins in the land of Israel are saying, ‘Abraham was only one man, yet he possessed the
if the men of my house have not said, ‘Who is there who has not had his fill?’—
You do not realize that it is better for you that one man die for the people than that the whole nation perish.”
But the people pleaded, “You must not go out! For if we have to flee, they will not care about us. Even if half of us di
So David’s men said to him, “This is the day about which the LORD said to you, ‘Behold, I will deliver your enemy into y