If a ruler listens to lies, all his officials will be wicked.
A king who sits on a throne to judge sifts out all evil with his eyes.
Your tongue devises destruction like a sharpened razor, O worker of deceit.
Then Jehu wrote them a second letter and said: “If you are on my side, and if you will obey me, then bring the heads of
Whoever slanders his neighbor in secret, I will put to silence; the one with haughty eyes and a proud heart, I will not
Is that why all of you have conspired against me? Not one of you told me that my own son had made a covenant with the so
Then the Ziphites came up to Saul at Gibeah and said, “Is not David hiding among us in the strongholds at Horesh, on the
Now Saul had a concubine named Rizpah, the daughter of Aiah. So Ish-bosheth questioned Abner, “Why did you sleep with my
So the elders and nobles who lived in Naboth’s city did as Jezebel had instructed in the letters she had written to them
Now Rechab and Baanah, the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, set out and arrived at the house of Ish-bosheth in the heat of
As the north wind brings forth rain, so a backbiting tongue brings angry looks.