Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

For John had said unto Herod, It is not lawful for thee to have thy brother's wife.

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Leviticus 18:16
You shall not uncover the nakedness of your brother’s wife; it is your brother’s nakedness.
Leviticus 20:21
If there is a man who takes his brother’s wife, it is abhorrent; he has uncovered his brother’s nakedness. They will be childless.
1 Kings 22:14
But Micaiah said, “As the Lord lives, what the Lord says to me, that I shall speak.”
Ezekiel 3:18
When I say to the wicked, ‘You will surely die,’ and you do not warn him or speak out to warn the wicked from his wicked way that he may live, that wicked man shall die in his iniquity, but his blood I will require at your hand.
Matthew 14:3
For when Herod had John arrested, he bound him and put him in prison because of Herodias, the wife of his brother Philip.
Acts 20:26
Therefore, I testify to you this day that I am innocent of the blood of all men.
Acts 24:24
But some days later Felix arrived with Drusilla, his wife who was a Jewess, and sent for Paul and heard him speak about faith in Christ Jesus.

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Matthew 14:4
For John had been saying to him, “It is not lawful for you to have her.”
Luke 3:19
But when Herod the tetrarch was reprimanded by him because of Herodias, his brother’s wife, and because of all the wicked things which Herod had done,