Thematic Bible: Often exercised power arbitrarily


Thematic Bible



But David answered Rechab and Baanah his brother, the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, "As the LORD lives, who has redeemed my life out of every adversity, when one told me, 'Behold, Saul is dead,' and thought he was bringing good news, I seized him and killed him at Ziklag, which was the reward I gave him for his news. How much more, when wicked men have killed a righteous man in his own house on his bed, shall I not now require his blood at your hand and destroy you from the earth?" read more.
And David commanded his young men, and they killed them and cut off their hands and feet and hanged them beside the pool at Hebron. But they took the head of Ish-bosheth and buried it in the tomb of Abner at Hebron.

The king replied to him, "Do as he has said, strike him down and bury him, and thus take away from me and from my father's house the guilt for the blood that Joab shed without cause. Verse ConceptsInnocent BloodSheddingKilling Named Individuals

Then King Solomon swore by the LORD, saying, "God do so to me and more also if this word does not cost Adonijah his life! Verse ConceptsPromises, Human

So King Solomon sent Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and he struck him down, and he died. Verse ConceptsMurder

And the king said to the guard who stood about him, "Turn and kill the priests of the LORD, because their hand also is with David, and they knew that he fled and did not disclose it to me." But the servants of the king would not put out their hand to strike the priests of the LORD. Then the king said to Doeg, "You turn and strike the priests." And Doeg the Edomite turned and struck down the priests, and he killed on that day eighty-five persons who wore the linen ephod.

Then David called one of the young men and said, "Go, execute him." And he struck him down so that he died. Verse ConceptsKings Summoning

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