Thematic Bible: Sometimes wrongly directed
Thematic Bible
Zeal » Sometimes wrongly directed
And the king called the Gibeonites, and spoke to them (now the Gibeonites were not of the sons of Israel, but of the remnant of the Amorites, and the sons of Israel had sworn to them, and [yet] Saul sought to kill them in his zeal
I am indeed a Jewish man, born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but reared in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, reared accurately in the paternal law, being a zealot of God, as ye all are today. And I persecuted this Way as far as death, binding and delivering into prisons both men and women.