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When you came to this place, Sihon the king of Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, came out against us to battle, and we struck them:

Now therefore be wise, you kings. Be instructed, you judges of the earth.

Their sword shall enter into their own heart. Their bows shall be broken.

It happened in the days of Ahaz the son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, king of Judah, that Rezin the king of Syria, and Pekah the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, went up to Jerusalem to war against it, but could not prevail against it.

For the head of Syria is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin; and within sixty-five years Ephraim shall be broken in pieces, so that it shall not be a people;

In that day the Lord will shave with a razor that is hired in the parts beyond the River, even with the king of Assyria, the head and the hair of the feet; and it shall also consume the beard.

Whereas you saw the feet and toes, part of potters' clay, and part of iron, it shall be a divided kingdom; but there shall be in it of the strength of the iron, because you saw the iron mixed with miry clay.

As for the ten horns, out of this kingdom shall ten kings arise: and another shall arise after them; and he shall be diverse from the former, and he shall put down three kings.

but I will send a fire on Moab, and it will devour the palaces of Kerioth; and Moab will die with tumult, with shouting, and with the sound of the trumpet;

but don't seek Bethel, nor enter into Gilgal, and don't pass to Beersheba: for Gilgal shall surely go into captivity, and Bethel shall come to nothing.

For, behold, I will raise up against you a nation, house of Israel," says Yahweh, the God of Armies; "and they will afflict you from the entrance of Hamath to the brook of the Arabah."

This is the word that I covenanted with you when you came out of Egypt, and my Spirit lived among you. 'Don't be afraid.'

I will overthrow the throne of kingdoms. I will destroy the strength of the kingdoms of the nations. I will overthrow the chariots, and those who ride in them. The horses and their riders will come down, everyone by the sword of his brother.

He wouldn't for a while, but afterward he said to himself, 'Though I neither fear God, nor respect man,

But you have a custom, that I should release someone to you at the Passover. Therefore do you want me to release to you the King of the Jews?"

but when they came to Jesus, and saw that he was already dead, they didn't break his legs.

When Herod had sought for him, and didn't find him, he examined the guards, and commanded that they should be put to death. He went down from Judea to Caesarea, and stayed there.

But when it was day, the magistrates sent the sergeants, saying, "Let those men go."

The sergeants reported these words to the magistrates, and they were afraid when they heard that they were Romans,

When the centurion heard it, he went to the commanding officer and told him, "Watch what you are about to do, for this man is a Roman!"

Immediately those who were about to examine him departed from him, and the commanding officer also was afraid when he realized that he was a Roman, because he had bound him.

I found him to be accused about questions of their law, but not to be charged with anything worthy of death or of imprisonment.

However Festus answered that Paul should be kept in custody at Caesarea, and that he himself was about to depart shortly.

For it seems to me unreasonable, in sending a prisoner, not to also specify the charges against him."

When they had withdrawn, they spoke one to another, saying, "This man does nothing worthy of death or of bonds."

Agrippa said to Festus, "This man might have been set free if he had not appealed to Caesar."

But the centurion, desiring to save Paul, stopped them from their purpose, and commanded that those who could swim should throw themselves overboard first to go toward the land;

who, when they had examined me, desired to set me free, because there was no cause of death in me.