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You shall chase your enemies, and they shall fall before you by the sword.

Five of you shall chase a hundred, and a hundred of you shall chase ten thousand; and your enemies shall fall before you by the sword.

You shall break them with a rod of iron. You shall dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel."

Your hand will find out all of your enemies. Your right hand will find out those who hate you.

For they intended evil against you. They plotted evil against you which cannot succeed.

For you will make them turn their back, when you aim drawn bows at their face.

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

An evil speaker won't be established in the earth. Evil will hunt the violent man to overthrow him.

Therefore I make a decree, that every people, nation, and language, which speak anything evil against the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, shall be cut in pieces, and their houses shall be made a dunghill; because there is no other god who is able to deliver after this sort.

"So you will know that I am Yahweh, your God, dwelling in Zion, my holy mountain. Then Jerusalem will be holy, and no strangers will pass through her any more.

Therefore they will now go captive with the first who go captive; and the feasting and lounging will end.

I saw the Lord standing beside the altar, and he said, "Strike the tops of the pillars, that the thresholds may shake; and break them in pieces on the head of all of them; and I will kill the last of them with the sword: there shall not one of them flee away, and there shall not one of them escape.

Though they go into captivity before their enemies, there I will command the sword, and it will kill them. I will set my eyes on them for evil, and not for good.

A widow was in that city, and she often came to him, saying, 'Defend me from my adversary!'

Pilate therefore went out to them, and said, "What accusation do you bring against this man?"

When the town clerk had quieted the multitude, he said, "You men of Ephesus, what man is there who doesn't know that the city of the Ephesians is temple keeper of the great goddess Artemis, and of the image which fell down from Zeus?

Seeing then that these things can't be denied, you ought to be quiet, and to do nothing rash.

But if you seek anything about other matters, it will be settled in the regular assembly.

For indeed we are in danger of being accused concerning this day's riot, there being no cause. Concerning it, we wouldn't be able to give an account of this commotion."

When he had thus spoken, he dismissed the assembly.

Immediately he took soldiers and centurions, and ran down to them. They, when they saw the chief captain and the soldiers, stopped beating Paul.

Some shouted one thing, and some another, among the crowd. When he couldn't find out the truth because of the noise, he commanded him to be brought into the barracks.

When he came to the stairs, it happened that he was carried by the soldiers because of the violence of the crowd;

but the commanding officer, Lysias, came by and with great violence took him out of our hands,

But Felix, having more exact knowledge concerning the Way, deferred them, saying, "When Lysias, the commanding officer, comes down, I will decide your case."

For if I have done wrong, and have committed anything worthy of death, I don't refuse to die; but if none of those things is true that they accuse me of, no one can give me up to them. I appeal to Caesar!"

The soldiers' counsel was to kill the prisoners, so that none of them would swim out and escape.