1 Kings 21:13

The two scoundrels falsely accuse Naboth of cursing God and the king, and he is taken out and stoned to death. An innocent, faithful man is murdered under cover of law.

Cross-references · 32

• 2 Kgs 9:26‘As surely as I saw the blood of Naboth and the blood of his sons yesterday, declares the LORD, so will I repay you on this plot of ground, declares the LORD.’ Now then, according to the word of the LORD, pick him up and throw him on the plot of ground.”
• Eccl 4:1Again I looked, and I considered all the oppression taking place under the sun. I saw the tears of the oppressed, and they had no comforter; the power lay in the hands of their oppressors, and there was no comforter.
• Deut 22:24you must take both of them out to the gate of that city and stone them to death—the young woman because she did not cry out in the city, and the man because he has violated his neighbor’s wife. So you must purge the evil from among you.
• Deut 22:21she shall be brought to the door of her father’s house, and there the men of her city will stone her to death. For she has committed an outrage in Israel by being promiscuous in her father’s house. So you must purge the evil from among you.
• Matt 9:3On seeing this, some of the scribes said to themselves, “This man is blaspheming!”
• Deut 19:16–21If a false witness testifies against someone, accusing him of a crime,
• Acts 24:5We have found this man to be a pestilence, stirring up dissension among the Jews all over the world. He is a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes,
• Ps 27:12Do not hand me over to the will of my foes, for false witnesses rise up against me, breathing out violence.
• Luke 23:2And they began to accuse Him, saying, “We found this man subverting our nation, forbidding payment of taxes to Caesar, and proclaiming Himself to be Christ, a King.”
• Lev 24:11–16The son of the Israelite woman blasphemed the Name with a curse. So they brought him to Moses. (His mother’s name was Shelomith daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan.)
• Job 2:9Then Job’s wife said to him, “Do you still retain your integrity? Curse God and die!”
• Acts 7:57–59At this they covered their ears, cried out in a loud voice, and rushed together at him.
• Deut 21:21Then all the men of his city will stone him to death. So you must purge the evil from among you, and all Israel will hear and be afraid.
• Num 15:35–36And the LORD said to Moses, “The man must surely be put to death. The whole congregation is to stone him outside the camp.”
• Acts 6:11Then they prompted some men to say, “We heard Stephen speak words of blasphemy against Moses and against God.”
• Mal 3:5“Then I will draw near to you for judgment. And I will be a swift witness against sorcerers and adulterers and perjurers, against oppressors of the widowed and fatherless, and against those who defraud laborers of their wages and deny justice to the foreigner but do not fear Me,” says the LORD of Hosts.
• Amos 7:10Then Amaziah the priest of Bethel sent word to Jeroboam king of Israel, saying, “Amos has conspired against you in the midst of the house of Israel. The land cannot bear all his words,
• Job 1:11But stretch out Your hand and strike all that he has, and he will surely curse You to Your face.”
• Prov 6:19a false witness who gives false testimony, and one who stirs up discord among brothers.
• Ps 35:11Hostile witnesses come forward; they make charges I know nothing about.
• Prov 19:9A false witness will not go unpunished, and one who pours out lies will perish.
• Prov 19:5A false witness will not go unpunished, and one who utters lies will not escape.
• Job 1:5And when the days of feasting were over, Job would send for his children to purify them, rising early in the morning to offer burnt offerings for all of them. For Job thought, “Perhaps my children have sinned and cursed God in their hearts.” This was Job’s regular practice.
• Josh 7:24–25Then Joshua, together with all Israel, took Achan son of Zerah, the silver, the cloak, the bar of gold, his sons and daughters, his oxen and donkeys and sheep, his tent, and everything else he owned, and brought them to the Valley of Achor.
• Exod 20:16You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
• Eccl 10:20Do not curse the king even in your thoughts, or curse the rich even in your bedroom, for a bird of the air may carry your words, and a winged creature may report your speech.
• Deut 5:20You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
• Isa 8:21They will roam the land, dejected and hungry. When they are famished, they will become enraged; and looking upward, they will curse their king and their God.
• Mark 14:56–59For many bore false witness against Jesus, but their testimony was inconsistent.
• Deut 13:10Stone him to death for trying to turn you away from the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.
• John 19:12From then on, Pilate tried to release Him, but the Jews kept shouting, “If you release this man, you are no friend of Caesar. Anyone who declares himself a king is defying Caesar.”
• Prov 25:18Like a club or sword or sharp arrow is a man who bears false witness against his neighbor.

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