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 9:26Surely I have seen yesterday the blood of Naboth, and the blood of his sons, saith the LORD; and I will requite thee in this plat, saith the LORD. Now therefore take and cast him into the plat of ground, according to the word of the LORD.
• Eccl 4:1So I returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold the tears of such as were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter.
• Deut 22:24Then ye shall bring them both out unto the gate of that city, and ye shall stone them with stones that they die; the damsel, because she cried not, being in the city; and the man, because he hath humbled his neighbour’s wife: so thou shalt put away evil from among you.
• Deut 22:21Then they shall bring out the damsel to the door of her father’s house, and the men of her city shall stone her with stones that she die: because she hath wrought folly in Israel, to play the whore in her father’s house: so shalt thou put evil away from among you.
• Matt 9:3And, behold, certain of the scribes said within themselves, This man blasphemeth.
• Deut 19:16–21If a false witness rise up against any man to testify against him that which is wrong;
• Acts 24:5For we have found this man a pestilent fellow, and a mover of sedition among all the Jews throughout the world, and a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes:
• Ps 27:12Deliver me not over unto the will of mine enemies: for false witnesses are risen up against me, and such as breathe out cruelty.
• Luke 23:2And they began to accuse him, saying, We found this fellow perverting the nation, and forbidding to give tribute to Caesar, saying that he himself is Christ a King.
• Lev 24:11–16And the Israelitish woman’s son blasphemed the name of the Lord, and cursed. And they brought him unto Moses: (and his mother’s name was Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan:)
• Job 2:9Then said his wife unto him, Dost thou still retain thine integrity? curse God, and die.
• Acts 7:57–59Then they cried out with a loud voice, and stopped their ears, and ran upon him with one accord,
• Deut 21:21And all the men of his city shall stone him with stones, that he die: so shalt thou put evil away from among you; and all Israel shall hear, and fear.
• Num 15:35–36And the LORD said unto Moses, The man shall be surely put to death: all the congregation shall stone him with stones without the camp.
• Acts 6:11Then they suborned men, which said, We have heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses, and against God.
• Mal 3:5And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not me, saith the LORD of hosts.
• Amos 7:10Then Amaziah the priest of Bethel sent to Jeroboam king of Israel, saying, Amos hath conspired against thee in the midst of the house of Israel: the land is not able to bear all his words.
• Job 1:11But put forth thine hand now, and touch all that he hath, and he will curse thee to thy face.
• Prov 6:19A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren.
• Ps 35:11False witnesses did rise up; they laid to my charge things that I knew not.
• Prov 19:9A false witness shall not be unpunished, and he that speaketh lies shall perish.
• Prov 19:5A false witness shall not be unpunished, and he that speaketh lies shall not escape.
• Job 1:5And it was so, when the days of their feasting were gone about, that Job sent and sanctified them, and rose up early in the morning, and offered burnt offerings according to the number of them all: for Job said, It may be that my sons have sinned, and cursed God in their hearts. Thus did Job continually.
• Josh 7:24–25And Joshua, and all Israel with him, took Achan the son of Zerah, and the silver, and the garment, and the wedge of gold, and his sons, and his daughters, and his oxen, and his asses, and his sheep, and his tent, and all that he had: and they brought them unto the valley of Achor.
• Exod 20:16Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.
• Eccl 10:20Curse not the king, no not in thy thought; and curse not the rich in thy bedchamber: for a bird of the air shall carry the voice, and that which hath wings shall tell the matter.
• Deut 5:20Neither shalt thou bear false witness against thy neighbour.
• Isa 8:21And they shall pass through it, hardly bestead and hungry: and it shall come to pass, that when they shall be hungry, they shall fret themselves, and curse their king and their God, and look upward.
• Mark 14:56–59For many bare false witness against him, but their witness agreed not together.
• Deut 13:10And thou shalt stone him with stones, that he die; because he hath sought to thrust thee away from the LORD thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage.
• John 19:12And from thenceforth Pilate sought to release him: but the Jews cried out, saying, If thou let this man go, thou art not Caesar’s friend: whosoever maketh himself a king speaketh against Caesar.
• Prov 25:18A man that beareth false witness against his neighbour is a maul, and a sword, and a sharp arrow.

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