REGICIDE

Passages on this topic · 33

• Judges 3:16

  Ehud made himself a sword which had two edges, a cubit in length; and he wore it under his clothing on his right thigh.

• Judges 3:17

  He offered the tribute to Eglon king of Moab. Now Eglon was a very fat man.

• Judges 3:18

  When he had finished offering the tribute, he sent away the people who carried the tribute.

• Judges 3:19

  But he himself turned back from the stone idols that were by Gilgal, and said, “I have a secret message for you, O king.” The king said, “Keep silence!” All who stood by him left him.

• Judges 3:20

  Ehud came to him; and he was sitting by himself alone in the cool upper room. Ehud said, “I have a message from God to you.” He arose out of his seat.

• Judges 3:21

  Ehud put out his left hand, and took the sword from his right thigh, and thrust it into his body:

• Judges 3:22

  and the handle also went in after the blade; and the fat closed on the blade, for he didn’t draw the sword out of his body; and it came out behind.

• Judges 3:23

  Then Ehud went out onto the porch, and shut the doors of the upper room on him, and locked them.

• 2 Samuel 1:16

  David said to him, “Your blood be on your head; for your mouth has testified against you, saying, ‘I have slain Yahweh’s anointed.’”

• 2 Samuel 4:5

  The sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, Rechab and Baanah, went and came at about the heat of the day to the house of Ishbosheth, as he took his rest at noon.

• 2 Samuel 4:6

  They came there into the middle of the house, as though they would have fetched wheat; and they struck him in the body: and Rechab and Baanah his brother escaped.

• 2 Samuel 4:7

  Now when they came into the house, as he lay on his bed in his bedroom, they struck him, killed him, beheaded him, and took his head, and went by the way of the Arabah all night.

• 2 Samuel 4:8

  They brought the head of Ishbosheth to David to Hebron, and said to the king, “Behold, the head of Ishbosheth, the son of Saul, your enemy, who sought your life! Yahweh has avenged my lord the king today of Saul, and of his offspring. ”

• 1 Kings 15:27

  Baasha the son of Ahijah, of the house of Issachar, conspired against him; and Baasha struck him at Gibbethon, which belonged to the Philistines; for Nadab and all Israel were besieging Gibbethon.

• 1 Kings 15:28

  Even in the third year of Asa king of Judah, Baasha killed him, and reigned in his place.

• 1 Kings 15:29

  As soon as he was king, he struck all the house of Jeroboam. He didn’t leave to Jeroboam any who breathed, until he had destroyed him; according to the saying of Yahweh, which he spoke by his servant Ahijah the Shilonite;

• 1 Kings 16:9

  His servant Zimri, captain of half his chariots, conspired against him. Now he was in Tirzah, drinking himself drunk in the house of Arza, who was over the household in Tirzah;

• 1 Kings 16:10

  and Zimri went in and struck him, and killed him, in the twenty-seventh year of Asa king of Judah, and reigned in his place.

• 1 Kings 16:11

  When he began to reign, as soon as he sat on his throne, he attacked all the house of Baasha. He didn’t leave him a single one who urinates on a wall among his relatives or his friends.

• 2 Kings 9:24

  Jehu drew his bow with his full strength, and struck Joram between his arms; and the arrow went out at his heart, and he sunk down in his chariot.

• 2 Kings 9:27

  But when Ahaziah the king of Judah saw this, he fled by the way of the garden house. Jehu followed after him, and said, “Strike him also in the chariot!” They struck him at the ascent of Gur, which is by Ibleam. He fled to Megiddo, and died there.

• 2 Kings 12:20

  His servants arose, and made a conspiracy, and struck Joash at the house of Millo, on the way that goes down to Silla.

• 2 Kings 12:21

  For Jozacar the son of Shimeath, and Jehozabad the son of Shomer, his servants, struck him, and he died; and they buried him with his fathers in David’s city; and Amaziah his son reigned in his place.

• 2 Kings 14:19

  They made a conspiracy against him in Jerusalem, and he fled to Lachish; but they sent after him to Lachish, and killed him there.

• 2 Kings 14:20

  They brought him on horses, and he was buried at Jerusalem with his fathers in David’s city.

• 2 Kings 15:10

  Shallum the son of Jabesh conspired against him, and struck him before the people, and killed him, and reigned in his place.

• 2 Kings 15:14

  Menahem the son of Gadi went up from Tirzah, came to Samaria, struck Shallum the son of Jabesh in Samaria, killed him, and reigned in his place.

• 2 Kings 15:25

  Pekah the son of Remaliah, his captain, conspired against him and attacked him in Samaria, in the fortress of the king’s house, with Argob and Arieh; and with him were fifty men of the Gileadites. He killed him, and reigned in his place.

• 2 Kings 15:30

  Hoshea the son of Elah made a conspiracy against Pekah the son of Remaliah, attacked him, killed him, and reigned in his place, in the twentieth year of Jotham the son of Uzziah.

• 2 Kings 19:36

  So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and returned, and lived at Nineveh.

• 2 Kings 19:37

  As he was worshiping in the house of Nisroch his god, Adrammelech and Sharezer struck him with the sword; and they escaped into the land of Ararat. Esar Haddon his son reigned in his place.

• Isaiah 37:37

  So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, went away, returned to Nineveh, and stayed there.

• Isaiah 37:38

  As he was worshiping in the house of Nisroch his god, Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons struck him with the sword; and they escaped into the land of Ararat. Esar Haddon his son reigned in his place.