¹⁷ And the king said to ^(A)the guard who stood about him, “Turn and kill the priests of the Lord, because their hand also is with David, and they knew that he fled and did not disclose it to me.” But the servants of the king would not put out their hand to strike the priests of the Lord.

¹⁷ But the midwives ^(A)feared God and did not do as the king of Egypt commanded them, but let the male children live.

¹⁹ But Peter and John answered them, ^(A)“Whether it is right in the sight of God to listen to you rather than to God, you must judge,

²⁵ So as soon as he had made an end of offering the burnt offering, Jehu said to the guard and to the officers, ^(A)“Go in and strike them down; let not a man escape.” So when they put them to the sword, the guard and the officers cast them out and went into the inner room of the house of Baal,

¹³ Again the king sent the captain of a third fifty with his fifty. And the third captain of fifty went up and came and fell on his knees before Elijah and entreated him, “O man of God, please let my life, and the life of these fifty servants of yours, ^(A)be precious in your sight. ¹⁴ Behold, fire came down from heaven and consumed the two former captains of fifty men with their fifties, but now let my life be precious in your sight.”

⁴ and ^(A)when Jezebel cut off the prophets of the Lord, Obadiah took a hundred prophets and hid them by fifties in a cave and fed them with bread and water.)

Adonijah Sets Himself Up as King

⁵ Now ^(A)Adonijah the son of Haggith exalted himself, saying, “I will be king.” ^(B)And he prepared for himself chariots and horsemen, and fifty men to run before him.

Absalom's Conspiracy

15 After this Absalom ^(A)got himself a chariot and horses, and fifty men to run before him.

¹⁷ Now therefore know this and consider what you should do, ^(A)for harm is determined against our master and against all his house, and he is such ^(B)a worthless man that one cannot speak to him.”

¹³ And Saul said to him, “Why have you conspired against me, you and the son of Jesse, in that you have given him bread and a sword and ^(A)have inquired of God for him, so that he has risen against me, ^(B)to lie in wait, as at this day?”