³ He also walked in the ways of the house of Ahab, for his mother advised him to do wickedly.

¹² Perhaps my father will ^(A)feel me, and I shall seem to be a deceiver to him; and I shall bring ^(B)a curse on myself and not a blessing.”

¹³ But his mother said to him, ^(C)“Let your curse be on me, my son; only obey my voice, and go, get them for me.”

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

⁸ So she, having been prompted by her mother, said, “Give me John the Baptist’s head here on a platter.”

⁹ And the king was sorry; nevertheless, because of the oaths and because of those who sat with him, he commanded it to be given to her. ¹⁰ So he sent and had John beheaded in prison. ¹¹ And his head was brought on a platter and given to the girl, and she brought it to her mother.

^37 (A)He who loves father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me. And he who loves son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me.

²³ In those days I also saw Jews who ^(A)had married women of ^(B)Ashdod, Ammon, and Moab. ²⁴ And half of their children spoke the language of Ashdod, and could not speak the language of Judah, but spoke according to the language of one or the other people.

²⁵ So I ^(C)contended with them and ^[a]cursed them, struck some of them and pulled out their hair, and made them ^(D)swear by God, saying, “You shall not give your daughters as wives to their sons, nor take their daughters for your sons or yourselves. ^26 (E)Did not Solomon king of Israel sin by these things? Yet among many nations there was no king like him, ^(F)who was beloved of his God; and God made him king over all Israel. ^(G)Nevertheless pagan women caused even him to sin. ²⁷ Should we then hear of your doing all this great evil, ^(H)transgressing against our God by marrying pagan women?”

⁴ Thus he returned the silver to his mother. Then his mother ^(A)took two hundred shekels of silver and gave them to the silversmith, and he made it into a carved image and a molded image; and they were in the house of Micah.

⁵ The man Micah had a ^(B)shrine, and made an ^(C)ephod and ^(D)household^[a] idols; and he consecrated one of his sons, who became his priest.

^6 (A)“If your brother, the son of your mother, your son or your daughter, ^(B)the wife ^[a]of your bosom, or your friend ^(C)who is as your own soul, secretly entices you, saying, ‘Let us go and serve other gods,’ which you have not known, neither you nor your fathers, ⁷ of the gods of the people which are all around you, near to you or far off from you, from one end of the earth to the other end of the earth, ⁸ you shall ^(D)not ^[b]consent to him or listen to him, nor shall your eye pity him, nor shall you spare him or conceal him; ⁹ but you shall surely kill him; your hand shall be first against him to put him to ^(E)death, and afterward the hand of all the people. ¹⁰ And you shall stone him with stones until he dies, because he sought to entice you away from the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage.