Don’t Tolerate Idolatry

⁶ “If your brother, the son of your mother,^[a] or your son or daughter, or the wife you embrace, or your closest friend secretly entices you, saying, ‘Let’s go and worship other gods’—which neither you nor your ancestors have known, ⁷ any of the gods of the peoples around you, near you or far from you, from one end of the earth to the other— ⁸ do not yield to him or listen to him. Show him no pity,^[b] and do not spare him or shield him.^{(A) 9} Instead, you must kill him. Your hand is to be the first against him to put him to death, and then the hands of all the people.^(B)

⁴⁰ Then Elijah ordered them, “Seize the prophets of Baal!^(A) Do not let even one of them escape.” So they seized them, and Elijah brought them down to the Wadi Kishon^(B) and slaughtered them there.^(C)