It was not because we do not have that right, but to give ourselves as an example for you to imitate.

Remind them to be subject to rulers and authorities, to be obedient, to be ready for every good work.

Therefore, brothers and sisters, since we have confidence to enter the sanctuary by the blood of Jesus,

And let endurance have its perfect effect, so that you will be perfect and complete, not deficient in anything.

So also faith, if it does not have works, is dead being by itself.

You have condemned and murdered the righteous person, although he does not resist you.

And God will exalt you in due time, if you humble yourselves under his mighty hand

Yet these men, as a result of their dreams, defile the flesh, reject authority, and insult the glorious ones.

I am also aware that you have persisted steadfastly, endured much for the sake of my name, and have not grown weary.

Immediately I was in the Spirit, and a throne was standing in heaven with someone seated on it!

After these things I saw another angel, who possessed great authority, coming down out of heaven, and the earth was lit up by his radiance.

I have come down to deliver them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up from that land to a land that is both good and spacious, to a land flowing with milk and honey, to the region of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites.

Therefore, tell the Israelites, ‘I am the Lord. I will bring you out from your enslavement to the Egyptians, I will rescue you from the hard labor they impose, and I will redeem you with an outstretched arm and with great judgments.

He said, “See, I am going to make a covenant before all your people. I will do wonders such as have not been done in all the earth, nor in any nation. All the people among whom you live will see the work of the Lord, for it is a fearful thing that I am doing with you.

Gideon said to him, “Pardon me, but if the Lord is with us, why has such disaster overtaken us? Where are all his miraculous deeds our ancestors told us about? They said, ‘Did the Lord not bring us up from Egypt?’ But now the Lord has abandoned us and handed us over to Midian.”

The Lord’s spirit empowered him. He went down to Ashkelon and murdered thirty men. He took their clothes and gave them to the men who had solved the riddle. He was furious as he went back home.

When he arrived in Lehi, the Philistines shouted as they approached him. But the Lord’s spirit empowered him. The ropes around his arms were like flax dissolving in fire, and they melted away from his hands.

All the people who were at the gate and the elders replied, “We are witnesses. May the Lord make the woman who is entering your home like Rachel and Leah, both of whom built up the house of Israel! May you prosper in Ephrathah and become famous in Bethlehem.

The rest of the events of Jeroboam’s reign, including all his accomplishments, his military success in restoring Israelite control over Damascus and Hamath, are recorded in the scroll called the Annals of the Kings of Israel.

The king thereby allowed the Jews who were in every city to assemble and to stand up for themselves – to destroy, to kill, and to annihilate any army of whatever people or province that should become their adversaries, including their women and children, and to confiscate their property.