<p class="bodytext">You Israelites! Return to the one against whom you have so blatantly rebelled!<n id="1" />

If a false<n id="1" /> witness testifies against another person and accuses him of a crime,<n id="2" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">Now the Spirit of the <sc>Lordsc> had turned away from Saul, and an evil spirit<n id="1" /> from the <sc>Lordsc> tormented him.

<n id="1" /><p class="poetry">Why do you insist on being battered?p> <p class="poetry">Why do you continue to rebel?<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">Your head has a massive wound,<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">your whole body is weak.<n id="4" />p>

<p class="poetry">It<n id="1" /> furiously struck down nationsp> <p class="poetry">with unceasing blows.<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">It angrily ruled over nations,p> <p class="poetry">oppressing them without restraint.<n id="3" />p>

Then his wife Jezebel came in and said to him, &#8220;Why do you have a bitter attitude and refuse to eat?&#8221;

So the <sc>Lordsc> says, &#8216;I will most assuredly remove<n id="1" /> you from the face of the earth. You will die this very year because you have counseled rebellion against the <sc>Lordsc>.&#8217;&#8221;<n id="2" />p>

As for that prophet or dreamer,<n id="1" /> he must be executed because he encouraged rebellion against the <sc>Lordsc> your God who brought you from the land of Egypt, redeeming you from that place of slavery, and because he has tried to entice you from the way the <sc>Lordsc> your God has commanded you to go. In this way you must purge out evil from within.<n id="2" />p>

Because he has done this,&#8221;<n id="1" /> the <sc>Lordsc> says, &#8220;I will punish Shemaiah the Nehelamite and his whole family. There will not be any of them left to experience the good things that I will do for my people. I, the <sc>Lordsc>, affirm it! For he counseled rebellion against the <sc>Lordsc>.&#8221;&#8217;&#8221;<n id="2" />p>