<p class="poetry">and killed powerful kings,p> <p class="poetry">for his loyal love endures,p>

He also tore down the tower of Penuel and executed the city&#8217;s men.p>

<p class="bodytext">When he had secured control of the kingdom,<n id="1" /> he executed the servants who had assassinated his father.<n id="2" />

<p class="poetry">when the anger of God flared up against them.p> <p class="poetry">He killed some of the strongest of them;p> <p class="poetry">he brought the young men of Israel to their knees.p>

<p class="bodytext">Jehoram took control of his father&#8217;s kingdom and became powerful.<n id="1" /> Then he killed all his brothers,<n id="2" /> as well as some of the officials of Israel.

King Joash disregarded<n id="1" /> the loyalty his father Jehoiada had shown him and killed Jehoiada&#8217;s<n id="2" /> son. As Zechariah<n id="3" /> was dying, he said, &#8220;May the <sc>Lordsc> take notice and seek vengeance!&#8221;<n id="4" />p>

In one day King Pekah son of Remaliah of Israel killed 120,000 warriors in Judah, because they had abandoned the <sc>Lordsc> God of their ancestors.<n id="1" />

Zikri, an Ephraimite warrior, killed the king&#8217;s son Maaseiah, Azrikam, the supervisor of the palace, and Elkanah, the king&#8217;s second-in-command.

<p class="lamhebrew">&#1491; (<i>Daleti>)p> <p class="poetry">He prepared his bow<n id="1" /> like an enemy;p> <p class="poetry">his right hand was ready to shoot.<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">Like a foe he killed everyone,p> <p class="poetry">even our strong young men;<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">he has poured out his anger like firep> <p class="poetry">on the tent<n id="4" /> of Daughter Zion.p>

When Pharaoh stubbornly refused<n id="1" /> to release us, the <sc>Lordsc> killed all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of people to the firstborn of animals.<n id="2" /> That is why I am sacrificing<n id="3" /> to the <sc>Lordsc> the first male offspring of every womb, but all my firstborn sons I redeem.&#8217;

Zebah and Zalmunna said to Gideon,<n id="1" /> &#8220;Come on,<n id="2" /> you strike us, for a man is judged by his strength.&#8221;<n id="3" /> So Gideon killed<n id="4" /> Zebah and Zalmunna, and he took the crescent-shaped ornaments which were on the necks of their camels.p>

He went to his father&#8217;s home in Ophrah and murdered his half-brothers,<n id="1" /> the seventy legitimate<n id="2" /> sons of Jerub-Baal, on one stone. Only Jotham, Jerub-Baal&#8217;s youngest son, escaped,<n id="3" /> because he hid.

The Arameans fled before Israel. David killed 700 Aramean charioteers and 40,000 foot soldiers.<n id="1" /> He also struck down Shobach, the general in command of the army, who died there.

The Arameans fled before Israel. David killed 7,000<n id="1" /> Aramean charioteers and 40,000 infantrymen; he also killed Shophach<n id="2" /> the commanding general.

He brought against them the king of the Babylonians, who slaughtered<n id="1" /> their young men in their temple.<n id="2" /> He did not spare<n id="3" /> young men or women, or even the old and aging. God<n id="4" /> handed everyone over to him.