And tell the Israelites: If anyone curses his God, he will bear the consequences of his sin.

Whoever blasphemes the name of the LORD is to be put to death; the whole community must stone him. If he blasphemes the Name, he is to be put to death, whether the foreign resident or the native.

Do not misuse the name of the LORD your God, becauswhite, and tasted like wafers [mo misuses His name.

However, because you treated the LORD with such contempt in this matter, the son born to you will die."

Then seat two wicked men opposite him and have them testify against him, saying, "You have cursed God and king!" Then take him out and stone him to death.

The two wicked men came in and sat opposite him. Then the wicked men testified against Naboth in the presence of the people, saying, "Naboth has cursed God and king!" So they took him outside the city and stoned him to death with stones.

Don't let Hezekiah persuade you to trust in the LORD by saying: Certainly the LORD will deliver us! This city will not be handed over to the king of Assyria.'

Who among all the gods of the lands has delivered his land from my power? So how is the LORD to deliver Jerusalem?'"

Then Eliakim son of Hilkiah, who was in charge of the palace, Shebna the court secretary, and Joah son of Asaph, the court historian, came to Hezekiah with their clothes torn and reported to him the words of the Rabshakeh.

When King Hezekiah heard [their report], he tore his clothes, covered himself with sackcloth, and went into the LORD's temple.

They said to him, "This is what Hezekiah says: 'Today is a day of distress, rebuke, and disgrace, for children have come to the point of birth, but there is no strength to deliver [them].

Who among all the gods of these nations that my fathers utterly destroyed was able to deliver his people from my power, that your God should be able to do the same for you?

His servants said more against the LORD God and against His servant Hezekiah.

Remember this: the enemy has mocked the LORD, and a foolish people has insulted Your name.

Arise, God, defend Your cause! Remember the insults that fools bring against You all day long.

Then the high priest tore his robes and said, "He has blasphemed! Why do we still need witnesses? Look, now you've heard the blasphemy!

Then they induced men to say, "We heard him speaking blasphemous words against Moses and God!"

They also presented false witnesses who said, "This man does not stop speaking blasphemous words against this holy place and the law.

For, as it is written: The name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you.

one who was formerly a blasphemer, a persecutor, and an arrogant man. Since it was out of ignorance that I had acted in unbelief, I received mercy,

and blasphemed the God of heaven because of their pains and their sores, yet they did not repent of their actions.

Enormous hailstones, each weighing about 100 pounds, fell from heaven on the people, and they blasphemed God for the plague of hail because that plague was extremely severe.

Whenever a round of banqueting was over, Job would send [for his children] and purify them, rising early in the morning to offer burnt offerings for all of them. For Job thought: Perhaps my children have sinned, having cursed God in their hearts. This was Job's regular practice.

But stretch out Your hand and strike everything he owns, and he will surely curse You to Your face."

Throughout all this Job did not sin or blame God for anything.

But stretch out Your hand and strike his flesh and bones, and he will surely curse You to Your face."

His wife said to him, "Do you still retain your integrity? Curse God and die!"

"You speak as a foolish woman speaks," he told her. "Should we accept only good from God and not adversity?" Throughout all this Job did not sin in what he said.

They will wander through the land, dejected and hungry. When they are famished, they will become enraged, and, looking upward, will curse their king and their God.

They should judge the people at all times. Then they can bring you every important case but judge every minor case themselves. In this way you will lighten your load, and they will bear [it] with you.

They judged the people at all times; the hard cases they would bring to Moses, but every minor case they would judge themselves.

Those who found him gathering wood brought him to Moses, Aaron, and the entire community.

Then the LORD told Moses, "The man is to be put to death. The entire community is to stone him outside the camp."