Then King Solomon swore by the LORD, saying, "God do so to me, and more also, if Adonijah have not spoken this word against his own life.

And they lie in wait for their own blood; they lurk privily for their own lives.

But he that sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul; all they that hate me love death."

The wrath of a king is as the roaring of a lion; whoso provoketh him to anger sinneth against his own soul.

Thou hast devised shame to thy house by cutting off many people, and hast sinned against thy soul.

to be a memorial unto the children of Israel, that no stranger, who is not of the seed of Aaron, come near to offer incense before the LORD; that he be not as Korah and as his company, as the LORD said to him by the hand of Moses.

And the LORD said unto Moses, "Bring Aaron's rod again before the Testimony to be kept for a token against the rebels; and thou shalt quite take away their murmurings from Me, that they die not."

And the earth opened her mouth and swallowed them up together with Korah when that company died, the time the fire devoured two hundred and fifty men; and they became a sign.

And I will set My face against that man and will make him a sign and a proverb, and I will cut him off from the midst of My people; and ye shall know that I am the LORD.

Now all these things happened unto them by way of example, and are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come.

and, turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes, condemned them to be overthrown, making them an example unto those who thereafter should live ungodly;