I went after it, struck it down, and delivered the lamb from its mouth. If it reared up against me, I would grab it by its fur, strike it down, and kill it.

But Jehosheba daughter of King Joram, the sister of Ahaziah, took Joash son of Ahaziah and stole him away from among the sons of the king who were being murdered. She put him and his nurse in a bedroom to hide him from Athaliah, and he was not killed.

If they say, “Come along, let us lie in wait for blood, let us ambush the innocent without cause,

lest they drink and forget what is decreed, depriving all the oppressed of justice.

But if you warn a wicked man and he does not turn from his wickedness and his wicked way, he will die in his iniquity, but you will have saved yourself.

If I say to the wicked, ‘O wicked man, you will surely die,’ but you do not speak out to dissuade him from his way, then that wicked man will die in his iniquity, yet I will hold you accountable for his blood.

You dismiss the day of calamity and bring near a reign of violence.

Nor should you stand at the crossroads to cut off their fugitives, nor deliver up their survivors in the day of their distress.

And He asked them, “Which is lawful on the Sabbath: to do good or to do evil, to save life or to destroy it?” But they were silent.

When I was informed that there was a plot against the man, I sent him to you at once. I also instructed his accusers to present their case against him before you.

The soldiers planned to kill the prisoners so none of them could swim to freedom.

save others by snatching them from the fire; and to still others show mercy tempered with fear, hating even the clothing stained by the flesh.