A perverse person ¹  spreads dissension, and a gossip separates the closest friends. ² 

When Ahab saw Elijah, he ¹  said to him, “Is it really you, the one who brings disaster ²  on Israel?”

For we have found ¹  this man to be a troublemaker, ²  one who stirs up riots ³  among all the Jews throughout the world, and a ringleader ⁴  of the sect of the Nazarenes. ⁵ 

for their hearts contemplate violence, and their lips speak harm. ¹ 

The one who plans to do evil will be called a scheming person. ¹ 

Cruel rulers ¹  are not your allies, those who make oppressive laws. ² 

As for the heads of those who surround me – may the harm done by ¹  their lips overwhelm them!

a false witness who pours out lies, ¹  and a person who spreads discord ²  among family members. ³ 

Drive out the scorner ¹  and contention will leave; strife and insults will cease. ² 

I wish those agitators ¹  would go so far as to ²  castrate themselves! ³ 

unloving, irreconcilable, slanderers, without self-control, savage, opposed to what is good,

But let none of you suffer as a murderer or thief or criminal or as a troublemaker. ¹ 

But all the evil and worthless men among those who had gone with David said, “Since they didn’t go with us, ¹  we won’t give them any of the loot we retrieved! They may take only their wives and children. Let them lead them away and be gone!”

Now a wicked man ¹  named Sheba son of Bicri, a Benjaminite, ²  happened to be there. He blew the trumpet ³  and said, “We have no share in David; we have no inheritance in this son of Jesse! Every man go home, ⁴  O Israel!”

God also brought against Solomon ¹  another enemy, Rezon son of Eliada who had run away from his master, King Hadadezer of Zobah.

Elijah ¹  replied, “I have not brought disaster ²  on Israel. But you and your father’s dynasty have, by abandoning the Lord’s commandments and following the Baals.

But the time is coming when I will send men against Moab who will empty it out. They will empty the towns of their people, then will lay those towns in ruins. ¹  I, the Lord, affirm it! ² 

Whatever ¹  you plot ²  against the Lord, he will completely destroy! ³  Distress ⁴  will not arise ⁵  a second time.

But some wicked men ¹  said, “How can this man save us?” They despised him and did not even bring him a gift. But Saul said nothing about it. ² 

Then David said to Abishai, “Now Sheba son of Bicri will cause greater disaster for us than Absalom did! Take your lord’s servants and pursue him. Otherwise he will secure ¹  fortified cities for himself and get away from us.”