Johanan was the father of Azariah, who served as a priest in the temple Solomon built in Jerusalem. ¹ 

whose mother is a Danite and whose father is a Tyrian. ¹  He knows how to work with gold, silver, bronze, iron, stones, and wood, as well as purple, violet, white, and crimson fabrics. He knows how to do all kinds of engraving and understands any design given to him. He will work with your skilled craftsmen and the skilled craftsmen of my lord David your father.

But the Lord ¹  rules ²  forever; he reigns in a just manner. ³ 

The one true God ¹  completely vindicates me; ²  he makes nations submit to me. ³ 

Deliver me ¹  from the sword! Save ²  my life ³  from the claws ⁴  of the wild dogs!

Do not sweep me away ¹  with sinners, or execute me along with violent people, ² 

when God arose to execute judgment, and to deliver all the oppressed of the earth. (Selah)

Rise up, O God, and execute judgment on the earth! For you own ¹  all the nations.

O sovereign Lord, ¹  at your right hand he strikes down ²  kings in the day he unleashes his anger. ³ 

Devise your strategy, but it will be thwarted! Issue your orders, but they will not be executed! ¹  For God is with us! ² 

The sovereign master, the Lord who commands armies, is certainly ready to carry out the decreed destruction throughout the land. ¹ 

All this will happen because the Lord said, ¹  “The whole land will be desolate; however, I will not completely destroy it.

However, Ahikam son of Shaphan ¹  used his influence to keep Jeremiah from being handed over and executed by the people. ² 

I will bring you into the wilderness of the nations, and there I will enter into judgment with you face to face.

Although ¹  Herod ²  wanted to kill John, ³  he feared the crowd because they accepted John as a prophet.

Now ¹  while Zechariah ²  was serving as priest before God when his division was on duty, ³ 

The ¹  chief priests and the experts in the law ²  were trying to find some way ³  to execute ⁴  Jesus, ⁵  for they were afraid of the people. ⁶ 

This was according to ¹  the eternal purpose that he accomplished in Christ Jesus our Lord,

Now, hand over the good-for-nothings ¹  in Gibeah so we can execute them and purge Israel of wickedness.” ²  But the Benjaminites refused to listen to their Israelite brothers.

Elijah told them, “Seize the prophets of Baal! Don’t let even one of them escape!” So they seized them, and Elijah led them down to the Kishon Valley and executed ¹  them there.