17 With that the king said to the runners+ stationed about him: “Turn and put to death the priests of Jehovah, because their hand also is with David and because they knew that he was a runaway and they did not disclose it to my ear!”+ And the servants of the king did not want to thrust out their hand to assault the priests of Jehovah.+

2 When the righteous become many, the people rejoice;+ but when anyone wicked bears rule, the people sigh.+

3 Her princes in the midst of her were roaring lions.+ Her judges were evening wolves that did not gnaw [bones] till the morning.+

16 Then Herod, seeing he had been outwitted by the astrologers,* fell into a great rage, and he sent out and had all the boys in Bethʹle·hem and in all its districts done away with, from two years of age and under, according to the time that he had carefully ascertained from the astrologers.+