Proverbs 24:22

¹¹Ephraim is oppressed, he is crushed in judgment, because he is intent in his pursuit of idols.

³¹As he finished speaking all these words, the ground that was under them split apart. ³²The earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up with their households, all of Korah’s men, and all their goods. ³³So they, and all that belonged to them went down alive into Sheol.^[+] The earth closed on them, and they perished from among the assembly. ³⁴All Israel that were around them fled at their cry; for they said, “Lest the earth swallow us up!” ³⁵Fire came out from the LORD, and devoured the two hundred fifty men who offered the incense.

¹⁶The children of Israel fled before Judah, and God delivered them into their hand. ¹⁷Abijah and his people killed them with a great slaughter, so five hundred thousand chosen men of Israel fell down slain.

¹¹Who knows the power of your anger, your wrath according to the fear that is due to you?

⁷The people of Israel were struck there before David’s servants, and there was a great slaughter there that day of twenty thousand men. ⁸For the battle was there spread over the surface of all the country, and the forest devoured more people that day than the sword devoured.

¹⁰Where is your king now, that he may save you in all your cities? And your judges, of whom you said, ‘Give me a king and princes’? ¹¹I have given you a king in my anger, and have taken him away in my wrath.

²The terror of a king is like the roaring of a lion. He who provokes him to anger forfeits his own life.

¹Now the Philistines fought against Israel; and the men of Israel fled from before the Philistines, and fell down slain on Mount Gilboa. ²The Philistines overtook Saul and his sons; and the Philistines killed Jonathan, Abinadab, and Malchishua, the sons of Saul. ³The battle went hard against Saul, and the archers overtook him; and he was greatly distressed by reason of the archers. ⁴Then Saul said to his armor bearer, “Draw your sword, and thrust me through with it, lest these uncircumcised come and thrust me through and abuse me!” But his armor bearer would not, for he was terrified. Therefore Saul took his sword and fell on it. ⁵When his armor bearer saw that Saul was dead, he likewise fell on his sword, and died with him. ⁶So Saul died with his three sons, his armor bearer, and all his men that same day together.

⁷When the men of Israel who were on the other side of the valley, and those who were beyond the Jordan, saw that the men of Israel fled and that Saul and his sons were dead, they abandoned the cities and fled; and the Philistines came and lived in them.

¹⁴The king’s wrath is a messenger of death, but a wise man will pacify it.