They seemed to get away with it
There are times when God decides not to take the life of someone who is evil but rather lets them live and die subject to the same time and chance that affects all humans. Although the below Biblical people did more than their share of wrong, the Bible does not record the Eternal intervening to cause their deaths. This is not to say that they ultimately "get away with" doing wrong as, after death, ALL humans will appear before the Almighty's judgment seat (Hebrews 9:27). Ahab is arguably the most evil king of the Northern Ten Tribes of Israel. Ahab was the first Israelite king to marry a heathen (non-Israel) woman, the beautiful but devilish Jezebel who worshipped the pagan god Baal. She encouraged him to lead the children of Israel further down the path of totally rejecting God, a path that ultimately lead to the nation's captivity. No less than Elijah the Prophet confronted the king several times regarding his deeds (see 1Kings 17 - 18). According to the Bible, his wife not only fed and cared for the more than 800 false prophets of Asherah and Baal, she had the evil tenacity to vow she would have Elijah murdered (1Kings 18 - 19). She also arranged the murder of a vineyard owner named Naboth when her husband could not take control of the land by himself (1Kings 21). Ahaz ruled the Kingdom of Judah from 735 to 715 B.C. He not only indulged in offering sacrifices to pagan gods, he also burned incense to idols on many hilltops, under spreading trees and on many street corners of Jerusalem. He also burned HIS OWN CHILDREN as a perverse sacrifice to one of his pagan deities (2 Kings 16:3 - 4, 2 Chronicles 28:24). Considered one of the worst kings to rule Judah, he died an unspecified death (2 Chronicles 28:27). Baasha was the third ruler over the people of the Northern Kingdom. He built the fortified city of Ramah to insure that none of his subjects could enter or exit Judah (1Kings 15:16-17). He then proceeded to murder Nadab, his predecessor as king, and his ENTIRE royal family (verses 27 - 29). What is the unpardonable sin? How can evil spirits be removed from a home? Important People in the Old Testament Which five great events in the Bible involve Satan? If God hates evil then why is Satan still alive? Doeg was from the tribe of Edom and served as King Saul's head shepherd (1Samuel 21:7). At the King's command he MURDERED not only Ahimelech the High Priest but also many other priests. He then travel to the priestly city of Nob, where the High Priest lived, and killed in cold blood everything he could find. And Doeg the Edomite turned and fell upon the priests. And on that day he killed eighty-five persons who wore a linen ephod. 19. And he struck Nob, the city of the priests, with the edge of the sword, both men and women, children and babes, and oxen, and donkeys, and sheep, with the edge of the sword (1Samuel 22:18 - 19, Holy Bible Faithful Version) King David, when informed of Doeg's evil, composes Psalm 52. Hazael, an official in the King of Syria's court, was anointed to be the next Syrian ruler by Elijah the prophet (1 Kings 19:15). Just before assuming office, Elisha the prophet visited him and foretold of the evil he would bring upon the Israelites. I know the evil that you will do to the children of Israel. You will set their strongholds on fire, and you will kill their young men with the sword, and will dash their children, and rip up their women with child" (2 Kings 8:12, Holy Bible Faithful Version) God allowed Hazael to persecute his people for at least 17 years because of their sins (2 Kings 10:32, 13:3, 22). Menahem was the sixteenth king of Israel. Known for being brutal, he murdered King Shallum in order to take the throne (2 Kings 15:14). His rage was such that, when a certain area did not accept him, he responded with evil vengeance.
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