Elijah mocked them.
–1 Kings 18:27 (ESV)–

You blind guides, straining out
a gnat and swallowing a camel!
–Matthew 23:24 (ESV)–

I wish those who unsettle you
would emasculate themselves!
–Galatians 5:12 (ESV)–

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Jehoram’s intestinal breakdown could have come from being stabbed in the gut by a sword and developing ischemic colitis. Although it could also be caused by dysentery or food poisoning.

Dante, The Divine Comedy, Volume 1: Inferno (Penguin, 2003), pp. 280-285.