The fragments describe a Babylonian king ( spelled N-b-n-y ) who is afflicted by God with an " evil disease " for a period of seven years ; he is cured and his sins forgiven after the intervention of a Jewish exile who is described as a " diviner "; he issues a written proclamation in praise of the Most High God, and speaks in the first person.

* Abimelech ( 9 ) ( who is traditionally counted as a king not a judge, and is considered evil ) vs. all the Israelites who oppose him

The theological bias is seen in the way it judges each king of Israel on the basis of whether he recognises the authority of the temple in Jerusalem ( none do, and therefore all are " evil "), and each king of Judah on the basis of whether he destroys the " high places " ( rivals to the Temple in Jerusalem ); it gives only passing mention to important and successful kings like Omri and Jeroboam II and totally ignores one of the most significant events in ancient Israel's history, the battle of Qarqar.

Whereas Macbeth places his hope in the prediction that he will be king, Banquo argues that evil only offers gifts that lead to destruction.

David plays the lyre ( depicted here as a harp ) to the king " tormented by an evil spirit.

In plotlines mirroring the negative reaction of non-commercial artists to the commercialization of the art form by companies like IBM ( and, later, Sony itself ) the Rakugaki Ōkoku series ( 2003 – 2005 ) for Sony's PlayStation 2 revolves around an anonymous hero and his magically imbued-with-life graffiti creations as they struggle against an evil king who only allows art to be produced which can benefit him.

The anonymous play The Troublesome Reign of King John portrayed the king as a " proto-Protestant martyr ", similar to that shown in John Bale's morality play Kynge Johan, in which John attempts to save England from the " evil agents of the Roman Church ".

He began by revealing that his pose as fool was a sham designed to protect him against an evil king.

Millennialism is also a doctrine of medieval Zoroastrianism concerning successive thousand-year periods, each of which will end in a cataclysm of heresy and destruction, until the final destruction of evil and of the spirit of evil by a triumphant king of peace at the end of the final millennial age ( supposed by some to be the year 2000 ).

He explains that kings who rule righteously are desirable, but once a wicked king comes to power he spreads evil to his subjects, and it is difficult to remove a wicked king from power.

In many cases prior to the 18th century, women leading the life of a courtesan in a royal court, with romantic relationships with kings, achieved wealth and status, but eventually it would lead to many of them being executed following very public trials that often left them appearing to have been evil, or power-hungry, when in fact they more often than not were nothing more than a lover and mistress to the king.

He falls asleep, only to awaken in a strange vegetable kingdom led by the evil potato king Boobus Tuber, who has imprisoned other sleeping children there.

While the king and queen lie dying, the evil spirit sees its chance to ensnare the soul of the dying queen and pulls it back into her body.

The Wedjat " was intended to protect the king in the afterlife " and to ward off evil.

Pithana, the king of Kussara, conquered level Ia Neša " in the night, by force ", but " did not do evil to anyone in it.

She was the mother of Jason by Aeson, whom she met in the caves below Iolcus in Thessaly, a chthonic lair where the rightful king Aeson had been imprisoned by his evil half-brother Pelias.

Remember that you were made king and ruler over many not by your own merits but by the abounding grace of God, and now you are making yourself by your own lust the slave of an evil spirit.

The name was also given to another beautiful, evil sorceress woman who married king Áli of Alfheim ( modern Bohuslän ) in Illuga saga Gríðarfóstra.

Grimhild poisoned the king and then had ruled the kingdom in such an evil manner that it was laid waste.

Kamsa, the brother of Devaki and an evil king, was intent upon killing all the children of his sister because of a prediction that he would die at the hands of her eighth son.

The Bourbons, led by the prince of Condé and proclaiming that they were liberating the king and regent from " evil " councillors, organised a kind of protectorate over the Protestant churches.

In this passage from the book of Isaiah the prophet predicts to king Ahaz that a young woman will give birth to a child who will be called " Immanuel ", meaning " God with us ", and that Ahaz's enemies will be destroyed before this child learns the difference between good and evil, i. e., before it reaches maturity.

A fight ensues in which the " evil " Superman tries to dispose of the " good " Kent, but the latter fights back, " kills " the evil side to his nature and, reclaiming the Superman mantle, sets off to repair the damage and capture the villains.

After enough attacks, he decides to take the evil head-on equipped with a shotgun and a chainsaw and sets out to face the enemy.

The inference from this claim to the general statement that there exists unnecessary evil is inductive in nature and it is this inductive step that sets the evidential argument apart from the logical argument.

In that case, the theist appears to face a dilemma: either to accept that both sets of responses are equally bad, and so that the theist does not have an adequate response to the problem of evil ; or to accept that both responses are equally good, and so to consider the existence of an omnipotent, omniscient, and omnimalevolent being as plausible.

Towards the end of the series Ares is himself replaced by the evil god, Dahak, who is the main villain in the show's fifth season and sets off a story arc that has Hercules traveling to Sumeria, Norseland and Éire.

It sets a long-standing trend of a criminal not punished for his crime ; this is the first Hollywood film where that happened ... The Edward G. Robinson character is viewed as an ordinary man who is influenced by an evil couple who take advantage of his vulnerability and lead him down an amoral road where he eventually in a passionate moment loses his head and commits murder.

The animated series, Futurama, had an episode where the characters travel between " Universe 1 " and " Universe A " via boxes containing each universe ; and one of the major jokes is an extended argument between the two sets of characters over which set were the " evil " ones.

Although " The Replacement " sets up its narrative as an evil twin television narrative trope, its catch is that both Xanders are in fact the real Xander.

In the story, the book had truly supernatural properties and was therefore separated into three sets of pages so as to prevent its evil power from being misused.

No one actually sets out to do evil.

Two chests, hairy and smooth, one belt / pair of shorts, and three sets of arms and legs ( smooth muscular, evil ' claw ' fingers / toes, and hairy ).

Backed by a Chinese dentist, he obtains a ship and sets about harvesting copra while fending off cantankerous native chieftains and evil German empire-builders.

The world is once again in chaos and a young boy,, sets out gathering companions to once again save the world from evil.

The next day The Chosen One sets off anyway to find Betty, coming across one of Betty's evil companions: Moo Nieu ( pronounced " moon you "), a Holstein cow gifted in karate, with a large udder that can squirt milk as a weapon.

However, Headdy escapes the clutches of Dark Demon's minions and sets off to defeat the evil king.

* In the television series The Storyteller episode " The Luck Child " an evil king sets out to kill the seventh son of a seventh son who is prophesied to become king.

DoubleShot, the second novel in Raymond Benson's Union trilogy, again sets James Bond, 007 against the evil terrorist organization called the Union.

This sets free an evil entity known as Uka Uka, the mastermind behind Doctor Cortex's previous schemes.

When Ublaz Mad-Eyes sets out on a mission to steal Tears of All Oceans, a set of six spherical rose-pink pearls, from the Lutra otter clan ( Lutra lutra being the Latin name for otters ), Grath Longfletch must stand up to the evil pine marten while the Redwallers search for the missing treasures.

Our perceptions are based on contrast, so that light and dark, good and evil, are imperceptible without each other ; in this context, these sets of opposites show a certain symmetry.

A forerunner of Akalabeth and Ultima, Odyssey was a multi-part adventure game that placed the player in the role of the leader of an army who sets out to vanquish an evil wizard.

The exception is Ficus, who remains the same because " there are no good or evil plants, there are just plants ", leading both sets of crew members to scream at him in their usual exasperation.

When Malcolm attacks Kyrandia and turns Kallak into stone, Brandon sets out to defeat the evil jester.