What would he do?
“But the princes of the Philistines were angry with him; so the princes of the Philistines said to him, ‘Make this fellow return, that he may go back to the place which you have appointed for him, and do not let him go down with us to battle, lest in the battle he become our adversary. For with what could he reconcile himself to his master, if not with the heads of these men?'”
– 1 Samuel 29:4
[Job 12:7-9] But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee; and the fowls of the air, and they shall tell thee: or speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee: and the fishes of the sea shall declare unto thee. Who knoweth not in all these that the hand of the Lord hath wrought this?
Free funeral? “Thus says the Lord of hosts: ‘Consider your ways!’” – Haggai 1:7 NKJV
Instead of responding with aggression… “Let him alone, and let him curse…. It may be that the Lord will look on my affliction, and … repay me with good for his cursing this day.” – 2 Samuel 16:11-12 (NKJV)
The message is clear. “And he read in their ears all the words of the book of the covenant which was found in the house of the Lord.” – 2 Kings 23:2
[19:38,39] Joseph of Arimathaea, being a disciple of Jesus, but secretly for fear of the Jews, besought Pilate that he might take away the body of Jesus: and Pilate gave him leave. He came therefore, and took the body of Jesus. And there came also Nicodemus, which at the first came to Jesus by night, and brought a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about an hundred pound weight.
[Isaiah 39:4] Then said he, What have they seen in thine house? And Hezekiah answered, All that is in mine house have they seen: there is nothing among my treasures that I have not shewed them.