“When the king heard that, he was angry, and sent his armies, destroyed those murderers, and burned their city.”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Matthew 22 contains 46 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.