Bible Verses About Zeal: Sometimes wrongly directed

The king summoned the Giv'onim and said to them - these Giv'onim were not part of the people of Isra'el but from the remnant of the Emori; and the people of Isra'el had sworn to them; but Sha'ul, in his zeal for the people of Isra'el and Y'hudah, had sought to exterminate them -

“I am a Jew, born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but brought up in this city and trained at the feet of Gamli’el in every detail of the Torah of our forefathers. I was a zealot for God, as all of you are today.

I persecuted to death the followers of this Way, arresting both men and women and throwing them in prison.

in regard to zeal, a persecutor of the Messianic Community, in regard to the righteousness demanded by legalism, blameless.