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• "If you have some enemy whom you wish to eliminate, send him there and you will see him return well flogged; that is, if he ever returns at all, for surely, divine power is in that place. (2 Maccabees 3, 38)

• For it is not easy to break the divine laws with impunity as the following episodes will show. (2 Maccabees 4, 17)

• For this reason, Menelaus met Andronicus in private and urged him to kill Onias. Andronicus went to Onias and deceitfully gained his confidence, offering Onias his right hand in oath. He was able to persuade Onias, in spite of the latter's suspicion, to come out of his place of refuge. Then Andronicus killed him at once without any regard for justice. (2 Maccabees 4, 34)

• When the king returned to the regions of Coele-Syria, the Jews of Jerusalem, together with the Greeks who were for justice, went to see him and complained about the murder of Onias. (2 Maccabees 4, 36)

• So the cowardly and those who had no confidence in divine justice took to flight. (2 Maccabees 8, 13)

• Only when he was beaten by the divine scourge did he begin to shed his arrogance. His pains grew worse, and he realized this was the punishment of God. (2 Maccabees 9, 11)

• Now Ptolemy, called Macron, was the first governor to do justice to the Jews. He was upset by injustices done against them, so he tried to solve all their problems satisfactorily. (2 Maccabees 10, 12)

• Then you will understand justice, discernment and integrity - all that leads you to happiness. (Proverbs 2, 9)

• I proceed on the path of righteousness and make use of the ways of justice, (Proverbs 8, 20)

• Kings who do evil are an abomination; it is justice that supports the kingship. (Proverbs 16, 12)

• He who judges according to justice wins the king's favor, honest men are pleasing to him. (Proverbs 16, 13)

• The corrupt man takes bribes to pervert the course of justice. (Proverbs 17, 23)