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'Unless Judas is handed over to me this time with his army, as soon as I am safely back, I promise you, I shall burn this building down!' (1 Maccabees 7, 35)
While Heliodorus lay prostrate under the divine visitation, speechless and bereft of all hope of deliverance, (2 Maccabees 3, 29)
'If you have some enemy or anyone disloyal to the state, send him there, and you will get him back well flogged, if he survives at all, since some peculiarly divine power attaches to the holy place. (2 Maccabees 3, 38)
he approached the king with a promise of three hundred and sixty talents of silver, with eighty talents to come from some other source of revenue. (2 Maccabees 4, 8)
It is no small thing to violate the divine laws, as the period that followed will demonstrate. (2 Maccabees 4, 17)
When he neared his end he cried, 'Ours is the better choice, to meet death at men's hands, yet relying on God's promise that we shall be raised up by him; whereas for you there can be no resurrection to new life.' (2 Maccabees 7, 14)
Then and there, as a consequence, in his shattered state, he began to shed his excessive pride and come to his senses under the divine lash, spasms of pain overtaking him. (2 Maccabees 9, 11)
When at long last he convinced them that he would honour his promise and return these people safe and sound, they let him go for the sake of saving their brothers. (2 Maccabees 12, 25)
Obey the king's command and, because of the divine promise, (Ecclesiastes 8, 2)
A father afflicted by untimely mourning has an image made of his child so soon carried off, and now pays divine honours to what yesterday was only a corpse, handing on mysteries and ceremonies to his people; (Wisdom of Solomon 14, 15)
The Egyptian is human, not divine, his horses are flesh, not spirit; Yahweh will stretch out his hand: the protector will stumble, the protected will fall and all will perish together. (Isaiah 31, 3)
and say to the faint-hearted, 'Be strong! Do not be afraid. Here is your God, vengeance is coming, divine retribution; he is coming to save you.' (Isaiah 35, 4)