Found 98 Results for: divine punishment

• Thus, those who had prosecuted the case for the city, for the people, and for the sacred vessels, quickly suffered unjust punishment. (2 Maccabees 4, 48)

• Even if, for the time being, I avoid the punishment of men, I shall never, whether alive or dead, escape the hands of the Almighty. (2 Maccabees 6, 26)

• So he immediately sent word to the coastal cities, inviting them to buy Jewish slaves and promising to deliver ninety slaves for a talent--little did he dream of the punishment that was to fall upon him from the Almighty. (2 Maccabees 8, 11)

• a fit punishment for him who had tortured the bowels of others with many barbarous torments. (2 Maccabees 9, 6)

• When he could no longer bear his own stench, he said, "It is right to be subject to God, and not to think one's mortal self divine." (2 Maccabees 9, 12)

• But since God's punishment had justly come upon him, his sufferings were not lessened, so he lost hope for himself and wrote the following letter to the Jews in the form of a supplication. It read thus: Death of Antiochus (2 Maccabees 9, 18)

• so they raised tumultuous shouts in their native tongue in praise of the divine Sovereign. (2 Maccabees 15, 29)

• At this, everyone looked toward heaven and praised the Lord who manifests his divine power, saying, "Blessed be he who has kept his own Place undefiled!" (2 Maccabees 15, 34)

• Severe punishment is in store for the man who goes astray; he who hates reproof will die. (Proverbs 15, 10)

• But the wicked shall receive a punishment to match their thoughts, since they neglected justice and forsook the LORD. (Wisdom of Solomon 3, 10)

• But they who took no heed of punishment which was but child's play were to experience a condemnation worthy of God. (Wisdom of Solomon 12, 26)

• Instead of this punishment, you benefited your people with a novel dish, the delight they craved, by providing quail for their food; (Wisdom of Solomon 16, 2)