14 With every member disjointed, he denounced the tyrant, saying, (WEB)
4 Maccabees 9:14
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4 Maccabees 10:4–6
4 Now then, whatever instrument of vengeance you have, apply it to my body, for you aren’t able to touch my soul, even if you want to.” (WEB) 5 But they, highly incensed at his boldness of speech, dislocated his hands and feet with racking engines, and wrenching them fr… (WEB)
3 Maccabees 2:21–23
21 At that time God, who sees all things, who is beyond all Holy among the holy, heard that prayer, so suitable, and scourged the man who was greatly uplifted with scorn and insolence. (WEB) 22 Shaking him back and forth as a reed is shaken with the wind, he threw him dow… (WEB)
4 Maccabees 11:10–12
10 to which binding him at his knees, and fastening them with iron fetters, they bent down his loins upon the wedge of the wheel; and his body was then dismembered, scorpion-fashion. (WEB) 11 With his breath thus confined, and his body strangled, he said, (WEB) 12 “A great favor yo… (WEB)
4 Maccabees 6:2–4
2 First, they stripped the old man, adorned as he was with the beauty of piety. (WEB) 3 Then tying back his arms and hands, they disdainfully flogged him. (WEB) 4 A herald opposite cried out, “Obey the commands of the king!” (WEB)
4 Maccabees 10:16–18
16 Invent, O tyrant, tortures, that you may learn, even through them, that I am the brother of those tormented before.” (WEB) 17 When he had said this, the blood-thirsty, murderous, and unholy Antiochus ordered his tongue to be cut out. (WEB) 18 But he said, “Even if you take away… (WEB)
4 Maccabees 11:17–19
17 As he said this, they brought him to the wheel. (WEB) 18 Extended upon this, with limbs racked and dislocated, he was gradually roasted from beneath. (WEB) 19 Having heated sharp spits, they approached them to his back; and having transfixed his sides, they burned away his entra… (WEB)
4 Maccabees 7:1–3
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2 Maccabees 7:3–5
3 The king fell into a rage, and commanded that pans and caldrons be heated. (WEB) 4 When these were immediately heated, he gave orders to cut out the tongue of him who had been their spokesman, and to scalp him, and to cut off his extremities, with the rest of his brot… (WEB)
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