1 For this cause, they were deservedly punished through creatures like those which they worship, and tormented through a multitude of vermin. (WEB) 2 Instead of this punishment, you, giving benefits to your people, prepared quails for food, a delicacy to satisfy the desire of their appetite, (WEB)
Wisdom of Solomon 16:1–2
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Wisdom of Solomon 11:14–16
14 For him who long before was thrown out and exposed they stopped mocking. In the end of what happened, they marveled, having thirsted in another manner than the righteous. (WEB) 15 But in return for the senseless imaginings of their unrighteousness, wherein they were le… (WEB)
Wisdom of Solomon 16:8–10
8 Yes, and in this you persuaded our enemies that you are he who delivers out of every evil. (WEB) 9 For the bites of locusts and flies truly killed them. No healing for their life was found, because they were worthy to be punished by such things. (WEB) 10 But your children weren… (WEB)
Wisdom of Solomon 12:22–24
22 Therefore while you chasten us, you scourge our enemies ten thousand times more, to the intent that we may ponder your goodness when we judge, and when we are judged may look for mercy. (WEB) 23 Therefore also the unrighteous that lived in a life of folly, you tormente… (WEB)
Wisdom of Solomon 11:4–6
4 They thirsted, and they called upon you, and water was given to them out of the flinty rock, and healing of their thirst out of the hard stone. (WEB) 5 For by what things their foes were punished, by these they in their need were benefited. (WEB) 6 When enemies were troubled w… (WEB)
1 Maccabees 2:29–31
29 Then many who sought justice and judgment went down into the wilderness to live there— (WEB) 30 they, their children, their wives, and their livestock—because evils were multiplied upon them. (WEB) 31 It was told to the king’s officers and the forces that were in Jerusalem, the… (WEB)
Wisdom of Solomon 19:11–13
11 But afterwards, they also saw a new kind of birds, when, led on by desire, they asked for luxurious dainties; (WEB) 12 for, to comfort them, quails came up for them from the sea. (WEB) 13 Punishments came upon the sinners, not without the signs that were given beforehand by the… (WEB)
2 Esdras 1:14–16
14 I gave you light in a pillar of fire. I have done great wonders among you, yet you have forgotten me, says the Lord. (WEB) 15 “The Lord Almighty says: The quails were for a token to you. I gave you a camp for your protection, but you complained there. (WEB) 16 You didn’t celebra… (WEB)
Psalms 78:44–46
44 He turned their rivers to blood, and from their streams they could not drink. 45 He sent swarms of flies that devoured them, and frogs that devastated them. 46 He gave their crops to the grasshopper, the fruit of their labor to the locust.
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