13 For while they were disbelieving all things by reason of the enchantments, upon the destruction of the firstborn they confessed the people to be God’s children. (WEB) 14 For while peaceful silence wrapped all things, and night in her own swiftness was half spent, (WEB) 15 your all-powerful word leaped from heaven, from the royal throne, a stern warrior, into the midst of the doomed land, (WEB)
Wisdom of Solomon 18:13–15
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Psalms 105:35–37
35 They devoured every plant in their land and consumed the produce of their soil. 36 Then He struck all the firstborn in their land, the firstfruits of all their vigor. 37 He brought Israel out with silver and gold, and none among His tribes stumbled.
Psalms 105:27–29
27 They performed His miraculous signs among them, and wonders in the land of Ham. 28 He sent darkness, and it became dark— yet they defied His words. 29 He turned their waters to blood and caused their fish to die.
Wisdom of Solomon 17:1–3
1 For your judgments are great, and hard to interpret; therefore undisciplined souls went astray. (WEB) 2 For when lawless men had supposed that they held a holy nation in their power, they, prisoners of darkness, and bound in the fetters of a long night, kept close ben… (WEB)
Wisdom of Solomon 18:4–6
4 For the Egyptians well deserved to be deprived of light and imprisoned by darkness, they who had imprisoned your children, through whom the incorruptible light of the law was to be given to the race of men. (WEB) 5 After they had taken counsel to kill the babes of the… (WEB)
Wisdom of Solomon 11:16–18
16 that they might learn that by what things a man sins, by these he is punished. (WEB) 17 For your all-powerful hand that created the world out of formless matter didn’t lack means to send upon them a multitude of bears, fierce lions, (WEB) 18 or newly-created and unknown wild bea… (WEB)
Psalms 78:50–52
50 He cleared a path for His anger; He did not spare them from death but delivered their lives to the plague. 51 He struck all the firstborn of Egypt, the virility in the tents of Ham. 52 He led out His people like sheep and guided them like a flock in the wilderness.
Wisdom of Solomon 17:13–15
13 and from within, the expectation of being less prefers ignorance of the cause that brings the torment. (WEB) 14 But they, all through the night which was powerless indeed, and which came upon them out of the recesses of powerless Hades, sleeping the same sleep, (WEB) 15 now were… (WEB)
Wisdom of Solomon 12:24–26
24 For truly they went astray very far in the ways of error, Taking as gods those animals which even among their enemies were held in dishonor, deceived like foolish babes. (WEB) 25 Therefore, as to unreasoning children, you sent your judgment to mock them. (WEB) 26 But those who w… (WEB)
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