21 For a blameless man hurried to be their champion, bringing the weapon of his own ministry, prayer, and the atoning sacrifice of incense. He withstood the indignation and set an end to the calamity, showing that he was your servant. (WEB) 22 And he overcame the anger, not by strength of body, not by force of weapons, but by his word, he subdued the avenger by bringing to remembrance oaths and covenants made with the fathers. (WEB) 23 For when the dead had already fallen in heaps one upon another, he intervened and stopped the wrath, and cut off its way to the living. (WEB)
Wisdom of Solomon 18:21–23
Semantically similar passages
Numbers 16:47–49
47 So Aaron took the censer as Moses had ordered and ran into the midst of the assembly. And seeing that the plague had begun among the people, he offered the incense and made atonement for the people. 48 He stood between the living and the dead, and the plague was… 49 …
Wisdom of Solomon 16:4–6
4 For it was necessary that inescapable lack should come upon those oppressors, but that to these it should only be showed how their enemies were tormented. (WEB) 5 For even when terrible raging of wild beasts came upon your people, and they were perishing by the bites… (WEB) 6 … (WEB)
4 Maccabees 7:10–12
10 O aged man of more power than tortures, elder more vigorous than fire, greatest king over the emotions, Eleazar! (WEB) 11 For as father Aaron, armed with a censer, hastening through the consuming fire, vanquished the flame-bearing angel, (WEB) 12 so, Eleazar, the descendant of A… (WEB)
Psalms 78:49–51
49 He unleashed His fury against them, wrath, indignation, and calamity— a band of destroying angels. 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 t…
Psalms 106:22–24
22 wondrous works in the land of Ham, and awesome deeds by the Red Sea. 23 So He said He would destroy them— had not Moses His chosen one stood before Him in the breach to divert His wrath from destroying them. 24 They despised the pleasant land; they did not believe Hi…
Psalms 106:29–31
29 So they provoked the LORD to anger with their deeds, and a plague broke out among them. 30 But Phinehas stood and intervened, and the plague was restrained. 31 It was credited to him as righteousness for endless generations to come.
Wisdom of Solomon 12:8–10
8 Nevertheless you even spared these as men, and you sent hornets as forerunners of your army, to cause them to perish little by little. (WEB) 9 Not that you were unable to subdue the ungodly under the hand of the righteous in battle, or by terrible beasts or by a stern… (WEB)
2 Maccabees 15:23–25
23 So now also, O Sovereign of the heavens, send a good angel before us to bring terror and trembling. (WEB) 24 Through the greatness of your arm let them be stricken with dismay who with blasphemy have come here against your holy people.” As he finished these words, (WEB) 25 Nican… (WEB)
Search the collection All books and codes Translations and sources