God ... struck him with an incurable and an invisible plague. For as soon as he had ended these words, a dreadful pain in his bowels came upon him, and bitter torments of the inner parts. And indeed very justly, seeing he had tormented the bowels of others. 2 Machabees 9:5
Yea, forty years didst thou sustain them in the wilderness, so that they lacked nothing; their clothes waxed not old, and their feet swelled not. 9:21
They ... entered into a curse, and into an oath ... that we would not give our daughters unto the people of the land, not take their daughters for our sons. 10:29
And I contended with them, and cursed them, and smote certain of them, and plucked off their hair, and made them swear by God, saying, Ye shall not give your daughters unto their sons, nor take their daughters unto your sons, or for yourselves. 13:25
Did not Solomon king of Israel sin by these things? ... even him did outlandish women cause to sin. 13:26
Shall we then hearken unto you to do all this great evil, to transgress against our God in marrying strange wives?. 13:27
