They brought those men which had accused Daniel, and they cast them into the den of lions, them, their children, and their wives; and the lions had the mastery of them, and brake all their bones in pieces. Daniel 6:24

Trivia: What king ate grass like an ox, had hair like eagles' feathers and nails like birds' claws?

Who tried to uncircumcise themselves?


Some wicked Jews in Judea during the Seleucid occupation who were trying to make themselves look more Greek and less Jewish.

In those days there went out of Israel wicked men, and they persuaded many, saying: Let us go, and make a covenant with the heathens ... And they made themselves prepuces. Genesis 1:12

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