Acts 12:23 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

²³ Suddenly, an angel from God struck him [with a terrible condition] because he refused to honor God [by what he said in his speech], so he was consumed by worms and died.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²³ And immediately the angel of the Lord smote him, because he gave not God the glory: and he was eaten of worms, and gave up the ghost.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²³ And at once an angel of the Lord smote him and cut him down, because he did not give God the glory (the preeminence and kingly majesty that belong to Him as the supreme Ruler); and he was eaten by worms and died.

American Standard Version (1901)

²³ And immediately an angel of the Lord smote him, because he gave not God the glory: and he was eaten of worms, and gave up the ghost.

Common English Bible

²³ Immediately an angel from the Lord struck Herod down, because he didn’t give the honor to God. He was eaten by worms and died.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²³ And immediately, an Angel of the Lord struck him down, because he had not given honor to God. And having been consumed by worms, he expired.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²³ And forthwith an angel of the Lord struck him, because he had not given the honour to God: and being eaten up by worms, he gave up the ghost.

Acts 12:23 Cross References

Acts 12:22

The people began shouting, “His is the voice of a god and not a man.”

Acts 5:19

But an angel from the Lord one night [miraculously] opened the jail doors and released them, saying,

2 Thessalonians 2:4

[for] he opposes [the true Gospel message] and exalts himself against everything that is called “God” or that which is worshiped. So, he sits in God’s temple [i.e., the church (?)] displaying himself as [though he were] God.