Acts 12:23

Good News Translation

At once the angel of the Lord struck Herod down, because he did not give honor to God. He was eaten by worms and died.

Cross References

2 Kings 19:35

That night an angel of the Lord went to the Assyrian camp and killed 185,000 soldiers. At dawn the next day there they lay, all dead!

2 Chronicles 32:21

The Lord sent an angel that killed the soldiers and officers of the Assyrian army. So the emperor went back to Assyria disgraced. One day when he was in the temple of his god, some of his sons killed him with their swords.

Job 19:26

Even after my skin is eaten by disease, while still in this body I will see God.

Job 7:5

My body is full of worms; it is covered with scabs; pus runs out of my sores.

Psalm 115:1

To you alone, O Lord, to you alone, and not to us, must glory be given because of your constant love and faithfulness.

Exodus 10:3

So Moses and Aaron went to the king and said to him, “The Lord, the God of the Hebrews, says, ‘How much longer will you refuse to submit to me? Let my people go, so that they may worship me.

Exodus 12:12

“On that night I will go through the land of Egypt, killing every first-born male, both human and animal, and punishing all the gods of Egypt. I am the Lord.

Exodus 12:23

When the Lord goes through Egypt to kill the Egyptians, he will see the blood on the beams and the doorposts and will not let the Angel of Death enter your houses and kill you.

Exodus 12:29

At midnight the Lord killed all the first-born sons in Egypt, from the king's son, who was heir to the throne, to the son of the prisoner in the dungeon; all the first-born of the animals were also killed.

Exodus 9:17

Yet you are still arrogant and refuse to let my people go.

Proverbs 12:8

If you are intelligent, you will be praised; if you are stupid, people will look down on you.

Isaiah 14:11

You used to be honored with the music of harps, but now here you are in the world of the dead. You lie on a bed of maggots and are covered with a blanket of worms.’”

Isaiah 37:23

Whom do you think you have been insulting and ridiculing? You have been disrespectful to me, the holy God of Israel.

Isaiah 51:8

they will vanish like moth-eaten clothing! But the deliverance I bring will last forever; my victory will endure for all time.”

Isaiah 66:24

“As they leave, they will see the dead bodies of those who have rebelled against me. The worms that eat them will never die, and the fire that burns them will never be put out. The sight of them will be disgusting to all people.”

Ezekiel 28:2

“Mortal man,” he said, “tell the ruler of Tyre what I, the Sovereign Lord, am saying to him: Puffed up with pride, you claim to be a god. You say that like a god you sit on a throne, surrounded by the seas. You may pretend to be a god, but, no, you are mortal, not divine.

Ezekiel 28:9

When they come to kill you, will you still claim that you are a god? When you face your murderers, you will be mortal and not at all divine.

Acts 12:22

“It isn't a man speaking, but a god!” they shouted.

Acts 5:19

But that night an angel of the Lord opened the prison gates, led the apostles out, and said to them,

2 Thessalonians 2:4

He will oppose every so-called god or object of worship and will put himself above them all. He will even go in and sit down in God's Temple and claim to be God.

1 Samuel 25:38

Some ten days later the Lord struck Nabal and he died.