Acts 12:23

New English Translation

Immediately an angel of the Lord struck Herod down because he did not give the glory to God, and he was eaten by worms and died.

Cross References

2 Kings 19:35

That very night the Lord’s messenger went out and killed 185,000 men in the Assyrian camp. When they got up early the next morning, there were all the corpses.

2 Chronicles 32:21

The Lord sent a messenger and he wiped out all the soldiers, princes, and officers in the army of the king of Assyria. So Sennacherib returned home humiliated. When he entered the temple of his god, some of his own sons struck him down with the sword.

Job 19:26

And after my skin has been destroyed, yet in my flesh I will see God,

Job 7:5

My body is clothed with worms and dirty scabs; my skin is broken and festering.

Psalm 115:1

Not to us, O Lord, not to us! But to your name bring honor, for the sake of your loyal love and faithfulness.

Exodus 10:3

So Moses and Aaron came to Pharaoh and told him, “Thus says the Lord, the God of the Hebrews: ‘How long do you refuse to humble yourself before me? Release my people so that they may serve me!

Exodus 12:12

I will pass through the land of Egypt in the same night, and I will attack all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both of humans and of animals, and on all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment. I am the Lord.

Exodus 12:23

For the Lord will pass through to strike Egypt, and when he sees the blood on the top of the doorframe and the two side posts, then the Lord will pass over the door, and he will not permit the destroyer to enter your houses to strike you.

Exodus 12:29

It happened at midnight – the Lord attacked all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sat on his throne to the firstborn of the captive who was in the prison, and all the firstborn of the cattle.

Exodus 9:17

You are still exalting yourself against my people by not releasing them.

Proverbs 12:8

A person is praised in accordance with his wisdom, but the one who has a twisted mind is despised.

Isaiah 14:11

Your splendor has been brought down to Sheol, as well as the sound of your stringed instruments. You lie on a bed of maggots, with a blanket of worms over you.

Isaiah 37:23

Whom have you taunted and hurled insults at? At whom have you shouted and looked so arrogantly? At the Holy One of Israel!

Isaiah 51:8

For a moth will eat away at them like clothes; a clothes moth will devour them like wool. But the vindication I provide will be permanent; the deliverance I give will last.”

Isaiah 66:24

“They will go out and observe the corpses of those who rebelled against me, for the maggots that eat them will not die, and the fire that consumes them will not die out. All people will find the sight abhorrent.”

Ezekiel 28:2

“Son of man, say to the prince of Tyre, ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: “‘Your heart is proud and you said, “I am a god; I sit in the seat of gods, in the heart of the seas” – yet you are a man and not a god, though you think you are godlike.

Ezekiel 28:9

Will you still say, “I am a god,” before the one who kills you – though you are a man and not a god – when you are in the power of those who wound you?

Acts 12:22

But the crowd began to shout, “The voice of a god, and not of a man!”

Acts 5:19

But during the night an angel of the Lord opened the doors of the prison, led them out, and said,

2 Thessalonians 2:4

He opposes and exalts himself above every so-called god or object of worship, and as a result he takes his seat in God’s temple, displaying himself as God.

1 Samuel 25:38

After about ten days the Lord struck Nabal down and he died.