Acts 12:23

New Living Translation

Instantly, an angel of the Lord struck Herod with a sickness, because he accepted the people’s worship instead of giving the glory to God. So he was consumed with worms and died.

Cross References

2 Kings 19:35

That night the angel of the Lord went out to the Assyrian camp and killed 185,000 Assyrian soldiers. When the surviving Assyrians woke up the next morning, they found corpses everywhere.

2 Chronicles 32:21

And the Lord sent an angel who destroyed the Assyrian army with all its commanders and officers. So Sennacherib was forced to return home in disgrace to his own land. And when he entered the temple of his god, some of his own sons killed him there with a sword.

Job 19:26

And after my body has decayed, yet in my body I will see God!

Job 7:5

My body is covered with maggots and scabs. My skin breaks open, oozing with pus.

Psalm 115:1

Not to us, O Lord, not to us, but to your name goes all the glory for your unfailing love and faithfulness.

Exodus 10:3

So Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and said, “This is what the Lord, the God of the Hebrews, says: How long will you refuse to submit to me? Let my people go, so they can worship me.

Exodus 12:12

On that night I will pass through the land of Egypt and strike down every firstborn son and firstborn male animal in the land of Egypt. I will execute judgment against all the gods of Egypt, for I am the Lord!

Exodus 12:23

For the Lord will pass through the land to strike down the Egyptians. But when he sees the blood on the top and sides of the doorframe, the Lord will pass over your home. He will not permit his death angel to enter your house and strike you down.

Exodus 12:29

And that night at midnight, the Lord struck down all the firstborn sons in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn son of Pharaoh, who sat on his throne, to the firstborn son of the prisoner in the dungeon. Even the firstborn of their livestock were killed.

Exodus 9:17

But you still lord it over my people and refuse to let them go.

Proverbs 12:8

A sensible person wins admiration, but a warped mind is despised.

Isaiah 14:11

Your might and power were buried with you. The sound of the harp in your palace has ceased. Now maggots are your sheet, and worms your blanket.’

Isaiah 37:23

“Whom have you been defying and ridiculing? Against whom did you raise your voice? At whom did you look with such haughty eyes? It was the Holy One of Israel!

Isaiah 51:8

For the moth will devour them as it devours clothing. The worm will eat at them as it eats wool. But my righteousness will last forever. My salvation will continue from generation to generation.”

Isaiah 66:24

And as they go out, they will see the dead bodies of those who have rebelled against me. For the worms that devour them will never die, and the fire that burns them will never go out. All who pass by will view them with utter horror.”

Ezekiel 28:2

“Son of man, give the prince of Tyre this message from the Sovereign Lord: “In your great pride you claim, ‘I am a god! I sit on a divine throne in the heart of the sea.’ But you are only a man and not a god, though you boast that you are a god.

Ezekiel 28:9

Will you then boast, ‘I am a god!’ to those who kill you? To them you will be no god but merely a man!

Acts 12:22

The people gave him a great ovation, shouting, “It’s the voice of a god, not of a man!”

Acts 5:19

But an angel of the Lord came at night, opened the gates of the jail, and brought them out. Then he told them,

2 Thessalonians 2:4

He will exalt himself and defy everything that people call god and every object of worship. He will even sit in the temple of God, claiming that he himself is God.

1 Samuel 25:38

About ten days later, the Lord struck him, and he died.