But this is not what he intends, nor does he have this in mind, but it is in his heart to destroy and to cut off nations not a few.
Even though you intended to do harm to me, God intended it for good, in order to preserve a numerous people, as he is doing today.
For he says: “Are not my commanders all kings?
Look at the land of the Chaldeans! This is the people; it was not Assyria. They destined it for wild animals. They erected their siege towers; they tore down her palaces; they made her a ruin.
and have hurled their gods into the fire, though they were no gods but the work of human hands—wood and stone—and so they were destroyed.
I have given him the land of Egypt as his payment for which he labored, because they worked for me, says the Lord God.
When the multitude has been carried off, his heart shall be exalted, and he shall overthrow tens of thousands, but he shall not prevail.
From you one has gone out who plots evil against the Lord, one who counsels wickedness.
this man, handed over to you according to the definite plan and foreknowledge of God, you crucified and killed by the hands of those outside the law.
But God raised him up, having released him from the agony of death, because it was impossible for him to be held in its power.