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Of all the local gods, which ones have saved their countries from my clutches, for Yahweh to be able to save Jerusalem from my clutches?" ' (2 Kings 18, 35)
But he demolished their shrines and cut down their sacred trees, carrying out his commission to destroy all local gods so that the nations should worship Nebuchadnezzar alone and people of every language and nationality should hail him as a god. (Judith 3, 8)
He undertook many campaigns, gained possession of many fortresses, and put the local kings to death. (1 Maccabees 1, 2)
The local merchants, hearing the news of this, arrived at the camp, bringing with them a large amount of gold and silver, and fetters as well, proposing to buy the Israelites as slaves; they were accompanied by a company from Idumaea and the Philistine country. (1 Maccabees 3, 41)
Three days later King Ptolemy died, and the Egyptian garrisons in the strongholds were killed by the local inhabitants. (1 Maccabees 11, 18)
Among the local generals, Timotheus and Apollonius son of Gennaeus, as also Hieronymus and Demophon, and Nicanor the Cypriarch as well, would not allow the Jews to live in peace and quiet. (2 Maccabees 12, 2)
But the King of kings stirred up the anger of Antiochus against the guilty wretch, and when Lysias made it clear to the king that Menelaus was the cause of all the troubles, Antiochus gave orders for him to be taken to Beroea and there put to death by the local method of execution. (2 Maccabees 13, 4)
When the local people recognised him they spread the news through the whole neighbourhood and took all that were sick to him, (Matthew 14, 35)
so he hired himself out to one of the local inhabitants who put him on his farm to feed the pigs. (Luke 15, 15)
When we heard this, we and all the local people urged Paul not to go on to Jerusalem. (Acts 21, 12)
