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When Gorgias became governor of the region, he employed foreign troops and used every opportunity to attack the Jews. (2 Maccabees 10, 14)
Timothy, who had previously been defeated by the Jews, gathered a tremendous force of foreign troops and collected a large number of cavalry from Asia; then he appeared in Judea, ready to conquer it by force. (2 Maccabees 10, 24)
Now that our father has taken his place among the gods, we wish the subjects of our kingdom to be undisturbed in conducting their own affairs. (2 Maccabees 11, 23)
For they went far astray in the paths of error, taking for gods the worthless and disgusting among beasts, deceived like senseless infants. (Wisdom of Solomon 12, 24)
For in the things through which they suffered distress, since they were tortured by the very things they deemed gods, They saw and recognized the true God whom before they had refused to know; with this, their final condemnation came upon them. (Wisdom of Solomon 12, 27)
But either fire, or wind, or the swift air, or the circuit of the stars, or the mighty water, or the luminaries of heaven, the governors of the world, they considered gods. (Wisdom of Solomon 13, 2)
Now if out of joy in their beauty they thought them gods, let them know how far more excellent is the Lord than these; for the original source of beauty fashioned them. (Wisdom of Solomon 13, 3)
But doomed are they, and in dead things are their hopes, who termed gods things made by human hands: Gold and silver, the product of art, and likenesses of beasts, or useless stone, the work of an ancient hand. (Wisdom of Solomon 13, 10)
For they esteemed all the idols of the nations gods, which have no use of the eyes for vision, nor nostrils to snuff the air, Nor ears to hear, nor fingers on their hands for feeling; even their feet are useless to walk with. (Wisdom of Solomon 15, 15)
There are words which merit death; may they never be heard among Jacob's heirs. For all such words are foreign to the devout, who do not wallow in sin. (Ecclesiasticus 23, 12)
Has exiled men of prominence and sent them wandering through foreign lands. (Ecclesiasticus 29, 18)
He travels among the peoples of foreign lands to learn what is good and evil among men. (Ecclesiasticus 39, 5)
