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"When all these things which I have set before you, the blessings and the curses, are fulfilled in you, and from among whatever nations the LORD, your God, may have dispersed you, you ponder them in your heart: (Deuteronomy 30, 1)
But all those curses the LORD, your God, will assign to your enemies and the foes who persecuted you. (Deuteronomy 30, 7)
Then were read aloud all the words of the law, the blessings and the curses, exactly as written in the book of the law. (Joshua 8, 34)
But the king replied: "What business is it of mine or of yours, sons of Zeruiah, that he curses? Suppose the LORD has told him to curse David; who then will dare to say, 'Why are you doing this?'" (2 Samuel 16, 10)
Perhaps the LORD will look upon my affliction and make it up to me with benefits for the curses he is uttering this day." (2 Samuel 16, 12)
Now the counsel given by Ahithophel at that time was as though one had sought divine revelation. Such was all his counsel both to David and to Absalom. (2 Samuel 16, 23)
"If I am a man of God," Elijah answered him, "may fire come down from heaven and consume you and your fifty men." And divine fire came down from heaven, consuming him and his fifty men. (2 Kings 1, 12)
Their functions were assigned impartially by lot, for there were officers of the holy place, and officers of the divine presence, descended both from Eleazar and from Ithamar. (1 Chronicles 24, 5)
All these were the sons of Heman, the king's seer in divine matters; to enhance his prestige, God gave Heman fourteen sons and three daughters. (1 Chronicles 25, 5)
The LORD says: I am prepared to bring evil upon this place and upon its inhabitants, all the curses written in the book that has been read before the king of Judah. (2 Chronicles 34, 24)
He was sixty-two years old when he lost his eyesight, and after he recovered it he lived in prosperity, giving alms and continually blessing God and praising the divine Majesty. (Tobit 14, 2)
Since they abandoned the way of their ancestors, and acknowledged with divine worship the God of heaven, their forefathers expelled them from the presence of their gods. So they fled to Mesopotamia and dwelt there a long time. (Judith 5, 8)
