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And as for you, who have been scourged by heaven's command, make known to all how great is the power of God." Having said this, they vanished. (2 Maccabees 3, 34)
"If you have some enemy whom you wish to eliminate, send him there and you will see him return well flogged; that is, if he ever returns at all, for surely, divine power is in that place. (2 Maccabees 3, 38)
With the consent of the king and using the power at his disposal, he at once set about encouraging his fellow citizens to adopt the customs of the Greeks. (2 Maccabees 4, 10)
But through the corruption of the rulers, Menelaus remained in power, growing in wickedness and becoming a tyrant towards his own people. (2 Maccabees 4, 50)
But he did not stay in power for long and after obtaining nothing but shame for himself, he had to flee once again to the land of Ammon. (2 Maccabees 5, 7)
Wait, and you shall see his great power when he torments you and your descendants." (2 Maccabees 7, 17)
Not long before, in his conceit and sense of superiority he thought of giving orders to the sea and measuring the heights of the mountains. Now he lay down and had to be brought on a stretcher, giving to all a clear testimony of the power of God. (2 Maccabees 9, 8)
And he promised to become a Jew and to proclaim in all the inhabited countries the power of God. (2 Maccabees 9, 17)
so that his subjects would not be upset if anything unexpected should happen or any misfortune should befall him. Everyone would know who is in power. (2 Maccabees 9, 24)
They carried on with their assaults and the place fell into their power. They repelled those who fought on the ramparts, slaughtered all who fell into their hands, and killed more than twenty thousand men. (2 Maccabees 10, 17)
He took God's power for granted, and went up with his infantry regiments, his horsemen by the thousands, and his eighty elephants. (2 Maccabees 11, 4)
Timotheus himself fell into the hands of Dositheus' and Sosipater's troops. He very cunningly pleaded with them to let him go, for, as he said, he had the parents and brothers of most of the Jews in his power and they would surely be put to death if he were to be killed. (2 Maccabees 12, 24)
