For wickedness hath exceedingly polluted the whole earth, and their hurtful works are fulfilled.
And therefore, saith the Lord, I will surely avenge them, and receive unto me all the innocent blood from among them.
Egypt shall mourn, and the foundation of it shall be smitten with the plague and punishment that God shall bring upon it.
They that till the ground shall mourn: for their seeds shall fail through the blasting and hail, and with a fearful constellation.
Woe to the world and them that dwell therein!
My right hand shall not spare the sinners, and my sword shall not cease over them that shed innocent blood upon the earth.
The fire is gone forth from his wrath, and hath consumed the foundations of the earth, and the sinners, like the straw that is kindled.
Woe to them that sin, and keep not my commandments! saith the Lord.
I will not spare them: go your way, ye children, from the power, defile not my sanctuary.
For the Lord knoweth all them that sin against him, and therefore delivereth he them unto death and destruction.
For now are the plagues come upon the whole earth and ye shall remain in them: for God shall not deliver you, because ye have sinned against him.
And from the land of the Assyrians shall the enemy besiege them, and consume some of them, and in their host shall be fear and dread, and strife among their kings.
I will send plagues upon thee; widowhood, poverty, famine, sword, and pestilence, to waste thy houses with destruction and death.
Thy children shall die of hunger, and thou shalt fall through the sword: thy cities shall be broken down, and all thine shall perish with the sword in the field.
They that be in the mountains shall die of hunger, and eat their own flesh, and drink their own blood, for very hunger of bread, and thirst of water. II Esdras 15:3-6&9&12-14&22-27&33&49&57&58
Woe be unto thee, Babylon, and Asia! woe be unto thee, Egypt and Syria!
Gird up yourselves with cloths of sack and hair, bewail your children, and be sorry; for your destruction is at hand.
A sword is sent upon you, and who may turn it back?
A fire is sent among you, and who may quench it?
Plagues are sent unto you, and what is he that may drive them away?
And the dead shall be cast out as dung, and there shall be no man to comfort them: for the earth shall be wasted, and the cities shall be cast down.
And the earth shall be laid waste, and the fields thereof shall wax old, and her ways and all her paths shall grow full of thorns, because no man shall travel therethrough. II Esdras 16:1-5&23& 32
ALPHABET of BEN SIRA:
After God created Adam He said: ‘It is not good for man to be alone.’ He then created a woman form the Earth, as He had created Adam himself, and called her Lilith. Alphabet of Ben Sira
Said the Holy One, ‘If she agrees to come back, it is good. If not, she must permit one hundred of her children to die every day.’ Alphabet of Ben Sira
ADDITIONS to ESTHER: Additions to Esther 11:4-7 -
He was also one of the captives, which Nabuchodonosor the king of Babylon carried from Jerusalem with Jechonias king of Judea; and this was his dream:
Behold a noise of a tumult, with thunder, and earthquakes, and uproar in the land:
And, behold, two great dragons came forth ready to fight, and their cry was great.
And at their cry all nations were prepared to battle, that they might fight against the righteous people. Additions to Esther 11:4-7
PRAYER of MANESSEH: Prayer of Manasseh 1:1 -
... whom all men fear, and tremble before thy power; for the majesty of thy glory cannot be borne, and thine angry threatening toward sinners is importable ... I have sinned, O Lord, I have sinned, and I acknowledge mine iniquities: wherefore, I humbly beseech thee, forgive me, O Lord, forgive me, and destroy me not with mine iniquities. Be not angry with me for ever, by reserving evil for me; neither condemn me to the lower parts of the earth. Prayer of Manasseh 1:1
SUSANNA: Susanna 1:1&2&14&15&20&21&43&62 -
There dwelt a man in Babylon, called Joacim:
And he took a wife, whose name was Susanna, the daughter of Chelcias, a very fair woman, and one that feared the Lord.
So when they were gone out, they parted the one from the other, and turning back again they came to the same place; and after that they had asked one another the cause, they acknowledged their lust: then appointed they a time both together, when they might find her alone.
And it fell out, as they watched a fit time, she went in as before with two maids only, and she was desirous to wash herself in the garden: for it was hot.
Behold, the garden doors are shut, that no man can see us, and we are in love with thee; therefore consent unto us, and lie with us.
If thou wilt not, we will bear witness against thee, that a young man was with thee: and therefore thou didst send away thy maids from thee.
Thou knowest that they have borne false witness against me, and, behold, I must die; whereas I never did such things as these men have maliciously invented against me.
And according to the law of Moses they did unto them in such sort as they maliciously intended to do to their neighbour: and they put them to death. Thus the innocent blood was saved the same day. Susanna 1:1&2&14&15&20&21&43&62
I MACCABEES: Mysteries of the Bible TV - I Maccabees 1:1 -
Every December in households all over the world people of the Jewish faith gather to celebrate the joyous holiday of Hannoucca. Yet few realise that the foundations of this celebration are rooted in bloody violence. It erupted here in an obscure Judean village over two thousand years ago … From this confrontation would arise the greatest military leader in Jewish history: Judah Maccabee. Mysteries of the Bible s5e4: Maccabees, A&E 1997
And it happened, after that Alexander son of Philip, the Macedonian, who came out of the land of Chettiim, had smitten Darius king of the Persians and Medes, that he reigned in his stead, the first over Greece. I Maccabees 1:1
II MACCABEES: II Maccabees 1:1 - II Maccabees 1:7 - II Maccabees 4:38 -
The brethren, the Jews that be at Jerusalem and in the land of Judea, wish unto the brethren, the Jews that are throughout Egypt health and peace: II Maccabees 1:1
What time as Demetrius reigned, in the hundred threescore and ninth year, we the Jews wrote unto you in the extremity of trouble that came upon us in those years, from the time that Jason and his company revolted from the holy land and kingdom. II Maccabees 1:7
And being kindled with anger, forthwith he took away Andronicus his purple, and rent off his clothes, and leading him through the whole city unto that very place, where he had committed impiety against Onias, there slew he the cursed murderer. Thus the Lord rewarded him his punishment, as he had deserved. II Maccabees 4:38
TOBIAS: Tobias 1:1-3
The book of the words of Tobit, son of Tobiel, the son of Ananiel, the son of Aduel, the son of Gabael, of the seed of Asael, of the tribe of Nephthali;
Who in the time of Enemessar king of the Assyrians was led captive out of Thisbe, which is at the right hand of that city, which is called properly Nephthali in Galilee above Aser.
I Tobit have walked all the days of my life in the ways of truth and justice, and I did many almsdeeds to my brethren, and my nation, who came with me to Nineve, into the land of the Assyrians. Tobias 1:1-3
JUDITH: Judith 1:1&2 - Judith 13:15 -
In the twelfth year of the reign of Nabuchodonosor, who reigned in Nineve, the great city; in the days of Arphaxad, which reigned over the Medes in Ecbatane,
And built in Ecbatane walls round about of stones hewn three cubits broad and six cubits long, and made the height of the wall seventy cubits, and the breadth thereof fifty cubits: Judith 1:1&2
So she took the head out of the bag, and shewed it, and said unto them, behold the head of Holofernes, the chief captain of the army of Assur, and behold the canopy, wherein he did lie in his drunkenness; and the Lord hath smitten him by the hand of a woman. Judith 13:15