Acts 12:23

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And immediately the angel of the Lord smote him, because he gave not God the glory: and he was eaten of worms, and gave up the ghost.

Because

And he

Mark 9:44

General references

Exodus 8:4

Exodus 9:17

Psalm 37:36

Bible References

Because

And as Peter was coming in, Cornelius met him and fell down at his feet and worshipped him.

Which when the apostles, Barnabas and Paul, heard of it, they rent their clothes and ran in among the people, crying out

Thou even so dost exalt thyself against my people that thou wilt not let them go.

Then Moses and Aaron came in unto Pharaoh and said unto him, Thus hath the LORD God of the Hebrews said, How long wilt thou refuse to humble thyself before me? Let my people go that they may serve me.

Not unto us, O LORD, not unto us, but unto thy name give glory, for thy mercy and for thy truth.

Whom hast thou reproached and blasphemed? and against whom hast thou exalted thy voice and lifted up thine eyes on high? even against the Holy One of Israel.

Son of man, say unto the prince of Tyre, Thus hath the Lord GOD said: Because thy heart has lifted thee up and thou hast said, I am God, I sit in the seat of God, in the midst of the seas (yet thou art man, and not God); and thou hast set thine heart as the heart of God:

the king spoke and said, Is this not the great Babylon that I have built for the house of the kingdom by the might of my power and for the glory of my greatness?

O thou king, the most high God gave Nebuchadnezzar thy father the kingdom and the greatness and the glory and the magnificence:

And that slave who knew his lord's will and prepared not himself, neither did according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes.

opposing and exalting himself against all that is called God, or divinity, so that he as God sits in the temple of God, making himself appear to be God.

And he

And after all this the LORD smote him in his bowels with an incurable disease.

My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; my skin is broken and abominable.

and afterward from this, my stricken skin and from my own flesh, I must see God:

Thy pride is brought down to Sheol, and the noise of thy viols: the worm is spread under thee, and the worms cover thee.

For the moth shall eat them up like a garment, and the worm shall eat them like wool: but my righteousness shall be for ever, and my saving health from age to age.

And they shall go forth and look upon the carcasses of the men that rebelled against me; for their worm shall not die, neither shall their fire be quenched; and they shall be an abhorring unto all flesh.

where their worm does not die, and the fire is never quenched.

General references

and the frogs shall come up upon thee and upon thy people and upon all thy slaves.

Thou even so dost exalt thyself against my people that thou wilt not let them go.

Yet he passed away, and, behold, he was not: I sought him, but he could not be found.