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Isaiah 13.11:

I will punish the world for its evil,
and the wicked for their iniquity;
I will put an end to the pride of the arrogant,
and lay low the insolence of tyrants.

Isaiah 29.5:

But the multitude of your foes^* shall be like fine dust,
and the multitude of tyrants like flying chaff.
And in an instant, suddenly,

Isaiah 29.20:

For the tyrant shall be no more,
and the scoffer shall cease to be;
all those alert to do evil shall be cut off—

Isaiah 49.24:

Can the prey be taken from the mighty,
or the captives of a tyrant^* be rescued?

Isaiah 49.25:

But thus says the Lord:
Even the captives of the mighty shall be taken,
and the prey of the tyrant be rescued;
for I will contend with those who contend with you,
and I will save your children.

2 Maccabees 4.25:

After receiving the king’s orders he returned, possessing no qualification for the high-priesthood, but having the hot temper of a cruel tyrant and the rage of a savage wild beast.

2 Maccabees 7.27:

But, leaning close to him, she spoke in their native language as follows, deriding the cruel tyrant: ‘My son, have pity on me. I carried you for nine months in my womb, and nursed you for three years, and have reared you and brought you up to this point in your life, and have taken care of you.^*

3 Maccabees 6.24:

‘You are committing treason and surpassing tyrants in cruelty; and even me, your benefactor, you are now attempting to deprive of dominion and life by secretly devising acts of no advantage to the kingdom.

4 Maccabees 1.11:

All people, even their torturers, marvelled at their courage and endurance, and they became the cause of the downfall of tyranny over their nation. By their endurance they conquered the tyrant, and thus their native land was purified through them.

4 Maccabees 5.1:

The tyrant Antiochus, sitting in state with his counsellors on a certain high place, and with his armed soldiers standing around him,

4 Maccabees 5.4:

When many people had been rounded up, one man, Eleazar by name, leader of the flock, was brought^* before the king. He was a man of priestly family, learned in the law, advanced in age, and known to many in the tyrant’s court because of his philosophy.^*

4 Maccabees 5.14:

When the tyrant urged him in this fashion to eat meat unlawfully, Eleazar asked to have a word.

4 Maccabees 6.1:

When Eleazar in this manner had made eloquent response to the exhortations of the tyrant, the guards who were standing by dragged him violently to the instruments of torture.

4 Maccabees 6.21:

and be despised by the tyrant as unmanly by not contending even to death for our divine law.

4 Maccabees 6.23:

And you, guards of the tyrant, why do you delay?’

4 Maccabees 7.2:

and, though buffeted by the stormings of the tyrant and overwhelmed by the mighty waves of tortures,

4 Maccabees 8.1:

For this is why even the very young, by following a philosophy in accordance with devout reason, have prevailed over the most painful instruments of torture.

4 Maccabees 8.2:

For when the tyrant was conspicuously defeated in his first attempt, being unable to compel an aged man to eat defiling foods, then in violent rage he commanded that others of the Hebrew captives be brought, and that any who ate defiling food would be freed after eating, but if any were to refuse, they would be tortured even more cruelly.

4 Maccabees 8.3:

When the tyrant had given these orders, seven brothers—handsome, modest, noble, and accomplished in every way—were brought before him along with their aged mother.

4 Maccabees 8.4:

When the tyrant saw them, grouped about their mother as though a chorus, he was pleased with them. And struck by their appearance and nobility, he smiled at them, and summoned them nearer and said,