Holy Scripture
Wisdom of Solomon 12:7
A church father on this verse
“It commemorates historically how the seven nations, which had possessed the land of the Canaanites, were driven out of their places by the Lord because of the infidelity and injustices they had committed, and how the children of Israel, namely the worshippers of His name, were brought into their place. Mystically, how…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
7That the land, which thou esteemedst above all other, Might receive a worthy colony of God’s children.
Modern
Preparing…
Teens
Preparing…
Kids
Preparing…
In context
5And also those merciless murderers of children, And devourers of man’s flesh, and the feasts of blood,
6With their priests out of the midst of their idolatrous crew, And the parents, that killed with their own hands souls destitute of help:
— Wisdom of Solomon 12:7 —
8Nevertheless even those thou sparedst as men, And didst send wasps, forerunners of thy host, To destroy them by little and little.
9Not that thou wast unable to bring the ungodly under the hand of the righteous in battle, Or to destroy them at once with cruel beasts, or with one rough word: