³⁶ Your servant has killed both the lion^(A) and the bear; this uncircumcised Philistine will be like one of them, because he has defied the armies of the living God.

¹⁰ Then the Philistine said, “This day I defy^(A) the armies of Israel! Give me a man and let us fight each other.^(B)”

²⁸ A person is not a Jew who is one only outwardly,^(A) nor is circumcision merely outward and physical.^{(B) 29} No, a person is a Jew who is one inwardly; and circumcision is circumcision of the heart,^(C) by the Spirit,^(D) not by the written code.^(E) Such a person’s praise is not from other people, but from God.^(F)

²² They shouted, “This is the voice of a god, not of a man.” ²³ Immediately, because Herod did not give praise to God, an angel^(A) of the Lord struck him down,^(B) and he was eaten by worms and died.

Peter’s Miraculous Escape From Prison

12 It was about this time that King Herod^(A) arrested some who belonged to the church, intending to persecute them. ² He had James, the brother of John,^(B) put to death with the sword.^(C)

³⁸ Therefore, in the present case I advise you: Leave these men alone! Let them go! For if their purpose or activity is of human origin, it will fail.^{(A) 39} But if it is from God, you will not be able to stop these men; you will only find yourselves fighting against God.”^(B)

³ On that day, when all the nations^(A) of the earth are gathered against her, I will make Jerusalem an immovable rock^(B) for all the nations. All who try to move it will injure^(C) themselves.

⁸ For this is what the Lord Almighty says: “After the Glorious One has sent me against the nations that have plundered you—for whoever touches you touches the apple of his eye^(A)—

²⁷ But they do not lie with the fallen warriors of old,^[a](A) who went down to the realm of the dead with their weapons of war—their swords placed under their heads and their shields^[b] resting on their bones—though these warriors also had terrorized the land of the living.

²⁸ “You too, Pharaoh, will be broken and will lie among the uncircumcised, with those killed by the sword.

²⁹ “Edom^(B) is there, her kings and all her princes; despite their power, they are laid with those killed by the sword. They lie with the uncircumcised, with those who go down to the pit.^(C)

³⁰ “All the princes of the north^(D) and all the Sidonians^(E) are there; they went down with the slain in disgrace despite the terror caused by their power. They lie uncircumcised^(F) with those killed by the sword and bear their shame with those who go down to the pit.^(G)

³¹ “Pharaoh—he and all his army—will see them and he will be consoled^(H) for all his hordes that were killed by the sword, declares the Sovereign Lord. ³² Although I had him spread terror in the land of the living, Pharaoh^(I) and all his hordes will be laid among the uncircumcised, with those killed by the sword, declares the Sovereign Lord.”^(J)