# Wisdom of Solomon 17:2

**Apocrypha.** Not part of the 66-book Protestant canon. Catholic and Orthodox churches accept these books as deuterocanonical.

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- Edition: kjv-apocrypha
- Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/apocrypha/wisdom/17/2
- Book: [Wisdom of Solomon](https://apologetics.wiki/apocrypha/wisdom)
- Chapter: [Wisdom of Solomon 17](https://apologetics.wiki/apocrypha/wisdom/17)
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For when unrighteous men thought to oppress the holy nation; they being shut up in their houses, the prisoners of darkness, and fettered with the bonds of a long night, lay there exiled from the eternal providence.