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as he has promised in the Law, will surely, as our hope is in him, be swift to show us mercy and gather us together from everywhere under heaven to the holy place, since he has rescued us from great evils and has purified it.' (2 Maccabees 2, 18)
As for Menelaus, he secured the office, but defaulted altogether on the sums promised to the king, (2 Maccabees 4, 27)
Menelaus, seeing the case had gone against him, promised a substantial sum to Ptolemy son of Dorymenes if he would influence the king in his favour. (2 Maccabees 4, 45)
Antiochus, having extracted eighteen hundred talents from the Temple, hurried back to Antioch; in his pride he would have undertaken to make the dry land navigable and the sea passable on foot, so high his arrogance soared. (2 Maccabees 5, 21)
Thus the man who had promised the Romans to make good their tribute money by selling the prisoners from Jerusalem, bore witness that the Jews had a defender and that they were in consequence invulnerable, since they followed the laws which that defender had ordained. (2 Maccabees 8, 36)
to persuade them to accept reasonable terms all round, and promised to compel the king to become their friend. (2 Maccabees 11, 14)
A fierce engagement followed, and with God's help Judas' men won the day; the defeated nomads begged Judas to offer them the right hand of friendship, and promised to surrender their herds and make themselves generally useful to him. (2 Maccabees 12, 11)
For the land will be for the honest to live in, the innocent will have it for their home; (Proverbs 2, 21)
while the wicked will be cut off from the land, and the faithless rooted out of it. (Proverbs 2, 22)
The upright will never have to give way, but the land will offer no home for the wicked. (Proverbs 10, 30)
Whoever works his land shall have bread and to spare, but no one who chases fantasies has any sense. (Proverbs 12, 11)
Better to live in a desert land than with a quarrelsome and irritable woman. (Proverbs 21, 19)
