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Why, said he, this man has not his match anywhere; time it is we should court his friendship and alliance. (1 Maccabees 10, 16)
Here is an ill day’s work, said he, to let Alexander forestall us in making alliance with the Jews, to his great comfort! (1 Maccabees 10, 23)
Here was a posture of affairs suited Jonathan well enough; yet would he send delegates to confirm and renew his alliance with the Romans; (1 Maccabees 12, 1)
an honourable welcome Onias gave to this messenger of yours, and accepted the proposal of friendly alliance. (1 Maccabees 12, 8)
delegates of ours, Numenius son of Antiochus and Antipater son of Jason, are on their way to Rome, friendship and alliance of former days to confirm afresh; (1 Maccabees 12, 16)
Numenius was sent on a further mission to Rome, bearing a great target of gold, a thousand minas in weight, to renew the alliance there. And when all this reached the ears of the people …✻ (1 Maccabees 14, 24)
Envoys we have but now received in audience from a friendly country, to wit, Judaea; the people of the Jews, with their high priest Simon, had sent to renew their old treaty of alliance with us, (1 Maccabees 15, 17)
Till now, the Jews had followed their own customs, by grace of a royal privilege; it was John that won it for them, father of that Eupolemus, who afterwards went in embassage to Rome, to make a treaty of alliance. But Jason would abrogate these customs; common right should be none, and great wrong should find acceptance instead. (2 Maccabees 4, 11)
In Egypt, snow and ice had resisted the fire, never melting; plain it was that this fire, which shone out amid the hailstones and the rain, was in alliance with them to burn up and destroy the enemy’s harvest. (Wisdom of Solomon 16, 22)
Did you think to make terms with death, enter into alliance with the grave itself, that the flood of ruin should pass you by, so confident in your vain hopes, so armed with illusion? (Isaiah 28, 15)
And yet he too is a wise counsellor; brings he trouble to a man’s door, he does not lightly change his purpose; doubt not he will take arms against a rebellious race, the unholy alliance bring to nothing. (Isaiah 31, 2)
