Gefunden 1930 Ergebnisse für: Choosing A King
Loud rang the answer of Mattathias: What though king Antiochus have the whole world for his vassals? Obey the edict who will, forsaking the custom his fathers lived by, (1 Maccabees 2, 19)
To deaf ears king Antiochus proclaims the sacrifice; we swerve not from the law’s path, right or left. (1 Maccabees 2, 22)
Before he had done speaking, a Jew came to offer the false gods sacrifice, there in full view of all, before the altar at Modin, as the king bade. (1 Maccabees 2, 23)
Nor spared he the pursuivant of king Antiochus that enjoined it; the altar, too, he pulled down. (1 Maccabees 2, 25)
But news of it reached Jerusalem, and the king’s men that were in David’s Keep; here were rebels lurking in the waste country, and drawing many over to their side. (1 Maccabees 2, 31)
What, still stubborn? cried they. Come out, and yield yourselves to the king’s pleasure; your lives shall be spared. (1 Maccabees 2, 33)
But the Jews’ answer was, come out and yield to the king’s pleasure they might not; law of the sabbath rest forbade it. (1 Maccabees 2, 34)
that Gentile was none, king though he were, could restrain the law’s observance; against their onslaught the powers of evil could not make head. (1 Maccabees 2, 48)
and nothing would serve, but he must win renown and high favour at court by crushing Judas, and all other his companions that defied the king’s edict. (1 Maccabees 3, 14)
and the renown of him reached the king’s court; all the world was talking of Judas and his victories. (1 Maccabees 3, 26)
An angry man was king Antiochus when the news came to him; he sent word round, and had all his army summoned together, a brave array, be sure of it. (1 Maccabees 3, 27)
Whence, now, to defray the cost of that largesse he had made so often, and with so lavish a hand? Never was king before him could rival his munificence. (1 Maccabees 3, 30)
