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But to our matter. We took under our protection, some time since, one Aman, son of Amadathi, a stranger; a Macedonian by race, with no share of our Persian blood, a Macedonian in his nature, whose cruel temper sorts ill with our Persian kindliness.✻ (Esther 16, 10)
Then, when their deaths had left us unbefriended, he would plot against our own empire and transfer it to the Macedonians.✻ (Esther 16, 14)
Wait quietly, and you shall have proof that I am God, claiming empire among the nations, claiming empire over the world. (Psalms 45, 11)
The Lord will make thy empire spring up like a branch out of Sion; thou art to bear rule in the midst of thy enemies. (Psalms 109, 2)
Burgeoned then from the stock of Antiochus a poisoned growth, another Antiochus, he that was called the Illustrious. He had been formerly a hostage at Rome, but now, in the hundred and thirty-seventh year of the Grecian empire, he came into his kingdom. (1 Maccabees 1, 11)
With that, the king left his capital of Antioch, taking the remainder of his army with him; it was the hundred and forty-seventh year of the empire. Soon he was across Euphrates river, and on the march through the high countries. (1 Maccabees 3, 37)
And here, in the Persian country, a messenger reached him with tidings from Juda. Fled were his armies, (1 Maccabees 6, 5)
Then and there died king Antiochus, in the hundred and forty-ninth year of the Grecian empire. (1 Maccabees 6, 16)
In the king’s army, Jews may be enrolled up to the number of thirty thousand, paid according to the common rate of the royal troops; and the same shall be free to serve in all the fortified towns of our empire. (1 Maccabees 10, 36)
And thus the inscription ran: On this eighteenth day of Elul, in the hundred and seventy-second year of the Greek empire, the third of Simon’s high priesthood, (1 Maccabees 14, 27)
Long ago, when our fathers were being carried off into the Persian country, such priests of the true God as held office in those days took away the fire from the altar, and hid it down in the valley, in a pit both deep and dry, so well guarding their secret that none might know where it was to be found. (2 Maccabees 1, 19)
Years passed, and God’s will was that Nehemias should come back, holding the Persian king’s warrant. Nehemias it was that had search made for the fire, and by the grandsons of those very priests that hid it; but they made report, fire they could find none, only a puddle of water.✻ (2 Maccabees 1, 20)
