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Priests, in their sacred vesture, cast themselves down before the altar, and cried out upon heaven; would not he, whose law enjoined safe-keeping, keep property safe for its rightful owners? (2 Maccabees 3, 15)
Thus was Jason supplanted, that had supplanted his own brother, and was driven to take refuge in the Ammonite country; (2 Maccabees 4, 26)
Of these doings, one man had clear proof, and thereupon denounced him: Onias, that had now taken refuge in Daphne sanctuary, close by Antioch. (2 Maccabees 4, 33)
And now a false rumour went abroad, Antiochus had come by his death. Jason’s ears it reached, and all at once, with full a thousand men at his back, he delivered an assault upon the city. Let the townsfolk man the walls as they would, at last it fell, and Menelaus must take refuge within the citadel. (2 Maccabees 5, 5)
and so making his way to Lacedaemon, as if to find refuge there by right of kinship, died miserably. In exile he died, that had brought exile on so many; (2 Maccabees 5, 9)
Some of these, cowardly souls that put no trust in God’s awarding, took refuge in flight; (2 Maccabees 8, 13)
There was Callisthenes, too, that had burnt down the gates of the sanctuary; when all Jerusalem was rejoicing over the victory, he took refuge within doors, and they burnt the place down about his ears; he too was served right for his godless doings. (2 Maccabees 8, 33)
His body was brought home again; Philip, his foster-brother, came back with it, and then took refuge in Egypt with Ptolemy Philometor, so little he trusted the young prince Antiochus. (2 Maccabees 9, 29)
As for Timotheus, he took refuge in Gazara, a strong fortress that was under the command of Chaereas. (2 Maccabees 10, 32)
and we hereby grant safe conduct to all of you that would travel here, up to the thirtieth day of Xanthicus … (2 Maccabees 11, 30)
As for Gorgias, one Dositheus, a great warrior that was in Bacenor’s company of horse, kept close on his heels and would have taken him alive; but one of the Thracian horsemen fell upon him and cut off his arm at the shoulder, so Gorgias escaped safe to Maresa. (2 Maccabees 12, 35)
safe and sound the chosen friends of God come and go. (Proverbs 2, 8)
