Found 1862 Results for: Abraham Father Of Many Nations

• But Mattathias answered in a loud voice: "Even if all the nations included in the kingdom should abandon the religion of their fathers and submit to the order of King Antiochus, (1 Maccabees 2, 19)

• Remember Abraham who proved himself faithful in the hour of trial, and how God held him to be a righteous man. (1 Maccabees 2, 52)

• Phinehas, our father, because of his great zeal received the priesthood for himself and for his sons forever. (1 Maccabees 2, 54)

• I know that among you, Simon is a man of sound judgment; listen to him and he shall take your father's place. (1 Maccabees 2, 65)

• His brothers and all who had followed his father gave him their support and they continued the war with determination. (1 Maccabees 3, 2)

• The fame of his name reached the king, and the pagan nations recounted his battles. (1 Maccabees 3, 26)

• And all the nations will know that Someone saves and liberates Israel." (1 Maccabees 4, 11)

• We took the side of your father, we obeyed his orders and observed his laws. (1 Maccabees 6, 23)

• because Ptolemy was his father-in-law. But as soon as Ptolemy entered the cities, he stationed garrisons in them. (1 Maccabees 11, 3)

• Trypho persuaded him to hand the boy over to him in order to restore Antiochus to the throne of his father. He told him of all the decisions of Demetrius and the resentment of his soldiers towards him. And Trypho spent a long time there. (1 Maccabees 11, 40)

• We have found in one of our documents that the Spartans and the Jews are brothers, for both are of the race of Abraham. (1 Maccabees 12, 21)

• Then all the neighboring nations planned to destroy them on seeing that they were now without leader or ally. And the pagans said: "This is now the opportunity to wipe out the remembrance of them from among men." (1 Maccabees 12, 53)