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And one of them said to another, If we all do as our brethren have done, and fight not for our lives and laws against the heathen, they will now quickly root us out of the earth. (1 Maccabees 2, 40)
To wit, that he should send an army against them, to destroy and root out the strength of Israel, and the remnant of Jerusalem, and to take away their memorial from that place; (1 Maccabees 3, 35)
Then forthwith choosing Nicanor the son of Patroclus, one of his special friends, he sent him with no fewer than twenty thousand of all nations under him, to root out the whole generation of the Jews; and with him he joined also Gorgias a captain, who in matters of war had great experience. (2 Maccabees 8, 9)
And when the town was shut up, he went backward, as if he would return to root out all them of the city of Joppa. (2 Maccabees 12, 7)
A man shall not be established by wickedness: but the root of the righteous shall not be moved. (Proverbs 12, 3)
The wicked desireth the net of evil [men]: but the root of the righteous yieldeth [fruit]. (Proverbs 12, 12)
For glorious is the fruit of good labours: and the root of wisdom shall never fall away. (Wisdom of Solomon 3, 15)
For to know thee is perfect righteousness: yea, to know thy power is the root of immortality. (Wisdom of Solomon 15, 3)
To whom hath the root of wisdom been revealed? or who hath known her wise counsels? (Ecclesiasticus 1, 6)
The root of wisdom is to fear the Lord, and the branches thereof are long life. (Ecclesiasticus 1, 20)
In the punishment of the proud there is no remedy; for the plant of wickedness hath taken root in him. (Ecclesiasticus 3, 28)
Her children shall not take root, and her branches shall bring forth no fruit. (Ecclesiasticus 23, 25)
