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'Three times a year you will hold a festival in my honour. (Exodus 23, 14)
Ask your young men and they will tell you. I hope that you will give the men a welcome, coming as we do on a festival. Whatever you have to hand please give to your servants and to your son David." ' (1 Samuel 25, 8)
Hezekiah then encouraged all the Levites who had such understanding of Yahweh. Having finished the seven-day festival, during which they sacrificed communion sacrifices and praised Yahweh, God of their ancestors, (2 Chronicles 30, 22)
He told his wife Zeresh and all his friends what had just happened. His wife Zeresh and his friends said, 'You are beginning to fall, and Mordecai to rise; if he is Jewish, you will never get the better of him. With him against you, your fall is certain.' (Esther 6, 13)
This is why Jewish country people, those who live in undefended villages, keep the fourteenth day of the month of Adar as a day of gladness, feasting and holiday-making, and the exchanging of presents with one another, (a) whereas for those who live in cities the day of rejoicing and exchanging presents with their neighbours is the fifteenth day of Adar. (Esther 9, 19)
with the object of attacking the Jewish position and dealing them an unexpected blow; the men from the Citadel were there to guide him. (1 Maccabees 4, 2)
'Judas Maccabaeus and his brothers, with the Jewish people, have sent us to you to conclude a treaty of alliance and peace with you, and to enrol ourselves as your allies and friends.' (1 Maccabees 8, 20)
'Good fortune attend the Romans and the Jewish nation by sea and land for ever; may sword or enemy be far from them! (1 Maccabees 8, 23)
the Jewish nation will take action as her ally, as occasion may require, and do it wholeheartedly. (1 Maccabees 8, 25)
In the same way, if war comes first to the Jewish nation, the Romans will support them energetically as occasion may offer, (1 Maccabees 8, 27)
Such are the articles under which the Romans have concluded their treaty with the Jewish people. (1 Maccabees 8, 29)
And he wrote to them as follows: 'King Demetrius to the Jewish nation, greetings. (1 Maccabees 10, 25)
