Found 288 Results for: Vessels Of Honor
It has pleased our people to receive these men with honor and to put a copy of their words in the public archives, so that the people of the Spartans may have a record of them. And they have sent a copy of this to Simon the high priest.'" (1 Maccabees 14, 23)
For he had heard that the Jews were addressed by the Romans as friends and allies and brethren, and that the Romans had received the envoys of Simon with honor. (1 Maccabees 14, 40)
When we gain control of our kingdom, we will bestow great honor upon you and your nation and the temple, so that your glory will become manifest in all the earth." (1 Maccabees 15, 9)
But Menelaus, thinking he had obtained a suitable opportunity, stole some of the gold vessels of the temple and gave them to Andronicus; other vessels, as it happened, he had sold to Tyre and the neighboring cities. (2 Maccabees 4, 32)
When many acts of sacrilege had been committed in the city by Lysimachus with the connivance of Menelaus, and when report of them had spread abroad, the populace gathered against Lysimachus, because many of the gold vessels had already been stolen. (2 Maccabees 4, 39)
And so those who had spoken for the city and the villages and the holy vessels quickly suffered the unjust penalty. (2 Maccabees 4, 48)
He took the holy vessels with his polluted hands, and swept away with profane hands the votive offerings which other kings had made to enhance the glory and honor of the place. (2 Maccabees 5, 16)
On the monthly celebration of the king's birthday, the Jews were taken, under bitter constraint, to partake of the sacrifices; and when the feast of Dionysus came, they were compelled to walk in the procession in honor of Dionysus, wearing wreaths of ivy. (2 Maccabees 6, 7)
But he, welcoming death with honor rather than life with pollution, went up to the the rack of his own accord, spitting out the flesh, (2 Maccabees 6, 19)
and the holy sanctuary, which he had formerly plundered, he would adorn with the finest offerings; and the holy vessels he would give back, all of them, many times over; and the expenses incurred for the sacrifices he would provide from his own revenues; (2 Maccabees 9, 16)
And the leaders set a day on which to meet by themselves. A chariot came forward from each army; seats of honor were set in place; (2 Maccabees 14, 21)
Honor the LORD with your substance and with the first fruits of all your produce; (Proverbs 3, 9)
