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And all the additional funds which the government officials have not paid as they did in the first years, they shall give from now on for the service of the temple. (1 Maccabees 10, 41)
And he sent him gold plate and a table service, and granted him the right to drink from gold cups and dress in purple and wear a gold buckle. (1 Maccabees 11, 58)
May he give you all a heart to worship him and to do his will with a strong heart and a willing spirit. (2 Maccabees 1, 3)
so that even Seleucus, the king of Asia, defrayed from his own revenues all the expenses connected with the service of the sacrifices. (2 Maccabees 3, 3)
that the priests were no longer intent upon their service at the altar. Despising the sanctuary and neglecting the sacrifices, they hastened to take part in the unlawful proceedings in the wrestling arena after the call to the discus, (2 Maccabees 4, 14)
And Ptolemy promptly appointed Nicanor the son of Patroclus, one of the king's chief friends, and sent him, in command of no fewer than twenty thousand Gentiles of all nations, to wipe out the whole race of Judea. He associated with him Gorgias, a general and a man of experience in military service. (2 Maccabees 8, 9)
In return for their foolish and wicked thoughts, which led them astray to worship irrational serpents and worthless animals, thou didst send upon them a multitude of irrational creatures to punish them, (Wisdom of Solomon 11, 15)
Then the ambition of the craftsman impelled even those who did not know the king to intensify their worship. (Wisdom of Solomon 14, 18)
and the multitude, attracted by the charm of his work, now regarded as an object of worship the one whom shortly before they had honored as a man. (Wisdom of Solomon 14, 20)
For the worship of idols not to be named is the beginning and cause and end of every evil. (Wisdom of Solomon 14, 27)
Lovers of evil things and fit for such objects of hope are those who either make or desire or worship them. (Wisdom of Solomon 15, 6)
For when a potter kneads the soft earth and laboriously molds each vessel for our service, he fashions out of the same clay both the vessels that serve clean uses and those for contrary uses, making all in like manner; but which shall be the use of each of these the worker in clay decides. (Wisdom of Solomon 15, 7)
