Found 1417 Results for: Counting The People
The rulers and commonalty of Sparta, to the high priest Simon, the elders and priests and all the people of the Jews, greeting. (1 Maccabees 14, 20)
how the people resolved to give them fair greeting, and to lay up a copy of their report in the public archives, that should preserve the memory of it among the Spartan people; and how an account of all this was sent to the high priest Simon. (1 Maccabees 14, 23)
Numenius was sent on a further mission to Rome, bearing a great target of gold, a thousand minas in weight, to renew the alliance there. And when all this reached the ears of the people …✻ (1 Maccabees 14, 24)
there was a high assembly held at Saramel✻ of priests and people, clan-chiefs and elders of the whole nation, that had before them these considerations following. All through the long wars of our country, (1 Maccabees 14, 28)
When Jonathan, that had rallied the people and been their high priest, became a part of his race, (1 Maccabees 14, 30)
and Simon it was withstood them. Champion of his people’s cause, much he spent to arm its warriors, and furnish them with pay. (1 Maccabees 14, 32)
The people, seeing him so loyal a lover of his country’s renown, made him their ruler and high priest; no less was due to such exploits, public service so faithfully done, such constant ambition for his people’s honour. (1 Maccabees 14, 35)
Here were the Jews, priests and people both, agreed that he should rule them, granting him the high priesthood✻ by right inalienable, until true prophet they should have once more. (1 Maccabees 14, 41)
Of the rest, both priests and people, none should retrench these privileges, nor gainsay Simon’s will, nor convoke assembly in the country without him; garment of purple, buckle of gold none should wear; (1 Maccabees 14, 44)
The people’s pleasure it was to ennoble Simon after this sort; (1 Maccabees 14, 46)
and Simon, he would not say them nay; high priest, and of priests and people leader, governor and champion, he would be henceforward. (1 Maccabees 14, 47)
and this was the tenour of it. King Antiochus, to the high priest Simon and to the people of the Jews, greeting. (1 Maccabees 15, 2)
