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And now Mattathias raised a cry in the city, Who loves the law? Who keeps the covenant unbroken? Out with you, and follow me! (1 Maccabees 2, 27)
The more reason, my sons, why you should be jealous lovers of the law, ready to give your lives for that covenant your fathers knew. (1 Maccabees 2, 50)
Now, as then, besiege we heaven with our cries; will not the Lord have mercy? Will he not remember the covenant he had with our fathers, and rout, this day, yonder army at our coming? (1 Maccabees 4, 10)
After this, all alike dreaded the newcomers and shrank from them; here was neither trust nor troth, when covenant and sworn promise went for nothing. (1 Maccabees 7, 18)
God speed you well, the covenant he made with his true worshippers, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, never forgetting; (2 Maccabees 1, 2)
Two mothers there were, denounced for the circumcision of their own sons; what, think you, befell them? Both must be driven through the streets, with the children hung about their breasts, and cast headlong from the battlements! (2 Maccabees 6, 10)
Themselves if he nothing regarded, let him remember at least the covenant made with their fathers; the renown, too, of that holy name they bore! (2 Maccabees 8, 15)
Murderers that would not spare their own children, that feasted on human flesh, human entrails and blood, they must have no share in thy covenant. (Wisdom of Solomon 12, 5)
and wouldst thou shew less anxious care in trying the cause of thy own children, bound to thee from of old by a sworn covenant so rich in mercies? (Wisdom of Solomon 12, 21)
In secret they offered their sacrifice, children of a nobler race, all set apart; with one accord they ratified the divine covenant, which bound them to share the same blessings and the same perils; singing for prelude their ancestral hymns of praise. (Wisdom of Solomon 18, 9)
Not by strength of body, not by prowess in arms, he won the victory;✻ by persuasion he disarmed resistance, calling to mind the sworn covenant of our race. (Wisdom of Solomon 18, 22)
Be true to thy covenant with God; its words to thy own ears repeat; to that, and thy enjoined duty, inure thyself. (Ecclesiasticus 11, 21)
