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In wars and calamities much involved of late, powerful kings for our neighbours and our enemies, (1 Maccabees 12, 13)
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)
In his days it was, and by his means, the land was rid at last of Gentile intruders; not least the garrison of David’s own Keep at Jerusalem, that by their sallying out profaned the sacred precincts, and much defiled their purity; (1 Maccabees 14, 36)
With all this, dispositions Nehemias made, records Nehemias kept, are in full agreement. He it was founded a library, and there collected histories of king and prophet, and of David himself; dispatches, too, the kings had sent, and inventories of gifts made. (2 Maccabees 2, 13)
And now Judas in his turn has recovered all such records as were lost to us through the late wars, and they are here in our keeping; (2 Maccabees 2, 14)
And he, without more ado, chose one of his best friends, Nicanor son of Patroclus, and sent him out to exterminate the Jewish race altogether. For which purpose, he armed full twenty thousand men, a rabble of all nations; and Gorgias should be at Nicanor’s side, a soldier that had much experience in the wars. (2 Maccabees 8, 9)
These proverbs were written by David’s son Solomon, that was king of Israel, (Proverbs 1, 1)
Counsel is the sure buttress of determination; wars must ever be won by statecraft. (Proverbs 20, 18)
Words of the Spokesman,✻ king David’s son, that reigned once at Jerusalem. (Ecclesiastes 1, 1)
Thy neck rising proudly, nobly adorned, like David’s embattled tower, hung about with a thousand shields, panoply of the brave; (Song of Solomon 4, 4)
Solemnly he pledged himself to give his servant David an heir most valiant, that should hold his royal throne for ever. (Ecclesiasticus 24, 34)
David the son of Jesse, of Juda’s tribe, should bequeath to his children a legacy of kingship …… with wise hearts endowing us, to preserve justice among his people, and keep safe the blessings he has given to it; and this pre-eminence over his people he has settled on them in perpetuity.✻ (Ecclesiasticus 45, 31)
