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to levy tribute on the temple, as he did on the sanctuaries of the other nations; and to put the high priesthood up for sale every year. (2 Maccabees 11, 3)
There is at that place a tower seventy-five feet high, full of ashes, with a circular rim sloping down steeply on all sides toward the ashes. (2 Maccabees 13, 5)
A certain Alcimus, a former high priest, who had willfully incurred defilement at the time of the revolt, realized that there was no way for him to salvage his position and regain access to the holy altar. (2 Maccabees 14, 3)
For this reason, now that I am deprived of my ancestral dignity, that is to say, the high priesthood, I have come here-- (2 Maccabees 14, 7)
with orders to put Judas to death, to disperse his followers, and to set up Alcimus as high priest of the great temple. (2 Maccabees 14, 13)
What he saw was this: Onias, the former high priest, a good and virtuous man, modest in appearance, gentle in manners, distinguished in speech, and trained from childhood in every virtuous practice, was praying with outstretched arms for the whole Jewish community. (2 Maccabees 15, 12)
He who loves strife loves guilt; he who builds his gate high courts disaster. (Proverbs 17, 19)
The rich man's wealth is his strong city; he fancies it a high wall. (Proverbs 18, 11)
A good name is more desirable than great riches, and high esteem, than gold and silver. (Proverbs 22, 1)
The way of an eagle in the air, the way of a serpent upon a rock, The way of a ship on the high seas, and the way of a man with a maiden. (Proverbs 30, 19)
If you see oppression of the poor, and violation of rights and justice in the realm, do not be shocked by the fact, for the high official has another higher than he watching him and above these are others higher still--. (Ecclesiastes 5, 7)
But the just live forever, and in the LORD is their recompense, and the thought of them is with the Most High. (Wisdom of Solomon 5, 15)
