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The king also honored him by numbering him among his Chief Friends and made him military commander and governor of the province. (1 Maccabees 10, 65)
He confirmed him in the high priesthood and in all the honors he had previously held, and had him enrolled among his Chief Friends. (1 Maccabees 11, 27)
Then the people of Gaza appealed to him for mercy, and he granted them peace. He took the sons of their chief men as hostages and sent them to Jerusalem. He then traveled on through the province as far as Damascus. (1 Maccabees 11, 62)
Then the king appointed Cendebeus commander-in-chief of the seacoast, and gave him infantry and cavalry forces. (1 Maccabees 15, 38)
But Menelaus, thanks to the covetousness of the men in power, remained in office, where he grew in wickedness and became the chief plotter against his fellow citizens. (2 Maccabees 4, 50)
Ptolemy promptly selected Nicanor, son of Patroclus, one of the Chief Friends, and sent him at the head of at least twenty thousand armed men of various nations to wipe out the entire Jewish race. With him he associated Gorgias, a professional military commander, well-versed in the art of war. (2 Maccabees 8, 9)
Now we shall relate what happened under Antiochus Eupator, the son of that godless man, and shall give a summary of the chief evils caused by the wars. (2 Maccabees 10, 10)
When Eupator succeeded to the kingdom, he put a certain Lysias in charge of the government as commander-in-chief of Coelesyria and Phoenicia. (2 Maccabees 10, 11)
Then Judas, who was ever in body and soul the chief defender of his fellow citizens, and had maintained from youth his affection for his countrymen, ordered Nicanor's head and whole right arm to be cut off and taken to Jerusalem. (2 Maccabees 15, 30)
For though she has no chief, no commander or ruler, (Proverbs 6, 7)
Chief of all needs for human life are water and fire, iron and salt, The heart of the wheat, milk and honey, the blood of the grape, and oil, and cloth; (Ecclesiasticus 39, 26)
Jeremiah was heard prophesying these things by the priest Pashhur, son of Immer, chief officer in the house of the LORD. (Jeremiah 20, 1)