Löydetty 2964 Tulokset: David As King

• for you who give victory to kings and deliver David, your servant. (Psalms 144, 10)

• I will extol you, my God and King; I will bless your name forever. (Psalms 145, 1)

• Let Israel rejoice in his Maker, let the people of Zion glory in their King! (Psalms 149, 2)

• Everything began with the conquests of Alexander the first, son of Philip, the Macedonian. Setting out from Greece, he killed Darius, king of the Persians and the Medes. Being already King of Greece, he took the throne of Darius. (1 Maccabees 1, 1)

• From their descendants there came a godless offshoot, Antiochus Epiphanes, son of King Antiochus, who had been held as hostage in Rome. He became king in the one hundred and thirty-seventh year of the Greek era, (175 B.C.). (1 Maccabees 1, 10)

• and some eagerly went to the king. The king authorized them to adopt the customs of the pagan nations. (1 Maccabees 1, 13)

• and attacked Ptolemy, king of Egypt. Ptolemy had to retreat and was defeated, and many of his men died. (1 Maccabees 1, 18)

• After two years, the king sent to the cities of Judah the chief tax collector and he came to Jerusalem with a strong army. (1 Maccabees 1, 29)

• Then they rebuilt the city of David with a high and solid wall protected by strong towers, and this became their fortress. (1 Maccabees 1, 33)

• All the pagan nations obeyed and respected the king's decree, and even in Israel many accepted the imposed cult. They offered sacrifices to idols and no longer respected the Sabbath. (1 Maccabees 1, 43)

• The King sent messengers to Jerusalem and the cities of Judea to carry the decree which imposed strange customs. (1 Maccabees 1, 44)

• The decree finally declared: "Anyone who does not fulfill the king's order shall die." (1 Maccabees 1, 50)