Löydetty 10454 Tulokset: Ai
Then it was that, broken in spirit, he began to lose much of his arrogance and to come to his senses under the scourge of God, for he was tortured with pain every moment. (2 Maccabees 9, 11)
and in addition to all this he also would become a Jew and would visit every inhabited place to proclaim the power of God. (2 Maccabees 9, 17)
If you and your children are well and your affairs are as you wish, I am glad. As my hope is in heaven, (2 Maccabees 9, 20)
I do not despair of my condition, for I have good hope of recovering from my illness, (2 Maccabees 9, 22)
Moreover, I understand how the princes along the borders and the neighbors to my kingdom keep watching for opportunities and waiting to see what will happen. So I have appointed my son Antiochus to be king, whom I have often entrusted and commended to most of you when I hastened off to the upper provinces; and I have written to him what is written here. (2 Maccabees 9, 25)
I therefore urge and beseech you to remember the public and private services rendered to you and to maintain your present good will, each of you, toward me and my son. (2 Maccabees 9, 26)
So the murderer and blasphemer, having endured the more intense suffering, such as he had inflicted on others, came to the end of his life by a most pitiable fate, among the mountains in a strange land. (2 Maccabees 9, 28)
And when they had done this, they fell prostrate and besought the Lord that they might never again fall into such misfortunes, but that, if they should ever sin, they might be disciplined by him with forbearance and not be handed over to blasphemous and barbarous nations. (2 Maccabees 10, 4)
And they celebrated it for eight days with rejoicing, in the manner of the feast of booths, remembering how not long before, during the feast of booths, they had been wandering in the mountains and caves like wild animals. (2 Maccabees 10, 6)
Ptolemy, who was called Macron, took the lead in showing justice to the Jews because of the wrong that had been done to them, and attempted to maintain peaceful relations with them. (2 Maccabees 10, 12)
As a result he was accused before Eupator by the king's friends. He heard himself called a traitor at every turn, because he had abandoned Cyprus, which Philometor had entrusted to him, and had gone over to Antiochus Epiphanes. Unable to command the respect due his office, he took poison and ended his life. (2 Maccabees 10, 13)
When Gorgias became governor of the region, he maintained a force of mercenaries, and at every turn kept on warring against the Jews. (2 Maccabees 10, 14)
