Löydetty 2053 Tulokset: King Solomon
To his loyal Jewish subjects Antiochus, their king and general, sends greeting, health, and happiness! (2 Maccabees 9, 19)
Upon his accession, this king entrusted all the business of the realm to one Lysias, commander of the forces in Phoenice and Coelesyria. (2 Maccabees 10, 11)
offering to conclude honourable terms with them, and secure them the king’s friendship. (2 Maccabees 11, 14)
All that needed to be known, I have made clear to the king’s grace, and he has granted what grant he could. (2 Maccabees 11, 18)
Doubt not I will be a good suitor in your cause hereafter, so you abide loyal to the king’s interest. (2 Maccabees 11, 19)
And of the king’s own letter, the tenour was this: King Antiochus, to his good cousin Lysias, all health! (2 Maccabees 11, 22)
To the Jews themselves the king wrote as follows: King Antiochus, to the elders and people of the Jews, all health! (2 Maccabees 11, 27)
Other matters he has remitted to the king’s decision; take counsel among yourselves, and let us know at once what your mind is, if you would have us order all to your liking. Even now we are on the road to Antioch; (2 Maccabees 11, 36)
But Machabaeus to that King made appeal, who needed neither engine nor battering-ram, in Josue’s day, to bring Jericho down in ruins; a fierce attack he delivered upon the walls, (2 Maccabees 12, 15)
And hereupon the King of all kings brought this guilty wretch into ill favour with his master Antiochus, who (upon Lysias’ averring, here was the true source of all their misadventures) would have him apprehended and put to death according to the custom of the place where they were quartered. (2 Maccabees 13, 4)
Yet still the king pressed forward on his mad career, as if he would prove himself a worse enemy of Jewry than his father; (2 Maccabees 13, 9)
and himself called the elders to a council; his plan was, he told them, to march out and engage the king before he could reach Judaea and overpower the city, and the issue of it he would leave to the Lord’s good pleasure. (2 Maccabees 13, 13)
