Löydetty 2053 Tulokset: King Solomon

• the king had taste enough of Jewish valour, and set about to reduce the strongholds by policy. (2 Maccabees 13, 18)

• so the king was fain to parley with the defenders of Bethsura, and, upon agreed terms, the siege of it was raised. (2 Maccabees 13, 22)

• as for Machabaeus, the king made a friend of him, and appointed him both governor and commander of all the territory from Ptolemais to the Gerrenes.✻ (2 Maccabees 13, 24)

• until at last Lysias must go up to an open stage, and give his reasons; whereby he calmed the indignation of the people, and so returned to Antioch. Such was the king’s march upon Judaea, and such his homecoming. (2 Maccabees 13, 26)

• and now he had recourse to king Demetrius, in the hundred and fiftieth year. He came with gifts, a gold crown and a palm branch, and wreaths that had been better employed in the service of the temple.✻ No word said he on the first day of his arriving; (2 Maccabees 14, 4)

• first, the loyalty I have to the king’s own interest, but not less, the love of my own fellow-countrymen; by the false aims of a faction the whole of our race is brought into utter misery. (2 Maccabees 14, 8)

• Do but satisfy thyself, my lord king, that all is as I have said, and then, with that kindliness the world knows so well, take order concerning the country and its inhabitants. (2 Maccabees 14, 9)

• yet run counter to the king’s will he might not. So he began looking for an opportunity of carrying out his orders; (2 Maccabees 14, 29)

• So be it, said he, and I am your master on earth, and my orders are, To arms, and despatch the king’s business! Yet carry out his design they would not. (2 Maccabees 15, 5)

• These proverbs were written by David’s son Solomon, that was king of Israel, (Proverbs 1, 1)

• Great people, great king; it is for want of men crowns are lost. (Proverbs 14, 28)

• A king shews favour to a wise servant; disappoint him, and thou shalt feel his anger. (Proverbs 14, 35)