Trouvé 2522 Résultats pour: King Of Kings
And so, when the king questioned Heliodorus as to who might be fit to be sent once more to Jerusalem, he said: (2 Maccabees 3, 37)
Onias, considering the peril of this contention, and Apollonius to be mad, though he was governor of Coelesyria and Phoenicia, which only augmented the malice of Simon, he brought himself before the king, (2 Maccabees 4, 4)
He went to the king, promising him three hundred and sixty talents of silver, and from other revenues eighty talents, (2 Maccabees 4, 8)
When the king had assented, and he had obtained the leadership, he immediately began to transfer his subjects to the rituals of the heathens. (2 Maccabees 4, 10)
And taking away those things that had been established by the kings, by reason of the humanitarianism of the Jews, through John, the father of Eupolemus, who formed a friendship and alliance with the Romans, he discharged the legitimate legislations, voiding the oaths of the citizens, and he sanctioned depraved customs. (2 Maccabees 4, 11)
But when the competition that was celebrated every fifth year was at Tyre, the king being present, (2 Maccabees 4, 18)
Then Apollonius, the son of Menestheus, was sent into Egypt because of the nobles of king Philometor of Ptolemy. But when Antiochus realized that he had been effectively alienated from the affairs of the kingdom, consulting his own interests, he started out from there and came to Joppa, and from there to Jerusalem. (2 Maccabees 4, 21)
And, after three years, Jason sent Menelaus, the brother of the above mentioned Simon, carrying money to the king, and bearing responses about essential matters. (2 Maccabees 4, 23)
And he, being recommended to the king, when he had magnified the appearance of his power, usurped the high priesthood for himself, outbidding Jason by three hundred talents of silver. (2 Maccabees 4, 24)
And so, having received orders from the king, he returned, holding nothing at all worthy of the priesthood, in truth, having the soul of a cruel tyrant and the rage of a wild beast. (2 Maccabees 4, 25)
Then Menelaus, indeed, obtained the principality, but truly, concerning the money that he had promised to the king, nothing was done. Although Sostratus, who was first over the stronghold, attempted to collect it, (2 Maccabees 4, 27)
since the collection of certain taxes pertained to him. For this reason, they were both called before the king. (2 Maccabees 4, 28)
