Trouvé 458 Résultats pour: Priest Jehoiada
Therefore, when the holy city was inhabited with all peace, and also the laws were still being kept very well because of the piety of Onias, the high priest, and the hatred that his soul held for evil, (2 Maccabees 3, 1)
But Simon, from the tribe of Benjamin, having been appointed as overseer of the temple, obstructed the chief priest, in order to undertake some kind of iniquity in the city. (2 Maccabees 3, 4)
But, when he had arrived at Jerusalem and had been kindly accepted into the city by the high priest, he explained to him the information that had been provided concerning the money. And he freely disclosed the cause for which he was present. But he questioned whether these things were truly so. (2 Maccabees 3, 9)
Then the high priest revealed to him that these things had been deposited, along with provisions for the widows and the orphans. (2 Maccabees 3, 10)
Now truly, whoever saw the countenance of the high priest was wounded in mind. For his face and the changing of its color declared the inner sorrow of the soul. (2 Maccabees 3, 16)
For the expectation of the mixed multitude, and of the great priest in agony, would have endowed anyone with pity. (2 Maccabees 3, 21)
But the high priest, considering that the king might perhaps suspect that some malice against Heliodorus had been completed by the Jews, offered a beneficial sacrifice for the health of the man. (2 Maccabees 3, 32)
And when the high priest was praying, the same youths, dressed in the same clothing, were standing by Heliodorus, and they said: “Give thanks to Onias the priest, for it is on his behalf that the Lord has granted life to you. (2 Maccabees 3, 33)
Now this was not the beginning, but a certain increase and progression of heathenism and foreign practices, due to the nefarious and unheard of wickedness of the impious non-priest Jason, (2 Maccabees 4, 13)
Now a certain Alcimus, who had been high priest, but who had willfully defiled himself in the time of the co-mingling, considering there to be no means for his safety, nor access to the altar, (2 Maccabees 14, 3)
giving him orders to be certain to capture Judas himself, and, truly, to scatter all those who were with him, and to appoint Alcimus as the high priest of the great temple. (2 Maccabees 14, 13)
Now the vision was in this manner: Onias, who had been high priest, a good and kind man, modest in appearance, gentle in manners, and noble in speech, and who from boyhood was trained in the virtues, extending his hands, prayed on behalf of all the people of the Jews. (2 Maccabees 15, 12)
