Trouvé 2254 Résultats pour: King Antiochus
So when Antiochus had taken away out of the temple a thousand and eight hundred talents, he went back in all haste to Antioch, thinking through pride, that he might now make the land navigable, and the sea passable on foot: such was the haughtiness of his mind. (2 Maccabees 5, 21)
But not long after the king sent a certain old man of Antioch, to compel the Jews to depart from the laws of their fathers and of God: (2 Maccabees 6, 1)
But they were led by bitter constraint on the king's birthday to the sacrifices: and when the feast of Bacchus was kept, they wore compelled to go about crowned with ivy in honour of Bacchus. (2 Maccabees 6, 7)
But they that stood by, being moved with wicked pity, for the old friendship they had with the man, taking him aside, desired that flesh might be brought, which it was lawful for him to eat, that he might make as if he had eaten, as the king had commanded of the flesh of the sacrifice: (2 Maccabees 6, 21)
To came to pass also, that seven brethren, together with their mother, were apprehended, and compelled by the king to eat swine's flesh against the law, for which end they were tormented with whips and scourges. (2 Maccabees 7, 1)
Then the king being angry commanded fryingpans, and brazen caldrons to be made hot: which forthwith being heated, (2 Maccabees 7, 3)
And when he was at the last gasp, he said thus: Thou indeed, O most wicked man, destroyest us out of this present life: but the King of the world will raise us up, who die for his laws, in the resurrection of eternal life. (2 Maccabees 7, 9)
So that the king, and they that were with him, wondered at the young man's courage, because he esteemed the torments as nothing. (2 Maccabees 7, 12)
And when they had brought the fifth, they tormented him. But he looking upon the king, (2 Maccabees 7, 15)
Now Antiochus, thinking himself despised, and withal despising the voice of the upbraider, when the youngest was yet alive, did not only exhort him by words, but also assured him with an oath, that he would make him a rich and a happy man, and, if he would turn from the laws of his fathers, would take him for a friend, and furnish him with things necessary. (2 Maccabees 7, 24)
But when the young man was not moved with these things, the king called the mother, and counselled her to deal with the young man to save his life. (2 Maccabees 7, 25)
While she was yet speaking these words, the young man said: For whom do you stay ? I will not obey the commandment of the king, but the commandment of the law, which was given us by Moses. (2 Maccabees 7, 30)
