Trouvé 60 Résultats pour: royal priesthood
We hope also, that the God, that delivered all his people, and gave them all an heritage, and the kingdom, and the priesthood, and the sanctuary, (2 Maccabees 2, 17)
And the royal privileges granted of special favour to the Jews by the means of John the father of Eupolemus, who went ambassador to Rome for amity and aid, he took away; and putting down the governments which were according to the law, he brought up new customs against the law: (2 Maccabees 4, 11)
But he being brought to the presence of the king, when he had magnified him for the glorious appearance of his power, got the priesthood to himself, offering more than Jason by three hundred talents of silver. (2 Maccabees 4, 24)
So he came with the king's mandate, bringing nothing worthy the high priesthood, but having the fury of a cruel tyrant, and the rage of a savage beast. (2 Maccabees 4, 25)
Now Menelaus left his brother Lysimachus in his stead in the priesthood; and Sostratus left Crates, who was governor of the Cyprians. (2 Maccabees 4, 29)
And to make a gain of the temple, as of the other chapels of the heathen, and to set the high priesthood to sale every year: (2 Maccabees 11, 3)
Therefore I, being deprived of mine ancestors' honour, I mean the high priesthood, am now come hither: (2 Maccabees 14, 7)
Thine Almighty word leaped down from heaven out of thy royal throne, as a fierce man of war into the midst of a land of destruction, (Wisdom of Solomon 18, 15)
An everlasting covenant he made with him and gave him the priesthood among the people; he beautified him with comely ornaments, and clothed him with a robe of glory. (Ecclesiasticus 45, 7)
Moses consecrated him, and anointed him with holy oil: this was appointed unto him by an everlasting covenant, and to his seed, so long as the heavens should remain, that they should minister unto him, and execute the office of the priesthood, and bless the people in his name. (Ecclesiasticus 45, 15)
Therefore was there a covenant of peace made with him, that he should be the chief of the sanctuary and of his people, and that he and his posterity should have the dignity of the priesthood for ever: (Ecclesiasticus 45, 24)
Thou shalt also be a crown of glory in the hand of the LORD, and a royal diadem in the hand of thy God. (Isaiah 62, 3)
