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who would have said that Jonathan had died because Simon would not send Trypho the money and the children. (1 Maccabees 13, 18)
the vile Jason sent an embassy of Antiochists from Jerusalem, taking with them three hundred silver drachmas for the sacrifice to Hercules. But even those who brought the money did not think it would be right to spend it on the sacrifice and decided to reserve it for some other item of expenditure; (2 Maccabees 4, 19)
When three years had passed, Jason sent Menelaus, brother of the Simon mentioned above, to convey the money to the king and to complete negotiations on various essential matters. (2 Maccabees 4, 23)
Nicanor for his part proposed, by the sale of Jewish prisoners of war, to raise the two thousand talents of tribute money owed by the king to the Romans. (2 Maccabees 8, 10)
The money of their prospective purchasers fell into their hands. After pursuing them for a good while, they turned back, since time was pressing: (2 Maccabees 8, 25)
Thus the man who had promised the Romans to make good their tribute money by selling the prisoners from Jerusalem, bore witness that the Jews had a defender and that they were in consequence invulnerable, since they followed the laws which that defender had ordained. (2 Maccabees 8, 36)
But Simon's men were greedy for money and allowed themselves to be bribed by some of the men in the towers; accepting seventy thousand drachmas, they let a number of them escape. (2 Maccabees 10, 20)
When Maccabaeus was told what had happened, he summoned the people's commanders and accused the offenders of having sold their brothers for money by releasing their enemies to fight them. (2 Maccabees 10, 21)
One scatters money around, yet only adds to his wealth, another is excessively mean, but only grows the poorer. (Proverbs 11, 24)
What good is money in the hand of a fool? To buy wisdom with it? The desire is not there. (Proverbs 17, 16)
No one who loves money ever has enough, no one who loves luxury has any income; this, too, is futile. (Ecclesiastes 5, 9)
For as money protects, so does wisdom, and the advantage of knowledge is this: that wisdom bestows life on those who possess her. (Ecclesiastes 7, 12)
