Trouvé 897 Résultats pour: David's Empire
and his army, routed with a loss of five thousand men, must needs take refuge in the Keep of David.✻ (1 Maccabees 7, 32)
In the king’s army, Jews may be enrolled up to the number of thirty thousand, paid according to the common rate of the royal troops; and the same shall be free to serve in all the fortified towns of our empire. (1 Maccabees 10, 36)
And thus the inscription ran: On this eighteenth day of Elul, in the hundred and seventy-second year of the Greek empire, the third of Simon’s high priesthood, (1 Maccabees 14, 27)
In his days it was, and by his means, the land was rid at last of Gentile intruders; not least the garrison of David’s own Keep at Jerusalem, that by their sallying out profaned the sacred precincts, and much defiled their purity; (1 Maccabees 14, 36)
With all this, dispositions Nehemias made, records Nehemias kept, are in full agreement. He it was founded a library, and there collected histories of king and prophet, and of David himself; dispatches, too, the kings had sent, and inventories of gifts made. (2 Maccabees 2, 13)
These proverbs were written by David’s son Solomon, that was king of Israel, (Proverbs 1, 1)
Words of the Spokesman,✻ king David’s son, that reigned once at Jerusalem. (Ecclesiastes 1, 1)
Thy neck rising proudly, nobly adorned, like David’s embattled tower, hung about with a thousand shields, panoply of the brave; (Song of Solomon 4, 4)
wrong and crime and outrage and treacherous shift, that he punishes by passing on the sceptre of empire into new hands; (Ecclesiasticus 10, 8)
Solemnly he pledged himself to give his servant David an heir most valiant, that should hold his royal throne for ever. (Ecclesiasticus 24, 34)
David the son of Jesse, of Juda’s tribe, should bequeath to his children a legacy of kingship …… with wise hearts endowing us, to preserve justice among his people, and keep safe the blessings he has given to it; and this pre-eminence over his people he has settled on them in perpetuity.✻ (Ecclesiasticus 45, 31)
Among prophets, Nathan was the next to arise, and it was then the reign of David began. (Ecclesiasticus 47, 1)
