Trouvé 24 Résultats pour: Letters
David had an uncle called Jonathan, a prudent counsellor and a man of letters; he, with Jahiel son of Hachamoni, had charge of the royal princes. (1 Chronicles 27, 32)
So couriers went out in the king’s service, bearing letters in his name and in the name of his nobles to Israel and Juda alike, and this was their purport; Come back, Israelites, to the Lord, all that remnant of you the Assyrian king has spared; and he, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Israel, will come back to your side. (2 Chronicles 30, 6)
Then I said, May it please the king’s grace to entrust me with letters for the governors of the country beyond Euphrates, bidding them see me safe on my way to Judaea; (Nehemiah 2, 7)
So I made my way to the governors beyond Euphrates, with royal letters to give them, and a royal escort of captains and horsemen. (Nehemiah 2, 9)
Tobias, at this time, was exchanging letters with many of the Jewish nobles; (Nehemiah 6, 17)
Still they sang his praises to me, still sent him news of all I did; this very Tobias who was writing letters to fill me with alarm. (Nehemiah 6, 19)
Nay, the high priest Eliachim sent letters even further afield; the hill-folk that lived facing Esdrelon across the wide plain around Dothain, controlling the passes to the south, (Judith 4, 5)
But letters sent in the king’s name and signed with his ring, by the custom of the realm, none must ever revoke.✻ Write rather in my name, under the royal seal, orders for the Jewish people to obey, in whatever sense likes you best. (Esther 8, 8)
So, on the twenty-third day of the third month, Siban, they summoned notary and scribe of the royal household, and at Mardochaeus’ bidding they issued orders to the Jewish people. Letters were sent to all the chieftains, governors and judges who ruled the hundred and twenty-seven provinces between India and Ethiopia, written to each province or tribe in the characters it used and in the language it spoke; to the Jews, in their own characters and their own language. (Esther 8, 9)
And these letters, written under the royal seal in the king’s name, were sent out by post-boys, that must carry them from province to province before the earlier decree could be executed. (Esther 8, 10)
Lacedaemon, too, and other countries should have letters of the same tenour. (1 Maccabees 12, 2)
and the Romans gave them such letters of recommendation to this country or that, as should bring them home to Juda under safe conduct. (1 Maccabees 12, 4)
