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And now the followers of Machabaeus, after prayer made for the divine assistance, delivered an attack upon the Edomite strongholds. (2 Maccabees 10, 16)
At his coming, the party of Machabaeus fell to prayer; earth on their heads, sackcloth about their loins, (2 Maccabees 10, 25)
and so they fell to prayer, pleading that the sin might go unremembered. Judas himself, their gallant commander, gave public warning to his men, of fault they should evermore keep clear, with the fate of these transgressors under their eyes. (2 Maccabees 12, 42)
As for the Jews, when they heard Nicanor was on the march, with all this rabble of alien folk, they cast earth on their heads and betook themselves to prayer. Was it not God’s appointment, his people he should evermore preserve? Was he not wont to protect them with signal marks of his favour? (2 Maccabees 14, 15)
With that, he left them; and the priests, lifting up their hands to heaven, called upon the God that was ever the champion of their race, with such prayer as this: (2 Maccabees 14, 34)
to the confusion of yonder blasphemers that levy war on thy holy people! And so he brought his prayer to an end. (2 Maccabees 15, 24)
From the wicked, the Lord withholds his presence, listens only to the prayer of the just. (Proverbs 15, 29)
Turn a deaf ear to thy teachers, and thy prayer shall be all sacrilege. (Proverbs 28, 9)
Whence, then, did the prudence spring that endowed me? Prayer brought it; to God I prayed, and the spirit of wisdom came upon me.✻ (Wisdom of Solomon 7, 7)
When Jacob, her faithful servant, was in flight from his brother’s anger, she guided him straight to his goal, and on the way shewed him the heavenly kingdom, gave him knowledge of holy things. She enriched him by his toil, and gave all his labours a happy issue. (Wisdom of Solomon 10, 10)
And so, unashamed, for home and children and wife he utters his prayer, addressing himself all the while to a senseless thing. (Wisdom of Solomon 13, 17)
Nay, here is one that will go a-voyaging, the wild waves for his pathway, and perishable wood to carry him, yet he makes his prayer to a piece of wood more perishable yet! (Wisdom of Solomon 14, 1)
