Talált 2250 Eredmények: Choosing A King
But when the young man would in no case hearken unto him, the king called his mother, and exhorted her that she would counsel the young man to save his life. (2 Maccabees 7, 25)
Whiles she was yet speaking these words, the young man said, Whom wait ye for? I will not obey the king's commandment: but I will obey the commandment of the law that was given unto our fathers by Moses. (2 Maccabees 7, 30)
Than the king' being in a rage, handed him worse than all the rest, and took it grievously that he was mocked. (2 Maccabees 7, 39)
So when Philip saw that this man increased by little and little, and that things prospered with him still more and more, he wrote unto Ptolemeus, the governor of Celosyria and Phenice, to yield more aid to the king's affairs. (2 Maccabees 8, 8)
Then forthwith choosing Nicanor the son of Patroclus, one of his special friends, he sent him with no fewer than twenty thousand of all nations under him, to root out the whole generation of the Jews; and with him he joined also Gorgias a captain, who in matters of war had great experience. (2 Maccabees 8, 9)
So Nicanor undertook to make so much money of the captive Jews, as should defray the tribute of two thousand talents, which the king was to pay to the Romans. (2 Maccabees 8, 10)
Antiochus, king and governor, to the good Jews his citizens wisheth much joy, health, and prosperity: (2 Maccabees 9, 19)
Again, considering how that the princes that are borderers and neighbours unto my kingdom wait for opportunities, and expect what shall be the event. I have appointed my son Antiochus king, whom I often committed and commended unto many of you, when I went up into the high provinces; to whom I have written as followeth: (2 Maccabees 9, 25)
For Ptolemeus, that was called Macron, choosing rather to do justice unto the Jews for the wrong that had been done unto them, endeavoured to continue peace with them. (2 Maccabees 10, 12)
Whereupon being accused of the king's friends before Eupator, and called traitor at every word because he had left Cyprus, that Philometor had committed unto him, and departed to Antiochus Epiphanes, and seeing that he was in no honourable place, he was so discouraged, that he poisoned himself and died. (2 Maccabees 10, 13)
Not long after the, Lysias the king's protector and cousin, who also managed the affairs, took sore displeasure for the things that were done. (2 Maccabees 11, 1)
And persuaded them to agree to all reasonable conditions, and promised that he would persuade the king that he must needs be a friend unto them. (2 Maccabees 11, 14)
