Talált 398 Eredmények: List Of Priests
there was a high assembly held at Saramel✻ of priests and people, clan-chiefs and elders of the whole nation, that had before them these considerations following. All through the long wars of our country, (1 Maccabees 14, 28)
Here were the Jews, priests and people both, agreed that he should rule them, granting him the high priesthood✻ by right inalienable, until true prophet they should have once more. (1 Maccabees 14, 41)
Of the rest, both priests and people, none should retrench these privileges, nor gainsay Simon’s will, nor convoke assembly in the country without him; garment of purple, buckle of gold none should wear; (1 Maccabees 14, 44)
and Simon, he would not say them nay; high priest, and of priests and people leader, governor and champion, he would be henceforward. (1 Maccabees 14, 47)
What became of him, think you, the general that marched away into Persia with a countless army at his heels?✻ He met his end in the temple of Nanea, through guile of the priests that served it. (2 Maccabees 1, 13)
The priests, then, had the money laid out in readiness; into the precincts he came, with a meagre retinue, and they, now that Antiochus was within, shut the temple gates. (2 Maccabees 1, 15)
Long ago, when our fathers were being carried off into the Persian country, such priests of the true God as held office in those days took away the fire from the altar, and hid it down in the valley, in a pit both deep and dry, so well guarding their secret that none might know where it was to be found. (2 Maccabees 1, 19)
Years passed, and God’s will was that Nehemias should come back, holding the Persian king’s warrant. Nehemias it was that had search made for the fire, and by the grandsons of those very priests that hid it; but they made report, fire they could find none, only a puddle of water.✻ (2 Maccabees 1, 20)
To prayer fell the priests all around, while sacrifice was done, Jonathan to lead them,✻ and the rest answering; (2 Maccabees 1, 23)
Then, till the sacrifice was consumed, the priests went on with their singing of hymns; (2 Maccabees 1, 30)
The news travelled, till the Persian king himself was told how water appeared where exiled priests had hidden the fire, how, with this water, Nehemias and his company had bathed the sacrifice. (2 Maccabees 1, 33)
Largesse the priests had, and many were the gifts passed from hand to hand, when the truth of the matter was proved.✻ (2 Maccabees 1, 35)
