Talált 63 Eredmények: Jewish traditions
at Mount Gerizim, Andronicus; and besides these, Menelaus, who lorded it over his fellow citizens worse than the others did. Out of hatred for the Jewish citizens, (2 Maccabees 5, 23)
Ptolemy promptly selected Nicanor, son of Patroclus, one of the Chief Friends, and sent him at the head of at least twenty thousand armed men of various nations to wipe out the entire Jewish race. With him he associated Gorgias, a professional military commander, well-versed in the art of war. (2 Maccabees 8, 9)
So he immediately sent word to the coastal cities, inviting them to buy Jewish slaves and promising to deliver ninety slaves for a talent--little did he dream of the punishment that was to fall upon him from the Almighty. (2 Maccabees 8, 11)
"To my esteemed Jewish citizens, Antiochus, their king and general, sends hearty greetings and best wishes for their health and happiness. (2 Maccabees 9, 19)
By public edict and decree they prescribed that the whole Jewish nation should celebrate these days every year. (2 Maccabees 10, 8)
These are the terms of the letter which Lysias wrote to the Jews: "Lysias sends greetings to the Jewish people. (2 Maccabees 11, 16)
The king's letter to the people was as follows: "King Antiochus sends greetings to the Jewish senate and to the rest of the Jews. (2 Maccabees 11, 27)
The Romans also sent them a letter as follows: "Quintus Memmius and Titus Manius, legates of the Romans, send greetings to the Jewish people. (2 Maccabees 11, 34)
but Rhodocus, of the Jewish army, betrayed military secrets to the enemy. He was found out, arrested, and imprisoned. (2 Maccabees 13, 21)
What he saw was this: Onias, the former high priest, a good and virtuous man, modest in appearance, gentle in manners, distinguished in speech, and trained from childhood in every virtuous practice, was praying with outstretched arms for the whole Jewish community. (2 Maccabees 15, 12)
Then Daniel was brought into the presence of the king. The king asked him, "Are you the Daniel, the Jewish exile, whom my father, the king, brought from Judah? (Daniel 5, 13)
To this they replied, "Daniel, the Jewish exile, has paid no attention to you, O king, or to the decree you issued; three times a day he offers his prayer." (Daniel 6, 14)
