Fondare 941 Risultati per: High Priest
Now as the high priest was making an atonement, the same young men in the same clothing appeared and stood beside Heliodorus, saying, Give Onias the high priest great thanks, insomuch as for his sake the Lord hath granted thee life: (2 Maccabees 3, 33)
But after the death of Seleucus, when Antiochus, called Epiphanes, took the kingdom, Jason the brother of Onias laboured underhand to be high priest, (2 Maccabees 4, 7)
Now such was the height of Greek fashions, and increase of heathenish manners, through the exceeding profaneness of Jason, that ungodly wretch, and no high priest; (2 Maccabees 4, 13)
So he came with the king's mandate, bringing nothing worthy the high priesthood, but having the fury of a cruel tyrant, and the rage of a savage beast. (2 Maccabees 4, 25)
Moreover of those that were with Timotheus and Bacchides, who fought against them, they slew above twenty thousand, and very easily got high and strong holds, and divided among themselves many spoils more, and made the maimed, orphans, widows, yea, and the aged also, equal in spoils with themselves. (2 Maccabees 8, 30)
And thus he that a little afore thought he might command the waves of the sea, (so proud was he beyond the condition of man) and weigh the high mountains in a balance, was now cast on the ground, and carried in an horselitter, shewing forth unto all the manifest power of God. (2 Maccabees 9, 8)
But considering that even my father, at what time he led an army into the high countries. appointed a successor, (2 Maccabees 9, 23)
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)
And to make a gain of the temple, as of the other chapels of the heathen, and to set the high priesthood to sale every year: (2 Maccabees 11, 3)
Now there was in that place a tower of fifty cubits high, full of ashes, and it had a round instrument which on every side hanged down into the ashes. (2 Maccabees 13, 5)
Now one Alcimus, who had been high priest, and had defiled himself wilfully in the times of their mingling with the Gentiles, seeing that by no means he could save himself, nor have any more access to the holy altar, (2 Maccabees 14, 3)
Therefore I, being deprived of mine ancestors' honour, I mean the high priesthood, am now come hither: (2 Maccabees 14, 7)
