Fondare 3711 Risultati per: King Of Israel
'Jews will be enrolled in the king's forces to the number of thirty thousand men and receive maintenance on the same scale as the rest of the king's forces. (1 Maccabees 10, 36)
Some of them will be stationed in the king's major fortresses, and from among others appointments will be made to positions of trust in the kingdom. Their officers and commanders will be appointed from their own number and will live under their own laws, as the king has prescribed for Judaea. (1 Maccabees 10, 37)
When Jonathan and the people heard these proposals, they put no faith in them and refused to accept them, remembering what great wrongs Demetrius had done to Israel and how cruelly he had oppressed them. (1 Maccabees 10, 46)
King Alexander now mustered large forces and advanced against Demetrius. (1 Maccabees 10, 48)
Alexander sent ambassadors to Ptolemy king of Egypt, with this message: (1 Maccabees 10, 51)
King Ptolemy replied as follows: 'Happy the day when you returned to the land of your ancestors and ascended their royal throne! (1 Maccabees 10, 55)
King Alexander went to meet him, and Ptolemy gave him the hand of his daughter Cleopatra and celebrated her wedding in Ptolemais with great magnificence, as kings do. (1 Maccabees 10, 58)
King Alexander then wrote to Jonathan to come and meet him. (1 Maccabees 10, 59)
A number of scoundrels, the pest of Israel, combined to denounce him, but the king paid no attention to them. (1 Maccabees 10, 61)
In fact, the king commanded that Jonathan should be divested of his own garments and clothed in the purple, which was done. (1 Maccabees 10, 62)
The king then seated him by his side and said to his officers, 'Escort him into the centre of the city and proclaim that no one is to bring charges against him on any count; no one is to molest him for any reason.' (1 Maccabees 10, 63)
The king did him the honour of enrolling him among the First Friends, and appointed him commander-in-chief and governor-general. (1 Maccabees 10, 65)
