Fondare 1017 Risultati per: High Priest
They decked the front wall of the temple, at this time, with gold crowns and escutcheons, consecrated the gates and the priest’s lodging anew, and furnished it with doors; (1 Maccabees 4, 57)
Grave tidings, these, for Judas and his people; met they in high debate, and took counsel how they might best aid their brethren in peril of assault. (1 Maccabees 5, 16)
And now Judas gathered all the Israelites in the Galaad country, high and low, with their wives and children, a whole army of them, to come back with him to Juda. (1 Maccabees 5, 45)
But as for Judas and his company,✻ they were held high in honour, both among Israelite folk, and wherever the renown of them was heard; (1 Maccabees 5, 63)
King Antiochus was still on his journey through the high countries, when he heard tell of a city in Persia called Elymais, renowned for its treasures of silver and gold; (1 Maccabees 6, 1)
gone was that defiling image he had set up over the altar at Jerusalem; high walls, as of old, protected the sanctuary; nay, they had made shift to fortify his own stronghold of Bethsura. (1 Maccabees 6, 7)
What did Eleazar that day, the son of Sauran?✻ Here was one of the beasts that went decked in royal trappings, and towered high above the rest; There rides the king, thought he, (1 Maccabees 6, 43)
To him came certain Israelites, enemies of the law and of religion, with Alcimus at their head, a man who coveted the high-priestly office. (1 Maccabees 7, 5)
Of the havoc wrought by Judas he should be judge, and with him went the traitor Alcimus, now confirmed in the high priesthood; thus should the royal vengeance fall on Israel. (1 Maccabees 7, 9)
Here is a priest of Aaron’s line, said they, in yonder company, fear we no treachery from him. (1 Maccabees 7, 14)
and Alcimus remained to make the best of his high priesthood. (1 Maccabees 7, 21)
In his anger, he swore to them nothing would serve but he should have Judas and Judas’ army at his mercy; if not, he would burn the temple down, as soon as ever he returned in safety. So, in high disdain, he left them; (1 Maccabees 7, 35)
