Fondare 2053 Risultati per: King Solomon
if any were found that kept the sacred record, or obeyed the Lord’s will, his life was forfeit to the king’s edict. (1 Maccabees 1, 60)
Death it was for woman to have her child circumcised in defiance of the king; (1 Maccabees 1, 63)
And now the pursuivants of king Antiochus came to Modin; take refuge there who might, he must do sacrifice none the less, and burn incense, and leave the following of God’s law. (1 Maccabees 2, 15)
Wilt thou not be the first to come forward and do the king’s bidding, with the whole world, and the men of Juda everywhere, and what is left of Jerusalem? To be the king’s friend, thou and thy sons with thee, gold and silver and much else for thy reward! (1 Maccabees 2, 18)
Loud rang the answer of Mattathias: What though king Antiochus have the whole world for his vassals? Obey the edict who will, forsaking the custom his fathers lived by, (1 Maccabees 2, 19)
To deaf ears king Antiochus proclaims the sacrifice; we swerve not from the law’s path, right or left. (1 Maccabees 2, 22)
Before he had done speaking, a Jew came to offer the false gods sacrifice, there in full view of all, before the altar at Modin, as the king bade. (1 Maccabees 2, 23)
Nor spared he the pursuivant of king Antiochus that enjoined it; the altar, too, he pulled down. (1 Maccabees 2, 25)
But news of it reached Jerusalem, and the king’s men that were in David’s Keep; here were rebels lurking in the waste country, and drawing many over to their side. (1 Maccabees 2, 31)
What, still stubborn? cried they. Come out, and yield yourselves to the king’s pleasure; your lives shall be spared. (1 Maccabees 2, 33)
But the Jews’ answer was, come out and yield to the king’s pleasure they might not; law of the sabbath rest forbade it. (1 Maccabees 2, 34)
that Gentile was none, king though he were, could restrain the law’s observance; against their onslaught the powers of evil could not make head. (1 Maccabees 2, 48)
