Fondare 74 Risultati per: Letter
A copy of the letter warning the Jews everywhere in Assuerus’ empire, to be prepared for vengeance ….✻ (Esther 8, 13)
As each tribe, city and province received the royal letter, there was feasting and carousal and holiday; and many there were, of alien race and alien creed, that submitted themselves to Jewish rite and observance; such terror the name of Jewry struck into their hearts. (Esther 8, 17)
This feast has ever been known as the feast of Purim, because of Aman’s lot-taking. Here in this letter, nay, this book you have been reading, the whole story has been set out, deeds done, (Esther 9, 26)
There was a second letter written by queen Esther, Abihail’s daughter, and the Jew Mardochaeus, confirming this ordinance for ever; (Esther 9, 29)
but already he had an enemy, Aman son of Amadathi, the Bugaean. This Aman was in high favour with the king, and owed both Mardochaeus and his nation a grudge for bringing the two chamberlains to their death.Here is a copy of the letter.) (Esther 12, 6)
And now came a letter from king Antiochus to all the subjects of his realm, bidding them leave ancestral custom of this race or that, and become one nation instead. (1 Maccabees 1, 43)
This letter was still in the reading, when all of a sudden came other envoys from Galilee, their garments rent about them; their message was, (1 Maccabees 5, 14)
When Jonathan came to Jerusalem, and read this letter aloud, not to the townsfolk only, but to the citadel garrison, (1 Maccabees 10, 7)
With that, he wrote him a letter, and these were the terms of it: (1 Maccabees 10, 17)
Boon thy letter asks of me thou shalt have; but first meet we together, face to face, yonder at Ptolemais; there will I pledge my word to the articles thou namest. (1 Maccabees 10, 56)
Thereupon came a letter from the young Antiochus to Jonathan, confirming him in the high priesthood, and in possession both of Judaea and of the three cantons; he was acclaimed as the king’s friend, (1 Maccabees 11, 57)
And, for Arius’ letter to Onias, thus the copy of it ran, (1 Maccabees 12, 19)
