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King Demetrius to the high priest Simon, the friend of kings, and to all the elders and people of the Jews, greeting. (1 Maccabees 13, 36)
This grant, then, I make thee; exemption, such as thou hadst, in the name of former kings, from public offerings and all other payment due to me; (1 Maccabees 15, 5)
And now here were Numenius and his fellow envoys come back from Rome,✻ with a copy of despatches sent out to kings and nations everywhere, and this was the tenour of them. (1 Maccabees 15, 15)
Agreed we then to warn kings and nations everywhere, they should not hurt or assault the Jewish people, its cities and country-side, nor comfort its enemies; (1 Maccabees 15, 19)
With all this, dispositions Nehemias made, records Nehemias kept, are in full agreement. He it was founded a library, and there collected histories of king and prophet, and of David himself; dispatches, too, the kings had sent, and inventories of gifts made. (2 Maccabees 2, 13)
What, should those sacred ornaments, dedicated by kings and peoples for the more splendour and worthiness of it, be caught up in his impious hands, pawed and defiled by his touch? (2 Maccabees 5, 16)
He had made his way into the city they call Persepolis, thinking to plunder its temple and of itself have the mastery; but the common folk ran to arms and routed him. So he was a man defeated and disgraced (2 Maccabees 9, 2)
Stern was the encounter, but with God’s help they won the day; and the defeated remnant of the Arabs asked Judas for quarter, promising a grant of pasture-lands, with other advantages. (2 Maccabees 12, 11)
And hereupon the King of all kings brought this guilty wretch into ill favour with his master Antiochus, who (upon Lysias’ averring, here was the true source of all their misadventures) would have him apprehended and put to death according to the custom of the place where they were quartered. (2 Maccabees 13, 4)
through me kings learn how to reign, law-givers how to lay down just decrees; (Proverbs 8, 15)
Kings are for honest talk; free-spoken is well loved. (Proverbs 16, 13)
High as heaven thou must look, deep as earth, ere the mind of kings shall be made known to thee. (Proverbs 25, 3)
