Fondare 2245 Risultati per: King Josiah
The king, therefore, went off in haste to settle the affair, leaving Andronicus, one of his nobles, as his deputy. (2 Maccabees 4, 31)
When the king returned from the region of Cilicia, the Jews of the city, together with the Greeks who detested the crime, went to see him about the murder of Onias. (2 Maccabees 4, 36)
When the king came to Tyre, three men sent by the senate presented to him the justice of their cause. (2 Maccabees 4, 44)
But Menelaus, seeing himself on the losing side, promised Ptolemy, son of Dorymenes, a substantial sum of money if he would win the king over. (2 Maccabees 4, 45)
So Ptolemy retired with the king under a colonnade, as if to get some fresh air, and persuaded him to change his mind. (2 Maccabees 4, 46)
Menelaus, who was the cause of all the trouble, the king acquitted of the charges, while he condemned to death those poor men who would have been declared innocent even if they had pleaded their case before Scythians. (2 Maccabees 4, 47)
At length he met a miserable end. Called to account before Aretas, king of the Arabs, he fled from city to city, hunted by all men, hated as a transgressor of the laws, abhorred as the butcher of his country and his countrymen. After being driven into Egypt, (2 Maccabees 5, 8)
When these happenings were reported to the king, he thought that Judea was in revolt. Raging like a wild animal, he set out from Egypt and took Jerusalem by storm. (2 Maccabees 5, 11)
Not satisfied with this, the king dared to enter the holiest temple in the world; Menelaus, that traitor both to the laws and to his country, served as guide. (2 Maccabees 5, 15)
If they had not become entangled in so many sins, this man, like Heliodorus, who was sent by King Seleucus to inspect the treasury, would have been flogged and turned back from his presumptuous action as soon as he approached. (2 Maccabees 5, 18)
the king sent Appollonius, commander of the Mysians, at the head of an army of twenty-two thousand men, with orders to kill all the grown men and sell the women and young men into slavery. (2 Maccabees 5, 24)
Not long after this the king sent an Athenian senator to force the Jews to abandon the customs of their ancestors and live no longer by the laws of God; (2 Maccabees 6, 1)
