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bes@Hosea:1:6 @ And she conceived again, and bore a daughter. And he said to him, Call her name, Unpitied: for I will no more have mercy on the house of Israel, but will surely set myself in array against them.

bes@Hosea:1:7 @ But I will have mercy on the house of Juda, and will save them by the Lord their God, and will not save them with bow, nor with sword, nor by war, nor by horses, nor by horsemen.

bes@Hosea:1:9 @ And he said, Call his name, Not my people: for ye are not my people, and I am not your God.

bes@Hosea:1:10 @ Yet the number of the children of Israel was as the sand of the sea, which shall not be measured nor numbered: (note:)Ro strkjv@9:26(:note) and it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said to them, Ye are not my people, even they shall be called the sons of the living God.

bes@Hosea:2:2 @ Plead with your mother, plead: for she is not my wife, and I am not her husband: and I will remove her fornication out of my presence, and her adultery from between her breasts:

bes@Hosea:2:4 @ And I will not have mercy upon her children; for they are children of fornication.

bes@Hosea:2:6 @ Therefore, behold, I hedge up her way with thorns, and I will (note:)Gr. build up(:note) stop the ways, and she shall not find her path.

bes@Hosea:2:7 @ And she shall follow after her lovers, and shall not overtake them; and she shall seek them, but shall not find them: and she shall say, I will go, and return to my former husband; for it was (note:)Gr. well for me(:note) better with me than now.

bes@Hosea:2:8 @ And she knew not that I gave her her corn, and wine, and oil, and multiplied silver to her: but she made silver and gold images for Baal.

bes@Hosea:2:9 @ Therefore I will return, and take away my corn in its season, and my wine in its time; and I will take away my raiment and my linen clothes, so that she shall not cover her nakedness.

bes@Hosea:2:10 @ And now I will expose her uncleanness before her lovers, and no one shall by any means deliver her out of my hand.

bes@Hosea:2:14 @ Therefore, behold, I will cause her to err, and will make her as desolate, and will speak (note:)Gr. to her heart; Hebraism(:note) comfortably to her.

bes@Hosea:2:16 @ And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord, that she shall call me, My husband, and shall no longer call me Baalim.

bes@Hosea:2:17 @ And I will take away the names of Baalim out of her mouth, and their names shall be remembered no more at all.

bes@Hosea:2:18 @ And I will make for them in that day a covenant with the wild beasts of the field, and with the birds of the sky, and with the reptiles of the earth: and I will break the bow and the sword and the battle from off the earth, and will cause thee to dwell (note:)Gr. in hope(:note) safely.

bes@Hosea:2:20 @ and I will betroth thee to myself in faithfulness: and thou shalt know the Lord.

bes@Hosea:2:23 @ And I will sow her to me on the earth; and will (note:)Alex. pity the unpitied one(:note) love her that was not loved, and will Ro strkjv@9:25 say to that which was not my people, Thou art my people; and they shall say, Thou art the Lord my God.

bes@Hosea:3:1 @ And the Lord said to me, Go yet, and love a woman that loves evil things, an adulteress, even as the Lord loves the children of Israel, and they have respect to strange gods, and love (note:)Gr. cooked meats with dried grapes(:note) cakes of dried grapes.

bes@Hosea:3:3 @ And I said unto her, Thou shalt wait for me many days; and thou shalt not commit fornication, neither shalt thou be for another man; and I will be for thee.

bes@Hosea:3:4 @ For the children of Israel shall abide many days without a king, and without a prince, and without a sacrifice, and without an altar, and without a priesthood, and without (note:)Gr. dhlwn, Urim and Thummim probably meant, or rather Urim only(:note) manifestations.

bes@Hosea:4:1 @ Hear the word of the Lord, ye children of Israel: for the Lord has a controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land.

bes@Hosea:4:4 @ that neither any one may plead, nor any one reprove another; but my people are as a priest spoken against.

bes@Hosea:4:5 @ Therefore they shall fall by (note:)Or, certain days(:note) day, and the prophet with thee shall fall: I have compared thy mother unto night.

bes@Hosea:4:6 @ My people are (note:)Gr. likened, Hebrews. hmd(:note) like as if they had no knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt not minister as priest to me: and as thou has forgotten the law of thy God, I also will forget thy children.

bes@Hosea:4:8 @ They will devour the sins of my people, and will set their (note:)Gr. souls, see A. V. and margin(:note) hearts on their iniquities.

bes@Hosea:4:9 @ And the priest shall be as the people: and I will avenge on (note:)auton, sc. the people, or, him the priest(:note) them their ways, and I will recompense to them their counsels.

bes@Hosea:4:10 @ And they shall eat, and shall not be satisfied: they have gone a-whoring, and shall by no means prosper: because they have left off to take heed to the Lord.

bes@Hosea:4:12 @ They asked counsel by means of signs, and they reported answer to (note:)Gr. him, his, sc. the people(:note) them by their staves: they have gone astray in a spirit of whoredom, and gone grievously a-whoring from their God.

bes@Hosea:4:14 @ And I will not visit upon your daughters when they shall commit fornication, nor your daughters-in-law when they shall commit adultery: for they themselves mingled themselves with harlots, and sacrificed with polluted ones, and the people that understood not entangled itself with a harlot.

bes@Hosea:4:15 @ But thou, O Israel, (note:)Or, sin not, i. e. a sin of ignorance(:note) be not ignorant, and go ye not, men of Juda, to Galgala; and go not up to the house of On, and swear not by the living Lord.

bes@Hosea:4:16 @ For Israel was maddened like a mad heifer: now the Lord will feed them as a lamb in a wide place.

bes@Hosea:4:17 @ Ephraim, (note:)Gr. a partaker of idols(:note) joined with idols, has laid stumbling-blocks in his own way.

bes@Hosea:4:18 @ He has chosen the Chananites: they have grievously gone a-whoring: they have loved dishonour through her insolence.

bes@Hosea:5:1 @ Hear these things, ye priests; and attend, O house of Israel; and hearken, O house of the king; for the (note:)Or, judgement is toward you(:note) controversy is with you, because ye have been a snare in Or, the watchtower Scopia, and as a net spread on Itabyrium,

bes@Hosea:5:2 @ which they that hunt the prey have fixed: but I (note:)Gr. will be your corrector(:note) will correct you.

bes@Hosea:5:3 @ I know Ephraim, and Israel (note:)Lit. has not departed; Alex. apestin(:note) is not far from me: for now Ephraim has gone grievously a-whoring, Israel is defiled.

bes@Hosea:5:4 @ They have not framed their counsels to return to their God, for the spirit of fornication is in them, and they have not known the Lord.

bes@Hosea:5:5 @ And the pride of Israel shall be brought low before his face; and Israel and Ephraim shall (note:)Gr. be weak(:note) fall in their iniquities; and Judas also shall fall with them.

bes@Hosea:5:6 @ They shall go with sheep and calves diligently to seek the Lord; but they shall not find him, for he has withdrawn himself from them.

bes@Hosea:5:7 @ For they have forsaken the Lord; for strange children have been born to them: now shall the cankerworm devour them and their heritages.

bes@Hosea:5:9 @ Ephraim has come to (note:)Gr. vanishing(:note) nought in the days of reproof: in the tribes of Israel I have shown faithful dealings.

bes@Hosea:5:13 @ And Ephraim saw his disease, and Judas his pain; then Ephraim went to the Assyrians, and sent ambassadors to king Jarim: but he could not heal you, and your pain shall in nowise cease from you.

bes@Hosea:5:14 @ Wherefore I am as a panther to Ephraim, and as a lion to the house of Juda: and I will tear, and go away; and I will take, and there shall be none to deliver.

bes@Hosea:5:15 @ I will go and return to my place, until they are brought to nought, and then shall they seek my face.

bes@Hosea:6:3 @ After two days he will heal us: in the third day we shall arise, and live before him, and shall know him:

bes@Hosea:6:4 @ let us follow on to know the Lord: we shall find him ready as the morning, and he will come to us as the early and latter rain to the earth.

bes@Hosea:6:5 @ What shall I do unto thee, Ephraim? What shall I do to thee, Juda? whereas your (note:)Comp. Hebrews. and Da strkjv@9:16(:note) mercy is as a morning cloud, and as the early dew that goes away.

bes@Hosea:7:1 @ When I have healed Israel, then shall the iniquity of Ephraim be revealed, and the wickedness of Samaria; for they have wrought falsehood: and a thief shall come in to him, even a robber (note:)Lit. stripping(:note) spoiling in his way;

bes@Hosea:7:2 @ that they may concert together as men singing in their heart: I remember all their wickedness: now have their own counsels compassed them about; they came before my face.

bes@Hosea:7:4 @ They are all adulterers, as an oven glowing with flame for hot-baking, on account of the kneading of the (note:)Compl. zumhv, leaven(:note) dough, until it is leavened.

bes@Hosea:7:7 @ They are all heated like an oven, and have devoured their judges: all their kings are fallen; there was not among them one that called on me.

bes@Hosea:7:8 @ Ephraim is mixed among his people; Ephraim became a cake not turned.

bes@Hosea:7:9 @ Strangers devoured his strength, and he knew it not; and grey hairs came upon him, and he knew it not.

bes@Hosea:7:10 @ And the pride of Israel shall be brought down before his face: yet they have not returned to the Lord their God, neither have they diligently sought him for all this.

bes@Hosea:7:11 @ And Ephraim was as a silly dove, not having a heart: he called to Egypt, and they went to the Assyrians.

bes@Hosea:7:14 @ And their hearts did not cry to me, but they howled on their beds: they (note:)Gr. cut themselves(:note) pined for oil and wine.

bes@Hosea:7:16 @ They turned aside to (note:)Gr. nothing(:note) that which is not, they became as a bent bow: their princes shall fall by the sword, by reason of the unbridled state of their tongue: this is their setting at nought in the land of Egypt.

bes@Hosea:8:1 @ He shall come into their (note:)Gr. bosom(:note) midst as the land, as an eagle against the house of the Lord, because they have transgressed my covenant, and have sinned against my law.

bes@Hosea:8:2 @ They shall soon cry out to me, saying, O God, we know thee.

bes@Hosea:8:4 @ They have made kings for themselves, but not by me: they have ruled, but they did not make it known to me: of their silver and their gold they have made images to themselves, that they might be destroyed.

bes@Hosea:8:6 @ Whereas the workman made it, and it is not God; wherefore thy calf, Samaria, was a deceiver:

bes@Hosea:8:7 @ for they sowed blighted seed, and their destruction shall await them, a sheaf of corn that avails not to make meal; and even if it should produce it, strangers shall devour it.

bes@Hosea:8:8 @ Israel is swallowed up: now is he become among the nations as a worthless vessel.

bes@Hosea:8:9 @ For they have gone up to the Assyrians: Ephraim has (note:)Gr. flourished again(:note) been strengthened against himself; they loved gifts.

bes@Hosea:8:10 @ Therefore shall they be delivered to the nations: now I will receive them, and they shall cease a little to anoint a king and princes.

bes@Hosea:8:13 @ For if they should offer a sacrifice, and eat flesh, the lord will not accept them: now will he remember their iniquities, and will take vengeance on their sins: they have returned to Egypt, and they shall eat unclean things among the Assyrians.

bes@Hosea:8:14 @ And Israel has forgotten him that made him, and they have built (note:)Gr. consecrated grounds(:note) fanes, and Juda has multiplied walled cities: but I will send fire on his cities, and it shall devour their foundations.

bes@Hosea:9:1 @ Rejoice not, O Israel, neither make merry, as other nations: for thou hast gone a-whoring from thy God; thou hast loved gifts upon every threshing-floor.

bes@Hosea:9:2 @ The threshing-floor and wine-press knew them not, and the wine disappointed them.

bes@Hosea:9:3 @ They dwelt not in the Lord’s land: Ephraim dwelt in Egypt, and they shall eat unclean things among the Assyrians.

bes@Hosea:9:4 @ They have not offered wine to the Lord, neither have their sacrifices been sweet to him, but as the bread of mourning to them; all that eat them shall be defiled; for their bread for their soul shall not enter into the house of the Lord.

bes@Hosea:9:7 @ The days of vengeance are come, the days of thy recompense are come; and Israel shall be afflicted as the prophet that is mad, as a man (note:)Gr. carried by the wind(:note) deranged: by reason of the multitude of thine iniquities thy madness has abounded.

bes@Hosea:9:9 @ They (note:)Gr. pass(:note) have corrupted themselves according to the days of the hill: he will remember their iniquities, he will take vengeance on their sins.

bes@Hosea:9:10 @ I found Israel as grapes in the wilderness, and I saw their fathers as an early watchman in a fig-tree: they went in to Beel-phegor, and were (note:)Gr. estranged to shame(:note) shamefully estranged, and the Or, hated abominable became as the beloved.

bes@Hosea:9:15 @ All their wickedness is in Galgal: for there I hated them: because of the wickedness of their practices, I will cast them out of my house, I will not love them any more: all their princes are disobedient.

bes@Hosea:9:16 @ Ephraim is sick, he is dried up at his roots, he shall in no wise any more bear fruit: wherefore even if they should beget children, I will kill the desired fruit of their womb.

bes@Hosea:9:17 @ God shall reject them, because they have not hearkened to him: and they shall be wanderers among the nations.

bes@Hosea:10:2 @ They have divided their hearts; now shall they be utterly destroyed: he shall dig down their altars, their pillars shall mourn.

bes@Hosea:10:3 @ Because now they shall say, We have no king, because we feared not the Lord:

bes@Hosea:10:5 @ The inhabitants of Samaria shall dwell near the calf of the house of On; for the people of it mourned for it: and as they provoked him, they shall rejoice at his glory, because he has departed from (note:)Gr. him, or it, i. e., the people(:note) them.

bes@Hosea:10:6 @ And having bound it for the Assyrians, they carried it away as presents to king Jarim: Ephraim shall receive a gift, and Israel shall be ashamed (note:)Lit. in(:note) of his counsel.

bes@Hosea:10:10 @ to chastise them shall not overtake them on the hill, the nations shall be gathered against them, when they are chastened for their two sins,

bes@Hosea:10:12 @ Sow to yourselves for righteousness, gather in for the fruit of life: light ye for yourselves the light of knowledge; seek the Lord till the fruits of righteousness come upon you.

bes@Hosea:11:1 @ Early in the morning were they cast off, the king of Israel has been cast off: for Israel is a child, and I loved him, and (note:)Mt strkjv@2:15(:note) out of Egypt have I called his children.

bes@Hosea:11:3 @ Yet I (note:)See Pr strkjv@20:11(:note) bound the feet of Ephraim, I took him on my arm; but they knew not that I healed them.

bes@Hosea:11:4 @ When men were destroyed, I drew them with the bands of my love: and I will be to them as a man smiting another on his cheek: and I will have respect to him, I will prevail with him.

bes@Hosea:11:5 @ Ephraim dwelt in Egypt; and as for the Assyrian, he was his king, because he would not return.

bes@Hosea:11:6 @ And in his cities he (note:)Or, fell by the sword; Lit. was weak(:note) prevailed not with the sword, and he ceased to war with his hands: and they shall eat of the fruit of their own devices:

bes@Hosea:11:7 @ and his people shall cleave fondly to their habitation; but God shall be angry with his precious things, and shall not at all exalt him.

bes@Hosea:11:8 @ How shall I deal with thee, Ephraim? how shall I protect thee, Israel? what shall I do with thee? (note:)Or, shall I, etc.(:note) I will make thee as Adama, and as Seboim; my heart is turned Or, in the same person, sc. myself at once, my repentance is powerfully excited.

bes@Hosea:11:9 @ I will not act according to the fury of my wrath, I will not abandon Ephraim to be utterly destroyed: for I am God, and not man; the Holy One within thee: and I will not enter into the city.

bes@Hosea:11:12 @ Ephraim has compassed me with falsehood, and the house of Israel and Juda with ungodliness: but now God knows them, and they shall be called God’s holy people.

bes@Hosea:12:8 @ And Ephraim said, Nevertheless I am rich, I have found refreshment to myself. None of his labours shall be found available to him, by reason of the sins which he has committed.

bes@Hosea:12:14 @ Ephraim was angry and (note:)Gr. excited himself to anger(:note) excited, therefore his blood shall be poured out upon him, and the Lord shall recompense to him his reproach.

bes@Hosea:13:2 @ And now they have sinned increasingly, and have made for themselves a molten image of their silver, according to the fashion of idols, the work of artificers accomplished for them: they say, Sacrifice men, for the calves have come to an end.

bes@Hosea:13:3 @ Therefore shall they be as a morning cloud, and as the early dew that passes away, as chaff blown away from the threshing-floor, and as a (note:)Alex. smoke out of the chimney(:note) vapor from tears.

bes@Hosea:13:4 @ But I am the Lord thy God that establishes the heaven, and creates the earth, whose hands have framed the whole host of heaven: but I shewed them not to thee that thou shouldest go after them: and I brought thee up out of the land of Egypt, and thou shalt know no God but me; and there is no Saviour beside me.

bes@Hosea:13:8 @ I will meet them by the way of the Assyrians, as a she-bear (note:)Or, perplexed(:note) excited, and I will rend the caul of their heart, and the lions’ whelps of the thicket shall devour them there; the wild beasts of the field shall rend them in pieces.

bes@Hosea:13:12 @ Ephraim has framed a (note:)Or, bundle of iniquity(:note) conspiracy of unrighteousness, his sin is hidden.

bes@Hosea:13:13 @ Pains as of a woman in travail shall come upon him: he is thy wise son, because he shall not stay in the destruction of thy children.

bes@Hosea:13:14 @ I will deliver them out of the power of Hades, and will redeem them from death: where is thy (note:)Or, cause(:note) penalty, O death? 1 Co strkjv@15:55 O Hades, where is thy sting? comfort is hidden from mine eyes.

bes@Hosea:14:3 @ Take with you words, and turn to the Lord your God: speak to him, that ye may not receive the reward of unrighteousness, but that ye may receive good things: and we will render in return the fruit of our lips.

bes@Hosea:14:4 @ Assur shall never save us; we will not mount on horseback; we will no longer say to the works of our hands, Our gods. He who is in thee shall pity the orphan.

bes@Hosea:14:5 @ I will restore their dwellings, I will love them (note:)Gr. manifestly(:note) truly: for he has turned away my wrath from him.

bes@Hosea:14:10 @ Who is wise, and will understand these things? or prudent, and will know them? for the ways of the Lord are straight, and the righteous shall walk in them: but the ungodly shall fall therein.

bes@Joel:1:2 @ Hear these words, ye elders, and hearken all ye that inhabit the land. (note:)Gr. if(:note) Have such things happened in your days, or in the days of your fathers?

bes@Joel:1:3 @ Tell your children concerning them, and let your children tell their children, and their children another generation.

bes@Joel:1:4 @ The leavings of the (note:)It is difficult to assign the exact meaning in the Greek.(:note) caterpillar has the locust eaten, and the leavings of the locust has the palmerworm eaten, and the leavings of the palmerworm has the cankerworm eaten.

bes@Joel:1:5 @ Awake, ye drunkards, from (note:)Gr. their(:note) your wine, and weep: mourn, all ye that drink wine to drunkenness: for joy and gladness and are removed from your mouth.

bes@Joel:1:7 @ He has ruined my vine, and utterly broken my fig-trees: he has utterly searched my vine, and cast it down; he has (note:)Gr. whitened, Ge strkjv@30:37(:note) peeled its branches.

bes@Joel:1:8 @ Lament to me more than a virgin girded with sackcloth for the (note:)i. e. one who married her as a virgin(:note) husband of her youth.

bes@Joel:1:11 @ the husbandmen are consumed: mourn your property on account of the wheat and barley; for the (note:)Or, vintage(:note) harvest has perished from off the field.

bes@Joel:1:12 @ The vine is dried up, and the fig-trees are become few; the pomegranate, and palm-tree, and apple, and all trees of the field are dried up: for the sons of men have (note:)Gr. disfigured, or, disgraced(:note) have abolished joy.

bes@Joel:1:18 @ What shall we store up for ourselves? the herds of cattle have mourned, because they had no pasture; and the flocks of sheep have been utterly destroyed.

bes@Joel:1:20 @ And the cattle of the field have looked up to thee: for the (note:)Gr. issues; See 2 Ki strkjv@22:16, Eze strkjv@47:4(:note) fountains of waters have been dried up, and fire has devoured the fair places of the wilderness.

bes@Joel:2:2 @ for a day of darkness and gloominess is near, a day of cloud and mist: a numerous and strong people shall be spread upon the mountains as the morning; there has not been from the (note:)Gr. age(:note) beginning one like it, and after it there shall not be again even to the years of many generations.

bes@Joel:2:3 @ Before (note:)Gr. it, sc. the people(:note) them is a consuming fire, and behind them is a flame kindled: the land before them is as a paradise of delight, and behind them a desolate plain: and there shall none Lit. to him, sc. the people of them escape.

bes@Joel:2:6 @ Before them shall the people be crushed: every face shall be as the blackness of a (note:)Or, pot(:note) caldron.

bes@Joel:2:7 @ As warriors shall they run, and as men of war shall they mount on the walls; and each shall move in his right path, and they shall not turn aside from their tracks:

bes@Joel:2:8 @ and not one shall stand aloof from his brother: they shall go on weighed down with their arms, and they fall upon their weapons, yet shall they in no wise be destroyed.

bes@Joel:2:11 @ And the Lord shall utter his voice before his host: for his camp is very great: for the (note:)Gr. works(:note) execution of his words is mighty: for the day of the Lord is great, very glorious, and who shall be Gr. sufficient for it able to resist it?

bes@Joel:2:12 @ Now therefore, saith the Lord your God, turn to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with lamentation:

bes@Joel:2:13 @ and rend your hearts, and not your garments, and turn to the Lord your God: for he is merciful and compassionate, long-suffering, and plenteous in mercy, and repents of evils.

bes@Joel:2:14 @ Who knows if he will return, and repent, and leave a blessing behind him, even a meat-offering and a drink-offering to the Lord your God?

bes@Joel:2:15 @ Sound the trumpet in Sion, sanctify a fast, proclaim a (note:)See Joe strkjv@1:14(:note) solemn service:

bes@Joel:2:17 @ Between the (note:)Gr. base(:note) porch and the altar let the priests that minister to the Lord weep, and say, Spare thy people, O Lord, and give not thine heritage to reproach, that the heathen should rule over them, lest they should say among the heathen, Where is their God?

bes@Joel:2:19 @ And the Lord answered and said to his people, Behold, I will send you corn, and wine, and oil, and ye shall be satisfied with them: and I will no longer make you a reproach among the Gentiles.

bes@Joel:2:20 @ And I will chase away from you the northern adversary, and will drive him away into a dry land, and I will (note:)Gr. cause to disappear(:note) sink his face in the former sea, and his back parts in the latter sea, and his Gr. corruption ill savour shall come up, and his See Job strkjv@6:7 stink come up, because he has Gr. magnified his works wrought great things.

bes@Joel:2:23 @ Rejoice then and be glad, ye children of Sion, in the Lord your God: for he has given you food (note:)Gr. to exactness(:note) fully, and he will rain on you the early and the latter rain, as before.

bes@Joel:2:26 @ And ye shall eat abundantly, and be satisfied, and shall praise the name of the Lord your God for the things which he has wrought wonderfully with you: and my people shall not be ashamed for ever.

bes@Joel:2:27 @ And ye shall know that I am in the midst of Israel, and that I am the Lord your God, and that there is none else beside me; and my people shall no more be ashamed for ever.

bes@Joel:3:2 @ I will also gather all the (note:)Or, nations; See Mt strkjv@25:31(:note) Gentiles, and bring them down to the valley of Josaphat, and will plead with them there for my people and my heritage Israel, who have been dispersed among the Gentiles; and these Gentiles have divided my land,

bes@Joel:3:4 @ And what have ye to do with me, O Tyre, and Sidon, and all Galilee of the (note:)allofulwn, usually Philistines(:note) Gentiles? do ye render me a recompense? or do ye bear malice against me? quickly and speedily will I return your recompense on your own heads:

bes@Joel:3:9 @ Proclaim these things among the Gentiles; (note:)Gr. sanctify(:note) declare war, arouse the warriors, draw near and go up, all ye men of war.

bes@Joel:3:10 @ Beat your ploughshares into swords, and your sickles into (note:)Or, daggers(:note) spears: let the weak say, I am strong.

bes@Joel:3:11 @ Gather yourselves together, and go in, all ye nations round about, and gather yourselves there; let the (note:)Gr. meek(:note) timid become a warrior.

bes@Joel:3:14 @ Noises have resounded in the valley of judgement: for the day of the Lord is near in the valley of judgement.

bes@Joel:3:17 @ And ye shall know that I am the Lord your God, who dwell in Sion my holy mountain: and Jerusalem shall be holy, and strangers shall not pass through her anymore.

bes@Joel:3:18 @ And it shall come to pass in that day that the mountains shall drop sweet wine, and the hills shall flow with milk, and all the (note:)See Joe strkjv@1:20(:note) fountains of Juda shall flow with water, and a fountain shall go forth of the house of the Lord, and water the valley of flags.

bes@Joel:3:21 @ And I will make inquisition for their blood, and will by no means leave it unavenged: and the Lord shall dwell in Sion.

bes@Amos:1:3 @ And the Lord said, For three sins of Damascus, and for four, I will not turn away from it; because they sawed with iron saws the women with child of the Galaadites.

bes@Amos:1:5 @ And I will break to pieces the bars of Damascus, and will destroy the inhabitants out of the plain of On, and will cut in pieces (note:)jbv ambiguous(:note) a tribe out of the men of Charrhan: and the famous people of Syria shall be led captive, saith the Lord.

bes@Amos:1:6 @ Thus saith the Lord; For three sins of Gaza, and for four, I will not turn away from them; because they took prisoners the captivity of Solomon, to shut them up into Idumea.

bes@Amos:1:8 @ And I will destroy the inhabitants out of Azotus, and (note:)jbv ambiguous(:note) a tribe shall be cut off from Ascalon, and I will stretch out my hand upon Accaron: and the remnant of the Philistines shall perish, saith the Lord.

bes@Amos:1:9 @ Thus saith the Lord; For three transgressions of Tyre, and for four, I will not turn away from it; because they shut up the prisoners of Solomon into Idumea, and remembered not the covenant of brethren.

bes@Amos:1:11 @ Thus saith the Lord; For three sins of Idumea, and for four, I will not turn away from them; because they pursued (note:)Gr. his(:note) their brother with the sword, and destroyed Hebrews. Mxr Alex. mhtran the mother upon the earth, and Heb. his anger tore for ever summoned up his anger for a Heb. de ambiguous; see Pr strkjv@29:14 testimony, and kept up his fury to the end.

bes@Amos:1:13 @ Thus saith the Lord; For three sins of the children of Ammon, and for four, I will not turn away from him; because they ripped up the women with child of the Galaadites, that they might widen their coasts.

bes@Amos:2:1 @ Thus saith the Lord; For three sins of Moab, and for four, I will not turn away from it; because they burnt the bones of the king of Idumea to lime.

bes@Amos:2:4 @ Thus saith the Lord; For three sins of the children of Juda, and for four, I will not turn away from him; because they have rejected the law of the Lord, and have not kept his ordinances, and their vain idols which they made, which their fathers followed, caused them to err.

bes@Amos:2:6 @ Thus saith the Lord; for three sins of Israel, and for four, I will not turn away from him; because they sold the righteous for silver, and the poor for sandals,

bes@Amos:2:8 @ And binding their clothes with cords they have made them curtains near the altar, and they have drunk (note:)Gr. wine of false accusations(:note) wine gained by extortion in the house of their God.

bes@Amos:2:11 @ And I took of your sons for prophets, and of your young men for consecration. Are not these things so, ye sons of Israel? saith the Lord.

bes@Amos:2:12 @ But ye gave the consecrated ones wine to drink; and ye commanded the prophets, saying, Prophesy not.

bes@Amos:2:14 @ And flight shall perish from the runner, and the strong shall not hold fast his strength, and the warrior shall not save his life:

bes@Amos:2:15 @ and the archer shall not withstand, and he that is swift of foot shall in no wise escape; and the horseman shall not save his life.

bes@Amos:2:16 @ And the strong shall find no confidence in power: the naked shall flee away in that day, saith the Lord.

bes@Amos:3:2 @ You especially have I known out of all the families of the earth: therefore will I take vengeance upon you for all your sins.

bes@Amos:3:3 @ Shall two walk together at all, if they do not know (note:)Gr. themselves(:note) one another?

bes@Amos:3:4 @ Will a lion roar out of his thicket if he has no prey? will a lion’s whelp utter his voice at all out of his lair, if he have taken nothing?

bes@Amos:3:6 @ Shall the trumpet sound in the city, and the people not be alarmed? shall there be evil in a city which the Lord has not wrought?

bes@Amos:3:7 @ For the Lord God will do nothing, without revealing instruction to his servants the prophets.

bes@Amos:3:8 @ A lion shall roar, and who will not be alarmed? the Lord God has spoken, and who will not prophesy?

bes@Amos:3:10 @ And she knew not what things (note:)Gr. shall be before her(:note) would come against her, saith the Lord, even those that store up wrong and misery in their countries.

bes@Amos:3:15 @ I will (note:)Or, confound(:note) crush and smite the turreted-house upon the summer-house; and the ivory-houses shall be destroyed, and many other houses also, saith the Lord.

bes@Amos:4:2 @ The Lord swears by his (note:)Or, holy things(:note) holiness, that, behold, the days come upon you, when they shall take you with weapons, and fiery destroyers shall cast those with you into boiling caldrons.

bes@Amos:4:6 @ And I will give you (note:)q. d. idleness of teeth(:note) dulness of teeth in all your cities, and want of bread in all your places: yet ye returned not to me, saith the Lord.

bes@Amos:4:7 @ Also I withheld from you the rain three months before the harvest: and I will rain upon one city, and on another city I will not rain: one part shall be rained upon, and the part on which I shall not rain shall be dried up.

bes@Amos:4:8 @ And the inhabitants of two or three cities shall be gathered to one city to drink water, and they shall not be satisfied: yet ye have not returned to me, saith the Lord.

bes@Amos:4:9 @ I smote you with parching, and with blight: ye multiplied your gardens, your vineyards, and your fig-grounds, and the cankerworm devoured your olive-yards: yet not even thus did ye return to me, saith the Lord.

bes@Amos:4:10 @ I sent pestilence among you by the way of Egypt, and slew your young men with the sword, together with thy horses that were taken captive; and in (note:)Lit. in the wrath of you(:note) my wrath against you I set fire to your camps: yet not even thus did ye return to me, saith the Lord.

bes@Amos:4:11 @ I overthrew you, as God overthrew Sodoma and Gomorrha, and ye became as a brand plucked out of the fire: yet not even thus did ye return to me, saith the Lord.

bes@Amos:4:13 @ For, behold, I am he that strengthens the thunder, and creates the wind, and proclaims to men his Christ, forming the morning and the (note:)Gr. vapour(:note) darkness, and mounting on the high places of the earth, The Lord God Almighty is his name.

bes@Amos:5:1 @ Hear ye this word of the Lord, even a lamentation, which I take up against you. The house of Israel is fallen; it shall no more rise.

bes@Amos:5:2 @ The virgin of Israel has fallen upon his land; there is none that shall raise her up.

bes@Amos:5:5 @ But seek not Bethel, and go not into Galgala, and cross not over to the Well of the Oath: for Galgala shall surely go into captivity, and Bethel shall be as that which is not.

bes@Amos:5:6 @ Seek ye the Lord, and ye shall live; lest the house of Joseph blaze as fire, and it devour him, and there shall be none to quench it for the house of Israel.

bes@Amos:5:11 @ Therefore because they have smitten the poor with their fists, and ye have received of them choice gifts; ye have built polished houses, but ye shall not dwell in them; ye have planted desirable vineyards, but ye shall not drink the wine of them.

bes@Amos:5:12 @ For I know your many transgressions, and your sins are great, trampling on the just, taking bribes, and turning aside the judgement of the poor in the gates.

bes@Amos:5:13 @ Therefore the prudent shall be silent at that time; for it is a time (note:)Or, of wicked men(:note) of evils.

bes@Amos:5:14 @ Seek good, and not evil, that ye may live: and so the Lord God Almighty shall be with you, as ye have said,

bes@Amos:5:18 @ Woe to you that desire the day of the Lord! (note:)Lit. wherefore is this day, etc.(:note) what is this day of the Lord to you? whereas it is darkness, and not light.

bes@Amos:5:20 @ Is not the day of the Lord darkness, and not light? and is not this day gloom (note:)Gr. not having light(:note) without brightness?

bes@Amos:5:21 @ I hate, I reject your feasts, and I will not smell your meat-offerings in your general assemblies.

bes@Amos:5:22 @ Wherefore if ye should bring me your whole-burnt-sacrifices and meat-offerings, I will not accept them: neither will I have respect to your (note:)See Heb(:note) grand peace-offerings.

bes@Amos:5:23 @ Remove from me the sound of thy songs, and I will not hear the music of thine instruments.

bes@Amos:5:24 @ But let judgement (note:)Gr. fut(:note) roll down as water, and righteousness as an impassable torrent.

bes@Amos:6:1 @ Woe to them that set at nought Sion, and that trust in the mountain of Samaria: they have gathered the harvest of the heads of the nations, and they have gone in themselves.

bes@Amos:6:5 @ who (note:)Alex. epikrotountev, «applauding’(:note) excel in the sound of musical instruments; they have regarded them as abiding, not as fleeting pleasures;

bes@Amos:6:6 @ who drink strained wine, and anoint themselves with the best ointment; and have suffered nothing on occasion of the calamity of Joseph.

bes@Amos:6:7 @ Therefore now shall they depart into captivity from the dominion of princes, and the neighing of horses shall be cut off from Ephraim.

bes@Amos:6:10 @ But (note:)Gr. the remaining ones(:note) a remnant shall be left behind, and their relations shall take them, and shall strenuously endeavor to carry forth their bones from the house: and one shall say to the heads of the house, Is there yet any one else with thee?

bes@Amos:6:11 @ And he shall say, No one else. And the other shall say, Be silent, that thou name not the name of the Lord.

bes@Amos:6:14 @ ye who rejoice at (note:)Lit. no word(:note) vanity, who say, Have we not possessed horns by our own strength?

bes@Amos:6:15 @ For behold, O house of Israel, I will raise up against you a nation, saith the Lord of hosts; and they shall afflict you so that ye shall not enter into Æmath, and as it were from the river of the (note:)Gr. sunsets(:note) wilderness.

bes@Amos:7:2 @ And it (note:)Gr. fut(:note) came to pass when he had finished devouring the grass of the land, that I said, Lord God, be merciful; who shall raise up Jacob? for he is small in number.

bes@Amos:7:3 @ Repent, O Lord, for this. And this shall not be, saith the Lord.

bes@Amos:7:6 @ This also shall not be, saith the Lord.

bes@Amos:7:8 @ And the Lord said to me, What seest thou, Amos? And I said, An adamant. And the Lord said to me, Behold, I appoint an adamant in the midst of my people Israel: I will not pass by them any more.

bes@Amos:7:9 @ And the (note:)Gr. altars of laughter(:note) joyful altars shall be abolished, and the sacrifices of Israel shall be Gr. made desolate set aside; and I will rise up against the house of Jeroboam with the sword.

bes@Amos:7:13 @ but thou shalt no longer prophesy at Bethel: for it is the king’s sanctuary, and it is the royal house.

bes@Amos:7:14 @ And Amos answered, and said to Amasias, I was not a prophet, nor the son of a prophet; but I was a herdman, and a gatherer of sycamore fruits.

bes@Amos:7:16 @ And now hear the word of the Lord: Thou sayest, Prophesy not to Israel, and raise not a tumult against the house of Jacob.

bes@Amos:8:2 @ And he said, What seest thou, Amos? And I said, A fowler’s basket. And the Lord said to me, The end is come upon my people Israel; I will not pass by them any more.

bes@Amos:8:4 @ Hear now this, ye that (note:)Gr. wear away(:note) oppress the poor in the morning, and drive the needy ones by tyranny from the earth,

bes@Amos:8:5 @ saying, When will the month pass away, (note:)Or, that we may, etc.(:note) and we shall sell, and the sabbath, and we shall open the treasure, to make the measure small, and to enlarge the weight, and make the balance unfair?

bes@Amos:8:7 @ The Lord swears against the pride of Jacob, None of your works shall ever be forgotten.

bes@Amos:8:8 @ And shall not the land be troubled for these things, and shall not every one who dwells in it mourn? whereas destruction shall come up as a river, and shall descend as the river of Egypt.

bes@Amos:8:9 @ And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord God, that the sun shall go down at noon, and the light shall be darkened on the earth by day:

bes@Amos:8:10 @ and I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will bring up sackcloth on all loins, and baldness on every head; and I will make (note:)Gr. him, or it(:note) them as the mourning of a beloved friend, and those with them as a day of grief.

bes@Amos:8:11 @ Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will send forth a famine on the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but a famine of hearing the word of the Lord.

bes@Amos:8:12 @ And the waters shall be troubled from sea to sea, and from the north to the east shall men run hither and thither, seeking the word of the Lord, and they shall not find it.

bes@Amos:8:14 @ they who swear by the propitiation of Samaria, and who say, Thy god, O Dan, lives; and, Thy god, O Bersabee, lives; and they shall fall, and shall no more rise again.

bes@Amos:9:1 @ I saw the Lord standing on the altar: and he said, Smite the (note:)Alex. altar(:note) mercy-seat, and the Gr. plural porch shall be shaken: and cut through into the heads of all; and I will slay the remnant of them with the sword: no one of them fleeing shall escape, and no one of them, striving to save himself shall be delivered.

bes@Amos:9:3 @ If they hide themselves in the top of Carmel, thence will I search them out and take them; and if they should go down from my (note:)Or, eyes(:note) presence into the depths of the sea, there will I command the serpent, and he shall bite them.

bes@Amos:9:4 @ And if they should go into captivity before the face of their enemies, there will I command the sword, and it shall slay them: and I will set mine eyes against them for evil, and not for good.

bes@Amos:9:7 @ Are not ye to me as the sons of the Ethiopians, O children of Israel? saith the Lord. Did I not bring Israel up out of the land of Egypt, and the Philistines from Cappadocia, and the Syrians out of the (note:)Gr. ditch(:note) deep?

bes@Amos:9:8 @ Behold, the eyes of the Lord God are upon the kingdom of sinners, and I will cut it off from the face of the earth; only I will not utterly cut off the house of Jacob, saith the Lord.

bes@Amos:9:9 @ For I will give commandment, and sift the house of Israel among all the Gentiles, as corn is sifted in a sieve, and yet (note:)Or, particle(:note) a fragment shall not in any wise fall upon the earth.

bes@Amos:9:10 @ All the sinners of my people shall die by the sword, who say, Calamities shall certainly not draw near, nor come upon us.

bes@Amos:9:15 @ And I will plant them on their land, and they shall no more be plucked up from the land which I have given them, saith the Lord God Almighty.

bes@Obadiah:1:3 @ Behold, I have made thee small among the Gentiles: thou art greatly dishonoured. The pride of thine heart has elated thee, dwelling as thou dost in the holes of the rocks, as one that exalts his habitation, saying in his heart, Who will bring me down to the ground?

bes@Obadiah:1:5 @ If thieves came in to thee, or robbers by night, where wouldest thou have been cast away? would they not have stolen just enough for themselves? and if grape-gatherers went in to thee, would they not leave a gleaning?

bes@Obadiah:1:7 @ They sent thee to thy coasts: all the men of thy covenant have withstood thee; thine allies have prevailed against thee, they have set snares under thee: they have no understanding.

bes@Obadiah:1:12 @ And (note:)Or, look not thou, etc.(:note) thou shouldest not have looked on the day of thy brother in the day of strangers; nor shouldest thou have rejoiced against the children of Juda in the day of their destruction; neither shouldest thou have boasted in the day of their affliction.

bes@Obadiah:1:13 @ Neither shouldest thou have gone into the gates of the people in the day of their troubles; nor yet shouldest thou have looked upon their gathering in the day of their destruction, nor shouldest thou have attacked their host in the day of their perishing.

bes@Obadiah:1:16 @ For as thou hast drunk upon my holy mountain, so shall all the nations drink wine; they shall drink, and go down, and be as if they were not.

bes@Obadiah:1:18 @ And the house of Jacob shall be fire, and the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau shall be for stubble; and Israel shall flame forth against them, and shall devour them, and there shall not be a corn-field left to the house of Esau; because the Lord has spoken.

bes@Obadiah:1:19 @ And they that dwell in the (note:)The Gr. is the Hebrew word(:note) south shall inherit the mount of Esau, and they in the plain the Philistines: and they shall inherit the mount of Ephraim, and the plain of Samaria, and Benjamin, and the land of Galaad.

bes@Jonah:1:1 @ Now the word of the Lord came to Jonas the son of Amathi, saying,

bes@Jonah:1:5 @ And the sailors were alarmed, and cried every one to his god, and cast out the wares that were in the ship into the sea, that it might be lightened of them. But Jonas was gone down into the (note:)Lit. hollow(:note) hold of the ship, and was asleep, and snored.

bes@Jonah:1:6 @ And the shipmaster came to him, and said to him, Why snorest thou? arise, and call upon thy God, that God may save us, and we perish not.

bes@Jonah:1:8 @ And they said to him, Tell us (note:)Alex. +’for whose cause this evil is upon us’(:note) what is thine occupation, and whence comest thou, and of what country and what people art thou?

bes@Jonah:1:11 @ And they said to him, What shall we do to thee, that the sea may be calm to us? for the sea (note:)Gr. went(:note) rose, and lifted its wave exceedingly.

bes@Jonah:1:12 @ And Jonas said to them, Take me up, and cast me into the sea, and the sea shall be calm to you: for I know that for my sake this great tempest is upon you.

bes@Jonah:1:13 @ And the men tried hard to return to the land, and were not able: for the sea (note:)Lit. went and rose up more(:note) rose and grew more and more tempestuous against them.

bes@Jonah:1:14 @ And they cried to the Lord, and said, (note:)Gr. by no means; See Ac strkjv@10:14(:note) Forbid it, Lord: let us not perish for the sake of this man’s life, and bring not righteous blood upon us: for thou, Lord, hast done as thou wouldest.

bes@Jonah:2:1 @ Now the Lord had commanded a great whale to swallow up Jonas: and Jonas was in the belly of the whale three days and three nights.

bes@Jonah:2:6 @ Water was poured around me to the soul: the (note:)Gr. last(:note) lowest deep compassed me, my head went down

bes@Jonah:2:8 @ When my soul was failing (note:)Gr. from me(:note) me, I remembered the Lord; and may my prayer come to thee into thy holy temple.

bes@Jonah:2:9 @ They that observe (note:)Gr. vain and false things(:note) vanities and lies have forsaken their own mercy.

bes@Jonah:2:10 @ But I will sacrifice to thee with the voice of praise and thanksgiving: all that I have vowed I will pay to thee, (note:)Or, for a thank-offering to the Lord(:note) the Lord of my salvation.

bes@Jonah:3:3 @ And Jonas arose, and went to Nineve, as the Lord had spoken. Now Nineve was (note:)Lit. a great city to God; Ac strkjv@7:20(:note) an exceeding great city, of about three days’ journey.

bes@Jonah:3:7 @ And proclamation was made, and it was commanded in Nineve by the king and by his great men, saying, Let not men, or cattle, or oxen, or sheep, taste any thing, nor feed, nor drink water.

bes@Jonah:3:9 @ Who knows if God will repent, and turn from his fierce anger, and so we shall not perish?

bes@Jonah:3:10 @ And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil ways; and God repented of the evil which he had said he would do to them; and he did it not.

bes@Jonah:4:2 @ And he prayed to the Lord, and said, O Lord, were not these my words when I was yet in my land? therefore I (note:)Gr. anticipated(:note) made haste to flee to Tharsis; because I knew that thou are merciful and compassionate, long-suffering, and abundant in kindness, and repentest of evil.

bes@Jonah:4:3 @ And now, (note:)Or, sovereign Lord(:note) Lord God, take my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live.

bes@Jonah:4:10 @ And the Lord said, Thou hadst pity on the gourd, for which thou has not suffered, neither didst thou rear it; which came up (note:)Or, little before(:note) before night, and perished before another night:

bes@Jonah:4:11 @ and shall not I spare Nineve, the great city, in which dwell more than twelve myriads of human beings, who do not know their right hand or their left hand; and also much cattle?

bes@Micah:1:2 @ Hear these words, ye (note:)Gr. plural(:note) people; and let the earth give heed, and all that are in it: and the Lord God shall be among you for a testimony, the Lord out of his holy habitation.

bes@Micah:1:5 @ All these calamities are for the transgression of Jacob, and for the sin of the house of Israel. What is the transgression of Jacob? is it not Samaria? and what is the sin of the house of Juda? is it not Jerusalem?

bes@Micah:1:6 @ Therefore I will make Samaria as a store-house of the fruits of the field, and as a planting of a vineyard: and I will (note:)Lit. tear down to confusion(:note) utterly demolish her stones, and I will expose her foundations.

bes@Micah:1:7 @ And they shall cut in pieces all the graven images, and (note:)Or, all her hires(:note) all that she has hired they shall burn with fire, and I will utterly destroy all her idols: because she has gathered of the hires of fornication, and of the hires of fornication has she amassed wealth.

bes@Micah:1:10 @ Ye that are in Geth, exalt not yourselves, and ye Enakim, do not rebuild from the ruins of the house in derision: sprinkle dust in the place of your laughter.

bes@Micah:1:11 @ The inhabitant of Sennaar, fairly inhabiting her cities, came not forth to mourn for the house next to her: she shall receive of you the stroke of grief.

bes@Micah:1:16 @ Shave thine hair, and (note:)Gr. shear thyself(:note) make thyself bald for thy delicate children; increase thy widowhood as an eagle; for thy people are gone into captivity from thee.

bes@Micah:2:1 @ They meditated troubles, and wrought (note:)Gr. plural(:note) wickedness on their beds, and they put it in execution with the daylight; for they have not lifted up their hands to God.

bes@Micah:2:3 @ Therefore thus saith the Lord; Behold, I devise evils against this family, out of which ye shall not lift up your necks, neither shall ye walk upright (note:)Gr. suddenly(:note) speedily: for the time is evil.

bes@Micah:2:4 @ In that day shall a parable be taken up against you, and a (note:)Or, metrical, or, with a song(:note) plaintive lamentation shall be uttered, saying, We are thoroughly miserable: the portion of my people has been measured out with a line, and there was none to hinder him so as to turn him back; your fields have been divided.

bes@Micah:2:5 @ Therefore thou shalt have no one to cast a line for the lot.

bes@Micah:2:6 @ Weep not with tears in the assembly of the Lord, neither let any weep for these things; for he shall not remove the reproaches,

bes@Micah:2:7 @ who says, The house of Jacob has provoked the Spirit of the Lord; are not these his practices? Are not (note:)Gr. his words(:note) the Lord’s words right with him? and have they not proceeded correctly?

bes@Micah:2:8 @ Even beforetime my people withstood him (note:)Gr. for enmity(:note) as an enemy against his peace; they have stripped off his skin to remove hope in the conflict of war.

bes@Micah:2:10 @ Arise thou, and depart; for this is not thy rest because of uncleanness: ye have been utterly destroyed;

bes@Micah:2:11 @ ye have fled, no one pursuing you: thy spirit has framed falsehood, it has dropped on thee for wine and strong drink. But it shall come to pass, that out of the dropping of this people,

bes@Micah:2:12 @ Jacob shall be completely gathered with all his people: I will surely (note:)Or, wait for(:note) receive the remnant of Israel; I will cause them to return together, as sheep in trouble, as a flock in the midst of their fold: they shall rush forth from among men through the breach made before them:

bes@Micah:3:1 @ And he shall say, Hear now these words, ye heads of the house of Jacob, and ye remnant of the house of Israel; is it not for you to know judgement?

bes@Micah:3:3 @ even as they devoured the flesh of my people, and stripped their skins off them, and broke their bones, and divided them as flesh for the caldron, and as meat for the (note:)Or, tub(:note) pot,

bes@Micah:3:4 @ thus they shall cry to the Lord, but he shall not hearken to them; and he shall turn away his face from them at that time, because they have done wickedly in their practices against themselves.

bes@Micah:3:5 @ Thus saith the Lord concerning the prophets that lead my people astray, that bit with their teeth, and proclaim peace to them; and when nothing was put into their mouth, they raised up war against them:

bes@Micah:3:6 @ therefore there shall be night to you (note:)Gr. out of(:note) instead of a vision, and there shall be to you darkness instead of prophecy; and the sun shall go down upon the prophets, and the day shall be dark upon them.

bes@Micah:3:7 @ And the seers of night-visions shall be ashamed, and the prophets shall be laughed to scorn: and all (note:)Gr. they(:note) the people shall speak against them, because there shall be none to hearken to them.

bes@Micah:3:9 @ Hear now these words, ye chiefs of the house of Jacob, and the remnant of the house of Israel, who hate judgement, and pervert all righteousness;

bes@Micah:3:11 @ The heads thereof have judged for gifts, and the priests thereof have answered for hire, and her prophets have divined for silver: and yet they have rested on the Lord, saying, Is not the Lord among us? no evil shall come upon us.

bes@Micah:4:1 @ And at the last days the mountain of the Lord shall be manifest, (note:)Lit. ready, Hebraism(:note) established on the tops of the mountains, and it shall be exalted above the hills; and the peoples shall hasten to it.

bes@Micah:4:3 @ And he shall judge among many peoples, and shall rebuke strong nations (note:)Gr. even to a distance(:note) afar off; and they shall beat their swords into ploughshares, and their spears into sickles; and nation shall no more lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn to war any more.

bes@Micah:4:4 @ And every one shall rest under his vine, and every one under his fig-tree; and there shall be none to alarm them: for the mouth of the Lord Almighty has spoken these words.

bes@Micah:4:5 @ For all other nations shall walk everyone in his own way, but we will walk in the name of the Lord our God (note:)Gr. for the age and beyond(:note) for ever and ever.

bes@Micah:4:8 @ And thou, (note:)Or, gloomy, or, foul(:note) dark tower of the flock, daughter of Sion, on thee the dominion shall come and enter in, even the first kingdom from Babylon to the daughter of Jerusalem.

bes@Micah:4:9 @ And now, why hast thou known calamities? was there not a king to thee? or has thy counsel perished that pangs as of a woman in travail have seized upon thee?

bes@Micah:4:10 @ Be in pain, and strengthen thyself, and (note:)sc. the time, but Alex.—’draw near’(:note) draw near, O daughter of Sion, as a woman in travail: for now thou shalt go forth out of the city, and shalt lodge in the plain, and shalt reach even to Babylon: thence shall the Lord thy God deliver thee, and thence shall he redeem thee out of the hand of thine enemies.

bes@Micah:4:11 @ And now have many nations gathered against thee, saying, We will rejoice, and our eyes shall look upon Sion.

bes@Micah:4:12 @ But they know not the thought of the Lord, and have not understood his counsel: for he has gathered them as sheaves of the floor.

bes@Micah:4:13 @ Arise, and thresh them, O daughter of Sion: for I will make thine horns iron, and I will make thine hoofs brass: and thou shalt utterly destroy many nations, and shalt consecrate (note:)Or, the multitude of them(:note) their abundance to the Lord, and their strength to the Lord of all the earth.

bes@Micah:5:1 @ Now shall the daughter of Sion be completely hedged in: he has laid siege against us: they shall smite the (note:)See Heb(:note) tribes of Israel with a rod upon the cheek.

bes@Micah:5:4 @ And the Lord shall stand, and see, and feed his flock with power, and they shall dwell in the glory of the name of the Lord their God: for now shall they be magnified to the ends of the earth.

bes@Micah:5:7 @ And the remnant of Jacob shall be among the Gentiles in the midst of many peoples, as dew falling from the Lord, and as lambs on the grass; that none may assemble nor resist among the sons of men.

bes@Micah:5:8 @ And the remnant of Jacob shall be among the Gentiles in the midst of many nations, as a lion in the forest among cattle, and as a lion’s whelp among the flocks of sheep, even as when he goes through, and selects, and carries off his prey, and there is none to deliver.

bes@Micah:5:12 @ and I will utterly destroy thy sorceries out of thine hands; and there shall be no soothsayers in thee.

bes@Micah:5:15 @ and I will execute vengeance on the heathen in anger and wrath, because they hearkened not.

bes@Micah:6:1 @ Hear now a word: the Lord God has said; Arise, plead with the mountains, and let the hills hear thy voice.

bes@Micah:6:5 @ O my people, remember now, what counsel Balac king of Moab took against thee, and what Balaam the son of Beor answered him, from the reeds to Galgal; that the righteousness of the Lord might be known.

bes@Micah:6:8 @ Has it not been told thee, O man, what is good? or what does the Lord require of thee, but to do justice, and love mercy, and be ready to walk with the Lord thy God?

bes@Micah:6:9 @ The Lord’s voice shall be proclaimed in the city, and he shall save those that fear his name: hear, (note:)Hebrews. Jbv ambiguous(:note) O tribe; and who shall order the city?

bes@Micah:6:10 @ Is there not fire, and the house of the wicked heaping up wicked treasures, and that with the pride of unrighteousness?

bes@Micah:6:12 @ whereby they have accumulated their ungodly wealth, and they that dwell in (note:)Gr. it(:note) the city have uttered falsehoods, and their tongue has been exalted in their mouth?

bes@Micah:6:14 @ Thou shalt eat, and shalt not be satisfied; and there shall be darkness upon thee; and he shall depart from thee, and thou shalt not escape; and all that shall escape shall be delivered over to the sword.

bes@Micah:6:15 @ Thou shalt sow, but thou shalt not reap; thou shalt press the olive, but thou shalt not anoint thyself with oil; and shalt make wine, but ye shall drink no wine: and the ordinances of my people shall be utterly abolished.

bes@Micah:7:1 @ Alas for me! for I am become as one gathering straw in harvest, and as one gathering grape-gleanings in the vintage, when there is no cluster for me to eat the first-ripe fruit: alas my soul!

bes@Micah:7:2 @ For the godly is perished from the earth; and there is none among men that orders his way aright: they all quarrel even to blood: they grievously afflict every one his neighbour:

bes@Micah:7:4 @ therefore I will take away their goods as a devouring moth, and as one who (note:)Gr. goes upon, etc.(:note) acts by a rigid rule in a day of Lit. watching visitation. Woe, woe, thy times of vengeance are come; now shall be their lamentations.

bes@Micah:7:5 @ Trust not in friends, and confide not in guides: beware of thy wife, so as not to commit anything to her.

bes@Micah:7:6 @ For the son dishonours his father, the daughter will rise up against her mother, the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law: those in his house shall be all a man’s enemies.

bes@Micah:7:8 @ Rejoice not against me, mine enemy; for I have fallen yet shall arise; for though I should sit in darkness, the Lord shall be a light to me.

bes@Micah:7:9 @ I will bear the indignation of the Lord, because I have sinned against him, until he make good my cause: he also shall (note:)Or, execute my judgement(:note) maintain my right, and shall bring me out to the light, and I shall behold his righteousness.

bes@Micah:7:10 @ And she that is mine enemy shall see it, and shall clothe herself with shame, who says, Where is the Lord thy God? mine eyes shall look upon her: now shall she be for trampling as mire in the ways.

bes@Micah:7:11 @ It is the day of (note:)Or, plastering, or anointing(:note) making of brick; that day shall be thine utter destruction, and that day shall utterly abolish thine ordinances.

bes@Micah:7:17 @ They shall lick the dust as serpents crawling on the earth, they shall be confounded in their (note:)Gr. confinement(:note) holes; they shall be amazed at the Lord our God, and will be afraid of thee.

bes@Micah:7:18 @ Who is a God like thee, cancelling iniquities, and passing over the sins of the remnant of his inheritance? and he has not kept his anger for a testimony, for he delights in mercy.

bes@Nahum:1:3 @ The Lord is long-suffering, and his power is great, and the Lord will not hold any guiltless: his way is in destruction and in the whirlwind, and the clouds are the dust of his feet.

bes@Nahum:1:4 @ He threatens the sea, and dries it up, and exhausts all the rivers: the land of Basan, and Carmel are brought low, and the flourishing trees of Libanus have come to nought.

bes@Nahum:1:5 @ The mountains quake (note:)Gr. by him(:note) at him, and the hills are shaken, and the earth recoils at his presence, even the world, and all that dwell in it.

bes@Nahum:1:6 @ Who shall stand before his anger? and who shall withstand in the anger of his wrath? his wrath brings to nought kingdoms, and the rocks are burst asunder by him.

bes@Nahum:1:7 @ The Lord is good to them that wait on him in the day of affliction; and he knows them that reverence him.

bes@Nahum:1:9 @ What do ye devise against the Lord? he will make a complete end: he will not take vengeance by affliction twice at the same time.

bes@Nahum:1:12 @ Thus saith the Lord who rules over many waters, Even thus shall they be sent away, and the report of thee shall not be heard any more.

bes@Nahum:1:13 @ And now will I break his rod from off thee, and will burst thy bonds.

bes@Nahum:1:14 @ And the Lord shall give a command concerning thee; there shall no more of thy name be scattered: I will utterly destroy the graven images out of the house of thy god, and the molten images: I will make thy grave; for they are swift.

bes@Nahum:1:15 @ Behold upon the mountains the feet of him that brings glad tidings, and publishes peace! O Juda, keep thy feasts, pay thy vows: for they shall no more pass through thee to (note:)Compare Heb(:note) thy decay.

bes@Nahum:2:5 @ And their mighty men shall (note:)Or, be remembered(:note) bethink themselves and flee by day; and they shall be weak as they go; and they shall hasten to her walls, and shall prepare their Or, watches defences.

bes@Nahum:2:8 @ And as for Nineve, her waters shall be as a pool of water: and they fled, and staid not, and there was none to look back.

bes@Nahum:2:9 @ They plundered the silver, they plundered the gold, and there was no end of their adorning; they were loaded with it upon all their pleasant vessels.

bes@Nahum:2:11 @ Where is the dwelling-place of the lions, and the pasture that belonged to the whelps? where did the lion go, that the lion’s whelp should enter in there, and there was none to scare him away?

bes@Nahum:2:12 @ The lion seized enough prey for his whelps, and strangled for his young lions, and filled his lair with prey, and his dwelling-place with spoil.

bes@Nahum:2:13 @ Behold, I am against thee, saith the Lord Almighty, and I will burn up thy multitude in the smoke, and the sword shall devour thy lions; and I will utterly destroy thy prey from off the land, and thy deeds shall no more at all be heard of.

bes@Nahum:3:1 @ O city of blood, wholly false, full of unrighteousness; the prey shall not be (note:)Or, felt after; See Ac strkjv@17:27(:note) handled.

bes@Nahum:3:2 @ The noise of whips, and the noise of the rumbling of wheels, and of the pursuing horse, and of the bounding chariot,

bes@Nahum:3:3 @ and of the (note:)Or, rider on horseback(:note) mounting rider, and of the glittering sword, and of the gleaming arms, and of a multitude of slain, and of heavy falling: and there was no end to her nations, but they shall be weak in their bodies

bes@Nahum:3:9 @ And Ethiopia is her strength, and Egypt; and there was no limit of the flight of her enemies; and the Libyans became her helpers.

bes@Nahum:3:10 @ Yet she shall go as a prisoner into captivity, and they shall dash her infants against the ground at the top of all her ways: and they shall cast lots upon all her glorious possessions, and all her nobles shall be bound in chains.

bes@Nahum:3:11 @ And thou shalt be drunken, and shalt be (note:)Or, despised(:note) overlooked; and thou shalt seek for thyself q. d. establishment strength because of thine enemies.

bes@Nahum:3:12 @ All thy strong-holds are as fig-trees (note:)rwkb probably read as rqb (:note) having watchers: if they be shaken, they shall fall into the mouth of the eater.

bes@Nahum:3:14 @ Draw thee water (note:)Gr. of(:note) for a siege, and well secure thy strong-holds: enter into the clay, and Alex. tread thou be thou trodden in the chaff, make the fortifications stronger than brick.

bes@Nahum:3:17 @ Thy mixed multitude has suddenly departed as the grasshopper, as the locust perched on a hedge in a frosty day; the sun arises, and it flies off, and knows not its place: woe to them!

bes@Nahum:3:18 @ Thy shepherds have slumbered, the Assyrian king has laid low thy mighty men: thy people departed to the mountains, and there was none to (note:)Or, wait for(:note) receive them.

bes@Nahum:3:19 @ There is no healing for thy bruise; thy wound has rankled: all that hear the report of thee shall clap their hands against thee; for upon whom has not thy wickedness passed continually?

bes@Habakkuk:1:2 @ How long, O Lord, shall I cry out, and thou wilt not hearken? how long shall I cry out to thee being injured, and thou wilt not save?

bes@Habakkuk:1:4 @ Therefore the law is frustrated, and judgement proceeds not effectually, for the ungodly man prevails over the just; therefore perverse judgement will proceed.

bes@Habakkuk:1:6 @ Wherefore, behold, I stir up the Chaldeans, the bitter and hasty nation, that walks upon the breadth of the earth, to inherit tabernacles not his own.

bes@Habakkuk:1:7 @ He is terrible and famous; his judgement shall proceed of himself, and his (note:)Lit. burden(:note) dignity shall come out of himself.

bes@Habakkuk:1:12 @ Art not thou from the beginning, O Lord God, my Holy One? and surely we shall not die. O Lord, thou hast established it for judgement, and he has formed me to chasten with his correction.

bes@Habakkuk:1:14 @ And wilt thou make men as the fishes of the sea, and as the reptiles which have no guide?

bes@Habakkuk:1:15 @ He has brought up destruction with a hook, and drawn one with a casting net, and caught another in his drags: therefore shall his heart rejoice and be glad.

bes@Habakkuk:1:17 @ Therefore will he cast his net, and will not spare to slay the nations continually.

bes@Habakkuk:2:1 @ I will stand upon my watch, and mount upon the rock, and watch to see what he will say (note:)Or, in(:note) by me, and what I shall answer when I am reproved.

bes@Habakkuk:2:3 @ For the vision is yet for a time, and it shall shoot forth at the end, and not in vain: though he should tarry, wait for him; (note:)Heb strkjv@10:37-39(:note) for he will surely come, and will not tarry.

bes@Habakkuk:2:4 @ If (note:)Or, any man; See Heb strkjv@10:38.(:note) he should draw back, my soul has no pleasure in him: but Ro strkjv@1:17 the just shall live by Or, faith in me my faith.

bes@Habakkuk:2:5 @ But the arrogant man and the scorner, the boastful man, shall not finish anything; who has enlarged his desire as the grave, and like death he is never satisfied, and he will gather to himself all the nations, and will receive to himself all the peoples.

bes@Habakkuk:2:6 @ Shall not all these take up a parable against him? and a proverb to tell against him? and they shall say, Woe to him that multiplies to himself the possessions which are not his! (note:)Or, for a long while(:note) how long? and who heavily loads his yoke.

bes@Habakkuk:2:11 @ For the stone shall cry out of the wall, and the (note:)Possibly, «knot’(:note) beetle out of the timber shall speak.

bes@Habakkuk:2:12 @ Woe to him that builds a city with blood, and (note:)Gr. prepares(:note) establishes a city by unrighteousness.

bes@Habakkuk:2:13 @ Are not these things of the Lord Almighty? surely many people have been exhausted in the fire, and many nations have fainted.

bes@Habakkuk:2:14 @ For the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord; it shall cover them as water.

bes@Habakkuk:2:16 @ Drink thou also thy fill of disgrace instead of glory: shake, O heart, and quake, the cup of the right hand of the Lord has come round upon thee, and dishonour has gathered upon thy glory.

bes@Habakkuk:2:19 @ Woe to him that says to the wood, Awake, arise; and to the stone, Be thou exalted! whereas it is an image, and this is a (note:)Gr. forging(:note) casting of gold and silver, and there is no breath in it.

bes@Habakkuk:3:2 @ O Lord, I have heard thy report, and was afraid: I considered thy works, and was amazed: thou shalt be known between the two living creatures, thou shalt be acknowledged when the years draw nigh; thou shalt be manifested when the time is come; when my soul is troubled, thou wilt in wrath remember mercy.

bes@Habakkuk:3:3 @ God shall come from Thaeman, and the Holy One from the dark shady mount Pharan. (note:)See note on Ps strkjv@3:2(:note) Pause.

bes@Habakkuk:3:8 @ Wast thou angry, O Lord, with the rivers? or was thy wrath against the rivers, or thine (note:)Or, attach(:note) anger against the sea? for thou wilt mount on thine horses, and thy chariots are salvation.

bes@Habakkuk:3:10 @ The nations shall see thee and be in pain, as thou dost divide the (note:)Gr. waters of going; See Na strkjv@1:8.(:note) moving waters: the deep uttered her voice, and raised Lit. the height of her form her form on high.

bes@Habakkuk:3:13 @ Thou wentest forth for the salvation of thy people, to save thine anointed: thou shalt bring death on the heads of transgressors; thou has brought bands upon their neck. Pause.

bes@Habakkuk:3:16 @ I watched, and my belly trembled at the sound of the prayer of my lips, and trembling entered into my bones, and my frame was troubled within (note:)Lit. under me(:note) me; I will rest in the day of affliction, from going up to the people of my sojourning.

bes@Habakkuk:3:17 @ For though the fig-tree shall bear no fruit, and there shall be no produce on the vines; the labour of the olive shall (note:)Lit. deceive(:note) fail, and the fields shall produce no food: the sheep have failed from the pasture, and there are no oxen at the cribs;

bes@Zephaniah:1:6 @ and them that turn aside from the Lord, and them that seek not the Lord, and them that cleave not to the Lord.

bes@Zephaniah:1:9 @ And I will openly take vengeance (note:)Or, in(:note) on the porches in that day, on the men that fill the house of the Lord their God with ungodliness and deceit.

bes@Zephaniah:1:12 @ And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will search Jerusalem with a candle, and will take vengeance on the men that despise the things committed to them; but they say in their hearts, The Lord will not do any good, neither will he do any evil.

bes@Zephaniah:1:13 @ And their power shall be for a spoil, and their houses for utter desolation; and they shall build houses, but shall not dwell in them; and they shall plant vineyards, but shall not drink the wine of them.

bes@Zephaniah:1:15 @ A mighty day of wrath is that day, a day of affliction and distress, a day of (note:)Lit. unseasonableness(:note) desolation and destruction, a day of gloominess and darkness, a day of cloud and vapour,

bes@Zephaniah:1:16 @ a day of the trumpet and cry against the strong cities, and against the high (note:)Gr. corners(:note) towers.

bes@Zephaniah:1:18 @ And their silver and their gold shall in nowise be able to rescue them in the day of the Lord’s wrath; but the whole land shall be devoured by the fire of his jealously; for he will bring a speedy destruction on all them that inhabit the land.

bes@Zephaniah:2:3 @ Seek ye the Lord, all ye meek of the earth; do judgement, and seek justice, and answer (note:)Gr. them(:note) accordingly; that ye may be hid in the day of the wrath of the Lord.

bes@Zephaniah:2:4 @ For Gaza shall be utterly spoiled, and Ascalon shall be destroyed; and Azotus shall be cast forth at noon-day, and Accaron shall be rooted up.

bes@Zephaniah:2:13 @ And he shall stretch forth his hand against the north and destroy the Assyrian, and make Nineve a dry wilderness, even as a desert.

bes@Zephaniah:3:1 @ This is the scornful city that dwells securely, that says in her heart, I am, and there is no longer any to be after me: how is she become desolate, a habitation of wild beasts! Every one that passes through her shall hiss, and shake his hands. Alas the glorious and ransomed city.

bes@Zephaniah:3:2 @ The dove hearkened not to the voice; she received not correction; she trusted not in the Lord, and she drew not near to her God.

bes@Zephaniah:3:3 @ Her princes within her were as roaring lions, her judges as the wolves of Arabia; they remained not till the morrow.

bes@Zephaniah:3:4 @ Her prophets are (note:)Gr. borne of the wind(:note) light and scornful men: her priests profane the holy things, and sinfully transgress the law.

bes@Zephaniah:3:5 @ But the just Lord is in the midst of her, and he will never do an unjust thing: morning by morning he will bring out his judgement to the light, and it is not hidden, and he knows not injustice by extortion, nor injustice in strife.

bes@Zephaniah:3:6 @ I have brought down the proud with destruction; their corners are destroyed: I will make their ways completely waste, so that none shall go through: their cities are come to an end, (note:)See use of para, 1 Co strkjv@12:15, 16(:note) by reason of no man living or dwelling in them.

bes@Zephaniah:3:7 @ I said, But do ye fear me, and (note:)See Ps 2. ult(:note) receive instruction, and ye shall not be cut off from the face of the land for all the vengeance I have brought upon her: prepare thou, rise early: all their produce is spoilt.

bes@Zephaniah:3:9 @ For then will I turn to the peoples a tongue (note:)hrwrb read as hrwdb(:note) for her generation, that all may call on the name of the Lord, to serve him under one yoke.

bes@Zephaniah:3:11 @ In that day thou shalt not be ashamed of all thy practices, wherein thou hast transgressed against me: for then will I take away from thee thy disdainful pride, and thou shalt no more magnify thyself upon my holy mountain.

bes@Zephaniah:3:13 @ and the remnant of Israel shall fear the name of the Lord, and shall do no iniquity, neither shall they speak vanity; neither shall a deceitful tongue be found in their mouth: for they shall feed, and lie down, and there shall be none to terrify them.

bes@Zephaniah:3:14 @ Rejoice, O daughter of Sion; (note:)Gr. proclaim, or preach(:note) cry aloud, O daughter of Jerusalem; rejoice and delight thyself with all thine heart, O daughter of Jerusalem.

bes@Zephaniah:3:15 @ The Lord has taken away thine iniquities, he has ransomed thee from the hand of thine enemies: the Lord, the King of Israel, is in the midst of thee: thou shalt not see evil any more.

bes@Zephaniah:3:16 @ At that time the Lord shall say to Jerusalem, Be of good courage, Sion; let not thine hands be slack.

bes@Zephaniah:3:17 @ The Lord thy God is in thee; the Mighty One shall save thee: he shall bring joy upon thee, and shall (note:)Lit. renew(:note) refresh thee with his love; and he shall rejoice over thee with delight as in a day of feasting.

bes@Zephaniah:3:19 @ Behold, I will work in thee for thy sake at that time, saith the Lord: and I will save her that was oppressed, and receive her that was rejected; and I will make them a praise, and honoured in all the earth.

bes@Zephaniah:3:20 @ And their enemies shall be ashamed at that time, when I shall deal well with you, and at the time when I shall receive you: for I will make you honoured and a praise among all the nations of the earth, when I turn back your captivity before you, saith the Lord.

bes@Haggai:1:1 @ In the second year of Darius the king, in the sixth month, on the firs day of the month, the word of the Lord came by the hand of the prophet Aggaeus, saying, Speak to Zorobabel the son of Salathiel, of the tribe of Juda, and to (note:)Or, Joshua(:note) Jesus the son of Josedec, the high priest, saying,

bes@Haggai:1:2 @ Thus saith the Lord Almighty, saying, This people say, The time is not come to build the house of the Lord.

bes@Haggai:1:5 @ And now thus saith the Lord Almighty; Consider your ways, I pray you.

bes@Haggai:1:6 @ Ye have sown much, but brought in little; ye have eaten, and are not satisfied; ye have drunk, and are not satisfied with drink, ye have clothed yourselves, and have not become warm (note:)Gr. in them(:note) thereby: and he that earns wages has gathered them into a bag full of holes.

bes@Haggai:1:12 @ And Zorobabel the son of Salathiel, of the tribe of Juda, and (note:)Or, Joshua(:note) Jesus the son of Josedec, the high priest, and all the remnant of the people, hearkened to the voice of the Lord their God, and the words of the prophet Aggaeus, according as the Lord their God had sent him to them, and the people feared before the Lord.

bes@Haggai:2:3 @ Speak now to Zorobabel the son of Salathiel, of the tribe of Juda, and to Jesus the son of Josedec, the high priest, and to all the remnant of the people, saying,

bes@Haggai:2:4 @ Who is there of you that saw this house in her former glory? and how do ye now look upon it, as it were (note:)Gr. not existing(:note) nothing before your eyes?

bes@Haggai:2:5 @ Yet now be strong, O Zorobabel, saith the Lord; and strengthen thyself, O Jesus the high priest, the son of Josedec; and let all the people of the land strengthen themselves, saith the Lord, and work, for I am with you, saith the Lord Almighty;

bes@Haggai:2:7 @ For thus saith the Lord Almighty; (note:)Heb strkjv@12:26(:note) Yet once I will shake the heaven, and the earth, and the sea, and the dry land;

bes@Haggai:2:8 @ and I will shake all nations, and the choice (note:)Or, objects(:note) portions of all the nations shall come: and I will fill this house with glory, saith the Lord Almighty.

bes@Haggai:2:10 @ For the glory of this house shall be great, the latter more than the former, saith the Lord Almighty: and in this place will I give peace, saith the Lord Almighty, even peace of soul for (note:)Or, salvation(:note) a possession to every one that builds, to raise up this temple.

bes@Haggai:2:12 @ Thus saith the Lord Almighty; Inquire now of the priest concerning the law, saying,

bes@Haggai:2:13 @ If a man should take holy flesh in the skirt of his garment, and the skirt of his garment should touch bread, or pottage, or wine, or oil, or any meat, shall it be (note:)Gr. sanctified(:note) holy? And the priests answered and said, No.

bes@Haggai:2:15 @ And Aggaeus answered and said, So is this people, and so is this nation before me, saith the Lord; and so are all the works of their hands: and whosoever shall approach them, shall be defiled (note:)Not in Hebrew(:note) because of their early burdens: they shall be pained because of their toils; and ye have hated him that reproved in the gates.

bes@Haggai:2:16 @ And now consider, I pray you, from this day and beforetime, before they laid a stone on a stone in the temple of the Lord, what manner of men ye were.

bes@Haggai:2:17 @ When ye cast into the corn-bin twenty measures of barley, and there were only ten measures of barley: and ye went (note:)Gr. into(:note) to the vat to draw out fifty measures, and there were but twenty.

bes@Haggai:2:18 @ I smote you with barrenness, and with blasting, and all the works of your hands with hail; yet ye returned not to me, saith the Lord.

bes@Haggai:2:19 @ Set your hearts now to think from this day and upward, from the four and twentieth day of the ninth month, even from the day when the foundation of the temple of the Lord was laid;

bes@Haggai:2:20 @ consider in your hearts, whether this shall be known on the corn-floor, and whether yet the vine, and the fig-tree, and the pomegranate, and the olive-trees that bear no fruit are with you: from this day will I bless you.

bes@Zechariah:1:4 @ And be ye not as your fathers, whom the prophets before charged, saying, Thus saith the Lord Almighty: Turn ye from your evil ways, and from your evil practices: but they hearkened not, and attended not to hearken to me, saith the Lord.

bes@Zechariah:1:12 @ Then the angel of the Lord answered and said, O Lord Almighty, how long wilt thou have no mercy on Jerusalem, and the cities of Juda, which thou has disregarded (note:)Gr. this seventieth year(:note) these seventy years?

bes@Zechariah:1:21 @ And I said, What are these coming to do? And he said, These are the horns that scattered Juda, and they broke Israel in pieces, and none of them lifted up his head: and these are come forth to sharpen them for their hands, even the four horns, the nations that lifted up the horn against the land of the Lord to scatter it.

bes@Zechariah:2:3 @ And, behold, the angel that spoke with me stood by, and another angel went forth to meet him,

bes@Zechariah:2:6 @ Ho, ho, flee from the land of the north, saith the Lord: for I will gather you from the four winds of heaven, saith the Lord,

bes@Zechariah:2:9 @ For, behold, I bring my hand upon them, and they shall be a spoil to them that serve them: and ye shall know that the Lord Almighty has sent me.

bes@Zechariah:2:11 @ And many nations shall flee for refuge to the Lord in that day, and they shall be for a people to him, and they shall dwell in the midst of thee: and thou shalt know that the Lord Almighty has sent me to thee.

bes@Zechariah:3:1 @ And the Lord shewed me Jesus the high priest standing before the angel of the Lord, and the (note:)Or, Accuser(:note) Devil stood on his right hand to resist him.

bes@Zechariah:3:4 @ Now Jesus was clothed in (note:)Or, vile, see Jas strkjv@2:2(:note) filthy raiment, and stood before the angel.

bes@Zechariah:3:5 @ And the Lord answered and spoke to those who stood before him, saying, Take away the filthy raiment from him: and he said to him, Behold, I have taken away thine iniquities: and clothe ye him with a (note:)Or, full length(:note) long robe,

bes@Zechariah:3:9 @ Hear now, Jesus the high priest, thou, and thy neighbours that are sitting before thee: for they are diviners, for, behold, I bring forth my servant The (note:)See Lu strkjv@1:78(:note) Branch.

bes@Zechariah:4:5 @ And the angel that talked with me answered, and spoke to me, saying, Knowest thou not what these things are? And I said, No, my lord.

bes@Zechariah:4:6 @ And he answered and spoke to me, saying, This is the word of the Lord to Zorobabel, saying, not by mighty power, nor by strength, but by my Spirit, saith the Lord Almighty.

bes@Zechariah:4:7 @ Who art thou, the great mountain before Zorobabel, that thou shouldest prosper? whereas I will bring out the stone of the inheritance, the grace of it the (note:)Gr. equality, see Joh strkjv@1:16(:note) equal of my grace.

bes@Zechariah:4:9 @ The hands of Zorobabel have laid the foundation of this house, and his hands shall finish it: and thou shalt know that the Lord Almighty has sent me to thee.

bes@Zechariah:4:10 @ For who has despised the small days? surely they shall rejoice, and shall see the plummet of tin in the hand of Zorobabel: these are the seven eyes (note:)Alex. +’of the Lord’(:note) that look upon all the earth.

bes@Zechariah:4:12 @ And I asked the second time, and said to him, What are the two branches of the olive-trees that are by the side of the two golden (note:)Gr. nostrils(:note) pipes that pour into and communicate with the golden oil funnels?

bes@Zechariah:4:13 @ And he said to me, Knowest thou not what these are? and I said, No, my lord.

bes@Zechariah:4:14 @ And he said, These are the two (note:)Or, sons of fatness; Re strkjv@11:4(:note) anointed ones that stand by the Lord of the whole earth.

bes@Zechariah:5:7 @ And behold a talent of lead lifted up: and behold (note:)Hebrews. and Gr. one woman; See verse 9(:note) a woman sat in the midst of the measure.

bes@Zechariah:5:11 @ And he said to me, To build it a house in the land of Babylon, and to prepare a place for it; and they shall set it there on its own (note:)Gr. preparation(:note) base.

bes@Zechariah:6:6 @ As for the chariot in which were the black horses, they went out to the land of the north; and the white went out after them; and the piebald went out to the land of the south.

bes@Zechariah:6:7 @ And the ash-coloured went out, and looked to go and compass the earth: and (note:)Or, one said(:note) he said, Go, and compass the earth. And they compassed the earth.

bes@Zechariah:6:8 @ And he cried out and spoke to me, saying, Behold, these go out to the land of the north, and they have quieted mine anger in the land of the north.

bes@Zechariah:6:10 @ Take the things of the captivity from (note:)Hebrews. proper names; See Authorized Version(:note) the chief men, and from the useful men of it, and from them that have understood it; and thou shalt enter in that day into the house of Josias the son of Sophonias that came out of Babylon.

bes@Zechariah:6:12 @ and thou shalt say to him, Thus saith the Lord Almighty; Behold the man whose name is The Branch; and he shall spring up (note:)Gr. from beneath him(:note) from his stem, and build the house of the Lord.

bes@Zechariah:6:13 @ And he shall receive (note:)Lit. virtue(:note) power, and shall sit and rule upon his throne; and there shall be a priest on his right hand, and a peaceable counsel shall be between them both.

bes@Zechariah:6:14 @ And the crown shall be to them that wait patiently, and to the useful men (note:)Gr. of it(:note) of the captivity, and to them that have known it, and for the favour of the son of Sophonias, and for a psalm in the house of the Lord.

bes@Zechariah:6:15 @ And they that are far from them shall come and build in the house of the Lord, and ye shall know that the Lord Almighty has sent me to you: and this shall come to pass, if ye will diligently hearken to the voice of the Lord your God.

bes@Zechariah:7:6 @ And if ye eat or drink, do ye not eat and drink for yourselves?

bes@Zechariah:7:7 @ Are not these the words which the Lord spoke by the former prophets, when Jerusalem was inhabited and in prosperity, and her cities round about her, and the hill country and the low country was inhabited?

bes@Zechariah:7:10 @ and oppress not the widow, or the fatherless, or the stranger, or the poor; and let not one of you remember in his heart the injury of his brother.

bes@Zechariah:7:11 @ But they refused to attend, and madly turned their back, and made their ears heavy, so that they should not hear.

bes@Zechariah:7:12 @ And they made their heart disobedient, so as not to hearken to my law, and the words which the Lord Almighty sent forth by his Spirit by the former prophets: so there was great wrath from the Lord Almighty.

bes@Zechariah:7:13 @ And it shall come to pass, that as he spoke, and they hearkened not, so they shall cry, and I will not hearken, saith the Lord Almighty.

bes@Zechariah:7:14 @ And I will cast them out among all the nations, whom they know not; and the land behind them shall be made utterly destitute of any going through or returning: yea they have made the choice land a desolation.

bes@Zechariah:8:10 @ For before those days the wages of men could not be profitable, and there could be no hire of cattle, and there could be no peace by reason of the affliction to him that went out or to him that came in: for I would have let loose all men, every one against his neighbour.

bes@Zechariah:8:11 @ But now I will not do to the remnant of this people according to the former days, saith the Lord Almighty.

bes@Zechariah:8:14 @ For thus saith the Lord Almighty; As I took counsel to afflict you when your fathers provoked me, saith the Lord Almighty, and I repented not:

bes@Zechariah:8:17 @ and let none of you devise evil in his heart against his neighbour; and love not a false oath: for all these things I hate, saith the Lord Almighty.

bes@Zechariah:8:22 @ And many peoples and many nations shall come to seek earnestly the face of the Lord Almighty in Jerusalem, and to (note:)Gr. conciliate the face of the Lord(:note) obtain favour of the Lord.

bes@Zechariah:9:1 @ The burden of the word of the Lord, in the land of Sedrach, and his (note:)hxnm ambiguous(:note) sacrifice shall be in Damascus; for the Lord looks upon men, and upon all the tribes of Israel.

bes@Zechariah:9:5 @ Ascalon shall see, and fear; Gaza also, and shall be greatly pained, and Accaron; for she is ashamed (note:)Alex. of her hope(:note) at her trespass; and the king shall perish from Gaza, and Ascalon shall not be inhabited.

bes@Zechariah:9:8 @ And I will set up a (note:)Or, bulwark; See Zep strkjv@2:14(:note) defence for my house, that they may not pass through, nor turn back, neither shall there any more come upon them one to drive them away: for now have I seen with mine eyes.

bes@Zechariah:9:9 @ Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Sion; proclaim it aloud, O daughter of Jerusalem; (note:)Mt strkjv@21:5; Joh strkjv@12:15.(:note) behold, the King is coming to thee, just, and Gr. saving a Saviour; he is meek and riding on an ass, and a young foal.

bes@Zechariah:9:11 @ And thou by the blood of thy covenant has sent forth thy prisoners out of the pit that has no water.

bes@Zechariah:9:12 @ Ye shall dwell in strongholds, ye prisoners of the congregation: and for one day of thy (note:)Or, sojourning(:note) captivity I will recompense thee double.

bes@Zechariah:9:13 @ For I have bent thee, O Juda, for myself as a bow, I have filled (note:)Or, it with Ephraim(:note) Ephraim; and I will raise up thy children, O Sion, against the children of the Greeks, and I will handle thee as the sword of a warrior.

bes@Zechariah:9:15 @ The Lord Almighty shall protect them, and they shall destroy them, and overwhelm them with sling-stones; and they shall swallow them down as wine, and fill (note:)Alex. the altar as bowls(:note) the bowls as the altar.

bes@Zechariah:10:1 @ Ask ye of the Lord rain in season, the early and the latter: the Lord has given bright signs, and will give them (note:)Gr. stormy(:note) abundant rain, to every one grass in the field.

bes@Zechariah:10:2 @ For the speakers have uttered grievous things, and the diviners have (note:)Or, related(:note) seen false visions, and they have spoken false dreams, they have given vain comfort: therefore have they Gr. been dried up fallen away like sheep, and been afflicted, because there was no healing.

bes@Zechariah:10:3 @ Mine anger was kindled against the shepherds, and I will (note:)Or, oversee, or, look upon(:note) visit the lambs; and the Lord God Almighty shall visit his flock, the house of Juda, and he shall make them as his goodly horse in war.

bes@Zechariah:10:4 @ And from him he (note:)hnp ambiguous(:note) looked, and from him he set the battle in order, and from him came the bow in anger, and from him shall come forth every Lit. he that expels oppressor together.

bes@Zechariah:10:6 @ And I will strengthen the house of Juda, and save the house of Joseph, and I will settle them; because I have loved them: and they shall be as if I had not cast them off: for I am the Lord their God, and I will hear them.

bes@Zechariah:10:9 @ And I will sow them among the people; and they that are afar off shall remember me: they shall nourish their children, and they shall return.

bes@Zechariah:10:10 @ And I will bring them again from the land of Egypt, and I will gather them in from among the Assyrians; and I will bring them into the land of Galaad and to Libanus; and there shall not even one of them be left behind.

bes@Zechariah:11:3 @ There is a voice of the shepherds mourning; for their greatness is (note:)Gr. distressed(:note) brought low: a voice of roaring lions; for the Or, roaring pride of Jordan is brought down.

bes@Zechariah:11:5 @ which their possessors have slain, and have not repented: and they that sold them said, Blessed be the Lord; for we have become rich: and their shepherds have suffered no sorrow for them.

bes@Zechariah:11:6 @ Therefore I will no longer have mercy upon the inhabitants of the land, saith the Lord: but, behold, I will deliver up the men every one into the hand of his neighbour, and into the hand of his king; and they shall destroy the land, and I will not rescue out of their hand.

bes@Zechariah:11:8 @ And I will cut off three shepherds in one month; and my soul shall (note:)Or, be sorely displeased with them; Gr. be weighed down upon them(:note) grieve over them, for their souls cried out against me.

bes@Zechariah:11:9 @ And I said, I will not tend you: that which dies, let it die; and that which (note:)Or, fails(:note) falls off, let it fall off; and let the rest eat every one the flesh of his neighbour.

bes@Zechariah:11:11 @ And it shall be broken in that day; and the Chananites, the sheep that are kept for me, shall know that it is the word of the Lord.

bes@Zechariah:11:13 @ And the Lord said to me, Drop them into the furnace, and I will see if it is good metal, as I was proved for their sakes. (note:)Mt strkjv@27:9, 10(:note) And I took the thirty pieces of silver, and cast them into the furnace in the house of the Lord.

bes@Zechariah:11:14 @ And I cast away my second rod, even Line, that I might break the (note:)Compare Hebrews.; Alex. diayhkhn, covenant(:note) possession between Juda and Israel.

bes@Zechariah:11:16 @ For, behold, I will raise up a shepherd against the land: he shall not visit that which is perishing, and he shall not seek that which is scattered, and he shall not heal that which is bruised, nor guide that which is whole: but he shall devour the flesh of the choice ones, and shall (note:)Or, wring their necks(:note) dislocate the joints of their necks.

bes@Zechariah:11:17 @ Alas for the vain shepherds that have forsaken the sheep! the sword shall be upon (note:)Gr. his arms(:note) the arms of such a one, and upon his right eye: his arm shall be completely withered, and his right eye shall be utterly darkened.

bes@Zechariah:12:2 @ Behold, I will make Jerusalem as trembling (note:)Or, porches, or, door-posts shaken by, etc.(:note) door-posts to all the nations round about, and in Judea there shall be a siege against Jerusalem.

bes@Zechariah:12:3 @ And it shall come to pass in that day that I will make Jerusalem a (note:)Or, a stone trodden by all, etc.(:note) trodden stone to all the nations: every one that tramples on it shall utterly mock at it, and all the nations of the earth shall be gathered together against it.

bes@Zechariah:12:7 @ And the Lord shall save the tabernacles of Juda as at the beginning, that the boast of the house of David, and the pride of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, may not magnify themselves against Juda.

bes@Zechariah:12:10 @ And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and compassion: and (note:)Joh strkjv@19:37(:note) they shall look upon me, because they have mocked me, and they shall make lamentation for him, as for a beloved friend, and they shall grieve intensely, as for a firstborn son.

bes@Zechariah:12:12 @ And the land shall lament in (note:)See a similar construction, Mr strkjv@6:39, 40(:note) separate families, the family of the house of David by itself, and their wives by themselves; the family of the house of Nathan by itself, and their wives by themselves;

bes@Zechariah:13:1 @ In that day every place shall be opened to the house of David and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem for removal and for (note:)Or, departure(:note) separation.

bes@Zechariah:13:2 @ And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord of hosts, that I will utterly destroy the names of the idols from off the land, and there shall be no longer any remembrance of them: and I will cut off the false prophets and the evil spirit from the land.

bes@Zechariah:13:3 @ And it shall come to pass, if a man will yet prophesy, that his father and his mother which gave birth to him shall say to him, Thou shalt not live; for thou has spoken lies in the name of the Lord: and his father and his mother who gave him birth shall bind him as he is prophesying.

bes@Zechariah:13:5 @ And one shall say, I am not a prophet, for I am a tiller of the ground, for a man brought me up thus from my youth.

bes@Zechariah:13:6 @ And I will say to him, What are these wounds between thine hands? and he shall say, Those with which I was wounded in (note:)Alex. the house of my beloved(:note) my beloved house.

bes@Zechariah:13:7 @ Awake, O sword, against my (note:)Alex. shepherd(:note) shepherds, and against the man who is my citizen, saith the Lord Almighty: Mt strkjv@26:31 smite the shepherds, and draw out the sheep: and I will bring mine hand upon the little ones.

bes@Zechariah:14:2 @ And I will gather all the Gentiles to Jerusalem to war, and the city shall be taken, and the houses plundered, and the women ravished; and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, but the rest of my people shall not be utterly cut off from the city.

bes@Zechariah:14:4 @ And his feet shall stand in that day on the mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east, and the mount of Olives shall cleave asunder, half of it toward the east and the west, a very great division; and half the mountain shall lean to the north, and half of it to the south.

bes@Zechariah:14:6 @ And it shall come to pass in that day that there shall be no light,

bes@Zechariah:14:7 @ and there shall be for one day (note:)Alex. qucov, cold, probably the right reading(:note) cold and frost, and that day shall be known to the Lord, and it shall not be day nor night: but towards evening it shall be light.

bes@Zechariah:14:11 @ they shall dwell (note:)Gr. in it(:note) in the city; and there shall be no more any curse, and Jerusalem shall dwell securely.

bes@Zechariah:14:13 @ And there shall be in that day a great (note:)Or, astonishment(:note) panic from the Lord upon them; and they shall lay hold every man of the hand of his neighbour, and his hand shall be clasped with the hand of his neighbour.

bes@Zechariah:14:16 @ And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall be left of all the nations that came against Jerusalem, shall even come up every year to worship the king, the Lord Almighty, and to keep the feast of (note:)Lit. tent-pitching(:note) tabernacles.

bes@Zechariah:14:17 @ And it shall come to pass, that whosoever of all the families of the earth shall not come up to Jerusalem to worship the king, the Lord Almighty, even these shall be added to the others.

bes@Zechariah:14:18 @ And if the family of Egypt shall not go up, nor come; then upon them shall be the overthrow with which the Lord shall smite all the nations, whichever of them shall not come up to keep the feast of tabernacles.

bes@Zechariah:14:19 @ This shall be the sin of Egypt, and the sin of all the nations, whosoever shall not come up to keep the feast of tabernacles.

bes@Zechariah:14:21 @ And every pot in Jerusalem and in Juda shall be holy to the Lord Almighty: and all that sacrifice shall come and take of them, and shall seethe meat in them: and in that day there shall be no more the Chananite in the house of the Lord Almighty.

bes@Malachi:1:2 @ I have loved you, saith the Lord. And ye said, Wherein hast thou loved us? Was not Esau Jacob’s brother? saith the Lord: yet (note:)Ro strkjv@9:13(:note) I loved Jacob,

bes@Malachi:1:3 @ and hated Esau and (note:)Lit. appointed them for desolation(:note) laid waste his borders, and made his heritage as dwellings of the wilderness?

bes@Malachi:1:5 @ And your eyes shall see, and ye shall say, The Lord has been magnified (note:)Gr. above(:note) upon the borders of Israel.

bes@Malachi:1:6 @ A son honours his father, and a servant his master: if then I am a father, where is mine honour? and if I am a master, where is my fear? saith the Lord Almighty. Ye the priests are they that despise my name: yet ye said, Wherein have we despised thy name?

bes@Malachi:1:8 @ For if ye bring a blind victim for sacrifices, is it not evil? and if ye bring the lame or the sick, is it not evil? offer it now to thy ruler, and see if he will receive thee, if he will accept thy person, saith the Lord Almighty.

bes@Malachi:1:9 @ And now (note:)Lit. propitiate(:note) intreat the face of your God, and make supplication to him. These things have been done by your hands; shall I accept you? saith the Lord Almighty.

bes@Malachi:1:10 @ Because even among you the doors shall be shut, and one will not kindle the fire of mine altar for nothing, I have no pleasure in you, saith the Lord Almighty, and I will not accept a sacrifice at your hands.

bes@Malachi:1:13 @ And ye said, These services are troublesome: therefore I have (note:)Gr. puffed at them(:note) utterly rejected them with scorn, saith the Lord Almighty: and ye brought in torn victims, and lame, and sick: if then ye should bring an offering, shall I accept them at your hands? saith the Lord Almighty.

bes@Malachi:2:1 @ And now, O priests, this commandment is to you.

bes@Malachi:2:2 @ If ye will not hearken, and if ye will not lay it to heart, to give glory to my name, saith the Lord Almighty, then I will send forth the curse upon you, and I will bring a curse upon your blessing: yea, I will curse it, and I will scatter your blessing, and it shall not exist among you, because ye lay not this to heart.

bes@Malachi:2:3 @ Behold, (note:)Gr. separate the shoulder from you(:note) I turn my back upon you, and I will scatter dung upon your faces, the dung of your feasts, and I will carry you away at the same time.

bes@Malachi:2:4 @ And ye shall know that I have sent this commandment to you, that my covenant might be with the sons of Levi, saith the Lord Almighty.

bes@Malachi:2:5 @ My covenant of life and peace was with him, and I gave (note:)Or, power, or, charge to fear me, etc.(:note) it him that he might reverently fear me, and that he might be See 2 Co strkjv@8:20 awe-struck at my name.

bes@Malachi:2:6 @ The law of truth was in his mouth, and iniquity was not found in his lips: he walked before me directing his way in peace, and he turned many from unrighteousness.

bes@Malachi:2:7 @ For the priest’s lips (note:)Gr. shall(:note) should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth: for he is the messenger of the Lord Almighty.

bes@Malachi:2:9 @ And I have made you despised and cast out among all the people, because ye have not kept my ways, but have (note:)Gr. accepted persons(:note) been partial in the law.

bes@Malachi:2:10 @ Have ye not all one father? Did not one God create you? why have ye forsaken every man his brother, to profane the covenant of your fathers?

bes@Malachi:2:15 @ And did he not do well? and there was the residue of his spirit. But ye said, What does God seek but a seed? But take ye heed to your spirit, and forsake not the wife of thy youth.

bes@Malachi:2:16 @ But if thou shouldest hate thy wife and put her away, saith the Lord God of Israel, then ungodliness shall cover thy thoughts, saith the Lord Almighty: therefore take ye heed to your spirit, and forsake them not,

bes@Malachi:2:17 @ ye that have provoked God with your words. But ye said, Wherein have we provoked him? In that ye say, Every one that does evil is a pleasing object in the sight of the Lord, and he takes pleasure in such; (note:)Or, and, Where, etc.(:note) and where is the God of justice?

bes@Malachi:3:2 @ And who will (note:)Or, wait for(:note) abide the day of his coming? or who will withstand at his appearing? for he is coming in as the fire of a furnace and as the herb of Gr. them that wash fullers.

bes@Malachi:3:3 @ He shall sit to melt and purify as it were silver, and as it were gold: and he shall purify the sons of Levi, and (note:)Gr. pour(:note) refine them as gold and silver, and they shall offer to the Lord an offering in righteousness.

bes@Malachi:3:5 @ And I will draw near to you in judgement; and I will be a swift witness against the witches, and against the adulteresses, and against them that swear falsely by my name, and against them that keep back the hireling’s wages, and them that oppress the widow, and (note:)Gr. beat with the fist(:note) afflict orphans, and that wrest the judgement of the stranger, and fear not me, saith the Lord Almighty.

bes@Malachi:3:6 @ For I am the Lord your God, and I am not changed:

bes@Malachi:3:7 @ but ye, the sons of Jacob, have not refrained from the iniquities of your fathers: ye have perverted my statutes, and have not kept them. Return to me, and I will return to you, saith the Lord Almighty. But ye said, Wherein shall we return?

bes@Malachi:3:10 @ The year is completed, and ye have brought all the produce into the storehouses; but there shall be the plunder thereof in its house: return now on this behalf, saith the Lord Almighty, see if I will not open to you the (note:)Or, windows, see Ge strkjv@7:11, there rendered «flood-gates’(:note) torrents of heaven, and pour out my blessing upon you, until ye are satisfied.

bes@Malachi:3:11 @ And I will (note:)Or, give a charge for you to be fed; Alex. thn brwsin(:note) appoint food for you, and I will not destroy the fruit of your land; and your vine in the field shall not fail, saith the Lord Almighty.

bes@Malachi:3:14 @ Ye said, He that serves God (note:)Gr. is vain(:note) labours in vain: and what have we gained in that we have kept his ordinances, and in that we have walked as suppliants before the face of the Lord Almighty?

bes@Malachi:3:15 @ And now we pronounce strangers blessed; and all they who act unlawfully are built up; and they have resisted God, and yet have been delivered.

bes@Malachi:3:17 @ And they shall be (note:)Gr. for me(:note) mine, saith the Lord Almighty, in the day which I appoint for a peculiar possession; and I will make choice of them, as a man makes choice of his son that serves him.

bes@Malachi:3:18 @ Then shall ye return, and discern between the righteous and the wicked, and between him that serves God, and him that serves him not.

bes@Malachi:4:1 @ For, behold, a day comes burning as an oven, and it shall consume them; and all the aliens, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that is coming shall set them on fire, saith the Lord Almighty, and there shall not be left of them root or branch.

bes@Jdt:1:1 @ In the twelfth year of the reign of Nabuchodonosor, who reigned in Nineve, the great city; in the days of Arphaxad, which reigned over the Medes in Ecbatane,

bes@Jdt:1:5 @ Even in those days king Nabuchodonosor made war with king Arphaxad in the great plain, which is the plain in the borders of Ragau.

bes@Jdt:1:7 @ Then Nabuchodonosor king of the Assyrians sent unto all that dwelt in Persia, and to all that dwelt westward, and to those that dwelt in Cilicia, and Damascus, and Libanus, and Antilibanus, and to all that dwelt upon the sea coast,

bes@Jdt:1:11 @ But all the inhabitants of the land made light of the commandment of Nabuchodonosor king of the Assyrians, neither went they with him to the battle; for they were not afraid of him: yea, he was before them as one man, and they sent away his ambassadors from them without effect, and with disgrace.

bes@Jdt:1:12 @ Therefore Nabuchodonosor was very angry with all this country, and sware by his throne and kingdom, that he would surely be avenged upon all those coasts of Cilicia, and Damascus, and Syria, and that he would slay with the sword all the inhabitants of the land of Moab, and the children of Ammon, and all Judea, and all that were in Egypt, till ye come to the borders of the two seas.

bes@Jdt:2:1 @ And in the eighteenth year, the two and twentieth day of the first month, there was talk in the house of Nabuchodonosor king of the Assyrians that he should, as he said, avenge himself on all the earth.

bes@Jdt:2:2 @ So he called unto him all his officers, and all his nobles, and communicated with them his secret counsel, and concluded the afflicting of the whole earth out of his own mouth.

bes@Jdt:2:3 @ Then they decreed to destroy all flesh, that did not obey the commandment of his mouth.

bes@Jdt:2:4 @ And when he had ended his counsel, Nabuchodonosor king of the Assyrians called Holofernes the chief captain of his army, which was next unto him, and said unto him.

bes@Jdt:2:11 @ But concerning them that rebel, let not thine eye spare them; but put them to the slaughter, and spoil them wheresoever thou goest.

bes@Jdt:2:13 @ And take thou heed that thou transgress none of the commandments of thy lord, but accomplish them fully, as I have commanded thee, and defer not to do them.

bes@Jdt:2:14 @ Then Holofernes went forth from the presence of his lord, and called all the governors and captains, and the officers of the army of Assur;

bes@Jdt:2:19 @ Then he went forth and all his power to go before king Nabuchodonosor in the voyage, and to cover all the face of the earth westward with their chariots, and horsemen, and their chosen footmen.

bes@Jdt:3:2 @ Behold, we the servants of Nabuchodonosor the great king lie before thee; use us as shall be good in thy sight.

bes@Jdt:3:8 @ Yet he did cast down their frontiers, and cut down their groves: for he had decreed to destroy all the gods of the land, that all nations should worship Nabuchodonosor only, and that all tongues and tribes should call upon him as god.

bes@Jdt:4:1 @ Now the children of Israel, that dwelt in Judea, heard all that Holofernes the chief captain of Nabuchodonosor king of the Assyrians had done to the nations, and after what manner he had spoiled all their temples, and brought them to nought.

bes@Jdt:4:12 @ And cried to the God of Israel all with one consent earnestly, that he would not give their children for a prey, and their wives for a spoil, and the cities of their inheritance to destruction, and the sanctuary to profanation and reproach, and for the nations to rejoice at.

bes@Jdt:5:2 @ Wherewith he was very angry, and called all the princes of Moab, and the captains of Ammon, and all the governors of the sea coast,

bes@Jdt:5:3 @ And he said unto them, Tell me now, ye sons of Chanaan, who this people is, that dwelleth in the hill country, and what are the cities that they inhabit, and what is the multitude of their army, and wherein is their power and strength, and what king is set over them, or captain of their army;

bes@Jdt:5:4 @ And why have they determined not to come and meet me, more than all the inhabitants of the west.

bes@Jdt:5:5 @ Then said Achior, the captain of all the sons of Ammon, Let my lord now hear a word from the mouth of thy servant, and I will declare unto thee the truth concerning this people, which dwelleth near thee, and inhabiteth the hill countries: and there shall no lie come out of the mouth of thy servant.

bes@Jdt:5:7 @ And they sojourned heretofore in Mesopotamia, because they would not follow the gods of their fathers, which were in the land of Chaldea.

bes@Jdt:5:10 @ But when a famine covered all the land of Chanaan, they went down into Egypt, and sojourned there, while they were nourished, and became there a great multitude, so that one could not number their nation.

bes@Jdt:5:17 @ And whilst they sinned not before their God, they prospered, because the God that hateth iniquity was with them.

bes@Jdt:5:18 @ But when they departed from the way which he appointed them, they were destroyed in many battles very sore, and were led captives into a land that was not their’s, and the temple of their God was cast to the ground, and their cities were taken by the enemies.

bes@Jdt:5:19 @ But now are they returned to their God, and are come up from the places where they were scattered, and have possessed Jerusalem, where their sanctuary is, and are seated in the hill country; for it was desolate.

bes@Jdt:5:20 @ Now therefore, my lord and governor, if there be any error against this people, and they sin against their God, let us consider that this shall be their ruin, and let us go up, and we shall overcome them.

bes@Jdt:5:21 @ But if there be no iniquity in their nation, let my lord now pass by, lest their Lord defend them, and their God be for them, and we become a reproach before all the world.

bes@Jdt:5:23 @ For, say they, we will not be afraid of the face of the children of Israel: for, lo, it is a people that have no strength nor power for a strong battle

bes@Jdt:5:24 @ Now therefore, lord Holofernes, we will go up, and they shall be a prey to be devoured of all thine army.

bes@Jdt:6:2 @ And who art thou, Achior, and the hirelings of Ephraim, that thou hast prophesied against us as to day, and hast said, that we should not make war with the people of Israel, because their God will defend them? and who is God but Nabuchodonosor?

bes@Jdt:6:3 @ He will send his power, and will destroy them from the face of the earth, and their God shall not deliver them: but we his servants will destroy them as one man; for they are not able to sustain the power of our horses.

bes@Jdt:6:4 @ For with them we will tread them under foot, and their mountains shall be drunken with their blood, and their fields shall be filled with their dead bodies, and their footsteps shall not be able to stand before us, for they shall utterly perish, saith king Nabuchodonosor, lord of all the earth: for he said, None of my words shall be in vain.

bes@Jdt:6:5 @ And thou, Achior, an hireling of Ammon, which hast spoken these words in the day of thine iniquity, shalt see my face no more from this day, until I take vengeance of this nation that came out of Egypt.

bes@Jdt:6:7 @ Now therefore my servants shall bring thee back into the hill country, and shall set thee in one of the cities of the passages:

bes@Jdt:6:8 @ And thou shalt not perish, till thou be destroyed with them.

bes@Jdt:6:9 @ And if thou persuade thyself in thy mind that they shall be taken, let not thy countenance fall: I have spoken it, and none of my words shall be in vain.

bes@Jdt:6:14 @ But the Israelites descended from their city, and came unto him, and loosed him, and brought him to Bethulia, and presented him to the governors of the city:

bes@Jdt:7:4 @ Now the children of Israel, when they saw the multitude of them, were greatly troubled, and said every one to his neighbour, Now will these men lick up the face of the earth; for neither the high mountains, nor the valleys, nor the hills, are able to bear their weight.

bes@Jdt:7:8 @ Then came unto him all the chief of the children of Esau, and all the governors of the people of Moab, and the captains of the sea coast, and said,

bes@Jdt:7:9 @ Let our lord now hear a word, that there be not an overthrow in thine army.

bes@Jdt:7:10 @ For this people of the children of Israel do not trust in their spears, but in the height of the mountains wherein they dwell, because it is not easy to come up to the tops of their mountains.

bes@Jdt:7:11 @ Now therefore, my lord, fight not against them in battle array, and there shall not so much as one man of thy people perish.

bes@Jdt:7:13 @ For all the inhabitants of Bethulia have their water thence; so shall thirst kill them, and they shall give up their city, and we and our people shall go up to the tops of the mountains that are near, and will camp upon them, to watch that none go out of the city.

bes@Jdt:7:15 @ Thus shalt thou render them an evil reward; because they rebelled, and met not thy person peaceably.

bes@Jdt:7:19 @ Then the children of Israel cried unto the Lord their God, because their heart failed, for all their enemies had compassed them round about, and there was no way to escape out from among them.

bes@Jdt:7:21 @ And the cisterns were emptied, and they had not water to drink their fill for one day; for they gave them drink by measure.

bes@Jdt:7:22 @ Therefore their young children were out of heart, and their women and young men fainted for thirst, and fell down in the streets of the city, and by the passages of the gates, and there was no longer any strength in them.

bes@Jdt:7:24 @ God be judge between us and you: for ye have done us great injury, in that ye have not required peace of the children of Assur.

bes@Jdt:7:25 @ For now we have no helper: but God hath sold us into their hands, that we should be thrown down before them with thirst and great destruction.

bes@Jdt:7:26 @ Now therefore call them unto you, and deliver the whole city for a spoil to the people of Holofernes, and to all his army.

bes@Jdt:7:27 @ For it is better for us to be made a spoil unto them, than to die for thirst: for we will be his servants, that our souls may live, and not see the death of our infants before our eyes, nor our wives nor our children to die.

bes@Jdt:7:28 @ We take to witness against you the heaven and the earth, and our God and Lord of our fathers, which punisheth us according to our sins and the sins of our fathers, that he do not according as we have said this day.

bes@Jdt:7:30 @ Then said Ozias to them, Brethren, be of good courage, let us yet endure five days, in the which space the Lord our God may turn his mercy toward us; for he will not forsake us utterly.

bes@Jdt:7:31 @ And if these days pass, and there come no help unto us, I will do according to your word.

bes@Jdt:8:1 @ Now at that time Judith heard thereof, which was the daughter of Merari, the son of Ox, the son of Joseph, the son of Ozel, the son of Elcia, the son of Ananias, the son of Gedeon, the son of Raphaim, the son of Acitho, the son of Eliu, the son of Eliab, the son of Nathanael, the son of Samael, the son of Salasadal, the son of Israel.

bes@Jdt:8:8 @ And there was none that gave her an ill word; ar she feared God greatly.

bes@Jdt:8:9 @ Now when she heard the evil words of the people against the governor, that they fainted for lack of water; for Judith had heard all the words that Ozias had spoken unto them, and that he had sworn to deliver the city unto the Assyrians after five days;

bes@Jdt:8:11 @ And they came unto her, and she said unto them, Hear me now, O ye governors of the inhabitants of Bethulia: for your words that ye have spoken before the people this day are not right, touching this oath which ye made and pronounced between God and you, and have promised to deliver the city to our enemies, unless within these days the Lord turn to help you.

bes@Jdt:8:12 @ And now who are ye that have tempted God this day, and stand instead of God among the children of men?

bes@Jdt:8:13 @ And now try the Lord Almighty, but ye shall never know any thing.

bes@Jdt:8:14 @ For ye cannot find the depth of the heart of man, neither can ye perceive the things that he thinketh: then how can ye search out God, that hath made all these things, and know his mind, or comprehend his purpose? Nay, my brethren, provoke not the Lord our God to anger.

bes@Jdt:8:15 @ For if he will not help us within these five days, he hath power to defend us when he will, even every day, or to destroy us before our enemies.

bes@Jdt:8:16 @ Do not bind the counsels of the Lord our God: for God is not as man, that he may be threatened; neither is he as the son of man, that he should be wavering.

bes@Jdt:8:18 @ For there arose none in our age, neither is there any now in these days neither tribe, nor family, nor people, nor city among us, which worship gods made with hands, as hath been aforetime.

bes@Jdt:8:20 @ But we know none other god, therefore we trust that he will not dispise us, nor any of our nation.

bes@Jdt:8:23 @ For our servitude shall not be directed to favour: but the Lord our God shall turn it to dishonour.

bes@Jdt:8:24 @ Now therefore, O brethren, let us shew an example to our brethren, because their hearts depend upon us, and the sanctuary, and the house, and the altar, rest upon us.

bes@Jdt:8:27 @ For he hath not tried us in the fire, as he did them, for the examination of their hearts, neither hath he taken vengeance on us: but the Lord doth scourge them that come near unto him, to admonish them.

bes@Jdt:8:28 @ Then said Ozias to her, All that thou hast spoken hast thou spoken with a good heart, and there is none that may gainsay thy words.

bes@Jdt:8:29 @ For this is not the first day wherein thy wisdom is manifested; but from the beginning of thy days all the people have known thy understanding, because the disposition of thine heart is good.

bes@Jdt:8:30 @ But the people were very thirsty, and compelled us to do unto them as we have spoken, and to bring an oath upon ourselves, which we will not break.

bes@Jdt:8:31 @ Therefore now pray thou for us, because thou art a godly woman, and the Lord will send us rain to fill our cisterns, and we shall faint no more.

bes@Jdt:8:34 @ But enquire not ye of mine act: for I will not declare it unto you, till the things be finished that I do.

bes@Jdt:9:2 @ O Lord God of my father Simeon, to whom thou gavest a sword to take vengeance of the strangers, who loosened the girdle of a maid to defile her, and discovered the thigh to her shame, and polluted her virginity to her reproach; for thou saidst, It shall not be so; and yet they did so:

bes@Jdt:9:5 @ For thou hast wrought not only those things, but also the things which fell out before, and which ensued after; thou hast thought upon the things which are now, and which are to come.

bes@Jdt:9:6 @ Yea, what things thou didst determine were ready at hand, and said, Lo, we are here: for all thy ways are prepared, and thy judgements are in thy foreknowledge.

bes@Jdt:9:7 @ For, behold, the Assyrians are multiplied in their power; they are exalted with horse and man; they glory in the strength of their footmen; they trust in shield, and spear, and bow, and sling; and know not that thou art the Lord that breakest the battles: the Lord is thy name.

bes@Jdt:9:11 @ For thy power standeth not in multitude nor thy might in strong men: for thou art a God of the afflicted, an helper of the oppressed, an upholder of the weak, a protector of the forlorn, a saviour of them that are without hope.

bes@Jdt:9:14 @ And make every nation and tribe to acknowledge that thou art the God of all power and might, and that there is none other that protecteth the people of Israel but thou.

bes@Jdt:10:1 @ Now after that she had ceased to cry unto the God of Israel, and bad made an end of all these words.

bes@Jdt:10:3 @ And pulled off the sackcloth which she had on, and put off the garments of her widowhood, and washed her body all over with water, and anointed herself with precious ointment, and braided the hair of her head, and put on a tire upon it, and put on her garments of gladness, wherewith she was clad during the life of Manasses her husband.

bes@Jdt:10:10 @ And when they had done so, Judith went out, she, and her maid with her; and the men of the city looked after her, until she was gone down the mountain, and till she had passed the valley, and could see her no more.

bes@Jdt:10:14 @ Now when the men heard her words, and beheld her countenance, they wondered greatly at her beauty, and said unto her,

bes@Jdt:10:15 @ Thou hast saved thy life, in that thou hast hasted to come down to the presence of our lord: now therefore come to his tent, and some of us shall conduct thee, until they have delivered thee to his hands.

bes@Jdt:10:16 @ And when thou standest before him, be not afraid in thine heart, but shew unto him according to thy word; and he will entreat thee well.

bes@Jdt:10:18 @ Then was there a concourse throughout all the camp: for her coming was noised among the tents, and they came about her, as she stood without the tent of Holofernes, till they told him of her.

bes@Jdt:10:19 @ And they wondered at her beauty, and admired the children of Israel because of her, and every one said to his neighbour, Who would despise this people, that have among them such women? surely it is not good that one man of them be left who being let go might deceive the whole earth.

bes@Jdt:10:21 @ Now Holofernes rested upon his bed under a canopy, which was woven with purple, and gold, and emeralds, and precious stones.

bes@Jdt:11:1 @ Then said Holofernes unto her, Woman, be of good comfort, fear not in thine heart: for I never hurt any that was willing to serve Nabuchodonosor, the king of all the earth.

bes@Jdt:11:2 @ Now therefore, if thy people that dwelleth in the mountains had not set light by me, I would not have lifted up my spear against them: but they have done these things to themselves.

bes@Jdt:11:3 @ But now tell me wherefore thou art fled from them, and art come unto us: for thou art come for safeguard; be of good comfort, thou shalt live this night, and hereafter:

bes@Jdt:11:4 @ For none shall hurt thee, but entreat thee well, as they do the servants of king Nabuchodonosor my lord.

bes@Jdt:11:5 @ Then Judith said unto him, Receive the words of thy servant, and suffer thine handmaid to speak in thy presence, and I will declare no lie to my lord this night.

bes@Jdt:11:6 @ And if thou wilt follow the words of thine handmaid, God will bring the thing perfectly to pass by thee; and my lord shall not fail of his purposes.

bes@Jdt:11:7 @ As Nabuchodonosor king of all the earth liveth, and as his power liveth, who hath sent thee for the upholding of every living thing: for not only men shall serve him by thee, but also the beasts of the field, and the cattle, and the fowls of the air, shall live by thy power under Nabuchodonosor and all his house.

bes@Jdt:11:8 @ For we have heard of thy wisdom and thy policies, and it is reported in all the earth, that thou only art excellent in all the kingdom, and mighty in knowledge, and wonderful in feats of war.

bes@Jdt:11:9 @ Now as concerning the matter, which Achior did speak in thy council, we have heard his words; for the men of Bethulia saved him, and he declared unto them all that he had spoken unto thee.

bes@Jdt:11:10 @ Therefore, O lord and governor, reject not his word; but lay it up in thine heart, for it is true: for our nation shall not be punished, neither can sword prevail against them, except they sin against their God.

bes@Jdt:11:11 @ And now, that my lord be not defeated and frustrate of his purpose, even death is now fallen upon them, and their sin hath overtaken them, wherewith they will provoke their God to anger whensoever they shall do that which is not fit to be done:

bes@Jdt:11:13 @ And are resolved to spend the firstfruits of the the tenths of wine and oil, which they had sanctified, and reserved for the priests that serve in Jerusalem before the face of our God; the which things it is not lawful for any of the people so much as to touch with their hands.

bes@Jdt:11:15 @ Now when they shall bring them word, they will forthwith do it, and they shall be given to thee to be destroyed the same day.

bes@Jdt:11:16 @ Wherefore I thine handmaid, knowing all this, am fled from their presence; and God hath sent me to work things with thee, whereat all the earth shall be astonished, and whosoever shall hear it.

bes@Jdt:11:17 @ For thy servant is religious, and serveth the God of heaven day and night: now therefore, my lord, I will remain with thee, and thy servant will go out by night into the valley, and I will pray unto God, and he will tell me when they have committed their sins:

bes@Jdt:11:18 @ And I will come and shew it unto thee: then thou shalt go forth with all thine army, and there shall be none of them that shall resist thee.

bes@Jdt:11:19 @ And I will lead thee through the midst of Judea, until thou come before Jerusalem; and I will set thy throne in the midst thereof; and thou shalt drive them as sheep that have no shepherd, and a dog shall not so much as open his mouth at thee: for these things were told me according to my foreknowledge, and they were declared unto me, and I am sent to tell thee.

bes@Jdt:11:21 @ There is not such a woman from one end of the earth to the other, both for beauty of face, and wisdom of words.

bes@Jdt:11:23 @ And now thou art both beautiful in thy countenance, and witty in thy words: surely if thou do as thou hast spoken thy God shall be my God, and thou shalt dwell in the house of king Nabuchodonosor, and shalt be renowned through the whole earth.

bes@Jdt:12:2 @ And Judith said, I will not eat thereof, lest there be an offence: but provision shall be made for me of the things that I have brought.

bes@Jdt:12:3 @ Then Holofernes said unto her, If thy provision should fail, how should we give thee the like? for there be none with us of thy nation.

bes@Jdt:12:4 @ Then said Judith unto him As thy soul liveth, my lord, thine handmaid shall not spend those things that I have, before the Lord work by mine hand the things that he hath determined.

bes@Jdt:12:6 @ And sent to Holofernes, saving, Let my lord now command that thine handmaid may go forth unto prayer.

bes@Jdt:12:7 @ Then Holofernes commanded his guard that they should not stay her: thus she abode in the camp three days, and went out in the night into the valley of Bethulia, and washed herself in a fountain of water by the camp.

bes@Jdt:12:10 @ And in the fourth day Holofernes made a feast to his own servants only, and called none of the officers to the banquet.

bes@Jdt:12:11 @ Then said he to Bagoas the eunuch, who had charge over all that he had, Go now, and persuade this Hebrew woman which is with thee, that she come unto us, and eat and drink with us.

bes@Jdt:12:12 @ For, lo, it will be a shame for our person, if we shall let such a woman go, not having had her company; for if we draw her not unto us, she will laugh us to scorn.

bes@Jdt:12:13 @ Then went Bagoas from the presence of Holofernes, and came to her, and he said, Let not this fair damsel fear to come to my lord, and to be honoured in his presence, and drink wine, and be merry with us and be made this day as one of the daughters of the Assyrians, which serve in the house of Nabuchodonosor.

bes@Jdt:12:14 @ Then said Judith unto him, Who am I now, that I should gainsay my lord? surely whatsoever pleaseth him I will do speedily, and it shall be my joy unto the day of my death.

bes@Jdt:12:16 @ Now when Judith came in and sat down, Holofernes his heart was ravished with her, and his mind was moved, and he desired greatly her company; for he waited a time to deceive her, from the day that he had seen her.

bes@Jdt:12:17 @ Then said Holofernes unto her, Drink now, and be merry with us.

bes@Jdt:12:18 @ So Judith said, I will drink now, my lord, because my life is magnified in me this day more than all the days since I was born.

bes@Jdt:13:1 @ Now when the evening was come, his servants made haste to depart, and Bagoas shut his tent without, and dismissed the waiters from the presence of his lord; and they went to their beds: for they were all weary, because the feast had been long.

bes@Jdt:13:3 @ Now Judith had commanded her maid to stand without her bedchamber, and to wait for her. coming forth, as she did daily: for she said she would go forth to her prayers, and she spake to Bagoas according to the same purpose.

bes@Jdt:13:4 @ So all went forth and none was left in the bedchamber, neither little nor great. Then Judith, standing by his bed, said in her heart, O Lord God of all power, look at this present upon the works of mine hands for the exaltation of Jerusalem.

bes@Jdt:13:5 @ For now is the time to help thine inheritance, and to execute thine enterprizes to the destruction of the enemies which are risen against us.

bes@Jdt:13:9 @ And tumbled his body down from the bed, and pulled down the canopy from the pillars; and anon after she went forth, and gave Holofernes his head to her maid;

bes@Jdt:13:11 @ Then said Judith afar off, to the watchmen at the gate, Open, open now the gate: God, even our God, is with us, to shew his power yet in Jerusalem, and his forces against the enemy, as he hath even done this day.

bes@Jdt:13:12 @ Now when the men of her city heard her voice, they made haste to go down to the gate of their city, and they called the elders of the city.

bes@Jdt:13:14 @ Then she said to them with a loud voice, Praise, praise God, praise God, I say, for he hath not taken away his mercy from the house of Israel, but hath destroyed our enemies by mine hands this night.

bes@Jdt:13:15 @ So she took the head out of the bag, and shewed it, and said unto them, behold the head of Holofernes, the chief captain of the army of Assur, and behold the canopy, wherein he did lie in his drunkenness; and the Lord hath smitten him by the hand of a woman.

bes@Jdt:13:16 @ As the Lord liveth, who hath kept me in my way that I went, my countenance hath deceived him to his destruction, and yet hath he not committed sin with me, to defile and shame me.

bes@Jdt:13:17 @ Then all the people were wonderfully astonished, and bowed themselves and worshipped God, and said with one accord, Blessed be thou, O our God, which hast this day brought to nought the enemies of thy people.

bes@Jdt:13:19 @ For this thy confidence shall not depart from the heart of men, which remember the power of God for ever.

bes@Jdt:13:20 @ And God turn these things to thee for a perpetual praise, to visit thee in good things because thou hast not spared thy life for the affliction of our nation, but hast revenged our ruin, walking a straight way before our God. And all the people said; So be it, so be it.

bes@Jdt:14:1 @ Then said Judith unto them, Hear me now, my brethren, and take this head, and hang it upon the highest place of your walls.

bes@Jdt:14:2 @ And so soon as the morning shall appear, and the sun shall come forth upon the earth, take ye every one his weapons, and go forth every valiant man out of the city, and set ye a captain over them, as though ye would go down into the field toward the watch of the Assyrians; but go not down.

bes@Jdt:14:3 @ Then they shall take their armour, and shall go into their camp, and raise up the captains of the army of Assur, and shall run to the tent of Holofernes, but shall not find him: then fear shall fall upon them, and they shall flee before your face.

bes@Jdt:14:5 @ But before ye do these things, call me Achior the Ammonite, that he may see and know him that despised the house of Israel, and that sent him to us as it were to his death.

bes@Jdt:14:8 @ Now therefore tell me all the things that thou hast done in these days. Then Judith declared unto him in the midst of the people all that she had done, from the day that she went forth until that hour she spake unto them.

bes@Jdt:14:9 @ And when she had left off speaking, the people shouted with a loud voice, and made a joyful noise in their city.

bes@Jdt:14:13 @ So they came to Holofernes’ tent, and said to him that had the charge of all his things, Waken now our lord: for the slaves have been bold to come down against us to battle, that they may be utterly destroyed.

bes@Jdt:14:14 @ Then went in Bagoas, and knocked at the door of the tent; for he thought that he had slept with Judith.

bes@Jdt:14:15 @ But because none answered, he opened it, and went into the bedchamber, and found him cast upon the floor dead, and his head was taken from him.

bes@Jdt:14:17 @ After he went into the tent where Judith lodged: and when he found her not, he leaped out to the people, and cried,

bes@Jdt:14:18 @ These slaves have dealt treacherously; one woman of the Hebrews hath brought shame upon the house of king Nabuchodonosor: for, behold, Holofernes lieth upon the ground without a head.

bes@Jdt:14:19 @ When the captains of the Assyrians’ army heard these words, they rent their coats and their minds were wonderfully troubled, and there was a cry and a very great noise throughout the camp.

bes@Jdt:15:2 @ And fear and trembling fell upon them, so that there was no man that durst abide in the sight of his neighbour, but rushing out all together, they fled into every way of the plain, and of the hill country.

bes@Jdt:15:5 @ Now when the children of Israel heard it, they all fell upon them with one consent, and slew them unto Chobai: likewise also they that came from Jerusalem, and from all the hill country, (for men had told them what things were done in the camp of their enemies) and they that were in Galaad, and in Galilee, chased them with a great slaughter, until they were past Damascus and the borders thereof.

bes@Jdt:16:4 @ Assur came out of the mountains from the north, he came with ten thousands of his army, the multitude whereof stopped the torrents, and their horsemen have covered the hills.

bes@Jdt:16:7 @ For the mighty one did not fall by the young men, neither did the sons of the Titans smite him, nor high giants set upon him: but Judith the daughter of Merari weakened him with the beauty of her countenance.

bes@Jdt:16:8 @ For she put off the garment of her widowhood for the exaltation of those that were oppressed in Israel, and anointed her face with ointment, and bound her hair in a tire, and took a linen garment to deceive him.

bes@Jdt:16:14 @ Let all creatures serve thee: for thou spakest, and they were made, thou didst send forth thy spirit, and it created them, and there is none that can resist thy voice.

bes@Jdt:16:16 @ For all sacrifice is too little for a sweet savour unto thee, and all the fat is not sufficient for thy burnt offering: but he that feareth the Lord is great at all times.

bes@Jdt:16:18 @ Now as soon as they entered into Jerusalem, they worshipped the Lord; and as soon as the people were purified, they offered their burnt offerings, and their free offerings, and their gifts.

bes@Jdt:16:19 @ Judith also dedicated all the stuff of Holofernes, which the people had given her, and gave the canopy, which she had taken out of his bedchamber, for a gift unto the Lord.

bes@Jdt:16:21 @ After this time every one returned to his own inheritance, and Judith went to Bethulia, and remained in her own possession, and was in her time honourable in all the country.

bes@Jdt:16:22 @ And many desired her, but none knew her all the days of her life, after that Manasses her husband was dead, and was gathered to his people.

bes@Jdt:16:23 @ But she increased more and more in honour, and waxed old in her husband’s house, being an hundred and five years old, and made her maid free; so she died in Bethulia: and they buried her in the cave of her husband Manasses.

bes@Jdt:16:25 @ And there was none that made the children of Israel any more afraid in the days of Judith, nor a long time after her death.

bes@Wis:1:2 @ For he will be found of them that tempt him not; and sheweth himself unto such as do not distrust him.

bes@Wis:1:4 @ For into a malicious soul wisdom shall not enter; nor dwell in the body that is subject unto sin.

bes@Wis:1:5 @ For the holy spirit of discipline will flee deceit, and remove from thoughts that are without understanding, and will not abide when unrighteousness cometh in.

bes@Wis:1:6 @ For wisdom is a loving spirit; and will not acquit a blasphemer of his words: for God is witness of his reins, and a true beholder of his heart, and a hearer of his tongue.

bes@Wis:1:7 @ For the Spirit of the Lord filleth the world: and that which containeth all things hath knowledge of the voice.

bes@Wis:1:8 @ Therefore he that speaketh unrighteous things cannot be hid: neither shall vengeance, when it punisheth, pass by him.

bes@Wis:1:10 @ For the ear of jealousy heareth all things: and the noise of murmurings is not hid.

bes@Wis:1:11 @ Therefore beware of murmuring, which is unprofitable; and refrain your tongue from backbiting: for there is no word so secret, that shall go for nought: and the mouth that belieth slayeth the soul.

bes@Wis:1:12 @ Seek not death in the error of your life: and pull not upon yourselves destruction with the works of your hands.

bes@Wis:1:13 @ For God made not death: neither hath he pleasure in the destruction of the living.

bes@Wis:1:14 @ For he created all things, that they might have their being: and the generations of the world were healthful; and there is no poison of destruction in them, nor the kingdom of death upon the earth:

bes@Wis:1:16 @ But ungodly men with their works and words called it to them: for when they thought to have it their friend, they consumed to nought, and made a covenant with it, because they are worthy to take part with it.

bes@Wis:2:1 @ For the ungodly said, reasoning with themselves, but not aright, Our life is short and tedious, and in the death of a man there is no remedy: neither was there any man known to have returned from the grave.

bes@Wis:2:2 @ For we are born at all adventure: and we shall be hereafter as though we had never been: for the breath in our nostrils is as smoke, and a little spark in the moving of our heart:

bes@Wis:2:4 @ And our name shall be forgotten in time, and no man shall have our works in remembrance, and our life shall pass away as the trace of a cloud, and shall be dispersed as a mist, that is driven away with the beams of the sun, and overcome with the heat thereof.

bes@Wis:2:5 @ For our time is a very shadow that passeth away; and after our end there is no returning: for it is fast sealed, so that no man cometh again.

bes@Wis:2:7 @ Let us fill ourselves with costly wine and ointments: and let no flower of the spring pass by us:

bes@Wis:2:9 @ Let none of us go without his part of our voluptuousness: let us leave tokens of our joyfulness in every place: for this is our portion, and our lot is this.

bes@Wis:2:10 @ Let us oppress the poor righteous man, let us not spare the widow, nor reverence the ancient gray hairs of the aged.

bes@Wis:2:11 @ Let our strength be the law of justice: for that which is feeble is found to be nothing worth.

bes@Wis:2:12 @ Therefore let us lie in wait for the righteous; because he is not for our turn, and he is clean contrary to our doings: he upbraideth us with our offending the law, and objecteth to our infamy the transgressings of our education.

bes@Wis:2:13 @ He professeth to have the knowledge of God: and he calleth himself the child of the Lord.

bes@Wis:2:15 @ He is grievous unto us even to behold: for his life is not like other men’s, his ways are of another fashion.

bes@Wis:2:16 @ We are esteemed of him as counterfeits: he abstaineth from our ways as from filthiness: he pronounceth the end of the just to be blessed, and maketh his boast that God is his father.

bes@Wis:2:19 @ Let us examine him with despitefulness and torture, that we may know his meekness, and prove his patience.

bes@Wis:2:22 @ As for the mysteries of God, they knew them not: neither hoped they for the wages of righteousness, nor discerned a reward for blameless souls.

bes@Wis:3:1 @ But the souls of the righteous are in the hand of God, and there shall no torment touch them.

bes@Wis:3:13 @ Their offspring is cursed. Wherefore blessed is the barren that is undefiled, which hath not known the sinful bed: she shall have fruit in the visitation of souls.

bes@Wis:3:14 @ And blessed is the eunuch, which with his hands hath wrought no iniquity, nor imagined wicked things against God: for unto him shall be given the special gift of faith, and an inheritance in the temple of the Lord more acceptable to his mind.

bes@Wis:3:16 @ As for the children of adulterers, they shall not come to their perfection, and the seed of an unrighteous bed shall be rooted out.

bes@Wis:3:17 @ For though they live long, yet shall they be nothing regarded: and their last age shall be without honour.

bes@Wis:3:18 @ Or, if they die quickly, they have no hope, neither comfort in the day of trial.

bes@Wis:4:1 @ Better it is to have no children, and to have virtue: for the memorial thereof is immortal: because it is known with God, and with men.

bes@Wis:4:3 @ But the multiplying brood of the ungodly shall not thrive, nor take deep rooting from bastard slips, nor lay any fast foundation.

bes@Wis:4:4 @ For though they flourish in branches for a time; yet standing not last, they shall be shaken with the wind, and through the force of winds they shall be rooted out.

bes@Wis:4:5 @ The imperfect branches shall be broken off, their fruit unprofitable, not ripe to eat, yea, meet for nothing.

bes@Wis:4:8 @ For honourable age is not that which standeth in length of time, nor that is measured by number of years.

bes@Wis:4:15 @ This the people saw, and understood it not, neither laid they up this in their minds, That his grace and mercy is with his saints, and that he hath respect unto his chosen.

bes@Wis:4:17 @ For they shall see the end of the wise, and shall not understand what God in his counsel hath decreed of him, and to what end the Lord hath set him in safety.

bes@Wis:5:1 @ Then shall the righteous man stand in great boldness before the face of such as have afflicted him, and made no account of his labours.

bes@Wis:5:4 @ We fools accounted his life madness, and his end to be without honour:

bes@Wis:5:6 @ Therefore have we erred from the way of truth, and the light of righteousness hath not shined unto us, and the sun of righteousness rose not upon us.

bes@Wis:5:7 @ We wearied ourselves in the way of wickedness and destruction: yea, we have gone through deserts, where there lay no way: but as for the way of the Lord, we have not known it.

bes@Wis:5:10 @ And as a ship that passeth over the waves of the water, which when it is gone by, the trace thereof cannot be found, neither the pathway of the keel in the waves;

bes@Wis:5:11 @ Or as when a bird hath flown through the air, there is no token of her way to be found, but the light air being beaten with the stroke of her wings and parted with the violent noise and motion of them, is passed through, and therein afterwards no sign where she went is to be found;

bes@Wis:5:12 @ Or like as when an arrow is shot at a mark, it parteth the air, which immediately cometh together again, so that a man cannot know where it went through:

bes@Wis:5:13 @ Even so we in like manner, as soon as we were born, began to draw to our end, and had no sign of virtue to shew; but were consumed in our own wickedness.

bes@Wis:6:4 @ Because, being ministers of his kingdom, ye have not judged aright, nor kept the law, nor walked after the counsel of God;

bes@Wis:6:7 @ For he which is Lord over all shall fear no man’s person, neither shall he stand in awe of any man’s greatness: for he hath made the small and great, and careth for all alike.

bes@Wis:6:9 @ Unto you therefore, O kings, do I speak, that ye may learn wisdom, and not fall away.

bes@Wis:6:13 @ She preventeth them that desire her, in making herself first known unto them.

bes@Wis:6:14 @ Whoso seeketh her early shall have no great travail: for he shall find her sitting at his doors.

bes@Wis:6:21 @ If your delight be then in thrones and sceptres, O ye kings of the people, honour wisdom, that ye may reign for evermore.

bes@Wis:6:22 @ As for wisdom, what she is, and how she came up, I will tell you, and will not hide mysteries from you: but will seek her out from the beginning of her nativity, and bring the knowledge of her into light, and will not pass over the truth.

bes@Wis:6:23 @ Neither will I go with consuming envy; for such a man shall have no fellowship with wisdom.

bes@Wis:7:5 @ For there is no king that had any other beginning of birth.

bes@Wis:7:8 @ I preferred her before sceptres and thrones, and esteemed riches nothing in comparison of her.

bes@Wis:7:12 @ And I rejoiced in them all, because wisdom goeth before them: and I knew not that she was the mother of them.

bes@Wis:7:13 @ I learned diligently, and do communicate her liberally: I do not hide her riches.

bes@Wis:7:16 @ For in his hand are both we and our words; all wisdom also, and knowledge of workmanship.

bes@Wis:7:17 @ For he hath given me certain knowledge of the things that are, namely, to know how the world was made, and the operation of the elements:

bes@Wis:7:21 @ And all such things as are either secret or manifest, them I know.

bes@Wis:7:22 @ For wisdom, which is the worker of all things, taught me: for in her is an understanding spirit holy, one only, manifold, subtil, lively, clear, undefiled, plain, not subject to hurt, loving the thing that is good quick, which cannot be letted, ready to do good,

bes@Wis:7:25 @ For she is the breath of the power of God, and a pure influence flowing from the glory of the Almighty: therefore can no defiled thing fall into her.

bes@Wis:7:28 @ For God loveth none but him that dwelleth with wisdom.

bes@Wis:7:30 @ For after this cometh night: but vice shall not prevail against wisdom.

bes@Wis:8:1 @ Wisdom reacheth from one end to another mightily: and sweetly doth she order all things.

bes@Wis:8:3 @ In that she is conversant with God, she magnifieth her nobility: yea, the Lord of all things himself loved her.

bes@Wis:8:4 @ For she is privy to the mysteries of the knowledge of God, and a lover of his works.

bes@Wis:8:7 @ And if a man love righteousness her labours are virtues: for she teacheth temperance and prudence, justice and fortitude: which are such things, as men can have nothing more profitable in their life.

bes@Wis:8:8 @ If a man desire much experience, she knoweth things of old, and conjectureth aright what is to come: she knoweth the subtilties of speeches, and can expound dark sentences: she foreseeth signs and wonders, and the events of seasons and times.

bes@Wis:8:9 @ Therefore I purposed to take her to me to live with me, knowing that she would be a counsellor of good things, and a comfort in cares and grief.

bes@Wis:8:10 @ For her sake I shall have estimation among the multitude, and honour with the elders, though I be young.

bes@Wis:8:16 @ After I am come into mine house, I will repose myself with her: for her conversation hath no bitterness; and to live with her hath no sorrow, but mirth and joy.

bes@Wis:8:17 @ Now when I considered these things in myself, and pondered them in my heart, how that to be allied unto wisdom is immortality;

bes@Wis:8:21 @ Nevertheless, when I perceived that I could not otherwise obtain her, except God gave her me; and that was a point of wisdom also to know whose gift she was; I prayed unto the Lord, and besought him, and with my whole heart I said,

bes@Wis:9:4 @ Give me wisdom, that sitteth by thy throne; and reject me not from among thy children:

bes@Wis:9:6 @ For though a man be never so perfect among the children of men, yet if thy wisdom be not with him, he shall be nothing regarded.

bes@Wis:9:9 @ And wisdom was with thee: which knoweth thy works, and was present when thou madest the world, and knew what was acceptable in thy sight, and right in thy commandments.

bes@Wis:9:10 @ O send her out of thy holy heavens, and from the throne of thy glory, that being present she may labour with me, that I may know what is pleasing unto thee.

bes@Wis:9:11 @ For she knoweth and understandeth all things, and she shall lead me soberly in my doings, and preserve me in her power.

bes@Wis:9:13 @ For what man is he that can know the counsel of God? or who can think what the will of the Lord is?

bes@Wis:9:17 @ And thy counsel who hath known, except thou give wisdom, and send thy Holy Spirit from above?

bes@Wis:10:8 @ For regarding not wisdom, they gat not only this hurt, that they knew not the things which were good; but also left behind them to the world a memorial of their foolishness: so that in the things wherein they offended they could not so much as be hid.

bes@Wis:10:10 @ When the righteous fled from his brother’s wrath she guided him in right paths, shewed him the kingdom of God, and gave him knowledge of holy things, made him rich in his travels, and multiplied the fruit of his labours.

bes@Wis:10:12 @ She defended him from his enemies, and kept him safe from those that lay in wait, and in a sore conflict she gave him the victory; that he might know that goodness is stronger than all.

bes@Wis:10:13 @ When the righteous was sold, she forsook him not, but delivered him from sin: she went down with him into the pit,

bes@Wis:10:14 @ And left him not in bonds, till she brought him the sceptre of the kingdom, and power against those that oppressed him: as for them that had accused him, she shewed them to be liars, and gave him perpetual glory.

bes@Wis:10:21 @ For wisdom opened the mouth of the dumb, and made the tongues of them that cannot speak eloquent.

bes@Wis:11:2 @ They went through the wilderness that was not inhabited, and pitched tents in places where there lay no way.

bes@Wis:11:7 @ For a manifest reproof of that commandment, whereby the infants were slain, thou gavest unto them abundance of water by a means which they hoped not for:

bes@Wis:11:9 @ For when they were tried albeit but in mercy chastised, they knew how the ungodly were judged in wrath and tormented, thirsting in another manner than the just.

bes@Wis:11:16 @ That they might know, that wherewithal a man sinneth, by the same also shall he be punished.

bes@Wis:11:17 @ For thy Almighty hand, that made the world of matter without form, wanted not means to send among them a multitude of bears or fierce lions,

bes@Wis:11:18 @ Or unknown wild beasts, full of rage, newly created, breathing out either a fiery vapour, or filthy scents of scattered smoke, or shooting horrible sparkles out of their eyes:

bes@Wis:11:19 @ Whereof not only the harm might dispatch them at once, but also the terrible sight utterly destroy them.

bes@Wis:11:24 @ For thou lovest all the things that are, and abhorrest nothing which thou hast made: for never wouldest thou have made any thing, if thou hadst hated it.

bes@Wis:11:25 @ And how could any thing have endured, if it had not been thy will? or been preserved, if not called by thee?

bes@Wis:12:9 @ Not that thou wast unable to bring the ungodly under the hand of the righteous in battle, or to destroy them at once with cruel beasts, or with one rough word:

bes@Wis:12:10 @ But executing thy judgements upon them by little and little, thou gavest them place of repentance, not being ignorant that they were a naughty generation, and that their malice was bred in them, and that their cogitation would never be changed.

bes@Wis:12:13 @ For neither is there any God but thou that careth for all, to whom thou mightest shew that thy judgement is not unright.

bes@Wis:12:15 @ Forsomuch then as thou art righteous thyself, thou orderest all things righteously: thinking it not agreeable with thy power to condemn him that hath not deserved to be punished.

bes@Wis:12:17 @ For when men will not believe that thou art of a full power, thou shewest thy strength, and among them that know it thou makest their boldness manifest.

bes@Wis:12:24 @ For they went astray very far in the ways of error, and held them for gods, which even among the beasts of their enemies were despised, being deceived, as children of no understanding.

bes@Wis:12:26 @ But they that would not be reformed by that correction, wherein he dallied with them, shall feel a judgement worthy of God.

bes@Wis:12:27 @ For, look, for what things they grudged, when they were punished, that is, for them whom they thought to be gods; now being punished in them, when they saw it, they acknowledged him to be the true God, whom before they denied to know: and therefore came extreme damnation upon them.

bes@Wis:13:1 @ Surely vain are all men by nature, who are ignorant of God, and could not out of the good things that are seen know him that is: neither by considering the works did they acknowledge the workmaster;

bes@Wis:13:3 @ With whose beauty if they being delighted took them to be gods; let them know how much better the Lord of them is: for the first author of beauty hath created them.

bes@Wis:13:9 @ For if they were able to know so much, that they could aim at the world; how did they not sooner find out the Lord thereof?

bes@Wis:13:10 @ But miserable are they, and in dead things is their hope, who call them gods, which are the works of men’s hands, gold and silver, to shew art in, and resemblances of beasts, or a stone good for nothing, the work of an ancient hand.

bes@Wis:13:11 @ Now a carpenter that felleth timber, after he hath sawn down a tree meet for the purpose, and taken off all the bark skilfully round about, and hath wrought it handsomely, and made a vessel thereof fit for the service of man’s life;

bes@Wis:13:13 @ And taking the very refuse among those which served to no use, being a crooked piece of wood, and full of knots, hath carved it diligently, when he had nothing else to do, and formed it by the skill of his understanding, and fashioned it to the image of a man;

bes@Wis:13:16 @ For he provided for it that it might not fall, knowing that it was unable to help itself; for it is an image, and hath need of help:

bes@Wis:13:17 @ Then maketh he prayer for his goods, for his wife and children, and is not ashamed to speak to that which hath no life.

bes@Wis:13:18 @ For health he calleth upon that which is weak: for life prayeth to that which is dead; for aid humbly beseecheth that which hath least means to help: and for a good journey he asketh of that which cannot set a foot forward:

bes@Wis:14:5 @ Nevertheless thou wouldest not that the works of thy wisdom should be idle, and therefore do men commit their lives to a small piece of wood, and passing the rough sea in a weak vessel are saved.

bes@Wis:14:15 @ For a father afflicted with untimely mourning, when he hath made an image of his child soon taken away, now honoured him as a god, which was then a dead man, and delivered to those that were under him ceremonies and sacrifices.

bes@Wis:14:17 @ Whom men could not honour in presence, because they dwelt far off, they took the counterfeit of his visage from far, and made an express image of a king whom they honoured, to the end that by this their forwardness they might flatter him that was absent, as if he were present.

bes@Wis:14:18 @ Also the singular diligence of the artificer did help to set forward the ignorant to more superstition.

bes@Wis:14:20 @ And so the multitude, allured by the grace of the work, took him now for a god, which a little before was but honoured.

bes@Wis:14:22 @ Moreover this was not enough for them, that they erred in the knowledge of God; but whereas they lived in the great war of ignorance, those so great plagues called they peace.

bes@Wis:14:24 @ They kept neither lives nor marriages any longer undefiled: but either one slew another traitorously, or grieved him by adultery.

bes@Wis:14:27 @ For the worshipping of idols not to be named is the beginning, the cause, and the end, of all evil.

bes@Wis:14:29 @ For insomuch as their trust is in idols, which have no life; though they swear falsely, yet they look not to be hurt.

bes@Wis:14:30 @ Howbeit for both causes shall they be justly punished: both because they thought not well of God, giving heed unto idols, and also unjustly swore in deceit, despising holiness.

bes@Wis:14:31 @ For it is not the power of them by whom they swear: but it is the just vengeance of sinners, that punisheth always the offence of the ungodly.

bes@Wis:15:2 @ For if we sin, we are thine, knowing thy power: but we will not sin, knowing that we are counted thine.

bes@Wis:15:3 @ For to know thee is perfect righteousness: yea, to know thy power is the root of immortality.

bes@Wis:15:4 @ For neither did the mischievous invention of men deceive us, nor an image spotted with divers colours, the painter’s fruitless labour;

bes@Wis:15:5 @ The sight whereof enticeth fools to lust after it, and so they desire the form of a dead image, that hath no breath.

bes@Wis:15:9 @ Notwithstanding his care is, not that he shall have much labour, nor that his life is short: but striveth to excel goldsmiths and silversmiths, and endeavoureth to do like the workers in brass, and counteth it his glory to make counterfeit things.

bes@Wis:15:11 @ Forasmuch as he knew not his Maker, and him that inspired into him an active soul, and breathed in a living spirit.

bes@Wis:15:13 @ For this man, that of earthly matter maketh brittle vessels and graven images, knoweth himself to offend above all others.

bes@Wis:15:15 @ For they counted all the idols of the heathen to be gods: which neither have the use of eyes to see, nor noses to draw breath, nor ears to hear, nor fingers of hands to handle; and as for their feet, they are slow to go.

bes@Wis:15:16 @ For man made them, and he that borrowed his own spirit fashioned them: but no man can make a god like unto himself.

bes@Wis:16:4 @ For it was requisite, that upon them exercising tyranny should come penury, which they could not avoid: but to these it should only be shewed how their enemies were tormented.

bes@Wis:16:5 @ For when the horrible fierceness of beasts came upon these, and they perished with the stings of crooked serpents, thy wrath endured not for ever:

bes@Wis:16:7 @ For he that turned himself toward it was not saved by the thing that he saw, but by thee, that art the Saviour of all.

bes@Wis:16:10 @ But thy sons not the very teeth of venomous dragons overcame: for thy mercy was ever by them, and healed them.

bes@Wis:16:11 @ For they were pricked, that they should remember thy words; and were quickly saved, that not falling into deep forgetfulness, they might be continually mindful of thy goodness.

bes@Wis:16:12 @ For it was neither herb, nor mollifying plaister, that restored them to health: but thy word, O Lord, which healeth all things.

bes@Wis:16:14 @ A man indeed killeth through his malice: and the spirit, when it is gone forth, returneth not; neither the soul received up cometh again.

bes@Wis:16:15 @ But it is not possible to escape thine hand.

bes@Wis:16:16 @ For the ungodly, that denied to know thee, were scourged by the strength of thine arm: with strange rains, hails, and showers, were they persecuted, that they could not avoid, and through fire were they consumed.

bes@Wis:16:18 @ For sometime the flame was mitigated, that it might not burn up the beasts that were sent against the ungodly; but themselves might see and perceive that they were persecuted with the judgement of God.

bes@Wis:16:19 @ And at another time it burneth even in the midst of water above the power of fire, that it might destroy the fruits of an unjust land.

bes@Wis:16:22 @ But snow and ice endured the fire, and melted not, that they might know that fire burning in the hail, and sparkling in the rain, did destroy the fruits of the enemies.

bes@Wis:16:23 @ But this again did even forget his own strength, that the righteous might be nourished.

bes@Wis:16:25 @ Therefore even then was it altered into all fashions, and was obedient to thy grace, that nourisheth all things, according to the desire of them that had need:

bes@Wis:16:26 @ That thy children, O Lord, whom thou lovest, might know, that it is not the growing of fruits that nourisheth man: but that it is thy word, which preserveth them that put their trust in thee.

bes@Wis:16:27 @ For that which was not destroyed of the fire, being warmed with a little sunbeam, soon melted away:

bes@Wis:16:28 @ That it might be known, that we must prevent the sun to give thee thanks, and at the dayspring pray unto thee.

bes@Wis:17:1 @ For great are thy judgements, and cannot be expressed: therefore unnurtured souls have erred.

bes@Wis:17:4 @ For neither might the corner that held them keep them from fear: but noises as of waters falling down sounded about them, and sad visions appeared unto them with heavy countenances.

bes@Wis:17:5 @ No power of the fire might give them light: neither could the bright flames of the stars endure to lighten that horrible night.

bes@Wis:17:6 @ Only there appeared unto them a fire kindled of itself, very dreadful: for being much terrified, they thought the things which they saw to be worse than the sight they saw not.

bes@Wis:17:9 @ For though no terrible thing did fear them; yet being scared with beasts that passed by, and hissing of serpents,

bes@Wis:17:10 @ They died for fear, denying that they saw the air, which could of no side be avoided.

bes@Wis:17:12 @ For fear is nothing else but a betraying of the succours which reason offereth.

bes@Wis:17:13 @ And the expectation from within, being less, counteth the ignorance more than the cause which bringeth the torment.

bes@Wis:17:15 @ Were partly vexed with monstrous apparitions, and partly fainted, their heart failing them: for a sudden fear, and not looked for, came upon them.

bes@Wis:17:17 @ For whether he were husbandman, or shepherd, or a labourer in the field, he was overtaken, and endured that necessity, which could not be avoided: for they were all bound with one chain of darkness.

bes@Wis:17:18 @ Whether it were a whistling wind, or a melodious noise of birds among the spreading branches, or a pleasing fall of water running violently,

bes@Wis:17:19 @ Or a terrible sound of stones cast down, or a running that could not be seen of skipping beasts, or a roaring voice of most savage wild beasts, or a rebounding echo from the hollow mountains; these things made them to swoon for fear.

bes@Wis:17:20 @ For the whole world shined with clear light, and none were hindered in their labour:

bes@Wis:18:1 @ Nevertheless thy saints had a very great light, whose voice they hearing, and not seeing their shape, because they also had not suffered the same things, they counted them happy.

bes@Wis:18:2 @ But for that they did not hurt them now, of whom they had been wronged before, they thanked them, and besought them pardon for that they had been enemies.

bes@Wis:18:3 @ Instead whereof thou gavest them a burning pillar of fire, both to be a guide of the unknown journey, and an harmless sun to entertain them honourably.

bes@Wis:18:6 @ Of that night were our fathers certified afore, that assuredly knowing unto what oaths they had given credence, they might afterwards be of good cheer.

bes@Wis:18:9 @ For the righteous children of good men did sacrifice secretly, and with one consent made a holy law, that the saints should be like partakers of the same good and evil, the fathers now singing out the songs of praise.

bes@Wis:18:10 @ But on the other side there sounded an ill according cry of the enemies, and a lamentable noise was carried abroad for children that were bewailed.

bes@Wis:18:12 @ So they all together had innumerable dead with one kind of death; neither were the living sufficient to bury them: for in one moment the noblest offspring of them was destroyed.

bes@Wis:18:13 @ For whereas they would not believe any thing by reason of the enchantments; upon the destruction of the firstborn, they acknowledged this people to be the sons of God.

bes@Wis:18:18 @ And one thrown here, and another there, half dead, shewed the cause of his death.

bes@Wis:18:19 @ For the dreams that troubled them did foreshew this, lest they should perish, and not know why they were afflicted.

bes@Wis:18:20 @ Yea, the tasting of death touched the righteous also, and there was a destruction of the multitude in the wilderness: but the wrath endured not long.

bes@Wis:18:22 @ So he overcame the destroyer, not with strength of body, nor force of arms, but with a word subdued him that punished, alleging the oaths and covenants made with the fathers.

bes@Wis:18:23 @ For when the dead were now fallen down by heaps one upon another, standing between, he stayed the wrath, and parted the way to the living.

bes@Wis:18:25 @ Unto these the destroyer gave place, and was afraid of them: for it was enough that they only tasted of the wrath.

bes@Wis:19:3 @ For whilst they were yet mourning and making lamentation at the graves of the dead, they added another foolish device, and pursued them as fugitives, whom they had intreated to be gone.

bes@Wis:19:13 @ And punishments came upon the sinners not without former signs by the force of thunders: for they suffered justly according to their own wickedness, insomuch as they used a more hard and hateful behaviour toward strangers.

bes@Wis:19:14 @ For the Sodomites did not receive those, whom they knew not when they came: but these brought friends into bondage, that had well deserved of them.

bes@Wis:19:15 @ And not only so, but peradventure some respect shall be had of those, because they used strangers not friendly:

bes@Wis:19:18 @ For the elements were changed in themselves by a kind of harmony, like as in a psaltery notes change the name of the tune, and yet are always sounds; which may well be perceived by the sight of the things that have been done.

bes@Wis:19:19 @ For earthly things were turned into watery, and the things, that before swam in the water, now went upon the ground.

bes@Wis:19:21 @ On the other side, the flames wasted not the flesh of the corruptible living things, though they walked therein; neither melted they the icy kind of heavenly meat that was of nature apt to melt.

bes@Tob:1:5 @ Now all the tribes which together revolted, and the house of my father Nephthali, sacrificed unto the heifer Baal.

bes@Tob:1:7 @ The first tenth part of all increase I gave to the sons of Aaron, who ministered at Jerusalem: another tenth part I sold away, and went, and spent it every year at Jerusalem:

bes@Tob:1:15 @ Now when Enemessar was dead, Sennacherib his son reigned in his stead; whose estate was troubled, that I could not go into Media.

bes@Tob:1:18 @ And if the king Sennacherib had slain any, when he was come, and fled from Judea, I buried them privily; for in his wrath he killed many; but the bodies were not found, when they were sought for of the king.

bes@Tob:1:21 @ And there passed not five and fifty days, before two of his sons killed him, and they fled into the mountains of Ararath; and Sarchedonus his son reigned in his stead; who appointed over his father’s accounts, and over all his affairs, Achiacharus my brother Anael’s son.

bes@Tob:1:22 @ And Achiacharus intreating for me, I returned to Nineve. Now Achiacharus was cupbearer, and keeper of the signet, and steward, and overseer of the accounts: and Sarchedonus appointed him next unto him: and he was my brother’s son.

bes@Tob:2:1 @ Now when I was come home again, and my wife Anna was restored unto me, with my son Tobias, in the feast of Pentecost, which is the holy feast of the seven weeks, there was a good dinner prepared me, in the which I sat down to eat.

bes@Tob:2:8 @ But my neighbours mocked me, and said, This man is not yet afraid to be put to death for this matter: who fled away; and yet, lo, he burieth the dead again.

bes@Tob:2:10 @ And I knew not that there were sparrows in the wall, and mine eyes being open, the sparrows muted warm dung into mine eyes, and a whiteness came in mine eyes: and I went to the physicians, but they helped me not: moreover Achiacharus did nourish me, until I went into Elymais.

bes@Tob:2:13 @ And when it was in my house, and began to cry, I said unto her, From whence is this kid? is it not stolen? render it to the owners; for it is not lawful to eat any thing that is stolen.

bes@Tob:2:14 @ But she replied upon me, It was given for a gift more than the wages. Howbeit I did not believe her, but bade her render it to the owners: and I was abashed at her. But she replied upon me, Where are thine alms and thy righteous deeds? behold, thou and all thy works are known.

bes@Tob:3:3 @ Remember me, and look on me, punish me not for my sins and ignorances, and the sins of my fathers, who have sinned before thee:

bes@Tob:3:4 @ For they obeyed not thy commandments: wherefore thou hast delivered us for a spoil, and unto captivity, and unto death, and for a proverb of reproach to all the nations among whom we are dispersed.

bes@Tob:3:5 @ And now thy judgements are many and true: deal with me according to my sins and my fathers’: because we have not kept thy commandments, neither have walked in truth before thee.

bes@Tob:3:6 @ Now therefore deal with me as seemeth best unto thee, and command my spirit to be taken from me, that I may be dissolved, and become earth: for it is profitable for me to die rather than to live, because I have heard false reproaches, and have much sorrow: command therefore that I may now be delivered out of this distress, and go into the everlasting place: turn not thy face away from me.

bes@Tob:3:8 @ Because that she had been married to seven husbands, whom Asmodeus the evil spirit had killed, before they had lain with her. Dost thou not know, said they, that thou hast strangled thine husbands? thou hast had already seven husbands, neither wast thou named after any of them.

bes@Tob:3:11 @ Then she prayed toward the window, and said, Blessed art thou, O Lord my God, and thine holy and glorious name is blessed and honourable for ever: let all thy works praise thee for ever.

bes@Tob:3:12 @ And now, O Lord, I set I mine eyes and my face toward thee,

bes@Tob:3:13 @ And say, Take me out of the earth, that I may hear no more the reproach.

bes@Tob:3:14 @ Thou knowest, Lord, that I am pure from all sin with man,

bes@Tob:3:15 @ And that I never polluted my name, nor the name of my father, in the land of my captivity: I am the only daughter of my father, neither hath he any child to be his heir, neither any near kinsman, nor any son of his alive, to whom I may keep myself for a wife: my seven husbands are already dead; and why should I live? but if it please not thee that I should die, command some regard to be had of me, and pity taken of me, that I hear no more reproach.

bes@Tob:4:2 @ And said with himself, I have wished for death; wherefore do I not call for my son Tobias that I may signify to him of the money before I die?

bes@Tob:4:3 @ And when he had called him, he said, My son, when I am dead, bury me; and despise not thy mother, but honour her all the days of thy life, and do that which shall please her, and grieve her not.

bes@Tob:4:5 @ My son, be mindful of the Lord our God all thy days, and let not thy will be set to sin, or to transgress his commandments: do uprightly all thy life long, and follow not the ways of unrighteousness.

bes@Tob:4:7 @ Give alms of thy substance; and when thou givest alms, let not thine eye be envious, neither turn thy face from any poor, and the face of God shall not be turned away from thee.

bes@Tob:4:8 @ If thou hast abundance give alms accordingly: if thou have but a little, be not afraid to give according to that little:

bes@Tob:4:10 @ Because that alms do deliver from death, and suffereth not to come into darkness.

bes@Tob:4:12 @ Beware of all whoredom, my son, and chiefly take a wife of the seed of thy fathers, and take not a strange woman to wife, which is not of thy father’s tribe: for we are the children of the prophets, Noe, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: remember, my son, that our fathers from the beginning, even that they all married wives of their own kindred, and were blessed in their children, and their seed shall inherit the land.

bes@Tob:4:13 @ Now therefore, my son, love thy brethren, and despise not in thy heart thy brethren, the sons and daughters of thy people, in not taking a wife of them: for in pride is destruction and much trouble, and in lewdness is decay and great want: for lewdness is the mother of famine.

bes@Tob:4:14 @ Let not the wages of any man, which hath wrought for thee, tarry with thee, but give him it out of hand: for if thou serve God, he will also repay thee: be circumspect my son, in all things thou doest, and be wise in all thy conversation.

bes@Tob:4:15 @ Do that to no man which thou hatest: drink not wine to make thee drunken: neither let drunkenness go with thee in thy journey.

bes@Tob:4:16 @ Give of thy bread to the hungry, and of thy garments to them that are naked; and according to thine abundance give alms: and let not thine eye be envious, when thou givest alms.

bes@Tob:4:17 @ Pour out thy bread on the burial of the just, but give nothing to the wicked.

bes@Tob:4:18 @ Ask counsel of all that are wise, and despise not any counsel that is profitable.

bes@Tob:4:19 @ Bless the Lord thy God alway, and desire of him that thy ways may be directed, and that all thy paths and counsels may prosper: for every nation hath not counsel; but the Lord himself giveth all good things, and he humbleth whom he will, as he will; now therefore, my son, remember my commandments, neither let them be put out of thy mind.

bes@Tob:4:20 @ And now I signify this to they that I committed ten talents to Gabael the son of Gabrias at Rages in Media.

bes@Tob:4:21 @ And fear not, my son, that we are made poor: for thou hast much wealth, if thou fear God, and depart from all sin, and do that which is pleasing in his sight.

bes@Tob:5:2 @ But how can I receive the money, seeing I know him not?

bes@Tob:5:5 @ But he knew not; and he said unto him, Canst thou go with me to Rages? and knowest thou those places well?

bes@Tob:5:6 @ To whom the angel said, I will go with thee, and I know the way well: for I have lodged with our brother Gabael.

bes@Tob:5:8 @ Then he said unto him, Go and tarry not. So he went in and said to his father, Behold, I have found one which will go with me. Then he said, Call him unto me, that I may know of what tribe he is, and whether he be a trusty man to go with thee.

bes@Tob:5:9 @ So he called him, and he came in, and they saluted one another.

bes@Tob:5:11 @ To whom he said, Dost thou seek for a tribe or family, or an hired man to go with thy son? Then Tobit said unto him, I would know, brother, thy kindred and name.

bes@Tob:5:13 @ Then Tobit said, Thou art welcome, brother; be not now angry with me, because I have enquired to know thy tribe and thy family; for thou art my brother, of an honest and good stock: for I know Ananias and Jonathas, sons of that great Samaias, as we went together to Jerusalem to worship, and offered the firstborn, and the tenths of the fruits; and they were not seduced with the error of our brethren: my brother, thou art of a good stock.

bes@Tob:5:17 @ But Anna his mother wept, and said to Tobit, Why hast thou sent away our son? is he not the staff of our hand, in going in and out before us?

bes@Tob:5:18 @ Be not greedy to add money to money: but let it be as refuse in respect of our child.

bes@Tob:5:20 @ Then said Tobit to her, Take no care, my sister; he shall return in safety, and thine eyes shall see him.

bes@Tob:6:7 @ And he said unto him, Touching the heart and the liver, if a devil or an evil spirit trouble any, we must make a smoke thereof before the man or the woman, and the party shall be no more vexed.

bes@Tob:6:8 @ As for the gall, it is good to anoint a man that hath whiteness in his eyes, and he shall be healed.

bes@Tob:6:12 @ And the maid is fair and wise: now therefore hear me, and I will speak to her father; and when we return from Rages we will celebrate the marriage: for I know that Raguel cannot marry her to another according to the law of Moses, but he shall be guilty of death, because the right of inheritance doth rather appertain to thee than to any other.

bes@Tob:6:14 @ And now I am the only son of my father, and I am afraid, lest if I go in unto her, I die, as the other before: for a wicked spirit loveth her, which hurteth no body, but those which come unto her; wherefore I also fear lest I die, and bring my father’s and my mother’s life because of me to the grave with sorrow: for they have no other son to bury them.

bes@Tob:6:15 @ Then the angel said unto him, Dost thou not remember the precepts which thy father gave thee, that thou shouldest marry a wife of thine own kindred? wherefore hear me, O my brother; for she shall be given thee to wife; and make thou no reckoning of the evil spirit; for this same night shall she be given thee in marriage.

bes@Tob:6:17 @ And the devil shall smell it, and flee away, and never come again any more: but when thou shalt come to her, rise up both of you, and pray to God which is merciful, who will have pity on you, and save you: fear not, for she is appointed unto thee from the beginning; and thou shalt preserve her, and she shall go with thee. Moreover I suppose that she shall bear thee children. Now when Tobias had heard these things, he loved her, and his heart was effectually joined to her.

bes@Tob:7:1 @ And when they were come to Ecbatane, they came to the house of Raguel, and Sara met them: and after they had saluted one another, she brought them into the house.

bes@Tob:7:4 @ Then he said to them, Do ye know Tobit our kinsman? And they said, We know him. Then said he, Is he in good health?

bes@Tob:7:11 @ I have given my daughter in marriage to seven men, who died that night they came in unto her: nevertheless for the present be merry. But Tobias said, I will eat nothing here, till we agree and swear one to another.

bes@Tob:7:16 @ After Raguel called his wife Edna, and said unto her, Sister, prepare another chamber, and bring her in thither.

bes@Tob:8:6 @ Thou madest Adam, and gavest him Eve his wife for an helper and stay: of them came mankind: thou hast said, It is not good that man should be alone; let us make unto him an aid like unto himself.

bes@Tob:8:7 @ And now, O Lord, I take not this my sister for lush but uprightly: therefore mercifully ordain that we may become aged together.

bes@Tob:8:12 @ He said unto his wife Edna. Send one of the maids, and let her see whether he be alive: if he be not, that we may bury him, and no man know it.

bes@Tob:8:16 @ Thou art to be praised, for thou hast made me joyful; and that is not come to me which I suspected; but thou hast dealt with us according to thy great mercy.

bes@Tob:8:20 @ For before the days of the marriage were finished, Raguel had said unto him by an oath, that he should not depart till the fourteen days of the marriage were expired;

bes@Tob:9:3 @ For Raguel hath sworn that I shall not depart.

bes@Tob:10:1 @ Now Tobit his father counted every day: and when the days of the journey were expired, and they came not,

bes@Tob:10:2 @ Then Tobit said, Are they detained? or is Gabael dead, and there is no man to give him the money?

bes@Tob:10:5 @ Now I care for nothing, my son, since I have let thee go, the light of mine eyes.

bes@Tob:10:6 @ To whom Tobit said, Hold thy peace, take no care, for he is safe.

bes@Tob:10:7 @ But she said, Hold thy peace, and deceive me not; my son is dead. And she went out every day into the way which they went, and did eat no meat on the daytime, and ceased not whole nights to bewail her son Tobias, until the fourteen days of the wedding were expired, which Raguel had sworn that he should spend there. Then Tobias said to Raguel,

bes@Tob:10:8 @ Let me go, for my father and my mother look no more to see me.

bes@Tob:10:10 @ But Tobias said, No; but let me go to my father.

bes@Tob:10:13 @ And he said to his daughter, Honour thy father and thy mother in law, which are now thy parents, that I may hear good report of thee. And he kissed her. Edna also said to Tobias, The Lord of heaven restore thee, my dear brother, and grant that I may see thy children of my daughter Sara before I die, that I may rejoice before the Lord: behold, I commit my daughter unto thee of special trust; where are do not entreat her evil.

bes@Tob:11:2 @ Then Raphael said to Tobias, Thou knowest, brother, how thou didst leave thy father:

bes@Tob:11:5 @ Now Anna sat looking about toward the way for her son.

bes@Tob:11:7 @ Then said Raphael, I know, Tobias, that thy father will open his eyes.

bes@Tob:11:8 @ Therefore anoint thou his eyes with the gall, and being pricked therewith, he shall rub, and the whiteness shall fall away, and he shall see thee.

bes@Tob:12:2 @ And Tobias said unto him, O father, it is no harm to me to give him half of those things which I have brought:

bes@Tob:12:6 @ Then he took them both apart, and said unto them, Bless God, praise him, and magnify him, and praise him for the things which he hath done unto you in the sight of all that live. It is good to praise God, and exalt his name, and honourably to shew forth the works of God; therefore be not slack to praise him.

bes@Tob:12:7 @ It is good to keep close the secret of a king, but it is honourable to reveal the works of God. Do that which is good, and no evil shall touch you.

bes@Tob:12:11 @ Surely I will keep close nothing from you. For I said, It was good to keep close the secret of a king, but that it was honourable to reveal the works of God.

bes@Tob:12:12 @ Now therefore, when thou didst pray, and Sara thy daughter in law, I did bring the remembrance of your prayers before the Holy One: and when thou didst bury the dead, I was with thee likewise.

bes@Tob:12:13 @ And when thou didst not delay to rise up, and leave thy dinner, to go and cover the dead, thy good deed was not hid from me: but I was with thee.

bes@Tob:12:14 @ And now God hath sent me to heal thee and Sara thy daughter in law.

bes@Tob:12:17 @ But he said unto them, Fear not, for it shall go well with you; praise God therefore.

bes@Tob:12:18 @ For not of any favour of mine, but by the will of our God I came; wherefore praise him for ever.

bes@Tob:12:19 @ All these days I did appear unto you; but I did neither eat nor drink, but ye did see a vision.

bes@Tob:12:20 @ Now therefore give God thanks: for I go up to him that sent me; but write all things which are done in a book.

bes@Tob:12:21 @ And when they arose, they saw him no more.

bes@Tob:13:6 @ If ye turn to him with your whole heart, and with your whole mind, and deal uprightly before him, then will he turn unto you, and will not hide his face from you. Therefore see what he will do with you, and confess him with your whole mouth, and praise the Lord of might, and extol the everlasting King. In the land of my captivity do I praise him, and declare his might and majesty to a sinful nation. O ye sinners, turn and do justice before him: who can tell if he will accept you, and have mercy on you?

bes@Tob:14:5 @ And that again God will have mercy on them, and bring them again into the land, where they shall build a temple, but not like to the first, until the time of that age be fulfilled; and afterward they shall return from all places of their captivity, and build up Jerusalem gloriously, and the house of God shall be built in it for ever with a glorious building, as the prophets have spoken thereof.

bes@Tob:14:8 @ And now, my son, depart out of Nineve, because that those things which the prophet Jonas spake shall surely come to pass.

bes@Tob:14:10 @ And bury me decently, and thy mother with me; but tarry no longer at Nineve. Remember, my son, how Aman handled Achiacharus that brought him up, how out of light he brought him into darkness, and how he rewarded him again: yet Achiacharus was saved, but the other had his reward: for he went down into darkness. Manasses gave alms, and escaped the snares of death which they had set for him: but Aman fell into the snare, and perished.

bes@Tob:14:11 @ Wherefore now, my son, consider what alms doeth, and how righteousness doth deliver. When he had said these things, he gave up the ghost in the bed, being an hundred and eight and fifty years old; and he buried him honourably.

bes@Tob:14:13 @ Where he became old with honour, and he buried his father and mother in law honourably, and he inherited their substance, and his father Tobit’s.

bes@Tob:14:15 @ But before he died he heard of the destruction of Nineve, which was taken by Nabuchodonosor and Assuerus: and before his death he rejoiced over Nineve.

bes@Sir:1:6 @ To whom hath the root of wisdom been revealed? or who hath known her wise counsels?

bes@Sir:1:7 @ Unto whom hath the knowledge of wisdom been made manifest? and who hath understood her great experience?

bes@Sir:1:11 @ The fear of the Lord is honour, and glory, and gladness, and a crown of rejoicing.

bes@Sir:1:19 @ Wisdom raineth down skill and knowledge of understanding standing, and exalteth them to honour that hold her fast.

bes@Sir:1:22 @ A furious man cannot be justified; for the sway of his fury shall be his destruction.

bes@Sir:1:25 @ The parables of knowledge are in the treasures of wisdom: but godliness is an abomination to a sinner.

bes@Sir:1:28 @ Distrust not the fear of the Lord when thou art poor: and come not unto him with a double heart.

bes@Sir:1:29 @ Be not an hypocrite in the sight of men, and take good heed what thou speakest.

bes@Sir:1:30 @ Exalt not thyself, lest thou fall, and bring dishonour upon thy soul, and so God discover thy secrets, and cast thee down in the midst of the congregation, because thou camest not in truth to the fear of the Lord, but thy heart is full of deceit.

bes@Sir:2:2 @ Set thy heart aright, and constantly endure, and make not haste in time of trouble.

bes@Sir:2:3 @ Cleave unto him, and depart not away, that thou mayest be increased at thy last end.

bes@Sir:2:7 @ Ye that fear the Lord, wait for his mercy; and go not aside, lest ye fall.

bes@Sir:2:8 @ Ye that fear the Lord, believe him; and your reward shall not fail.

bes@Sir:2:13 @ Woe unto him that is fainthearted! for he believeth not; therefore shall he not be defended.

bes@Sir:2:15 @ They that fear the Lord will not disobey his Word; and they that love him will keep his ways.

bes@Sir:2:18 @ Saying, We will fall into the hands of the Lord, and not into the hands of men: for as his majesty is, so is his mercy.

bes@Sir:3:2 @ For the Lord hath given the father honour over the children, and hath confirmed the authority of the mother over the sons.

bes@Sir:3:3 @ Whoso honoureth his father maketh an atonement for his sins:

bes@Sir:3:4 @ And he that honoureth his mother is as one that layeth up treasure.

bes@Sir:3:5 @ Whoso honoureth his father shall have joy of his own children; and when he maketh his prayer, he shall be heard.

bes@Sir:3:6 @ He that honoureth his father shall have a long life; and he that is obedient unto the Lord shall be a comfort to his mother.

bes@Sir:3:7 @ He that feareth the Lord will honour his father, and will do service unto his parents, as to his masters.

bes@Sir:3:8 @ Honour thy father and mother both in word and deed, that a blessing may come upon thee from them.

bes@Sir:3:10 @ Glory not in the dishonour of thy father; for thy father’s dishonour is no glory unto thee.

bes@Sir:3:11 @ For the glory of a man is from the honour of his father; and a mother in dishonour is a reproach to the children.

bes@Sir:3:12 @ My son, help thy father in his age, and grieve him not as long as he liveth.

bes@Sir:3:13 @ And if his understanding fail, have patience with him; and despise him not when thou art in thy full strength.

bes@Sir:3:14 @ For the relieving of thy father shall not be forgotten: and instead of sins it shall be added to build thee up.

bes@Sir:3:19 @ Many are in high place, and of renown: but mysteries are revealed unto the meek.

bes@Sir:3:20 @ For the power of the Lord is great, and he is honoured of the lowly.

bes@Sir:3:21 @ Seek not out things that are too hard for thee, neither search the things that are above thy strength.

bes@Sir:3:22 @ But what is commanded thee, think thereupon with reverence, for it is not needful for thee to see with thine eyes the things that are in secret.

bes@Sir:3:23 @ Be not curious in unnecessary matters: for more things are shewed unto thee than men understand.

bes@Sir:3:25 @ Without eyes thou shalt want light: profess not the knowledge therefore that thou hast not.

bes@Sir:3:28 @ In the punishment of the proud there is no remedy; for the plant of wickedness hath taken root in him.

bes@Sir:4:1 @ My son, defraud not the poor of his living, and make not the needy eyes to wait long.

bes@Sir:4:2 @ Make not an hungry soul sorrowful; neither provoke a man in his distress.

bes@Sir:4:3 @ Add not more trouble to an heart that is vexed; and defer not to give to him that is in need.

bes@Sir:4:4 @ Reject not the supplication of the afflicted; neither turn away thy face from a poor man.

bes@Sir:4:5 @ Turn not away thine eye from the needy, and give him none occasion to curse thee:

bes@Sir:4:8 @ Let it not grieve thee to bow down thine ear to the poor, and give him a friendly answer with meekness.

bes@Sir:4:9 @ Deliver him that suffereth wrong from the hand of the oppressor; and be not fainthearted when thou sittest in judgement.

bes@Sir:4:20 @ Observe the opportunity, and beware of evil; and be not ashamed when it concerneth thy soul.

bes@Sir:4:22 @ Accept no person against thy soul, and let not the reverence of any man cause thee to fall.

bes@Sir:4:23 @ And refrain not to speak, when there is occasion to do good, and hide not thy wisdom in her beauty.

bes@Sir:4:24 @ For by speech wisdom shall be known: and learning by the word of the tongue.

bes@Sir:4:25 @ In no wise speak against the truth; but be abashed of the error of thine ignorance.

bes@Sir:4:26 @ Be not ashamed to confess thy sins; and force not the course of the river.

bes@Sir:4:27 @ Make not thyself an underling to a foolish man; neither accept the person of the mighty.

bes@Sir:4:29 @ Be not hasty in thy tongue, and in thy deeds slack and remiss.

bes@Sir:4:30 @ Be not as a lion in thy house, nor frantick among thy servants.

bes@Sir:4:31 @ Let not thine hand be stretched out to receive, and shut when thou shouldest repay.

bes@Sir:5:1 @ Set thy heart upon thy goods; and say not, I have enough for my life.

bes@Sir:5:2 @ Follow not thine own mind and thy strength, to walk in the ways of thy heart:

bes@Sir:5:3 @ And say not, Who shall control me for my works? for the Lord will surely revenge thy pride.

bes@Sir:5:4 @ Say not, I have sinned, and what harm hath happened unto me? for the Lord is longsuffering, he will in no wise let thee go.

bes@Sir:5:5 @ Concerning propitiation, be not without fear to add sin unto sin:

bes@Sir:5:6 @ And say not His mercy is great; he will be pacified for the multitude of my sins: for mercy and wrath come from him, and his indignation resteth upon sinners.

bes@Sir:5:7 @ Make no tarrying to turn to the Lord, and put not off from day to day: for suddenly shall the wrath of the Lord come forth, and in thy security thou shalt be destroyed, and perish in the day of vengeance.

bes@Sir:5:8 @ Set not thine heart upon goods unjustly gotten, for they shall not profit thee in the day of calamity.

bes@Sir:5:9 @ Winnow not with every wind, and go not into every way: for so doth the sinner that hath a double tongue.

bes@Sir:5:12 @ If thou hast understanding, answer thy neighbour; if not, lay thy hand upon thy mouth.

bes@Sir:5:13 @ Honour and shame is in talk: and the tongue of man is his fall.

bes@Sir:5:14 @ Be not called a whisperer, and lie not in wait with thy tongue: for a foul shame is upon the thief, and an evil condemnation upon the double tongue.

bes@Sir:5:15 @ Be not ignorant of any thing in a great matter or a small.

bes@Sir:6:1 @ Instead of a friend become not an enemy; for thereby thou shalt inherit an ill name, shame, and reproach: even so shall a sinner that hath a double tongue.

bes@Sir:6:2 @ Extol not thyself in the counsel of thine own heart; that thy soul be not torn in pieces as a bull straying alone.

bes@Sir:6:7 @ If thou wouldest get a friend, prove him first and be not hasty to credit him.

bes@Sir:6:8 @ For some man is a friend for his own occasion, and will not abide in the day of thy trouble.

bes@Sir:6:10 @ Again, some friend is a companion at the table, and will not continue in the day of thy affliction.

bes@Sir:6:15 @ Nothing doth countervail a faithful friend, and his excellency is invaluable.

bes@Sir:6:19 @ Come unto her as one that ploweth and soweth, and wait for her good fruits: for thou shalt not toil much in labouring about her, but thou shalt eat of her fruits right soon.

bes@Sir:6:20 @ She is very unpleasant to the unlearned: he that is without understanding will not remain with her.

bes@Sir:6:22 @ For wisdom is according to her name, and she is not manifest unto many.

bes@Sir:6:23 @ Give ear, my son, receive my advice, and refuse not my counsel,

bes@Sir:6:25 @ Bow down thy shoulder, and bear her, and be not grieved with her bonds.

bes@Sir:6:27 @ Search, and seek, and she shall be made known unto thee: and when thou hast got hold of her, let her not go.

bes@Sir:6:31 @ Thou shalt put her on as a robe of honour, and shalt put her about thee as a crown of joy.

bes@Sir:6:35 @ Be willing to hear every godly discourse; and let not the parables of understanding escape thee.

bes@Sir:7:1 @ Do no evil, so shall no harm come unto thee.

bes@Sir:7:3 @ My son, sow not upon the furrows of unrighteousness, and thou shalt not reap them sevenfold.

bes@Sir:7:4 @ Seek not of the Lord preeminence, neither of the king the seat of honour.

bes@Sir:7:5 @ justify not thyself before the Lord; and boast not of thy wisdom before the king.

bes@Sir:7:6 @ Seek not to be judge, being not able to take away iniquity; lest at any time thou fear the person of the mighty, an stumblingblock in the way of thy uprightness.

bes@Sir:7:7 @ Offend not against the multitude of a city, and then thou shalt not cast thyself down among the people.

bes@Sir:7:8 @ Bind not one sin upon another; for in one thou shalt not be unpunished.

bes@Sir:7:9 @ Say not, God will look upon the multitude of my oblations, and when I offer to the most high God, he will accept it.

bes@Sir:7:10 @ Be not fainthearted when thou makest thy prayer, and neglect not to give alms.

bes@Sir:7:11 @ Laugh no man to scorn in the bitterness of his soul: for there is one which humbleth and exalteth.

bes@Sir:7:12 @ Devise not a lie against thy brother; neither do the like to thy friend.

bes@Sir:7:13 @ Use not to make any manner of lie: for the custom thereof is not good.

bes@Sir:7:14 @ Use not many words in a multitude of elders, and make not much babbling when thou prayest.

bes@Sir:7:15 @ Hate not laborious work, neither husbandry, which the most High hath ordained.

bes@Sir:7:16 @ Number not thyself among the multitude of sinners, but remember that wrath will not tarry long.

bes@Sir:7:18 @ Change not a friend for any good by no means; neither a faithful brother for the gold of Ophir.

bes@Sir:7:19 @ Forego not a wise and good woman: for her grace is above gold.

bes@Sir:7:20 @ Whereas thy servant worketh truly, entreat him not evil. nor the hireling that bestoweth himself wholly for thee.

bes@Sir:7:21 @ Let thy soul love a good servant, and defraud him not of liberty.

bes@Sir:7:24 @ Hast thou daughters? have a care of their body, and shew not thyself cheerful toward them.

bes@Sir:7:26 @ Hast thou a wife after thy mind? forsake her not: but give not thyself over to a light woman.

bes@Sir:7:27 @ Honour thy father with thy whole heart, and forget not the sorrows of thy mother.

bes@Sir:7:30 @ Love him that made thee with all thy strength, and forsake not his ministers.

bes@Sir:7:31 @ Fear the Lord, and honour the priest; and give him his portion, as it is commanded thee; the firstfruits, and the trespass offering, and the gift of the shoulders, and the sacrifice of sanctification, and the firstfruits of the holy things.

bes@Sir:7:33 @ A gift hath grace in the sight of every man living; and for the dead detain it not.

bes@Sir:7:34 @ Fail not to be with them that weep, and mourn with them that mourn.

bes@Sir:7:35 @ Be not slow to visit the sick: fir that shall make thee to be beloved.

bes@Sir:8:1 @ Strive not with a mighty man’ lest thou fall into his hands.

bes@Sir:8:2 @ Be not at variance with a rich man, lest he overweigh thee: for gold hath destroyed many, and perverted the hearts of kings.

bes@Sir:8:3 @ Strive not with a man that is full of tongue, and heap not wood upon his fire.

bes@Sir:8:4 @ Jest not with a rude man, lest thy ancestors be disgraced.

bes@Sir:8:5 @ Reproach not a man that turneth from sin, but remember that we are all worthy of punishment.

bes@Sir:8:6 @ Dishonour not a man in his old age: for even some of us wax old.

bes@Sir:8:7 @ Rejoice not over thy greatest enemy being dead, but remember that we die all.

bes@Sir:8:8 @ Despise not the discourse of the wise, but acquaint thyself with their proverbs: for of them thou shalt learn instruction, and how to serve great men with ease.

bes@Sir:8:9 @ Miss not the discourse of the elders: for they also learned of their fathers, and of them thou shalt learn understanding, and to give answer as need requireth.

bes@Sir:8:10 @ Kindle not the coals of a sinner, lest thou be burnt with the flame of his fire.

bes@Sir:8:11 @ Rise not up in anger at the presence of an injurious person, lest he lie in wait to entrap thee in thy words

bes@Sir:8:12 @ Lend not unto him that is mightier than thyself; for if thou lendest him, count it but lost.

bes@Sir:8:13 @ Be not surety above thy power: for if thou be surety, take care to pay it.

bes@Sir:8:14 @ Go not to law with a judge; for they will judge for him according to his honour.

bes@Sir:8:15 @ Travel not by the way with a bold fellow, lest he become grievous unto thee: for he will do according to his own will, and thou shalt perish with him through his folly.

bes@Sir:8:16 @ Strive not with an angry man, and go not with him into a solitary place: for blood is as nothing in his sight, and where there is no help, he will overthrow thee.

bes@Sir:8:17 @ Consult not with a fool; for he cannot keep counsel.

bes@Sir:8:18 @ Do no secret thing before a stranger; for thou knowest not what he will bring forth.

bes@Sir:8:19 @ Open not thine heart to every man, lest he requite thee with a shrewd turn.

bes@Sir:9:1 @ Be not jealous over the wife of thy bosom, and teach her not an evil lesson against thyself.

bes@Sir:9:2 @ Give not thy soul unto a woman to set her foot upon thy substance.

bes@Sir:9:3 @ Meet not with an harlot, lest thou fall into her snares.

bes@Sir:9:4 @ Use not much the company of a woman that is a singer, lest thou be taken with her attempts.

bes@Sir:9:5 @ Gaze not on a maid, that thou fall not by those things that are precious in her.

bes@Sir:9:6 @ Give not thy soul unto harlots, that thou lose not thine inheritance.

bes@Sir:9:7 @ Look not round about thee in the streets of the city, neither wander thou in the solitary place thereof.

bes@Sir:9:8 @ Turn away thine eye from a beautiful woman, and look not upon another’s beauty; for many have been deceived by the beauty of a woman; for herewith love is kindled as a fire.

bes@Sir:9:9 @ Sit not at all with another man’s wife, nor sit down with her in thine arms, and spend not thy money with her at the wine; lest thine heart incline unto her, and so through thy desire thou fall into destruction.

bes@Sir:9:10 @ Forsake not an old friend; for the new is not comparable to him: a new friend is as new wine; when it is old, thou shalt drink it with pleasure.

bes@Sir:9:11 @ Envy not the glory of a sinner: for thou knowest not what shall be his end.

bes@Sir:9:12 @ Delight not in the thing that the ungodly have pleasure in; but remember they shall not go unpunished unto their grave.

bes@Sir:9:13 @ Keep thee far from the man that hath power to kill; so shalt thou not doubt the fear of death: and if thou come unto him, make no fault, lest he take away thy life presently: remember that thou goest in the midst of snares, and that thou walkest upon the battlements of the city.

bes@Sir:10:5 @ In the hand of God is the prosperity of man: and upon the person of the scribe shall he lay his honour.

bes@Sir:10:6 @ Bear not hatred to thy neighbour for every wrong; and do nothing at all by injurious practices.

bes@Sir:10:8 @ Because of unrighteous dealings, injuries, and riches got by deceit, the kingdom is translated from one people to another.

bes@Sir:10:9 @ Why is earth and ashes proud? There is not a more wicked thing than a covetous man: for such an one setteth his own soul to sale; because while he liveth he casteth away his bowels.

bes@Sir:10:18 @ Pride was not made for men, nor furious anger for them that are born of a woman.

bes@Sir:10:19 @ They that fear the Lord are a sure seed, and they that love him an honourable plant: they that regard not the law are a dishonourable seed; they that transgress the commandments are a deceivable seed.

bes@Sir:10:20 @ Among brethren he that is chief is honourably; so are they that fear the Lord in his eyes.

bes@Sir:10:22 @ Whether he be rich, noble, or poor, their glory is the fear of the Lord.

bes@Sir:10:23 @ It is not meet to despise the poor man that hath understanding; neither is it convenient to magnify a sinful man.

bes@Sir:10:24 @ Great men, and judges, and potentates, shall be honoured; yet is there none of them greater than he that feareth the Lord.

bes@Sir:10:25 @ Unto the servant that is wise shall they that are free do service: and he that hath knowledge will not grudge when he is reformed.

bes@Sir:10:26 @ Be not overwise in doing thy business; and boast not thyself in the time of thy distress.

bes@Sir:10:28 @ My son, glorify thy soul in meekness, and give it honour according to the dignity thereof.

bes@Sir:10:29 @ Who will justify him that sinneth against his own soul? and who will honour him that dishonoureth his own life?

bes@Sir:10:30 @ The poor man is honoured for his skill, and the rich man is honoured for his riches.

bes@Sir:10:31 @ He that is honoured in poverty, how much more in riches? and he that is dishonourable in riches, how much more in poverty?

bes@Sir:11:2 @ Commend not a man for his beauty; neither abhor a man for his outward appearance.

bes@Sir:11:4 @ Boast not of thy clothing and raiment, and exalt not thyself in the day of honour: for the works of the Lord are wonderful, and his works among men are hidden.

bes@Sir:11:6 @ Many mighty men have been greatly disgraced; and the honourable delivered into other men’s hands.

bes@Sir:11:7 @ Blame not before thou hast examined the truth: understand first, and then rebuke.

bes@Sir:11:8 @ Answer not before thou hast heard the cause: neither interrupt men in the midst of their talk.

bes@Sir:11:9 @ Strive not in a matter that concerneth thee not; and sit not in judgement with sinners.

bes@Sir:11:10 @ My son, meddle not with many matters: for if thou meddle much, thou shalt not be innocent; and if thou follow after, thou shalt not obtain, neither shalt thou escape by fleeing.

bes@Sir:11:12 @ Again, there is another that is slow, and hath need of help, wanting ability, and full of poverty; yet the eye of the Lord looked upon him for good, and set him up from his low estate,

bes@Sir:11:15 @ Wisdom, knowledge, and understanding of the law, are of the Lord: love, and the way of good works, are from him.

bes@Sir:11:19 @ Whereas he saith, I have found rest, and now will eat continually of my goods; and yet he knoweth not what time shall come upon him, and that he must leave those things to others, and die.

bes@Sir:11:21 @ Marvel not at the works of sinners; but trust in the Lord, and abide in thy labour: for it is an easy thing in the sight of the Lord on the sudden to make a poor man rich.

bes@Sir:11:23 @ Say not, What profit is there of my service? and what good things shall I have hereafter?

bes@Sir:11:24 @ Again, say not, I have enough, and possess many things, and what evil shall I have hereafter?

bes@Sir:11:25 @ In the day of prosperity there is a forgetfulness of affliction: and in the day of affliction there is no more remembrance of prosperity.

bes@Sir:11:28 @ Judge none blessed before his death: for a man shall be known in his children.

bes@Sir:11:29 @ Bring not every man into thine house: for the deceitful man hath many trains.

bes@Sir:12:1 @ When thou wilt do good know to whom thou doest it; so shalt thou be thanked for thy benefits.

bes@Sir:12:2 @ Do good to the godly man, and thou shalt find a recompence; and if not from him, yet from the most High.

bes@Sir:12:3 @ There can no good come to him that is always occupied in evil, nor to him that giveth no alms.

bes@Sir:12:4 @ Give to the godly man, and help not a sinner.

bes@Sir:12:5 @ Do well unto him that is lowly, but give not to the ungodly: hold back thy bread, and give it not unto him, lest he overmaster thee thereby: for else thou shalt receive twice as much evil for all the good thou shalt have done unto him.

bes@Sir:12:7 @ Give unto the good, and help not the sinner.

bes@Sir:12:8 @ A friend cannot be known in prosperity: and an enemy cannot be hidden in adversity.

bes@Sir:12:11 @ Though he humble himself, and go crouching, yet take good heed and beware of him, and thou shalt be unto him as if thou hadst wiped a lookingglass, and thou shalt know that his rust hath not been altogether wiped away.

bes@Sir:12:12 @ Set him not by thee, lest, when he hath overthrown thee, he stand up in thy place; neither let him sit at thy right hand, lest he seek to take thy seat, and thou at the last remember my words, and be pricked therewith.

bes@Sir:12:15 @ For a while he will abide with thee, but if thou begin to fall, he will not tarry.

bes@Sir:12:16 @ An enemy speaketh sweetly with his lips, but in his heart he imagineth how to throw thee into a pit: he will weep with his eyes, but if he find opportunity, he will not be satisfied with blood.

bes@Sir:13:2 @ Burden not thyself above thy power while thou livest; and have no fellowship with one that is mightier and richer than thyself: for how agree the kettle and the earthen pot together? for if the one be smitten against the other, it shall be broken.

bes@Sir:13:4 @ If thou be for his profit, he will use thee: but if thou have nothing, he will forsake thee.

bes@Sir:13:5 @ If thou have any thing, he will live with thee: yea, he will make thee bare, and will not be sorry for it.

bes@Sir:13:8 @ Beware that thou be not deceived and brought down in thy jollity.

bes@Sir:13:10 @ Press thou not upon him, lest thou be put back; stand not far off, lest thou be forgotten.

bes@Sir:13:11 @ Affect not to be made equal unto him in talk, and believe not his many words: for with much communication will he tempt thee, and smiling upon thee will get out thy secrets:

bes@Sir:13:12 @ But cruelly he will lay up thy words, and will not spare to do thee hurt, and to put thee in prison.

bes@Sir:13:22 @ When a rich man is fallen, he hath many helpers: he speaketh things not to be spoken, and yet men justify him: the poor man slipped, and yet they rebuked him too; he spake wisely, and could have no place.

bes@Sir:13:24 @ Riches are good unto him that hath no sin, and poverty is evil in the mouth of the ungodly.

bes@Sir:14:1 @ Blessed is the man that hath not slipped with his mouth, and is not pricked with the multitude of sins.

bes@Sir:14:2 @ Blessed is he whose conscience hath not condemned him, and who is not fallen from his hope in the Lord.

bes@Sir:14:3 @ Riches are not comely for a niggard: and what should an envious man do with money?

bes@Sir:14:5 @ He that is evil to himself, to whom will he be good? he shall not take pleasure in his goods.

bes@Sir:14:6 @ There is none worse than he that envieth himself; and this is a recompence of his wickedness.

bes@Sir:14:9 @ A covetous man’s eye is not satisfied with his portion; and the iniquity of the wicked drieth up his soul.

bes@Sir:14:12 @ Remember that death will not be long in coming, and that the covenant of the grave is not shewed unto thee.

bes@Sir:14:14 @ Defraud not thyself of the good day, and let not the part of a good desire overpass thee.

bes@Sir:14:15 @ Shalt thou not leave thy travails unto another? and thy labours to be divided by lot?

bes@Sir:14:16 @ Give, and take, and sanctify thy soul; for there is no seeking of dainties in the grave.

bes@Sir:14:18 @ As of the green leaves on a thick tree, some fall, and some grow; so is the generation of flesh and blood, one cometh to an end, and another is born.

bes@Sir:15:1 @ He that feareth the Lord will do good, and he that hath the knowledge of the law shall obtain her.

bes@Sir:15:4 @ He shall be stayed upon her, and shall not be moved; and shall rely upon her, and shall not be confounded.

bes@Sir:15:7 @ But foolish men shall not attain unto her, and sinners shall not see her.

bes@Sir:15:8 @ For she is far from pride, and men that are liars cannot remember her.

bes@Sir:15:9 @ Praise is not seemly in the mouth of a sinner, for it was not sent him of the Lord.

bes@Sir:15:11 @ Say not thou, It is through the Lord that I fell away: for thou oughtest not to do the things that he hateth.

bes@Sir:15:12 @ Say not thou, He hath caused me to err: for he hath no need of the sinful man.

bes@Sir:15:13 @ The Lord hateth all abomination; and they that fear God love it not.

bes@Sir:15:19 @ And his eyes are upon them that fear him, and he knoweth every work of man.

bes@Sir:15:20 @ He hath commanded no man to do wickedly, neither hath he given any man licence to sin.

bes@Sir:16:1 @ Desire not a multitude of unprofitable children, neither delight in ungodly sons.

bes@Sir:16:2 @ Though they multiply, rejoice not in them, except the fear of the Lord be with them.

bes@Sir:16:3 @ Trust not thou in their life, neither respect their multitude: for one that is just is better than a thousand; and better it is to die without children, than to have them that are ungodly.

bes@Sir:16:7 @ He was not pacified toward the old giants, who fell away in the strength of their foolishness.

bes@Sir:16:9 @ He pitied not the people of perdition, who were taken away in their sins:

bes@Sir:16:10 @ Nor the six hundred thousand footmen, who were gathered together in the hardness of their hearts.

bes@Sir:16:13 @ The sinner shall not escape with his spoils: and the patience of the godly shall not be frustrate.

bes@Sir:16:15 @ The Lord hardened Pharaoh, that he should not know him, that his powerful works might be known to the world.

bes@Sir:16:17 @ Say not thou, I will hide myself from the Lord: shall any remember me from above? I shall not be remembered among so many people: for what is my soul among such an infinite number of creatures?

bes@Sir:16:20 @ No heart can think upon these things worthily: and who is able to conceive his ways?

bes@Sir:16:21 @ It is a tempest which no man can see: for the most part of his works are hid.

bes@Sir:16:24 @ My son, hearken unto me, and learn knowledge, and mark my words with thy heart.

bes@Sir:16:25 @ I will shew forth doctrine in weight, and declare his knowledge exactly.

bes@Sir:16:27 @ He garnished his works for ever, and in his hand are the chief of them unto all generations: they neither labour, nor are weary, nor cease from their works.

bes@Sir:16:28 @ None of them hindereth another, and they shall never disobey his word.

bes@Sir:17:7 @ Withal he filled them with the knowledge of understanding, and shewed them good and evil.

bes@Sir:17:11 @ Beside this he gave them knowledge, and the law of life for an heritage.

bes@Sir:17:15 @ Their ways are ever before him, and shall not be hid from his eyes.

bes@Sir:17:18 @ Whom, being his firstborn, he nourisheth with discipline, and giving him the light of his love doth not forsake him.

bes@Sir:17:20 @ None of their unrighteous deeds are hid from him, but all their sins are before the Lord

bes@Sir:17:21 @ But the Lord being gracious and knowing his workmanship, neither left nor forsook them, but spared them.

bes@Sir:17:28 @ Thanksgiving perisheth from the dead, as from one that is not: the living and sound in heart shall praise the Lord.

bes@Sir:17:30 @ For all things cannot be in men, because the son of man is not immortal.

bes@Sir:18:2 @ The Lord only is righteous, and there is none other but he,

bes@Sir:18:4 @ To whom hath he given power to declare his works? and who shall find out his noble acts?

bes@Sir:18:6 @ As for the wondrous works of the Lord, there may nothing be taken from them, neither may any thing be put unto them, neither can the ground of them be found out.

bes@Sir:18:15 @ My son, blemish not thy good deeds, neither use uncomfortable words when thou givest any thing.

bes@Sir:18:16 @ Shall not the dew asswage the heat? so is a word better than a gift.

bes@Sir:18:17 @ Lo, is not a word better than a gift? but both are with a gracious man.

bes@Sir:18:22 @ Let nothing hinder thee to pay thy vow in due time, and defer not until death to be justified.

bes@Sir:18:23 @ Before thou prayest, prepare thyself; and be not as one that tempteth the Lord.

bes@Sir:18:25 @ When thou hast enough, remember the time of hunger: and when thou art rich, think upon poverty and need.

bes@Sir:18:27 @ A wise man will fear in every thing, and in the day of sinning he will beware of offence: but a fool will not observe time.

bes@Sir:18:28 @ Every man of understanding knoweth wisdom, and will give praise unto him that found her.

bes@Sir:18:30 @ Go not after thy lusts, but refrain thyself from thine appetites.

bes@Sir:18:32 @ Take not pleasure in much good cheer, neither be tied to the expense thereof.

bes@Sir:18:33 @ Be not made a beggar by banqueting upon borrowing, when thou hast nothing in thy purse: for thou shalt lie in wait for thine own life, and be talked on.

bes@Sir:19:1 @ A labouring man that A is given to drunkenness shall not be rich: and he that contemneth small things shall fall by little and little.

bes@Sir:19:7 @ Rehearse not unto another that which is told unto thee, and thou shalt fare never the worse.

bes@Sir:19:8 @ Whether it be to friend or foe, talk not of other men’s lives; and if thou canst without offence, reveal them not.

bes@Sir:19:10 @ If thou hast heard a word, let it die with thee; and be bold, it will not burst thee.

bes@Sir:19:13 @ Admonish a friend, it may be he hath not done it: and if he have done it, that he do it no more.

bes@Sir:19:14 @ Admonish thy friend, it may be he hath not said it: and if he have, that he speak it not again.

bes@Sir:19:15 @ Admonish a friend: for many times it is a slander, and believe not every tale.

bes@Sir:19:16 @ There is one that slippeth in his speech, but not from his heart; and who is he that hath not offended with his tongue?

bes@Sir:19:17 @ Admonish thy neighbour before thou threaten him; and not being angry, give place to the law of the most High.

bes@Sir:19:19 @ The knowledge of the commandments of the Lord is the doctrine of life: and they that do things that please him shall receive the fruit of the tree of immortality.

bes@Sir:19:20 @ The fear of the Lord is all wisdom; and in all wisdom is the performance of the law, and the knowledge of his omnipotency.

bes@Sir:19:21 @ If a servant say to his master, I will not do as it pleaseth thee; though afterward he do it, he angereth him that nourisheth him.

bes@Sir:19:22 @ The knowledge of wickedness is not wisdom, neither at any time the counsel of sinners prudence.

bes@Sir:19:27 @ Casting down his countenance, and making as if he heard not: where he is not known, he will do thee a mischief before thou be aware.

bes@Sir:19:29 @ A man may be known by his look, and one that hath understanding by his countenance, when thou meetest him.

bes@Sir:20:1 @ There is a reproof that is not comely: again, some man holdeth his tongue, and he is wise.

bes@Sir:20:5 @ There is one that keepeth silence, and is found wise: and another by much babbling becometh hateful.

bes@Sir:20:6 @ Some man holdeth his tongue, because he hath not to answer: and some keepeth silence, knowing his time.

bes@Sir:20:7 @ A wise man will hold his tongue till he see opportunity: but a babbler and a fool will regard no time.

bes@Sir:20:10 @ There is a gift that shall not profit thee; and there is a gift whose recompence is double.

bes@Sir:20:14 @ The gift of a fool shall do thee no good when thou hast it; neither yet of the envious for his necessity: for he looketh to receive many things for one.

bes@Sir:20:16 @ The fool saith, I have no friends, I have no thank for all my good deeds, and they that eat my bread speak evil of me.

bes@Sir:20:17 @ How oft, and of how many shall he be laughed to scorn! for he knoweth not aright what it is to have; and it is all one unto him as if he had it not.

bes@Sir:20:20 @ A wise sentence shall be rejected when it cometh out of a fool’s mouth; for he will not speak it in due season.

bes@Sir:20:21 @ There is that is hindered from sinning through want: and when he taketh rest, he shall not be troubled.

bes@Sir:20:23 @ There is that for bashfulness promiseth to his friend, and maketh him his enemy for nothing.

bes@Sir:20:26 @ The disposition of a liar is dishonourable, and his shame is ever with him.

bes@Sir:20:27 @ A wise man shall promote himself to honour with his words: and he that hath understanding will please great men.

bes@Sir:20:29 @ Presents and gifts blind the eyes of the wise, and stop up his mouth that he cannot reprove.

bes@Sir:21:1 @ My son, hast thou sinned? do so no more, but ask pardon for thy former sins.

bes@Sir:21:3 @ All iniquity is as a two edged sword, the wounds whereof cannot be healed.

bes@Sir:21:7 @ An eloquent man is known far and near; but a man of understanding knoweth when he slippeth.

bes@Sir:21:12 @ He that is not wise will not be taught: but there is a wisdom which multiplieth bitterness.

bes@Sir:21:13 @ The knowledge of a wise man shall abound like a flood: and his counsel is like a pure fountain of life.

bes@Sir:21:14 @ The inner parts of a fool are like a broken vessel, and he will hold no knowledge as long as he liveth.

bes@Sir:21:15 @ If a skilful man hear a wise word, he will commend it, and add unto it: but as soon as one of no understanding heareth it, it displeaseth him, and he casteth it behind his back.

bes@Sir:21:18 @ As is a house that is destroyed, so is wisdom to a fool: and the knowledge of the unwise is as talk without sense.

bes@Sir:21:25 @ The lips of talkers will be telling such things as pertain not unto them: but the words of such as have understanding are weighed in the balance.

bes@Sir:22:3 @ An evilnurtured man is the dishonour of his father that begat him: and a foolish daughter is born to his loss.

bes@Sir:22:5 @ She that is bold dishonoureth both her father and her husband, but they both shall despise her.

bes@Sir:22:10 @ But children, being haughty, through disdain and want of nurture do stain the nobility of their kindred.

bes@Sir:22:13 @ Talk not much with a fool, and go not to him that hath no understanding: beware of him, lest thou have trouble, and thou shalt never be defiled with his fooleries: depart from him, and thou shalt find rest, and never be disquieted with madness.

bes@Sir:22:16 @ As timber girt and bound together in a building cannot be loosed with shaking: so the heart that is stablished by advised counsel shall fear at no time.

bes@Sir:22:18 @ Pales set on an high place will never stand against the wind: so a fearful heart in the imagination of a fool cannot stand against any fear.

bes@Sir:22:19 @ He that pricketh the eye will make tears to fall: and he that pricketh the heart maketh it to shew her knowledge.

bes@Sir:22:21 @ Though thou drewest a sword at thy friend, yet despair not: for there may be a returning to favour.

bes@Sir:22:22 @ If thou hast opened thy mouth against thy friend, fear not; for there may be a reconciliation: except for upbraiding, or pride, or disclosing of secrets, or a treacherous wound: for for these things every friend will depart.

bes@Sir:22:23 @ Be faithful to thy neighbour in his poverty, that thou mayest rejoice in his prosperity: abide stedfast unto him in the time of his trouble, that thou mayest be heir with him in his heritage: for a mean estate is not always to be contemned: nor the rich that is foolish to be had in admiration.

bes@Sir:22:25 @ I will not be ashamed to defend a friend; neither will I hide myself from him.

bes@Sir:22:27 @ Who shall set a watch before my mouth, and a seal of wisdom upon my lips, that I fall not suddenly by them, and that my tongue destroy me not?

bes@Sir:23:1 @ O Lord, Father and Governor of all my whole life, leave me not to their counsels, and let me not fall by them.

bes@Sir:23:2 @ Who will set scourges over my thoughts, and the discipline of wisdom over mine heart? that they spare me not for mine ignorances, and it pass not by my sins:

bes@Sir:23:3 @ Lest mine ignorances increase, and my sins abound to my destruction, and I fall before mine adversaries, and mine enemy rejoice over me, whose hope is far from thy mercy.

bes@Sir:23:4 @ O Lord, Father and God of my life, give me not a proud look, but turn away from thy servants always a haughty mind.

bes@Sir:23:6 @ Let not the greediness of the belly nor lust of the flesh take hold of me; and give not over me thy servant into an impudent mind.

bes@Sir:23:9 @ Accustom not thy mouth to swearing; neither use thyself to the naming of the Holy One.

bes@Sir:23:10 @ For as a servant that is continually beaten shall not be without a blue mark: so he that sweareth and nameth God continually shall not be faultless.

bes@Sir:23:11 @ A man that useth much swearing shall be filled with iniquity, and the plague shall never depart from his house: if he shall offend, his sin shall be upon him: and if he acknowledge not his sin, he maketh a double offence: and if he swear in vain, he shall not be innocent, but his house shall be full of calamities.

bes@Sir:23:12 @ There is a word that is clothed about with death: God grant that it be not found in the heritage of Jacob; for all such things shall be far from the godly, and they shall not wallow in their sins.

bes@Sir:23:13 @ Use not thy mouth to intemperate swearing, for therein is the word of sin.

bes@Sir:23:14 @ Remember thy father and thy mother, when thou sittest among great men. Be not forgetful before them, and so thou by thy custom become a fool, and wish that thou hadst not been born, and curse they day of thy nativity.

bes@Sir:23:17 @ All bread is sweet to a whoremonger, he will not leave off till he die.

bes@Sir:23:18 @ A man that breaketh wedlock, saying thus in his heart, Who seeth me? I am compassed about with darkness, the walls cover me, and no body seeth me; what need I to fear? the most High will not remember my sins:

bes@Sir:23:19 @ Such a man only feareth the eyes of men, and knoweth not that the eyes of the Lord are ten thousand times brighter than the sun, beholding all the ways of men, and considering the most secret parts.

bes@Sir:23:21 @ This man shall be punished in the streets of the city, and where he suspecteth not he shall be taken.

bes@Sir:23:22 @ Thus shall it go also with the wife that leaveth her husband, and bringeth in an heir by another.

bes@Sir:23:23 @ For first, she hath disobeyed the law of the most High; and secondly, she hath trespassed against her own husband; and thirdly, she hath played the whore in adultery, and brought children by another man.

bes@Sir:23:25 @ Her children shall not take root, and her branches shall bring forth no fruit.

bes@Sir:23:26 @ She shall leave her memory to be cursed, and her reproach shall not be blotted out.

bes@Sir:23:27 @ And they that remain shall know that there is nothing better than the fear of the Lord, and that there is nothing sweeter than to take heed unto the commandments of the Lord.

bes@Sir:24:12 @ And I took root in an honourable people, even in the portion of the Lord’s inheritance.

bes@Sir:24:16 @ As the turpentine tree I stretched out my branches, and my branches are the branches of honour and grace.

bes@Sir:24:17 @ As the vine brought I forth pleasant savour, and my flowers are the fruit of honour and riches.

bes@Sir:24:18 @ I am the mother of fair love, and fear, and knowledge, and holy hope: I therefore, being eternal, am given to all my children which are named of him.

bes@Sir:24:22 @ He that obeyeth me shall never be confounded, and they that work by me shall not do amiss.

bes@Sir:24:24 @ Faint not to be strong in the Lord; that he may confirm you, cleave unto him: for the Lord Almighty is God alone, and beside him there is no other Saviour.

bes@Sir:24:27 @ He maketh the doctrine of knowledge appear as the light, and as Geon in the time of vintage.

bes@Sir:24:28 @ The first man knew her not perfectly: no more shall the last find her out.

bes@Sir:24:34 @ Behold that I have not laboured for myself only, but for all them that seek wisdom.

bes@Sir:25:3 @ If thou hast gathered nothing in thy youth, how canst thou find any thing in thine age?

bes@Sir:25:4 @ O how comely a thing is judgement for gray hairs, and for ancient men to know counsel!

bes@Sir:25:5 @ O how comely is the wisdom of old men, and understanding and counsel to men of honour.

bes@Sir:25:8 @ Well is him that dwelleth with a wife of understanding, and that hath not slipped with his tongue, and that hath not served a man more unworthy than himself:

bes@Sir:25:10 @ O how great is he that findeth wisdom! yet is there none above him that feareth the Lord.

bes@Sir:25:15 @ There is no head above the head of a serpent; and there is no wrath above the wrath of an enemy.

bes@Sir:25:21 @ Stumble not at the beauty of a woman, and desire her not for pleasure.

bes@Sir:25:23 @ A wicked woman abateth the courage, maketh an heavy countenance and a wounded heart: a woman that will not comfort her husband in distress maketh weak hands and feeble knees.

bes@Sir:25:25 @ Give the water no passage; neither a wicked woman liberty to gad abroad.

bes@Sir:25:26 @ If she go not as thou wouldest have her, cut her off from thy flesh, and give her a bill of divorce, and let her go.

bes@Sir:26:6 @ But a grief of heart and sorrow is a woman that is jealous over another woman, and a scourge of the tongue which communicateth with all.

bes@Sir:26:8 @ A drunken woman and a gadder abroad causeth great anger, and she will not cover her own shame.

bes@Sir:26:9 @ The whoredom of a woman may be known in her haughty looks and eyelids.

bes@Sir:26:11 @ Watch over an impudent eye: and marvel not if she trespass against thee.

bes@Sir:26:14 @ A silent and loving woman is a gift of the Lord; and there is nothing so much worth as a mind well instructed.

bes@Sir:26:15 @ A shamefaced and faithful woman is a double grace, and her continent mind cannot be valued.

bes@Sir:26:19 @ My son, keep the flower of thine age sound; and give not thy strength to strangers.

bes@Sir:26:26 @ A woman that honoureth her husband shall be judged wise of all; but she that dishonoureth him in her pride shall be counted ungodly of all.

bes@Sir:26:28 @ There be two things that grieve my heart; and the third maketh me angry: a man of war that suffereth poverty; and men of understanding that are not set by; and one that returneth from righteousness to sin; the Lord prepareth such an one for the sword.

bes@Sir:26:29 @ A merchant shall hardly keep himself from doing wrong; and an huckster shall not be freed from sin.

bes@Sir:27:7 @ Praise no man before thou hearest him speak; for this is the trial of men.

bes@Sir:27:17 @ Love thy friend, and be faithful unto him: but if thou betrayest his secrets, follow no more after him.

bes@Sir:27:19 @ As one that letteth a bird go out of his hand, so hast thou let thy neighbour go, and shalt not get him again

bes@Sir:27:20 @ Follow after him no more, for he is too far off; he is as a roe escaped out of the snare.

bes@Sir:27:22 @ He that winketh with the eyes worketh evil: and he that knoweth him will depart from him.

bes@Sir:27:24 @ I have hated many things, but nothing like him; for the Lord will hate him.

bes@Sir:27:27 @ He that worketh mischief, it shall fall upon him, and he shall not know whence it cometh.

bes@Sir:28:3 @ One man beareth hatred against another, and doth he seek pardon from the Lord?

bes@Sir:28:4 @ He sheweth no mercy to a man, which is like himself: and doth he ask forgiveness of his own sins?

bes@Sir:28:5 @ If he that is but flesh nourish hatred, who will intreat for pardon of his sins?

bes@Sir:28:7 @ Remember the commandments, and bear no malice to thy neighbour: remember the covenant of the Highest, and wink at ignorance.

bes@Sir:28:18 @ Many have fallen by the edge of the sword: but not so many as have fallen by the tongue.

bes@Sir:28:19 @ Well is he that is defended through the venom thereof; who hath not drawn the yoke thereof, nor hath been bound in her bands.

bes@Sir:28:22 @ It shall not have rule over them that fear God, neither shall they be burned with the flame thereof.

bes@Sir:28:23 @ Such as forsake the Lord shall fall into it; and it shall burn in them, and not be quenched; it shall be sent upon them as a lion, and devour them as a leopard.

bes@Sir:28:26 @ Beware thou slide not by it, lest thou fall before him that lieth in wait.

bes@Sir:29:6 @ If he prevail, he shall hardly receive the half, and he will count as if he had found it: if not, he hath deprived him of his money, and he hath gotten him an enemy without cause: he payeth him with cursings and railings; and for honour he will pay him disgrace.

bes@Sir:29:8 @ Yet have thou patience with a man in poor estate, and delay not to shew him mercy.

bes@Sir:29:9 @ Help the poor for the commandment’s sake, and turn him not away because of his poverty.

bes@Sir:29:10 @ Lose thy money for thy brother and thy friend, and let it not rust under a stone to be lost.

bes@Sir:29:15 @ Forget not the friendship of thy surety, for he hath given his life for thee.

bes@Sir:29:20 @ Help thy neighbour according to thy power, and beware that thou thyself fall not into the same.

bes@Sir:29:22 @ Better is the life of a poor man in a mean cottage, than delicate fare in another man’s house.

bes@Sir:29:23 @ Be it little or much, hold thee contented, that thou hear not the reproach of thy house.

bes@Sir:29:24 @ For it is a miserable life to go from house to house: for where thou art a stranger, thou darest not open thy mouth.

bes@Sir:29:25 @ Thou shalt entertain, and feast, and have no thanks: moreover thou shalt hear bitter words:

bes@Sir:29:27 @ Give place, thou stranger, to an honourable man; my brother cometh to be lodged, and I have need of mine house.

bes@Sir:30:4 @ Though his father die, yet he is as though he were not dead: for he hath left one behind him that is like himself.

bes@Sir:30:5 @ While he lived, he saw and rejoiced in him: and when he died, he was not sorrowful.

bes@Sir:30:8 @ An horse not broken becometh headstrong: and a child left to himself will be wilful.

bes@Sir:30:10 @ Laugh not with him, lest thou have sorrow with him, and lest thou gnash thy teeth in the end.

bes@Sir:30:11 @ Give him no liberty in his youth, and wink not at his follies.

bes@Sir:30:16 @ There is no riches above a sound body, and no joy above the joy of the heart. I awaked up last of all, as one that gathereth after the grapegatherers: by the blessing of the Lord I profited, and filled my winepress like a gatherer of grapes.

bes@Sir:30:17 @ Death is better than a bitter life or continual sickness. Consider that I laboured not for myself only, but for all them that seek learning.

bes@Sir:30:19 @ What good doeth the offering unto an idol? for neither can it eat nor smell: so is he that is persecuted of the Lord. Give not thy son and wife, thy brother and friend, power over thee while thou livest, and give not thy goods to another: lest it repent thee, and thou intreat for the same again.

bes@Sir:30:20 @ He seeth with his eyes and groaneth, as an eunuch that embraceth a virgin and sigheth. As long as thou livest and hast breath in thee, give not thyself over to any.

bes@Sir:30:21 @ Give not over thy mind to heaviness, and afflict not thyself in thine own counsel. For better it is that thy children should seek to thee, than that thou shouldest stand to their courtesy.

bes@Sir:30:23 @ Love thine own soul, and comfort thy heart, remove sorrow far from thee: for sorrow hath killed many, and there is no profit therein. In all thy works keep to thyself the preeminence; leave not a stain in thine honour.

bes@Sir:30:27 @ Send him to labour, that he be not idle; for idleness teacheth much evil.

bes@Sir:30:28 @ Set him to work, as is fit for him: if he be not obedient, put on more heavy fetters.

bes@Sir:30:29 @ But be not excessive toward any; and without discretion do nothing.

bes@Sir:31:3 @ The vision of dreams is the resemblance of one thing to another, even as the likeness of a face to a face.

bes@Sir:31:6 @ If they be not sent from the most High in thy visitation, set not thy heart upon them.

bes@Sir:31:9 @ A man that hath travelled knoweth many things; and he that hath much experience will declare wisdom.

bes@Sir:31:10 @ He that hath no experience knoweth little: but he that hath travelled is full of prudence.

bes@Sir:31:14 @ Whoso feareth the Lord shall not fear nor be afraid; for he is his hope.

bes@Sir:31:16 @ For the eyes of the Lord are upon them that love him, he is their mighty protection and strong stay, a defence from heat, and a cover from the sun at noon, a preservation from stumbling, and an help from falling.

bes@Sir:31:18 @ He that sacrificeth of a thing wrongfully gotten, his offering is ridiculous; and the gifts of unjust men are not accepted.

bes@Sir:31:19 @ The most High is not pleased with the offerings of the wicked; neither is he pacified for sin by the multitude of sacrifices.

bes@Sir:31:23 @ When one buildeth, and another pulleth down, what profit have they then but labour?

bes@Sir:31:24 @ When one prayeth, and another curseth, whose voice will the Lord hear?

bes@Sir:32:1 @ He that keepeth the law bringeth offerings enough: he that taketh heed to the commandment offereth a peace offering.

bes@Sir:32:4 @ Thou shalt not appear empty before the Lord.

bes@Sir:32:8 @ Give the Lord his honour with a good eye, and diminish not the firstfruits of thine hands.

bes@Sir:32:12 @ Do not think to corrupt with gifts; for such he will not receive: and trust not to unrighteous sacrifices; for the Lord is judge, and with him is no respect of persons.

bes@Sir:32:13 @ He will not accept any person against a poor man, but will hear the prayer of the oppressed.

bes@Sir:32:14 @ He will not despise the supplication of the fatherless; nor the widow, when she poureth out her complaint.

bes@Sir:32:15 @ Do not the tears run down the widow’s cheeks? and is not her cry against him that causeth them to fall?

bes@Sir:32:17 @ The prayer of the humble pierceth the clouds: and till it come nigh, he will not be comforted; and will not depart, till the most High shall behold to judge righteously, and execute judgement.

bes@Sir:32:18 @ For the Lord will not be slack, neither will the Mighty be patient toward them, till he have smitten in sunder the loins of the unmerciful, and repayed vengeance to the heathen; till he have taken away the multitude of the proud, and broken the sceptre of the unrighteous;

bes@Sir:33:2 @ And send thy fear upon all the nations that seek not after thee.

bes@Sir:33:5 @ And let them know thee, as we have known thee, that there is no God but only thou, O God.

bes@Sir:33:10 @ Smite in sunder the heads of the rulers of the heathen, that say, There is none other but we.

bes@Sir:34:2 @ Watching care will not let a man slumber, as a sore disease breaketh sleep,

bes@Sir:34:5 @ He that loveth gold shall not be justified, and he that followeth corruption shall have enough thereof.

bes@Sir:34:8 @ Blessed is the rich that is found without blemish, and hath not gone after gold.

bes@Sir:34:10 @ Who hath been tried thereby, and found perfect? then let him glory. Who might offend, and hath not offended? or done evil, and hath not done it?

bes@Sir:34:12 @ If thou sit at a bountiful table, be not greedy upon it, and say not, There is much meat on it.

bes@Sir:34:14 @ Stretch not thine hand whithersoever it looketh, and thrust it not with him into the dish.

bes@Sir:34:15 @ Judge not thy neighbour by thyself: and be discreet in every point.

bes@Sir:34:16 @ Eat as it becometh a man, those things which are set before thee; and devour note, lest thou be hated.

bes@Sir:34:17 @ Leave off first for manners’ sake; and be not unsatiable, lest thou offend.

bes@Sir:34:18 @ When thou sittest among many, reach not thine hand out first of all.

bes@Sir:34:19 @ A very little is sufficient for a man well nurtured, and he fetcheth not his wind short upon his bed.

bes@Sir:34:22 @ My son, hear me, and despise me not, and at the last thou shalt find as I told thee: in all thy works be quick, so shall there no sickness come unto thee.

bes@Sir:34:24 @ But against him that is a niggard of his meat the whole city shall murmur; and the testimonies of his niggardness shall not be doubted of.

bes@Sir:34:25 @ Shew not thy valiantness in wine; for wine hath destroyed many.

bes@Sir:34:31 @ Rebuke not thy neighbour at the wine, and despise him not in his mirth: give him no despiteful words, and press not upon him with urging him to drink.

bes@Sir:35:1 @ If thou be made the master of a feast, lift not thyself up, but be among them as one of the rest; take diligent care for them, and so sit down.

bes@Sir:35:3 @ Speak, thou that art the elder, for it becometh thee, but with sound judgement; and hinder not musick.

bes@Sir:35:4 @ Pour not out words where there is a musician, and shew not forth wisdom out of time.

bes@Sir:35:8 @ Let thy speech be short, comprehending much in few words; be as one that knoweth and yet holdeth his tongue.

bes@Sir:35:9 @ If thou be among great men, make not thyself equal with them; and when ancient men are in place, use not many words.

bes@Sir:35:11 @ Rise up betimes, and be not the last; but get thee home without delay.

bes@Sir:35:12 @ There take thy pastime, and do what thou wilt: but sin not by proud speech.

bes@Sir:35:17 @ A sinful man will not be reproved, but findeth an excuse according to his will.

bes@Sir:35:18 @ A man of counsel will be considerate; but a strange and proud man is not daunted with fear, even when of himself he hath done without counsel.

bes@Sir:35:19 @ Do nothing without advice; and when thou hast once done, repent not.

bes@Sir:35:20 @ Go not in a way wherein thou mayest fall, and stumble not among the stones.

bes@Sir:35:21 @ Be not confident in a plain way.

bes@Sir:36:1 @ There shall no evil happen unto him that feareth the Lord; but in temptation even again he will deliver him.

bes@Sir:36:2 @ A wise man hateth not the law; but he that is an hypocrite therein is as a ship in a storm.

bes@Sir:36:7 @ Why doth one day excel another, when as all the light of every day in the year is of the sun?

bes@Sir:36:8 @ By the knowledge of the Lord they were distinguished: and he altered seasons and feasts.

bes@Sir:36:11 @ In much knowledge the Lord hath divided them, and made their ways diverse. (note:)(36:11AA)(:note) Though I was the last to wake up, yet I received their inheritance as from the beginning.

bes@Sir:36:12 @ Some of them hath he blessed and exalted and some of them he sanctified, and set near himself: but some of them hath he cursed and brought low, and turned out of their places. (note:)(36:12AA)(:note) O Lord, have mercy upon the people that is called by thy name, and upon Israel, whom thou hast named thy firstborn.

bes@Sir:36:13 @ As the clay is in the potter’s hand, to fashion it at his pleasure: so man is in the hand of him that made him, to render to them as liketh him best. (note:)(36:13AA)(:note) O be merciful unto Jerusalem, thy holy city, the place of thy rest.

bes@Sir:36:14 @ Good is set against evil, and life against death: so is the godly against the sinner, and the sinner against the godly. (note:)(36:14AA)(:note) Fill Sion with thine unspeakable oracles, and thy people with thy glory:

bes@Sir:36:15 @ So look upon all the works of the most High; and there are two and two, one against another. (note:)(36:15AA)(:note) Give testimony unto those that thou hast possessed from the beginning, and raise up prophets that have been in thy name.

bes@Sir:36:17 @ O Lord, hear the prayer of thy servants, according to the blessing of Aaron over thy people, that all they which dwell upon the earth may know that thou art the Lord, the eternal God.

bes@Sir:36:18 @ The belly devoureth all meats, yet is one meat better than another.

bes@Sir:36:21 @ A woman will receive every man, yet is one daughter better than another.

bes@Sir:36:22 @ The beauty of a woman cheereth the countenance, and a man loveth nothing better.

bes@Sir:36:23 @ If there be kindness, meekness, and comfort, in her tongue, then is not her husband like other men.

bes@Sir:36:25 @ Where no hedge is, there the possession is spoiled: and he that hath no wife will wander up and down mourning.

bes@Sir:36:26 @ Who will trust a thief well appointed, that skippeth from city to city? so who will believe a man that hath no house, and lodgeth wheresoever the night taketh him?

bes@Sir:37:2 @ Is it not a grief unto death, when a companion and friend is turned to an enemy?

bes@Sir:37:6 @ Forget not thy friend in thy mind, and be not unmindful of him in thy riches.

bes@Sir:37:8 @ Beware of a counsellor, and know before what need he hath; for he will counsel for himself; lest he cast the lot upon thee,

bes@Sir:37:10 @ Consult not with one that suspecteth thee: and hide thy counsel from such as envy thee.

bes@Sir:37:11 @ Neither consult with a woman touching her of whom she is jealous; neither with a coward in matters of war; nor with a merchant concerning exchange; nor with a buyer of selling; nor with an envious man of thankfulness; nor with an unmerciful man touching kindness; nor with the slothful for any work; nor with an hireling for a year of finishing work; nor with an idle servant of much business: hearken not unto these in any matter of counsel.

bes@Sir:37:12 @ But be continually with a godly man, whom thou knowest to keep the commandments of the Lord, whose, mind is according to thy mind, and will sorrow with thee, if thou shalt miscarry.

bes@Sir:37:13 @ And let the counsel of thine own heart stand: for there is no man more faithful unto thee than it.

bes@Sir:37:21 @ For grace is not given, him from the Lord, because he is deprived of all wisdom.

bes@Sir:37:22 @ Another is wise to himself; and the fruits of understanding are commendable in his mouth.

bes@Sir:37:23 @ A wise man instructeth his people; and the fruits of his understanding fail not.

bes@Sir:37:27 @ My son, prove thy soul in thy life, and see what is evil for it, and give not that unto it.

bes@Sir:37:28 @ For all things are not profitable for all men, neither hath every soul pleasure in every thing.

bes@Sir:37:29 @ Be not unsatiable in any dainty thing, nor too greedy upon meats:

bes@Sir:38:1 @ Honour a physician with the honour due unto him for the uses which ye may have of him: for the Lord hath created him.

bes@Sir:38:2 @ For of the most High cometh healing, and he shall receive honour of the king.

bes@Sir:38:4 @ The Lord hath created medicines out of the earth; and he that is wise will not abhor them.

bes@Sir:38:5 @ Was not the water made sweet with wood, that the virtue thereof might be known?

bes@Sir:38:6 @ And he hath given men skill, that he might be honoured in his marvellous works.

bes@Sir:38:8 @ Of such doth the apothecary make a confection; and of his works there is no end; and from him is peace over all the earth,

bes@Sir:38:9 @ My son, in thy sickness be not negligent: but pray unto the Lord, and he will make thee whole.

bes@Sir:38:11 @ Give a sweet savour, and a memorial of fine flour; and make a fat offering, as not being.

bes@Sir:38:12 @ Then give place to the physician, for the Lord hath created him: let him not go from thee, for thou hast need of him.

bes@Sir:38:16 @ My son, let tears fall down over the dead, and begin to lament, as if thou hadst suffered great harm thyself; and then cover his body according to the custom, and neglect not his burial.

bes@Sir:38:20 @ Take no heaviness to heart: drive it away, and member the last end.

bes@Sir:38:21 @ Forget it not, for there is no turning again: thou shalt not do him good, but hurt thyself.

bes@Sir:38:28 @ The smith also sitting by the anvil, and considering the iron work, the vapour of the fire wasteth his flesh, and he fighteth with the heat of the furnace: the noise of the hammer and the anvil is ever in his ears, and his eyes look still upon the pattern of the thing that he maketh; he setteth his mind to finish his work, and watcheth to polish it perfectly:

bes@Sir:38:32 @ Without these cannot a city be inhabited: and they shall not dwell where they will, nor go up and down:

bes@Sir:38:33 @ They shall not be sought for in publick counsel, nor sit high in the congregation: they shall not sit on the judges’ seat, nor understand the sentence of judgement: they cannot declare justice and judgement; and they shall not be found where parables are spoken.

bes@Sir:39:2 @ He will keep the sayings of the renowned men: and where subtil parables are, he will be there also.

bes@Sir:39:7 @ He shall direct his counsel and knowledge, and in his secrets shall he meditate.

bes@Sir:39:9 @ Many shall commend his understanding; and so long as the world endureth, it shall not be blotted out; his memorial shall not depart away, and his name shall live from generation to generation.

bes@Sir:39:17 @ And none may say, What is this? wherefore is that? for at time convenient they shall all be sought out: at his commandment the waters stood as an heap, and at the words of his mouth the receptacles of waters.

bes@Sir:39:18 @ At his commandment is done whatsoever pleaseth him; and none can hinder, when he will save.

bes@Sir:39:19 @ The works of all flesh are before him, and nothing can be hid from his eyes.

bes@Sir:39:20 @ He seeth from everlasting to everlasting; and there is nothing wonderful before him.

bes@Sir:39:21 @ A man need not to say, What is this? wherefore is that? for he hath made all things for their uses.

bes@Sir:39:31 @ They shall rejoice in his commandment, and they shall be ready upon earth, when need is; and when their time is come, they shall not transgress his word.

bes@Sir:39:34 @ So that a man cannot say, This is worse than that: for in time they shall all be well approved.

bes@Sir:40:5 @ Wrath, and envy, trouble, and unquietness, fear of death, and anger, and strife, and in the time of rest upon his bed his night sleep, do change his knowledge.

bes@Sir:40:6 @ A little or nothing is his rest, and afterward he is in his sleep, as in a day of keeping watch, troubled in the vision of his heart, as if he were escaped out of a battle.

bes@Sir:40:7 @ When all is safe, he awaketh, and marvelleth that the fear was nothing.

bes@Sir:40:13 @ The goods of the unjust shall be dried up like a river, and shall vanish with noise, like a great thunder in rain.

bes@Sir:40:14 @ While he openeth his hand he shall rejoice: so shall transgressors come to nought.

bes@Sir:40:15 @ The children of the ungodly shall not bring forth many branches: but are as unclean roots upon a hard rock.

bes@Sir:40:26 @ Riches and strength lift up the heart: but the fear of the Lord is above them both: there is no want in the fear of the Lord, and it needeth not to seek help.

bes@Sir:40:28 @ My son, lead not a beggar’s life; for better it is to die than to beg.

bes@Sir:40:29 @ The life of him that dependeth on another man’s table is not to be counted for a life; for he polluteth himself with other men’s meat: but a wise man well nurtured will beware thereof.

bes@Sir:41:1 @ O death, how bitter is the remembrance of thee to a man that liveth at rest in his possessions, unto the man that hath nothing to vex him, and that hath prosperity in all things: yea, unto him that is yet able to receive meat!

bes@Sir:41:2 @ O death, acceptable is thy sentence unto the needy, and unto him whose strength faileth, that is now in the last age, and is vexed with all things, and to him that despaireth, and hath lost patience!

bes@Sir:41:3 @ Fear not the sentence of death, remember them that have been before thee, and that come after; for this is the sentence of the Lord over all flesh.

bes@Sir:41:4 @ And why art thou against the pleasure of the most High? there is no inquisition in the grave, whether thou have lived ten, or an hundred, or a thousand years.

bes@Sir:41:14 @ My children, keep discipline in peace: for wisdom that is hid, and a treasure that is not seen, what profit is in them both?

bes@Sir:41:16 @ Therefore be shamefaced according to my word: for it is not good to retain all shamefacedness; neither is it altogether approved in every thing.

bes@Sir:41:21 @ And to turn away thy face from thy kinsman; or to take away a portion or a gift; or to gaze upon another man’s wife.

bes@Sir:41:22 @ Or to be overbusy with his maid, and come not near her bed; or of upbraiding speeches before friends; and after thou hast given, upbraid not;

bes@Sir:42:1 @ Or of iterating and speaking again that which thou hast heard; and of revealing of secrets. So shalt thou be truly shamefaced and find favour before all men. Of these things be not thou ashamed, and accept no person to sin thereby:

bes@Sir:42:8 @ Be not ashamed to inform the unwise and foolish, and the extreme aged that contendeth with those that are young: thus shalt thou be truly learned, and approved of all men living.

bes@Sir:42:12 @ Behold not every body’s beauty, and sit not in the midst of women.

bes@Sir:42:15 @ I will now remember the works of the Lord, and declare the things that I have seen: In the words of the Lord are his works.

bes@Sir:42:17 @ The Lord hath not given power to the saints to declare all his marvellous works, which the Almighty Lord firmly settled, that whatsoever is might be established for his glory.

bes@Sir:42:18 @ He seeketh out the deep, and the heart, and considereth their crafty devices: for the Lord knoweth all that may be known, and he beholdeth the signs of the world.

bes@Sir:42:20 @ No thought escapeth him, neither any word is hidden from him.

bes@Sir:42:21 @ He hath garnished the excellent works of his wisdom, and he is from everlasting to everlasting: unto him may nothing be added, neither can he be diminished, and he hath no need of any counsellor.

bes@Sir:42:24 @ All things are double one against another: and he hath made nothing imperfect.

bes@Sir:42:25 @ One thing establisheth the good or another: and who shall be filled with beholding his glory?

bes@Sir:43:3 @ At noon it parcheth the country, and who can abide the burning heat thereof?

bes@Sir:43:13 @ By his commandment he maketh the snow to fall apace, and sendeth swiftly the lightnings of his judgement.

bes@Sir:43:17 @ The noise of the thunder maketh the earth to tremble: so doth the northern storm and the whirlwind: as birds flying he scattereth the snow, and the falling down thereof is as the lighting of grasshoppers:

bes@Sir:43:20 @ When the cold north wind bloweth, and the water is congealed into ice, it abideth upon every gathering together of water, and clotheth the water as with a breastplate.

bes@Sir:43:30 @ When ye glorify the Lord, exalt him as much as ye can; for even yet will he far exceed: and when ye exalt him, put forth all your strength, and be not weary; for ye can never go far enough.

bes@Sir:44:1 @ Let us now praise famous men, and our fathers that begat us.

bes@Sir:44:3 @ Such as did bear rule in their kingdoms, men renowned for their power, giving counsel by their understanding, and declaring prophecies:

bes@Sir:44:4 @ Leaders of the people by their counsels, and by their knowledge of learning meet for the people, wise and eloquent are their instructions:

bes@Sir:44:7 @ All these were honoured in their generations, and were the glory of their times.

bes@Sir:44:9 @ And some there be, which have no memorial; who are perished, as though they had never been; and are become as though they had never been born; and their children after them.

bes@Sir:44:10 @ But these were merciful men, whose righteousness hath not been forgotten.

bes@Sir:44:13 @ Their seed shall remain for ever, and their glory shall not be blotted out.

bes@Sir:44:16 @ Enoch pleased the Lord, and was translated, being an example of repentance to all generations.

bes@Sir:44:17 @ Noah was found perfect and righteous; in the time of wrath he was taken in exchange for the world; therefore was he left as a remnant unto the earth, when the flood came.

bes@Sir:44:18 @ An everlasting covenant was made with him, that all flesh should perish no more by the flood.

bes@Sir:44:19 @ Abraham was a great father of many people: in glory was there none like unto him;

bes@Sir:44:23 @ And made it rest upon the head of Jacob. He acknowledged him in his blessing, and gave him an heritage, and divided his portions; among the twelve tribes did he part them.

bes@Sir:45:5 @ He made him to hear his voice, and brought him into the dark cloud, and gave him commandments before his face, even the law of life and knowledge, that he might teach Jacob his covenants, and Israel his judgements.

bes@Sir:45:9 @ And he compassed him with pomegranates, and with many golden bells round about, that as he went there might be a sound, and a noise made that might be heard in the temple, for a memorial to the children of his people;

bes@Sir:45:12 @ He set a crown of gold upon the mitre, wherein was engraved Holiness, an ornament of honour, a costly work, the desires of the eyes, goodly and beautiful.

bes@Sir:45:13 @ Before him there were none such, neither did ever any stranger put them on, but only his children and his children’s children perpetually.

bes@Sir:45:15 @ Moses consecrated him, and anointed him with holy oil: this was appointed unto him by an everlasting covenant, and to his seed, so long as the heavens should remain, that they should minister unto him, and execute the office of the priesthood, and bless the people in his name.

bes@Sir:45:20 @ But he made Aaron more honourable, and gave him an heritage, and divided unto him the firstfruits of the increase; especially he prepared bread in abundance:

bes@Sir:45:22 @ Howbeit in the land of the people he had no inheritance, neither had he any portion among the people: for the Lord himself is his portion and inheritance.

bes@Sir:45:26 @ God give you wisdom in your heart to judge his people in righteousness, that their good things be not abolished, and that their glory may endure for ever.

bes@Sir:46:4 @ Did not the sun go back by his means? and was not one day as long as two?

bes@Sir:46:6 @ And with hailstones of mighty power he made the battle to fall violently upon the nations, and in the descent of Beth-horon he destroyed them that resisted, that the nations might know all their strength, because he fought in the sight of the Lord, and he followed the Mighty One.

bes@Sir:46:11 @ And concerning the judges, every one by name, whose heart went not a whoring, nor departed from the Lord, let their memory be blessed.

bes@Sir:46:12 @ Let their bones flourish out of their place, and let the name of them that were honoured be continued upon their children.

bes@Sir:46:13 @ Samuel, the prophet of the Lord, beloved of his Lord, established a kingdom, and anointed princes over his people.

bes@Sir:46:15 @ By his faithfulness he was found a true prophet, and by his word he was known to be faithful in vision.

bes@Sir:46:17 @ And the Lord thundered from heaven, and with a great noise made his voice to be heard.

bes@Sir:46:19 @ And before his long sleep he made protestations in the sight of the Lord and his anointed, I have not taken any man’s goods, so much as a shoe: and no man did accuse him.

bes@Sir:47:4 @ Slew he not a giant, when he was yet but young? and did he not take away reproach from the people, when he lifted up his hand with the stone in the sling, and beat down the boasting of Goliath?

bes@Sir:47:6 @ So the people honoured him with ten thousands, and praised him in the blessings of the Lord, in that he gave him a crown of glory.

bes@Sir:47:7 @ For he destroyed the enemies on every side, and brought to nought the Philistines his adversaries, and brake their horn in sunder unto this day.

bes@Sir:47:13 @ Solomon reigned in a peaceable time, and was honoured; for God made all quiet round about him, that he might build an house in his name, and prepare his sanctuary for ever.

bes@Sir:47:20 @ Thou didst stain thy honour, and pollute thy seed: so that thou broughtest wrath upon thy children, and wast grieved for thy folly.

bes@Sir:47:22 @ But the Lord will never leave off his mercy, neither shall any of his works perish, neither will he abolish the posterity of his elect, and the seed of him that loveth him he will not take away: wherefore he gave a remnant unto Jacob, and out of him a root unto David.

bes@Sir:47:23 @ Thus rested Solomon with his fathers, and of his seed he left behind him Roboam, even the foolishness of the people, and one that had no understanding, who turned away the people through his counsel. There was also Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who caused Israel to sin, and shewed Ephraim the way of sin:

bes@Sir:48:4 @ O Elias, how wast thou honoured in thy wondrous deeds! and who may glory like unto thee!

bes@Sir:48:6 @ Who broughtest kings to destruction, and honourably men from their bed:

bes@Sir:48:8 @ Who anointedst kings to take revenge, and prophets to succeed after him:

bes@Sir:48:12 @ Elias it was, who was covered with a whirlwind: and Eliseus was filled with his spirit: whilst he lived, he was not moved with the presence of any prince, neither could any bring him into subjection.

bes@Sir:48:13 @ No word could overcome him; and after his death his body prophesied.

bes@Sir:48:15 @ For all this the people repented not, neither departed they from their sins, till they were spoiled and carried out of their land, and were scattered through all the earth: yet there remained a small people, and a ruler in the house of David:

bes@Sir:49:13 @ And among the elect was Neemias, whose renown is great, who raised up for us the walls that were fallen, and set up the gates and the bars, and raised up our ruins again.

bes@Sir:49:14 @ But upon the earth was no man created like Enoch; for he was taken from the earth.

bes@Sir:49:15 @ Neither was there a young man born like Joseph, a governor of his brethren, a stay of the people, whose bones were regarded of the Lord.

bes@Sir:49:16 @ Sem and Seth were in great honour among men, and so was Adam above every living thing in creation.

bes@Sir:50:4 @ He took care of the temple that it should not fall, and fortified the city against besieging:

bes@Sir:50:5 @ How was he honoured in the midst of the people in his coming out of the sanctuary!

bes@Sir:50:11 @ When he put on the robe of honour, and was clothed with the perfection of glory, when he went up to the holy altar, he made the garment of holiness honourable.

bes@Sir:50:16 @ Then shouted the sons of Aaron, and sounded the silver trumpets, and made a great noise to be heard, for a remembrance before the most High.

bes@Sir:50:22 @ Now therefore bless ye the God of all, which only doeth wondrous things every where, which exalteth our days from the womb, and dealeth with us according to his mercy.

bes@Sir:50:25 @ There be two manner of nations which my heart abhorreth, and the third is no nation:

bes@Sir:50:27 @ Jesus the son of Sirach of Jerusalem hath written in this book the instruction of understanding and knowledge, who out of his heart poured forth wisdom.

bes@Sir:51:4 @ From the choking of fire on every side, and from the midst of the fire which I kindled not;

bes@Sir:51:7 @ They compassed me on every side, and there was no man to help me: I looked for the succour of men, but there was none.

bes@Sir:51:10 @ I called upon the Lord, the Father of my Lord, that he would not leave me in the days of my trouble, and in the time of the proud, when there was no help.

bes@Sir:51:18 @ For I purposed to do after her, and earnestly I followed that which is good; so shall I not be confounded.

bes@Sir:51:19 @ My soul hath wrestled with her, and in my doings I was exact: I stretched forth my hands to the heaven above, and bewailed my ignorances of her.

bes@Sir:51:20 @ I directed my soul unto her, and I found her in pureness: I have had my heart joined with her from the beginning, therefore shall I not be forsaken.

bes@Sir:51:29 @ Let your soul rejoice in his mercy, and be not ashamed of his praise.

bes@Bar:1:4 @ And in the hearing of the nobles, and of the king’s sons, and in the hearing of the elders, and of all the people, from the lowest unto the highest, even of all them that dwelt at Babylon by the river Sud.

bes@Bar:1:9 @ After that Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon had carried away Jechonias, and the princes, and the captives, and the mighty men, and the people of the land, from Jerusalem, and brought them unto Babylon.

bes@Bar:1:11 @ And pray for the life of Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon, and for the life of Balthasar his son, that their days may be upon earth as the days of heaven:

bes@Bar:1:12 @ And the Lord will give us strength, and lighten our eyes, and we shall live under the shadow of Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon, and under the shadow of Balthasar his son, and we shall serve them many days, and find favour in their sight.

bes@Bar:1:13 @ Pray for us also unto the Lord our God, for we have sinned against the Lord our God; and unto this day the fury of the Lord and his wrath is not turned from us.

bes@Bar:1:18 @ And disobeyed him, and have not hearkened unto the voice of the Lord our God, to walk in the commandments that he gave us openly:

bes@Bar:1:19 @ Since the day that the Lord brought our forefathers out of the land of Egypt, unto this present day, we have been disobedient unto the Lord our God, and we have been negligent in not hearing his voice.

bes@Bar:1:21 @ Nevertheless we have not hearkened unto the voice of the Lord our God, according unto all the words of the prophets, whom he sent unto us:

bes@Bar:2:1 @ Therefore the Lord hath made good his word, which he pronounced against us, and against our judges that judged Israel, and against our kings, and against our princes, and against the men of Israel and Juda,

bes@Bar:2:5 @ Thus we were cast down, and not exalted, because we have sinned against the Lord our God, and have not been obedient unto his voice.

bes@Bar:2:7 @ For all these plagues are come upon us, which the Lord hath pronounced against us

bes@Bar:2:8 @ Yet have we not prayed before the Lord, that we might turn every one from the imaginations of his wicked heart.

bes@Bar:2:10 @ Yet we have not hearkened unto his voice, to walk in the commandments of the Lord, that he hath set before us.

bes@Bar:2:11 @ And now, O Lord God of Israel, that hast brought thy people out of the land of Egypt with a mighty hand, and high arm, and with signs, and with wonders, and with great power, and hast gotten thyself a name, as appeareth this day:

bes@Bar:2:15 @ That all the earth may know that thou art the Lord our God, because Israel and his posterity is called by thy name.

bes@Bar:2:17 @ Open thine eyes, and behold; for the dead that are in the graves, whose souls are taken from their bodies, will give unto the Lord neither praise nor righteousness:

bes@Bar:2:19 @ Therefore we do not make our humble supplication before thee, O Lord our God, for the righteousness of our fathers, and of our kings.

bes@Bar:2:22 @ But if ye will not hear the voice of the Lord, to serve the king of Babylon,

bes@Bar:2:24 @ But we would not hearken unto thy voice, to serve the king of Babylon: therefore hast thou made good the words that thou spakest by thy servants the prophets, namely, that the bones of our kings, and the bones of our fathers, should be taken out of their place.

bes@Bar:2:29 @ If ye will not hear my voice, surely this very great multitude shall be turned into a small number among the nations, where I will scatter them.

bes@Bar:2:30 @ For I knew that they would not hear me, because it is a stiffnecked people: but in the land of their captivities they shall remember themselves.

bes@Bar:2:31 @ And shall know that I am the Lord their God: for I will give them an heart, and ears to hear:

bes@Bar:2:34 @ And I will bring them again into the land which I promised with an oath unto their fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and they shall be lords of it: and I will increase them, and they shall not be diminished.

bes@Bar:2:35 @ And I will make an everlasting covenant with them to be their God, and they shall be my people: and I will no more drive my people of Israel out of the land that I have given them.

bes@Bar:3:4 @ O Lord Almighty, thou God of Israel, hear now the prayers of the dead Israelites, and of their children, which have sinned before thee, and not hearkened unto the voice of thee their God: for the which cause these plagues cleave unto us.

bes@Bar:3:5 @ Remember not the iniquities of our forefathers: but think upon thy power and thy name now at this time.

bes@Bar:3:14 @ Learn where is wisdom, where is strength, where is understanding; that thou mayest know also where is length of days, and life, where is the light of the eyes, and peace.

bes@Bar:3:17 @ They that had their pastime with the fowls of the air, and they that hoarded up silver and gold, wherein men trust, and made no end of their getting?

bes@Bar:3:20 @ Young men have seen light, and dwelt upon the earth: but the way of knowledge have they not known,

bes@Bar:3:21 @ Nor understood the paths thereof, nor laid hold of it: their children were far off from that way.

bes@Bar:3:22 @ It hath not been heard of in Chanaan, neither hath it been seen in Theman.

bes@Bar:3:23 @ The Agarenes that seek wisdom upon earth, the merchants of Meran and of Theman, the authors of fables, and searchers out of understanding; none of these have known the way of wisdom, or remember her paths.

bes@Bar:3:25 @ Great, and hath none end; high, and unmeasurable.

bes@Bar:3:27 @ Those did not the Lord choose, neither gave he the way of knowledge unto them:

bes@Bar:3:28 @ But they were destroyed, because they had no wisdom, and perished through their own foolishness.

bes@Bar:3:31 @ No man knoweth her way, nor thinketh of her path.

bes@Bar:3:32 @ But he that knoweth all things knoweth her, and hath found her out with his understanding: he that prepared the earth for evermore hath filled it with fourfooted beasts:

bes@Bar:3:35 @ This is our God, and there shall none other be accounted of in comparison of him

bes@Bar:3:36 @ He hath found out all the way of knowledge, and hath given it unto Jacob his servant, and to Israel his beloved.

bes@Bar:4:3 @ Give not thine honour to another, nor the things that are profitable unto thee to a strange nation.

bes@Bar:4:4 @ O Israel, happy are we: for things that are pleasing to God are made known unto us.

bes@Bar:4:6 @ Ye were sold to the nations, not for your destruction: but because ye moved God to wrath, ye were delivered unto the enemies.

bes@Bar:4:7 @ For ye provoked him that made you by sacrificing unto devils, and not to God.

bes@Bar:4:11 @ With joy did I nourish them; but sent them away with weeping and mourning.

bes@Bar:4:12 @ Let no man rejoice over me, a widow, and forsaken of many, who for the sins of my children am left desolate; because they departed from the law of God.

bes@Bar:4:13 @ They knew not his statutes, nor walked in the ways of his commandments, nor trod in the paths of discipline in his righteousness.

bes@Bar:4:15 @ For he hath brought a nation upon them from far, a shameless nation, and of a strange language, who neither reverenced old man, nor pitied child.

bes@Bar:4:24 @ Like as now the neighbours of Sion have seen your captivity: so shall they see shortly your salvation from our God which shall come upon you with great glory, and brightness of the Everlasting.

bes@Bar:6:2 @ Because of the sins which ye have committed before God, ye shall be led away captives into Babylon by Nabuchodonosor king of the Babylonians.

bes@Bar:6:4 @ Now shall ye see in Babylon gods of silver, and of gold, and of wood, borne upon shoulders, which cause the nations to fear.

bes@Bar:6:5 @ Beware therefore that ye in no wise be like to strangers, neither be ye and of them, when ye see the multitude before them and behind them, worshipping them.

bes@Bar:6:8 @ As for their tongue, it is polished by the workman, and they themselves are gilded and laid over with silver; yet are they but false, and cannot speak.

bes@Bar:6:12 @ Yet cannot these gods save themselves from rust and moth, though they be covered with purple raiment.

bes@Bar:6:14 @ And he that cannot put to death one that offendeth him holdeth a sceptre, as though he were a judge of the country.

bes@Bar:6:15 @ He hath also in his right hand a dagger and an axe: but cannot deliver himself from war and thieves.

bes@Bar:6:16 @ Whereby they are known not to be gods: therefore fear them not.

bes@Bar:6:17 @ For like as a vessel that a man useth is nothing worth when it is broken; even so it is with their gods: when they be set up in the temple, their eyes be full of dust through the feet of them that come in.

bes@Bar:6:19 @ They light them candles, yea, more than for themselves, whereof they cannot see one.

bes@Bar:6:20 @ They are as one of the beams of the temple, yet they say their hearts are gnawed upon by things creeping out of the earth; and when they eat them and their clothes, they feel it not.

bes@Bar:6:23 @ By this ye may know that they are no gods: therefore fear them not.

bes@Bar:6:24 @ Notwithstanding the gold that is about them to make them beautiful, except they wipe off the rust, they will not shine: for neither when they were molten did they feel it.

bes@Bar:6:25 @ The things wherein there is no breath are bought for a most high price.

bes@Bar:6:26 @ They are borne upon shoulders, having no feet whereby they declare unto men that they be nothing worth.

bes@Bar:6:27 @ They also that serve them are ashamed: for if they fall to the ground at any time, they cannot rise up again of themselves: neither, if one set them upright, can they move of themselves: neither, if they be bowed down, can they make themselves straight: but they set gifts before them as unto dead men.

bes@Bar:6:28 @ As for the things that are sacrificed unto them, their priests sell and abuse; in like manner their wives lay up part thereof in salt; but unto the poor and impotent they give nothing of it.

bes@Bar:6:29 @ Menstruous women and women in childbed eat their sacrifices: by these things ye may know that they are no gods: fear them not.

bes@Bar:6:31 @ And the priests sit in their temples, having their clothes rent, and their heads and beards shaven, and nothing upon their heads.

bes@Bar:6:34 @ Whether it be evil that one doeth unto them, or good, they are not able to recompense it: they can neither set up a king, nor put him down.

bes@Bar:6:35 @ In like manner, they can neither give riches nor money: though a man make a vow unto them, and keep it not, they will not require it.

bes@Bar:6:36 @ They can save no man from death, neither deliver the weak from the mighty.

bes@Bar:6:37 @ They cannot restore a blind man to his sight, nor help any man in his distress.

bes@Bar:6:38 @ They can shew no mercy to the widow, nor do good to the fatherless.

bes@Bar:6:40 @ How should a man then think and say that they are gods, when even the Chaldeans themselves dishonour them?

bes@Bar:6:41 @ Who if they shall see one dumb that cannot speak, they bring him, and intreat Bel that he may speak, as though he were able to understand.

bes@Bar:6:42 @ Yet they cannot understand this themselves, and leave them: for they have no knowledge.

bes@Bar:6:43 @ The women also with cords about them, sitting in the ways, burn bran for perfume: but if any of them, drawn by some that passeth by, lie with him, she reproacheth her fellow, that she was not thought as worthy as herself, nor her cord broken.

bes@Bar:6:45 @ They are made of carpenters and goldsmiths: they can be nothing else than the workmen will have them to be.

bes@Bar:6:49 @ How then cannot men perceive that they be no gods, which can neither save themselves from war, nor from plague?

bes@Bar:6:50 @ For seeing they be but of wood, and overlaid with silver and gold, it shall be known hereafter that they are false:

bes@Bar:6:51 @ And it shall manifestly appear to all nations and kings that they are no gods, but the works of men’s hands, and that there is no work of God in them.

bes@Bar:6:52 @ Who then may not know that they are no gods?

bes@Bar:6:53 @ For neither can they set up a king in the land, nor give rain unto men.

bes@Bar:6:54 @ Neither can they judge their own cause, nor redress a wrong, being unable: for they are as crows between heaven and earth.

bes@Bar:6:56 @ Moreover they cannot withstand any king or enemies: how can it then be thought or said that they be gods?

bes@Bar:6:63 @ And the fire sent from above to consume hills and woods doeth as it is commanded: but these are like unto them neither in shew nor power.

bes@Bar:6:64 @ Wherefore it is neither to be supposed nor said that they are gods, seeing, they are able neither to judge causes, nor to do good unto men.

bes@Bar:6:65 @ Knowing therefore that they are no gods, fear them not,

bes@Bar:6:66 @ For they can neither curse nor bless kings:

bes@Bar:6:67 @ Neither can they shew signs in the heavens among the heathen, nor shine as the sun, nor give light as the moon.

bes@Bar:6:69 @ It is then by no means manifest unto us that they are gods: therefore fear them not.

bes@Bar:6:70 @ For as a scarecrow in a garden of cucumbers keepeth nothing: so are their gods of wood, and laid over with silver and gold.

bes@Bar:6:72 @ And ye shall know them to be no gods by the bright purple that rotteth upon them: and they themselves afterward shall be eaten, and shall be a reproach in the country.

bes@Bar:6:73 @ Better therefore is the just man that hath none idols: for he shall be far from reproach.

bes@1Macc:1:6 @ Wherefore he called his servants, such as were honourable, and had been brought up with him from his youth, and parted his kingdom among them, while he was yet alive.

bes@1Macc:1:16 @ Now when the kingdom was established before Antiochus, he thought to reign over Egypt that he might have the dominion of two realms.

bes@1Macc:1:37 @ Thus they shed innocent blood on every side of the sanctuary, and defiled it:

bes@1Macc:1:39 @ Her sanctuary was laid waste like a wilderness, her feasts were turned into mourning, her sabbaths into reproach her honour into contempt.

bes@1Macc:1:40 @ As had been her glory, so was her dishonour increased, and her excellency was turned into mourning.

bes@1Macc:1:50 @ And whosoever would not do according to the commandment of the king, he said, he should die.

bes@1Macc:1:54 @ Now the fifteenth day of the month Casleu, in the hundred forty and fifth year, they set up the abomination of desolation upon the altar, and builded idol altars throughout the cities of Juda on every side;

bes@1Macc:1:59 @ Now the five and twentieth day of the month they did sacrifice upon the idol altar, which was upon the altar of God.

bes@1Macc:1:62 @ Howbeit many in Israel were fully resolved and confirmed in themselves not to eat any unclean thing.

bes@1Macc:1:63 @ Wherefore the rather to die, that they might not be defiled with meats, and that they might not profane the holy covenant: so then they died.

bes@1Macc:2:10 @ What nation hath not had a part in her kingdom and gotten of her spoils?

bes@1Macc:2:17 @ Then answered the king’s officers, and said to Mattathias on this wise, Thou art a ruler, and an honourable and great man in this city, and strengthened with sons and brethren:

bes@1Macc:2:18 @ Now therefore come thou first, and fulfil the king’s commandment, like as all the heathen have done, yea, and the men of Juda also, and such as remain at Jerusalem: so shalt thou and thy house be in the number of the king’s friends, and thou and thy children shall be honoured with silver and gold, and many rewards.

bes@1Macc:2:22 @ We will not hearken to the king’s words, to go from our religion, either on the right hand, or the left.

bes@1Macc:2:23 @ Now when he had left speaking these words, there came one of the Jews in the sight of all to sacrifice on the altar which was at Modin, according to the king’s commandment.

bes@1Macc:2:31 @ Now when it was told the king’s servants, and the host that was at Jerusalem, in the city of David, that certain men, who had broken the king’s commandment, were gone down into the secret places in the wilderness,

bes@1Macc:2:34 @ But they said, We will not come forth, neither will we do the king’s commandment, to profane the sabbath day.

bes@1Macc:2:36 @ Howbeit they answered them not, neither cast they a stone at them, nor stopped the places where they lay hid;

bes@1Macc:2:37 @ But said, Let us die all in our innocency: heaven and earth will testify for us, that ye put us to death wrongfully.

bes@1Macc:2:39 @ Now when Mattathias and his friends understood hereof, they mourned for them right sore.

bes@1Macc:2:40 @ And one of them said to another, If we all do as our brethren have done, and fight not for our lives and laws against the heathen, they will now quickly root us out of the earth.

bes@1Macc:2:49 @ Now when the time drew near that Mattathias should die, he said unto his sons, Now hath pride and rebuke gotten strength, and the time of destruction, and the wrath of indignation:

bes@1Macc:2:50 @ Now therefore, my sons, be ye zealous for the law, and give your lives for the covenant of your fathers.

bes@1Macc:2:51 @ Call to remembrance what acts our fathers did in their time; so shall ye receive great honour and an everlasting name.

bes@1Macc:2:52 @ Was not Abraham found faithful in temptation, and it was imputed unto him for righteousness?

bes@1Macc:2:60 @ Daniel for his innocency was delivered from the mouth of lions.

bes@1Macc:2:61 @ And thus consider ye throughout all ages, that none that put their trust in him shall be overcome.

bes@1Macc:2:62 @ Fear not then the words of a sinful man: for his glory shall be dung and worms.

bes@1Macc:2:63 @ To day he shall be lifted up and to morrow he shall not be found, because he is returned into his dust, and his thought is come to nothing.

bes@1Macc:2:65 @ And behold, I know that your brother Simon is a man of counsel, give ear unto him alway: he shall be a father unto you.

bes@1Macc:3:3 @ So he gat his people great honour, and put on a breastplate as a giant, and girt his warlike harness about him, and he made battles, protecting the host with his sword.

bes@1Macc:3:9 @ So that he was renowned unto the utmost part of the earth, and he received unto him such as were ready to perish.

bes@1Macc:3:13 @ Now when Seron, a prince of the army of Syria, heard say that Judas had gathered unto him a multitude and company of the faithful to go out with him to war;

bes@1Macc:3:14 @ He said, I will get me a name and honour in the kingdom; for I will go fight with Judas and them that are with him, who despise the king’s commandment.

bes@1Macc:3:18 @ Unto whom Judas answered, It is no hard matter for many to be shut up in the hands of a few; and with the God of heaven it is all one, to deliver with a great multitude, or a small company:

bes@1Macc:3:19 @ For the victory of battle standeth not in the multitude of an host; but strength cometh from heaven.

bes@1Macc:3:22 @ Wherefore the Lord himself will overthrow them before our face: and as for you, be ye not afraid of them.

bes@1Macc:3:23 @ Now as soon as he had left off speaking, he leapt suddenly upon them, and so Seron and his host was overthrown before him.

bes@1Macc:3:27 @ Now when king Antiochus heard these things, he was full of indignation: wherefore he sent and gathered together all the forces of his realm, even a very strong army.

bes@1Macc:3:30 @ He feared that he should not be able to bear the charges any longer, nor to have such gifts to give so liberally as he did before: for he had abounded above the kings that were before him.

bes@1Macc:3:32 @ So he left Lysias, a nobleman, and one of the blood royal, to oversee the affairs of the king from the river Euphrates unto the borders of Egypt:

bes@1Macc:3:38 @ Then Lysias chose Ptolemee the son of Dorymenes, Nicanor, and Gorgias, mighty men of the king’s friends:

bes@1Macc:3:42 @ Now when Judas and his brethren saw that miseries were multiplied, and that the forces did encamp themselves in their borders: for they knew how the king had given commandment to destroy the people, and utterly abolish them;

bes@1Macc:3:43 @ They said one to another, Let us restore the decayed fortune of our people, and let us fight for our people and the sanctuary.

bes@1Macc:3:45 @ Now Jerusalem lay void as a wilderness, there was none of her children that went in or out: the sanctuary also was trodden down, and aliens kept the strong hold; the heathen had their habitation in that place; and joy was taken from Jacob, and the pipe with the harp ceased.

bes@1Macc:3:52 @ And lo, the heathen are assembled together against us to destroy us: what things they imagine against us, thou knowest.

bes@1Macc:4:3 @ Now when Judas heard thereof he himself removed, and the valiant men with him, that he might smite the king’s army which was at Emmaus,

bes@1Macc:4:5 @ In the mean season came Gorgias by night into the camp of Judas: and when he found no man there, he sought them in the mountains: for said he, These fellows flee from us

bes@1Macc:4:6 @ But as soon as it was day, Judas shewed himself in the plain with three thousand men, who nevertheless had neither armour nor swords to their minds.

bes@1Macc:4:8 @ Then said Judas to the men that were with him, Fear ye not their multitude, neither be ye afraid of their assault.

bes@1Macc:4:10 @ Now therefore let us cry unto heaven, if peradventure the Lord will have mercy upon us, and remember the covenant of our fathers, and destroy this host before our face this day:

bes@1Macc:4:11 @ That so all the heathen may know that there is one who delivereth and saveth Israel.

bes@1Macc:4:17 @ And said to the people, Be not greedy of the spoil inasmuch as there is a battle before us,

bes@1Macc:4:18 @ And Gorgias and his host are here by us in the mountain: but stand ye now against our enemies, and overcome them, and after this ye may boldly take the spoils.

bes@1Macc:4:26 @ Now all the strangers that had escaped came and told Lysias what had happened:

bes@1Macc:4:27 @ Who, when he heard thereof, was confounded and discouraged, because neither such things as he would were done unto Israel, nor such things as the king commanded him were come to pass.

bes@1Macc:4:32 @ Make them to be of no courage, and cause the boldness of their strength to fall away, and let them quake at their destruction:

bes@1Macc:4:33 @ Cast them down with the sword of them that love thee, and let all those that know thy name praise thee with thanksgiving.

bes@1Macc:4:35 @ Now when Lysias saw his army put to flight, and the manliness of Judas’ soldiers, and how they were ready either to live or die valiantly, he went into Antiochia, and gathered together a company of strangers, and having made his army greater than it was, he purposed to come again into Judea.

bes@1Macc:4:52 @ Now on the five and twentieth day of the ninth month, which is called the month Casleu, in the hundred forty and eighth year, they rose up betimes in the morning,

bes@1Macc:5:1 @ Now when the nations round about heard that the altar was built and the sanctuary renewed as before, it displeased them very much.

bes@1Macc:5:12 @ Come now therefore, and deliver us from their hands, for many of us are slain:

bes@1Macc:5:16 @ Now when Judas and the people heard these words, there assembled a great congregation together, to consult what they should do for their brethren, that were in trouble, and assaulted of them.

bes@1Macc:5:19 @ Unto whom he gave commandment, saying, Take ye the charge of this people, and see that ye make not war against the heathen until the time that we come again.

bes@1Macc:5:20 @ Now unto Simon were given three thousand men to go into Galilee, and unto Judas eight thousand men for the country of Galaad.

bes@1Macc:5:34 @ Then the host of Timotheus, knowing that it was Maccabeus, fled from him: wherefore he smote them with a great slaughter; so that there were killed of them that day about eight thousand men.

bes@1Macc:5:37 @ After these things gathered Timotheus another host and encamped against Raphon beyond the brook.

bes@1Macc:5:40 @ Then Timotheus said unto the captains of his host, When Judas and his host come near the brook, if he pass over first unto us, we shall not be able to withstand him; for he will mightily prevail against us:

bes@1Macc:5:42 @ Now when Judas came near the brook, he caused the scribes of the people to remain by the brook: unto whom he gave commandment, saying, Suffer no man to remain in the camp, but let all come to the battle.

bes@1Macc:5:46 @ Now when they came unto Ephron, (this was a great city in the way as they should go, very well fortified) they could not turn from it, either on the right hand or the left, but must needs pass through the midst of it.

bes@1Macc:5:48 @ Whereupon Judas sent unto them in peaceable manner, saying, Let us pass through your land to go into our own country, and none shall do you any hurt; we will only pass through on foot: howbeit they would not open unto him.

bes@1Macc:5:54 @ So they went up to mount Sion with joy and gladness, where they offered burnt offerings, because not one of them were slain until they had returned in peace.

bes@1Macc:5:55 @ Now what time as Judas and Jonathan were in the land of Galaad, and Simon his brother in Galilee before Ptolemais,

bes@1Macc:5:61 @ Thus was there a great overthrow among the children of Israel, because they were not obedient unto Judas and his brethren, but thought to do some valiant act.

bes@1Macc:5:62 @ Moreover these men came not of the seed of those, by whose hand deliverance was given unto Israel.

bes@1Macc:5:63 @ Howbeit the man Judas and his brethren were greatly renowned in the sight of all Israel, and of all the heathen, wheresoever their name was heard of;

bes@1Macc:6:1 @ About that time king Antiochus travelling through the high countries heard say, that Elymais in the country of Persia was a city greatly renowned for riches, silver, and gold;

bes@1Macc:6:3 @ Wherefore he came and sought to take the city, and to spoil it; but he was not able, because they of the city, having had warning thereof,

bes@1Macc:6:8 @ Now when the king heard these words, he was astonished and sore moved: whereupon he laid him down upon his bed, and fell sick for grief, because it had not befallen him as he looked for.

bes@1Macc:6:11 @ And I thought with myself, Into what tribulation am I come, and how great a flood of misery is it, wherein now I am! for I was bountiful and beloved in my power.

bes@1Macc:6:12 @ But now I remember the evils that I did at Jerusalem, and that I took all the vessels of gold and silver that were therein, and sent to destroy the inhabitants of Judea without a cause.

bes@1Macc:6:15 @ And gave him the crown, and his robe, and his signet, to the end he should bring up his son Antiochus, and nourish him up for the kingdom.

bes@1Macc:6:17 @ Now when Lysias knew that the king was dead, he set up Antiochus his son, whom he had brought up being young, to reign in his stead, and his name he called Eupator.

bes@1Macc:6:27 @ Wherefore if thou dost not prevent them quickly, they will do the greater things than these, neither shalt thou be able to rule them.

bes@1Macc:6:28 @ Now when the king heard this, he was angry, and gathered together all his friends, and the captains of his army, and those that had charge of the horse.

bes@1Macc:6:39 @ Now when the sun shone upon the shields of gold and brass, the mountains glistered therewith, and shined like lamps of fire.

bes@1Macc:6:41 @ Wherefore all that heard the noise of their multitude, and the marching of the company, and the rattling of the harness, were moved: for the army was very great and mighty.

bes@1Macc:6:49 @ But with them that were in Bethsura he made peace: for they came out of the city, because they had no victuals there to endure the siege, it being a year of rest to the land.

bes@1Macc:6:58 @ Now therefore let us be friends with these men, and make peace with them, and with all their nation;

bes@1Macc:7:3 @ Wherefore, when he knew it, he said, Let me not see their faces.

bes@1Macc:7:4 @ So his host slew them. Now when Demetrius was set upon the throne of his kingdom,

bes@1Macc:7:7 @ Now therefore send some man whom thou trustest, and let him go and see what havock he hath made among us, and in the king’s land, and let him punish them with all them that aid them.

bes@1Macc:7:11 @ But they gave no heed to their words; for they saw that they were come with a great power.

bes@1Macc:7:13 @ Now the Assideans were the first among the children of Israel that sought peace of them:

bes@1Macc:7:14 @ For said they, One that is a priest of the seed of Aaron is come with this army, and he will do us no wrong.

bes@1Macc:7:15 @ So he spake unto them, peaceably, and sware unto them, saying, we will procure the harm neither of you nor your friends.

bes@1Macc:7:17 @ The flesh of thy saints have they cast out, and their blood have they shed round about Jerusalem, and there was none to bury them.

bes@1Macc:7:18 @ Wherefore the fear and dread of them fell upon all the people, who said, There is neither truth nor righteousness in them; for they have broken the covenant and oath that they made.

bes@1Macc:7:23 @ Now when Judas saw all the mischief that Alcimus and his company had done among the Israelites, even above the heathen,

bes@1Macc:7:24 @ He went out into all the coasts of Judea round about, and took vengeance of them that had revolted from him, so that they durst no more go forth into the country.

bes@1Macc:7:25 @ On the other side, when Alcimus saw that Judas and his company had gotten the upper hand, and knew that he was not able to abide their force, he went again to the king, and said all the worst of them that he could.

bes@1Macc:7:26 @ Then the king sent Nicanor, one of his honourable princes, a man that bare deadly hate unto Israel, with commandment to destroy the people.

bes@1Macc:7:27 @ So Nicanor came to Jerusalem with a great force; and sent unto Judas and his brethren deceitfully with friendly words, saying,

bes@1Macc:7:28 @ Let there be no battle between me and you; I will come with a few men, that I may see you in peace.

bes@1Macc:7:29 @ He came therefore to Judas, and they saluted one another peaceably. Howbeit the enemies were prepared to take away Judas by violence.

bes@1Macc:7:30 @ Which thing after it was known to Judas, to wit, that he came unto him with deceit, he was sore afraid of him, and would see his face no more.

bes@1Macc:7:31 @ Nicanor also, when he saw that his counsel was discovered, went out to fight against Judas beside Capharsalama:

bes@1Macc:7:32 @ Where there were slain of Nicanor’s side about five thousand men, and the rest fled into the city of David.

bes@1Macc:7:33 @ After this went Nicanor up to mount Sion, and there came out of the sanctuary certain of the priests and certain of the elders of the people, to salute him peaceably, and to shew him the burnt sacrifice that was offered for the king.

bes@1Macc:7:35 @ And sware in his wrath, saying, Unless Judas and his host be now delivered into my hands, if ever I come again in safety, I will burn up this house: and with that he went out in a great rage.

bes@1Macc:7:38 @ Be avenged of this man and his host, and let them fall by the sword: remember their blasphemies, and suffer them not to continue any longer.

bes@1Macc:7:39 @ So Nicanor went out of Jerusalem, and pitched his tents in Bethhoron, where an host out of Syria met him.

bes@1Macc:7:42 @ Even so destroy thou this host before us this day, that the rest may know that he hath spoken blasphemously against thy sanctuary, and judge thou him according to his wickedness.

bes@1Macc:7:43 @ So the thirteenth day of the month Adar the hosts joined battle: but Nicanor’s host was discomfited, and he himself was first slain in the battle.

bes@1Macc:7:44 @ Now when Nicanor’s host saw that he was slain, they cast away their weapons, and fled.

bes@1Macc:7:46 @ Whereupon they came forth out of all the towns of Judea round about, and closed them in; so that they, turning back upon them that pursued them, were all slain with the sword, and not one of them was left.

bes@1Macc:7:47 @ Afterwards they took the spoils, and the prey, and smote off Nicanor’s head, and his right hand, which he stretched out so proudly, and brought them away, and hanged them up toward Jerusalem.

bes@1Macc:8:1 @ Now Judas had heard of the fame of the Romans, that they were mighty and valiant men, and such as would lovingly accept all that joined themselves unto them, and make a league of amity with all that came unto them;

bes@1Macc:8:2 @ And that they were men of great valour. It was told him also of their wars and noble acts which they had done among the Galatians, and how they had conquered them, and brought them under tribute;

bes@1Macc:8:10 @ And that they, having knowledge thereof sent against them a certain captain, and fighting with them slew many of them, and carried away captives their wives and their children, and spoiled them, and took possession of their lands, and pulled down their strong holds, and brought them to be their servants unto this day:

bes@1Macc:8:14 @ Yet for all this none of them wore a crown or was clothed in purple, to be magnified thereby:

bes@1Macc:8:16 @ And that they committed their government to one man every year, who ruled over all their country, and that all were obedient to that one, and that there was neither envy nor emulation among them.

bes@1Macc:9:1 @ Furthermore, when Demetrius heard the Nicanor and his host were slain in battle, he sent Bacchides and Alcimus into the land of Judea the second time, and with them the chief strength of his host:

bes@1Macc:9:5 @ Now Judas had pitched his tents at Eleasa, and three thousand chosen men with him:

bes@1Macc:9:6 @ Who seeing the multitude of the other army to he so great were sore afraid; whereupon many conveyed themselves out of the host, insomuch as abode of them no more but eight hundred men.

bes@1Macc:9:7 @ When Judas therefore saw that his host slipt away, and that the battle pressed upon him, he was sore troubled in mind, and much distressed, for that he had no time to gather them together.

bes@1Macc:9:9 @ But they dehorted him, saying, We shall never be able: let us now rather save our lives, and hereafter we will return with our brethren, and fight against them: for we are but few.

bes@1Macc:9:10 @ Then Judas said, God forbid that I should do this thing, and flee away from them: if our time be come, let us die manfully for our brethren, and let us not stain our honour.

bes@1Macc:9:13 @ They also of Judas’ side, even they sounded their trumpets also, so that the earth shook at the noise of the armies, and the battle continued from morning till night.

bes@1Macc:9:14 @ Now when Judas perceived that Bacchides and the strength of his army were on the right side, he took with him all the hardy men,

bes@1Macc:9:22 @ As for the other things concerning Judas and his wars, and the noble acts which he did, and his greatness, they are not written: for they were very many. 2

bes@1Macc:9:23 @ Now after the death of Judas the wicked began to put forth their heads in all the coasts of Israel, and there arose up all such as wrought iniquity.

bes@1Macc:9:27 @ So was there a great affliction in Israel, the like whereof was not since the time that a prophet was not seen among them.

bes@1Macc:9:29 @ Since thy brother Judas died, we have no man like him to go forth against our enemies, and Bacchides, and against them of our nation that are adversaries to us.

bes@1Macc:9:30 @ Now therefore we have chosen thee this day to be our prince and captain in his stead, that thou mayest fight our battles.

bes@1Macc:9:32 @ But when Bacchides gat knowledge thereof, he sought for to slay him

bes@1Macc:9:35 @ Now Jonathan had sent his brother John, a captain of the people, to pray his friends the Nabathites, that they might leave with them their carriage, which was much.

bes@1Macc:9:41 @ Thus was the marriage turned into mourning, and the noise of their melody into lamentation.

bes@1Macc:9:43 @ Now when Bacchides heard hereof, he came on the sabbath day unto the banks of Jordan with a great power.

bes@1Macc:9:44 @ Then Jonathan said to his company, Let us go up now and fight for our lives, for it standeth not with us to day, as in time past:

bes@1Macc:9:46 @ Wherefore cry ye now unto heaven, that ye may be delivered from the hand of your enemies.

bes@1Macc:9:48 @ Then Jonathan and they that were with him leapt into Jordan, and swam over unto the other bank: howbeit the other passed not over Jordan unto them.

bes@1Macc:9:55 @ And as he began to pull down, even at that time was Alcimus plagued, and his enterprises hindered: for his mouth was stopped, and he was taken with a palsy, so that he could no more speak any thing, nor give order concerning his house.

bes@1Macc:9:57 @ Now when Bacchides saw that Alcimus was dead, he returned to the king: whereupon the land of Judea was in rest two years.

bes@1Macc:9:58 @ Then all the ungodly men held a council, saying, Behold, Jonathan and his company are at ease, and dwell without care: now therefore we will bring Bacchides hither, who shall take them all in one night.

bes@1Macc:9:60 @ Then removed he, and came with a great host, and sent letters privily to his adherents in Judea, that they should take Jonathan and those that were with him: howbeit they could not, because their counsel was known unto them.

bes@1Macc:9:70 @ Whereof when Jonathan had knowledge, he sent ambassadors unto him, to the end he should make peace with him, and deliver them the prisoners.

bes@1Macc:10:2 @ Now when king Demetrius heard thereof, he gathered together an exceeding great host, and went forth against him to fight.

bes@1Macc:10:15 @ Now when king Alexander had heard what promises Demetrius had sent unto Jonathan: when also it was told him of the battles and noble acts which he and his brethren had done, and of the pains that they had endured,

bes@1Macc:10:16 @ He said, Shall we find such another man? now therefore we will make him our friend and confederate.

bes@1Macc:10:20 @ Wherefore now this day we ordain thee to be the high priest of thy nation, and to be called the king’s friend; (and therewithal he sent him a purple robe and a crown of gold:) and require thee to take our part, and keep friendship with us.

bes@1Macc:10:26 @ Whereas ye have kept covenants with us, and continued in our friendship, not joining yourselves with our enemies, we have heard hereof, and are glad.

bes@1Macc:10:27 @ Wherefore now continue ye still to be faithful unto us, and we will well recompense you for the things ye do in our behalf,

bes@1Macc:10:29 @ And now do I free you, and for your sake I release all the Jews, from tributes, and from the customs of salt, and from crown taxes,

bes@1Macc:10:30 @ And from that which appertaineth unto me to receive for the third part or the seed, and the half of the fruit of the trees, I release it from this day forth, so that they shall not be taken of the land of Judea, nor of the three governments which are added thereunto out of the country of Samaria and Galilee, from this day forth for evermore.

bes@1Macc:10:35 @ Also no man shall have authority to meddle with or to molest any of them in any matter.

bes@1Macc:10:37 @ And of them some shall be placed in the king’s strong holds, of whom also some shall be set over the affairs of the kingdom, which are of trust: and I will that their overseers and governors be of themselves, and that they live after their own laws, even as the king hath commanded in the land of Judea.

bes@1Macc:10:38 @ And concerning the three governments that are added to Judea from the country of Samaria, let them be joined with Judea, that they may be reckoned to be under one, nor bound to obey other authority than the high priest’s.

bes@1Macc:10:41 @ And all the overplus, which the officers payed not in as in former time, from henceforth shall be given toward the works of the temple.

bes@1Macc:10:46 @ Now when Jonathan and the people heard these words, they gave no credit unto them, nor received them, because they remembered the great evil that he had done in Israel; for he had afflicted them very sore.

bes@1Macc:10:54 @ Now therefore let us make a league of amity together, and give me now thy daughter to wife: and I will be thy son in law, and will give both thee and her as according to thy dignity.

bes@1Macc:10:56 @ And now will I do to thee, as thou hast written: meet me therefore at Ptolemais, that we may see one another; for I will marry my daughter to thee according to thy desire.

bes@1Macc:10:59 @ Now king Alexander had written unto Jonathan, that he should come and meet him.

bes@1Macc:10:60 @ Who thereupon went honourably to Ptolemais, where he met the two kings, and gave them and their friends silver and gold, and many presents, and found favour in their sight.

bes@1Macc:10:61 @ At that time certain pestilent fellows of Israel, men of a wicked life, assembled themselves against him, to accuse him: but the king would not hear them.

bes@1Macc:10:63 @ And he made him sit by himself, and said into his princes, Go with him into the midst of the city, and make proclamation, that no man complain against him of any matter, and that no man trouble him for any manner of cause.

bes@1Macc:10:64 @ Now when his accusers saw that he was honoured according to the proclamation, and clothed in purple, they fled all away.

bes@1Macc:10:65 @ So the king honoured him, and wrote him among his chief friends, and made him a duke, and partaker of his dominion.

bes@1Macc:10:69 @ Then Demetrius made Apollonius the governor of Celosyria his general, who gathered together a great host, and camped in Jamnia, and sent unto Jonathan the high priest, saying,

bes@1Macc:10:71 @ Now therefore, if thou trustest in thine own strength, come down to us into the plain field, and there let us try the matter together: for with me is the power of the cities.

bes@1Macc:10:72 @ Ask and learn who I am, and the rest that take our part, and they shall tell thee that thy foot is not able to stand before our face; for thy fathers have twice been put to flight in their own land.

bes@1Macc:10:73 @ Wherefore now thou shalt not be able to abide the horsemen and so great a power in the plain, where is neither stone nor flint, nor place to flee unto.

bes@1Macc:10:79 @ Now Apollonius had left a thousand horsemen in ambush.

bes@1Macc:10:88 @ Now when king Alexander heard these things, he honoured Jonathan yet more.

bes@1Macc:11:3 @ Now as Ptolemee entered into the cities, he set in every one of them a garrison of soldiers to keep it.

bes@1Macc:11:6 @ Then Jonathan met the king with great pomp at Joppa, where they saluted one another, and lodged.

bes@1Macc:11:12 @ Wherefore he took his daughter from him, and gave her to Demetrius, and forsook Alexander, so that their hatred was openly known.

bes@1Macc:11:18 @ King Ptolemee also died the third day after, and they that were in the strong holds were slain one of another.

bes@1Macc:11:22 @ Whereof when he heard, he was angry, and immediately removing, he came to Ptolemais, and wrote unto Jonathan, that he should not lay siege to the tower, but come and speak with him at Ptolemais in great haste.

bes@1Macc:11:27 @ And confirmed him in the high priesthood, and in all the honours that he had before, and gave him preeminence among his chief friends.

bes@1Macc:11:36 @ And nothing hereof shall be revoked from this time forth for ever.

bes@1Macc:11:37 @ Now therefore see that thou make a copy of these things, and let it be delivered unto Jonathan, and set upon the holy mount in a conspicuous place.

bes@1Macc:11:38 @ After this, when king Demetrius saw that the land was quiet before him, and that no resistance was made against him, he sent away all his forces, every one to his own place, except certain bands of strangers, whom he had gathered from the isles of the heathen: wherefore all the forces of his fathers hated him.

bes@1Macc:11:42 @ So Demetrius sent unto Jonathan, saying, I will not only do this for thee and thy people, but I will greatly honour thee and thy nation, if opportunity serve.

bes@1Macc:11:43 @ Now therefore thou shalt do well, if thou send me men to help me; for all my forces are gone from me.

bes@1Macc:11:51 @ With that they cast away their weapons, and made peace; and the Jews were honoured in the sight of the king, and in the sight of all that were in his realm; and they returned to Jerusalem, having great spoils.

bes@1Macc:11:60 @ Then Jonathan went forth, and passed through the cities beyond the water, and all the forces of Syria gathered themselves unto him for to help him: and when he came to Ascalon, they of the city met him honourably.

bes@1Macc:11:63 @ Now when Jonathan heard that Demetrius’ princes were come to Cades, which is in Galilee, with a great power, purposing to remove him out of the country,

bes@1Macc:11:70 @ Insomuch as there was not one of them left, except Mattathias the son of Absalom, and Judas the son of Calphi, the captains of the host.

bes@1Macc:11:73 @ Now when his own men that were fled saw this, they turned again unto him, and with him pursued them to Cades, even unto their own tents, and there they camped.

bes@1Macc:12:1 @ Now when Jonathan saw that time served him, he chose certain men, and sent them to Rome, for to confirm and renew the friendship that they had with them.

bes@1Macc:12:4 @ Upon this the Romans gave them letters unto the governors of every place that they should bring them into the land of Judea peaceably.

bes@1Macc:12:8 @ At which time Onias entreated the ambassador that was sent honourably, and received the letters, wherein declaration was made of the league and friendship.

bes@1Macc:12:9 @ Therefore we also, albeit we need none of these things, that we have the holy books of scripture in our hands to comfort us,

bes@1Macc:12:12 @ And we are right glad of your honour.

bes@1Macc:12:14 @ Howbeit we would not be troublesome unto you, nor to others of our confederates and friends, in these wars:

bes@1Macc:12:18 @ Wherefore now ye shall do well to give us an answer thereto.

bes@1Macc:12:22 @ Now therefore, since this is come to our knowledge, ye shall do well to write unto us of your prosperity.

bes@1Macc:12:24 @ Now when Jonathan heard that Demetrius’ princes were come to fight against him with a greater host than afore,

bes@1Macc:12:25 @ He removed from Jerusalem, and met them in the land of Amathis: for he gave them no respite to enter his country.

bes@1Macc:12:29 @ Howbeit Jonathan and his company knew it not till the morning: for they saw the lights burning.

bes@1Macc:12:30 @ Then Jonathan pursued after them, but overtook them not: for they were gone over the river Eleutherus.

bes@1Macc:12:36 @ And making the walls of Jerusalem higher, and raising a great mount between the tower and the city, for to separate it from the city, that so it might be alone, that men might neither sell nor buy in it.

bes@1Macc:12:39 @ Now Tryphon went about to get the kingdom of Asia, and to kill Antiochus the king, that he might set the crown upon his own head.

bes@1Macc:12:40 @ Howbeit he was afraid that Jonathan would not suffer him, and that he would fight against him; wherefore he sought a way how to take Jonathan, that he might kill him. So he removed, and came to Bethsan.

bes@1Macc:12:42 @ Now when Tryphon saw Jonathan came with so great a force, he durst not stretch his hand against him;

bes@1Macc:12:43 @ But received him honourably, and commended him unto all his friends, and gave him gifts, and commanded his men of war to be as obedient unto him, as to himself.

bes@1Macc:12:44 @ Unto Jonathan also he said, Why hast thou brought all this people to so great trouble, seeing there is no war betwixt us?

bes@1Macc:12:45 @ Therefore send them now home again, and choose a few men to wait on thee, and come thou with me to Ptolemais, for I will give it thee, and the rest of the strong holds and forces, and all that have any charge: as for me, I will return and depart: for this is the cause of my coming.

bes@1Macc:12:48 @ Now as soon as Jonathan entered into Ptolemais, they of Ptolemais shut the gates and took him, and all them that came with him they slew with the sword.

bes@1Macc:12:50 @ But when they knew that Jonathan and they that were with him were taken and slain, they encouraged one another; and went close together, prepared to fight.

bes@1Macc:12:53 @ Then all the heathen that were round about then sought to destroy them: for said they, They have no captain, nor any to help them: now therefore let us make war upon them, and take away their memorial from among men.

bes@1Macc:13:1 @ Now when Simon heard that Tryphon had gathered together a great host to invade the land of Judea, and destroy it,

bes@1Macc:13:3 @ And gave them exhortation, saying, Ye yourselves know what great things I, and my brethren, and my father’s house, have done for the laws and the sanctuary, the battles also and troubles which we have seen.

bes@1Macc:13:5 @ Now therefore be it far from me, that I should spare mine own life in any time of trouble: for I am no better than my brethren.

bes@1Macc:13:7 @ Now as soon as the people heard these words, their spirit revived.

bes@1Macc:13:14 @ Now when Tryphon knew that Simon was risen up instead of his brother Jonathan, and meant to join battle with him, he sent messengers unto him, saying,

bes@1Macc:13:16 @ Wherefore now send an hundred talents of silver, and two of his sons for hostages, that when he is at liberty he may not revolt from us, and we will let him go.

bes@1Macc:13:18 @ Who might have said, Because I sent him not the money and the children, therefore is Jonathan dead.

bes@1Macc:13:21 @ Now they that were in the tower sent messengers unto Tryphon, to the end that he should hasten his coming unto them by the wilderness, and send them victuals.

bes@1Macc:13:22 @ Wherefore Tryphon made ready all his horsemen to come that night: but there fell a very great snow, by reason whereof he came not. So he departed, and came into the country of Galaad.

bes@1Macc:13:28 @ Moreover he set up seven pyramids, one against another, for his father, and his mother, and his four brethren.

bes@1Macc:13:31 @ Now Tryphon dealt deceitfully with the young king Antiochus, and slew him.

bes@1Macc:13:39 @ As for any oversight or fault committed unto this day, we forgive it, and the crown tax also, which ye owe us: and if there were any other tribute paid in Jerusalem, it shall no more be paid.

bes@1Macc:13:42 @ Then the people of Israel began to write in their instruments and contracts, In the first year of Simon the high priest, the governor and leader of the Jews.

bes@1Macc:13:46 @ And they said, Deal not with us according to our wickedness, but according to thy mercy.

bes@1Macc:13:47 @ So Simon was appeased toward them, and fought no more against them, but put them out of the city, and cleansed the houses wherein the idols were, and so entered into it with songs and thanksgiving.

bes@1Macc:13:49 @ They also of the tower in Jerusalem were kept so strait, that they could neither come forth, nor go into the country, nor buy, nor sell: wherefore they were in great distress for want of victuals, and a great number of them perished through famine.

bes@1Macc:14:1 @ Now in the hundred threescore and twelfth year king Demetrius gathered his forces together, and went into Media to get him help to fight against Tryphon.

bes@1Macc:14:4 @ As for the land of Judea, that was quiet all the days of Simon; for he sought the good of his nation in such wise, as that evermore his authority and honour pleased them well.

bes@1Macc:14:5 @ And as he was honourable in all his acts, so in this, that he took Joppa for an haven, and made an entrance to the isles of the sea,

bes@1Macc:14:10 @ He provided victuals for the cities, and set in them all manner of munition, so that his honourable name was renowned unto the end of the world.

bes@1Macc:14:12 @ For every man sat under his vine and his fig tree, and there was none to fray them:

bes@1Macc:14:16 @ Now when it was heard at Rome, and as far as Sparta, that Jonathan was dead, they were very sorry.

bes@1Macc:14:21 @ The ambassadors that were sent unto our people certified us of your glory and honour: wherefore we were glad of their coming,

bes@1Macc:14:23 @ And it pleased the people to entertain the men honourably, and to put the copy of their ambassage in publick records, to the end the people of the Lacedemonians might have a memorial thereof: furthermore we have written a copy thereof unto Simon the high priest.

bes@1Macc:14:28 @ At Saramel in the great congregation of the priests, and people, and rulers of the nation, and elders of the country, were these things notified unto us.

bes@1Macc:14:29 @ Forasmuch as oftentimes there have been wars in the country, wherein for the maintenance of their sanctuary, and the law, Simon the son of Mattathias, of the posterity of Jarib, together with his brethren, put themselves in jeopardy, and resisting the enemies of their nation did their nation great honour:

bes@1Macc:14:35 @ The people therefore sang the acts of Simon, and unto what glory he thought to bring his nation, made him their governor and chief priest, because he had done all these things, and for the justice and faith which he kept to his nation, and for that he sought by all means to exalt his people.

bes@1Macc:14:39 @ And made him one of his friends, and honoured him with great honour.

bes@1Macc:14:40 @ For he had heard say, that the Romans had called the Jews their friends and confederates and brethren; and that they had entertained the ambassadors of Simon honourably;

bes@1Macc:14:41 @ Also that the Jews and priests were well pleased that Simon should be their governor and high priest for ever, until there should arise a faithful prophet;

bes@1Macc:14:44 @ Also that it should be lawful for none of the people or priests to break any of these things, or to gainsay his words, or to gather an assembly in the country without him, or to be clothed in purple, or wear a buckle of gold;

bes@1Macc:14:47 @ Then Simon accepted hereof, and was well pleased to be high priest, and captain and governor of the Jews and priests, and to defend them all.

bes@1Macc:15:5 @ Now therefore I confirm unto thee all the oblations which the kings before me granted thee, and whatsoever gifts besides they granted.

bes@1Macc:15:9 @ Furthermore, when we have obtained our kingdom, we will honour thee, and thy nation, and thy temple, with great honour, so that your honour shall be known throughout the world.

bes@1Macc:15:19 @ We thought it good therefore to write unto the kings and countries, that they should do them no harm, nor fight against them, their cities, or countries, nor yet aid their enemies against them.

bes@1Macc:15:25 @ So Antiochus the king camped against Dora the second day, assaulting it continually, and making engines, by which means he shut up Tryphon, that he could neither go out nor in.

bes@1Macc:15:27 @ Nevertheless he would not receive them, but brake all the covenants which he had made with him afore, and became strange unto him.

bes@1Macc:15:28 @ Furthermore he sent unto him Athenobius, one of his friends, to commune with him, and say, Ye withhold Joppa and Gazera; with the tower that is in Jerusalem, which are cities of my realm.

bes@1Macc:15:30 @ Now therefore deliver the cities which ye have taken, and the tributes of the places, whereof ye have gotten dominion without the borders of Judea:

bes@1Macc:15:31 @ Or else give me for them five hundred talents of silver; and for the harm that ye have done, and the tributes of the cities, other five hundred talents: if not, we will come and fight against you

bes@1Macc:15:32 @ So Athenobius the king’s friend came to Jerusalem: and when he saw the glory of Simon, and the cupboard of gold and silver plate, and his great attendance, he was astonished, and told him the king’s message.

bes@1Macc:15:33 @ Then answered Simon, and said unto him, We have neither taken other men’s land, nor holden that which appertaineth to others, but the inheritance of our fathers, which our enemies had wrongfully in possession a certain time.

bes@1Macc:15:35 @ And whereas thou demandest Joppa and Gazera, albeit they did great harm unto the people in our country, yet will we give thee an hundred talents for them. Hereunto Athenobius answered him not a word;

bes@1Macc:16:3 @ But now I am old, and ye, by God’s mercy, are of a sufficient age: be ye instead of me and my brother, and go and fight for our nation, and the help from heaven be with you.

bes@1Macc:16:14 @ Now Simon was visiting the cities that were in the country, and taking care for the good ordering of them; at which time he came down himself to Jericho with his sons, Mattathias and Judas, in the hundred threescore and seventeenth year, in the eleventh month, called Sabat:

bes@1Macc:16:21 @ Now one had run afore to Gazera and told John that his father and brethren were slain, and, quoth he, Ptolemee hath sent to slay thee also.

bes@2Macc:1:6 @ And now we be here praying for you.

bes@2Macc:1:8 @ And burned the porch, and shed innocent blood: then we prayed unto the Lord, and were heard; we offered also sacrifices and fine flour, and lighted the lamps, and set forth the loaves.

bes@2Macc:1:9 @ And now see that ye keep the feast of tabernacles in the month Casleu.

bes@2Macc:1:10 @ In the hundred fourscore and eighth year, the people that were at Jerusalem and in Judea, and the council, and Judas, sent greeting and health unto Aristobulus, king Ptolemeus’ master, who was of the stock of the anointed priests, and to the Jews that were in Egypt:

bes@2Macc:1:18 @ Therefore whereas we are now purposed to keep the purification of the temple upon the five and twentieth day of the month Casleu, we thought it necessary to certify you thereof, that ye also might keep it, as the feast of the tabernacles, and of the fire, which was given us when Neemias offered sacrifice, after that he had builded the temple and the altar.

bes@2Macc:1:19 @ For when our fathers were led into Persia, the priests that were then devout took the fire of the altar privily, and hid it in an hollow place of a pit without water, where they kept it sure, so that the place was unknown to all men.

bes@2Macc:1:20 @ Now after many years, when it pleased God, Neemias, being sent from the king of Persia, did send of the posterity of those priests that had hid it to the fire: but when they told us they found no fire, but thick water;

bes@2Macc:1:27 @ Gather those together that are scattered from us, deliver them that serve among the heathen, look upon them that are despised and abhorred, and let the heathen know that thou art our God.

bes@2Macc:1:31 @ Now when the sacrifice was consumed, Neemias commanded the water that was left to be poured on the great stones.

bes@2Macc:1:33 @ So when this matter was known, it was told the king of Persia, that in the place, where the priests that were led away had hid the fire, there appeared water, and that Neemias had purified the sacrifices therewith.

bes@2Macc:2:2 @ And how that the prophet, having given them the law, charged them not to forget the commandments of the Lord, and that they should not err in their minds, when they see images of silver and gold, with their ornaments.

bes@2Macc:2:3 @ And with other such speeches exhorted he them, that the law should not depart from their hearts.

bes@2Macc:2:6 @ And some of those that followed him came to mark the way, but they could not find it.

bes@2Macc:2:7 @ Which when Jeremy perceived, he blamed them, saying, As for that place, it shall be unknown until the time that God gather his people again together, and receive them unto mercy.

bes@2Macc:2:8 @ Then shall the Lord shew them these things, and the glory of the Lord shall appear, and the cloud also, as it was shewed under Moses, and as when Solomon desired that the place might be honourably sanctified.

bes@2Macc:2:11 @ And Moses said, Because the sin offering was not to be eaten, it was consumed.

bes@2Macc:2:19 @ Now as concerning Judas Maccabeus, and his brethren, and the purification of the great temple, and the dedication of the altar,

bes@2Macc:2:21 @ And the manifest signs that came from heaven unto those that behaved themselves manfully to their honour for Judaism: so that, being but a few, they overcame the whole country, and chased barbarous multitudes,

bes@2Macc:2:22 @ And recovered again the temple renowned all the world over, and freed the city, and upheld the laws which were going down, the Lord being gracious unto them with all favour:

bes@2Macc:2:26 @ Therefore to us, that have taken upon us this painful labour of abridging, it was not easy, but a matter of sweat and watching;

bes@2Macc:2:27 @ Even as it is no ease unto him that prepareth a banquet, and seeketh the benefit of others: yet for the pleasuring of many we will undertake gladly this great pains;

bes@2Macc:3:1 @ Now when the holy city was inhabited with all peace, and the laws were kept very well, because of the godliness of Onias the high priest, and his hatred of wickedness,

bes@2Macc:3:2 @ It came to pass that even the kings themselves did honour the place, and magnify the temple with their best gifts;

bes@2Macc:3:4 @ But one Simon of the tribe of Benjamin, who was made governor of the temple, fell out with the high priest about disorder in the city.

bes@2Macc:3:5 @ And when he could not overcome Onias, he gat him to Apollonius the son of Thraseas, who then was governor of Celosyria and Phenice,

bes@2Macc:3:6 @ And told him that the treasury in Jerusalem was full of infinite sums of money, so that the multitude of their riches, which did not pertain to the account of the sacrifices, was innumerable, and that it was possible to bring all into the king’s hand.

bes@2Macc:3:7 @ Now when Apollonius came to the king, and had shewed him of the money whereof he was told, the king chose out Heliodorus his treasurer, and sent him with a commandment to bring him the foresaid money.

bes@2Macc:3:11 @ And that some of it belonged to Hircanus son of Tobias, a man of great dignity, and not as that wicked Simon had misinformed: the sum whereof in all was four hundred talents of silver, and two hundred of gold:

bes@2Macc:3:12 @ And that it was altogether impossible that such wrongs should be done unto them, that had committed it to the holiness of the place, and to the majesty and inviolable sanctity of the temple, honoured over all the world.

bes@2Macc:3:14 @ So at the day which he appointed he entered in to order this matter: wherefore there was no small agony throughout the whole city.

bes@2Macc:3:17 @ For the man was so compassed with fear and horror of the body, that it was manifest to them that looked upon him, what sorrow he had now in his heart.

bes@2Macc:3:24 @ Now as he was there present himself with his guard about the treasury, the Lord of spirits, and the Prince of all power, caused a great apparition, so that all that presumed to come in with him were astonished at the power of God, and fainted, and were sore afraid.

bes@2Macc:3:26 @ Moreover two other young men appeared before him, notable in strength, excellent in beauty, and comely in apparel, who stood by him on either side; and scourged him continually, and gave him many sore stripes.

bes@2Macc:3:28 @ Thus him, that lately came with a great train and with all his guard into the said treasury, they carried out, being unable to help himself with his weapons: and manifestly they acknowledged the power of God.

bes@2Macc:3:30 @ But they praised the Lord, that had miraculously honoured his own place: for the temple; which a little afore was full of fear and trouble, when the Almighty Lord appeared, was filled with joy and gladness.

bes@2Macc:3:33 @ Now as the high priest was making an atonement, the same young men in the same clothing appeared and stood beside Heliodorus, saying, Give Onias the high priest great thanks, insomuch as for his sake the Lord hath granted thee life:

bes@2Macc:3:34 @ And seeing that thou hast been scourged from heaven, declare unto all men the mighty power of God. And when they had spoken these words, they appeared no more.

bes@2Macc:3:38 @ If thou hast any enemy or traitor, send him thither, and thou shalt receive him well scourged, if he escape with his life: for in that place, no doubt; there is an especial power of God.

bes@2Macc:4:1 @ This Simon now, of whom we spake afore, having been a betrayer of the money, and of his country, slandered Onias, as if he ha terrified Heliodorus, and been the worker of these evils.

bes@2Macc:4:4 @ Onias seeing the danger of this contention, and that Apollonius, as being the governor of Celosyria and Phenice, did rage, and increase Simon’s malice,

bes@2Macc:4:5 @ He went to the king, not to be an accuser of his countrymen, but seeking the good of all, both publick and private:

bes@2Macc:4:8 @ Promising unto the king by intercession three hundred and threescore talents of silver, and of another revenue eighty talents:

bes@2Macc:4:13 @ Now such was the height of Greek fashions, and increase of heathenish manners, through the exceeding profaneness of Jason, that ungodly wretch, and no high priest;

bes@2Macc:4:14 @ That the priests had no courage to serve any more at the altar, but despising the temple, and neglecting the sacrifices, hastened to be partakers of the unlawful allowance in the place of exercise, after the game of Discus called them forth;

bes@2Macc:4:15 @ Not setting by the honours of their fathers, but liking the glory of the Grecians best of all.

bes@2Macc:4:17 @ For it is not a light thing to do wickedly against the laws of God: but the time following shall declare these things.

bes@2Macc:4:18 @ Now when the game that was used every faith year was kept at Tyrus, the king being present,

bes@2Macc:4:19 @ This ungracious Jason sent special messengers from Jerusalem, who were Antiochians, to carry three hundred drachms of silver to the sacrifice of Hercules, which even the bearers thereof thought fit not to bestow upon the sacrifice, because it was not convenient, but to be reserved for other charges.

bes@2Macc:4:21 @ Now when Apollonius the son of Menestheus was sent into Egypt for the coronation of king Ptolemeus Philometor, Antiochus, understanding him not to be well affected to his affairs, provided for his own safety: whereupon he came to Joppa, and from thence to Jerusalem:

bes@2Macc:4:22 @ Where he was honourably received of Jason, and of the city, and was brought in with torch alight, and with great shoutings: and so afterward went with his host unto Phenice.

bes@2Macc:4:25 @ So he came with the king’s mandate, bringing nothing worthy the high priesthood, but having the fury of a cruel tyrant, and the rage of a savage beast.

bes@2Macc:4:26 @ Then Jason, who had undermined his own brother, being undermined by another, was compelled to flee into the country of the Ammonites.

bes@2Macc:4:27 @ So Menelaus got the principality: but as for the money that he had promised unto the king, he took no good order for it, albeit Sostratis the ruler of the castle required it:

bes@2Macc:4:29 @ Now Menelaus left his brother Lysimachus in his stead in the priesthood; and Sostratus left Crates, who was governor of the Cyprians.

bes@2Macc:4:32 @ Now Menelaus, supposing that he had gotten a convenient time, stole certain vessels of gold out of the temple, and gave some of them to Andronicus, and some he sold into Tyrus and the cities round about.

bes@2Macc:4:35 @ For the which cause not only the Jews, but many also of other nations, took great indignation, and were much grieved for the unjust murder of the man.

bes@2Macc:4:39 @ Now when many sacrileges had been committed in the city by Lysimachus with the consent of Menelaus, and the fruit thereof was spread abroad, the multitude gathered themselves together against Lysimachus, many vessels of gold being already carried away.

bes@2Macc:4:40 @ Whereupon the common people rising, and being filled with rage, Lysimachus armed about three thousand men, and began first to offer violence; one Auranus being the leader, a man far gone in years, and no less in folly.

bes@2Macc:4:44 @ Now when the king came to Tyrus, three men that were sent from the senate pleaded the cause before him:

bes@2Macc:4:45 @ But Menelaus, being now convicted, promised Ptolemee the son of Dorymenes to give him much money, if he would pacify the king toward him.

bes@2Macc:4:46 @ Whereupon Ptolemee taking the king aside into a certain gallery, as it were to take the air, brought him to be of another mind:

bes@2Macc:4:47 @ Insomuch that he discharged Menelaus from the accusations, who notwithstanding was cause of all the mischief: and those poor men, who, if they had told their cause, yea, before the Scythians, should have been judged innocent, them he condemned to death.

bes@2Macc:4:49 @ Wherefore even they of Tyrus, moved with hatred of that wicked deed, caused them to be honourably buried.

bes@2Macc:5:3 @ And troops of horsemen in array, encountering and running one against another, with shaking of shields, and multitude of pikes, and drawing of swords, and casting of darts, and glittering of golden ornaments, and harness of all sorts.

bes@2Macc:5:5 @ Now when there was gone forth a false rumour, as though Antiochus had been dead, Jason took at the least a thousand men, and suddenly made an assault upon the city; and they that were upon the walls being put back, and the city at length taken, Menelaus fled into the castle:

bes@2Macc:5:6 @ But Jason slew his own citizens without mercy, not considering that to get the day of them of his own nation would be a most unhappy day for him; but thinking they had been his enemies, and not his countrymen, whom he conquered.

bes@2Macc:5:7 @ Howbeit for all this he obtained not the principality, but at the last received shame for the reward of his treason, and fled again into the country of the Ammonites.

bes@2Macc:5:10 @ And he that had cast out many unburied had none to mourn for him, nor any solemn funerals at all, nor sepulchre with his fathers.

bes@2Macc:5:11 @ Now when this that was done came to the king’s ear, he thought that Judea had revolted: whereupon removing out of Egypt in a furious mind, he took the city by force of arms,

bes@2Macc:5:12 @ And commanded his men of war not to spare such as they met, and to slay such as went up upon the houses.

bes@2Macc:5:14 @ And there were destroyed within the space of three whole days fourscore thousand, whereof forty thousand were slain in the conflict; and no fewer sold than slain.

bes@2Macc:5:15 @ Yet was he not content with this, but presumed to go into the most holy temple of all the world; Menelaus, that traitor to the laws, and to his own country, being his guide:

bes@2Macc:5:16 @ And taking the holy vessels with polluted hands, and with profane hands pulling down the things that were dedicated by other kings to the augmentation and glory and honour of the place, he gave them away.

bes@2Macc:5:17 @ And so haughty was Antiochus in mind, that he considered not that the Lord was angry for a while for the sins of them that dwelt in the city, and therefore his eye was not upon the place.

bes@2Macc:5:18 @ For had they not been formerly wrapped in many sins, this man, as soon as he had come, had forthwith been scourged, and put back from his presumption, as Heliodorus was, whom Seleucus the king sent to view the treasury.

bes@2Macc:5:19 @ Nevertheless God did not choose the people for the place’s sake, but the place for the people’s sake.

bes@2Macc:5:22 @ And he left governors to vex the nation: at Jerusalem, Philip, for his country a Phrygian, and for manners more barbarous than he that set him there;

bes@2Macc:6:1 @ Not long after this the king sent an old man of Athens to compel the Jews to depart from the laws of their fathers, and not to live after the laws of God:

bes@2Macc:6:4 @ For the temple was filled with riot and revelling by the Gentiles, who dallied with harlots, and had to do with women within the circuit of the holy places, and besides that brought in things that were not lawful.

bes@2Macc:6:9 @ And whoso would not conform themselves to the manners of the Gentiles should be put to death. Then might a man have seen the present misery.

bes@2Macc:6:11 @ And others, that had run together into caves near by, to keep the sabbath day secretly, being discovered by Philip, were all burnt together, because they made a conscience to help themselves for the honour of the most sacred day.

bes@2Macc:6:12 @ Now I beseech those that read this book, that they be not discouraged for these calamities, but that they judge those punishments not to be for destruction, but for a chastening of our nation.

bes@2Macc:6:13 @ For it is a token of his great goodness, when wicked doers are not suffered any long time, but forthwith punished.

bes@2Macc:6:14 @ For not as with other nations, whom the Lord patiently forbeareth to punish, till they be come to the fulness of their sins, so dealeth he with us,

bes@2Macc:6:17 @ But let this that we at spoken be for a warning unto us. And now will we come to the declaring of the matter in a few words.

bes@2Macc:6:20 @ As it behoved them to come, that are resolute to stand out against such things, as are not lawful for love of life to be tasted.

bes@2Macc:6:23 @ But he began to consider discreetly, and as became his age, and the excellency of his ancient years, and the honour of his gray head, whereon was come, and his most honest education from a child, or rather the holy law made and given by God: therefore he answered accordingly, and willed them straightways to send him to the grave.

bes@2Macc:6:24 @ For it becometh not our age, said he, in any wise to dissemble, whereby many young persons might think that Eleazar, being fourscore years old and ten, were now gone to a strange religion;

bes@2Macc:6:26 @ For though for the present time I should be delivered from the punishment of men: yet should I not escape the hand of the Almighty, neither alive, nor dead.

bes@2Macc:6:27 @ Wherefore now, manfully changing this life, I will shew myself such an one as mine age requireth,

bes@2Macc:6:28 @ And leave a notable example to such as be young to die willingly and courageously for the honourable and holy laws. And when he had said these words, immediately he went to the torment:

bes@2Macc:6:30 @ But when he was ready to die with stripes, he groaned, and said, It is manifest unto the Lord, that hath the holy knowledge, that whereas I might have been delivered from death, I now endure sore pains in body by being beaten: but in soul am well content to suffer these things, because I fear him.

bes@2Macc:6:31 @ And thus this man died, leaving his death for an example of a noble courage, and a memorial of virtue, not only unto young men, but unto all his nation.

bes@2Macc:7:5 @ Now when he was thus maimed in all his members, he commanded him being yet alive to be brought to the fire, and to be fried in the pan: and as the vapour of the pan was for a good space dispersed, they exhorted one another with the mother to die manfully, saying thus,

bes@2Macc:7:8 @ But he answered in his own language, and said, No. Wherefore he also received the next torment in order, as the former did.

bes@2Macc:7:12 @ Insomuch that the king, and they that were with him, marvelled at the young man’s courage, for that he nothing regarded the pains.

bes@2Macc:7:13 @ Now when this man was dead also, they tormented and mangled the fourth in like manner.

bes@2Macc:7:14 @ So when he was ready to die he said thus, It is good, being put to death by men, to look for hope from God to be raised up again by him: as for thee, thou shalt have no resurrection to life.

bes@2Macc:7:16 @ Then looked he unto the king, and said, Thou hast power over men, thou art corruptible, thou doest what thou wilt; yet think not that our nation is forsaken of God;

bes@2Macc:7:18 @ After him also they brought the sixth, who being ready to die said, Be not deceived without cause: for we suffer these things for ourselves, having sinned against our God: therefore marvellous things are done unto us.

bes@2Macc:7:19 @ But think not thou, that takest in hand to strive against God, that thou shalt escape unpunished.

bes@2Macc:7:20 @ But the mother was marvellous above all, and worthy of honourable memory: for when she saw her seven sons slain within the space of one day, she bare it with a good courage, because of the hope that she had in the Lord.

bes@2Macc:7:22 @ I cannot tell how ye came into my womb: for I neither gave you breath nor life, neither was it I that formed the members of every one of you;

bes@2Macc:7:23 @ But doubtless the Creator of the world, who formed the generation of man, and found out the beginning of all things, will also of his own mercy give you breath and life again, as ye now regard not your own selves for his laws’ sake.

bes@2Macc:7:24 @ Now Antiochus, thinking himself despised, and suspecting it to be a reproachful speech, whilst the youngest was yet alive, did not only exhort him by words, but also assured him with oaths, that he would make him both a rich and a happy man, if he would turn from the laws of his fathers; and that also he would take him for his friend, and trust him with affairs.

bes@2Macc:7:25 @ But when the young man would in no case hearken unto him, the king called his mother, and exhorted her that she would counsel the young man to save his life.

bes@2Macc:7:27 @ But she bowing herself toward him, laughing the cruel tyrant to scorn, spake in her country language on this manner; O my son, have pity upon me that bare thee nine months in my womb, and gave thee such three years, and nourished thee, and brought thee up unto this age, and endured the troubles of education.

bes@2Macc:7:28 @ I beseech thee, my son, look upon the heaven and the earth, and all that is therein, and consider that God made them of things that were not; and so was mankind made likewise.

bes@2Macc:7:29 @ Fear not this tormentor, but, being worthy of thy brethren, take thy death that I may receive thee again in mercy with thy brethren.

bes@2Macc:7:30 @ Whiles she was yet speaking these words, the young man said, Whom wait ye for? I will not obey the king’s commandment: but I will obey the commandment of the law that was given unto our fathers by Moses.

bes@2Macc:7:31 @ And thou, that hast been the author of all mischief against the Hebrews, shalt not escape the hands of God.

bes@2Macc:7:34 @ But thou, O godless man, and of all other most wicked, be not lifted up without a cause, nor puffed up with uncertain hopes, lifting up thy hand against the servants of God:

bes@2Macc:7:35 @ For thou hast not yet escaped the judgement of Almighty God, who seeth all things.

bes@2Macc:7:36 @ For our brethren, who now have suffered a short pain, are dead under God’s covenant of everlasting life: but thou, through the judgement of God, shalt receive just punishment for thy pride.

bes@2Macc:7:42 @ Let this be enough now to have spoken concerning the idolatrous feasts, and the extreme tortures.

bes@2Macc:8:5 @ Now when Maccabeus had his company about him, he could not be withstood by the heathen: for the wrath of the Lord was turned into mercy.

bes@2Macc:8:6 @ Therefore he came at unawares, and burnt up towns and cities, and got into his hands the most commodious places, and overcame and put to flight no small number of his enemies.

bes@2Macc:8:8 @ So when Philip saw that this man increased by little and little, and that things prospered with him still more and more, he wrote unto Ptolemeus, the governor of Celosyria and Phenice, to yield more aid to the king’s affairs.

bes@2Macc:8:9 @ Then forthwith choosing Nicanor the son of Patroclus, one of his special friends, he sent him with no fewer than twenty thousand of all nations under him, to root out the whole generation of the Jews; and with him he joined also Gorgias a captain, who in matters of war had great experience.

bes@2Macc:8:10 @ So Nicanor undertook to make so much money of the captive Jews, as should defray the tribute of two thousand talents, which the king was to pay to the Romans.

bes@2Macc:8:11 @ Wherefore immediately he sent to the cities upon the sea coast, proclaiming a sale of the captive Jews, and promising that they should have fourscore and ten bodies for one talent, not expecting the vengeance that was to follow upon him from the Almighty God.

bes@2Macc:8:12 @ Now when word was brought unto Judas of Nicanor’s coming, and he had imparted unto those that were with him that the army was at hand,

bes@2Macc:8:14 @ Others sold all that they had left, and withal besought the Lord to deliver them, sold by the wicked Nicanor before they met together:

bes@2Macc:8:15 @ And if not for their own sakes, yet for the covenants he had made with their fathers, and for his holy and glorious name’s sake, by which they were called.

bes@2Macc:8:16 @ So Maccabeus called his men together unto the number of six thousand, and exhorted them not to be stricken with terror of the enemy, nor to fear the great multitude of the heathen, who came wrongly against them; but to fight manfully,

bes@2Macc:8:24 @ And by the help of the Almighty they slew above nine thousand of their enemies, and wounded and maimed the most part of Nicanor’s host, and so put all to flight;

bes@2Macc:8:26 @ For it was the day before the sabbath, and therefore they would no longer pursue them.

bes@2Macc:8:32 @ They slew also Philarches, that wicked person, who was with Timotheus, and had annoyed the Jews many ways.

bes@2Macc:8:34 @ As for that most ungracious Nicanor, who had brought a thousand merchants to buy the Jews,

bes@2Macc:8:35 @ He was through the help of the Lord brought down by them, of whom he made least account; and putting off his glorious apparel, and discharging his company, he came like a fugitive servant through the midland unto Antioch having very great dishonour, for that his host was destroyed.

bes@2Macc:8:36 @ Thus he, that took upon him to make good to the Romans their tribute by means of captives in Jerusalem, told abroad, that the Jews had God to fight for them, and therefore they could not be hurt, because they followed the laws that he gave them.

bes@2Macc:9:1 @ About that time came Antiochus with dishonour out of the country of Persia

bes@2Macc:9:3 @ Now when he came to Ecbatane, news was brought him what had happened unto Nicanor and Timotheus.

bes@2Macc:9:4 @ Then swelling with anger. he thought to avenge upon the Jews the disgrace done unto him by those that made him flee. Therefore commanded he his chariotman to drive without ceasing, and to dispatch the journey, the judgement of God now following him. For he had spoken proudly in this sort, That he would come to Jerusalem and make it a common burying place of the Jews.

bes@2Macc:9:7 @ Howbeit he nothing at all ceased from his bragging, but still was filled with pride, breathing out fire in his rage against the Jews, and commanding to haste the journey: but it came to pass that he fell down from his chariot, carried violently; so that having a sore fall, all the members of his body were much pained.

bes@2Macc:9:8 @ And thus he that a little afore thought he might command the waves of the sea, (so proud was he beyond the condition of man) and weigh the high mountains in a balance, was now cast on the ground, and carried in an horselitter, shewing forth unto all the manifest power of God.

bes@2Macc:9:9 @ So that the worms rose up out of the body of this wicked man, and whiles he lived in sorrow and pain, his flesh fell away, and the filthiness of his smell was noisome to all his army.

bes@2Macc:9:10 @ And the man, that thought a little afore he could reach to the stars of heaven, no man could endure to carry for his intolerable stink.

bes@2Macc:9:11 @ Here therefore, being plagued, he began to leave off his great pride, and to come to the knowledge of himself by the scourge of God, his pain increasing every moment.

bes@2Macc:9:12 @ And when he himself could not abide his own smell, he said these words, It is meet to be subject unto God, and that a man that is mortal should not proudly think of himself if he were God.

bes@2Macc:9:13 @ This wicked person vowed also unto the Lord, who now no more would have mercy upon him, saying thus,

bes@2Macc:9:15 @ And as touching the Jews, whom he had judged not worthy so much as to be buried, but to be cast out with their children to be devoured of the fowls and wild beasts, he would make them all equals to the citizens of Athens:

bes@2Macc:9:18 @ But for all this his pains would not cease: for the just judgement of God was come upon him: therefore despairing of his health, he wrote unto the Jews the letter underwritten, containing the form of a supplication, after this manner:

bes@2Macc:9:19 @ Antiochus, king and governor, to the good Jews his citizens wisheth much joy, health, and prosperity:

bes@2Macc:9:21 @ As for me, I was weak, or else I would have remembered kindly your honour and good will returning out of Persia, and being taken with a grievous disease, I thought it necessary to care for the common safety of all:

bes@2Macc:9:22 @ Not distrusting mine health, but having great hope to escape this sickness.

bes@2Macc:9:24 @ To the end that, if any thing fell out contrary to expectation, or if any tidings were brought that were grievous, they of the land, knowing to whom the state was left, might not be troubled:

bes@2Macc:10:1 @ Now Maccabeus and his company, the Lord guiding them, recovered the temple and the city:

bes@2Macc:10:3 @ And having cleansed the temple they made another altar, and striking stones they took fire out of them, and offered a sacrifice after two years, and set forth incense, and lights, and shewbread.

bes@2Macc:10:4 @ When that was done, they fell flat down, and besought the Lord that they might come no more into such troubles; but if they sinned any more against him, that he himself would chasten them with mercy, and that they might not be delivered unto the blasphemous and barbarous nations.

bes@2Macc:10:5 @ Now upon the same day that the strangers profaned the temple, on the very same day it was cleansed again, even the five and twentieth day of the same month, which is Casleu.

bes@2Macc:10:6 @ And they kept the eight days with gladness, as in the feast of the tabernacles, remembering that not long afore they had held the feast of the tabernacles, when as they wandered in the mountains and dens like beasts.

bes@2Macc:10:10 @ Now will we declare the acts of Antiochus Eupator, who was the son of this wicked man, gathering briefly the calamities of the wars.

bes@2Macc:10:11 @ So when he was come to the crown, he set one Lysias over the affairs of his realm, and appointed him his chief governor of Celosyria and Phenice.

bes@2Macc:10:13 @ Whereupon being accused of the king’s friends before Eupator, and called traitor at every word because he had left Cyprus, that Philometor had committed unto him, and departed to Antiochus Epiphanes, and seeing that he was in no honourable place, he was so discouraged, that he poisoned himself and died.

bes@2Macc:10:14 @ But when Gorgias was governor of the holds, he hired soldiers, and nourished war continually with the Jews:

bes@2Macc:10:15 @ And therewithal the Idumeans, having gotten into their hands the most commodious holds, kept the Jews occupied, and receiving those that were banished from Jerusalem, they went about to nourish war.

bes@2Macc:10:17 @ And assaulting them strongly, they won the holds, and kept off all that fought upon the wall, and slew all that fell into their hands, and killed no fewer than twenty thousand.

bes@2Macc:10:18 @ And because certain, who were no less than nine thousand, were fled together into two very strong castles, having all manner of things convenient to sustain the siege,

bes@2Macc:10:19 @ Maccabeus left Simon and Joseph, and Zaccheus also, and them that were with him, who were enough to besiege them, and departed himself unto those places which more needed his help.

bes@2Macc:10:20 @ Now they that were with Simon, being led with covetousness, were persuaded for money through certain of those that were in the castle, and took seventy thousand drachms, and let some of them escape.

bes@2Macc:10:21 @ But when it was told Maccabeus what was done, he called the governors of the people together, and accused those men, that they had sold their brethren for money, and set their enemies free to fight against them.

bes@2Macc:10:24 @ Now Timotheus, whom the Jews had overcome before, when he had gathered a great multitude of foreign forces, and horses out of Asia not a few, came as though he would take Jewry by force of arms.

bes@2Macc:10:28 @ Now the sun being newly risen, they joined both together; the one part having together with their virtue their refuge also unto the Lord for a pledge of their success and victory: the other side making their rage leader of their battle

bes@2Macc:10:32 @ As for Timotheus himself, he fled into a very strong hold, called Gazara, where Chereas was governor.

bes@2Macc:11:1 @ Not long after the, Lysias the king’s protector and cousin, who also managed the affairs, took sore displeasure for the things that were done.

bes@2Macc:11:4 @ Not at all considering the power of God but puffed up with his ten thousands of footmen, and his thousands of horsemen, and his fourscore elephants.

bes@2Macc:11:6 @ Now when they that were with Maccabeus heard that he besieged the holds, they and all the people with lamentation and tears besought the Lord that he would send a good angel to deliver Israel.

bes@2Macc:11:9 @ Then they praised the merciful God all together, and took heart, insomuch that they were ready not only to fight with men, but with most cruel beasts, and to pierce through walls of iron.

bes@2Macc:11:13 @ Who, as he was a man of understanding, casting with himself what loss he had had, and considering that the Hebrews could not be overcome, because the Almighty God helped them, he sent unto them,

bes@2Macc:11:22 @ Now the king’s letter contained these words: King Antiochus unto his brother Lysias sendeth greeting:

bes@2Macc:11:24 @ We understand also that the Jews would not consent to our father, for to be brought unto the custom of the Gentiles, but had rather keep their own manner of living: for the which cause they require of us, that we should suffer them to live after their own laws.

bes@2Macc:11:31 @ And the Jews shall use their own kind of meats and laws, as before; and none of them any manner of ways shall be molested for things ignorantly done.

bes@2Macc:11:36 @ But touching such things as he judged to be referred to the king, after ye have advised thereof, send one forthwith, that we may declare as it is convenient for you: for we are now going to Antioch.

bes@2Macc:11:37 @ Therefore send some with speed, that we may know what is your mind.

bes@2Macc:12:2 @ But of the governors of several places, Timotheus, and Apollonius the son of Genneus, also Hieronymus, and Demophon, and beside them Nicanor the governor of Cyprus, would not suffer them to be quiet and live in peace.

bes@2Macc:12:3 @ The men of Joppa also did such an ungodly deed: they prayed the Jews that dwelt among them to go with their wives and children into the boats which they had prepared, as though they had meant them no hurt.

bes@2Macc:12:4 @ Who accepted of it according to the common decree of the city, as being desirous to live in peace, and suspecting nothing: but when they were gone forth into the deep, they drowned no less than two hundred of them.

bes@2Macc:12:10 @ Now when they were gone from thence nine furlongs in their journey toward Timotheus, no fewer than five thousand men on foot and five hundred horsemen of the Arabians set upon him.

bes@2Macc:12:11 @ Whereupon there was a very sore battle; but Judas’ side by the help of God got the victory; so that the Nomades of Arabia, being overcome, besought Judas for peace, promising both to give him cattle, and to pleasure him otherwise.

bes@2Macc:12:14 @ But they that were within it put such trust in the strength of the walls and provision of victuals, that they behaved themselves rudely toward them that were with Judas, railing and blaspheming, and uttering such words as were not to be spoken.

bes@2Macc:12:18 @ But as for Timotheus, they found him not in the places: for before he had dispatched any thing, he departed from thence, having left a very strong garrison in a certain hold.

bes@2Macc:12:21 @ Now when Timotheus had knowledge of Judas’ coming, he sent the women and children and the other baggage unto a fortress called Carnion: for the town was hard to besiege, and uneasy to come unto, by reason of the straitness of all the places.

bes@2Macc:12:22 @ But when Judas his first band came in sight, the enemies, being smitten with fear and terror through the appearing of him who seeth all things, fled amain, one running into this way, another that way, so as that they were often hurt of their own men, and wounded with the points of their own swords.

bes@2Macc:12:24 @ Moreover Timotheus himself fell into the hands of Dositheus and Sosipater, whom he besought with much craft to let him go with his life, because he had many of the Jews’ parents, and the brethren of some of them, who, if they put him to death, should not be regarded.

bes@2Macc:12:32 @ And after the feast, called Pentecost, they went forth against Gorgias the governor of Idumea,

bes@2Macc:12:35 @ At which time Dositheus, one of Bacenor’s company, who was on horseback, and a strong man, was still upon Gorgias, and taking hold of his coat drew him by force; and when he would have taken that cursed man alive, a horseman of Thracia coming upon him smote off his shoulder, so that Gorgias fled unto Marisa.

bes@2Macc:12:36 @ Now when they that were with Gorgias had fought long, and were weary, Judas called upon the Lord, that he would shew himself to be their helper and leader of the battle.

bes@2Macc:12:40 @ Now under the coats of every one that was slain they found things consecrated to the idols of the Jamnites, which is forbidden the Jews by the law. Then every man saw that this was the cause wherefore they were slain.

bes@2Macc:12:42 @ Betook themselves unto prayer, and besought him that the sin committed might wholly be put out of remembrance. Besides, that noble Judas exhorted the people to keep themselves from sin, forsomuch as they saw before their eyes the things that came to pass for the sins of those that were slain.

bes@2Macc:12:44 @ For if he had not hoped that they that were slain should have risen again, it had been superfluous and vain to pray for the dead.

bes@2Macc:13:3 @ Menelaus also joined himself with them, and with great dissimulation encouraged Antiochus, not for the safeguard of the country, but because he thought to have been made governor.

bes@2Macc:13:5 @ Now there was in that place a tower of fifty cubits high, full of ashes, and it had a round instrument which on every side hanged down into the ashes.

bes@2Macc:13:7 @ Such a death it happened that wicked man to die, not having so much as burial in the earth; and that most justly:

bes@2Macc:13:9 @ Now the king came with a barbarous and haughty mind to do far worse to the Jews, than had been done in his father’s time.

bes@2Macc:13:10 @ Which things when Judas perceived, he commanded the multitude to call upon the Lord night and day, that if ever at any other time, he would now also help them, being at the point to be put from their law, from their country, and from the holy temple:

bes@2Macc:13:11 @ And that he would not suffer the people, that had even now been but a little refreshed, to be in subjection to the blasphemous nations.

bes@2Macc:13:18 @ Now when the king had taken a taste of the manliness of the Jews, he went about to take the holds by policy,

bes@2Macc:13:23 @ Heard that Philip, who was left over the affairs in Antioch, was desperately bent, confounded, intreated the Jews, submitted himself, and sware to all equal conditions, agreed with them, and offered sacrifice, honoured the temple, and dealt kindly with the place,

bes@2Macc:13:24 @ And accepted well of Maccabeus, made him principal governor from Ptolemais unto the Gerrhenians;

bes@2Macc:14:3 @ Now one Alcimus, who had been high priest, and had defiled himself wilfully in the times of their mingling with the Gentiles, seeing that by no means he could save himself, nor have any more access to the holy altar,

bes@2Macc:14:6 @ Those of the Jews that he called Assideans, whose captain is Judas Maccabeus, nourish war and are seditious, and will not let the rest be in peace.

bes@2Macc:14:7 @ Therefore I, being deprived of mine ancestors’ honour, I mean the high priesthood, am now come hither:

bes@2Macc:14:8 @ First, verily for the unfeigned care I have of things pertaining to the king; and secondly, even for that I intend the good of mine own countrymen: for all our nation is in no small misery through the unadvised dealing of them aforesaid.

bes@2Macc:14:9 @ Wherefore, O king, seeing knowest all these things, be careful for the country, and our nation, which is pressed on every side, according to the clemency that thou readily shewest unto all.

bes@2Macc:14:10 @ For as long as Judas liveth, it is not possible that the state should be quiet.

bes@2Macc:14:11 @ This was no sooner spoken of him, but others of the king’s friends, being maliciously set against Judas, did more incense Demetrius.

bes@2Macc:14:12 @ And forthwith calling Nicanor, who had been master of the elephants, and making him governor over Judea, he sent him forth,

bes@2Macc:14:14 @ Then the heathen, that had fled out of Judea from Judas, came to Nicanor by flocks, thinking the harm and calamities of the Jews to be their welfare.

bes@2Macc:14:15 @ Now when the Jews heard of Nicanor’s coming, and that the heathen were up against them, they cast earth upon their heads, and made supplication to him that had established his people for ever, and who always helpeth his portion with manifestation of his presence.

bes@2Macc:14:17 @ Now Simon, Judas’ brother, had joined battle with Nicanor, but was somewhat discomfited through the sudden silence of his enemies.

bes@2Macc:14:18 @ Nevertheless Nicanor, hearing of the manliness of them that were with Judas, and the courageousness that they had to fight for their country, durst not try the matter by the sword.

bes@2Macc:14:23 @ Now Nicanor abode in Jerusalem, and did no hurt, but sent away the people that came flocking unto him.

bes@2Macc:14:24 @ And he would not willingly have Judas out of his sight: for he love the man from his heart

bes@2Macc:14:26 @ But Alcimus, perceiving the love that was betwixt them, and considering the covenants that were made, came to Demetrius, and told him that Nicanor was not well affected toward the state; for that he had ordained Judas, a traitor to his realm, to be the king’s successor.

bes@2Macc:14:27 @ Then the king being in a rage, and provoked with the accusations of the most wicked man, wrote to Nicanor, signifying that he was much displeased with the covenants, and commanding him that he should send Maccabeus prisoner in all haste unto Antioch.

bes@2Macc:14:28 @ When this came to Nicanor’s hearing, he was much confounded in himself, and took it grievously that he should make void the articles which were agreed upon, the man being in no fault.

bes@2Macc:14:29 @ But because there was no dealing against the king, he watched his time to accomplish this thing by policy.

bes@2Macc:14:30 @ Notwithstanding, when Maccabeus saw that Nicanor began to be churlish unto him, and that he entreated him more roughly than he was wont, perceiving that such sour behaviour came not of good, he gathered together not a few of his men, and withdrew himself from Nicanor.

bes@2Macc:14:31 @ But the other, knowing that he was notably prevented by Judas’ policy, came into the great and holy temple, and commanded the priests, that were offering their usual sacrifices, to deliver him the man.

bes@2Macc:14:32 @ And when they sware that they could not tell where the man was whom he sought,

bes@2Macc:14:33 @ He stretched out his right hand toward the temple, and made an oath in this manner: If ye will not deliver me Judas as a prisoner, I will lay this temple of God even with the ground, and I will break down the altar, and erect a notable temple unto Bacchus.

bes@2Macc:14:35 @ Thou, O Lord of all things, who hast need of nothing, wast pleased that the temple of thine habitation should be among us:

bes@2Macc:14:36 @ Therefore now, O holy Lord of all holiness, keep this house ever undefiled, which lately was cleansed, and stop every unrighteous mouth.

bes@2Macc:14:37 @ Now was there accused unto Nicanor one Razis, one of the elders of Jerusalem, a lover of his countrymen, and a man of very good report, who for his kindness was called a father of the Jews.

bes@2Macc:14:38 @ For in the former times, when they mingled not themselves with the Gentiles, he had been accused of Judaism, and did boldly jeopard his body and life with all vehemency for the religion of the Jews.

bes@2Macc:14:39 @ So Nicanor, willing to declare the hate that he bare unto the Jews, sent above five hundred men of war to take him:

bes@2Macc:14:41 @ Now when the multitude would have taken the tower, and violently broken into the outer door, and bade that fire should be brought to burn it, he being ready to be taken on every side fell upon his sword;

bes@2Macc:14:42 @ Choosing rather to die manfully, than to come into the hands of the wicked, to be abused otherwise than beseemed his noble birth:

bes@2Macc:14:46 @ When as his blood was now quite gone, he plucked out his bowels, and taking them in both his hands, he cast them upon the throng, and calling upon the Lord of life and spirit to restore him those again, he thus died.

bes@2Macc:15:1 @ But Nicanor, hearing that Judas and his company were in the strong places about Samaria, resolved without any danger to set upon them on the sabbath day.

bes@2Macc:15:2 @ Nevertheless the Jews that were compelled to go with him said, O destroy not so cruelly and barbarously, but give honour to that day, which he, that seeth all things, hath honoured with holiness above all other days.

bes@2Macc:15:5 @ Then said the other, And I also am mighty upon earth, and I command to take arms, and to do the king’s business. Yet he obtained not to have his wicked will done.

bes@2Macc:15:6 @ So Nicanor in exceeding pride and haughtiness determined to set up a publick monument of his victory over Judas and them that were with him.

bes@2Macc:15:8 @ Wherefore he exhorted his people not to fear the coming of the heathen against them, but to remember the help which in former times they had received from heaven, and now to expect the victory and aid, which should come unto them from the Almighty.

bes@2Macc:15:11 @ Thus he armed every one of them, not so much with defence of shields and spears, as with comfortable and good words: and beside that, he told them a dream worthy to be believed, as if it had been so indeed, which did not a little rejoice them.

bes@2Macc:15:17 @ Thus being well comforted by the words of Judas, which were very good, and able to stir them up to valour, and to encourage the hearts of the young men, they determined not to pitch camp, but courageously to set upon them, and manfully to try the matter by conflict, because the city and the sanctuary and the temple were in danger.

bes@2Macc:15:19 @ Also they that were in the city took not the least care, being troubled for the conflict abroad.

bes@2Macc:15:20 @ And now, when as all looked what should be the trial, and the enemies were already come near, and the army was set in array, and the beasts conveniently placed, and the horsemen set in wings,

bes@2Macc:15:21 @ Maccabeus seeing the coming of the multitude, and the divers preparations of armour, and the fierceness of the beasts, stretched out his hands toward heaven, and called upon the Lord that worketh wonders, knowing that victory cometh not by arms, but even as it seemeth good to him, he giveth it to such as are worthy:

bes@2Macc:15:23 @ Wherefore now also, O Lord of heaven, send a good angel before us for a fear and dread unto them;

bes@2Macc:15:25 @ Then Nicanor and they that were with him came forward with trumpets and songs.

bes@2Macc:15:27 @ So that fighting with their hands, and praying unto God with their hearts, they slew no less than thirty and five thousand men: for through the appearance of God they were greatly cheered.

bes@2Macc:15:28 @ Now when the battle was done, returning again with joy, they knew that Nicanor lay dead in his harness.

bes@2Macc:15:29 @ Then they made a great shout and a noise, praising the Almighty in their own language.

bes@2Macc:15:30 @ And Judas, who was ever the chief defender of the citizens both in body and mind, and who continued his love toward his countrymen all his life, commanded to strike off Nicanor’s head, and his hand with his shoulder, and bring them to Jerusalem.

bes@2Macc:15:32 @ And shewed them vile Nicanor’s head, and the hand of that blasphemer, which with proud brags he had stretched out against the holy temple of the Almighty.

bes@2Macc:15:33 @ And when he had cut out the tongue of that ungodly Nicanor, he commanded that they should give it by pieces unto the fowls, and hang up the reward of his madness before the temple.

bes@2Macc:15:35 @ He hanged also Nicanor’s head upon the tower, an evident and manifest sign unto all of the help of the Lord.

bes@2Macc:15:36 @ And they ordained all with a common decree in no case to let that day pass without solemnity, but to celebrate the thirtieth day of the twelfth month, which in the Syrian tongue is called Adar, the day before Mardocheus’ day.

bes@2Macc:15:37 @ Thus went it with Nicanor: and from that time forth the Hebrews had the city in their power. And here will I make an end.

bes@AddDaniel:1:6 @ In all things have we trespassed, and not obeyed thy commandments, nor kept them, neither done as thou hast commanded us, that it might go well with us.

bes@AddDaniel:1:9 @ And now we cannot open our mouths, we are become a shame and reproach to thy servants; and to them that worship thee.

bes@AddDaniel:1:10 @ Yet deliver us not up wholly, for thy name’s sake, neither disannul thou thy covenant:

bes@AddDaniel:1:11 @ And cause not thy mercy to depart from us, for thy beloved Abraham’s sake, for thy servant Isaac’s sake, and for thy holy Israel’s sake;

bes@AddDaniel:1:16 @ Like as in the burnt offerings of rams and bullocks, and like as in ten thousands of fat lambs: so let our sacrifice be in thy sight this day, and grant that we may wholly go after thee: for they shall not be confounded that put their trust in thee.

bes@AddDaniel:1:17 @ And now we follow thee with all our heart, we fear thee, and seek thy face.

bes@AddDaniel:1:18 @ Put us not to shame: but deal with us after thy lovingkindness, and according to the multitude of thy mercies.

bes@AddDaniel:1:21 @ And let them know that thou art God, the only God, and glorious over the whole world.

bes@AddDaniel:1:22 @ And the king’s servants, that put them in, ceased not to make the oven hot with rosin, pitch, tow, and small wood;

bes@AddDaniel:1:26 @ And made the midst of the furnace as it had been a moist whistling wind, so that the fire touched them not at all, neither hurt nor troubled them.

bes@AddDaniel:1:45 @ O ye dews and storms of snow, bless ye the Lord: praise and exalt him above all for ever.

bes@AddDaniel:1:49 @ O ye frost and snow, bless ye the Lord: praise and exalt him above all for ever.

bes@PrMan:1:5 @ for the majesty of thy glory cannot be borne, and thine angry threatening toward sinners is importable:

bes@PrMan:1:8 @ Thou therefore, O Lord, that art the God of the just, hast not appointed repentance to the just, as to Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, which have not sinned against thee; but thou hast appointed repentance unto me that am a sinner:

bes@PrMan:1:9 @ for I have sinned above the number of the sands of the sea. My transgressions, O Lord, are multiplied: my transgressions are multiplied, and I am not worthy to behold and see the height of heaven for the multitude of mine iniquities.

bes@PrMan:1:10 @ I am bowed down with many iron bands, that I cannot lift up mine head, neither have any release: for I have provoked thy wrath, and done evil before thee: I did not thy will, neither kept I thy commandments: I have set up abominations, and have multiplied offences.

bes@PrMan:1:11 @ Now therefore I bow the knee of mine heart, beseeching thee of grace.

bes@PrMan:1:12 @ I have sinned, O Lord, I have sinned, and I acknowledge mine iniquities:

bes@PrMan:1:13 @ wherefore, I humbly beseech thee, forgive me, O Lord, forgive me, and destroy me not with mine iniquities. Be not angry with me for ever, by reserving evil for me; neither condemn me to the lower parts of the earth. For thou art the God, even the God of them that repent;

bes@3Macc:1:1 @ Now Philopater, on learning from those who came back that Antiochus had made himself master of the places which belonged to himself, sent orders to all his footmen and horsemen, took with him his sister Arsinoe, and marched out as far as the parts of Raphia, where Antiochus and his forces encamped.

bes@3Macc:1:4 @ A fierce battle then took place; and the men of Antiochus prevailing, Arsinoe continually went up and down the ranks, and with dishevelled hair, with tears and entreaties, begged the soldiers to fight manfully for themselves, their children, and wives; and promised that if they proved conquerors, she would give them two minae of gold apiece.

bes@3Macc:1:11 @ And when they told him that this was not permissible, none of the nation, no, nor even the priests in general, but only the supreme high priest of all, and he only once in a year, being allowed to go in, he would by no means give way.

bes@3Macc:1:12 @ Then they read the law to him; but he persisted in obtruding himself, exclaiming, that he ought to be allowed: and saying Be it that they were deprived of this honour, I ought not to be.

bes@3Macc:1:13 @ And he put the question, Why, when he entered all the temples, none of the priests who were present forbad him?

bes@3Macc:1:15 @ Well; since I have done this, said he, be the cause what it may, shall I not enter with or without your consent?

bes@3Macc:1:20 @ New-born babes were deserted by the mothers or nurses who waited upon them; some here, some there, in houses, or in fields; these now, with an ardour which could not be checked, swarmed into the Most High temple.

bes@3Macc:1:22 @ Along with these there were some of the citizens who took courage, and would not submit to his obstinacy, and his intention of carrying out his purpose.

bes@3Macc:1:27 @ Yet even his own officers, when they saw this, joined the Jews in an appeal to Him who has all power, to aid in the present crisis, and not wink at such overweening lawlessness.

bes@3Macc:1:28 @ Such was the frequency and the vehemence of the cry of the assembled crowd, that an indescribable noise ensued.

bes@3Macc:1:29 @ Not the men only, but the very walls and floor seemed to sound forth; all things preferring dissolution rather than to see the place defiled.

bes@3Macc:2:1 @ Now was it that the high priest Simon bowed his knees over against the holy place, and spread out his hands in reverent form, and uttered the following supplication:

bes@3Macc:2:2 @ O Lord, Lord, King of the heavens, and Ruler of the whole creation, Holy among the holy, sole Governor, Almighty, give ear to us who are oppressed by a wicked and profane one, who exulteth in his confidence and strength.

bes@3Macc:2:3 @ It is thou, the Creator of all, the Lord of the universe, who art a righteous Governor, and judgest all who act with pride and insolence.

bes@3Macc:2:5 @ It was thou who didst make the Sodomites, those workers of exceeding iniquity, men notorious for their vices, an example to after generations, when thou didst cover them with fire and brimstone.

bes@3Macc:2:6 @ Thou didst make known thy power when thou causedst the bold Pharaoh, the enslaver of thy people, to pass through the ordeal of many and diverse inflictions.

bes@3Macc:2:9 @ Thou, O King, when thou createdst the illimitable and measureless earth, didst choose out this city: thou didst make this place sacred to thy name, albeit thou needest nothing: thou didst glorify it with thine illustrious presence, after constructing it to the glory of thy great and honourable name.

bes@3Macc:2:13 @ see now, holy King, how through our many and great sins we are borne down, and made subject to our enemies, and are become weak and powerless.

bes@3Macc:2:14 @ We being in this low condition, this bold and profane man seeks to dishonour this thine holy place, consecrated out of the earth to the name of thy Majesty.

bes@3Macc:2:16 @ Punish us not by means of the uncleanness of their men, nor chastise us by means of their profanity; lest the lawless ones should boast in their rage, and exult in exuberant pride of speech, and say,

bes@3Macc:2:24 @ When in course of time he had come to himself, this severe check caused no repentance within him, but he departed with bitter threatenings.

bes@3Macc:2:26 @ and not satisfied with countless acts of impiety, his audacity so increased that he raised evil reports there, and many of his friends, watching his purpose attentively, joined in furthering his will.

bes@3Macc:2:28 @ That entrance to their own temple was to be refused to all those who would not sacrifice; that all the Jews were to be registered among the common people; that those who resisted were to be forcibly seized and put to death;

bes@3Macc:2:31 @ Some of those who were over the city, therefore, abhorring any approach to the city of piety, unhesitatingly gave in to the king, and expected to derive some great honour from a future connection with him.

bes@3Macc:2:32 @ A nobler spirit, however, prompted the majority to cling to their religious observances, and by paying money that they might live unmolested, these sought to escape the registration:

bes@3Macc:3:1 @ On discovering this, so incensed was the wicked king, that he no longer confined his rage to the Jews in Alexandria. Laying his hand more heavily upon those who lived in the country, he gave orders that they should be quickly collected into one place, and most cruelly deprived of their lives.

bes@3Macc:3:3 @ Now, while the Jews always maintained a feeling of un-swerving loyalty towards the kings, yet, as they worshipped God, and observed his law, they made certain distinctions, and avoided certain things. Hence some persons held them in odium; although, as they adorned their conversation with works of righteousness, they had established themselves in the good opinion of the world.

bes@3Macc:3:6 @ What all the rest of mankind said, was, however, made of no account by the foreigners;

bes@3Macc:3:8 @ Nor was this unexpected uproar and sudden conflux of people unobserved by the Greeks who lived in the city, concerning men who had never harmed them: yet to aid them was not in their power, since all was oppression around; but they encouraged them in their troubles, and expected a favourable turn of affairs:

bes@3Macc:3:9 @ He who knoweth all things, will not, disregard so great a people.

bes@3Macc:3:11 @ Now the king, elated with his prosperous fortune, and not regarding the superior power of God, but thinking to persevere in his present purpose, wrote the following letter to the prejudice of the Jews.

bes@3Macc:3:14 @ Since our Asiatic campaign, the particulars of which ye know, and which by the aid of the gods, not lightly given, and by our own vigour, has been brought to a successful issue according to our expectation,

bes@3Macc:3:15 @ we resolved, not with strength of spear, but with gentleness and much humanity, as it were to nurse the inhabitants of Coele-Syria and Phoenicia, and to be their willing benefactors.

bes@3Macc:3:16 @ So, having bestowed considerable sums of money upon the temples of the several cities, we proceeded even as far as Jerusalem; and went up to honour  the temple of these wretched beings who never cease from their folly.

bes@3Macc:3:17 @ To outward appearance they received us willingly; but belied that appearance by their deeds. When we were eager to enter their temple, and to honour it with the most beautiful and exquisite gifts,

bes@3Macc:3:21 @ Accordingly, bearing no ill-will against their kinsmen but rather remembering our connection with them, and the numerous matters with sincere heart from a remote period entrusted to them, we wished to venture a total alteration of their state, by bestowing upon them the rights of citizens of Alexandria, and to admit them to the everlasting rites of our solemnities.

bes@3Macc:3:23 @ have rejected the inestimable rights. Not only so, but by using speech, and by refraining from speech, they abhor the few among them who are heartily disposed towards us; ever deeming that their ignoble course of procedure will force us to do away with our reform.

bes@3Macc:3:25 @ As soon, therefore, as the contents of this letter become known to you, in that same hour we order those who dwell among you, with wives and children, to be sent to us, vilified and abused, in chains of iron, to undergo a death, cruel and ignominious, suitable to men disaffected.

bes@3Macc:4:1 @ Wherever this decree was received, the people kept up a revelry of joy and shouting; as if their long-pent-up, hardened hatred, were now to shew itself openly.

bes@3Macc:4:3 @ What home, or city, or place at all inhabited, or what streets were there, which their condition did not fill with wailing and lamentation?

bes@3Macc:4:6 @ Girls who had entered the bridal chamber quite lately, to enjoy the partnership of marriage, exchanged pleasure for misery; and with dust scattered upon their myrrh-anointed heads, were hurried along unveiled; and, in the midst of outlandish insults, set up with one accord a lamentable cry in lieu of the marriage hymn.

bes@3Macc:4:11 @ They were conveyed accordingly in this vessel, and at the end of it arrived at Schedia. The king had ordered them to be cast into the vast hippodrome, which was built in front of the city. This place was well adapted by its situation to expose them to the gaze of all comers into the city, and of those who went from the city into the country. Thus they could hold no communication with his forces; nay, were deemed unworthy of any civilized accommodation.

bes@3Macc:4:13 @ was full of rage, and commanded that they should be carefully subjected to the same (and not one whit milder) treatment.

bes@3Macc:4:14 @ The whole nation was now to be registered. Every individual was to be specified by name; not for that hard servitude of labour which we have a little before mentioned, but that he might expose them to the before-mentioned tortures; and finally, in the short space of a day, might extirpate them by his cruelties

bes@3Macc:4:15 @ The registering of these men was carried on cruelly, zealously, assiduously, from the rising of the sun to its going down, and was not brought to an end in forty days.

bes@3Macc:4:21 @ Now this was an active interference of the unconquerable Providence which assisted the Jews from heaven.

bes@3Macc:5:11 @ He, however, who has sent his good creature sleep from all time by night or by day thus gratifying whom he wills, diffused a portion thereof now upon the king.

bes@3Macc:5:20 @ The king, then, with a barbarity exceeding that of Phalaris, said, That they might thank his sleep of that day. Lose no time, and get ready the elephants against tomorrow, as you did before, for the destruction of these accursed Jews.

bes@3Macc:5:22 @ Nor did they employ the night in sleep, so much as in contriving cruel mockeries for those deemed miserable.

bes@3Macc:5:26 @ The sun's rays were not yet shed abroad, and the king was waiting for his friends, when Hermon came to him, calling him out, and saying, That his desires could now be realized.

bes@3Macc:5:31 @ Your parents, or your children, were they here, to these wild beasts a large repast they should have furnished; not these innocent Jews, who me and my forefathers loyally have served.

bes@3Macc:5:32 @ Had it not been for familar friendship, and the claims of your office, your life should have gone for theirs.

bes@3Macc:5:36 @ Now the king arranged another banquet after the same manner, and proclaimed an invitation to mirth.

bes@3Macc:5:42 @ The king, just like another Phalaris, a prey to thoughtlessness, made no account of the changes which his own mind had undergone, issuing in the deliverance of the Jews. He swore a fruitless oath, and determined forthwith to send them to hades, crushed by the knees and feet of the elephants.

bes@3Macc:5:43 @ He would also invade Judea, and level its towns with fire and the sword; and destroy that temple which the heathen might not enter, and prevent sacrifices ever after being offered up there.

bes@3Macc:5:46 @ About early morning, when the city was now filled with an immense number of people at the hippodrome, he entered the palace, and called the king to the business in hand.

bes@3Macc:5:49 @ thought that they had come to the last moment of their lives, to the end of what they had tremblingly expected. They gave way, therefore, to lamentations and moans: they kissed each other: those nearest of kin to each other hung about one another's necks: fathers about their sons, mother their daughters: other women held their infants to their breasts, which drew what seemed their last milk.

bes@3Macc:5:51 @ sent up an exceeding great cry entreating the Lord of all power to reveal himself, and have mercy upon those who now lay at the gates of hades.

bes@3Macc:6:3 @ look upon the seed of Abraham, upon the children of the sanctified Jacob, thy sanctified inheritance, O Father, now being wrongfully destroyed as strangers in a strange land.

bes@3Macc:6:9 @ And now, thou who hatest insolence; thou who dost abound in mercy; thou who art the protector of all things; appear quickly to those of the race of Israel, who are insulted by abhorred, lawless gentiles.

bes@3Macc:6:11 @ Let not the vain-minded congratulate vain idols at the destruction of thy beloved, saying, Neither did their god deliver them.

bes@3Macc:6:15 @ Let it be shewn to all the nations that thou art with us, O Lord, and hast not turned thy face away from us; but as thou saidst that thou wouldst not forget them even in the land of their enemies, so do thou fulfil this saying, O Lord.

bes@3Macc:6:16 @ Now, at the time that Eleazar had ended his prayer, the king came along to the hippodrome, with the wild beasts, and with his tumultuous power.

bes@3Macc:6:28 @ Release the sons of the almighty living God of heaven, who from our ancestors' times until now has granted a glorious and uninterrupted prosperity to our affairs.

bes@3Macc:6:29 @ These things he said; and they, released the same moment, having now escaped death, praised God their holy Saviour.

bes@3Macc:6:36 @ They made a public ordinance to commemorate these things for generations to come, as long as they should be sojourners. They thus established these days as days of mirth, not for the purpose of drinking or luxury, but because God had saved them.

bes@3Macc:7:8 @ And we have dismissed them to their several homes; bidding all men everywhere to do them no wrong, or unrighteously revile them about the past.

bes@3Macc:7:9 @ For know ye, that should we conceive any evil design, or in any way aggrieve them, we shall ever have as our opposite, not man, but the highest God, the ruler of all might. From Him there will be no escape, as the avenger of such deeds. Fare ye well.

bes@3Macc:7:10 @ When they had received this letter, they were not forward to depart immediately. They petitioned the king to be allowed to inflict fitting punishment upon those of their race who had willingly transgressed the holy god, and the law of God.

bes@3Macc:7:14 @ Then they punished and destryed with ignominy every polluted Jew that fell in their way;

bes@3Macc:7:21 @ They had more weight than before among their enemies; and were honoured and feared, and no one in any way robbed them of their goods.

bes@4Macc:1:5 @ How, then, is it, perhaps some may say, that reasoning, if it rule the affections, is not also master of forgetfulness and ignorance? They attempt a ridiculous argument.

bes@4Macc:1:6 @ For reasoning does not rule over its own affections, but over such as are contrary to justice, and manliness and temperance, and prudence; and yet over these, so as to withstand, without destroying them.

bes@4Macc:1:10 @ For their virtues, then, it is right that I should commend those men who died with their mother at this time in behalf of rectitude; and for their honours, I may count them happy.

bes@4Macc:1:11 @ For they, winning admiration not only from men in general, but even from the persecutors, for their manliness and endurance, became the means of the destruction of the tyranny against their nation, having conquered the tyrant by their endurance, so that by them their country was purified.

bes@4Macc:1:12 @ But we may now at once enter upon the question, having commenced, as is our wont, with laying down the doctrine, and so proceed to the account of these persons, giving glory to the all wise God.

bes@4Macc:1:16 @ And wisdom is a knowledge of divine and human things, and of their causes.

bes@4Macc:1:31 @ Now temperance consists of a command over the lusts.

bes@4Macc:1:33 @ For whence is it, otherwise, that when urged on to forbidden meats, we reject the gratification which would ensue from them? Is it not because reasoning is able to command the appetites? I believe so.

bes@4Macc:2:4 @ And it is not merely the stimulus of sensual indulgence, but that of every desire, that reasoning is able to master.

bes@4Macc:2:5 @ For instance, the law says, Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor anything that belongs to thy neighbour.

bes@4Macc:2:6 @ Now, then, since it is the law which has forbidden us to desire, I shall much the more easily persuade you, that reasoning is able to govern our lusts, just as it does the affections which are impediments to justice.

bes@4Macc:2:9 @ And should a man be parsimonious, he is ruled by the law acting through reasoning; so that he does not glean his harvest crops, nor vintage: and in reference to other points we may perceive that it is reasoning that conquers his passions.

bes@4Macc:2:10 @ For the law conquers even affection toward parents, not surrendering virtue on their account.

bes@4Macc:2:13 @ And think it not a strange assertion that reasoning can in behalf of the law conquer even enmity.

bes@4Macc:2:14 @ It alloweth not to cut down the cultivated herbage of an enemy, but preserveth it from the destroyers, and collecteth their fallen ruins.

bes@4Macc:2:17 @ Thus Moses, when angered against Dathan and Abiram, did nothing to them in wrath, but regulated his anger by reasoning.

bes@4Macc:2:20 @ For if reasoning did not possess the power of subduing angry affections, he would not have spoken thus.

bes@4Macc:2:24 @ How, then, a man may say, if reasoning be master of the passions, has it no control over forgetfulness and ignorance?

bes@4Macc:3:1 @ The argument is exceedingly ridiculous: for reasoning does not appear to bear sway over its own affections, but over those of the body,

bes@4Macc:3:2 @ in such a way as that any one of you may not be able to root out desire, but reasoning will enable you to avoid being enslaved to it.

bes@4Macc:3:3 @ One may not be able to root out anger from the soul, but it is possible to withstand anger.

bes@4Macc:3:4 @ Any one of you may not be able to eradicate malice, but reasoning has force to work with you to prevent you yielding to malice.

bes@4Macc:3:5 @ For reasoning is not an eradicator, but an antagonist of the passions.

bes@4Macc:3:9 @ Now all the rest of them were at supper;

bes@4Macc:3:10 @ but the king, being very much athirst, although he had numerous springs, could not by their means quench his thirst;

bes@4Macc:3:12 @ Wherefore his body-guards being troubled at this longing of the king, two valiant young soldiers, reverencing the desire of the king, put on their panoplies, and taking a pitcher, got over the ramparts of the enemies:

bes@4Macc:3:19 @ But the occasion now invites us to give an illustration of temperate reasoning from history.

bes@4Macc:3:20 @ For at a time when our fathers were in possession of undisturbed peace through obedience to the law, and were prosperous, so that Seleucus Nicanor, the king of Asia, both assigned them money for divine service, and accepted their form of government,

bes@4Macc:4:1 @ For a certain man named Simon, who was in opposition to Onias, who once held the high priesthood for life, and was an honourable and good man, after that by slandering him in every way, he could not injure him with the people, went away as an exile, with the intention of betraying his country.

bes@4Macc:4:2 @ Whence coming to Apollonius, the military governor of Syria, and Phoenicia, and Cilicia, he said,

bes@4Macc:4:3 @ Having good will to the king's affairs, I am come to inform thee that infinite private wealth is laid up in the treasuries of Jerusalem which do not belong to the temple, but pertain to king Seleucus.

bes@4Macc:4:13 @ Onias the high priest, induced by these words, although for other reasons anxious that king Seleucus should not suppose that Apollonius was slain by human device and not by Divine punishment, prayed for him;

bes@4Macc:4:20 @ So that he not only erected a gymnasium on the very citadel of our country, the guardianship of the temple.

bes@4Macc:4:24 @ And when he could by no means destroy by his decrees the obedience to the law of the nation, but saw all his threats and punishments without effect,

bes@4Macc:4:25 @ for even women, because they continued to circumcise their children, were flung down a precipice along with them, knowing beforehand of the punishment.

bes@4Macc:5:4 @ And when many had been seized, a foremost man of the assembly, a Hebrew, by name Eleazar, a priest by family, by profession a lawyer, and advanced in years, and for this reason known to many of the king's followers, was brought near to him.

bes@4Macc:5:6 @ I would counsel thee, old man, before thy tortures begin, to tasted the swine's flesh, and save your life; for I feel respect for your age and hoary head, which since you have had so long, you appear to me to be no philosopher in retaining the superstition of the Jews.

bes@4Macc:5:8 @ It seems senseless not to enjoy what is pleasant, yet not disgraceful; and from notions of sinfulness, to reject the boons of nature.

bes@4Macc:5:11 @ Will you not awake from your trifling philosophy? and give up the folly of your notions; and, regaining understanding worthy of your age, search into the truth of an expedient course?

bes@4Macc:5:16 @ We, O Antiochus, who are persuaded that we live under a divine law, consider no compulsion to be so forcible as obedience to that law;

bes@4Macc:5:17 @ wherefore we consider that we ought not in any point to transgress the law.

bes@4Macc:5:18 @ And indeed, were our law (as you suppose) not truly divine, and if we wrongly think it divine, we should have no right even in that case to destroy our sense of religion.

bes@4Macc:5:19 @ think not eating the unclean, then, a trifling offense.

bes@4Macc:5:25 @ Wherefore it is that we eat not the unclean; for believing that the law was established by God, we are convinced that the Creator of the world, in giving his laws, sympathises with our nature.

bes@4Macc:5:27 @ But, tyrant-like, thou not only forcest us to break the law, but also to eat, that thou mayest ridicule us as we thus profanely eat:

bes@4Macc:5:28 @ but thou shalt not have this cause of laughter against me;

bes@4Macc:5:29 @ nor will I transgress the sacred oaths of my forefathers to keep the law.

bes@4Macc:5:30 @ No, not if you pluck out my eyes, and consume my entrails.

bes@4Macc:5:31 @ I am not so old, and void of manliness, but that my rational powers are youthful in defence of my religion.

bes@4Macc:5:32 @ Now then; prepare your wheels, and kindle a fiercer flame.

bes@4Macc:5:33 @ I will not so compassionate my old age, as on my account to break the law of my country.

bes@4Macc:5:34 @ I will not belie thee, O law, my instructor! or forsake thee, O beloved self-control!

bes@4Macc:5:35 @ I will not put thee to shame, O philosopher Reason; or deny thee, O honoured priesthood, and science of the law.

bes@4Macc:5:36 @ Mouth! thou shalt not pollute my old age, nor the full stature of a perfect life.

bes@4Macc:5:37 @ My fathers shall receive me pure, not having quailed before your compulsion, though unto death.

bes@4Macc:5:38 @ For over the ungodly thou shalt tyrannize; but thou shalt not lord it over my thoughts about religion, either by thine arguments, or through deeds.

bes@4Macc:6:5 @ But Eleazar, the high-minded and truly noble, as one tortured in a dream, regarded it not all.

bes@4Macc:6:7 @ And falling upon the ground, from his body having no power to support the pains, he yet kept his reasoning upright and unbending.

bes@4Macc:6:10 @ and like a noble athlete, the old man, when struck, vanquished his torturers.

bes@4Macc:6:17 @ Let not us who are children of Abraham be so evil advised as by giving way to make use of an unbecoming pretence;

bes@4Macc:6:18 @ for it were irrational, if having lived up to old age in all truth, and having scrupulously guarded our character for it, we should now turn back,

bes@4Macc:6:21 @ and be condemned by the tyrant for unmanliness, by not contending to the death for our divine law.

bes@4Macc:6:22 @ Wherefore do you, O children of Abraham, die nobly for your religion.

bes@4Macc:6:24 @ Beholding him so high-minded against misery, and not changing at their pity, they led him to the fire:

bes@4Macc:6:25 @ then with their wickedly-contrived instruments they burnt him on the fire, and poured stinking fluids down into his nostrils.

bes@4Macc:6:27 @ Thou knowest, O God, that when I might have been saved, I am slain for the sake of the law by tortures of fire.

bes@4Macc:6:30 @ Thus speaking, the holy man departed, noble in his torments, and even to the agonies of death resisted in his reasoning for the sake of the law.

bes@4Macc:6:33 @ But now, since reasoning conquered the passions, we befittingly awared it the authority of first place.

bes@4Macc:6:35 @ Ridiculous would it be were it not so; and I prove that reasoning has not only mastered pains, but that it is also superior to the pleasures, and withstands them.

bes@4Macc:7:3 @ in no way shifted the rudder of piety till it sailed into the harbour of victory over death.

bes@4Macc:7:4 @ Not so has ever a city, when besieged, held out against many and various machines, as did that holy man, when his pious soul was tried with the fiery trial of tortures and rackings, move his besiegers through the religious reasoning that shielded him.

bes@4Macc:7:6 @ O priest worthy of the priesthood! thou didst not pollute thy sacred teeth; nor make thine appetite, which had always embraced the clean and lawful, a partaker of profanity.

bes@4Macc:7:12 @ so, Eleazar, the descendant of Aaron, wasted away by the fire, did not give up his reasoning.

bes@4Macc:7:13 @ And, what is most wonderful, though an old man, though the labours of his body were now spent, and his fibres were relaxed, and his sinews worn out, he recovered youth.

bes@4Macc:7:17 @ But perhaps some might say, It is not all who conquer passions, as all do not possess wise reasoning.

bes@4Macc:7:19 @ they who believe that to God they die not; for, as our forefathers, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, they live to God.

bes@4Macc:7:20 @ This circumstance, then, is by no means an objection, that some who have weak reasoning, are governed by their passions:

bes@4Macc:7:22 @ and knowing that it is a blessed thing to endure all kinds of hardships for virture, would not, for the sake of religion, master his passion?

bes@4Macc:8:4 @ O youths, with favourable feelings, I admire the beauty of each of you; and greatly honouring so numerous a band of brethren, I not only counsel you not to share the madness of the old man who has been tortured before,

bes@4Macc:8:5 @ but I do beg you to yield, and to enjoy my friendship; for I possess the power, not only of punishing those who disobey my commands, but of doing good to those who obey them.

bes@4Macc:8:10 @ Will you not reason upon this--that if you disobey, there will be nothing left for you but to die in tortures?

bes@4Macc:8:14 @ Now they having listened to these words of persuasion, and seeing the fearful instruments, not only were not afraid, but even answered the arguments of the tyrant, and through their good reasoning destroyed his power.

bes@4Macc:8:15 @ Now let us consider the matter: had any of them been weak-spirited and cowardly among them, what reasonings would they have employed but these?

bes@4Macc:8:16 @ O wretched that we are, and exceeding senseless! when the king exhorts us, and calls us to his bounty, should we not obey him?

bes@4Macc:8:18 @ Shall we not fear, O brethren, the instruments of torture and weigh the threatenings of torment and shun this vain-glory and destructive pride?

bes@4Macc:8:23 @ Let us not oppose necessity, nor seek vain-glory by our own excruciation.

bes@4Macc:8:24 @ The law itself is not forward to put us to death, if we dread torture.

bes@4Macc:8:26 @ But nothing of this kind did the young men say or think when about to be tortured.

bes@4Macc:9:2 @ And we should be disgracing our fathers if we did not obey the law, and take knowledge for our guide.

bes@4Macc:9:3 @ O tyrant, counsellor of law-breaking, do not, hating us as thou dost, pity us more than we pity ourselves.

bes@4Macc:9:5 @ And you think to scare us, by threatening us with death by tortures, as though thou hadst learned nothing by the death of Eleazar.

bes@4Macc:9:7 @ Make the attempt, then, O tyrant; and if thou puttest us to death for our religion, think not that thou harmest us by torturing us.

bes@4Macc:9:10 @ When they had thus spoken, the tyrant was not only exasperated against them as being refractory, but enraged with them as being ungrateful.

bes@4Macc:9:13 @ And the noble youth, extended upon this, became dislocated.

bes@4Macc:9:15 @ O most accursed tyrant, and enemy of heavenly justice, and cruel-hearted, I am no murderer, nor sacrilegious man, whom thou thus ill-usest; but a defender of the Divine law.

bes@4Macc:9:17 @ he answered, Not so powerful, O accursed ministers, is your wheel, as to stifle my reasoning; cut my limbs, and burn my flesh, and twist my joints.

bes@4Macc:9:21 @ And although the framework of his bones was now destroyed the high-minded and Abrahamic youth did not groan.

bes@4Macc:9:22 @ But, as though transformed by fire into immortality, he nobly endured the rackings, saying

bes@4Macc:9:23 @ Imitate me, O brethren, nor ever desert your station, nor abjure my brotherhood in courage: fight the holy and honourable fight of religion;

bes@4Macc:9:27 @ And when, on enquiring whether he would eat before he was tortured, they heard his noble sentiment,

bes@4Macc:9:30 @ Thinkest thou not, most cruel of all tyrants, that thou art now tortured more than I, finding thine overweening conception of tyranny conquered by our patience in behalf of our religion?

bes@4Macc:9:32 @ But thou art tortured with threatenings for impiety; and thou shalt not escape, most corrupt tyrant, the vengeance of Divine wrath.

bes@4Macc:10:1 @ Now this one, having endured this praiseworthy death, the third was brought along, and exhorted by many to taste and save his life.

bes@4Macc:10:2 @ But he cried out and said, Know ye not, that the father of those who are dead, begat me also; and that the same mother bare me; and that I was brought up in the same tenets?

bes@4Macc:10:3 @ I abjure not the noble relationship of my brethren.

bes@4Macc:10:4 @ Now then, whatever instrument of vengeance ye have, apply it to my body, for ye are not able to touch, even if ye wish it, my soul.

bes@4Macc:10:7 @ And not being able by any means to strangle him, they tore off his skin, together with the extreme tips of his fingers, flayed him, and then haled him to the wheel;

bes@4Macc:10:13 @ Do not thou share the madness of thy brethren: but give regard to the king, and save thyself.

bes@4Macc:10:14 @ But he said to them, You have not a fire so scorching as to make me play the coward.

bes@4Macc:10:15 @ By the blessed death of my brethren, and the eternal punishment of the tyrant, and the glorious life of the pious, I will not repudiate the noble brotherhood.

bes@4Macc:10:19 @ Behold, my tongue is extended, cut it off; for not for that halt thou extirpate our reasoning.

bes@4Macc:11:2 @ I intend not, O tyrant, to get excused from the torment which is in behalf of virtue.

bes@4Macc:11:6 @ But this is worthy of honours, not torments;

bes@4Macc:11:8 @ Behold now, being alien from God, thou makest war against those who are religious toward God.

bes@4Macc:11:12 @ A great favour thou bestowest upon us, O tyrant, by enabling us to manifest our adherence to the law by means of nobler sufferings.

bes@4Macc:11:16 @ So that if ye think proper to torment us for not eating the unclean;--torment!

bes@4Macc:11:20 @ And he, while tormented, said, O period good and holy, in which, for the sake of religion, we brethren have been called to the contest of pain, and have not been conquered.

bes@4Macc:11:25 @ For is not your inability to overrule our reasoning, and to compel us to eat the unclean, thy destruction?

bes@4Macc:11:27 @ For the guards not of a tyrant but of a divine law are our defenders: through this we keep our reasoning unconquered.

bes@4Macc:12:11 @ Impious tyrant, and most blasphemous man, wert thou not ashamed, having received prosperity and a kingdom from God, to slay His servants, and to rack the doers of godliness?

bes@4Macc:12:13 @ Wert thou not ashamed, man as thou art, yet most savage, to cut out the tongues of men of like feeling and origin, and having thus abused to torture them?

bes@4Macc:12:17 @ will not forsake my brethren.

bes@4Macc:13:3 @ now it is not so: but by means of the reasoning which is praised by God, they mastered their passions.

bes@4Macc:13:5 @ How, then, can we avoid according to these men mastery of passion through right reasoning, since they drew not back from the pains of fire?

bes@4Macc:13:8 @ For having arranged a holy choir of piety, they encouraged one another, saying,

bes@4Macc:13:10 @ Let us not be cowards in the manifestation of piety.

bes@4Macc:13:11 @ And one said, Courage, brother; and another, Nobly endure.

bes@4Macc:13:12 @ And another, Remember of what stock ye are; and by the hand of our father Isaac endured to be slain for the sake of piety.

bes@4Macc:13:14 @ Let us not fear him who thinketh he killeth;

bes@4Macc:13:18 @ And as each one of the brethren was haled away, the rest exclaimed, Disgrace us not, O brother, nor falsify those who died before you.

bes@4Macc:13:19 @ Now you are not ignorant of the charm of brotherhood, which the Divine and all wise Providence hath imparted through fathers to children, and hath engendered through the mother's womb.

bes@4Macc:13:25 @ For a like ardour for what is right and honourable increased their fellow-feeling towards each other.

bes@4Macc:14:1 @ And more that this, they even urged them on to this ill-treatment; so that they not only despised pains themselves, but they even got the better of their affections of brotherly love.

bes@4Macc:14:4 @ None of the seven youths turned cowardly, or shrank back from death.

bes@4Macc:14:9 @ We now shudder at the recital of the affliction of those young men; but they not only beheld, and not only heard the immediate execution of the threat, but undergoing it, persevered; and that through the pains of fire.

bes@4Macc:14:11 @ And think it not wonderful that reasoning bore rule over those men in their torments, when even a woman's mind despised more manifold pains.

bes@4Macc:14:17 @ And if not able to do this, they fly circling round them in agony of affection, calling out in their own note, and save their offspring in whatever manner they are able.

bes@4Macc:14:20 @ But sympathy with her children did not turn aside the mother of the young men, who had a spirit kindred with that of Abraham.

bes@4Macc:15:9 @ Not but that, on account of the excellent disposition to the law, her maternal affection toward them was increased.

bes@4Macc:15:11 @ And yet, though there were so many circumstances connected with love of children to draw on a mother to sympathy, in the case of none of them were the various tortures able to pervert her principle.

bes@4Macc:15:18 @ Thy first-born, expiring, turned thee not; nor the second, looking miserable in his torments; nor the third, breathing out his soul.

bes@4Macc:15:19 @ Nor when thou didst behold the eyes of each of them looking sternly upon their tortures, and their nostrils foreboding death, didst thou weep!

bes@4Macc:15:20 @ When thou didst see children's flesh heaped upon children's flesh that had been torn off, heads decapitated upon heads, dead falling upon the dead, and a choir of children turned through torture into a burying ground, thou lamentedst not.

bes@4Macc:15:21 @ Not so do siren melodies, or songs of swans, attract the hearers to listening, O voices of children calling upon your mother in the midst of torments!

bes@4Macc:15:24 @ Although beholding the destruction of seven children, the noble mother, after one embrace, stripped off through faith in God.

bes@4Macc:15:27 @ did not lean to that which would have saved her children for the safety of a brief space.

bes@4Macc:15:30 @ O thou nobler in endurance than males, and more manly than men in patience!

bes@4Macc:15:31 @ For as the ark of Noah, bearing the world in the world-filling flood, bore up against the waves,

bes@4Macc:15:32 @ so thou, the guardian of the law, when surrounded on every side by the flood of passions, and straitened by violent storms which were the torments of they children, didst bear up nobly against the storms against religion.

bes@4Macc:16:2 @ I have proved, then, that not only men have obtained the mastery of their passions, but also that a woman despised the greatest torments.

bes@4Macc:16:3 @ And not so fierce were the lions round Daniel, nor the furnace of Misael burning with most vehement fires as that natural love of children burned within her, when she beheld her seven sons tortured.

bes@4Macc:16:6 @ Ah! wretched I, and many times miserable; who having born seven sons, have become the mother of none.

bes@4Macc:16:9 @ Alas, of my children, some of you unmarried, and some who have married to no profit, I shall not see your children, nor be felicitated as a grandmother.

bes@4Macc:16:11 @ Nor, should I die, shall I have a son to bury me. But with such a lament is this the holy and God-fearing mother bewailed none of them.

bes@4Macc:16:12 @ Nor did she divert any of them from death, nor grieve for them as for the dead.

bes@4Macc:16:16 @ O sons, noble is the contest; to which you being called as a witness for the nation, strive zealously for the laws of your country.

bes@4Macc:16:20 @ For whom also our father Abraham was forward to sacrifice Isaac our progenitor, and shuddered not at the sight of his own paternal hand descending down with the sword upon him.

bes@4Macc:16:22 @ You, then, having the same faith towards God, be not troubled.

bes@4Macc:16:23 @ For it is unreasonable that they who know religion should not stand up against troubles.

bes@4Macc:17:2 @ O thou mother, who together with seven children didst destroy the violence of the tyrant, and render void his wicked intentions, and exhibit the nobleness of faith!

bes@4Macc:17:5 @ Not so gracious does the moon appear with the stars in heaven, as thou art established honourable before God, and fixed in the firmament with thy sons who thou didst illuminate with religion to the stars.

bes@4Macc:17:7 @ And, were it lawful for us to paint as on a tablet the religion of thy story, the spectators would not shudder at beholding the mother of seven children enduring for the sake of religion various tortures even unto death.

bes@4Macc:17:16 @ Who did not admire those champions of true legislation? who were not astonied?

bes@4Macc:17:18 @ through which, also, they now stand beside the divine throne, and live a blessed life.

bes@4Macc:17:20 @ These, therefore, having been sanctified through God, have been honoured not only with this honour, but that also by their means the enemy did not overcome our nation;

bes@4Macc:17:24 @ And they proved to be to him noble and brave for land battles and for sieges; and he conquered and stormed the towns of all his enemies.

bes@4Macc:18:2 @ Knowing that religious reasoning is lord of the passions, and those not only inward but outward.

bes@4Macc:18:3 @ When those persons giving up their bodies to pains for the sake of religion, were not only admired by men, but were deemed worthy of a divine portion.

bes@4Macc:18:5 @ And the tyrant Antiochus was both punished upon earth, and is punished now he is dead; for when he was quite unable to compel the Israelites to adopt foreign customs, and to desert the manner of life of their fathers,

bes@4Macc:18:7 @ And the righteous mother of the seven children spake also as follows to her offspring: I was a pure virgin, and went not beyond my father's house; but I took care of the built-up rib.

bes@4Macc:18:8 @ No destroyer of the desert, or ravisher of the plain, injured me; nor did the destructive, deceitful snake, make spoil of my chaste virginity; and I remained with my husband during the period of my prime.

bes@4Macc:18:9 @ And these my children, having arrive at maturity, their father died: blessed was he! for having sought out a life of fertility in children, he was not grieved with a period of loss of children.

bes@4Macc:18:13 @ And he used to glorify Daniel, who was in the den of lions, and pronounce him blessed.

bes@4Macc:18:14 @ And he used to put you in mind of the scripture of Esaias, which saith, Even if thou pass through the fire, it shall not burn thee.

bes@4Macc:18:18 @ For he did not forget the song which Moses taught, proclaiming, I will kill, and I will make to live.

bes@4Macc:18:20 @ O that bitter, and yet not bitter, day when the bitter tyrant of the Greeks, quenching fire with fire in his cruel caldrons, brought with boiling rage the seven sons of the daughter of Abraham to the catapelt, and to all his torments!

bes@1Esd:1:4 @ And said, Ye shall no more bear the ark upon your shoulders: now therefore serve the Lord your God, and minister unto his people Israel, and prepare you after your families and kindreds,

bes@1Esd:1:8 @ And Helkias, Zacharias, and Syelus, the governors of the temple, gave to the priests for the passover two thousand and six hundred sheep, and three hundred calves.

bes@1Esd:1:16 @ Moreover the porters were at every gate; it was not lawful for any to go from his ordinary service: for their brethren the Levites prepared for them.

bes@1Esd:1:20 @ And such a passover was not kept in Israel since the time of the prophet Samuel.

bes@1Esd:1:21 @ Yea, all the kings of Israel held not such a passover as Josias, and the priests, and the Levites, and the Jews, held with all Israel that were found dwelling at Jerusalem.

bes@1Esd:1:25 @ Now after all these acts of Josias it came to pass, that Pharaoh the king of Egypt came to raise war at Carchamis upon Euphrates: and Josias went out against him.

bes@1Esd:1:27 @ I am not sent out from the Lord God against thee; for my war is upon Euphrates: and now the Lord is with me, yea, the Lord is with me hasting me forward: depart from me, and be not against the Lord.

bes@1Esd:1:28 @ Howbeit Josias did not turn back his chariot from him, but undertook to fight with him, not regarding the words of the prophet Jeremy spoken by the mouth of the Lord:

bes@1Esd:1:33 @ These things are written in the book of the stories of the kings of Judah, and every one of the acts that Josias did, and his glory, and his understanding in the law of the Lord, and the things that he had done before, and the things now recited, are reported in the book of the kings of Israel and Judea.

bes@1Esd:1:38 @ And he bound Joacim and the nobles: but Zaraces his brother he apprehended, and brought him out of Egypt.

bes@1Esd:1:40 @ Wherefore against him Nabuchodonosor the king of Babylon came up, and bound him with a chain of brass, and carried him into Babylon.

bes@1Esd:1:41 @ Nabuchodonosor also took of the holy vessels of the Lord, and carried them away, and set them in his own temple at Babylon.

bes@1Esd:1:45 @ So after a year Nabuchodonosor sent and caused him to be brought into Babylon with the holy vessels of the Lord;

bes@1Esd:1:47 @ And he did evil also in the sight of the Lord, and cared not for the words that were spoken unto him by the prophet Jeremy from the mouth of the Lord.

bes@1Esd:1:48 @ And after that king Nabuchodonosor had made him to swear by the name of the Lord, he forswore himself, and rebelled; and hardening his neck, his heart, he transgressed the laws of the Lord God of Israel.

bes@1Esd:1:49 @ The governors also of the people and of the priests did many things against the laws, and passed all the pollutions of all nations, and defiled the temple of the Lord, which was sanctified in Jerusalem.

bes@1Esd:1:53 @ Who slew their young men with the sword, yea, even within the compass of their holy temple, and spared neither young man nor maid, old man nor child, among them; for he delivered all into their hands.

bes@1Esd:1:56 @ And as for her glorious things, they never ceased till they had consumed and brought them all to nought: and the people that were not slain with the sword he carried unto Babylon:

bes@1Esd:2:10 @ King Cyrus also brought forth the holy vessels, which Nabuchodonosor had carried away from Jerusalem, and had set up in his temple of idols.

bes@1Esd:2:11 @ Now when Cyrus king of the Persians had brought them forth, he delivered them to Mithridates his treasurer:

bes@1Esd:2:12 @ And by him they were delivered to Sanabassar the governor of Judea.

bes@1Esd:2:18 @ Be it now known to the lord king, that the Jews that are up from you to us, being come into Jerusalem, that rebellious and wicked city, do build the marketplaces, and repair the walls of it and do lay the foundation of the temple.

bes@1Esd:2:19 @ Now if this city and the walls thereof be made up again, they will not only refuse to give tribute, but also rebel against kings.

bes@1Esd:2:20 @ And forasmuch as the things pertaining to the temple are now in hand, we think it meet not to neglect such a matter,

bes@1Esd:2:24 @ Wherefore now we do declare unto thee, O lord the king, that if this city be built again, and the walls thereof set up anew, thou shalt from henceforth have no passage into Celosyria and Phenice.

bes@1Esd:2:28 @ Now therefore I have commanded to hinder those men from building the city, and heed to be taken that there be no more done in it;

bes@1Esd:2:29 @ And that those wicked workers proceed no further to the annoyance of kings,

bes@1Esd:3:1 @ Now when Darius reigned, he made a great feast unto all his subjects, and unto all his household, and unto all the princes of Media and Persia,

bes@1Esd:3:2 @ And to all the governors and captains and lieutenants that were under him, from India unto Ethiopia, of an hundred twenty and seven provinces.

bes@1Esd:3:4 @ Then three young men, that were of the guard that kept the king’s body, spake one to another;

bes@1Esd:3:13 @ Now when the king was risen up, they took their writings, and delivered them unto him, and so he read them:

bes@1Esd:3:14 @ And sending forth he called all the princes of Persia and Media, and the governors, and the captains, and the lieutenants, and the chief officers;

bes@1Esd:3:20 @ It turneth also every thought into jollity and mirth, so that a man remembereth neither sorrow nor debt:

bes@1Esd:3:21 @ And it maketh every heart rich, so that a man remembereth neither king nor governor; and it maketh to speak all things by talents:

bes@1Esd:3:23 @ But when they are from the wine, they remember not what they have done.

bes@1Esd:3:24 @ O ye men, is not wine the strongest, that enforceth to do thus? And when he had so spoken, he held his peace.

bes@1Esd:4:2 @ O ye men, do not men excel in strength that bear rule over sea and land and all things in them?

bes@1Esd:4:5 @ They slay and are slain, and transgress not the king’s commandment: if they get the victory, they bring all to the king, as well the spoil, as all things else.

bes@1Esd:4:6 @ Likewise for those that are no soldiers, and have not to do with wars, but use husbandry, when they have reaped again that which they had sown, they bring it to the king, and compel one another to pay tribute unto the king.

bes@1Esd:4:12 @ O ye men, how should not the king be mightiest, when in such sort he is obeyed? And he held his tongue.

bes@1Esd:4:14 @ O ye men, it is not the great king, nor the multitude of men, neither is it wine, that excelleth; who is it then that ruleth them, or hath the lordship over them? are they not women?

bes@1Esd:4:16 @ Even of them came they: and they nourished them up that planted the vineyards, from whence the wine cometh.

bes@1Esd:4:17 @ These also make garments for men; these bring glory unto men; and without women cannot men be.

bes@1Esd:4:18 @ Yea, and if men have gathered together gold and silver, or any other goodly thing, do they not love a woman which is comely in favour and beauty?

bes@1Esd:4:19 @ And letting all those things go, do they not gape, and even with open mouth fix their eyes fast on her; and have not all men more desire unto her than unto silver or gold, or any goodly thing whatsoever?

bes@1Esd:4:21 @ He sticketh not to spend his life with his wife. and remembereth neither father, nor mother, nor country.

bes@1Esd:4:22 @ By this also ye must know that women have dominion over you: do ye not labour and toil, and give and bring all to the woman?

bes@1Esd:4:28 @ And now do ye not believe me? is not the king great in his power? do not all regions fear to touch him?

bes@1Esd:4:33 @ Then the king and the princes looked one upon another: so he began to speak of the truth.

bes@1Esd:4:34 @ O ye men, are not women strong? great is the earth, high is the heaven, swift is the sun in his course, for he compasseth the heavens round about, and fetcheth his course again to his own place in one day.

bes@1Esd:4:35 @ Is he not great that maketh these things? therefore great is the truth, and stronger than all things.

bes@1Esd:4:36 @ All the earth crieth upon the truth, and the heaven blesseth it: all works shake and tremble at it, and with it is no unrighteous thing.

bes@1Esd:4:37 @ Wine is wicked, the king is wicked, women are wicked, all the children of men are wicked, and such are all their wicked works; and there is no truth in them; in their unrighteousness also they shall perish.

bes@1Esd:4:39 @ With her there is no accepting of persons or rewards; but she doeth the things that are just, and refraineth from all unjust and wicked things; and all men do well like of her works.

bes@1Esd:4:46 @ And now, O lord the king, this is that which I require, and which I desire of thee, and this is the princely liberality proceeding from thyself: I desire therefore that thou make good the vow, the performance whereof with thine own mouth thou hast vowed to the King of heaven.

bes@1Esd:4:47 @ Then Darius the king stood up, and kissed him, and wrote letters for him unto all the treasurers and lieutenants and captains and governors, that they should safely convey on their way both him, and all those that go up with him to build Jerusalem.

bes@1Esd:4:49 @ Moreover he wrote for all the Jews that went out of his realm up into Jewry, concerning their freedom, that no officer, no ruler, no lieutenant, nor treasurer, should forcibly enter into their doors;

bes@1Esd:4:58 @ Now when this young man was gone forth, he lifted up his face to heaven toward Jerusalem, and praised the King of heaven,

bes@1Esd:5:7 @ And these are they of Jewry that came up from the captivity, where they dwelt as strangers, whom Nabuchodonosor the king of Babylon had carried away unto Babylon.

bes@1Esd:5:9 @ The number of them of the nation, and their governors, sons of Phoros, two thousand an hundred seventy and two; the sons of Saphat, four hundred seventy and two:

bes@1Esd:5:31 @ The sons of Airus, the sons of Daisan, the sons of Noeba, the sons of Chaseba, the sons of Gazera, the sons of Azia, the sons of Phinees, the sons of Azara, the sons of Bastai, the sons of Asana, the sons of Meani, the sons of Naphisi, the sons of Acub, the sons of Acipha, the sons of Assur, the sons of Pharacim, the sons of Basaloth,

bes@1Esd:5:37 @ Neither could they shew their families, nor their stock, how they were of Israel: the sons of Ladan, the son of Ban, the sons of Necodan, six hundred fifty and two.

bes@1Esd:5:38 @ And of the priests that usurped the office of the priesthood, and were not found: the sons of Obdia, the sons of Accoz, the sons of Addus, who married Augia one of the daughters of Barzelus, and was named after his name.

bes@1Esd:5:39 @ And when the description of the kindred of these men was sought in the register, and was not found, they were removed from executing the office of the priesthood:

bes@1Esd:5:40 @ For unto them said Nehemias and Atharias, that they should not be partakers of the holy things, till there arose up an high priest clothed with doctrine and truth.

bes@1Esd:5:53 @ And all they that had made any vow to God began to offer sacrifices to God from the first day of the seventh month, although the temple of the Lord was not yet built.

bes@1Esd:5:65 @ Insomuch that the trumpets might not be heard for the weeping of the people: yet the multitude sounded marvellously, so that it was heard afar off.

bes@1Esd:5:66 @ Wherefore when the enemies of the tribe of Judah and Benjamin heard it, they came to know what that noise of trumpets should mean.

bes@1Esd:5:70 @ Then Zorobabel and Jesus and the chief of the families of Israel said unto them, It is not for us and you to build together an house unto the Lord our God.

bes@1Esd:6:1 @ Now in the second year of the reign of Darius Aggeus and Zacharias the son of Addo, the prophets, prophesied unto the Jews in Jewry and Jerusalem in the name of the Lord God of Israel, which was upon them.

bes@1Esd:6:3 @ At the same time came unto them Sisinnes the governor of Syria and Phenice, with Sathrabuzanes and his companions, and said unto them,

bes@1Esd:6:6 @ And they were not hindered from building, until such time as signification was given unto Darius concerning them, and an answer received.

bes@1Esd:6:7 @ The copy of the letters which Sisinnes, governor of Syria and Phenice, and Sathrabuzanes, with their companions, rulers in Syria and Phenice, wrote and sent unto Darius; To king Darius, greeting:

bes@1Esd:6:8 @ Let all things be known unto our lord the king, that being come into the country of Judea, and entered into the city of Jerusalem we found in the city of Jerusalem the ancients of the Jews that were of the captivity

bes@1Esd:6:12 @ Therefore to the intent that we might give knowledge unto thee by writing, we demanded of them who were the chief doers, and we required of them the names in writing of their principal men.

bes@1Esd:6:15 @ But when our fathers provoked God unto wrath, and sinned against the Lord of Israel which is in heaven, he gave them over into the power of Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon, of the Chaldees;

bes@1Esd:6:18 @ And the holy vessels of gold and of silver, that Nabuchodonosor had carried away out of the house at Jerusalem, and had set them in his own temple those Cyrus the king brought forth again out of the temple at Babylon, and they were delivered to Zorobabel and to Sanabassarus the ruler,

bes@1Esd:6:20 @ Then the same Sanabassarus, being come hither, laid the foundations of the house of the Lord at Jerusalem; and from that time to this being still a building, it is not yet fully ended.

bes@1Esd:6:21 @ Now therefore, if it seem good unto the king, let search be made among the records of king Cyrus:

bes@1Esd:6:26 @ And that the holy vessels of the house of the Lord, both of gold and silver, that Nabuchodonosor took out of the house at Jerusalem, and brought to Babylon, should be restored to the house at Jerusalem, and be set in the place where they were before.

bes@1Esd:6:27 @ And also he commanded that Sisinnes the governor of Syria and Phenice, and Sathrabuzanes, and their companions, and those which were appointed rulers in Syria and Phenice, should be careful not to meddle with the place, but suffer Zorobabel, the servant of the Lord, and governor of Judea, and the elders of the Jews, to build the house of the Lord in that place.

bes@1Esd:6:29 @ And out of the tribute of Celosyria and Phenice a portion carefully to be given these men for the sacrifices of the Lord, that is, to Zorobabel the governor, for bullocks, and rams, and lambs;

bes@1Esd:7:1 @ Then Sisinnes the governor of Celosyria and Phenice, and Sathrabuzanes, with their companions following the commandments of king Darius,

bes@1Esd:7:2 @ Did very carefully oversee the holy works, assisting the ancients of the Jews and governors of the temple.

bes@1Esd:7:11 @ They that were of the captivity were not all sanctified together: but the Levites were all sanctified together.

bes@1Esd:8:4 @ And the king did him honour: for he found grace in his sight in all his requests.

bes@1Esd:8:7 @ For Esdras had very great skill, so that he omitted nothing of the law and commandments of the Lord, but taught all Israel the ordinances and judgements.

bes@1Esd:8:8 @ Now the copy of the commission, which was written from Artaxerxes the king, and came to Esdras the priest and reader of the law of the Lord, is this that followeth;

bes@1Esd:8:21 @ Let all things be performed after the law of God diligently unto the most high God, that wrath come not upon the kingdom of the king and his sons.

bes@1Esd:8:22 @ I command you also, that ye require no tax, nor any other imposition, of any of the priests, or Levites, or holy singers, or porters, or ministers of the temple, or of any that have doings in this temple, and that no man have authority to impose any thing upon them.

bes@1Esd:8:23 @ And thou, Esdras, according to the wisdom of God ordain judges and justices, that they may judge in all Syria and Phenice all those that know the law of thy God; and those that know it not thou shalt teach.

bes@1Esd:8:26 @ And hath honoured me in the sight of the king, and his counsellors, and all his friends and nobles.

bes@1Esd:8:42 @ But when I had found there none of the priests and Levites,

bes@1Esd:8:67 @ And they delivered the king’s commandments unto the king’s stewards’ and to the governors of Celosyria and Phenice; and they honoured the people and the temple of God.

bes@1Esd:8:68 @ Now when these things were done, the rulers came unto me, and said,

bes@1Esd:8:69 @ The nation of Israel, the princes, the priests and Levites, have not put away from them the strange people of the land, nor the pollutions of the Gentiles to wit, of the Canaanites, Hittites, Pheresites, Jebusites, and the Moabites, Egyptians, and Edomites.

bes@1Esd:8:75 @ For our sins are multiplied above our heads, and our ignorances have reached up unto heaven.

bes@1Esd:8:78 @ And now in some measure hath mercy been shewed unto us from thee, O Lord, that there should be left us a root and a name in the place of thy sanctuary;

bes@1Esd:8:80 @ Yea, when we were in bondage, we were not forsaken of our Lord; but he made us gracious before the kings of Persia, so that they gave us food;

bes@1Esd:8:81 @ Yea, and honoured the temple of our Lord, and raised up the desolate Sion, that they have given us a sure abiding in Jewry and Jerusalem.

bes@1Esd:8:82 @ And now, O Lord, what shall we say, having these things? for we have transgressed thy commandments, which thou gavest by the hand of thy servants the prophets, saying,

bes@1Esd:8:84 @ Therefore now shall ye not join your daughters unto their sons, neither shall ye take their daughters unto your sons.

bes@1Esd:8:88 @ Mightest not thou be angry with us to destroy us, till thou hadst left us neither root, seed, nor name?

bes@1Esd:8:90 @ Behold, now are we before thee in our iniquities, for we cannot stand any longer by reason of these things before thee.

bes@1Esd:8:92 @ Then Jechonias the son of Jeelus, one of the sons of Israel, called out, and said, O Esdras, we have sinned against the Lord God, we have married strange women of the nations of the land, and now is all Israel aloft.

bes@1Esd:9:2 @ And remained there, and did eat no meat nor drink water, mourning for the great iniquities of the multitude.

bes@1Esd:9:4 @ And that whosoever met not there within two or three days according as the elders that bare rule appointed, their cattle should be seized to the use of the temple, and himself cast out from them that were of the captivity.

bes@1Esd:9:8 @ And now by confessing give glory unto the Lord God of our fathers,

bes@1Esd:9:11 @ But forasmuch as the people are many, and it is foul weather, so that we cannot stand without, and this is not a work of a day or two, seeing our sin in these things is spread far:

bes@1Esd:9:34 @ And of the sons of Maani; Jeremias, Momdis, Omaerus, Juel, Mabdai, and Pelias, and Anos, Carabasion, and Enasibus, and Mamnitanaimus, Eliasis, Bannus, Eliali, Samis, Selemias, Nathanias: and of the sons of Ozora; Sesis, Esril, Azaelus, Samatus, Zambis, Josephus.

bes@1Esd:9:45 @ Then took Esdras the book of the law before the multitude: for he sat honourably in the first place in the sight of them all.

bes@1Esd:9:51 @ Go then, and eat the fat, and drink the sweet, and send part to them that have nothing;

bes@1Esd:9:52 @ For this day is holy unto the Lord: and be not sorrowful; for the Lord will bring you to honour.

bes@1Esd:9:53 @ So the Levites published all things to the people, saying, This day is holy to the Lord; be not sorrowful.

bes@1Esd:9:54 @ Then went they their way, every one to eat and drink, and make merry, and to give part to them that had nothing, and to make great cheer;

bes@Sus:1:4 @ Now Joacim was a great rich man, and had a fair garden joining unto his house: and to him resorted the Jews; because he was more honourable than all others.

bes@Sus:1:7 @ Now when the people departed away at noon, Susanna went into her husband’s garden to walk.

bes@Sus:1:9 @ And they perverted their own mind, and turned away their eyes, that they might not look unto heaven, nor remember just judgements.

bes@Sus:1:10 @ And albeit they both were wounded with her love, yet durst not one shew another his grief.

bes@Sus:1:13 @ And the one said to the other, Let us now go home: for it is dinner time.

bes@Sus:1:14 @ So when they were gone out, they parted the one from the other, and turning back again they came to the same place; and after that they had asked one another the cause, they acknowledged their lust: then appointed they a time both together, when they might find her alone.

bes@Sus:1:16 @ And there was no body there save the two elders, that had hid themselves, and watched her.

bes@Sus:1:18 @ And they did as she bade them, and shut the garden doors, and went out themselves at privy doors to fetch the things that she had commanded them: but they saw not the elders, because they were hid.

bes@Sus:1:19 @ Now when the maids were gone forth, the two elders rose up, and ran unto her, saying,

bes@Sus:1:20 @ Behold, the garden doors are shut, that no man can see us, and we are in love with thee; therefore consent unto us, and lie with us.

bes@Sus:1:21 @ If thou wilt not, we will bear witness against thee, that a young man was with thee: and therefore thou didst send away thy maids from thee.

bes@Sus:1:22 @ Then Susanna sighed, and said, I am straitened on every side: for if I do this thing, it is death unto me: and if I do it not I cannot escape your hands.

bes@Sus:1:23 @ It is better for me to fall into your hands, and not do it, than to sin in the sight of the Lord.

bes@Sus:1:31 @ Now Susanna was a very delicate woman, and beauteous to behold.

bes@Sus:1:39 @ And when we saw them together, the man we could not hold: for he was stronger than we, and opened the door, and leaped out.

bes@Sus:1:40 @ But having taken this woman, we asked who the young man was, but she would not tell us: these things do we testify.

bes@Sus:1:42 @ Then Susanna cried out with a loud voice, and said, O everlasting God, that knowest the secrets, and knowest all things before they be:

bes@Sus:1:43 @ Thou knowest that they have borne false witness against me, and, behold, I must die; whereas I never did such things as these men have maliciously invented against me.

bes@Sus:1:48 @ So he standing in the midst of them said, Are ye such fools, ye sons of Israel, that without examination or knowledge of the truth ye have condemned a daughter of Israel?

bes@Sus:1:50 @ Wherefore all the people turned again in haste, and the elders said unto him, Come, sit down among us, and shew it us, seeing God hath given thee the honour of an elder.

bes@Sus:1:51 @ Then said Daniel unto them, Put these two aside one far from another, and I will examine them.

bes@Sus:1:52 @ So when they were put asunder one from another, he called one of them, and said unto him, O thou that art waxen old in wickedness, now thy sins which thou hast committed aforetime are come to light.

bes@Sus:1:53 @ For thou hast pronounced false judgement and hast condemned the innocent and hast let the guilty go free; albeit the Lord saith, The innocent and righteous shalt thou not slay.

bes@Sus:1:54 @ Now then, if thou hast seen her, tell me, Under what tree sawest thou them companying together? Who answered, Under a mastick tree.

bes@Sus:1:55 @ And Daniel said, Very well; thou hast lied against thine own head; for even now the angel of God hath received the sentence of God to cut thee in two.

bes@Sus:1:56 @ So he put him aside, and commanded to bring the other, and said unto him, O thou seed of Chanaan, and not of Juda, beauty hath deceived thee, and lust hath perverted thine heart.

bes@Sus:1:57 @ Thus have ye dealt with the daughters of Israel, and they for fear companied with you: but the daughter of Juda would not abide your wickedness.

bes@Sus:1:58 @ Now therefore tell me, Under what tree didst thou take them companying together? Who answered, Under an holm tree.

bes@Sus:1:62 @ And according to the law of Moses they did unto them in such sort as they maliciously intended to do to their neighbour: and they put them to death. Thus the innocent blood was saved the same day.

bes@Sus:1:63 @ Therefore Chelcias and his wife praised God for their daughter Susanna, with Joacim her husband, and all the kindred, because there was no dishonesty found in her.

bes@Ps151:1:1 @ This Psalm is a genuine one of David, though supernumerary, composed when he fought in single combat with (note:)Alex. Goliath(:note) Goliad. - I was small among my brethren, and youngest in my father’s house: I tended my father’s sheep.

bes@Ps151:1:4 @ He sent forth his angel, and took me from my father’s sheep, and he anointed me with the oil of his anointing.

bes@Ps151:1:5 @ My brothers were handsome and tall; but the Lord did not take pleasure in them.

bes@BelTh:1:2 @ And Daniel conversed with the king, and was honoured above all his friends.

bes@BelTh:1:3 @ Now the Babylonians had an idol, called Bel, and there were spent upon him every day twelve great measures of fine flour, and forty sheep, and six vessels of wine.

bes@BelTh:1:4 @ And the king worshipped it and went daily to adore it: but Daniel worshipped his own God. And the king said unto him, Why dost not thou worship Bel?

bes@BelTh:1:5 @ Who answered and said, Because I may not worship idols made with hands, but the living God, who hath created the heaven and the earth, and hath sovereignty over all flesh.

bes@BelTh:1:6 @ Then said the king unto him, Thinkest thou not that Bel is a living God? seest thou not how much he eateth and drinketh every day?

bes@BelTh:1:7 @ Then Daniel smiled, and said, O king, be not deceived: for this is but clay within, and brass without, and did never eat or drink any thing.

bes@BelTh:1:8 @ So the king was wroth, and called for his priests, and said unto them, If ye tell me not who this is that devoureth these expenses, ye shall die.

bes@BelTh:1:10 @ Now the priests of Bel were threescore and ten, beside their wives and children. And the king went with Daniel into the temple of Bel.

bes@BelTh:1:12 @ And to morrow when thou comest in, if thou findest not that Bel hath eaten up all, we will suffer death: or else Daniel, that speaketh falsely against us.

bes@BelTh:1:14 @ So when they were gone forth, the king set meats before Bel. Now Daniel had commanded his servants to bring ashes, and those they strewed throughout all the temple in the presence of the king alone: then went they out, and shut the door, and sealed it with the king’s signet, and so departed.

bes@BelTh:1:15 @ Now in the night came the priests with their wives and children, as they were wont to do, and did eat and drink up all.

bes@BelTh:1:18 @ And as soon as he had opened the dour, the king looked upon the table, and cried with a loud voice, Great art thou, O Bel, and with thee is no deceit at all.

bes@BelTh:1:19 @ Then laughed Daniel, and held the king that he should not go in, and said, Behold now the pavement, and mark well whose footsteps are these.

bes@BelTh:1:24 @ And the king said unto Daniel, Wilt thou also say that this is of brass? lo, he liveth, he eateth and drinketh; thou canst not say that he is no living god: therefore worship him.

bes@BelTh:1:30 @ Now when the king saw that they pressed him sore, being constrained, he delivered Daniel unto them:

bes@BelTh:1:32 @ And in the den there were seven lions, and they had given them every day two carcases, and two sheep: which then were not given to them, to the intent they might devour Daniel.

bes@BelTh:1:33 @ Now there was in Jewry a prophet, called Habbacuc, who had made pottage, and had broken bread in a bowl, and was going into the field, for to bring it to the reapers.

bes@BelTh:1:35 @ And Habbacuc said, Lord, I never saw Babylon; neither do I know where the den is.

bes@BelTh:1:41 @ Then cried the king with a loud voice, saying, Great art Lord God of Daniel, and there is none other beside thee.


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