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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:1:10 @ 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:1:11 @ And the children of Juda shall be gathered, and the children of Israel together, and shall appoint themselves one head, and shall come up out of the land: for great shall be the day of Jezrael.

bes@Hosea:2:1 @ Say to your brother, My people, and to your sister, Pitied.

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:2:3 @ that I may strip her naked, and make her again as she was at the day of her birth: and I will make her desolate, and make her as a dry land, and will kill her with thirst.

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

bes@Hosea:2:5 @ And their mother went a-whoring: she that bore them disgraced them: for she said, I will go after my lovers, that give me my bread and my water, and my garments, and my linen clothes, my oil and my necessaries.

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:2:11 @ And I will take away all her gladness, her feasts, and her festivals at the new moon, and her sabbaths, and all her solemn assemblies.

bes@Hosea:2:12 @ And I will utterly destroy her vines, and her fig-trees, all things of which she said, These are my hire which my lovers have given me: and I will make them a testimony, and the wild beasts of the field, and the birds of the sky, and the reptiles of the earth shall devour them.

bes@Hosea:2:13 @ And I will recompense on her the days of Baalim, wherein she sacrificed to them, and put on her ear-rings, and her necklaces, and went after her lovers, and forgot me, saith the Lord.

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:2:15 @ And I will giver her possessions from thence, and the valley of Achor to open her understanding: and she shall be afflicted there according to the days of her infancy, and according to the days of her coming up out of the land of Egypt.

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:2:23 @ 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:3:2 @ So I hired her to myself for fifteen pieces of silver, and a homer of barley, and a flagon of wine.

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:4:3 @ Therefore shall the land mourn, and shall be diminished with all that dwell in it, with the wild beasts of the field, and the reptiles of the earth, and with the birds of the sky, and the fish of the sea shall fail:

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:4:13 @ They have sacrificed on the tops of the mountains, and on the hills they have sacrificed under the oak and poplar, and under the shady tree, because the shade was good: therefore your daughters shall go a-whoring, and your daughters-in-law shall commit adultery.

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

bes@Hosea:4:19 @ Thou art a blast of wind in her wings, and they shall be ashamed because of their altars.

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:5:11 @ Ephraim altogether prevailed against his adversary, he trod judgement under foot, for he began to go after vanities.

bes@Hosea:5:12 @ Therefore I will be as consternation to Ephraim, and as a goad to the house of Juda.

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: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:6:6 @ Therefore have I mown down your prophets; I have slain them with the word of my mouth: and my judgement shall go forth as the light.

bes@Hosea:6:9 @ there the city Galaad despised me, working vanity, troubling water.

bes@Hosea:6:11 @ I have seen horrible things there, even the fornication of Ephraim: Israel and Juda are defiled;

bes@Hosea:6:12 @ begin together grapes for thyself, when I turn the captivity of my people.

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:7:6 @ Wherefore their hearts are inflamed as an oven, while they rage all the night: Ephraim is satisfied with sleep; the morning is come; he is burnt up as a flame of fire.

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:7:10 @ 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:8:6 @ Whereas the workman made it, and it is not God; wherefore thy calf, Samaria, was a deceiver:

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: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:9:4 @ 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:9:6 @ Therefore, behold, they go forth from the trouble of Egypt, and Memphis shall receive them, and Machmas shall bury them: as for their silver, destruction shall inherit it; thorns shall be in their tents.

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:9:12 @ For even if they should rear their children, yet shall they be utterly bereaved: wherefore also there is woe to them, though my flesh is of them.

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:10:1 @ Israel is a vine with goodly branches, her fruit is abundant: according to the multitude of her fruits she has multiplied her altars; according to the wealth of his land, he has set up pillars.

bes@Hosea:10:7 @ Samaria has cast off her king as a twig on the surface of the water.

bes@Hosea:10:9 @ From the time the hills existed Israel has sinned: there they stood: war waged against the children of iniquity

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:10:11 @ Ephraim is a heifer taught to love victory, but I will come upon the fairest part of her neck: I will mount Ephraim; I will pass over Juda in silence; Jacob shall prevail against him.

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:10:13 @ Wherefore have ye passed over ungodliness in silence, and reaped the sins of it? ye have eaten false fruit; for thou has trusted in thy sins, in the abundance of thy power.

bes@Hosea:10:14 @ Therefore shall destruction rise up among thy people, and all thy strong places shall be ruined: as a prince Solomon departed out of the house of Jeroboam, in the days of battle they dashed the mother to the ground upon the children,

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:12:3 @ He took his brother by the heel in the womb, and in his labours he had power with God.

bes@Hosea:12:4 @ And he prevailed with the angel and was strong: they wept, and intreated me: they found me in the house of On, and there a word was spoken to them.

bes@Hosea:12:6 @ Thou therefore shalt return to thy God: keep thou mercy and judgement, and draw nigh to thy God continually.

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:13:3 @ 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:13:5 @ I tended thee as a shepherd in the wilderness, in an uninhabited land.

bes@Hosea:13:6 @ According to their pastures, so they were completely filled; and their hearts were exalted; therefore they forgot me.

bes@Hosea:13:7 @ And I will be to them as a panther, and as a leopard.

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:13:10 @ Where is this thy king? let him even save thee in all thy cities: let him judge thee, of whom thou saidst, Give me a king and a prince.

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:14:1 @ Samaria shall be utterly destroyed: for she has resisted her God; they shall fall by the sword, and their sucklings shall be dashed against the ground, and their women and child ripped up.

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:1:8 @ 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:1:14 @ Sanctify a fast, proclaim a solemn service, gather the elders and all the inhabitants of the land into the house of your God, and cry earnestly to the Lord,

bes@Joel:1:17 @ The heifers have started at their mangers, the treasures are abolished, the wine-presses are broken down; for the corn is withered.

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: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:2:8 @ 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:2:12 @ 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:2:16 @ gather the people, sanctify the congregation, assemble the elders, gather the infants at the breast: let the bridegroom go forth of his chamber, and the bride out of her closet.

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:2:20 @ 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:2:27 @ 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:3:7 @ Therefore, behold, I will raise them up out of the place whither ye have sold them, and I will return your recompense on your own heads.

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:3:12 @ Let them be aroused, let all the nations go up to the valley of Josaphat: for there will I sit to judge all the Gentiles round about.

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@Amos:1:2 @ And he said, The Lord has spoken out of Sion, and has uttered his voice out of Jerusalem; and the pastures of the shepherds have mourned, and the top of Carmel is dried up.

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:1:12 @ And I will send forth a fire upon Thaman, and it shall devour the foundations of her walls.

bes@Amos:1:14 @ And I will kindle a fire on the walls of Rabbath, and it shall devour her foundations with shouting in the day of war, and she shall be shaken in the days of her destruction:

bes@Amos:1:15 @ and her kings shall go into captivity, their priests and their rulers together, saith the Lord.

bes@Amos:2:3 @ And I will destroy the judge out of her, and slay all her princes with him, saith the Lord.

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:2:10 @ And I brought you up out of the land of Egypt, and led you about in the desert forty years, that ye should inherit the land of the Amorites.

bes@Amos:2:13 @ Therefore, behold, I roll under you, as a waggon full of straw is rolled.

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: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:3:6 @ 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:3:9 @ Proclaim it to the regions among the Assyrians, and to the regions of Egypt, and say, Gather yourselves to the mountain of Samaria, and behold many wonderful things in the midst of it, and the oppression that is in it.

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:3:11 @ Therefore thus saith the Lord God; O Tyre, thy land shall be made desolate round about thee; and he shall bring down thy strength out of thee, and thy countries shall be spoiled.

bes@Amos:3:12 @ Thus saith the Lord; As when a shepherd rescues from the mouth of a lion two legs or a piece of an ear, so shall be drawn forth the children of Israel who dwell in Samaria in the presence of a foreign tribe, and in Damascus.

bes@Amos:3:14 @ For in the day wherein I shall take vengeance of the sins of Israel upon him, I will also take vengeance on the altars of Bethel: and the horns of the altar shall be broken down, and they shall fall upon the ground.

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:4:3 @ And ye shall be brought forth naked in the presence of each other; and ye shall be cast forth on the mountain Romman, 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:4:10 @ 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:4:12 @ Therefore thus will I do to thee, O Israel: nay because I will do thus to thee, prepare to call on thy God, O Israel.

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

bes@Amos:5:3 @ Therefore thus saith the Lord God; The city out of which there went forth a thousand, in it there shall be left a hundred, and in that out of which there went forth a hundred, there shall be left ten to the house of Israel.

bes@Amos:5:4 @ Wherefore thus saith the Lord to the house of Israel, Seek ye me, and ye shall live.

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

bes@Amos:5:16 @ Therefore thus saith the Lord God Almighty; In all the streets shall be lamentations; and in all the ways shall it be said, Woe, woe! the husbandman shall be called to mourning and lamentation, and to them that are skilled in complaining.

bes@Amos:5:17 @ And there shall be lamentation in all the ways; because I will pass through the midst of thee, saith the Lord.

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:5:22 @ 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: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:6:7 @ 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:6:9 @ And it shall come to pass, if there be ten men left in one house, that they shall die.

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:7:12 @ And Amasias said to Amos, Go, seer, remove thou into the land of Juda, and live there, and thou shalt prophesy there:

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:7:17 @ Therefore thus saith the Lord; Thy wife shall be a harlot in the city, and thy sons and thy daughters shall fall by the sword, and thy land shall be measured with the line; and thou shalt die in an unclean land; and Israel shall be led captive out of his land. Thus has the Lord God shewed me.

bes@Amos:8:3 @ And the ceilings of the temple shall howl in that day, saith the Lord God: there shall be many a fallen one in every place; I will bring silence upon them.

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:8:12 @ 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: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@Obadiah:1:2 @ Arise ye, and let us rise up against her to war.

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:1:10 @ Because of the slaughter and the sin committed against thy brother Jacob, shame shall cover thee, and thou shalt be cut off for ever.

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:1:14 @ Neither shouldest thou have stood at the opening of their passages, to destroy utterly those of them that were escaping; neither shouldest thou have shut up his fugitives in the day of affliction.

bes@Obadiah:1:17 @ But on mount Sion there shall be deliverance, and there shall be a sanctuary; and the house of Jacob shall take for an inheritance those that took them for an inheritance.

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@Obadiah:1:20 @ And this shall be the domain of the captivity of the children of Israel, the land of the Chananites as far as Sarepta; and the captives of Jerusalem shall inherit as far as Ephratha; they shall inherit the cities of the south.

bes@Jonah:1:4 @ And the Lord raised up a wind on the sea; and there was a great storm on the sea, and the ship was in danger of being broken.

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:4:5 @ And Jonas went out from the city, and sat over against the city; and he made for himself there a booth, and he sat under it, until he should perceive what would become of the city.

bes@Jonah:4:7 @ And God commanded a worm the next morning, and it smote the gourd, and it withered away.

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@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:1:8 @ Therefore shall she lament and wail, she shall go barefooted, and being naked she shall make lamentation as that of serpents, and mourning as of the daughters of sirens.

bes@Micah:1:9 @ For her plague has become grievous; for it has come even to Juda; and has reached to the gate of my people, even to Jerusalem.

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:1:12 @ Who has begun to act for good to her that dwells in sorrow? for calamities have come down from the Lord upon the gates of Jerusalem,

bes@Micah:1:14 @ Therefore shall he cause men to be sent forth as far as the inheritance of Geth, even vain houses; they are become vanity to the kings of Israel;

bes@Micah:1:15 @ until they bring the heirs, O inhabitant of Lachis: the inheritance shall reach to Odollam, even the glory of the daughter of Israel.

bes@Micah:2:2 @ And they desired fields, and plundered orphans, and oppressed families, and spoiled a man and his house, even a man and his inheritance.

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:2:12 @ 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:3:6 @ 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:3:11 @ 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:3:12 @ Therefore on your account Sion shall be ploughed as a field, and Jerusalem shall be as a storehouse of fruits, and the mountain of the house as a grove of the forest.

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:4:6 @ In that day, saith the Lord, I will gather her that is bruised, and will receive her that is cast out, and those whom I rejected.

bes@Micah:4:7 @ And I will make her that was bruised a remnant, and her that was rejected a mighty nation: and the Lord shall reign over them in mount Sion from henceforth, even for ever.

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:4:11 @ 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:5:3 @ Therefore shall he appoint them to wait till the time of her that travails: she shall bring forth, and then the remnant of their brethren shall return to the children of Israel.

bes@Micah:5:5 @ And she shall have peace when Assur shall come into your land, and when he shall come up upon your country; and there shall be raised up against him seven shepherds, and eight attacks of men.

bes@Micah:5:6 @ And they shall tend the Assyrian with a sword, and the land of Nebrod with her trench: and he shall deliver you from the Assyrian, when he shall come upon your land, and when he shall invade your coasts.

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:6:3 @ O my people, what have I done to thee? or wherein have I grieved thee? or wherein have I troubled thee? answer me.

bes@Micah:6:6 @ Wherewithal shall I reach the Lord, and lay hold of my God most high? shall I reach him by whole-burnt-offerings, by calves of a year old?

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:6:13 @ Therefore will I begin to smite thee; I will destroy thee in thy sins.

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: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:7:10 @ 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:7:13 @ And the land shall be utterly desolate together with them that inhabit it, because of the fruit of their doings.

bes@Micah:7:14 @ Tend thy people with thy rod, the sheep of thine inheritance, those that inhabit by themselves the thicket in the midst of Carmel: they shall feed in the land of Basan, and in the land of Galaad, as in the days of old.

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@Micah:7:20 @ He shall give blessings truly to Jacob, and mercy to Abraam, as thou swarest to our fathers, according to the former days.

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:2:4 @ in the ways, and the chariots shall clash together, and shall be entangled in each other in the broad ways: their appearance is as lamps of fire, and as gleaming lightnings.

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:2:7 @ and the foundation has been exposed; and she has gone up, and her maid-servants were led away as doves moaning in their hearts.

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:2:10 @ There is thrusting forth, and shaking, and tumult, and heart-breaking, and loosing of knees, and pangs on all loins; and the faces of all are as the blackening of a pot.

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: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:3:4 @ because of the abundance of fornication: she is a fair harlot, and well-favoured, skilled in sorcery, that sells the nations by her fornication, and peoples by her sorceries.

bes@Nahum:3:7 @ And it shall be that every one that sees thee shall go down from thee, and shall say, Wretched Nineve! who shall lament for her? whence shall I seek comfort for her?

bes@Nahum:3:8 @ Prepare thee a portion, tune the chord, prepare a portion for Ammon: she that dwells among the rivers, water is round about her, whose dominion is the sea, and whose walls are water.

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:3:12 @ 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:3:15 @ There the fire shall devour thee; the sword shall utterly destroy thee, it shall devour thee as the locust, and thou shalt be pressed down as a palmerworm.

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:1:3 @ Wherefore hast thou shown me troubles and griefs to look upon, misery and ungodliness? judgement is before me, and the judge receives a reward.

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:1:9 @ Destruction shall come upon ungodly men, resisting with their adverse front, and he shall gather the captivity as the sand.

bes@Habakkuk:1:13 @ His eye is too pure to behold evil doings, and to look upon grievous afflictions: wherefore dost thou look upon despisers? wilt thou be silent when the ungodly swallows up the just?

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:1:16 @ Therefore will he sacrifice to his drag, and burn incense to his casting-net, because by them he has made his portion fat, and his meats choice.

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

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:2:7 @ For suddenly there shall arise up those that bite him, and they that plot against thee shall awake, and thou shalt be a plunder to them.

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:3:4 @ His excellence covered the heavens, and the earth was full of his praise. And his brightness shall be as light; there were horns in his hands, and he caused a mighty love of his strength.

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:3:11 @ The sun was exalted, and the moon stood still in her course: thy darts shall go forth at the light, at the brightness of the gleaming of thine arms.

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:1:2 @ Let there be an utter cutting off from the face of the land, saith the Lord.

bes@Zephaniah:1:10 @ And there shall be in that day, saith the Lord, the sound of a cry from the gate of men slaying, and a howling from the second gate, and a great crashing from the hills.

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:1:17 @ And I will greatly afflict the men, and they shall walk as blind men, because they have sinned against the Lord; therefore he shall pour out their blood as dust, and their flesh as dung.

bes@Zephaniah:2:1 @ Be ye gathered and closely joined together, O unchastened nation;

bes@Zephaniah:2:8 @ I have heard the revilings of Moab, and the insults of the children of Ammon, wherewith they have reviled my people, and magnified themselves against my coasts.

bes@Zephaniah:2:9 @ Therefore, as I live, saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, Moab shall be as Sodoma, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrha; and Damascus shall be left as a heap of the threshing-floor, and desolate for ever: and the remnant of my people shall plunder them, and the remnant of my nations shall inherit them.

bes@Zephaniah:2:14 @ And flocks, and all the wild beasts of the land, and chameleons shall feed in the midst thereof: and hedgehogs shall lodge in the ceilings thereof; and wild beasts shall cry in the breaches thereof, and ravens in her porches, whereas her loftiness was as as cedar.

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:3:7 @ 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:3:8 @ Therefore wait upon me, saith the Lord, until the day when I rise up for a witness: because my judgement shall be on the gatherings of the nations, to draw to me kings, to pour out upon them all my fierce anger: for the whole earth shall be consumed with the fire of my jealousy.

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:3:18 @ And I will gather thine afflicted ones. Alas! who has taken up a reproach against her?

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@Haggai:1:4 @ Is it time for you to dwell in your ceiled houses, whereas our house is desolate?

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:1:9 @ Ye looked for much, and there came little; and it was brought into the house, and I blew it away. Therefore thus saith the Lord Almighty, Because my house is desolate, and ye run everyone into his own house;

bes@Haggai:1:10 @ therefore shall the sky withhold dew, and the earth shall keep back her produce.

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:2:17 @ 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:2:20 @ 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@Haggai:2:23 @ and I will overthrow the thrones of kings, and I will destroy the power of the kings of the nations; and I will overthrow chariots and riders; and the horses and their riders shall come down, every one by the sword striving against his brother.

bes@Zechariah:1:2 @ The Lord has been very angry with your fathers.

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:1:5 @ Where are your fathers, and the prophets? Will they live for ever?

bes@Zechariah:1:6 @ But do ye receive my words and mine ordinances, all that I command by my Spirit to my servants the prophets, who lived in the days of your fathers; and they answered and said, As the Lord Almighty determined to do to us, according to our ways, and according to our practices, so has he done to us.

bes@Zechariah:1:15 @ And I am very angry with the heathen that combine to attack her: forasmuch as I indeed was a little angry, but they combined to attack her for evil.

bes@Zechariah:1:16 @ Therefore thus saith the Lord: I will return to Jerusalem with compassion; and my house shall be rebuilt in her, saith the Lord Almighty, and a measuring line shall yet be stretched out over Jerusalem.

bes@Zechariah:2:2 @ And I said to him, Whither goest thou? And he said to me, To measure Jerusalem, to see what is the breadth of it, and what is the length of 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:2:4 @ and spoke to him, saying, Run and speak to that young man, saying, Jerusalem shall be fully inhabited by reason of the abundance of men and cattle in the midst of her.

bes@Zechariah:2:5 @ And I will be to her, saith the Lord, a wall of fire round about, and I will be for a glory in the midst of her.

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:2:12 @ And the Lord shall inherit Juda his portion in the holy land, and he will yet choose Jerusalem.

bes@Zechariah:3:8 @ Thus saith the Lord Almighty; If thou wilt walk in my ways, and take heed to my charges, then shalt thou judge my house: and if thou wilt diligently keep my court, then will I give thee men to walk in the midst of these that stand here.

bes@Zechariah:3:11 @ In that day, saith the Lord Almighty, ye shall call together every man his neighbour under the vine and under the fig-tree.

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:5:10 @ And I said to the angel that spoke with me, Whither do these carry away 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:6:13 @ 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:7:3 @ speaking to the priests that were in the house of the Lord Almighty, and to the prophets, saying, The holy offering has come in hither in the fifth month, as it has done already many years.

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:7:9 @ Thus saith the Lord Almighty; Judge righteous judgement, and deal mercifully and compassionately every one with his brother:

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:7:12 @ 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:8:2 @ Thus saith the Lord Almighty; I have been jealous for Jerusalem and for Sion with great jealousy, and I have been jealous for her with great fury.

bes@Zechariah:8:4 @ Thus saith the Lord Almighty; There shall yet dwell old men and old women in the streets of Jerusalem, every one holding his staff in his hand for age.

bes@Zechariah:8:5 @ And the broad places of the city shall be filled with boys and girls playing in the streets thereof.

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:8:12 @ But I will shew peace: the vine shall yield her fruit, and the land shall yield her produce, and the heaven shall give its dew: and I will give as an inheritance all these things to the remnant of my people.

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:8:21 @ and the inhabitants of five cities shall come together to one city, saying, Let us go to make supplication to the Lord, and to seek the face of the Lord Almighty; I will go also.

bes@Zechariah:9:2 @ And in Emath, even in her coasts, are Tyre and Sidon, because they were very wise.

bes@Zechariah:9:3 @ And Tyrus built strong-holds for herself, and heaped up silver as dust, and gathered gold as the mire of the ways.

bes@Zechariah:9:4 @ And therefore the Lord will take them for a possession, and will smite her power in the sea; and she shall be consumed with fire.

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:9:10 @ And he shall destroy the chariots out of Ephraim, and the horse out of Jerusalem, and the bow of war shall be utterly destroyed; and there shall be abundance and peace out of the nations; and he shall rule over the waters as far as the sea, and the rivers to the ends of the earth.

bes@Zechariah:9:17 @ For if he has anything good, and if he has anything fair, the young men shall have corn, and there shall be fragrant wine to the virgins.

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:10:8 @ I will make a sign to them, and gather them in; for I will redeem them, and they shall be multiplied according to their number before.

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:11:7 @ And I will tend the flock of slaughter in the land of Chanaan: and I will take for myself two rods; the one I called Beauty, and the other I called Line; and I will tend the flock.

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:11:15 @ And the Lord said to me, Take yet to thee shepherd’s implements belonging to an unskillful shepherd.

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:12:6 @ In that day I will make the captains of thousands of Juda as a firebrand among wood, and as a torch of fire in stubble; and they shall devour on the right hand and on the left all the nations round about: and Jerusalem shall dwell again by herself, even in Jerusalem.

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:13:7 @ 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:13:8 @ And it shall come to pass, that in all the land, saith the Lord, two parts thereof shall be cut off and perish; but the third shall be left therein.

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:14:6 @ 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:14:9 @ And the Lord shall be king over all the earth: in that day there shall be one Lord, and his name one,

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:14:14 @ Juda also shall fight in Jerusalem; and God shall gather the strength of all the nations round about, gold, and silver, and apparel, in great abundance.

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:14:20 @ In that day there shall be upon the bridle of every horse Holiness to the Lord Almighty; and the caldrons in the house of the Lord shall be as bowls before the altar.

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:1:6 @ 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:1:7 @ In that ye bring to mine altar polluted bread; and ye said, Wherein have ye polluted it? In that ye say, The table of the Lord is polluted, and that which was set thereon ye have despised.

bes@Malachi:1:11 @ For from the rising of the sun even to the going down thereof my name has been glorified among the Gentiles; and in every place incense is offered to my name, and a pure offering: for my name is great among the Gentiles, saith the Lord Almighty.

bes@Malachi:1:12 @ But ye profane it, in that ye say, The table of the Lord is polluted, and his meats set thereon are despised.

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:2:10 @ 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:2:11 @ Juda has been forsaken, and an abomination has been committed in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Juda has profaned the holy things of the Lord, which he delighted in, and has gone after other gods.

bes@Malachi:2:14 @ Yet ye said, Wherefore? Because the Lord has borne witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, whom thou has forsaken, and yet she was thy partner, and the wife of thy covenant.

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:3:7 @ 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:3:8 @ Will a man insult God? for ye insult me. But ye say, Wherein have we insulted thee? In that the tithes and first-fruits are with you still.

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:3:13 @ Ye have spoken grievous words against me, saith the Lord. Yet ye said, Wherein have we spoken against thee?

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:1:2 @ And built in Ecbatane walls round about of stones hewn three cubits broad and six cubits long, and made the height of the wall seventy cubits, and the breadth thereof fifty cubits:

bes@Jdt:1:3 @ And set the towers thereof upon the gates of it an hundred cubits high, and the breadth thereof in the foundation threescore cubits:

bes@Jdt:1:4 @ And he made the gates thereof, even gates that were raised to the height of seventy cubits, and the breadth of them was forty cubits, for the going forth of his mighty armies, and for the setting in array of his footmen:

bes@Jdt:1:6 @ And there came unto him all they that dwelt in the hill country, and all that dwelt by Euphrates, and Tigris and Hydaspes, and the plain of Arioch the king of the Elymeans, and very many nations of the sons of Chelod, assembled themselves to the battle.

bes@Jdt:1:8 @ And to those among the nations that were of Carmel, and Galaad, and the higher Galilee, and the great plain of Esdrelom,

bes@Jdt:1:9 @ And to all that were in Samaria and the cities thereof, and beyond Jordan unto Jerusalem, and Betane, and Chelus, and Kades, and the river of Egypt, and Taphnes, and Ramesse, and all the land of Gesem,

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:1:14 @ And became lord of his cities, and came unto Ecbatane, and took the towers, and spoiled the streets thereof, and turned the beauty thereof into shame.

bes@Jdt:1:16 @ So he returned afterward to Nineve, both he and all his company of sundry nations being a very great multitude of men of war, and there he took his ease, and banqueted, both he and his army, an hundred and twenty days.

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:2:10 @ Thou therefore shalt go forth. and take beforehand for me all their coasts: and if they will yield themselves unto thee, thou shalt reserve them for me till the day of their punishment.

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:2:15 @ And he mustered the chosen men for the battle, as his lord had commanded him, unto an hundred and twenty thousand, and twelve thousand archers on horseback;

bes@Jdt:2:27 @ Then he went down into the plain of Damascus in the time of wheat harvest, and burnt up all their fields, and destroyed their flocks and herds, also he spoiled their cities, and utterly wasted their countries, and smote all their young men with the edge of the sword.

bes@Jdt:2:28 @ Therefore the fear and dread of him fell upon all the inhabitants of the sea coasts, which were in Sidon and Tyrus, and them that dwelt in Sur and Ocina, and all that dwelt in Jemnaan; and they that dwelt in Azotus and Ascalon feared him greatly.

bes@Jdt:3:3 @ Behold, our houses, and all our places, and all our fields of wheat, and flocks, and herds, and all the lodges of our tents lie before thy face; use them as it pleaseth thee.

bes@Jdt:3:4 @ Behold, even our cities and the inhabitants thereof are thy servants; come and deal with them as seemeth good unto thee.

bes@Jdt:3:10 @ And he pitched between Geba and Scythopolis, and there he tarried a whole month, that he might gather together all the carriages of his army.

bes@Jdt:4:2 @ Therefore they were exceedingly afraid of him, and were troubled for Jerusalem, and for the temple of the Lord their God:

bes@Jdt:4:3 @ For they were newly returned from the captivity, and all the people of Judea were lately gathered together: and the vessels, and the altar, and the house, were sanctified after the profanation.

bes@Jdt:4:4 @ Therefore they sent into all the coasts of Samaria, and the villages and to Bethoron, and Belmen, and Jericho, and to Choba, and Esora, and to the valley of Salem:

bes@Jdt:4:7 @ Charging them to keep the passages of the hill country: for by them there was an entrance into Judea, and it was easy to stop them that would come up, because the passage was straight, for two men at the most.

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:5:5 @ 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:5:8 @ For they left the way of their ancestors, and worshipped the God of heaven, the God whom they knew: so they cast them out from the face of their gods, and they fled into Mesopotamia, and sojourned there many days.

bes@Jdt:5:9 @ Then their God commanded them to depart from the place where they sojourned, and to go into the land of Chanaan: where they dwelt, and were increased with gold and silver, and with very much cattle.

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:5:11 @ Therefore the king of Egypt rose up against them, and dealt subtilly with them, and brought them low with labouring in brick, and made them slaves.

bes@Jdt:5:16 @ And they cast forth before them the Chanaanite, the Pherezite, the Jebusite, and the Sychemite, and all the Gergesites, and they dwelt in that country many days.

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

bes@Jdt:6:1 @ And when the tumult of men that were about the council was ceased, Holofernes the chief captain of the army of Assur said unto Achior and all the Moabites before all the company of other nations,

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:6:16 @ And they called together all the ancients of the city, and all their youth ran together, and their women, to the assembly, and they set Achior in the midst of all their people. Then Ozias asked him of that which was done.

bes@Jdt:7:2 @ Then their strong men removed their camps in that day, and the army of the men of war was an hundred and seventy thousand footmen, and twelve thousand horsemen, beside the baggage, and other men that were afoot among them, a very great multitude.

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:7:9 @ 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:7:14 @ So they and their wives and their children shall be consumed with fire, and before the sword come against them, they shall be overthrown in the streets where they dwell.

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:7:22 @ 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:7:26 @ 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:7:28 @ 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:7:29 @ Then there was great weeping with one consent in the midst of the assembly; and they cried unto the Lord God with a loud voice.

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:8:2 @ And Manasses was her husband, of her tribe and kindred, who died in the barley harvest.

bes@Jdt:8:3 @ For as he stood overseeing them that bound sheaves in the field, the heat came upon his head, and he fell on his bed, and died in the city of Bethulia: and they buried him with his fathers in the field between Dothaim and Balamo.

bes@Jdt:8:4 @ So Judith was a widow in her house three years and four months.

bes@Jdt:8:5 @ And she made her a tent upon the top of her house, and put on sackcloth upon her loins and ware her widow’s apparel.

bes@Jdt:8:6 @ And she fasted all the days of her widowhood, save the eves of the sabbaths, and the sabbaths, and the eves of the new moons, and the new moons and the feasts and solemn days of the house of Israel.

bes@Jdt:8:7 @ She was also of a goodly countenance, and very beautiful to behold: and her husband Manasses had left her gold, and silver, and menservants and maidservants, and cattle, and lands; and she remained upon them.

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

bes@Jdt:8:10 @ Then she sent her waitingwoman, that had the government of all things that she had, to call Ozias and Chabris and Charmis, the ancients of the city.

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:8:14 @ 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:8:16 @ 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:8:17 @ Therefore let us wait for salvation of him, and call upon him to help us, and he will hear our voice, if it please him.

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:8:19 @ For the which cause our fathers were given to the sword, and for a spoil, and had a great fall before our enemies.

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:8:21 @ For if we be taken so, all Judea shall lie waste, and our sanctuary shall be spoiled; and he will require the profanation thereof at our mouth.

bes@Jdt:8:22 @ And the slaughter of our brethren, and the captivity of the country, and the desolation of our inheritance, will he turn upon our heads among the Gentiles, wheresoever we shall be in bondage; and we shall be an offence and a reproach to all them that possess us.

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:8:25 @ Moreover let us give thanks to the Lord our God, which trieth us, even as he did our fathers.

bes@Jdt:8:26 @ Remember what things he did to Abraham, and how he tried Isaac, and what happened to Jacob in Mesopotamia of Syria, when he kept the sheep of Laban his mother’s brother.

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:8:31 @ 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:8:35 @ Then said Ozias and the princes unto her, Go in peace, and the Lord God be before thee, to take vengeance on our enemies.

bes@Jdt:9:1 @ Judith fell upon her face, and put ashes upon her head, and uncovered the sackcloth wherewith she was clothed; and about the time that the incense of that evening was offered in Jerusalem in the house of the Lord Judith cried with a loud voice, and said,

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:9:3 @ Wherefore thou gavest their rulers to be slain, so that they dyed their bed in blood, being deceived, and smotest the servants with their lords, and the lords upon their thrones;

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:9:8 @ Throw down their strength in thy power, and bring down their force in thy wrath: for they have purposed to defile thy sanctuary, and to pollute the tabernacle where thy glorious name resteth and to cast down with sword the horn of thy altar.

bes@Jdt:9:12 @ I pray thee, I pray thee, O God of my father, and God of the inheritance of Israel, Lord of the heavens and earth, Creator of the waters, king of every creature, hear thou my prayer:

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:10:2 @ She rose where she had fallen down, and called her maid, and went down into the house in the which she abode in the sabbath days, and in her feast days,

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:10:4 @ And she took sandals upon her feet, and put about her her bracelets, and her chains, and her rings, and her earrings, and all her ornaments, and decked herself bravely, to allure the eyes of all men that should see her.

bes@Jdt:10:5 @ Then she gave her maid a bottle of wine, and a cruse of oil, and filled a bag with parched corn, and lumps of figs, and with fine bread; so she folded all these things together, and laid them upon her.

bes@Jdt:10:6 @ Thus they went forth to the gate of the city of Bethulia, and found standing there Ozias and the ancients of the city, Chabris and Charmis.

bes@Jdt:10:7 @ And when they saw her, that her countenance was altered, and her apparel was changed, they wondered at her beauty very greatly, and said unto her.

bes@Jdt:10:8 @ The God, the God of our fathers give thee favour, and accomplish thine enterprizes to the glory of the children of Israel, and to the exaltation of Jerusalem. Then they worshipped God.

bes@Jdt:10:9 @ And she said unto them, Command the gates of the city to be opened unto me, that I may go forth to accomplish the things whereof ye have spoken with me. So they commanded the young men to open unto her, as she had spoken.

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:10:11 @ Thus they went straight forth in the valley: and the first watch of the Assyrians met her,

bes@Jdt:10:12 @ And took her, and asked her, Of what people art thou? and whence comest thou? and whither goest thou? And she said, I am a woman of the Hebrews, and am fled from them: for they shall be given you to be consumed:

bes@Jdt:10:13 @ And I am coming before Holofernes the chief captain of your army, to declare words of truth; and I will shew him a way, whereby he shall go, and win all the hill country, without losing the body or life of any one of his men.

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:10:17 @ Then they chose out of them an hundred men to accompany her and her maid; and they brought her to the tent of Holofernes.

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:10:20 @ And they that lay near Holofernes went out, and all his servants and they brought her into the tent.

bes@Jdt:10:22 @ So they shewed him of her; and he came out before his tent with silver lamps going before him.

bes@Jdt:10:23 @ And when Judith was come before him and his servants they all marvelled at the beauty of her countenance; and she fell down upon her face, and did reverence unto him: and his servants took her up.

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:11:10 @ 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:11:14 @ For they have sent some to Jerusalem, because they also that dwell there have done the like, to bring them a licence from the senate.

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:11:20 @ Then her words pleased Holofernes and all his servants; and they marvelled at her wisdom, and said,

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:11:22 @ Likewise Holofernes said unto her. God hath done well to send thee before the people, that strength might be in our hands and destruction upon them that lightly regard my lord.

bes@Jdt:12:1 @ Then he commanded to bring her in where his plate was set; and bade that they should prepare for her of his own meats, and that she should drink of his own wine.

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:12:5 @ Then the servants of Holofernes brought her into the tent, and she slept till midnight, and she arose when it was toward the morning watch,

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:12:8 @ And when she came out, she besought the Lord God of Israel to direct her way to the raising up of the children of her people.

bes@Jdt:12:9 @ So she came in clean, and remained in the tent, until she did eat her meat at evening.

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:12:15 @ So she arose, and decked herself with her apparel and all her woman’s attire, and her maid went and laid soft skins on the ground for her over against Holofernes, which she had received of Bagoas for her daily use, that she might sit and eat upon them.

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:12:19 @ Then she took and ate and drank before him what her maid had prepared.

bes@Jdt:12:20 @ And Holofernes took great delight in her, and drank more wine than he had drunk at any time in one day since he was born.

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:13:8 @ And she smote twice upon his neck with all her might, and she took away his head from him.

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:13:10 @ And she put it in her bag of meat: so they twain went together according to their custom unto prayer: and when they passed the camp, they compassed the valley, and went up the mountain of Bethulia, and came to the gates thereof.

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:13:13 @ And then they ran all together, both small and great, for it was strange unto them that she was come: so they opened the gate, and received them, and made a fire for a light, and stood round about them.

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:13:18 @ Then said Ozias unto her, O daughter, blessed art thou of the most high God above all the women upon the earth; and blessed be the Lord God, which hath created the heavens and the earth, which hath directed thee to the cutting off of the head of the chief of our enemies.

bes@Jdt:14:7 @ But when they had recovered him, he fell at Judith’s feet, and reverenced her, and said, Blessed art thou in all the tabernacles of Juda, and in all nations, which hearing thy name shall be astonished.

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:14:16 @ Therefore he cried with a loud voice, with weeping, and sighing, and a mighty cry, and rent his garments.

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:15:8 @ Then Joacim the high priest, and the ancients of the children of Israel that dwelt in Jerusalem, came to behold the good things that God had shewed to Israel, and to see Judith, and to salute her.

bes@Jdt:15:9 @ And when they came unto her, they blessed her with one accord, and said unto her, Thou art the exaltation of Jerusalem, thou art the great glory of Israel, thou art the great rejoicing of our nation:

bes@Jdt:15:10 @ Thou hast done all these things by thine hand: thou hast done much good to Israel, and God is pleased therewith: blessed be thou of the Almighty Lord for evermore. And all the people said, So be it.

bes@Jdt:15:11 @ And the people spoiled the camp the space of thirty days: and they gave unto Judith Holofernes his tent, and all his plate, and beds, and vessels, and all his stuff: and she took it and laid it on her mule; and made ready her carts, and laid them thereon.

bes@Jdt:15:12 @ Then all the women of Israel ran together to see her, and blessed her, and made a dance among them for her: and she took branches in her hand, and gave also to the women that were with her.

bes@Jdt:15:13 @ And they put a garland of olive upon her and her maid that was with her, and she went before all the people in the dance, leading all the women: and all the men of Israel followed in their armour with garlands, and with songs in their mouths.

bes@Jdt:16:1 @ Then Judith began to sing this thanksgiving in all Israel, and all the people sang after her this song of praise.

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:16:9 @ Her sandals ravished his eyes, her beauty took his mind prisoner, and the fauchion passed through his neck.

bes@Jdt:16:10 @ The Persians quaked at her boldness, and the Medes were daunted at her hardiness.

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:16:19 @ 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:16:24 @ And the house of Israel lamented her seven days: and before she died, she did distribute her goods to all them that were nearest of kindred to Manasses her husband, and to them that were the nearest of her kindred.

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

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:1:13 @ 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: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:2:6 @ Come on therefore, let us enjoy the good things that are present: and let us speedily use the creatures like as in youth.

bes@Wis:2:8 @ Let us crown ourselves with rosebuds, before they be withered:

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:2:15 @ 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:2:22 @ 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:3:18 @ 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:4:14 @ For his soul pleased the Lord: therefore hasted he to take him away from among the wicked.

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:4:18 @ They shall see him, and despise him; but God shall laugh them to scorn: and they shall hereafter be a vile carcase, and a reproach among the dead for evermore.

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:5:14 @ For the hope of the ungodly is like dust that is blown away with the wind; like a thin froth that is driven away with the storm; like as the smoke which is dispersed here and there with a tempest, and passeth away as the remembrance of a guest that tarrieth but a day.

bes@Wis:5:16 @ Therefore shall they receive a glorious kingdom, and a beautiful crown from the Lord’s hand: for with his right hand shall he cover them, and with his arm shall he protect them.

bes@Wis:6:1 @ Hear therefore, O ye kings, and understand; learn, ye that be judges of the ends of the earth.

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:6:11 @ Wherefore set your affection upon my words; desire them, and ye shall be instructed.

bes@Wis:6:12 @ Wisdom is glorious, and never fadeth away: yea, she is easily seen of them that love her, and found of such as seek her.

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:6:15 @ To think therefore upon her is perfection of wisdom: and whoso watcheth for her shall quickly be without care.

bes@Wis:6:16 @ For she goeth about seeking such as are worthy of her, sheweth herself favourably unto them in the ways, and meeteth them in every thought.

bes@Wis:6:17 @ For the very true beginning of her is the desire of discipline; and the care of discipline is love;

bes@Wis:6:18 @ And love is the keeping of her laws; and the giving heed unto her laws is the assurance of incorruption;

bes@Wis:6:20 @ Therefore the desire of wisdom bringeth to a kingdom.

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:6:25 @ Receive therefore instruction through my words, and it shall do you good.

bes@Wis:7:2 @ And in my mother’s womb was fashioned to be flesh in the time of ten months, being compacted in blood, of the seed of man, and the pleasure that came with sleep.

bes@Wis:7:3 @ And when I was born, I drew in the common air, and fell upon the earth, which is of like nature, and the first voice which I uttered was crying, as all others do.

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

bes@Wis:7:7 @ Wherefore I prayed, and understanding was given me: I called upon God, and the spirit of wisdom came to me.

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

bes@Wis:7:9 @ Neither compared I unto her any precious stone, because all gold in respect of her is as a little sand, and silver shall be counted as clay before her.

bes@Wis:7:10 @ I loved her above health and beauty, and chose to have her instead of light: for the light that cometh from her never goeth out.

bes@Wis:7:11 @ All good things together came to me with her, and innumerable riches in her hands.

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:7:21 @ 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:7:24 @ For wisdom is more moving than any motion: she passeth and goeth through all things by reason of her pureness.

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:7:27 @ And being but one, she can do all things: and remaining in herself, she maketh all things new: and in all ages entering into holy souls, she maketh them friends of God, and prophets.

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

bes@Wis:8:2 @ I loved her, and sought her out from my youth, I desired to make her my spouse, and I was a lover of her beauty.

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:8:5 @ If riches be a possession to be desired in this life; what is richer than wisdom, that worketh all things?

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:8:9 @ 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:8:13 @ Moreover by the means of her I shall obtain immortality, and leave behind me an everlasting memorial to them that come after me.

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:8:18 @ And great pleasure it is to have her friendship; and in the works of her hands are infinite riches; and in the exercise of conference with her, prudence; and in talking with her, a good report; I went about seeking how to take her to me.

bes@Wis:8:20 @ Yea rather, being good, I came into a body undefiled.

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:9:1 @ O God of my fathers, and Lord of mercy, who hast made all things with thy word,

bes@Wis:9:8 @ Thou hast commanded me to build a temple upon thy holy mount, and an altar in the city wherein thou dwellest, a resemblance of the holy tabernacle, which thou hast prepared from the beginning.

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:9:12 @ So shall my works be acceptable, and then shall I judge thy people righteously, and be worthy to sit in my father’s seat.

bes@Wis:10:1 @ She preserved the first formed father of the world, that was created alone, and brought him out of his fall,

bes@Wis:10:3 @ But when the unrighteous went away from her in his anger, he perished also in the fury wherewith he murdered his brother.

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:10:9 @ Rut wisdom delivered from pain those that attended upon her.

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:10:20 @ Therefore the righteous spoiled the ungodly, and praised thy holy name, O Lord, and magnified with one accord thine hand, that fought for them.

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:11:10 @ For these thou didst admonish and try, as a father: but the other, as a severe king, thou didst condemn and punish.

bes@Wis:11:11 @ Whether they were absent or present, they were vexed alike.

bes@Wis:11:13 @ For when they heard by their own punishments the other to be benefited, they had some feeling of the Lord.

bes@Wis:11:15 @ But for the foolish devices of their wickedness, wherewith being deceived they worshipped serpents void of reason, and vile beasts, thou didst send a multitude of unreasonable beasts upon them for vengeance;

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

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:12:2 @ Therefore chastenest thou them by little and little that offend, and warnest them by putting them in remembrance wherein they have offended, that leaving their wickedness they may believe on thee, O Lord.

bes@Wis:12:3 @ For it was thy will to destroy by the hands of our fathers both those old inhabitants of thy holy land,

bes@Wis:12:7 @ That the land, which thou esteemedst above all other, might receive a worthy colony of God’s children.

bes@Wis:12:11 @ For it was a cursed seed from the beginning; neither didst thou for fear of any man give them pardon for those things wherein they sinned.

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:12:14 @ Neither shall king or tyrant be able to set his face against thee for any whom thou hast punished.

bes@Wis:12:20 @ For if thou didst punish the enemies of thy children, and the condemned to death, with such deliberation, giving them time and place, whereby they might be delivered from their malice:

bes@Wis:12:21 @ With how great circumspection didst thou judge thine own sons, unto whose fathers thou hast sworn, and made covenants of good promises?

bes@Wis:12:22 @ Therefore, whereas thou dost chasten us, thou scourgest our enemies a thousand times more, to the intent that, when we judge, we should carefully think of thy goodness, and when we ourselves are judged, we should look for mercy.

bes@Wis:12:23 @ Wherefore, whereas men have lived dissolutely and unrighteously, thou hast tormented them with their own abominations.

bes@Wis:12:25 @ Therefore unto them, as to children without the use of reason, thou didst send a judgement to mock them.

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:13:2 @ But deemed either fire, or wind, or the swift air, or the circle of the stars, or the violent water, or the lights of heaven, to be the gods which govern the world.

bes@Wis:13:8 @ Howbeit neither are they to be pardoned.

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:13:11 @ 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:13:14 @ Or made it like some vile beast, laying it over with vermilion, and with paint colouring it red, and covering every spot therein;

bes@Wis:14:3 @ But thy providence, O Father, governeth it: for thou hast made a way in the sea, and a safe path in the waves;

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:14:7 @ For blessed is the wood whereby righteousness cometh.

bes@Wis:14:10 @ For that which is made shall be punished together with him that made it.

bes@Wis:14:11 @ Therefore even upon the idols of the Gentiles shall there be a visitation: because in the creature of God they are become an abomination, and stumblingblocks to the souls of men, and a snare to the feet of the unwise.

bes@Wis:14:13 @ For neither were they from the beginning, neither shall they be for ever.

bes@Wis:14:14 @ For by the vain glory of men they entered into the world, and therefore shall they come shortly to an end.

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:14:21 @ And this was an occasion to deceive the world: for men, serving either calamity or tyranny, did ascribe unto stones and stocks the incommunicable name.

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:14:25 @ So that there reigned in all men without exception blood, manslaughter, theft, and dissimulation, corruption, unfaithfulness, tumults, perjury,

bes@Wis:14:28 @ For either they are mad when they be merry, or prophesy lies, or live unjustly, or else lightly forswear themselves.

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:15:7 @ For the potter, tempering soft earth, fashioneth every vessel with much labour for our service: yea, of the same clay he maketh both the vessels that serve for clean uses, and likewise also all such as serve to the contrary: but what is the use of either sort, the potter himself is the judge.

bes@Wis:15:12 @ But they counted our life a pastime, and our time here a market for gain: for, say they, we must be getting every way, though it be by evil means.

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:15:17 @ For being mortal, he worketh a dead thing with wicked hands: for he himself is better than the things which he worshippeth: whereas he lived once, but they never.

bes@Wis:15:18 @ Yea, they worshipped those beasts also that are most hateful: for being compared together, some are worse than others.

bes@Wis:15:19 @ Neither are they beautiful, so much as to be desired in respect of beasts: but they went without the praise of God and his blessing.

bes@Wis:16:1 @ Therefore by the like were they punished worthily, and by the multitude of beasts tormented.

bes@Wis:16:9 @ For them the bitings of grasshoppers and flies killed, neither was there found any remedy for their life: for they were worthy to be punished by such.

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:16:19 @ 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:16:20 @ Instead whereof thou feddest thine own people with angels’ food, and didst send them from heaven bread prepared without their labour, able to content every man’s delight, and agreeing to every taste.

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:17:1 @ For great are thy judgements, and cannot be expressed: therefore unnurtured souls have erred.

bes@Wis:17:2 @ For when unrighteous men thought to oppress the holy nation; they being shut up in their houses, the prisoners of darkness, and fettered with the bonds of a long night, lay there exiled from the eternal providence.

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:17:11 @ For wickedness, condemned by her own witness, is very timorous, and being pressed with conscience, always forecasteth grievous things.

bes@Wis:17:16 @ So then whosoever there fell down was straitly kept, shut up in a prison without iron bars,

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: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:18:5 @ And when they had determined to slay the babes of the saints, one child being cast forth, and saved, to reprove them, thou tookest away the multitude of their children, and destroyedst them altogether in a mighty water.

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:18:8 @ For wherewith thou didst punish our adversaries, by the same thou didst glorify us, whom thou hadst called.

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:18:14 @ For while all things were in quiet silence, and that night was in the midst of her swift course,

bes@Wis:18:18 @ And one thrown here, and another there, half dead, shewed the cause of his death.

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:18:24 @ For in the long garment was the whole world, and in the four rows of the stones was the glory of the fathers graven, and thy Majesty upon the diadem of his head.

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:19:4 @ For the destiny, whereof they were worthy, drew them unto this end, and made them forget the things that had already happened, that they might fulfil the punishment which was wanting to their torments:

bes@Wis:19:7 @ As namely, a cloud shadowing the camp; and where water stood before, dry land appeared; and out of the Red sea a way without impediment; and out of the violent stream a green field:

bes@Wis:19:8 @ Where through all the people went that were defended with thy hand, seeing thy marvellous strange wonders.

bes@Wis:19:17 @ Therefore even with blindness were these stricken, as those were at the doors of the righteous man: when, being compassed about with horrible great darkness, every one sought the passage of his own doors.

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@Wis:19:22 @ For in all things, O Lord, thou didst magnify thy people, and glorify them, neither didst thou lightly regard them: but didst assist them in every time and place.

bes@Tob:1:4 @ And when I was in mine own country, in the land of Israel being but young, all the tribe of Nephthali my father fell from the house of Jerusalem, which was chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, that all the tribes should sacrifice there, where the temple of the habitation of the most High was consecrated and built for all ages.

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:1:8 @ And the third I gave unto them to whom it was meet, as Debora my father’s mother had commanded me, because I was left an orphan by my father.

bes@Tob:1:9 @ Furthermore, when I was come to the age of a man, I married Anna of mine own kindred, and of her I begat Tobias.

bes@Tob:1:14 @ And I went into Media, and left in trust with Gabael, the brother of Gabrias, at Rages a city of Media ten talents of silver.

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:1:20 @ Then all my goods were forcibly taken away, neither was there any thing left me, beside my wife Anna and my son Tobias.

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:2:3 @ But he came again, and said, Father, one of our nation is strangled, and is cast out in the marketplace.

bes@Tob:2:7 @ Therefore I wept: and after the going down of the sun I went and made a grave, and buried him.

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:2:12 @ And when she had sent them home to the owners, they paid her wages, and gave her also besides a kid.

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:3:7 @ It came to pass the same day, that in Ecbatane a city of Media Sara the daughter of Raguel was also reproached by her father’s maids;

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:3:9 @ Wherefore dost thou beat us for them? if they be dead, go thy ways after them, let us never see of thee either son or daughter.

bes@Tob:3:10 @ When she heard these things, she was very sorrowful, so that she thought to have strangled herself; and she said, I am the only daughter of my father, and if I do this, it shall be a reproach unto him, and I shall bring his old age with sorrow unto the grave.

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:3:17 @ And Raphael was sent to heal them both, that is, to scale away the whiteness of Tobit’s eyes, and to give Sara the daughter of Raguel for a wife to Tobias the son of Tobit; and to bind Asmodeus the evil spirit; because she belonged to Tobias by right of inheritance. The selfsame time came Tobit home, and entered into his house, and Sara the daughter of Raguel came down from her upper chamber.

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:4:4 @ Remember, my son, that she saw many dangers for thee, when thou wast in her womb: and when she is dead, bury her by me in one grave.

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:4:12 @ 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:4:15 @ 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:4:19 @ 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:5:1 @ Tobias then answered and said, Father, I will do all things which thou hast commanded me:

bes@Tob:5:4 @ Therefore when he went to seek a man, he found Raphael that was an angel.

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:5:7 @ Then Tobias said unto him, Tarry for me, till I tell my father.

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:5:10 @ Then Tobit said unto him, Brother, shew me of what tribe and family thou art.

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:5:16 @ So they were well pleased. Then said he to Tobias, Prepare thyself for the journey, and God send you a good journey. And when his son had prepared all things far the journey, his father said, Go thou with this man, and God, which dwelleth in heaven, prosper your journey, and the angel of God keep you company. So they went forth both, and the young man’s dog with them.

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:5:20 @ Then said Tobit to her, Take no care, my sister; he shall return in safety, and thine eyes shall see him.

bes@Tob:6:1 @ And as they went on their journey, they came in the evening to the river Tigris, and they lodged there.

bes@Tob:6:6 @ Then the young man said to the angel, Brother Azarias, to what use is the heart and the liver and the gal of the fish?

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:6:10 @ The angel said to the young man, Brother, to day we shall lodge with Raguel, who is thy cousin; he also hath one only daughter, named Sara; I will speak for her, that she may be given thee for a wife.

bes@Tob:6:11 @ For to thee doth the right of her appertain, seeing thou only art of her kindred.

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:6:13 @ Then the young man answered the angel, I have heard, brother Azarias that this maid hath been given to seven men, who all died in the marriage chamber.

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:7:5 @ And they said, He is both alive, and in good health: and Tobias said, He is my father.

bes@Tob:7:8 @ And likewise Edna his wife and Sara his daughter wept. Moreover they entertained them cheerfully; and after that they had killed a ram of the flock, they set store of meat on the table. Then said Tobias to Raphael, Brother Azarias, speak of those things of which thou didst talk in the way, and let this business be dispatched.

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:7:12 @ Raguel said, Then take her from henceforth according to the manner, for thou art her cousin, and she is thine, and the merciful God give you good success in all things.

bes@Tob:7:13 @ Then he called his daughter Sara, and she came to her father, and he took her by the hand, and gave her to be wife to Tobias, saying, Behold, take her after the law of Moses, and lead her away to thy father. And he blessed them;

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:7:17 @ Which when she had done as he had bidden her, she brought her thither: and she wept, and she received the tears of her daughter, and said unto her,

bes@Tob:8:1 @ And when they had supped, they brought Tobias in unto her.

bes@Tob:8:2 @ And as he went, he remembered the words of Raphael, and took the ashes of the perfumes, and put the heart and the liver of the fish thereupon, and made a smoke therewith.

bes@Tob:8:4 @ And after that they were both shut in together, Tobias rose out of the bed, and said, Sister, arise, and let us pray that God would have pity on us.

bes@Tob:8:5 @ Then began Tobias to say, Blessed art thou, O God of our fathers, and blessed is thy holy and glorious name for ever; let the heavens bless thee, and all thy creatures.

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:8:15 @ Then Raguel praised God, and said, O God, thou art worthy to be praised with all pure and holy praise; therefore let thy saints praise thee with all thy creatures; and let all thine angels and thine elect praise thee for ever.

bes@Tob:8:17 @ Thou art to be praised because thou hast had mercy of two that were the only begotten children of their fathers: grant them mercy, O Lord, and finish their life in health with joy and mercy.

bes@Tob:8:21 @ And then he should take the half of his goods, and go in safety to his father; and should have the rest when I and my wife be dead.

bes@Tob:9:2 @ Brother Azarias, take with thee a servant, and two camels, and go to Rages of Media to Gabael, and bring me the money, and bring him to the wedding.

bes@Tob:9:4 @ But my father counteth the days; and if I tarry long, he will be very sorry.

bes@Tob:9:6 @ And early in the morning they went forth both together, and came to the wedding: and Tobias blessed his wife.

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:10:3 @ Therefore he was very sorry.

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:10:9 @ But his father in law said unto him, Tarry with me, and I will send to thy father, and they shall declare unto him how things go with thee.

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:11:6 @ And when she espied him coming, she said to his father, Behold, thy son cometh, and the man that went with him.

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:11:9 @ Then Anna ran forth, and fell upon the neck of her son, and said unto him, Seeing I have seen thee, my son, from henceforth I am content to die. And they wept both.

bes@Tob:11:11 @ And took hold of his father: and he strake of the gall on his fathers’ eyes, saying, Be of good hope, my father.

bes@Tob:11:15 @ For thou hast scourged, and hast taken pity on me: for, behold, I see my son Tobias. And his son went in rejoicing, and told his father the great things that had happened to him in Media.

bes@Tob:11:17 @ But Tobias gave thanks before them, because God had mercy on him. And when he came near to Sara his daughter in law, he blessed her, saying, Thou art welcome, daughter: God be blessed, which hath brought thee unto us, and blessed be thy father and thy mother. And there was joy among all his brethren which were at Nineve.

bes@Tob:11:18 @ And Achiacharus, and Nasbas his brother’s son, came:

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:12:12 @ 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:12:17 @ 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:13:2 @ For he doth scourge, and hath mercy: he leadeth down to hell, and bringeth up again: neither is there any that can avoid his hand.

bes@Tob:13:4 @ There declare his greatness, and extol him before all the living: for he is our Lord, and he is the God our Father for ever.

bes@Tob:13:5 @ And he will scourge us for our iniquities, and will have mercy again, and will gather us out of all nations, among whom he hath scattered us.

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:13:10 @ Give praise to the Lord, for he is good: and praise the everlasting King, that his tabernacle may be builded in thee again with joy, and let him make joyful there in thee those that are captives, and love in thee for ever those that are miserable.

bes@Tob:13:13 @ Rejoice and be glad for the children of the just: for they shall be gathered together, and shall bless the Lord of the just.

bes@Tob:13:18 @ And all her streets shall say, Alleluia; and they shall praise him, saying, Blessed be God, which hath extolled it for ever.

bes@Tob:14:4 @ Go into Media my son, for I surely believe those things which Jonas the prophet spake of Nineve, that it shall be overthrown; and that for a time peace shall rather be in Media; and that our brethren shall lie scattered in the earth from that good land: and Jerusalem shall be desolate, and the house of God in it shall be burned, and shall be desolate for a time;

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:14:10 @ 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:14:12 @ And when Anna his mother was dead, he buried her with his father. But Tobias departed with his wife and children to Ecbatane to Raguel his father in law,

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@Sir:1:5 @ The word of God most high is the fountain of wisdom; and her ways are everlasting commandments.

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:1:8 @ There is one wise and greatly to be feared, the Lord sitting upon his throne.

bes@Sir:1:9 @ He created her, and saw her, and numbered her, and poured her out upon all his works.

bes@Sir:1:10 @ She is with all flesh according to his gift, and he hath given her to them that love him.

bes@Sir:1:16 @ To fear the Lord is fulness of wisdom, and filleth men with her fruits.

bes@Sir:1:17 @ She filleth all their house with things desirable, and the garners with her increase.

bes@Sir:1:19 @ Wisdom raineth down skill and knowledge of understanding standing, and exalteth them to honour that hold her fast.

bes@Sir:1:20 @ The root of wisdom is to fear the Lord, and the branches thereof are long life.

bes@Sir:1:21 @ The fear of the Lord driveth away sins: and where it is present, it turneth away wrath.

bes@Sir:1:26 @ If thou desire wisdom, keep the commandments, and the Lord shall give her unto thee.

bes@Sir:2:13 @ Woe unto him that is fainthearted! for he believeth not; therefore shall he not be defended.

bes@Sir:3:1 @ Hear me your father, O children, and do thereafter, that ye may be safe.

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:3:9 @ For the blessing of the father establisheth the houses of children; but the curse of the mother rooteth out foundations.

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:3:14 @ For the relieving of thy father shall not be forgotten: and instead of sins it shall be added to build thee up.

bes@Sir:3:15 @ In the day of thine affliction it shall be remembered; thy sins also shall melt away, as the ice in the fair warm weather.

bes@Sir:3:16 @ He that forsaketh his father is as a blasphemer; and he that angereth his mother is cursed: of God.

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:3:25 @ Without eyes thou shalt want light: profess not the knowledge therefore that thou hast not.

bes@Sir:3:26 @ A stubborn heart shall fare evil at the last; and he that loveth danger shall perish therein.

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:3:31 @ And he that requiteth good turns is mindful of that which may come hereafter; and when he falleth, he shall find a stay.

bes@Sir:4:2 @ Make not an hungry soul sorrowful; neither provoke a man in his distress.

bes@Sir:4:4 @ Reject not the supplication of the afflicted; neither turn away thy face from a poor man.

bes@Sir:4:10 @ Be as a father unto the fatherless, and instead of an husband unto their mother: so shalt thou be as the son of the most High, and he shall love thee more than thy mother doth.

bes@Sir:4:11 @ Wisdom exalteth her children, and layeth hold of them that seek her.

bes@Sir:4:12 @ He that loveth her loveth life; and they that seek to her early shall be filled with joy.

bes@Sir:4:13 @ He that holdeth her fast shall inherit glory; and wheresoever she entereth, the Lord will bless.

bes@Sir:4:14 @ They that serve her shall minister to the Holy One: and them that love her the Lord doth love.

bes@Sir:4:15 @ Whoso giveth ear unto her shall judge the nations: and he that attendeth unto her shall dwell securely.

bes@Sir:4:16 @ If a man commit himself unto her, he shall inherit her; and his generation shall hold her in possession.

bes@Sir:4:17 @ For at the first she will walk with him by crooked ways, and bring fear and dread upon him, and torment him with her discipline, until she may trust his soul, and try him by her laws.

bes@Sir:4:18 @ Then will she return the straight way unto him, and comfort him, and shew him her secrets.

bes@Sir:4:21 @ For there is a shame that bringeth sin; and there is a shame which is glory and grace.

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:4:27 @ Make not thyself an underling to a foolish man; neither accept the person of the mighty.

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:6:9 @ And there is a friend, who being turned to enmity, and strife will discover thy reproach.

bes@Sir:6:18 @ My son, gather instruction from thy youth up: so shalt thou find wisdom till thine old age.

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:6:21 @ She will lie upon him as a mighty stone of trial; and he will cast her from him ere it be long.

bes@Sir:6:22 @ For wisdom is according to her name, and she is not manifest unto many.

bes@Sir:6:24 @ And put thy feet into her fetters, and thy neck into her chain.

bes@Sir:6:25 @ Bow down thy shoulder, and bear her, and be not grieved with her bonds.

bes@Sir:6:26 @ Come unto her with thy whole heart, and keep her ways with all thy power.

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:6:28 @ For at the last thou shalt find her rest, and that shall be turned to thy joy.

bes@Sir:6:29 @ Then shall her fetters be a strong defence for thee, and her chains a robe of glory.

bes@Sir:6:30 @ For there is a golden ornament upon her, and her bands are purple lace.

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:7:4 @ Seek not of the Lord preeminence, neither of the king the seat of honour.

bes@Sir:7:8 @ Bind not one sin upon another; for in one thou shalt not be unpunished.

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:7:15 @ Hate not laborious work, neither husbandry, which the most High hath ordained.

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:7:25 @ Marry thy daughter, and so shalt thou have performed a weighty matter: but give her to a man of understanding.

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: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:8:16 @ 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: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:10:2 @ As the judge of the people is himself, so are his officers; and what manner of man the ruler of the city is, such are all they that dwell therein.

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:10:11 @ For when a man is dead, he shall inherit creeping things, beasts, and worms.

bes@Sir:10:13 @ For pride is the beginning of sin, and he that hath it shall pour out abomination: and therefore the Lord brought upon them strange calamities, and overthrew them utterly.

bes@Sir:10:21 @ The fear of the Lord goeth before the obtaining of authority: but roughness and pride is the losing thereof.

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:10:28 @ My son, glorify thy soul in meekness, and give it honour according to the dignity thereof.

bes@Sir:11:2 @ Commend not a man for his beauty; neither abhor a man for his outward appearance.

bes@Sir:11:3 @ The bee is little among such as fly; but her fruit is the chief of sweet things.

bes@Sir:11:6 @ Many mighty men have been greatly disgraced; and the honourable delivered into other men’s hands.

bes@Sir:11:8 @ Answer not before thou hast heard the cause: neither interrupt men in the midst of their talk.

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:11:11 @ There is one that laboureth, and taketh pains, and maketh haste, and is so much the more behind.

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:11:16 @ Error and darkness had their beginning together with sinners: and evil shall wax old with them that glory therein.

bes@Sir:11:18 @ There is that waxeth rich by his wariness and pinching, and this his the portion of his reward:

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:11:20 @ Be stedfast in thy covenant, and be conversant therein, and wax old in thy work.

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:12:3 @ There can no good come to him that is always occupied in evil, nor to him that giveth no alms.

bes@Sir:12:5 @ 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:12:11 @ 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:12:17 @ If adversity come upon thee, thou shalt find him there first; and though he pretend to help thee, yet shall he undermine thee.

bes@Sir:13:1 @ He that toucheth pitch shall be defiled therewith; and he that hath fellowship with a proud man shall be like unto him.

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:13:18 @ What agreement is there between the hyena and a dog? and what peace between the rich and the poor?

bes@Sir:13:25 @ The heart of a man changeth his countenance, whether it be for good or evil: and a merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance.

bes@Sir:14:4 @ He that gathereth by defrauding his own soul gathereth for others, that shall spend his goods riotously.

bes@Sir:14:6 @ There is none worse than he that envieth himself; and this is a recompence of his wickedness.

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:14:19 @ Every work rotteth and consumeth away, and the worker thereof shall go withal.

bes@Sir:14:21 @ He that considereth her ways in his heart shall also have understanding in her secrets.

bes@Sir:14:22 @ Go after her as one that traceth, and lie in wait in her ways.

bes@Sir:14:23 @ He that prieth in at her windows shall also hearken at her doors.

bes@Sir:14:24 @ He that doth lodge near her house shall also fasten a pin in her walls.

bes@Sir:14:25 @ He shall pitch his tent nigh unto her, and shall lodge in a lodging where good things are.

bes@Sir:14:26 @ He shall set his children under her shelter, and shall lodge under her branches.

bes@Sir:14:27 @ By her he shall be covered from heat, and in her glory shall he dwell.

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:15:2 @ And as a mother shall she meet him, and receive him as a wife married of a virgin.

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:15:6 @ He shall find joy and a crown of gladness, and she shall cause him to inherit an everlasting name.

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:15:16 @ He hath set fire and water before thee: stretch forth thy hand unto whether thou wilt.

bes@Sir:15:17 @ Before man is life and death; and whether him liketh shall be given him.

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:16:3 @ 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:16:8 @ Neither spared he the place where Lot sojourned, but abhorred them for their pride.

bes@Sir:16:10 @ Nor the six hundred thousand footmen, who were gathered together in the hardness of their hearts.

bes@Sir:16:11 @ And if there be one stiffnecked among the people, it is marvel if he escape unpunished: for mercy and wrath are with him; he is mighty to forgive, and to pour out displeasure.

bes@Sir:16:18 @ Behold, the heaven, and the heaven of heavens, the deep, and the earth, and all that therein is, shall be moved when he shall visit.

bes@Sir:16:26 @ The works of the Lord are done in judgement from the beginning: and from the time he made them he disposed the parts thereof.

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:16:30 @ With all manner of living things hath he covered the face thereof; and they shall return into it again.

bes@Sir:17:2 @ He gave them few days, and a short time, and power also over the things therein.

bes@Sir:17:5 @ They received the use of the five operations of the Lord, and in the sixth place he imparted them understanding, and in the seventh speech, an interpreter of the cogitations thereof.

bes@Sir:17:11 @ Beside this he gave them knowledge, and the law of life for an heritage.

bes@Sir:17:16 @ Every man from his youth is given to evil; neither could they make to themselves fleshy hearts for stony.

bes@Sir:17:19 @ Therefore all their works are as the sun before him, and his eyes are continually upon their ways.

bes@Sir:17:21 @ But the Lord being gracious and knowing his workmanship, neither left nor forsook them, but spared them.

bes@Sir:17:31 @ What is brighter than the sun? yet the light thereof faileth; and flesh and blood will imagine evil.

bes@Sir:18:2 @ The Lord only is righteous, and there is none other but he,

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:18:8 @ What is man, and whereto serveth he? what is his good, and what is his evil?

bes@Sir:18:11 @ Therefore is God patient with them, and poureth forth his mercy upon them.

bes@Sir:18:12 @ He saw and perceived their end to be evil; therefore he multiplied his compassion.

bes@Sir:18:13 @ The mercy of man is toward his neighbour; but the mercy of the Lord is upon all flesh: he reproveth, and nurtureth, and teacheth and bringeth again, as a shepherd his flock.

bes@Sir:18:15 @ My son, blemish not thy good deeds, neither use uncomfortable words when thou givest any thing.

bes@Sir:18:28 @ Every man of understanding knoweth wisdom, and will give praise unto him that found her.

bes@Sir:18:31 @ If thou givest thy soul the desires that please her, she will make thee a laughingstock to thine enemies that malign thee.

bes@Sir:18:32 @ Take not pleasure in much good cheer, neither be tied to the expense thereof.

bes@Sir:19:3 @ Moths and worms shall have him to heritage, and a bold man shall be taken away.

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:19:16 @ 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:19:22 @ The knowledge of wickedness is not wisdom, neither at any time the counsel of sinners prudence.

bes@Sir:19:23 @ There is a wickedness, and the same an abomination; and there is a fool wanting in wisdom.

bes@Sir:19:25 @ There is an exquisite subtilty, and the same is unjust; and there is one that turneth aside to make judgement appear; and there is a wise man that justifieth in judgement.

bes@Sir:19:26 @ There is a wicked man that hangeth down his head sadly; but inwardly he is full of deceit,

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: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:20:8 @ He that useth many words shall be abhorred; and he that taketh to himself authority therein shall be hated.

bes@Sir:20:9 @ There is a sinner that hath good success in evil things; and there is a gain that turneth to loss.

bes@Sir:20:10 @ There is a gift that shall not profit thee; and there is a gift whose recompence is double.

bes@Sir:20:11 @ There is an abasement because of glory; and there is that lifteth up his head from a low estate.

bes@Sir:20:12 @ There is that buyeth much for a little, and repayeth it sevenfold.

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:20:21 @ There is that is hindered from sinning through want: and when he taketh rest, he shall not be troubled.

bes@Sir:20:22 @ There is that destroyeth his own soul through bashfulness, and by accepting of persons overthroweth himself.

bes@Sir:20:23 @ There is that for bashfulness promiseth to his friend, and maketh him his enemy for nothing.

bes@Sir:20:25 @ A thief is better than a man that is accustomed to lie: but they both shall have destruction to heritage.

bes@Sir:21:2 @ Flee from sin as from the face of a serpent: for if thou comest too near it, it will bite thee: the teeth thereof are as the teeth of a lion, slaying the souls of men.

bes@Sir:21:3 @ All iniquity is as a two edged sword, the wounds whereof cannot be healed.

bes@Sir:21:8 @ He that buildeth his house with other men’s money is like one that gathereth himself stones for the tomb of his burial.

bes@Sir:21:9 @ The congregation of the wicked is like tow wrapped together: and the end of them is a flame of fire to destroy them.

bes@Sir:21:10 @ The way of sinners is made plain with stones, but at the end thereof is the pit of hell.

bes@Sir:21:11 @ He that keepeth the law of the Lord getteth the understanding thereof: and the perfection of the fear of the Lord is wisdom.

bes@Sir:21:12 @ He that is not wise will not be taught: but there is a wisdom which multiplieth bitterness.

bes@Sir:21:28 @ A whisperer defileth his own soul, and is hated wheresoever he dwelleth.

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:22:4 @ A wise daughter shall bring an inheritance to her husband: but she that liveth dishonestly is her father’s heaviness.

bes@Sir:22:5 @ She that is bold dishonoureth both her father and her husband, but they both shall despise her.

bes@Sir:22:7 @ Whoso teacheth a fool is as one that glueth a potsherd together, and as he that waketh one from a sound sleep.

bes@Sir:22:9 @ If children live honestly, and have wherewithal, they shall cover the baseness of their parents.

bes@Sir:22:14 @ What is heavier than lead? and what is the name thereof, but a fool?

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:22:19 @ 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: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:23:4 @ 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:23:8 @ The sinner shall be left in his foolishness: both the evil speaker and the proud shall fall thereby.

bes@Sir:23:9 @ Accustom not thy mouth to swearing; neither use thyself to the naming of the Holy One.

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:23:21 @ 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:23:24 @ She shall be brought out into the congregation, and inquisition shall be made of her children.

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:24:1 @ Wisdom shall praise herself, and shall glory in the midst of her people.

bes@Sir:24:2 @ In the congregation of the most High shall she open her mouth, and triumph before his power.

bes@Sir:24:7 @ With all these I sought rest: and in whose inheritance shall I abide?

bes@Sir:24:8 @ So the Creator of all things gave me a commandment, and he that made me caused my tabernacle to rest, and said, Let thy dwelling be in Jacob, and thine inheritance in Israel.

bes@Sir:24:12 @ And I took root in an honourable people, even in the portion of the Lord’s inheritance.

bes@Sir:24:13 @ I was exalted like a cedar in Libanus, and as a cypress tree upon the mountains of Hermon.

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:24:20 @ For my memorial is sweeter than honey, and mine inheritance than the honeycomb.

bes@Sir:24:23 @ All these things are the book of the covenant of the most high God, even the law which Moses commanded for an heritage unto the congregations of Jacob.

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:24:28 @ The first man knew her not perfectly: no more shall the last find her out.

bes@Sir:24:29 @ For her thoughts are more than the sea, and her counsels profounder than the great deep.

bes@Sir:24:32 @ I will yet make doctrine to shine as the morning, and will send forth her light afar off.

bes@Sir:25:1 @ In three things I was beautified, and stood up beautiful both before God and men: the unity of brethren, the love of neighbours, a man and a wife that agree together.

bes@Sir:25:3 @ If thou hast gathered nothing in thy youth, how canst thou find any thing in thine age?

bes@Sir:25:7 @ There be nine things which I have judged in mine heart to be happy, and the tenth I will utter with my tongue: A man that hath joy of his children; and he that liveth to see the fall of his enemy:

bes@Sir:25:10 @ O how great is he that findeth wisdom! yet is there none above him that feareth the Lord.

bes@Sir:25:11 @ But the love of the Lord passeth all things for illumination: he that holdeth it, whereto shall he be likened?

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:25:16 @ I had rather dwell with a lion and a dragon, than to keep house with a wicked woman.

bes@Sir:25:17 @ The wickedness of a woman changeth her face, and darkeneth her countenance like sackcloth.

bes@Sir:25:18 @ Her husband shall sit among his neighbours; and when he heareth it shall sigh bitterly.

bes@Sir:25:19 @ All wickedness is but little to the wickedness of a woman: let the portion of a sinner fall upon her.

bes@Sir:25:21 @ Stumble not at the beauty of a woman, and desire her not for pleasure.

bes@Sir:25:22 @ A woman, if she maintain her husband, is full of anger, impudence, and much reproach.

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:25:24 @ Of the woman came the beginning of sin, and through her we all die.

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:26:2 @ A virtuous woman rejoiceth her husband, and he shall fulfil the years of his life in peace.

bes@Sir:26:4 @ Whether a man be rich or poor, if he have a good heart toward the Lord, he shall at all times rejoice with a cheerful countenance.

bes@Sir:26:5 @ There be three things that mine heart feareth; and for the fourth I was sore afraid: the slander of a city, the gathering together of an unruly multitude, and a false accusation: all these are worse than death.

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:26:7 @ An evil wife is a yoke shaken to and fro: he that hath hold of her is as though he held a scorpion.

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:26:10 @ If thy daughter be shameless, keep her in straitly, lest she abuse herself through overmuch liberty.

bes@Sir:26:12 @ She will open her mouth, as a thirsty traveller when he hath found a fountain, and drink of every water near her: by every hedge will she sit down, and open her quiver against every arrow.

bes@Sir:26:13 @ The grace of a wife delighteth her husband, and her discretion will fatten his bones.

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:26:16 @ As the sun when it ariseth in the high heaven; so is the beauty of a good wife in the ordering of her house.

bes@Sir:26:22 @ An harlot shall be accounted as spittle; but a married woman is a tower against death to her husband.

bes@Sir:26:24 @ A dishonest woman contemneth shame: but an honest woman will reverence her husband.

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:27:8 @ If thou followest righteousness, thou shalt obtain her, and put her on, as a glorious long robe.

bes@Sir:27:9 @ The birds will resort unto their like; so will truth return unto them that practise in her.

bes@Sir:27:21 @ As for a wound, it may be bound up; and after reviling there may be reconcilement: but he that betrayeth secrets is without hope.

bes@Sir:27:26 @ Whoso diggeth a pit shall fall therein: and he that setteth a trap shall be taken therein.

bes@Sir:28:3 @ One man beareth hatred against another, and doth he seek pardon from the Lord?

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:28:20 @ For the yoke thereof is a yoke of iron, and the bands thereof are bands of brass.

bes@Sir:28:21 @ The death thereof is an evil death, the grave were better than it.

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:29:7 @ Many therefore have refused to lend for other men’s ill dealing, fearing to be defrauded.

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:29:19 @ A wicked man transgressing the commandments of the Lord shall fall into suretiship: and he that undertaketh and followeth other men’s business for gain shall fall into suits.

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:29:24 @ 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:29:27 @ 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:30:16 @ 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:30:19 @ 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:30:23 @ 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:30:24 @ Envy and wrath shorten the life, and carefulness bringeth age before the time. At the time when thou shalt end thy days, and finish thy life, distribute thine inheritance. Fodder, a wand, and burdens, are for the ass; and bread, correction, and work, for a servant.

bes@Sir:30:31 @ If thou have a servant, entreat him as a brother: for thou hast need of him, as of thine own soul: if thou entreat him evil, and he run from thee, which way wilt thou go to seek him?

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:31:19 @ 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:31:20 @ Whoso bringeth an offering of the goods of the poor doeth as one that killeth the son before his father’s eyes.

bes@Sir:31:21 @ The bread of the needy is their life: he that defraudeth him thereof is a man of blood.

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:32:6 @ The offering of the righteous maketh the altar fat, and the sweet savour thereof is before the most High.

bes@Sir:32:7 @ The sacrifice of a just man is acceptable. and the memorial thereof shall never be forgotten.

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:32:18 @ 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:33:5 @ And let them know thee, as we have known thee, that there is no God but only thou, O God.

bes@Sir:33:6 @ Shew new signs, and make other strange wonders: glorify thy hand and thy right arm, that they may set forth thy wondrous works.

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:33:11 @ Gather all the tribes of Jacob together, and inherit thou them, as from the beginning.

bes@Sir:34:1 @ Watching for riches consumeth the flesh, and the care thereof driveth away sleep.

bes@Sir:34:3 @ The rich hath great labour in gathering riches together; and when he resteth, he is filled with his delicates.

bes@Sir:34:5 @ He that loveth gold shall not be justified, and he that followeth corruption shall have enough thereof.

bes@Sir:34:7 @ It is a stumblingblock unto them that sacrifice unto it, and every fool shall be taken therewith.

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:34:13 @ Remember that a wicked eye is an evil thing: and what is created more wicked than an eye? therefore it weepeth upon every occasion.

bes@Sir:34:14 @ Stretch not thine hand whithersoever it looketh, and thrust it not with him into the dish.

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:35:4 @ Pour not out words where there is a musician, and shew not forth wisdom out of time.

bes@Sir:35:7 @ Speak, young man, if there be need of thee: and yet scarcely when thou art twice asked.

bes@Sir:35:12 @ There take thy pastime, and do what thou wilt: but sin not by proud speech.

bes@Sir:35:15 @ He that seeketh the law shall be filled therewith: but the hypocrite will be offended thereat.

bes@Sir:35:20 @ Go not in a way wherein thou mayest fall, and stumble not among the stones.

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:36:11 @ 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:36:15 @ 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:36:18 @ 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:36:23 @ 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:37:1 @ Every friend saith, I am his friend also: but there is a friend, which is only a friend in name.

bes@Sir:37:4 @ There is a companion, which rejoiceth in the prosperity of a friend, but in the time of trouble will be against him.

bes@Sir:37:5 @ There is a companion, which helpeth his friend for the belly, and taketh up the buckler against the enemy.

bes@Sir:37:7 @ Every counsellor extolleth counsel; but there is some that counselleth for himself.

bes@Sir:37:9 @ And say unto thee, Thy way is good: and afterward he stand on the other side, to see what shall befall 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:37:13 @ And let the counsel of thine own heart stand: for there is no man more faithful unto thee than it.

bes@Sir:37:19 @ There is one that is wise and teacheth many, and yet is unprofitable to himself.

bes@Sir:37:20 @ There is one that sheweth wisdom in words, and is hated: he shall be destitute of all food.

bes@Sir:37:22 @ Another is wise to himself; and the fruits of understanding are commendable in his mouth.

bes@Sir:37:26 @ A wise man shall inherit glory among his people, and his name shall be perpetual.

bes@Sir:37:28 @ For all things are not profitable for all men, neither hath every soul pleasure in every thing.

bes@Sir:38:5 @ Was not the water made sweet with wood, that the virtue thereof might be known?

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:38:13 @ There is a time when in their hands there is good success.

bes@Sir:38:21 @ Forget it not, for there is no turning again: thou shalt not do him good, but hurt thyself.

bes@Sir:38:32 @ 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:39:1 @ But he that giveth his mind to the law of the most High, and is occupied in the meditation thereof, will seek out the wisdom of all the ancient, and be occupied in prophecies.

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:39:17 @ 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:39:20 @ 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:39:23 @ As he hath turned the waters into saltness: so shall the heathen inherit his wrath.

bes@Sir:39:28 @ There be spirits that are created for vengeance, which in their fury lay on sore strokes; in the time of destruction they pour out their force, and appease the wrath of him that made them.

bes@Sir:39:32 @ Therefore from the beginning I was resolved, and thought upon these things, and have left them in writing.

bes@Sir:39:35 @ And therefore praise ye the Lord with the whole heart and mouth, and bless the name of the Lord.

bes@Sir:40:1 @ Great travail is created for every man, and an heavy yoke is upon the sons of Adam, from the day that they go out of their mother’s womb, till the day that they return to the mother of all things.

bes@Sir:40:23 @ A friend and companion never meet amiss: but above both is a wife with her husband.

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:40:29 @ 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:40:30 @ Begging is sweet in the mouth of the shameless: but in his belly there shall burn a fire.

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:41:6 @ The inheritance of sinners’ children shall perish, and their posterity shall have a perpetual reproach.

bes@Sir:41:7 @ The children will complain of an ungodly father, because they shall be reproached for his sake.

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:41:17 @ Be ashamed of whoredom before father and mother: and of a lie before a prince and a mighty man;

bes@Sir:41:19 @ And of theft in regard of the place where thou sojournest, and in regard of the truth of God and his covenant; and to lean with thine elbow upon the meat; and of scorning to give and take;

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:42:3 @ Of reckoning with thy partners and travellers; or of the gift of the heritage of friends;

bes@Sir:42:6 @ Sure keeping is good, where an evil wife is; and shut up, where many hands are.

bes@Sir:42:9 @ A daughter is a wakeful care to a father; and the care for her taketh away sleep: when she is young, lest she pass away the flower of her age; and being married, lest she should be hated:

bes@Sir:42:10 @ In her virginity, lest she should be defiled and gotten with child in her father’s house; and having an husband, lest she should misbehave herself; and when she is married, lest she should be barren.

bes@Sir:42:16 @ The sun that giveth light looketh upon all things, and the work thereof is full of the glory of the Lord.

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:43:6 @ He made the moon also to serve in her season for a declaration of times, and a sign of the world.

bes@Sir:43:7 @ From the moon is the sign of feasts, a light that decreaseth in her perfection.

bes@Sir:43:8 @ The month is called after her name, increasing wonderfully in her changing, being an instrument of the armies above, shining in the firmament of heaven;

bes@Sir:43:11 @ Look upon the rainbow, and praise him that made it; very beautiful it is in the brightness thereof.

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:43:18 @ The eye marvelleth at the beauty of the whiteness thereof, and the heart is astonished at the raining of it.

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:43:23 @ By his counsel he appeaseth the deep, and planteth islands therein.

bes@Sir:43:24 @ They that sail on the sea tell of the danger thereof; and when we hear it with our ears, we marvel thereat.

bes@Sir:43:25 @ For therein be strange and wondrous works, variety of all kinds of beasts and whales created.

bes@Sir:43:27 @ We may speak much, and yet come short: wherefore in sum, he is all.

bes@Sir:43:32 @ There are yet hid greater things than these be, for we have seen but a few of his works.

bes@Sir:44:1 @ Let us now praise famous men, and our fathers that begat us.

bes@Sir:44:8 @ There be of them, that have left a name behind them, that their praises might be reported.

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:44:11 @ With their seed shall continually remain a good inheritance, and their children are within the covenant.

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:44:19 @ Abraham was a great father of many people: in glory was there none like unto him;

bes@Sir:44:21 @ Therefore he assured him by an oath, that he would bless the nations in his seed, and that he would multiply him as the dust of the earth, and exalt his seed as the stars, and cause them to inherit from sea to sea, and from the river unto the utmost part of the land.

bes@Sir:44:22 @ With Isaac did he establish likewise for Abraham his father’s sake the blessing of all men, and the covenant,

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:45:6 @ He exalted Aaron, an holy man like unto him, even his brother, of the tribe of Levi.

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:45:18 @ Strangers conspired together against him, and maligned him in the wilderness, even the men that were of Dathan’s and Abiron’s side, and the congregation of Core, with fury and wrath.

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:45:24 @ Therefore was there a covenant of peace made with him, that he should be the chief of the sanctuary and of his people, and that he and his posterity should have the dignity of the priesthood for ever:

bes@Sir:45:25 @ According to the covenant made with David son of Jesse, of the tribe of Juda, that the inheritance of the king should be to his posterity alone: so the inheritance of Aaron should also be unto his seed.

bes@Sir:46:1 @ Jesus the son a Nave was valiant in the wars, and was the successor of Moses in prophecies, who according to his name was made great for the saving of the elect of God, and taking vengeance of the enemies that rose up against them, that he might set Israel in their inheritance.

bes@Sir:46:8 @ And of six hundred thousand people on foot, they two were preserved to bring them in to the heritage, even unto the land that floweth with milk and honey.

bes@Sir:46:9 @ The Lord gave strength also unto Caleb, which remained with him unto his old age: so that he entered upon the high places of the land, and his seed obtained it for an heritage:

bes@Sir:47:18 @ By the name of the Lord God, which is called the Lord God of Israel, thou didst gather gold as tin and didst multiply silver as lead.

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:48:10 @ Who wast ordained for reproofs in their times, to pacify the wrath of the Lord’s judgement, before it brake forth into fury, and to turn the heart of the father unto the son, and to restore the tribes of Jacob.

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:48:15 @ 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:48:17 @ Ezekias fortified his city, and brought in water into the midst thereof: he digged the hard rock with iron, and made wells for waters.

bes@Sir:48:18 @ In his time Sennacherib came up, and sent Rabsaces, and lifted up his hand against Sion, and boasted proudly.

bes@Sir:48:22 @ For Ezekias had done the thing that pleased the Lord, and was strong in the ways of David his father, as Esay the prophet, who was great and faithful in his vision, had commanded him.

bes@Sir:49:5 @ Therefore he gave their power unto others, and their glory to a strange nation.

bes@Sir:49:7 @ For they entreated him evil, who nevertheless was a prophet, sanctified in his mother’s womb, that he might root out, and afflict, and destroy; and that he might build up also, and plant.

bes@Sir:49:8 @ It was Ezekiel who saw the glorious vision, which was shewed him upon the chariot of the cherubims.

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:50:17 @ Then all the people together hasted, and fell down to the earth upon their faces to worship their Lord God Almighty, the most High.

bes@Sir:50:18 @ The singers also sang praises with their voices, with great variety of sounds was there made sweet melody.

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: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:51:12 @ For thou savedst me from destruction, and deliveredst me from the evil time: therefore will I give thanks, and praise thee, and bless they name, O Lord.

bes@Sir:51:14 @ I prayed for her before the temple, and will seek her out even to the end.

bes@Sir:51:15 @ Even from the flower till the grape was ripe hath my heart delighted in her: my foot went the right way, from my youth up sought I after her.

bes@Sir:51:16 @ I bowed down mine ear a little, and received her, and gat much learning.

bes@Sir:51:17 @ I profited therein, therefore will I ascribe glory unto him that giveth me wisdom.

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:51:21 @ My heart was troubled in seeking her: therefore have I gotten a good possession.

bes@Sir:51:22 @ The Lord hath given me a tongue for my reward, and I will praise him therewith.

bes@Sir:51:24 @ Wherefore are ye slow, and what say ye to these things, seeing your souls are very thirsty?

bes@Sir:51:25 @ I opened my mouth, and said, Buy her for yourselves without money.

bes@Sir:51:28 @ Get learning with a great sum of money, and get much gold by her.

bes@Bar:1:5 @ Whereupon they wept, fasted, and prayed before the Lord.

bes@Bar:1:16 @ And to our kings, and to our princes, and to our priests, and to our prophets, and to our fathers:

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:1:20 @ Wherefore the evils cleaved unto us, and the curse, which the Lord appointed by Moses his servant at the time that he brought our fathers out of the land of Egypt, to give us a land that floweth with milk and honey, like as it is to see this day.

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:2:4 @ Moreover he hath delivered them to be in subjection to all the kingdoms that are round about us, to be as a reproach and desolation among all the people round about, where the Lord hath scattered them.

bes@Bar:2:6 @ To the Lord our God appertaineth righteousness: but unto us and to our fathers open shame, as appeareth this day.

bes@Bar:2:9 @ Wherefore the Lord watched over us for evil, and the Lord hath brought it upon us: for the Lord is righteous in all his works which he hath commanded us.

bes@Bar:2:13 @ Let thy wrath turn from us: for we are but a few left among the heathen, where thou hast scattered us.

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:2:21 @ Thus saith the Lord, Bow down your shoulders to serve the king of Babylon: so shall ye remain in the land that I gave unto your fathers.

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:2:33 @ And return from their stiff neck, and from their wicked deeds: for they shall remember the way of their fathers, which sinned before the Lord.

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:3:5 @ Remember not the iniquities of our forefathers: but think upon thy power and thy name now at this time.

bes@Bar:3:7 @ And for this cause thou hast put thy fear in our hearts, to the intent that we should call upon thy name, and praise thee in our captivity: for we have called to mind all the iniquity of our forefathers, that sinned before thee.

bes@Bar:3:8 @ Behold, we are yet this day in our captivity, where thou hast scattered us, for a reproach and a curse, and to be subject to payments, according to all the iniquities of our fathers, which departed from the Lord our God.

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:3:15 @ Who hath found out her place? or who hath come into her treasures?

bes@Bar:3:16 @ Where are the princes of the heathen become, and such as ruled the beasts upon the earth;

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:3:19 @ They are vanished and gone down to the grave, and others are come up in their steads.

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:3:26 @ There were the giants famous from the beginning, that were of so great stature, and so expert in war.

bes@Bar:3:27 @ Those did not the Lord choose, neither gave he the way of knowledge unto them:

bes@Bar:3:29 @ Who hath gone up into heaven, and taken her, and brought her down from the clouds?

bes@Bar:3:30 @ Who hath gone over the sea, and found her, and will bring her for pure gold?

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:3:34 @ The stars shined in their watches, and rejoiced: when he calleth them, they say, Here we be; and so with cheerfulness they shewed light unto him that made them.

bes@Bar:3:35 @ This is our God, and there shall none other be accounted of in comparison of him

bes@Bar:4:2 @ Turn thee, O Jacob, and take hold of it: walk in the presence of the light thereof, that thou mayest be illuminated.

bes@Bar:4:3 @ Give not thine honour to another, nor the things that are profitable unto thee to a strange nation.

bes@Bar:4:15 @ 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:4:16 @ These have carried away the dear beloved children of the widow, and left her that was alone desolate without daughters.

bes@Bar:4:33 @ For as she rejoiced at thy ruin, and was glad of thy fall: so shall she be grieved for her own desolation.

bes@Bar:4:34 @ For I will take away the rejoicing of her great multitude, and her pride shall be turned into mourning.

bes@Bar:4:35 @ For fire shall come upon her from the Everlasting, long to endure; and she shall be inhabited of devils for a great time.

bes@Bar:4:37 @ Lo, thy sons come, whom thou sentest away, they come gathered together from the east to the west by the word of the Holy One, rejoicing in the glory of God.

bes@Bar:5:5 @ Arise, O Jerusalem, and stand on high, and look about toward the east, and behold thy children gathered from the west unto the east by the word of the Holy One, rejoicing in the remembrance of God.

bes@Bar:6:3 @ So when ye be come unto Babylon, ye shall remain there many years, and for a long season, namely, seven generations: and after that I will bring you away peaceably from thence.

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:6:11 @ Yea, they will give thereof to the common harlots, and deck them as men with garments, being gods of silver, and gods of gold, and wood.

bes@Bar:6:13 @ They wipe their faces because of the dust of the temple, when there is much upon them.

bes@Bar:6:16 @ Whereby they are known not to be gods: therefore fear them not.

bes@Bar:6:19 @ They light them candles, yea, more than for themselves, whereof they cannot see one.

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:6:34 @ 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:6:38 @ They can shew no mercy to the widow, nor do good to the fatherless.

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:6:48 @ For when there cometh any war or plague upon them, the priests consult with themselves, where they may be hidden with them.

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:6:53 @ 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:6:55 @ Whereupon when fire falleth upon the house of gods of wood, or laid over with gold or silver, their priests will flee away, and escape; but they themselves shall be burned asunder like beams.

bes@Bar:6:57 @ Neither are those gods of wood, and laid over with silver or gold, able to escape either from thieves or robbers.

bes@Bar:6:58 @ Whose gold, and silver, and garments wherewith they are clothed, they that are strong take, and go away withal: neither are they able to help themselves.

bes@Bar:6:59 @ Therefore it is better to be a king that sheweth his power, or else a profitable vessel in an house, which the owner shall have use of, than such false gods; or to be a door in an house, to keep such things therein, than such false gods. or a pillar of wood in a palace, than such false 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:6:73 @ Better therefore is the just man that hath none idols: for he shall be far from reproach.

bes@1Macc:1:3 @ And went through to the ends of the earth, and took spoils of many nations, insomuch that the earth was quiet before him; whereupon he was exalted and his heart was lifted up.

bes@1Macc:1:4 @ And he gathered a mighty strong host and ruled over countries, and nations, and kings, who became tributaries unto him.

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:1:10 @ And there came out of them a wicked root Antiochus surnamed Epiphanes, son of Antiochus the king, who had been an hostage at Rome, and he reigned in the hundred and thirty and seventh year of the kingdom of the Greeks.

bes@1Macc:1:11 @ In those days went there out of Israel wicked men, who persuaded many, saying, Let us go and make a covenant with the heathen that are round about us: for since we departed from them we have had much sorrow.

bes@1Macc:1:13 @ Then certain of the people were so forward herein, that they went to the king, who gave them licence to do after the ordinances of the heathen:

bes@1Macc:1:14 @ Whereupon they built a place of exercise at Jerusalem according to the customs of the heathen:

bes@1Macc:1:17 @ Wherefore he entered into Egypt with a great multitude, with chariots, and elephants, and horsemen, and a great navy,

bes@1Macc:1:19 @ Thus they got the strong cities in the land of Egypt and he took the spoils thereof.

bes@1Macc:1:21 @ And entered proudly into the sanctuary, and took away the golden altar, and the candlestick of light, and all the vessels thereof,

bes@1Macc:1:25 @ Therefore there was a great mourning in Israel, in every place where they were;

bes@1Macc:1:28 @ The land also was moved for the inhabitants thereof, and all the house of Jacob was covered with confusion.

bes@1Macc:1:31 @ And when he had taken the spoils of the city, he set it on fire, and pulled down the houses and walls thereof on every side.

bes@1Macc:1:34 @ And they put therein a sinful nation, wicked men, and fortified themselves therein.

bes@1Macc:1:35 @ They stored it also with armour and victuals, and when they had gathered together the spoils of Jerusalem, they laid them up there, and so they became a sore snare:

bes@1Macc:1:38 @ Insomuch that the inhabitants of Jerusalem fled because of them: whereupon the city was made an habitation of strangers, and became strange to those that were born in her; and her own children left her.

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:1:52 @ Then many of the people were gathered unto them, to wit every one that forsook the law; and so they committed evils in the land;

bes@1Macc:1:53 @ And drove the Israelites into secret places, even wheresoever they could flee for succour.

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:1:64 @ And there was very great wrath upon Israel.

bes@1Macc:2:7 @ He said, Woe is me! wherefore was I born to see this misery of my people, and of the holy city, and to dwell there, when it was delivered into the hand of the enemy, and the sanctuary into the hand of strangers?

bes@1Macc:2:8 @ Her temple is become as a man without glory.

bes@1Macc:2:9 @ Her glorious vessels are carried away into captivity, her infants are slain in the streets, her young men with the sword of the enemy.

bes@1Macc:2:10 @ What nation hath not had a part in her kingdom and gotten of her spoils?

bes@1Macc:2:11 @ All her ornaments are taken away; of a free woman she is become a bondslave.

bes@1Macc:2:13 @ To what end therefore shall we live any longer?

bes@1Macc:2:16 @ And when many of Israel came unto them, Mattathias also and his sons came together.

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:2:19 @ Then Mattathias answered and spake with a loud voice, Though all the nations that are under the king’s dominion obey him, and fall away every one from the religion of their fathers, and give consent to his commandments:

bes@1Macc:2:20 @ Yet will I and my sons and my brethren walk in the covenant of our fathers.

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:2:24 @ Which thing when Mattathias saw, he was inflamed with zeal, and his reins trembled, neither could he forbear to shew his anger according to judgement: wherefore he ran, and slew him upon the altar.

bes@1Macc:2:29 @ Then many that sought after justice and judgement went down into the wilderness, to dwell there:

bes@1Macc:2:33 @ And they said unto them, Let that which ye have done hitherto suffice; come forth, and do according to the commandment of the king, and ye shall live.

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:2:39 @ 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:2:41 @ At that time therefore they decreed, saying, Whosoever shall come to make battle with us on the sabbath day, we will fight against him; neither will we die all, as our brethren that were murdered in the secret places.

bes@1Macc:2:42 @ Then came there unto him a company of Assideans who were mighty men of Israel, even all such as were voluntarily devoted unto the law.

bes@1Macc:2:48 @ So they recovered the law out of the hand of the Gentiles, and out of the hand of kings, neither suffered they the sinner to triumph.

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:2:54 @ Phinees our father in being zealous and fervent obtained the covenant of an everlasting priesthood.

bes@1Macc:2:56 @ Caleb for bearing witness before the congregation received the heritage of the land.

bes@1Macc:2:64 @ Wherefore, ye my sons, be valiant and shew yourselves men in the behalf of the law; for by it shall ye obtain glory.

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:2:69 @ So he blessed them, and was gathered to his fathers.

bes@1Macc:2:70 @ And he died in the hundred forty and sixth year, and his sons buried him in the sepulchres of his fathers at Modin, and all Israel made great lamentation for him.

bes@1Macc:3:2 @ And all his brethren helped him, and so did all they that held with his father, and they fought with cheerfulness the battle of Israel.

bes@1Macc:3:6 @ Wherefore the wicked shrunk for fear of him, and all the workers of iniquity were troubled, because salvation prospered in his hand.

bes@1Macc:3:10 @ Then Apollonius gathered the Gentiles together, and a great host out of Samaria, to fight against Israel.

bes@1Macc:3:12 @ Wherefore Judas took their spoils, and Apollonius’ sword also, and therewith he fought all his life long.

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:3:15 @ So he made him ready to go up, and there went with him a mighty host of the ungodly to help him, and to be avenged of the children of Israel.

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:3:24 @ And they pursued them from the going down of Bethhoron unto the plain, where were slain about eight hundred men of them; and the residue fled into the land of the Philistines.

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:3:31 @ Wherefore, being greatly perplexed in his mind, he determined to go into Persia, there to take the tributes of the countries, and to gather much money.

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:3:44 @ Then was the congregation gathered together, that they might be ready for battle, and that they might pray, and ask mercy and compassion.

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:3:46 @ Wherefore the Israelites assembled themselves together, and came to Maspha, over against Jerusalem; for in Maspha was the place where they prayed aforetime in Israel.

bes@1Macc:3:48 @ And laid open the book of the law, wherein the heathen had sought to paint the likeness of their images.

bes@1Macc:3:50 @ Then cried they with a loud voice toward heaven, saying, What shall we do with these, and whither shall we carry them away?

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:3:58 @ And Judas said, arm yourselves, and be valiant men, and see that ye be in readiness against the morning, that ye may fight with these nations, that are assembled together against us to destroy us and our sanctuary:

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:4:9 @ Remember how our fathers were delivered in the Red sea, when Pharaoh pursued them with an army.

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:4:13 @ Wherefore they went out of the camp to battle; but they that were with Judas sounded their trumpets.

bes@1Macc:4:15 @ Howbeit all the hindmost of them were slain with the sword: for they pursued them unto Gazera, and unto the plains of Idumea, and Azotus, and Jamnia, so that there were slain of them upon a three thousand men.

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:4:19 @ As Judas was yet speaking these words, there appeared a part of them looking out of the mountain:

bes@1Macc:4:21 @ When therefore they perceived these things, they were sore afraid, and seeing also the host of Judas in the plain ready to fight,

bes@1Macc:4:23 @ Then Judas returned to spoil the tents, where they got much gold, and silver, and blue silk, and purple of the sea, and great riches.

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:4:28 @ The next year therefore following Lysias gathered together threescore thousand choice men of foot, and five thousand horsemen, that he might subdue them.

bes@1Macc:4:34 @ So they joined battle; and there were slain of the host of Lysias about five thousand men, even before them were they slain.

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:4:37 @ Upon this all the host assembled themselves together, and went up into mount Sion.

bes@1Macc:4:45 @ They thought it best to pull it down, lest it should be a reproach to them, because the heathen had defiled it: wherefore they pulled it down,

bes@1Macc:4:46 @ And laid up the stones in the mountain of the temple in a convenient place, until there should come a prophet to shew what should be done with them.

bes@1Macc:4:51 @ Furthermore they set the loaves upon the table, and spread out the veils, and finished all the works which they had begun to make.

bes@1Macc:4:54 @ Look, at what time and what day the heathen had profaned it, even in that was it dedicated with songs, and citherns, and harps, and cymbals.

bes@1Macc:4:58 @ Thus was there very great gladness among the people, for that the reproach of the heathen was put away.

bes@1Macc:4:61 @ And they set there a garrison to keep it, and fortified Bethsura to preserve it; that the people might have a defence against Idumea.

bes@1Macc:5:2 @ Wherefore they thought to destroy the generation of Jacob that was among them, and thereupon they began to slay and destroy the people.

bes@1Macc:5:5 @ He shut them up therefore in the towers, and encamped against them, and destroyed them utterly, and burned the towers of that place with fire, and all that were therein.

bes@1Macc:5:6 @ Afterward he passed over to the children of Ammon, where he found a mighty power, and much people, with Timotheus their captain.

bes@1Macc:5:8 @ And when he had taken Jazar, with the towns belonging thereto, he returned into Judea.

bes@1Macc:5:9 @ Then the heathen that were at Galaad assembled themselves together against the Israelites that were in their quarters, to destroy them; but they fled to the fortress of Dathema.

bes@1Macc:5:10 @ And sent letters unto Judas and his brethren, The heathen that are round about us are assembled together against us to destroy us:

bes@1Macc:5:11 @ And they are preparing to come and take the fortress whereunto we are fled, Timotheus being captain of their host.

bes@1Macc:5:12 @ Come now therefore, and deliver us from their hands, for many of us are slain:

bes@1Macc:5:13 @ Yea, all our brethren that were in the places of Tobie are put to death: their wives and their children also they have carried away captives, and borne away their stuff; and they have destroyed there about a thousand men.

bes@1Macc:5:14 @ While these letters were yet reading, behold, there came other messengers from Galilee with their clothes rent, who reported on this wise,

bes@1Macc:5:15 @ And said, They of Ptolemais, and of Tyrus, and Sidon, and all Galilee of the Gentiles, are assembled together against us to consume us.

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:5:17 @ Then said Judas unto Simon his brother, Choose thee out men, and go and deliver thy brethren that are in Galilee, for I and Jonathan my brother will go into the country of Galaad.

bes@1Macc:5:21 @ Then went Simon into Galilee, where he fought many battles with the heathen, so that the heathen were discomfited by him.

bes@1Macc:5:22 @ And he pursued them unto the gate of Ptolemais; and there were slain of the heathen about three thousand men, whose spoils he took.

bes@1Macc:5:24 @ Judas Maccabeus also and his brother Jonathan went over Jordan, and travelled three days’ journey in the wilderness,

bes@1Macc:5:25 @ Where they met with the Nabathites, who came unto them in a peaceable manner, and told them every thing that had happened to their brethren in the land of Galaad:

bes@1Macc:5:28 @ Hereupon Judas and his host turned suddenly by the way of the wilderness unto Bosora; and when he had won the city, he slew all the males with the edge of the sword, and took all their spoils, and burned the city with fire,

bes@1Macc:5:30 @ And betimes in the morning they looked up, and, behold, there was an innumerable people bearing ladders and other engines of war, to take the fortress: for they assaulted them.

bes@1Macc:5:31 @ When Judas therefore saw that the battle was begun, and that the cry of the city went up to heaven, with trumpets, and a great sound,

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:5:35 @ This done, Judas turned aside to Maspha; and after he had assaulted it he took and slew all the males therein, and received the spoils thereof and burnt it with fire.

bes@1Macc:5:36 @ From thence went he, and took Casphon, Maged, Bosor, and the other cities of the country of Galaad.

bes@1Macc:5:37 @ After these things gathered Timotheus another host and encamped against Raphon beyond the brook.

bes@1Macc:5:44 @ But they took the city, and burned the temple with all that were therein. Thus was Carnaim subdued, neither could they stand any longer before Judas.

bes@1Macc:5:45 @ Then Judas gathered together all the Israelites that were in the country of Galaad, from the least unto the greatest, even their wives, and their children, and their stuff, a very great host, to the end they might come into the land of Judea.

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:5:49 @ Wherefore Judas commanded a proclamation to be made throughout the host, that every man should pitch his tent in the place where he was.

bes@1Macc:5:51 @ Who then slew all the males with the edge of the sword, and rased the city, and took the spoils thereof, and passed through the city over them that were slain.

bes@1Macc:5:53 @ And Judas gathered together those that came behind, and exhorted the people all the way through, till they came into the land of Judea.

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:5:57 @ Wherefore they said, Let us also get us a name, and go fight against the heathen that are round about us.

bes@1Macc:5:60 @ And so it was, that Joseph and Azarias were put to flight, and pursued unto the borders of Judea: and there were slain that day of the people of Israel about two thousand men.

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:5:63 @ 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:5:65 @ Afterward went Judas forth with his brethren, and fought against the children of Esau in the land toward the south, where he smote Hebron, and the towns thereof, and pulled down the fortress of it, and burned the towers thereof round about.

bes@1Macc:6:2 @ And that there was in it a very rich temple, wherein were coverings of gold, and breastplates, and shields, which Alexander, son of Philip, the Macedonian king, who reigned first among the Grecians, had left there.

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:6:5 @ Moreover there came one who brought him tidings into Persia, that the armies, which went against the land of Judea, were put to flight:

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:6:9 @ And there he continued many days: for his grief was ever more and more, and he made account that he should die.

bes@1Macc:6:10 @ Wherefore he called for all his friends, and said unto them, The sleep is gone from mine eyes, and my heart faileth for very care.

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:6:13 @ I perceive therefore that for this cause these troubles are come upon me, and, behold, I perish through great grief in a strange land.

bes@1Macc:6:16 @ So king Antiochus died there in the hundred forty and ninth year.

bes@1Macc:6:19 @ Wherefore Judas, purposing to destroy them, called all the people together to besiege them.

bes@1Macc:6:20 @ So they came together, and besieged them in the hundred and fiftieth year, and he made mounts for shot against them, and other engines.

bes@1Macc:6:23 @ We have been willing to serve thy father, and to do as he would have us, and to obey his commandments;

bes@1Macc:6:24 @ For which cause they of our nation besiege the tower, and are alienated from us: moreover as many of us as they could light on they slew, and spoiled our inheritance.

bes@1Macc:6:25 @ Neither have they stretched out their hand against us only, but also against their borders.

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:6:29 @ There came also unto him from other kingdoms, and from isles of the sea, bands of hired soldiers.

bes@1Macc:6:33 @ Then the king rising very early marched fiercely with his host toward Bathzacharias, where his armies made them ready to battle, and sounded the trumpets.

bes@1Macc:6:36 @ These were ready at every occasion: wheresoever the beast was, and whithersoever the beast went, they went also, neither departed they from him.

bes@1Macc:6:37 @ And upon the beasts were there strong towers of wood, which covered every one of them, and were girt fast unto them with devices: there were also upon every one two and thirty strong men, that fought upon them, beside the Indian that ruled him.

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:6:42 @ Then Judas and his host drew near, and entered into battle, and there were slain of the king’s army six hundred men.

bes@1Macc:6:43 @ Eleazar also, surnamed Savaran, perceiving that one of the beasts, armed with royal harness, was higher than all the rest, and supposing that the king was upon him,

bes@1Macc:6:45 @ Wherefore he ran upon him courageously through the midst of the battle, slaying on the right hand and on the left, so that they were divided from him on both sides.

bes@1Macc:6:46 @ Which done, he crept under the elephant, and thrust him under, and slew him: whereupon the elephant fell down upon him, and there he died.

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:6:50 @ So the king took Bethsura, and set a garrison there to keep it.

bes@1Macc:6:51 @ As for the sanctuary, he besieged it many days: and set there artillery with engines and instruments to cast fire and stones, and pieces to cast darts and slings.

bes@1Macc:6:52 @ Whereupon they also made engines against their engines, and held them battle a long season.

bes@1Macc:6:54 @ There were but a few left in the sanctuary, because the famine did so prevail against them, that they were fain to disperse themselves, every man to his own place.

bes@1Macc:6:57 @ Wherefore he went in all haste, and said to the king and the captains of the host and the company, We decay daily, and our victuals are but small, and the place we lay siege unto is strong, and the affairs of the kingdom lie upon us:

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:6:59 @ And covenant with them, that they shall live after their laws, as they did before: for they are therefore displeased, and have done all these things, because we abolished their laws.

bes@1Macc:6:60 @ So the king and the princes were content: wherefore he sent unto them to make peace; and they accepted thereof.

bes@1Macc:6:61 @ Also the king and the princes made an oath unto them: whereupon they went out of the strong hold.

bes@1Macc:6:63 @ Afterward departed he in all haste, and returned unto Antiochia, where he found Philip to be master of the city: so he fought against him, and took the city by force.

bes@1Macc:7:1 @ In the hundred and one and fiftieth year Demetrius the son of Seleucus departed from Rome, and came up with a few men unto a city of the sea coast, and reigned there.

bes@1Macc:7:3 @ Wherefore, when he knew it, he said, Let me not see their faces.

bes@1Macc:7:5 @ There came unto him all the wicked and ungodly men of Israel, having Alcimus, who was desirous to be high priest, for their captain:

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:7:10 @ So they departed, and came with a great power into the land of Judea, where they sent messengers to Judas and his brethren with peaceable words deceitfully.

bes@1Macc:7:12 @ Then did there assemble unto Alcimus and Bacchides a company of scribes, to require justice.

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:7:16 @ Whereupon they believed him: howbeit he took of them threescore men, and slew them in one day, according to the words which he wrote,

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:7:19 @ After this, removed Bacchides from Jerusalem, and pitched his tents in Bezeth, where he sent and took many of the men that had forsaken him, and certain of the people also, and when he had slain them, he cast them into the great pit.

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:7:28 @ 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:7:32 @ 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:7:39 @ So Nicanor went out of Jerusalem, and pitched his tents in Bethhoron, where an host out of Syria met him.

bes@1Macc:7:40 @ But Judas pitched in Adasa with three thousand men, and there he prayed, saying,

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:8:3 @ And what they had done in the country of Spain, for the winning of the mines of the silver and gold which is there;

bes@1Macc:8:5 @ Beside this, how they had discomfited in battle Philip, and Perseus, king of the Citims, with others that lifted up themselves against them, and had overcome them:

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:8:11 @ It was told him besides, how they destroyed and brought under their dominion all other kingdoms and isles that at any time resisted them;

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:8:15 @ Moreover how they had made for themselves a senate house, wherein three hundred and twenty men sat in council daily, consulting alway for the people, to the end they might be well ordered:

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:8:19 @ They went therefore to Rome, which was a very great journey, and came into the senate, where they spake and said.

bes@1Macc:8:22 @ And this is the copy of the epistle which the senate wrote back again in tables of brass, and sent to Jerusalem, that there they might have by them a memorial of peace and confederacy:

bes@1Macc:8:24 @ If there come first any war upon the Romans or any of their confederates throughout all their dominion,

bes@1Macc:8:26 @ Neither shall they give any thing unto them that make war upon them, or aid them with victuals, weapons, money, or ships, as it hath seemed good unto the Romans; but they shall keep their covenants without taking any thing therefore.

bes@1Macc:8:28 @ Neither shall victuals be given to them that take part against them, or weapons, or money, or ships, as it hath seemed good to the Romans; but they shall keep their covenants, and that without deceit.

bes@1Macc:8:30 @ Howbeit if hereafter the one party or the other shall think to meet to add or diminish any thing, they may do it at their pleasures, and whatsoever they shall add or take away shall be ratified.

bes@1Macc:8:31 @ And as touching the evils that Demetrius doeth to the Jews, we have written unto him, saying, Wherefore thou made thy yoke heavy upon our friends and confederates the Jews?

bes@1Macc:8:32 @ If therefore they complain any more against thee, we will do them justice, and fight with thee by sea and by land.

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:9:6 @ 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:9:11 @ With that the host of Bacchides removed out of their tents, and stood over against them, their horsemen being divided into two troops, and their slingers and archers going before the host and they that marched in the foreward were all mighty men.

bes@1Macc:9:17 @ Whereupon there was a sore battle, insomuch as many were slain on both parts.

bes@1Macc:9:19 @ Then Jonathan and Simon took Judas their brother, and buried him in the sepulchre of his fathers in Modin.

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:9:24 @ In those days also was there a very great famine, by reason whereof the country revolted, and went with them.

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:9:28 @ For this cause all Judas’ friends came together, and said unto Jonathan,

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:9:31 @ Upon this Jonathan took the governance upon him at that time, and rose up instead of his brother Judas.

bes@1Macc:9:32 @ But when Bacchides gat knowledge thereof, he sought for to slay him

bes@1Macc:9:33 @ Then Jonathan, and Simon his brother, and all that were with him, perceiving that, fled into the wilderness of Thecoe, and pitched their tents by the water of the pool Asphar.

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:9:37 @ After this came word to Jonathan and Simon his brother, that the children of Jambri made a great marriage, and were bringing the bride from Nadabatha with a great train, as being the daughter of one of the great princes of Chanaan.

bes@1Macc:9:38 @ Therefore they remembered John their brother, and went up, and hid themselves under the covert of the mountain:

bes@1Macc:9:39 @ Where they lifted up their eyes, and looked, and, behold, there was much ado and great carriage: and the bridegroom came forth, and his friends and brethren, to meet them with drums, and instruments of musick, and many weapons.

bes@1Macc:9:40 @ Then Jonathan and they that were with him rose up against them from the place where they lay in ambush, and made a slaughter of them in such sort, as many fell down dead, and the remnant fled into the mountain, and they took all their spoils.

bes@1Macc:9:42 @ So when they had avenged fully the blood of their brother, they turned again to the marsh of Jordan.

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:9:45 @ For, behold, the battle is before us and behind us, and the water of Jordan on this side and that side, the marsh likewise and wood, neither is there place for us to turn aside.

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:9:49 @ So there were slain of Bacchides’ side that day about a thousand men.

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:9:61 @ Wherefore they took of the men of the country, that were authors of that mischief, about fifty persons, and slew them.

bes@1Macc:9:62 @ Afterward Jonathan, and Simon, and they that were with him, got them away to Bethbasi, which is in the wilderness, and they repaired the decays thereof, and made it strong.

bes@1Macc:9:63 @ Which thing when Bacchides knew, he gathered together all his host, and sent word to them that were of Judea.

bes@1Macc:9:65 @ But Jonathan left his brother Simon in the city, and went forth himself into the country, and with a certain number went he forth.

bes@1Macc:9:69 @ Wherefore he was very wroth at the wicked men that gave him counsel to come into the country, inasmuch as he slew many of them, and purposed to return into his own country.

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:9:72 @ When therefore he had restored unto him the prisoners that he had taken aforetime out of the land of Judea, he returned and went his way into his own land, neither came he any more into their borders.

bes@1Macc:10:1 @ In the hundred and sixtieth year Alexander, the son of Antiochus surnamed Epiphanes, went up and took Ptolemais: for the people had received him, by means whereof he reigned there,

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:10:6 @ Wherefore he gave him authority to gather together an host, and to provide weapons, that he might aid him in battle: he commanded also that the hostages that were in the tower should be delivered him.

bes@1Macc:10:8 @ Who were sore afraid, when they heard that the king had given him authority to gather together an host.

bes@1Macc:10:9 @ Whereupon they of the tower delivered their hostages unto Jonathan, and he delivered them unto their parents.

bes@1Macc:10:16 @ He said, Shall we find such another man? now therefore we will make him our friend and confederate.

bes@1Macc:10:18 @ King Alexander to his brother Jonathan sendeth greeting:

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:10:21 @ So in the seventh month of the hundred and sixtieth year, at the feast of the tabernacles, Jonathan put on the holy robe, and gathered together forces, and provided much armour.

bes@1Macc:10:22 @ Whereof when Demetrius heard, he was very sorry, and said,

bes@1Macc:10:25 @ He sent unto them therefore to this effect: King Demetrius unto the people of the Jews sendeth greeting:

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:10:30 @ 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:10:31 @ Let Jerusalem also be holy and free, with the borders thereof, both from tenths and tributes.

bes@1Macc:10:34 @ Furthermore I will that all the feasts, and sabbaths, and new moons, and solemn days, and the three days before the feast, and the three days after the feast shall be all of immunity and freedom for all the Jews in my realm.

bes@1Macc:10:36 @ I will further, that there be enrolled among the king’s forces about thirty thousand men of the Jews, unto whom pay shall be given, as belongeth to all king’s forces.

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:10:39 @ As for Ptolemais, and the land pertaining thereto, I give it as a free gift to the sanctuary at Jerusalem for the necessary expenses of the sanctuary.

bes@1Macc:10:43 @ And whosoever they be that flee unto the temple at Jerusalem, or be within the liberties hereof, being indebted unto the king, or for any other matter, let them be at liberty, and all that they have in my realm.

bes@1Macc:10:45 @ Yea, and for the building of the walls of Jerusalem, and the fortifying thereof round about, expenses shall be given out of the king’s accounts, as also for the building of the walls in Judea.

bes@1Macc:10:48 @ Then gathered king Alexander great forces, and camped over against Demetrius.

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:10:55 @ Then Ptolemee the king gave answer, saying, Happy be the day wherein thou didst return into the land of thy fathers, and satest in the throne of their kingdom.

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:10:58 @ Where king Alexander meeting him, he gave unto him his daughter Cleopatra, and celebrated her marriage at Ptolemais with great glory, as the manner of kings is.

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:10:67 @ Furthermore in the; hundred threescore and fifth year came Demetrius son of Demetrius out of Crete into the land of his fathers:

bes@1Macc:10:68 @ Whereof when king Alexander heard tell, he was right sorry, and returned into Antioch.

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:10:74 @ So when Jonathan heard these words of Apollonius, he was moved in his mind, and choosing ten thousand men he went out of Jerusalem, where Simon his brother met him for to help him.

bes@1Macc:10:75 @ And he pitched his tents against Joppa: but; they of Joppa shut him out of the city, because Apollonius had a garrison there.

bes@1Macc:10:76 @ Then Jonathan laid siege unto it: whereupon they of the city let him in for fear: and so Jonathan won Joppa.

bes@1Macc:10:77 @ Whereof when Apollonius heard, he took three thousand horsemen, with a great host of footmen, and went to Azotus as one that journeyed, and therewithal drew him forth into the plain. because he had a great number of horsemen, in whom he put his trust.

bes@1Macc:10:78 @ Then Jonathan followed after him to Azotus, where the armies joined battle.

bes@1Macc:10:80 @ And Jonathan knew that there was an ambushment behind him; for they had compassed in his host, and cast darts at the people, from morning till evening.

bes@1Macc:10:85 @ Thus there were burned and slain with the sword well nigh eight thousand men.

bes@1Macc:10:86 @ And from thence Jonathan removed his host, and camped against Ascalon, where the men of the city came forth, and met him with great pomp.

bes@1Macc:10:89 @ And sent him a buckle of gold, as the use is to be given to such as are of the king’s blood: he gave him also Accaron with the borders thereof in possession.

bes@1Macc:11:1 @ And the king of Egypt gathered together a great host, like the sand that lieth upon the sea shore, and many ships, and went about through deceit to get Alexander’s kingdom, and join it to his own.

bes@1Macc:11:2 @ Whereupon he took his journey into Syria in peaceable manner, so as they of the cities opened unto him, and met him: for king Alexander had commanded them so to do, because he was his brother in law.

bes@1Macc:11:4 @ And when he came near to Azotus, they shewed him the temple of Dagon that was burnt, and Azotus and the suburbs thereof that were destroyed, and the bodies that were cast abroad and them that he had burnt in the battle; for they had made heaps of them by the way where he should pass.

bes@1Macc:11:6 @ Then Jonathan met the king with great pomp at Joppa, where they saluted one another, and lodged.

bes@1Macc:11:7 @ Afterward Jonathan, when he had gone with the king to the river called Eleutherus, returned again to Jerusalem.

bes@1Macc:11:8 @ King Ptolemee therefore, having gotten the dominion of the cities by the sea unto Seleucia upon the sea coast, imagined wicked counsels against Alexander.

bes@1Macc:11:9 @ Whereupon he sent ambassadors unto king Demetrius, saying, Come, let us make a league betwixt us, and I will give thee my daughter whom Alexander hath, and thou shalt reign in thy father’s kingdom:

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:11:13 @ Then Ptolemee entered into Antioch, where he set two crowns upon his head, the crown of Asia, and of Egypt.

bes@1Macc:11:15 @ But when Alexander heard of this, he came to war against him: whereupon king Ptolemee brought forth his host, and met him with a mighty power, and put him to flight.

bes@1Macc:11:16 @ So Alexander fled into Arabia there to be defended; but king Ptolemee was exalted:

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:11:20 @ At the same time Jonathan gathered together them that were in Judea to take the tower that was in Jerusalem: and he made many engines of war against it.

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:11:24 @ And took silver and gold, and raiment, and divers presents besides, and went to Ptolemais unto the king, where he found favour in his sight.

bes@1Macc:11:30 @ King Demetrius unto his brother Jonathan, and unto the nation of the Jews, sendeth greeting:

bes@1Macc:11:31 @ We send you here a copy of the letter which we did write unto our cousin Lasthenes concerning you, that ye might see it.

bes@1Macc:11:32 @ King Demetrius unto his father Lasthenes sendeth greeting:

bes@1Macc:11:34 @ Wherefore we have ratified unto them the borders of Judea, with the three governments of Apherema and Lydda and Ramathem, that are added unto Judea from the country of Samaria, and all things appertaining unto them, for all such as do sacrifice in Jerusalem, instead of the payments which the king received of them yearly aforetime out of the fruits of the earth and of trees.

bes@1Macc:11:35 @ And as for other things that belong unto us, of the tithes and customs pertaining unto us, as also the saltpits, and the crown taxes, which are due unto us, we discharge them of them all for their relief.

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:11:39 @ Moreover there was one Tryphon, that had been of Alexander’s part afore, who, seeing that all the host murmured against Demetrius, went to Simalcue the Arabian that brought up Antiochus the young son of Alexander,

bes@1Macc:11:40 @ And lay sore upon him to deliver him this young Antiochus, that he might reign in his father’s stead: he told him therefore all that Demetrius had done, and how his men of war were at enmity with him, and there he remained a long season.

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:11:45 @ Howbeit they that were of the city gathered themselves together into the midst of the city, to the number of an hundred and twenty thousand men, and would have slain the king.

bes@1Macc:11:46 @ Wherefore the king fled into the court, but they of the city kept the passages of the city, and began to fight.

bes@1Macc:11:49 @ So when they of the city saw that the Jews had got the city as they would, their courage was abated: wherefore they made supplication to the king, and cried, saying,

bes@1Macc:11:53 @ Nevertheless he dissembled in all that ever he spake, and estranged himself from Jonathan, neither rewarded he him according to the benefits which he had received of him, but troubled him very sore.

bes@1Macc:11:55 @ Then there gathered unto him all the men of war, whom Demetrius had put away, and they fought against Demetrius, who turned his back and fled.

bes@1Macc:11:59 @ His brother Simon also he made captain from the place called The ladder of Tyrus unto the borders of Egypt.

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:11:61 @ From whence he went to Gaza, but they of Gaza shut him out; wherefore he laid siege unto it, and burned the suburbs thereof with fire, and spoiled them.

bes@1Macc:11:64 @ He went to meet them, and left Simon his brother in 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:11:74 @ So there were slain of the heathen that day about three thousand men: but Jonathan returned to Jerusalem.

bes@1Macc:12:2 @ He sent letters also to the Lacedemonians, and to other places, for the same purpose.

bes@1Macc:12:6 @ Jonathan the high priest, and the elders of the nation, and the priests, and the other of the Jews, unto the Lacedemonians their brethren send greeting:

bes@1Macc:12:7 @ There were letters sent in times past unto Onias the high priest from Darius, who reigned then among you, to signify that ye are our brethren, as the copy here underwritten doth specify.

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:12:10 @ Have nevertheless attempted to send unto you for the renewing of brotherhood and friendship, lest we should become strangers unto you altogether: for there is a long time passed since ye sent unto us.

bes@1Macc:12:11 @ We therefore at all times without ceasing, both in our feasts, and other convenient days, do remember you in the sacrifices which we offer, and in our prayers, as reason is, and as it becometh us to think upon our brethren:

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:12:17 @ We commanded them also to go unto you, and to salute and to deliver you our letters concerning the renewing of our brotherhood.

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:12:23 @ We do write back again to you, that your cattle and goods are our’s, and our’s are your’s We do command therefore our ambassadors to make report unto you on this wise.

bes@1Macc:12:27 @ Wherefore so soon as the sun was down, Jonathan commanded his men to watch, and to be in arms, that all the night long they might be ready to fight: also he sent forth sentinels round about the host.

bes@1Macc:12:30 @ Then Jonathan pursued after them, but overtook them not: for they were gone over the river Eleutherus.

bes@1Macc:12:31 @ Wherefore Jonathan turned to the Arabians, who were called Zabadeans, and smote them, and took their spoils.

bes@1Macc:12:33 @ Simon also went forth, and passed through the country unto Ascalon, and the holds there adjoining, from whence he turned aside to Joppa, and won it.

bes@1Macc:12:34 @ For he had heard that they would deliver the hold unto them that took Demetrius’ part; wherefore he set a garrison there to keep it.

bes@1Macc:12:35 @ After this came Jonathan home again, and calling the elders of the people together, he consulted with them about building strong holds in Judea,

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:12:37 @ Upon this they came together to build up the city, forasmuch as part of the wall toward the brook on the east side was fallen down, and they repaired that which was called Caphenatha.

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:12:44 @ 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:12:50 @ 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:12:51 @ They therefore that followed upon them, perceiving that they were ready to fight for their lives, turned back again.

bes@1Macc:12:52 @ Whereupon they all came into the land of Judea peaceably, and there they bewailed Jonathan, and them that were with him, and they were sore afraid; wherefore all Israel made great lamentation.

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:13:2 @ And saw that the people was in great trembling and fear, he went up to Jerusalem, and gathered the people together,

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:13:4 @ By reason whereof all my brethren are slain for Israel’s sake, and I am left alone.

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:13:6 @ Doubtless I will avenge my nation, and the sanctuary, and our wives, and our children: for all the heathen are gathered to destroy us of very malice.

bes@1Macc:13:8 @ And they answered with a loud voice, saying, Thou shalt be our leader instead of Judas and Jonathan thy brother.

bes@1Macc:13:10 @ So then he gathered together all the men of war, and made haste to finish the walls of Jerusalem, and he fortified it round about.

bes@1Macc:13:11 @ Also he sent Jonathan the son of Absalom, and with him a great power, to Joppa: who casting out them that were therein remained there in it.

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:13:15 @ Whereas we have Jonathan thy brother in hold, it is for money that he is owing unto the king’s treasure, concerning the business that was committed unto him.

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:13:17 @ Hereupon Simon, albeit he perceived that they spake deceitfully unto him yet sent he the money and the children, lest peradventure he should procure to himself great hatred of the people:

bes@1Macc:13:18 @ Who might have said, Because I sent him not the money and the children, therefore is Jonathan dead.

bes@1Macc:13:19 @ So he sent them the children and the hundred talents: howbeit Tryphon dissembled neither would he let Jonathan go.

bes@1Macc:13:20 @ And after this came Tryphon to invade the land, and destroy it, going round about by the way that leadeth unto Adora: but Simon and his host marched against him in every place, wheresoever he went.

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:13:23 @ And when he came near to Bascama he slew Jonathan, who was buried there.

bes@1Macc:13:25 @ Then sent Simon, and took the bones of Jonathan his brother, and buried them in Modin, the city of his fathers.

bes@1Macc:13:27 @ Simon also built a monument upon the sepulchre of his father and his brethren, and raised it aloft to the sight, with hewn stone behind and before.

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:13:33 @ Then Simon built up the strong holds in Judea, and fenced them about with high towers, and great walls, and gates, and bars, and laid up victuals therein.

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:13:40 @ And look who are meet among you to be in our court, let then be enrolled, and let there be peace betwixt us.

bes@1Macc:13:44 @ And they that were in the engine leaped into the city; whereupon there was a great uproar in the city:

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:13:48 @ Yea, he put all uncleanness out of it, and placed such men there as would keep the law, and made it stronger than it was before, and built therein a dwellingplace for himself.

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:13:51 @ And entered into it the three and twentieth day of the second month in the hundred seventy and first year, with thanksgiving, and branches of palm trees, and with harps, and cymbals, and with viols, and hymns, and songs: because there was destroyed a great enemy out of Israel.

bes@1Macc:13:52 @ He ordained also that that day should be kept every year with gladness. Moreover the hill of the temple that was by the tower he made stronger than it was, and there he dwelt himself with his company.

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:14:7 @ And gathered together a great number of captives, and had the dominion of Gazera, and Bethsura, and the tower, out of the which he took all uncleanness, neither was there any that resisted him.

bes@1Macc:14:8 @ Then did they till their ground in peace, and the earth gave her increase, and the trees of the field their fruit.

bes@1Macc:14:9 @ The ancient men sat all in the streets, communing together of good things, and the young men put on glorious and warlike apparel.

bes@1Macc:14:12 @ For every man sat under his vine and his fig tree, and there was none to fray them:

bes@1Macc:14:13 @ Neither was there any left in the land to fight against them: yea, the kings themselves were overthrown in those days.

bes@1Macc:14:17 @ But as soon as they heard that his brother Simon was made high priest in his stead, and ruled the country, and the cities therein:

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:14:25 @ Whereof when the people heard, they said, What thanks shall we give to Simon and his sons?

bes@1Macc:14:26 @ For he and his brethren and the house of his father have established Israel, and chased away in fight their enemies from them, and confirmed their liberty.

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:14:30 @ (For after that Jonathan, having gathered his nation together, and been their high priest, was added to his people,

bes@1Macc:14:33 @ And fortified the cities of Judea, together with Bethsura, that lieth upon the borders of Judea, where the armour of the enemies had been before; but he set a garrison of Jews there:

bes@1Macc:14:34 @ Moreover he fortified Joppa, which lieth upon the sea, and Gazera, that bordereth upon Azotus, where the enemies had dwelt before: but he placed Jews there, and furnished them with all things convenient for the reparation thereof.)

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:14:37 @ But he placed Jews therein. and fortified it for the safety of the country and the city, and raised up the walls of Jerusalem.

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:14:45 @ And whosoever should do otherwise, or break any of these things, he should be punished.

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:14:49 @ Also that the copies thereof should be laid up in the treasury, to the end that Simon and his sons might have them.

bes@1Macc:15:2 @ The contents whereof were these: King Antiochus to Simon the high priest and prince of his nation, and to the people of the Jews, greeting:

bes@1Macc:15:3 @ Forasmuch as certain pestilent men have usurped the kingdom of our fathers, and my purpose is to challenge it again, that I may restore it to the old estate, and to that end have gathered a multitude of foreign soldiers together, and prepared ships of war;

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:15:10 @ In the hundred threescore and fourteenth year went Antiochus into the land of his fathers: at which time all the forces came together unto him, so that few were left with Tryphon.

bes@1Macc:15:11 @ Wherefore being pursued by king Antiochus, he fled unto Dora, which lieth by the sea side:

bes@1Macc:15:14 @ And when he had compassed the city round about, and joined ships close to the town on the sea side, he vexed the city by land and by sea, neither suffered he any to go out or in.

bes@1Macc:15:15 @ In the mean season came Numenius and his company from Rome, having letters to the kings and countries; wherein were written these things:

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:15:21 @ If therefore there be any pestilent fellows, that have fled from their country unto you, deliver them unto Simon the high priest, that he may punish them according to their own law.

bes@1Macc:15:24 @ And the copy hereof they wrote to Simon the high priest.

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:15:28 @ 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:15:29 @ The borders thereof ye have wasted, and done great hurt in the land, and got the dominion of many places within my kingdom.

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:15:33 @ 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:15:34 @ Wherefore we, having opportunity, hold the inheritance of our fathers.

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:15:36 @ But returned in a rage to the king, and made report unto him of these speeches, and of the glory of Simon, and of all that he had seen: whereupon the king was exceeding wroth.

bes@1Macc:15:41 @ And when he had built up Cedron, he set horsemen there, and an host of footmen, to the end that issuing out they might make outroads upon the ways of Judea, as the king had commanded him.

bes@1Macc:16:1 @ Then came up John from Gazera, and told Simon his father what Cendebeus had done.

bes@1Macc:16:2 @ Wherefore Simon called his two eldest sons, Judas and John, and said unto them, I, and my brethren, and my father’s house, have ever from my youth unto this day fought against the enemies of Israel; and things have prospered so well in our hands, that we have delivered Israel oftentimes.

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:16:5 @ And when as they rose in the morning, and went into the plain, behold, a mighty great host both of footmen and horsemen came against them: howbeit there was a water brook betwixt them.

bes@1Macc:16:8 @ Then sounded they with the holy trumpets: whereupon Cendebeus and his host were put to flight, so that many of them were slain, and the remnant gat them to the strong hold.

bes@1Macc:16:9 @ At that time was Judas John’s brother wounded; but John still followed after them, until he came to Cedron, which Cendebeus had built.

bes@1Macc:16:10 @ So they fled even unto the towers in the fields of Azotus; wherefore he burned it with fire: so that there were slain of them about two thousand men. Afterward he returned into the land of Judea in peace.

bes@1Macc:16:13 @ Wherefore his heart being lifted up, he thought to get the country to himself, and thereupon consulted deceitfully against Simon and his sons to destroy them.

bes@1Macc:16:15 @ Where the son of Abubus receiving them deceitfully into a little hold, called Docus, which he had built, made them a great banquet: howbeit he had hid men there.

bes@1Macc:16:17 @ In which doing he committed a great treachery, and recompensed evil for good.

bes@1Macc:16:19 @ He sent others also to Gazera to kill John: and unto the tribunes he sent letters to come unto him, that he might give them silver, and gold, and rewards.

bes@1Macc:16:20 @ And others he sent to take Jerusalem, and the mountain of the temple.

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@1Macc:16:22 @ Hereof when he heard, he was sore astonished: so he laid hands on them that were come to destroy him, and slew them; for he knew that they sought to make him away.

bes@1Macc:16:24 @ Behold, these are written in the chronicles of his priesthood, from the time he was made high priest after his father.

bes@2Macc:1:6 @ And now we be here praying for you.

bes@2Macc:1:14 @ For Antiochus, as though he would marry her, came into the place, and his friends that were with him, to receive money in name of a dowry.

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:1:21 @ Then commanded he them to draw it up, and to bring it; and when the sacrifices were laid on, Neemias commanded the priests to sprinkle the wood and the things laid thereupon with the water.

bes@2Macc:1:22 @ When this was done, and the time came that the sun shone, which afore was hid in the cloud, there was a great fire kindled, so that every man marvelled.

bes@2Macc:1:23 @ And the priests made a prayer whilst the sacrifice was consuming, I say, both the priests, and all the rest, Jonathan beginning, and the rest answering thereunto, as Neemias did.

bes@2Macc:1:25 @ The only giver of all things, the only just, almighty, and everlasting, thou that deliverest Israel from all trouble, and didst choose the fathers, and sanctify them:

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:1:32 @ When this was done, there was kindled a flame: but it was consumed by the light that shined from the altar.

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:1:35 @ And the king took many gifts, and bestowed thereof on those whom he would gratify.

bes@2Macc:2:3 @ And with other such speeches exhorted he them, that the law should not depart from their hearts.

bes@2Macc:2:4 @ It was also contained in the same writing, that the prophet, being warned of God, commanded the tabernacle and the ark to go with him, as he went forth into the mountain, where Moses climbed up, and saw the heritage of God.

bes@2Macc:2:5 @ And when Jeremy came thither, he found an hollow cave, wherein he laid the tabernacle, and the ark, and the altar of incense, and so stopped the door.

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:2:13 @ The same things also were reported in the writings and commentaries of Neemias; and how he founding a library gathered together the acts of the kings, and the prophets, and of David, and the epistles of the kings concerning the holy gifts.

bes@2Macc:2:14 @ In like manner also Judas gathered together all those things that were lost by reason of the war we had, and they remain with us,

bes@2Macc:2:15 @ Wherefore if ye have need thereof, send some to fetch them unto you.

bes@2Macc:2:16 @ Whereas we then are about to celebrate the purification, we have written unto you, and ye shall do well, if ye keep the same days.

bes@2Macc:2:17 @ We hope also, that the God, that delivered all his people, and gave them all an heritage, and the kingdom, and the priesthood, and the sanctuary,

bes@2Macc:2:18 @ As he promised in the law, will shortly have mercy upon us, and gather us together out of every land under heaven into the holy place: for he hath delivered us out of great troubles, and hath purified the place.

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:2:29 @ For as the master builder of a new house must care for the whole building; but he that undertaketh to set it out, and paint it, must seek out fit things for the adorning thereof: even so I think it is with us.

bes@2Macc:2:32 @ Here then will we begin the story: only adding thus much to that which hath been said, that it is a foolish thing to make a long prologue, and to be short in the story itself.

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:3:9 @ And when he was come to Jerusalem, and had been courteously received of the high priest of the city, he told him what intelligence was given of the money, and declared wherefore he came, and asked if these things were so indeed.

bes@2Macc:3:10 @ Then the high priest told him that there was such money laid up for the relief of widows and fatherless children:

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:3:18 @ Others ran flocking out of their houses to the general supplication, because the place was like to come into contempt.

bes@2Macc:3:19 @ And the women, girt with sackcloth under their breasts, abounded in the streets, and the virgins that were kept in ran, some to the gates, and some to the walls, and others looked out of the windows.

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:3:25 @ For there appeared unto them an horse with a terrible rider upon him, and adorned with a very fair covering, and he ran fiercely, and smote at Heliodorus with his forefeet, and it seemed that he that sat upon the horse had complete harness of gold.

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:3:32 @ So the high priest, suspecting lest the king should misconceive that some treachery had been done to Heliodorus by the Jews, offered a sacrifice for the health of the man.

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:4:6 @ For he saw that it was impossible that the state should continue quiet, and Simon leave his folly, unless the king did look thereunto.

bes@2Macc:4:7 @ But after the death of Seleucus, when Antiochus, called Epiphanes, took the kingdom, Jason the brother of Onias laboured underhand to be high priest,

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:4:11 @ And the royal privileges granted of special favour to the Jews by the means of John the father of Eupolemus, who went ambassador to Rome for amity and aid, he took away; and putting down the governments which were according to the law, he brought up new customs against the law:

bes@2Macc:4:15 @ Not setting by the honours of their fathers, but liking the glory of the Grecians best of all.

bes@2Macc:4:16 @ By reason whereof sore calamity came upon them: for they had them to be their enemies and avengers, whose custom they followed so earnestly, and unto whom they desired to be like in all things.

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:4:20 @ This money then, in regard of the sender, was appointed to Hercules’ sacrifice; but because of the bearers thereof, it was employed to the making of gallies.

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:4:23 @ Three years afterward Jason sent Menelaus, the aforesaid Simon’s brother, to bear the money unto the king, and to put him in mind of certain necessary matters.

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:4:28 @ For unto him appertained the gathering of the customs. Wherefore they were both called before the king.

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:4:34 @ Wherefore Menelaus, taking Andronicus apart, prayed, him to get Onias into his hands; who being persuaded thereunto, and coming to Onias in deceit, gave him his right hand with oaths; and though he were suspected by him, yet persuaded he him to come forth of the sanctuary: whom forthwith he shut up without regard of justice.

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:4:37 @ Therefore Antiochus was heartily sorry, and moved to pity, and wept, because of the sober and modest behaviour of him that was dead.

bes@2Macc:4:38 @ And being kindled with anger, forthwith he took away Andronicus his purple, and rent off his clothes, and leading him through the whole city unto that very place, where he had committed impiety against Onias, there slew he the cursed murderer. Thus the Lord rewarded him his punishment, as he had deserved.

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:4:41 @ They then seeing the attempt of Lysimachus, some of them caught stones, some clubs, others taking handfuls of dust, that was next at hand, cast them all together upon Lysimachus, and those that set upon them.

bes@2Macc:4:43 @ Of these matters therefore there was an accusation laid against Menelaus.

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:4:49 @ Wherefore even they of Tyrus, moved with hatred of that wicked deed, caused them to be honourably buried.

bes@2Macc:5:2 @ And then it happened, that through all the city, for the space almost of forty days, there were seen horsemen running in the air, in cloth of gold, and armed with lances, like a band of soldiers,

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:5:4 @ Wherefore every man prayed that that apparition might turn to good.

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:5:8 @ In the end therefore he had an unhappy return, being accused before Aretas the king of the Arabians, fleeing from city to city, pursued of all men, hated as a forsaker of the laws, and being had in abomination as an open enemy of his country and countrymen, he was cast out into Egypt.

bes@2Macc:5:9 @ Thus he that had driven many out of their country perished in a strange land, retiring to the Lacedemonians, and thinking there to find succour by reason of his kindred:

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:5:13 @ Thus there was killing of young and old, making away of men, women, and children, slaying of virgins and infants.

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:5:16 @ 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:5:20 @ And therefore the place itself, that was partaker with them of the adversity that happened to the nation, did afterward communicate in the benefits sent from the Lord: and as it was forsaken in the wrath of the Almighty, so again, the great Lord being reconciled, it was set up with all glory.

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:5:27 @ But Judas Maccabeus with nine others, or thereabout, withdrew himself into the wilderness, and lived in the mountains after the manner of beasts, with his company, who fed on herbs continually, lest they should be partakers of the pollution.

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:6:6 @ Neither was it lawful for a man to keep sabbath days or ancient fasts, or to profess himself at all to be a Jew.

bes@2Macc:6:8 @ Moreover there went out a decree to the neighbour cities of the heathen, by the suggestion of Ptolemee, against the Jews, that they should observe the same fashions, and be partakers of their sacrifices:

bes@2Macc:6:10 @ For there were two women brought, who had circumcised their children; whom when they had openly led round about the city, the babes handing at their breasts, they cast them down headlong from the wall.

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:6:14 @ 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:6:16 @ And therefore he never withdraweth his mercy from us: and though he punish with adversity, yet doth he never forsake his people.

bes@2Macc:6:19 @ But he, choosing rather to die gloriously, than to live stained with such an abomination, spit it forth, and came of his own accord to the torment,

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:6:30 @ 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:7:1 @ It came to pass also, that seven brethren with their mother were taken, and compelled by the king against the law to taste swine’s flesh, and were tormented with scourges and whips.

bes@2Macc:7:2 @ But one of them that spake first said thus, What wouldest thou ask or learn of us? we are ready to die, rather than to transgress the laws of our fathers.

bes@2Macc:7:4 @ Which forthwith being heated, he commanded to cut out the tongue of him that spake first, and to cut off the utmost parts of his body, the rest of his brethren and his mother looking on.

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:7:18 @ 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:7:20 @ 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:7:21 @ Yea, she exhorted every one of them in her own language, filled with courageous spirits; and stirring up her womanish thoughts with a manly stomach, she said unto them,

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:7:24 @ 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:7:26 @ And when he had exhorted her with many words, she promised him that she would counsel her son.

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:7:30 @ 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:7:34 @ 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:7:37 @ But I, as my brethren, offer up my body and life for the laws of our fathers, beseeching God that he would speedily be merciful unto our nation; and that thou by torments and plagues mayest confess, that he alone is God;

bes@2Macc:7:41 @ Last of all after the sons the mother died.

bes@2Macc:8:1 @ Then Judas Maccabeus, and they that were with him, went privily into the towns, and called their kinsfolks together, and took unto them all such as continued in the Jews’ religion, and assembled about six thousand men.

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:8:7 @ But specially took he advantage of the night for such privy attempts, insomuch that the fruit of his holiness was spread every where.

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:8:14 @ 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:8:17 @ And to set before their eyes the injury that they had unjustly done to the holy place, and the cruel handling of the city, whereof they made a mockery, and also the taking away of the government of their forefathers:

bes@2Macc:8:19 @ Moreover, he recounted unto them what helps their forefathers had found, and how they were delivered, when under Sennacherib an hundred fourscore and five thousand perished.

bes@2Macc:8:26 @ For it was the day before the sabbath, and therefore they would no longer pursue them.

bes@2Macc:8:27 @ So when they had gathered their armour together, and spoiled their enemies, they occupied themselves about the sabbath, yielding exceeding praise and thanks to the Lord, who had preserved them unto that day, which was the beginning of mercy distilling upon them.

bes@2Macc:8:31 @ And when they had gathered their armour together, they laid them up all carefully in convenient places, and the remnant of the spoils they brought to Jerusalem.

bes@2Macc:8:33 @ Furthermore at such time as they kept the feast for the victory in their country they burnt Callisthenes, that had set fire upon the holy gates, who had fled into a little house; and so he received a reward meet for his wickedness.

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:9:2 @ For he had entered the city called Persepolis, and went about to rob the temple, and to hold the city; whereupon the multitude running to defend themselves with their weapons put them to flight; and so it happened, that Antiochus being put to flight of the inhabitants returned with shame.

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:9:6 @ And that most justly: for he had tormented other men’s bowels with many and strange torments.

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:9:18 @ 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:9:23 @ But considering that even my father, at what time he led an army into the high countries. appointed a successor,

bes@2Macc:9:26 @ Therefore I pray and request you to remember the benefits that I have done unto you generally, and in special, and that every man will be still faithful to me and my son.

bes@2Macc:9:28 @ Thus the murderer and blasphemer having suffered most grievously, as he entreated other men, so died he a miserable death in a strange country in the mountains.

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:10:7 @ Therefore they bare branches, and fair boughs, and palms also, and sang psalms unto him that had given them good success in cleansing his place.

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:10:12 @ For Ptolemeus, that was called Macron, choosing rather to do justice unto the Jews for the wrong that had been done unto them, endeavoured to continue peace with them.

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:10:15 @ 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:10:18 @ 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:10:21 @ 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:10:27 @ So after the prayer they took their weapons, and went on further from the city: and when they drew near to their enemies, they kept by themselves.

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:10:29 @ But when the battle waxed strong, there appeared unto the enemies from heaven five comely men upon horses, with bridles of gold, and two of them led the Jews,

bes@2Macc:10:31 @ And there were slain of footmen twenty thousand and five hundred, and six hundred horsemen.

bes@2Macc:10:32 @ As for Timotheus himself, he fled into a very strong hold, called Gazara, where Chereas was governor.

bes@2Macc:10:36 @ Others likewise ascending after them, whiles they were busied with them that were within, burnt the towers, and kindling fires burnt the blasphemers alive; and others broke open the gates, and, having received in the rest of the army, took the city,

bes@2Macc:10:37 @ And killed Timotheus, that was hid in a certain pit, and Chereas his brother, with Apollophanes.

bes@2Macc:11:2 @ And when he had gathered about fourscore thousand with all the horsemen, he came against the Jews, thinking to make the city an habitation of the Gentiles,

bes@2Macc:11:3 @ And to make a gain of the temple, as of the other chapels of the heathen, and to set the high priesthood to sale every year:

bes@2Macc:11:7 @ Then Maccabeus himself first of all took weapons, exhorting the other that they would jeopard themselves together with him to help their brethren: so they went forth together with a willing mind.

bes@2Macc:11:8 @ And as they were at Jerusalem, there appeared before them on horseback one in white clothing, shaking his armour of gold.

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:11:11 @ And giving a charge upon their enemies like lions, they slew eleven thousand footmen, and sixteen hundred horsemen, and put all the other to flight.

bes@2Macc:11:16 @ For there were letters written unto the Jews from Lysias to this effect: Lysias unto the people of the Jews sendeth greeting:

bes@2Macc:11:17 @ John and Absalon, who were sent from you, delivered me the petition subscribed, and made request for the performance of the contents thereof.

bes@2Macc:11:18 @ Therefore what things soever were meet to be reported to the king, I have declared them, and he hath granted as much as might be.

bes@2Macc:11:19 @ And if then ye will keep yourselves loyal to the state, hereafter also will I endeavour to be a means of your good.

bes@2Macc:11:20 @ But of the particulars I have given order both to these and the other that came from me, to commune with you.

bes@2Macc:11:22 @ Now the king’s letter contained these words: King Antiochus unto his brother Lysias sendeth greeting:

bes@2Macc:11:23 @ Since our father is translated unto the gods, our will is, that they that are in our realm live quietly, that every one may attend upon his own affairs.

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:11:25 @ Wherefore our mind is, that this nation shall be in rest, and we have determined to restore them their temple, that they may live according to the customs of their forefathers.

bes@2Macc:11:26 @ Thou shalt do well therefore to send unto them, and grant them peace, that when they are certified of our mind, they may be of good comfort, and ever go cheerfully about their own affairs.

bes@2Macc:11:30 @ Wherefore they that will depart shall have safe conduct till the thirtieth day of Xanthicus with security.

bes@2Macc:11:35 @ Whatsoever Lysias the king’s cousin hath granted, therewith we also are well pleased.

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:12:6 @ And calling upon God the righteous Judge, he came against those murderers of his brethren, and burnt the haven by night, and set the boats on fire, and those that fled thither he slew.

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:12:12 @ Then Judas, thinking indeed that they would be profitable in many things, granted them peace: whereupon they shook hands, and so they departed to their tents.

bes@2Macc:12:15 @ Wherefore Judas with his company, calling upon the great Lord of the world, who without rams or engines of war did cast down Jericho in the time of Joshua, gave a fierce assault against the walls,

bes@2Macc:12:16 @ And took the city by the will of God, and made unspeakable slaughters, insomuch that a lake two furlongs broad near adjoining thereunto, being filled full, was seen running with blood.

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:12:26 @ Then Maccabeus marched forth to Carnion, and to the temple of Atargatis, and there he slew five and twenty thousand persons.

bes@2Macc:12:27 @ And after he had put to flight and destroyed them, Judas removed the host toward Ephron, a strong city, wherein Lysias abode, and a great multitude of divers nations, and the strong young men kept the walls, and defended them mightily: wherein also was great provision of engines and darts.

bes@2Macc:12:30 @ But when the Jews that dwelt there had testified that the Scythopolitans dealt lovingly with them, and entreated them kindly in the time of their adversity;

bes@2Macc:12:34 @ And it happened that in their fighting together a few of the Jews were slain.

bes@2Macc:12:38 @ So Judas gathered his host, and came into the city of Odollam, And when the seventh day came, they purified themselves, as the custom was, and kept the sabbath in the same place.

bes@2Macc:12:39 @ And upon the day following, as the use had been, Judas and his company came to take up the bodies of them that were slain, and to bury them with their kinsmen in their fathers’ graves.

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:12:41 @ All men therefore praising the Lord, the righteous Judge, who had opened the things that were hid,

bes@2Macc:12:43 @ And when he had made a gathering throughout the company to the sum of two thousand drachms of silver, he sent it to Jerusalem to offer a sin offering, doing therein very well and honestly, in that he was mindful of the resurrection:

bes@2Macc:12:45 @ And also in that he perceived that there was great favour laid up for those that died godly, it was an holy and good thought. Whereupon he made a reconciliation for the dead, that they might be delivered from sin.

bes@2Macc:13:2 @ And with him Lysias his protector, and ruler of his affairs, having either of them a Grecian power of footmen, an hundred and ten thousand, and horsemen five thousand and three hundred, and elephants two and twenty, and three hundred chariots armed with hooks.

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:13:6 @ And whosoever was condemned of sacrilege, or had committed any other grievous crime, there did all men thrust him unto death.

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:13:12 @ So when they had all done this together, and besought the merciful Lord with weeping and fasting, and lying flat upon the ground three days long, Judas, having exhorted them, commanded they should be in a readiness.

bes@2Macc:13:21 @ But Rhodocus, who was in the Jews’ host, disclosed the secrets to the enemies; therefore he was sought out, and when they had gotten him, they put him in prison.

bes@2Macc:13:25 @ Came to Ptolemais: the people there were grieved for the covenants; for they stormed, because they would make their covenants void:

bes@2Macc:14:5 @ Howbeit having gotten opportunity to further his foolish enterprise, and being called into counsel by Demetrius, and asked how the Jews stood affected, and what they intended, he answered thereunto:

bes@2Macc:14:7 @ Therefore I, being deprived of mine ancestors’ honour, I mean the high priesthood, am now come hither:

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:14:11 @ 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:14:17 @ Now Simon, Judas’ brother, had joined battle with Nicanor, but was somewhat discomfited through the sudden silence of his enemies.

bes@2Macc:14:19 @ Wherefore he sent Posidonius, and Theodotus, and Mattathias, to make peace.

bes@2Macc:14:20 @ So when they had taken long advisement thereupon, and the captain had made the multitude acquainted therewith, and it appeared that they were all of one mind, they consented to the covenants,

bes@2Macc:14:21 @ And appointed a day to meet in together by themselves: and when the day came, and stools were set for either of them,

bes@2Macc:14:22 @ Judas placed armed men ready in convenient places, lest some treachery should be suddenly practised by the enemies: so they made a peaceable conference.

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:14:36 @ 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:14:42 @ 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:14:45 @ Nevertheless, while there was yet breath within him, being inflamed with anger, he rose up; and though his blood gushed out like spouts of water, and his wounds were grievous, yet he ran through the midst of the throng; and standing upon a steep rock,

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:15:3 @ Then the most ungracious wretch demanded, if there were a Mighty one in heaven, that had commanded the sabbath day to be kept.

bes@2Macc:15:4 @ And when they said, There is in heaven a living Lord, and mighty, who commanded the seventh day to be kept:

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:15:8 @ 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:15:10 @ And when he had stirred up their minds, he gave them their charge, shewing them therewithal the falsehood of the heathen, and the breach of oaths.

bes@2Macc:15:13 @ This done, in like manner there appeared a man with gray hairs, and exceeding glorious, who was of a wonderful and excellent majesty.

bes@2Macc:15:15 @ Whereupon Jeremias holding forth his right hand gave to Judas a sword of gold, and in giving it spake thus,

bes@2Macc:15:22 @ Therefore in his prayer he said after this manner; O Lord, thou didst send thine angel in the time of Ezekias king of Judea, and didst slay in the host of Sennacherib an hundred fourscore and five thousand:

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:15:31 @ So when he was there, and called them of his nation together, and set the priests before the altar, he sent for them that were of the tower,

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@2Macc:15:39 @ For as it is hurtful to drink wine or water alone; and as wine mingled with water is pleasant, and delighteth the taste: even so speech finely framed delighteth the ears of them that read the story. And here shall be an end.

bes@AddDaniel:1:2 @ Blessed art thou, O Lord God of our fathers: thy name is worthy to be praised and glorified for evermore:

bes@AddDaniel:1:4 @ In all the things that thou hast brought upon us, and upon the holy city of our fathers, even Jerusalem, thou hast executed true judgement: for according to truth and judgement didst thou bring all these things upon us because of our sins.

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:1:7 @ Wherefore all that thou hast brought upon us, and every thing that thou hast done to us, thou hast done in true judgement.

bes@AddDaniel:1:10 @ Yet deliver us not up wholly, for thy name’s sake, neither disannul thou thy covenant:

bes@AddDaniel:1:14 @ Neither is there at this time prince, or prophet, or leader, or burnt offering, or sacrifice, or oblation, or incense, or place to sacrifice before thee, and to find mercy.

bes@AddDaniel:1:25 @ But the angel of the Lord came down into the oven together with Azarias and his fellows, and smote the flame of the fire out of the oven;

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:1:28 @ Blessed art thou, O Lord God of our fathers: and to be praised and exalted above all for ever.

bes@AddDaniel:1:31 @ Blessed art thou that beholdest the depths, and sittest upon the cherubims: and to be praised and exalted above all for ever.

bes@PrMan:1:1 @ -- O Lord, Almighty God of our fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and of their righteous seed;

bes@PrMan:1:2 @ who hast made heaven and earth, with all the ornament thereof;

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:1:10 @ 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:1:13 @ 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@PrMan:1:15 @ Therefore I will praise thee for ever all the days of my life: for all the powers of the heavens do praise thee, and thine is the glory for ever and ever. Amen.

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:1:3 @ But Dositheus, called the son of Drimulus, by birth a Jew, afterward a renegade from the laws and observances of his country, conveyed Ptolemy away, and made an obscure person lie down in his stead in the tent. It befell this man to receive the fate which was meant for the other.

bes@3Macc:1:18 @ Virgins, who had been shut up within their chambers, came out with their mothers, scattering dust and ashes on their heads, and filling the streets with outcries.

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:1:23 @ Calling out to arms, and to die bravely in defence of the law of their fathers, they created a great uproar in the place, and were with difficulty brought back by the aged and the elders to the station of prayer which they had occupied before.

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:2:12 @ And when thou didst often aid our fathers when hard pressed, and in low estate, and deliveredst them out of gret dangers,

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:2:27 @ His purpose was to indict a public stigma upon our race; wherefore he erected a pillar at the tower-porch, and caused the following inscription to be engraved upon it:

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:3:2 @ While this was going on, an invidious rumour was uttered abroad by men who had banded together to injure the Jewish race. The purport of their charge was, that the Jews kept them away from the ordinances of the law.

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:3:25 @ 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:3:27 @ Whosoever shall shield a Jew, whether it be old man, child, or suckling, shall with his whole house be tortured to death.

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:4:9 @ They were dragged along by unyielding chains, like wild beasts: of these, some had their necks thrust into the benches of the rowers; while the feet of others were enclosed in hard fetters.

bes@3Macc:4:18 @ inasmuch as there were many still left in the land, of whom some were in inhabited houses, and others were scattered about in various places; so that all the commanders in Egypt were insufficient for the work.

bes@3Macc:5:1 @ Then he called Hermon, who had charge of the elephants. Full of rage, altogether fixed in his furious design,

bes@3Macc:5:3 @ The king, after issuing these orders, went to his feasting, and gathered together all those of his friends and of the army who hated the Jews the most.

bes@3Macc:5:4 @ The master of the elephants, Hermon, fulfilled his commission punctually.

bes@3Macc:5:5 @ The underlings appointed for the purpose went out about eventide and bound the hands of the miserable victims, and took other precautions for their security at night, thinking that the whole race would perish together.

bes@3Macc:5:7 @ they invoked the Almighty Lord, and ceaselessly besought with tears their merciful God and Father, Ruler of all, Lord of every power,

bes@3Macc:5:10 @ Then Hermon, who had filled his merciless elephants with copious draughts of mingled wine and frankincense, came early to the palace to certify the kind thereof.

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:5:18 @ Conversation grew on, and the king sent for Hermon, and enquired of him, with fierce denunciations, why the Jews had been allowed to outlive that day.

bes@3Macc:5:19 @ Hermon explained that he had done his bidding over night; and in this he was confirmed by his friends.

bes@3Macc:5:23 @ The morning cock had just crowed, and Hermon, having harnessed the brutes, was stimulating them in the great colonnade.

bes@3Macc:5:24 @ The city crowds were collected together to see the hideous spectacle, and waited impatiently for the dawn.

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:5:29 @ Hermon, and all his friends, pointed out the preparation of the animals. they are ready, O king, according to your own strict injunction.

bes@3Macc:5:30 @ The king was filled with fierce anger at these words; for, by the Providence of God regarding these things, his mind had become entirely confused. He looked hard at Hermon, and threatened him as follows:

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:5:33 @ Hermon, being threatened in this unexpected and alarming manner, was troubled in visage, and depressed in countenance.

bes@3Macc:5:36 @ Now the king arranged another banquet after the same manner, and proclaimed an invitation to mirth.

bes@3Macc:5:27 @ And he summoned Hermon to his presence, and said, with threats, How often, O wretch, must I repeat my orders to thee about these same persons?

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:5:44 @ Joyfully his friends broke up, together with his kinsmen; and, trusting in his determination, arranged their forces in guard at the most convenient places of the city.

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: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:6:5 @ When Sennacherim, the grievous king of the Assyrians, glorying in his countless hosts, had subdued the whole land with his spear, and was lifting himself against thine holy city, with boastings grievous to be endured, thou, O Lord, didst demolish him and didst shew forth thy might to many nations.

bes@3Macc:6:6 @ When the three friends in the land of Babylon of their own will exposed their lives to the fire rather than serve vain things, thou didst send a dewy coolness through the fiery furnace, and bring the fire upon all their adversaries.

bes@3Macc:6:8 @ When Jonah was pining away in the belly of the sea-bred monster, thou didst look upon him, O Father, and recover him to the sight of his own.

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:6:25 @ Who has gathered here, unreasonably removing each from his home, those who, in fidelity to us, had held the fortresses of the country?

bes@3Macc:6:30 @ The king then departed to the city, and called his financier to him, and bade him provide a seven days' quantity of wine and other materials for feasting for the Jews. He decided that they should keep a gladsome festival of deliverance in the very place in which they expected to meet with their destruction.

bes@3Macc:6:31 @ Then they who were before despised and nigh unto hades, yea, rather advanced into it, partook of the cup of salvation, instead of a grievous and lamentable death. Full of exultation, they parted out the place intended for their fall and burial into banqueting booths.

bes@3Macc:6:32 @ Ceasing their miserable strain of woe, they took up the subject of their fatherland, hymning in praise God their wonder-working Saviour. All groans, all wailing, were laid aside: they formed dances in token of serene joy.

bes@3Macc:6:39 @ The Ruler over all did during this time manifest forth his mercy gloriously, and did deliver them all together unharmed.

bes@3Macc:7:4 @ They pretended that our affairs would never be in a good state till this took place. Such, they said, was the hatred borne by the Jews to all other people.

bes@3Macc:7:6 @ For this cause we severely threatened them; yet, with the clemency which we are wont to extend to all men, we at length permitted them to live. Finding that the God of heaven cast a shield of protection over the Jews so as to preserve them, and that he fought for them as a father always fights for his sons;

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:7:16 @ They themselves having held fast their God unto death, and having enjoyed a full deliverance, departed from the city garlanded with sweet-flowered wreaths of every kind. Uttering exclamations of joy, with songs of praise, and melodious hymns they thanked the God of their fathers, the eternal Saviour of Israel.

bes@3Macc:7:17 @ Having arrived at Ptolemais, called from the specialty of that district Rose-bearing, where the fleet, in accordance with the general wish, waited for them seven days,

bes@4Macc:1:7 @ I might prove to you, from may other considerations, that religious reasoning is sole master of the passions;

bes@4Macc:1:8 @ but I shall prove it with the greatest force from the fortitude of Eleazar, and seven brethren, and their mother, who suffered death in defence of virtue.

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:1:13 @ The question, therefore, is, whether reasoning be absolute master of the passions.

bes@4Macc:1:14 @ Let us determine, then, What is reasoning? and what passion? and how many forms of the passions? and whether reasoning bears sway over all of these?

bes@4Macc:1:21 @ And there are many attendant affections surrounding pleasure and pain.

bes@4Macc:1:25 @ And there exists in pleasure a malicious disposition, which is the most multiform of all the affections.

bes@4Macc:1:28 @ As pleasure and pain are, therefore, two growth of the body and the soul, so there are many offshoots of these passions.

bes@4Macc:1:32 @ But of the lusts, some belong to the soul, others to the body: and over each of these classes the reasoning appears to bear sway.

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:2:2 @ on this ground, therefore, the temperate Joseph is praised in that by reasoning, he subdued, on reflection, the indulgence of sense.

bes@4Macc:2:8 @ A man, therefore, who regulates his course by the law, even if he be a lover of money, straightway puts force upon his own disposition; lending to the needy without interest, and cancelling the debt of the incoming sabbath.

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:2:14 @ 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:2:18 @ For the temperate mind is able, as I said, to be superior to the passions, and to transfer some, and destroy others.

bes@4Macc:2:19 @ For why, else, does our most wise father Jacob blame Simeon and Levi for having irrationally slain the whole race of the Shechemites, saying, Cursed be their anger.

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:3:16 @ Wherefore, setting up reasoning in opposition to his desire, he poured out the draught to God.

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:4:10 @ and Appolonius going up with his armed force to the seizure of the treasure,--there appeared from heaven angels riding on horseback, all radiant in armour, filling them with much fear and trembling.

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:4:16 @ Who having deposed Onias from the high priesthood, appointed his brother Jason to be high priest:

bes@4Macc:4:26 @ When, therefore, his decrees were disregarded by the people, he himself compelled by means of tortures every one of this race, by tasting forbidden meats, to abjure the Jewish religion.

bes@4Macc:5:1 @ The tyrant Antiochus, therefore, sitting in public state with his assessors upon a certain lofty place, with his armed troops standing in a circle around him, commanded his spearbearers to seize every one of the Hebrews, and to compel them to taste swine's flesh, and things offered to idols.

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:5:7 @ For wherefore, since nature has conferred upon you the most excellent flesh of this animal, do you loathe it?

bes@4Macc:5:13 @ For, bear in mind, that if there be any power which watches over this religion of yours, it will pardon you for all transgressions of the law which you commit through compulsion.

bes@4Macc:5:17 @ wherefore we consider that we ought not in any point to transgress the law.

bes@4Macc:5:20 @ For transgression of the law, whether in small or great matters, is of equal moment;

bes@4Macc:5:21 @ for in either case the law is equally slighted.

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:5:29 @ nor will I transgress the sacred oaths of my forefathers to keep the law.

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:5:37 @ 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:6:4 @ a herald opposite crying out, Obey the commands of the king.

bes@4Macc:6:12 @ Wherefore, partly in pity for his old age,

bes@4Macc:6:22 @ Wherefore do you, O children of Abraham, die nobly for your religion.

bes@4Macc:6:31 @ Confessedly, therefore, religious reasoning is master of the passions.

bes@4Macc:7:1 @ The reasoning of our father Eleazar, like a first-rate pilot, steering the vessel of piety in the sea of passions,

bes@4Macc:7:5 @ For father Eleazar, projecting his disposition, broke the raging wabves of the passions as with a jutting promontory.

bes@4Macc:7:9 @ Thou, father, hast gloriously established our right government by thy endurance; and making of much account our service past, prevented its destruction, and, by thy deeds, hast made credible the words of philosophy.

bes@4Macc:7:11 @ For as father Aaron, armed with a censer, hastening through the consuming fire, vanquished the flame-bearing angel,

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:8:1 @ Then, indeed, vehemently swayed with passion, he commanded to bring others of the adult Hebrews, and if they would eat of the unclean thing, to let them go when they had eaten; but if they objected, to torment them more grievously.

bes@4Macc:8:2 @ The tyrant having given this charge, seven brethren were brought into his presence, along with their aged mother, handsome, and modest, and well-born, and altogether comely.

bes@4Macc:8:3 @ Whom, when the tyrant beheld, encircling their mother as in a dance, he was pleased at them; and being struck with their becoming and ingenuous mien, smiled upon them, and calling them near, said:

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:8:19 @ Let us have compassion upon our age and relent over the years of our mother.

bes@4Macc:8:27 @ For they were well aware of the sufferings, and masters of the pains. So that as soon as the tyrant had ceased counselling them to eat the unclean, they altogether with one voice, as from the same heart said:

bes@4Macc:9:1 @ Why delayest thou, O tyrant? for we are readier to die than to transgress the injunctions of our fathers.

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:9:23 @ 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:9:28 @ after they with the iron hands had violently dragged all the flesh from the neck to the chin, the panther-like beasts tore off the very skin of his head: but he, bearing with firmness this misery, said,

bes@4Macc:9:29 @ How sweet is every form of death for the religion of our fathers! and he said to the tyrant,

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:10:7 @ 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:10:15 @ 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:10:16 @ Invent, O tyrant, tortures; that you may learn, even through them, that I am the brother of those tormented before.

bes@4Macc:11:7 @ hadst thou been capable of the higher feelings of men, and possessed the hope of salvation from 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:11:13 @ He also being dead, the sixth, quite a youth, was brought out; and on the tyrant asking him whether he would eat and be delivered, he said,

bes@4Macc:11:14 @ I am indeed younger than my brothers, but in understanding I am am as old;

bes@4Macc:12:6 @ And having thus exhorted him, he sent for the mother of the boy; that, by condoling with her for the loss of so many sons, he might incline her, through the hope of safety, to render the survivor obedient.

bes@4Macc:12:7 @ And he, after his mother had urged him on in the Hebrew tongue, (as we shall soon relate) saith,

bes@4Macc:12:12 @ Wherefore the divine vengeance is reserving thee for eternal fire and torments, which shall cling to thee for all time.

bes@4Macc:12:16 @ Wherefore, he continued, I myself, being about to die,

bes@4Macc:12:18 @ And I call upon the God of my fathers to be merciful to my race.

bes@4Macc:13:8 @ For having arranged a holy choir of piety, they encouraged one another, saying,

bes@4Macc:13:9 @ Brothers, may we die brotherly for the law. Let us imitate the three young men in Assyria who despised the equally afflicting furnace.

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:13:13 @ And one and all, looking on each other serene and confident, said, Let us sacrifice with all our heart our souls to God who gave them, and employ our bodies for the keeping of the law.

bes@4Macc:13:16 @ Let us arm ourselves, therefore, in the abnegation of the divine reasoning.

bes@4Macc:13:17 @ If we suffer thus, Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob will receive us, and all the fathers will commend us.

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:13:20 @ In which these brothers having remained an equal time, and having been formed for the same period, and been increased by the same blood, and having been perfected through the same principle of life,

bes@4Macc:13:21 @ and having been brought forth at equal intervals, and having sucked milk from the same fountains, hence their brotherly souls are reared up lovingly together;

bes@4Macc:13:22 @ and increase the more powerfully by reason of this simultaneous rearing, and by daily intercourse, and by other education, and exercise in the law of God.

bes@4Macc:13:23 @ Brotherly love being thus sympathetically constituted, the seven brethren had a more sympathetic mutual harmony.

bes@4Macc:13:24 @ For being educated in the same law, and practising the same virtues, and reared up in a just course of life, they increased this harmony with each other.

bes@4Macc:13:25 @ For a like ardour for what is right and honourable increased their fellow-feeling towards each other.

bes@4Macc:13:26 @ For it acting along with religion, made their brotherly feeling more desirable to them.

bes@4Macc:13:27 @ And yet, although nature and intercourse and virtuous morals increased their brotherly love those who were left endured to behold their brethren, who were illused for their religion, tortured even unto death.

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:14:3 @ Sacred and harmonius concert of the seven brethern as concerning piety!

bes@4Macc:14:12 @ For the mother of those seven youths endured the rackings of each of her children.

bes@4Macc:14:14 @ where irrational animals possess a similar sympathy and love for their offspring with men.

bes@4Macc:14:16 @ Others build their nests, and hatch their young, in the tops of mountains and in the precipices of valleys, and the holes and tops of trees, and keep off the intruder.

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:15:1 @ O reasoning of the sons, lord over the passions, and religion more desirable to a mother than progeny!

bes@4Macc:15:2 @ The mother, when two things were set before here, religion and the safety of her seven sons for a time, on the conditional promise of a tyrant,

bes@4Macc:15:3 @ rather elected the religion which according to God preserves to eternal life.

bes@4Macc:15:4 @ O in what way can I describe ethically the affections of parents toward their children, the resemblance of soul and of form engrafted into the small type of a child in a wonderful manner, especially through the greater sympathy of mothers with the feelings of those born of them!

bes@4Macc:15:5 @ for by how much mothers are by nature weak in disposition and prolific in offspring, by so much the fonder they are of children.

bes@4Macc:15:6 @ And of all mothers the mother of the seven was the fondest of children, who in seven childbirths had deeply engendered love toward them;

bes@4Macc:15:7 @ and through her many pains undergone in connection with each one, was compelled to feel sympathy with them;

bes@4Macc:15:8 @ yet, through fear of God, who neglected the temporary salvation of her children.

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:15:10 @ For they were both just and temperate, and manly, and high-minded, and fond of their brethren, and so fond of their mother that even unto death they obeyed her by observing the law.

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:15:12 @ But she inclined each one separately and all together to death for religion.

bes@4Macc:15:14 @ At the racking and roasting of each one of them, the observant mother was prevented by religion from changing.

bes@4Macc:15:15 @ She beheld her children's flesh dissolving around the fire; and their extremities quivering on the ground, and the flesh of their heads dropped forwards down to their beards, like masks.

bes@4Macc:15:16 @ O thou mother, who wast tried at this time with bitterer pangs than those of parturition!

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:15:22 @ With what and what manner of torments was the mother herself tortured, as her sons were undergoing the wheel and the fires!

bes@4Macc:15:23 @ But religious reasoning, having strengthened her courage in the midst of sufferings, enabled her to forego, for the time, parental love.

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:15:25 @ For just as in a council-room, beholding in her own soul vehement counsellors, nature and parentage and love of her children, and the racking of her children,

bes@4Macc:15:26 @ she holding two votes, one for the death, the other for the preservation of her children,

bes@4Macc:15:27 @ did not lean to that which would have saved her children for the safety of a brief space.

bes@4Macc:15:29 @ O holy mother of a nation avenger of the law, and defender of religion, and prime bearer in the battle of the affections!

bes@4Macc:16:1 @ If, then, even a woman, and that an aged one, and the mother of seven children, endured to see her children's torments even unto death, confessedly religious reasoning is master even of the passions.

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:16:4 @ But with the reasoning of religion the mother quenched passions so great and powerful.

bes@4Macc:16:5 @ For we must consider also this: that, had the woman been faint hearted, as being their other, she would have lamented over them; and perhaps might have spoken thus:

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:16:13 @ But as one possessed with an adamantine mind, and as one bringing forth again her full number of sons to immortality, she rather with supplication exhorted them to death in behalf of religion.

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:16:24 @ With these arguments, the mother of seven, exhorting each of her sons, over-persuaded them from transgressing the commandment of God.

bes@4Macc:17:1 @ And some of the spearbearers said, that when she herself was about to be seized for the purpose of being put to death, she threw herself upon the pile, rather than they should touch her person.

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:17:4 @ Be of good cheer, therefore, O holy-minded mother! holding the firm hope of your steadfastness with God.

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:17:9 @ Here an aged priest, and an aged woman, and seven sons, are buried through the violence of a tyrant, who wished to destroy the polity of the Hebrews.

bes@4Macc:17:13 @ Eleazar was the first to contend: and the mother of the seven children entered the contest; and the brethren contended.

bes@4Macc:17:15 @ And reverence for God conquered, and crowned her own athletes.

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: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:18:22 @ Wherefore divine retribution pursued and will pursue the pestilent wretch.

bes@4Macc:18:23 @ But the children of Abraham, with their victorious mother, are assembled together to the choir of their fathers; having received pure and immortal souls from God.

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:1:7 @ And unto the people that was found there Josias gave thirty thousand lambs and kids, and three thousand calves: these things were given of the king’s allowance, according as he promised, to the people, to the priests, and to the Levites.

bes@1Esd:1:9 @ And Jeconias, and Samaias, and Nathanael his brother, and Assabias, and Ochiel, and Joram, captains over thousands, gave to the Levites for the passover five thousand sheep, and seven hundred calves.

bes@1Esd:1:11 @ And according to the several dignities of the fathers, before the people, to offer to the Lord, as it is written in the book of Moses: and thus did they in the morning.

bes@1Esd:1:31 @ Then gat he up upon his second chariot; and being brought back to Jerusalem died, and was buried in his father’s sepulchre.

bes@1Esd:1:34 @ And the people took Joachaz the son of Josias, and made him king instead of Josias his father, when he was twenty and three years old.

bes@1Esd:1:37 @ The king of Egypt also made king Joacim his brother king of Judea and Jerusalem.

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:1:50 @ Nevertheless the God of their fathers sent by his messenger to call them back, because he spared them and his tabernacle also.

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:1:55 @ As for the house of the Lord, they burnt it, and brake down the walls of Jerusalem, and set fire upon her towers:

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:1:58 @ Until the land had enjoyed her sabbaths, the whole time of her desolation shall she rest, until the full term of seventy years.

bes@1Esd:2:5 @ If therefore there be any of you that are of his people, let the Lord, even his Lord, be with him, and let him go up to Jerusalem that is in Judea, and build the house of the Lord of Israel: for he is the Lord that dwelleth in Jerusalem.

bes@1Esd:2:7 @ With gifts, with horses, and with cattle, and other things, which have been set forth by vow, for the temple of the Lord at Jerusalem.

bes@1Esd:2:9 @ And they that dwelt round about them, and helped them in all things with silver and gold, with horses and cattle, and with very many free gifts of a great number whose minds were stirred up thereto.

bes@1Esd:2:13 @ And this was the number of them; A thousand golden cups, and a thousand of silver, censers of silver twenty nine, vials of gold thirty, and of silver two thousand four hundred and ten, and a thousand other vessels.

bes@1Esd:2:15 @ These were brought back by Sanabassar, together with them of the captivity, from Babylon to Jerusalem.

bes@1Esd:2:16 @ But in the time of Artaxerxes king of the Persians Belemus, and Mithridates, and Tabellius, and Rathumus, and Beeltethmus, and Semellius the secretary, with others that were in commission with them, dwelling in Samaria and other places, wrote unto him against them that dwelt in Judea and Jerusalem these letters following;

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:2:21 @ But to speak unto our lord the king, to the intent that, if it be thy pleasure it may be sought out in the books of thy fathers:

bes@1Esd:2:23 @ And that the Jews were rebellious, and raised always wars therein; for the which cause even this city was made desolate.

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:2:26 @ I have read the epistle which ye have sent unto me: therefore I commanded to make diligent search, and it hath been found that that city was from the beginning practising against kings;

bes@1Esd:2:27 @ And the men therein were given to rebellion and war: and that mighty kings and fierce were in Jerusalem, who reigned and exacted tributes in 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:3:4 @ Then three young men, that were of the guard that kept the king’s body, spake one to another;

bes@1Esd:3:5 @ Let every one of us speak a sentence: he that shall overcome, and whose sentence shall seem wiser than the others, unto him shall the king Darius give great gifts, and great things in token of victory:

bes@1Esd:3:19 @ It maketh the mind of the king and of the fatherless child to be all one; of the bondman and of the freeman, of the poor man and of the rich:

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:4:4 @ If he bid them make war the one against the other, they do it: if he send them out against the enemies, they go, and break down mountains walls and towers.

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:4:10 @ So all his people and his armies obey him: furthermore he lieth down, he eateth and drinketh, and taketh his rest:

bes@1Esd:4:11 @ And these keep watch round about him, neither may any one depart, and do his own business, neither disobey they him in any thing.

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:4:18 @ 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:4:20 @ A man leaveth his own father that brought him up, and his own country, and cleaveth unto his wife.

bes@1Esd:4:21 @ He sticketh not to spend his life with his wife. and remembereth neither father, nor mother, nor country.

bes@1Esd:4:25 @ Wherefore a man loveth his wife better than father or mother.

bes@1Esd:4:26 @ Yea, many there be that have run out of their wits for women, and become servants for their sakes.

bes@1Esd:4:30 @ And taking the crown from the king’s head, and setting it upon her own head; she also struck the king with her left hand.

bes@1Esd:4:31 @ And yet for all this the king gaped and gazed upon her with open mouth: if she laughed upon him, he laughed also: but if she took any displeasure at him, the king was fain to flatter, that she might be reconciled to him again.

bes@1Esd:4:33 @ Then the king and the princes looked one upon another: so he began to speak of the truth.

bes@1Esd:4:35 @ Is he not great that maketh these things? therefore great is the truth, and stronger than all things.

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:4:40 @ Neither in her judgement is any unrighteousness; and she is the strength, kingdom, power, and majesty, of all ages. Blessed be the God of truth.

bes@1Esd:4:44 @ And to send away all the vessels that were taken away out of Jerusalem, which Cyrus set apart, when he vowed to destroy Babylon, and to send them again thither.

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:4:51 @ Yea, that there should be yearly given twenty talents to the building of the temple, until the time that it were built;

bes@1Esd:4:52 @ And other ten talents yearly, to maintain the burnt offerings upon the altar every day, as they had a commandment to offer seventeen:

bes@1Esd:4:54 @ He wrote also concerning. the charges, and the priests’ vestments wherein they minister;

bes@1Esd:4:60 @ Blessed art thou, who hast given me wisdom: for to thee I give thanks, O Lord of our fathers.

bes@1Esd:4:62 @ And they praised the God of their fathers, because he had given them freedom and liberty

bes@1Esd:5:3 @ And all their brethren played, and he made them go up together with them.

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:5:8 @ And they returned unto Jerusalem, and to the other parts of Jewry, every man to his own city, who came with Zorobabel, with Jesus, Nehemias, and Zacharias, and Reesaias, Enenius, Mardocheus, Beelsarus, Aspharasus, Reelius, Roimus, and Baana, their guides.

bes@1Esd:5:34 @ The sons of Hagia, the sons of Pharacareth, the sons of Sabi, the sons of Sarothie, the sons of Masias, the sons of Gar, the sons of Addus, the sons of Suba, the sons of Apherra, the sons of Barodis, the sons of Sabat, the sons of Allom.

bes@1Esd:5:36 @ These came up from Thermeleth and Thelersas, Charaathalar leading them, and Aalar;

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:5:40 @ 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:5:47 @ But when the seventh month was at hand, and when the children of Israel were every man in his own place, they came all together with one consent into the open place of the first gate which is toward the east.

bes@1Esd:5:50 @ And there were gathered unto them out of the other nations of the land, and they erected the altar upon his own place, because all the nations of the land were at enmity with them, and oppressed them; and they offered sacrifices according to the time, and burnt offerings to the Lord both morning and evening.

bes@1Esd:5:58 @ And they appointed the Levites from twenty years old over the works of the Lord. Then stood up Jesus, and his sons and brethren, and Cadmiel his brother, and the sons of Madiabun, with the sons of Joda the son of Eliadun, with their sons and brethren, all Levites, with one accord setters forward of the business, labouring to advance the works in the house of God. So the workmen built the temple of the Lord.

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:5:68 @ So they went to Zorobabel and Jesus, and to the chief of the families, and said unto them, We will build together with you.

bes@1Esd:5:69 @ For we likewise, as ye, do obey your Lord, and do sacrifice unto him from the days of Azbazareth the king of the Assyrians, who brought us hither.

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:6:4 @ By whose appointment do ye build this house and this roof, and perform all the other things? and who are the workmen that perform these things?

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:6:20 @ 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:6:22 @ And if it be found that the building of the house of the Lord at Jerusalem hath been done with the consent of king Cyrus, and if our lord the king be so minded, let him signify unto us thereof.

bes@1Esd:6:23 @ Then commanded king Darius to seek among the records at Babylon: and so at Ecbatana the palace, which is in the country of Media, there was found a roll wherein these things were recorded.

bes@1Esd:6:24 @ In the first year of the reign of Cyrus king Cyrus commanded that the house of the Lord at Jerusalem should be built again, where they do sacrifice with continual fire:

bes@1Esd:6:25 @ Whose height shall be sixty cubits and the breadth sixty cubits, with three rows of hewn stones, and one row of new wood of that country; and the expenses thereof to be given out of the house 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:6:30 @ And also corn, salt, wine, and oil, and that continually every year without further question, according as the priests that be in Jerusalem shall signify to be daily spent:

bes@1Esd:6:32 @ And he commanded that whosoever should transgress, yea, or make light of any thing afore spoken or written, out of his own house should a tree be taken, and he thereon be hanged, and all his goods seized for the king.

bes@1Esd:6:33 @ The Lord therefore, whose name is there called upon, utterly destroy every king and nation, that stretcheth out his hand to hinder or endamage that house of the Lord in Jerusalem.

bes@1Esd:7:6 @ And the children of Israel, the priests, and the Levites, and others that were of the captivity, that were added unto them, did according to the things written in the book of Moses.

bes@1Esd:7:11 @ They that were of the captivity were not all sanctified together: but the Levites were all sanctified together.

bes@1Esd:8:5 @ There went up with him also certain of the children of Israel, of the priest of the Levites, of the holy singers, porters, and ministers of the temple, unto Jerusalem,

bes@1Esd:8:11 @ As many therefore as have a mind thereunto, let them depart with thee, as it hath seemed good both to me and my seven friends the counsellors;

bes@1Esd:8:14 @ With that also which is given of the people for the temple of the Lord their God at Jerusalem: and that silver and gold may be collected for bullocks, rams, and lambs, and things thereunto appertaining;

bes@1Esd:8:20 @ To the sum of an hundred talents of silver, likewise also of wheat even to an hundred cors, and an hundred pieces of wine, and other things in abundance.

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:8:24 @ And whosoever shall transgress the law of thy God, and of the king, shall be punished diligently, whether it be by death, or other punishment, by penalty of money, or by imprisonment.

bes@1Esd:8:25 @ Then said Esdras the scribe, Blessed be the only Lord God of my fathers, who hath put these things into the heart of the king, to glorify his house that is in Jerusalem:

bes@1Esd:8:27 @ Therefore was I encouraged by the help of the Lord my God, and gathered together men of Israel to go up with me.

bes@1Esd:8:41 @ And these I gathered together to the river called Theras, where we pitched our tents three days: and then I surveyed them.

bes@1Esd:8:42 @ But when I had found there none of the priests and Levites,

bes@1Esd:8:48 @ And Asebia, and Annuus, and Osaias his brother, of the sons of Channuneus, and their sons, were twenty men.

bes@1Esd:8:50 @ And there I vowed a fast unto the young men before our Lord, to desire of him a prosperous journey both for us and them that were with us, for our children, and for the cattle:

bes@1Esd:8:58 @ And I said unto them, Both ye are holy unto the Lord, and the vessels are holy, and the gold and the silver is a vow unto the Lord, the Lord of our fathers.

bes@1Esd:8:61 @ And from the river Theras we departed the twelfth day of the first month, and came to Jerusalem by the mighty hand of our Lord, which was with us: and from the beginning of our journey the Lord delivered us from every enemy, and so we came to Jerusalem.

bes@1Esd:8:62 @ And when we had been there three days, the gold and silver that was weighed was delivered in the house of our Lord on the fourth day unto Marmoth the priest the son of Iri.

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:8:76 @ For ever since the time of our fathers we have been and are in great sin, even unto this day.

bes@1Esd:8:77 @ And for our sins and our fathers’ we with our brethren and our kings and our priests were given up unto the kings of the earth, to the sword, and to captivity, and for a prey with shame, unto this day.

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:8:83 @ That the land, which ye enter into to possess as an heritage, is a land polluted with the pollutions of the strangers of the land, and they have filled it with their uncleanness.

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:8:85 @ Moreover ye shall never seek to have peace with them, that ye may be strong, and eat the good things of the land, and that ye may leave the inheritance of the land unto your children for evermore.

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:8:91 @ And as Esdras in his prayer made his confession, weeping, and lying flat upon the ground before the temple, there gathered unto him from Jerusalem a very great multitude of men and women and children: for there was great weeping among the multitude.

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:9:3 @ And there was a proclamation in all Jewry and Jerusalem to all them that were of the captivity, that they should be gathered together at Jerusalem:

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:9:5 @ And in three days were all they of the tribe of Judah and Benjamin gathered together at Jerusalem the twentieth day of the ninth month.

bes@1Esd:9:6 @ And all the multitude sat trembling in the broad court of the temple because of the present foul weather.

bes@1Esd:9:7 @ So Esdras arose up, and said unto them, Ye have transgressed the law in marrying strange wives, thereby to increase the sins of Israel.

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:9:12 @ Therefore let the rulers of the multitude stay, and let all them of our habitations that have strange wives come at the time appointed,

bes@1Esd:9:16 @ And Esdras the priest chose unto him the principal men of their families, all by name: and in the first day of the tenth month they sat together to examine the matter.

bes@1Esd:9:18 @ And of the priests that were come together, and had strange wives, there were found:

bes@1Esd:9:38 @ And the whole multitude came together with one accord into the broad place of the holy porch toward the east:

bes@1Esd:9:43 @ And there stood up by him Mattathias, Sammus, Ananias, Azarias, Urias, Ezecias, Balasamus, upon the right hand:

bes@1Esd:9:55 @ Because they understood the words wherein they were instructed, and for the which they had been assembled.

bes@Sus:1:1 @ There dwelt a man in Babylon, called Joacim:

bes@Sus:1:3 @ Her parents also were righteous, and taught their daughter according to the law of Moses.

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:1:8 @ And the two elders saw her going in every day, and walking; so that their lust was inflamed toward her.

bes@Sus:1:10 @ And albeit they both were wounded with her love, yet durst not one shew another his grief.

bes@Sus:1:11 @ For they were ashamed to declare their lust, that they desired to have to do with her.

bes@Sus:1:12 @ Yet they watched diligently from day to day to see her.

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:1:15 @ And it fell out, as they watched a fit time, she went in as before with two maids only, and she was desirous to wash herself in the garden: for it was hot.

bes@Sus:1:16 @ And there was no body there save the two elders, that had hid themselves, and watched her.

bes@Sus:1:17 @ Then she said to her maids, Bring me oil and washing balls, and shut the garden doors, that I may wash me.

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:1:24 @ With that Susanna cried with a loud voice: and the two elders cried out against her.

bes@Sus:1:26 @ So when the servants of the house heard the cry in the garden, they rushed in at the privy door, to see what was done unto her.

bes@Sus:1:27 @ But when the elders had declared their matter, the servants were greatly ashamed: for there was never such a report made of Susanna.

bes@Sus:1:28 @ And it came to pass the next day, when the people were assembled to her husband Joacim, the two elders came also full of mischievous imagination against Susanna to put her to death;

bes@Sus:1:30 @ So she came with her father and mother, her children, and all her kindred.

bes@Sus:1:32 @ And these wicked men commanded to uncover her face, (for she was covered) that they might be filled with her beauty.

bes@Sus:1:33 @ Therefore her friends and all that saw her wept.

bes@Sus:1:34 @ Then the two elders stood up in the midst of the people, and laid their hands upon her head.

bes@Sus:1:35 @ And she weeping looked up toward heaven: for her heart trusted in the Lord.

bes@Sus:1:37 @ Then a young man, who there was hid, came unto her, and lay with her.

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:1:41 @ Then the assembly believed them as those that were the elders and judges of the people: so they condemned her to death.

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:1:44 @ And the Lord heard her voice.

bes@Sus:1:45 @ Therefore when she was led to be put to death, the Lord raised up the holy spirit of a young youth whose name was Daniel:

bes@Sus:1:49 @ Return again to the place of judgement: for they have borne false witness against her.

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:1:54 @ 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:1:56 @ 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:1:58 @ Now therefore tell me, Under what tree didst thou take them companying together? Who answered, Under an holm tree.

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:1:1 @ And king Astyages was gathered to his fathers, and Cyrus of Persia received his kingdom.

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:1:13 @ And they little regarded it: for under the table they had made a privy entrance, whereby they entered in continually, and consumed those things.

bes@BelTh:1:21 @ And took the priests with their wives and children, who shewed him the privy doors, where they came in, and consumed such things as were upon the table.

bes@BelTh:1:22 @ Therefore the king slew them, and delivered Bel into Daniel’s power, who destroyed him and his temple.

bes@BelTh:1:23 @ And in that same place there was a great dragon, which they of Babylon worshipped.

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:1:27 @ Then Daniel took pitch, and fat, and hair, and did seethe them together, and made lumps thereof: this he put in the dragon’s mouth, and so the dragon burst in sunder: and Daniel said, Lo, these are the gods ye worship.

bes@BelTh:1:31 @ Who cast him into the lions’ den: where he was six days.

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:1:38 @ And Daniel said, Thou hast remembered me, O God: neither hast thou forsaken them that seek thee and love thee.

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.