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

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

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

bes@Hosea:6:8 @ But they are as a man transgressing a covenant:

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

bes@Hosea:8:12 @ I will write down a multitude of commands for him; but his statutes are accounted strange things, even the beloved altars.

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

bes@Hosea:9:8 @ The watchman of Ephraim was with God: the prophet is a crooked snare in all his ways: they have established madness in the house of God.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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:3:9 @ 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:3:15 @ 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:5:12 @ For I know your many transgressions, and your sins are great, trampling on the just, taking bribes, and turning aside the judgement of the poor in the gates.

bes@Amos:5:16 @ 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:5:19 @ As if a man should flee from the face of a lion, and a bear should meet him; and he should spring into his house, and lean his hands upon the wall, and a serpent should bite him.

bes@Amos:6:12 @ For, behold, the Lord commands, and he will smite the great house with breaches, and the little house with rents.

bes@Amos:7:7 @ Thus the Lord shewed me; and behold, he stood upon a wall of adamant, and in his hand was an adamant.

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

bes@Amos:7:14 @ 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: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:9:3 @ If they hide themselves in the top of Carmel, thence will I search them out and take them; and if they should go down from my (note:)Or, eyes(:note) presence into the depths of the sea, there will I command the serpent, and he shall bite them.

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

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

bes@Obadiah:1:9 @ And thy warriors from Thaeman shall be dismayed, to the end that man may be cut off from the mount of Esau.

bes@Jonah:1:7 @ And each man said to his neighbour, Come, let us cast lots, and find out for whose sake this mischief is upon us. So they cast lots, and the lot fell upon Jonas.

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

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

bes@Jonah:2:11 @ And the whale was commanded by the Lord, and it cast up Jonas on the dry land.

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

bes@Jonah:4:6 @ And the Lord God commanded a gourd, and it came up over the head of Jonas, to be a shadow over his head, to shade him from his calamities: and Jonas rejoiced with great joy for the gourd.

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

bes@Jonah:4:8 @ And it came to pass at the rising of the sun, that God commanded a burning east wind; and the sun smote on the head of Jonas, and he fainted, and despaired of his life, and said, It is better for me to die than to live.

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

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

bes@Micah:4:2 @ And many nations shall go, and say, Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, and to the house of the God of Jacob; and they shall shew us his way, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Sion shall go forth a law, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

bes@Nahum:1:14 @ 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@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:2:4 @ If (note:)Or, any man; See Heb strkjv@10:38.(:note) he should draw back, my soul has no pleasure in him: but Ro strkjv@1:17 the just shall live by Or, faith in me my faith.

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

bes@Habakkuk:2:8 @ Because thou hast spoiled many nations, all the nations that are left shall spoil thee, because of the blood of men, and the sins of the land and city, and of all that dwell in it.

bes@Habakkuk:2:10 @ Thou hast devised shame to thy house, thou hast utterly destroyed many nations, and thy soul has sinned.

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

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

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

bes@Habakkuk:3:14 @ Thou didst cut asunder the heads of princes with amazement, they shall tremble in it; they shall burst their bridles, they shall be as a poor man devouring in secret.

bes@Zephaniah:1:3 @ Let man and cattle be cut off; let the birds of the air and the fishes of the sea be cut off; and the ungodly shall fail, and I will take away the transgressors from the face of the land, saith the Lord.

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

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

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

bes@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:1:8 @ I saw by night, and behold a man mounted on a red horse, and he stood between the shady mountains; and behind him were red horses, and grey, and piebald, and white.

bes@Zechariah:1:10 @ And the man that stood between the mountains answered, and said to me, These are they whom the Lord has sent forth to go round the earth.

bes@Zechariah:2:1 @ And I lifted up mine eyes, and looked, and behold a man, and in his hand a measuring line.

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

bes@Zechariah:3:11 @ 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:4:1 @ And the angel that talked with me returned, and awakened me, as when a man is awakened out of his sleep.

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

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

bes@Zechariah: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:8:20 @ Thus saith the Lord Almighty; Yet shall many peoples come, and the inhabitants of many cities;

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

bes@Zechariah:12:1 @ The burden of the word of the Lord for Israel; saith the Lord, that stretches out the sky, and lays the foundation of the earth, and forms the spirit of man within him.

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

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

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

bes@Zechariah:14:12 @ And this shall be the overthrow with which the Lord will smite all the nations, as many as have fought against Jerusalem; their flesh shall consume away while they are standing upon their feet, and their eyes shall melt out of their holes, and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth.

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@Malachi:1:14 @ And cursed is the man who had the power, and possessed a male in his flock, and whose vow is upon him, and who sacrifices a corrupt thing to the Lord: for I am a great King, saith the Lord Almighty, and my name is glorious among the nations.

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

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

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

bes@Malachi:2:8 @ But ye have turned aside from the way, and caused many to fail in following the law: ye have corrupted the covenant of Levi, 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:2:12 @ The Lord will utterly destroy the man that does these things, until he be even cast down from out of the tabernacles of Jacob, and from among them that offer sacrifice to the Lord Almighty.

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

bes@Malachi:4:4 @ Remember the law of my servant Moses, accordingly as I charged him with it in Choreb for all Israel, even the commandments and ordinances.

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:1:11 @ 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:2:3 @ Then they decreed to destroy all flesh, that did not obey the commandment of his mouth.

bes@Jdt:2:6 @ And thou shalt go against all the west country, because they disobeyed my commandment.

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

bes@Jdt:2:15 @ 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:2:18 @ And plenty of victual for every man of the army, and very much gold and silver out of the king’s house.

bes@Jdt:3:5 @ So the men came to Holofernes, and declared unto him after this manner.

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

bes@Jdt:4:8 @ And the children of Israel did as Joacim the high priest had commanded them, with the ancients of all the people of Israel, which dwelt at Jerusalem.

bes@Jdt:4:9 @ Then every man of Israel cried to God with great fervency, and with great vehemency did they humble their souls:

bes@Jdt:4:11 @ Thus every man and women, and the little children, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, fell before the temple, and cast ashes upon their heads, and spread out their sackcloth before the face of the Lord: also they put sackcloth about the altar,

bes@Jdt:4:13 @ So God heard their prayers, and looked upon their afflictions: for the people fasted many days in all Judea and Jerusalem before the sanctuary of the Lord Almighty.

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:5:16 @ 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:5:18 @ But when they departed from the way which he appointed them, they were destroyed in many battles very sore, and were led captives into a land that was not their’s, and the temple of their God was cast to the ground, and their cities were taken by the enemies.

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

bes@Jdt:6:10 @ Then Holofernes commanded his servants, that waited in his tent, to take Achior, and bring him to Bethulia, and deliver him into the hands of the children of Israel.

bes@Jdt:6:12 @ And when the men of the city saw them, they took up their weapons, and went out of the city to the top of the hill: and every man that used a sling kept them from coming up by casting of stones against them.

bes@Jdt:7:1 @ The next day Holofernes commanded all his army, and all his people which were come to take his part, that they should remove their camp against Bethulia, to take aforehand the ascents of the hill country, and to make war against the children of Israel.

bes@Jdt:7:5 @ Then every man took up his weapons of war, and when they had kindled fires upon their towers, they remained and watched all that night.

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

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:8:10 @ 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:8:14 @ 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:8:29 @ 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:8:33 @ Ye shall stand this night in the gate, and I will go forth with my waitingwoman: and within the days that ye have promised to deliver the city to our enemies the Lord will visit Israel by mine hand.

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

bes@Jdt:9:10 @ Smite by the deceit of my lips the servant with the prince, and the prince with the servant: break down their stateliness by the hand of a woman.

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:10:9 @ 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:10:12 @ 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:10:19 @ 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: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:11:21 @ 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: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:12:6 @ And sent to Holofernes, saving, Let my lord now command that thine handmaid may go forth unto prayer.

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

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

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

bes@Jdt:12:15 @ 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: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:13:15 @ 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:14:2 @ And so soon as the morning shall appear, and the sun shall come forth upon the earth, take ye every one his weapons, and go forth every valiant man out of the city, and set ye a captain over them, as though ye would go down into the field toward the watch of the Assyrians; but go not down.

bes@Jdt:14:6 @ Then they called Achior out of the house of Ozias; and when he was come, and saw the head of Holofernes in a man’s hand in the assembly of the people, he fell down on his face, and his spirit failed.

bes@Jdt:14:11 @ And as soon as the morning arose, they hanged the head of Holofernes upon the wall, and every man took his weapons, and they went forth by bands unto the straits of the mountain.

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: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:15:7 @ And the children of Israel that returned from the slaughter had that which remained; and the villages and the cities, that were in the mountains and in the plain, gat many spoils: for the multitude was very great.

bes@Jdt:16:6 @ But the Almighty Lord hath disappointed them by the hand of a woman.

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@Wis:1:9 @ For inquisition shall be made into the counsels of the ungodly: and the sound of his words shall come unto the Lord for the manifestation of his wicked deeds.

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:2:4 @ 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:2:10 @ Let us oppress the poor righteous man, let us not spare the widow, nor reverence the ancient gray hairs of the aged.

bes@Wis:2:18 @ For if the just man be the son of God, he will help him, and deliver him from the hand of his enemies.

bes@Wis:2:23 @ For God created man to be immortal, and made him to be an image of his own eternity.

bes@Wis:4:16 @ Thus the righteous that is dead shall condemn the ungodly which are living; and youth that is soon perfected the many years and old age of the unrighteous.

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

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

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

bes@Wis:6:7 @ 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:6:23 @ Neither will I go with consuming envy; for such a man shall have no fellowship with wisdom.

bes@Wis:7:1 @ I myself also am a mortal man, like to all, and the offspring of him that was first made of the earth,

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

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:7:23 @ Kind to man, steadfast, sure, free from care, having all power, overseeing all things, and going through all understanding, pure, and most subtil, spirits.

bes@Wis:8:6 @ And if prudence work; who of all that are is a more cunning workman than she?

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

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

bes@Wis:9:2 @ And ordained man through thy wisdom, that he should have dominion over the creatures which thou hast made,

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

bes@Wis:9:8 @ 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:9:9 @ And wisdom was with thee: which knoweth thy works, and was present when thou madest the world, and knew what was acceptable in thy sight, and right in thy commandments.

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

bes@Wis:9:15 @ For the corruptible body presseth down the soul, and the earthy tabernacle weigheth down the mind that museth upon many things.

bes@Wis:10:6 @ When the ungodly perished, she delivered the righteous man, who fled from the fire which fell down upon the five cities.

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

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

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

bes@Wis:12:5 @ And also those merciless murderers of children, and devourers of man’s flesh, and the feasts of blood,

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

bes@Wis:12:19 @ But by such works hast thou taught thy people that the just man should be merciful, and hast made thy children to be of a good hope that thou givest repentance for sins.

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

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

bes@Wis:14:2 @ For verily desire of gain devised that, and the workman built it by his skill.

bes@Wis:14:4 @ Shewing that thou canst save from all danger: yea, though a man went to sea without art.

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:14:16 @ Thus in process of time an ungodly custom grown strong was kept as a law, and graven images were worshipped by the commandments of kings.

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

bes@Wis:15:8 @ And employing his labours lewdly, he maketh a vain god of the same clay, even he which a little before was made of earth himself, and within a little while after returneth to the same, out when his life which was lent him shall be demanded.

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:15:16 @ For man made them, and he that borrowed his own spirit fashioned them: but no man can make a god like unto himself.

bes@Wis:16:6 @ But they were troubled for a small season, that they might be admonished, having a sign of salvation, to put them in remembrance of the commandment of thy law.

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:16:20 @ 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:16:21 @ For thy sustenance declared thy sweetness unto thy children, and serving to the appetite of the eater, tempered itself to every man’s liking.

bes@Wis:16:26 @ That thy children, O Lord, whom thou lovest, might know, that it is not the growing of fruits that nourisheth man: but that it is thy word, which preserveth them that put their trust in thee.

bes@Wis: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:18:11 @ The master and the servant were punished after one manner; and like as the king, so suffered the common person.

bes@Wis:18:15 @ Thine Almighty word leaped down from heaven out of thy royal throne, as a fierce man of war into the midst of a land of destruction,

bes@Wis:18:16 @ And brought thine unfeigned commandment as a sharp sword, and standing up filled all things with death; and it touched the heaven, but it stood upon the earth.

bes@Wis:18:21 @ For then the blameless man made haste, and stood forth to defend them; and bringing the shield of his proper ministry, even prayer, and the propitiation of incense, set himself against the wrath, and so brought the calamity to an end, declaring that he was thy servant.

bes@Wis:19:6 @ For the whole creature in his proper kind was fashioned again anew, serving the peculiar commandments that were given unto them, that thy children might be kept without hurt:

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@Tob:1:3 @ I Tobit have walked all the days of my life in the ways of truth and justice, and I did many almsdeeds to my brethren, and my nation, who came with me to Nineve, into the land of the Assyrians.

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:1:16 @ And in the time of Enemessar I gave many alms to my brethren, and gave my bread to the hungry,

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:2:2 @ And when I saw abundance of meat, I said to my son, Go and bring what poor man soever thou shalt find out of our brethren, who is mindful of the Lord; and, lo, I tarry for thee.

bes@Tob:2:8 @ But my neighbours mocked me, and said, This man is not yet afraid to be put to death for this matter: who fled away; and yet, lo, he burieth the dead again.

bes@Tob: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:3:14 @ Thou knowest, Lord, that I am pure from all sin with man,

bes@Tob:3:15 @ And that I never polluted my name, nor the name of my father, in the land of my captivity: I am the only daughter of my father, neither hath he any child to be his heir, neither any near kinsman, nor any son of his alive, to whom I may keep myself for a wife: my seven husbands are already dead; and why should I live? but if it please not thee that I should die, command some regard to be had of me, and pity taken of me, that I hear no more reproach.

bes@Tob:4:4 @ 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:4:5 @ My son, be mindful of the Lord our God all thy days, and let not thy will be set to sin, or to transgress his commandments: do uprightly all thy life long, and follow not the ways of unrighteousness.

bes@Tob:4:12 @ 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:4:14 @ Let not the wages of any man, which hath wrought for thee, tarry with thee, but give him it out of hand: for if thou serve God, he will also repay thee: be circumspect my son, in all things thou doest, and be wise in all thy conversation.

bes@Tob:4:15 @ Do that to no man which thou hatest: drink not wine to make thee drunken: neither let drunkenness go with thee in thy journey.

bes@Tob:4:19 @ 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:5:3 @ Then he gave him the handwriting, and said unto him, Seek thee a man which may go with thee, whiles I yet live, and I will give him wages: and go and receive the money.

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

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:5:11 @ 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:5:16 @ 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:6:2 @ And when the young man went down to wash himself, a fish leaped out of the river, and would have devoured him.

bes@Tob:6:3 @ Then the angel said unto him, Take the fish. And the young man laid hold of the fish, and drew it to land.

bes@Tob:6:5 @ So the young man did as the angel commanded him; and when they had roasted the fish, they did eat it: then they both went on their way, till they drew near to Ecbatane.

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:6:8 @ As for the gall, it is good to anoint a man that hath whiteness in his eyes, and he shall be healed.

bes@Tob:6:10 @ 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:6:13 @ 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:7:2 @ Then said Raguel to Edna his wife, How like is this young man to Tobit my cousin!

bes@Tob:7:4 @ Then he said to them, Do ye know Tobit our kinsman? And they said, We know him. Then said he, Is he in good health?

bes@Tob:7:7 @ And blessed him, and said unto him, Thou art the son of an honest and good man. But when he had heard that Tobit was blind, he was sorrowful, and wept.

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:8:6 @ Thou madest Adam, and gavest him Eve his wife for an helper and stay: of them came mankind: thou hast said, It is not good that man should be alone; let us make unto him an aid like unto himself.

bes@Tob:8:12 @ 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:10:2 @ Then Tobit said, Are they detained? or is Gabael dead, and there is no man to give him the money?

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:12:1 @ Then Tobit called his son Tobias, and said unto him, My son, see that the man have his wages, which went with thee, and thou must give him more.

bes@Tob:12:4 @ Then the old man said, It is due unto him.

bes@Tob:13:11 @ Many nations shall come from far to the name of the Lord God with gifts in their hands, even gifts to the King of heaven; all generations shall praise thee with great joy.

bes@Tob:14:9 @ But keep thou the law and the commandments, and shew thyself merciful and just, that it may go well with thee.

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

bes@Sir:1:7 @ Unto whom hath the knowledge of wisdom been made manifest? and who hath understood her great experience?

bes@Sir:1:22 @ A furious man cannot be justified; for the sway of his fury shall be his destruction.

bes@Sir:1:23 @ A patient man will tear for a time, and afterward joy shall spring up unto him.

bes@Sir:1:24 @ He will hide his words for a time, and the lips of many shall declare his wisdom.

bes@Sir:1:26 @ If thou desire wisdom, keep the commandments, and the Lord shall give her 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:3:19 @ Many are in high place, and of renown: but mysteries are revealed unto the meek.

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:3:24 @ For many are deceived by their own vain opinion; and an evil suspicion hath overthrown their judgement.

bes@Sir:3:27 @ An obstinate heart shall be laden with sorrows; and the wicked man shall heap sin upon sin.

bes@Sir:3:29 @ The heart of the prudent will understand a parable; and an attentive ear is the desire of a wise man.

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:4:7 @ Get thyself the love of the congregation, and bow thy head to a great man.

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:4:22 @ Accept no person against thy soul, and let not the reverence of any man cause thee to fall.

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

bes@Sir:5:13 @ Honour and shame is in talk: and the tongue of man is his fall.

bes@Sir:6:6 @ Be in peace with many: nevertheless have but one counsellor of a thousand.

bes@Sir:6:8 @ For some man is a friend for his own occasion, and will not abide in the day of thy trouble.

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

bes@Sir:6:36 @ And if thou seest a man of understanding, get thee betimes unto him, and let thy foot wear the steps of his door.

bes@Sir:6:37 @ Let thy mind be upon the ordinances of the Lord and meditate continually in his commandments: he shall establish thine heart, and give thee wisdom at thine owns desire.

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:7:13 @ Use not to make any manner of lie: for the custom thereof is not good.

bes@Sir:7:14 @ Use not many words in a multitude of elders, and make not much babbling when thou prayest.

bes@Sir:7:19 @ Forego not a wise and good woman: for her grace is above gold.

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:7:31 @ Fear the Lord, and honour the priest; and give him his portion, as it is commanded thee; the firstfruits, and the trespass offering, and the gift of the shoulders, and the sacrifice of sanctification, and the firstfruits of the holy things.

bes@Sir:7:33 @ A gift hath grace in the sight of every man living; and for the dead detain it not.

bes@Sir:8:1 @ Strive not with a mighty man’ lest thou fall into his hands.

bes@Sir:8:2 @ Be not at variance with a rich man, lest he overweigh thee: for gold hath destroyed many, and perverted the hearts of kings.

bes@Sir:8:3 @ Strive not with a man that is full of tongue, and heap not wood upon his fire.

bes@Sir:8:4 @ Jest not with a rude man, lest thy ancestors be disgraced.

bes@Sir:8:5 @ Reproach not a man that turneth from sin, but remember that we are all worthy of punishment.

bes@Sir:8:6 @ Dishonour not a man in his old age: for even some of us wax old.

bes@Sir:8:16 @ Strive not with an angry man, and go not with him into a solitary place: for blood is as nothing in his sight, and where there is no help, he will overthrow thee.

bes@Sir:8:19 @ Open not thine heart to every man, lest he requite thee with a shrewd turn.

bes@Sir:9:2 @ Give not thy soul unto a woman to set her foot upon thy substance.

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:9:8 @ Turn away thine eye from a beautiful woman, and look not upon another’s beauty; for many have been deceived by the beauty of a woman; for herewith love is kindled as a fire.

bes@Sir:9:9 @ Sit not at all with another man’s wife, nor sit down with her in thine arms, and spend not thy money with her at the wine; lest thine heart incline unto her, and so through thy desire thou fall into destruction.

bes@Sir:9:13 @ Keep thee far from the man that hath power to kill; so shalt thou not doubt the fear of death: and if thou come unto him, make no fault, lest he take away thy life presently: remember that thou goest in the midst of snares, and that thou walkest upon the battlements of the city.

bes@Sir:9:18 @ A man of an ill tongue is dangerous in his city; and he that is rash in his talk shall be hated.

bes@Sir:10:1 @ A wise judge will instruct his people; and the government of a prudent man is well ordered.

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:10:5 @ In the hand of God is the prosperity of man: and upon the person of the scribe shall he lay his honour.

bes@Sir:10:7 @ Pride is hateful before God and man: and by both doth one commit iniquity.

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:10:18 @ Pride was not made for men, nor furious anger for them that are born of a woman.

bes@Sir:10:19 @ They that fear the Lord are a sure seed, and they that love him an honourable plant: they that regard not the law are a dishonourable seed; they that transgress the commandments are a deceivable seed.

bes@Sir:10:23 @ It is not meet to despise the poor man that hath understanding; neither is it convenient to magnify a sinful man.

bes@Sir:10:30 @ The poor man is honoured for his skill, and the rich man is honoured for his riches.

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

bes@Sir:11:5 @ Many kings have sat down upon the ground; and one that was never thought of hath worn the crown.

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

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:11:13 @ And lifted up his head from misery; so that many that saw from him is peace over all the

bes@Sir:11:21 @ Marvel not at the works of sinners; but trust in the Lord, and abide in thy labour: for it is an easy thing in the sight of the Lord on the sudden to make a poor man rich.

bes@Sir:11:24 @ Again, say not, I have enough, and possess many things, and what evil shall I have hereafter?

bes@Sir:11:26 @ For it is an easy thing unto the Lord in the day of death to reward a man according to his ways.

bes@Sir:11:27 @ The affliction of an hour maketh a man forget pleasure: and in his end his deeds shall be discovered.

bes@Sir:11:28 @ Judge none blessed before his death: for a man shall be known in his children.

bes@Sir:11:29 @ Bring not every man into thine house: for the deceitful man hath many trains.

bes@Sir:11:32 @ Of a spark of fire a heap of coals is kindled: and a sinful man layeth wait for blood.

bes@Sir:11:33 @ Take heed of a mischievous man, for he worketh wickedness; lest he bring upon thee a perpetual blot.

bes@Sir:12:2 @ Do good to the godly man, and thou shalt find a recompence; and if not from him, yet from the most High.

bes@Sir:12:4 @ Give to the godly man, and help not a sinner.

bes@Sir:12:9 @ In the prosperity of a man enemies will be grieved: but in his adversity even a friend will depart.

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:13:3 @ The rich man hath done wrong, and yet he threateneth withal: the poor is wronged, and he must intreat also.

bes@Sir:13:9 @ If thou be invited of a mighty man, withdraw thyself, and so much the more will he invite thee.

bes@Sir:13:11 @ Affect not to be made equal unto him in talk, and believe not his many words: for with much communication will he tempt thee, and smiling upon thee will get out thy secrets:

bes@Sir:13:15 @ Every beast loveth his like, and every man loveth his neighbour.

bes@Sir:13:16 @ All flesh consorteth according to kind, and a man will cleave to his like.

bes@Sir:13:21 @ A rich man beginning to fall is held up of his friends: but a poor man being down is thrust away by his friends.

bes@Sir:13:22 @ When a rich man is fallen, he hath many helpers: he speaketh things not to be spoken, and yet men justify him: the poor man slipped, and yet they rebuked him too; he spake wisely, and could have no place.

bes@Sir:13:23 @ When a rich man speaketh, every man holdeth his tongue, and, look, what he saith, they extol it to the clouds: but if the poor man speak, they say, What fellow is this? and if he stumble, they will help to overthrow him.

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:14:1 @ Blessed is the man that hath not slipped with his mouth, and is not pricked with the multitude of sins.

bes@Sir:14:3 @ Riches are not comely for a niggard: and what should an envious man do with money?

bes@Sir:14:8 @ The envious man hath a wicked eye; he turneth away his face, and despiseth men.

bes@Sir:14:9 @ A covetous man’s eye is not satisfied with his portion; and the iniquity of the wicked drieth up his soul.

bes@Sir:14:20 @ Blessed is the man that doth meditate good things in wisdom, and that reasoneth of holy things by his understanding.

bes@Sir:15:12 @ Say not thou, He hath caused me to err: for he hath no need of the sinful man.

bes@Sir:15:14 @ He himself made man from the beginning, and left him in the hand of his counsel;

bes@Sir:15:15 @ If thou wilt, to keep the commandments, and to perform acceptable faithfulness.

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

bes@Sir:15:19 @ And his eyes are upon them that fear him, and he knoweth every work of man.

bes@Sir:15:20 @ He hath commanded no man to do wickedly, neither hath he given any man licence to sin.

bes@Sir:16:5 @ Many such things have I seen with mine eyes, and mine ear hath heard greater things than these.

bes@Sir:16:12 @ As his mercy is great, so is his correction also: he judgeth a man according to his works

bes@Sir:16:14 @ Make way for every work of mercy: for every man shall find according to his works.

bes@Sir:16:16 @ His mercy is manifest to every creature; and he hath separated his light from the darkness with an adamant.

bes@Sir:16:17 @ Say not thou, I will hide myself from the Lord: shall any remember me from above? I shall not be remembered among so many people: for what is my soul among such an infinite number of creatures?

bes@Sir:16:21 @ It is a tempest which no man can see: for the most part of his works are hid.

bes@Sir:16:23 @ He that wanteth understanding will think upon vain things: and a foolish man erring imagineth follies.

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:17:1 @ The Lord created man of the earth, and turned him into it again.

bes@Sir:17:4 @ And put the fear of man upon all flesh, and gave him dominion over beasts and fowls.

bes@Sir:17:14 @ And he said unto them, Beware of all unrighteousness; and he gave every man commandment concerning his neighbour.

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

bes@Sir:17:22 @ The alms of a man is as a signet with him, and he will keep the good deeds of man as the apple of the eye, and give repentance to his sons and daughters.

bes@Sir:17:30 @ For all things cannot be in men, because the son of man is not immortal.

bes@Sir:18:7 @ When a man hath done, then he beginneth; and when he leaveth off, then he shall be doubtful.

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

bes@Sir:18:9 @ The number of a man’s days at the most are an hundred years.

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:18:17 @ Lo, is not a word better than a gift? but both are with a gracious man.

bes@Sir:18:27 @ A wise man will fear in every thing, and in the day of sinning he will beware of offence: but a fool will not observe time.

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

bes@Sir:19:1 @ A labouring man that A is given to drunkenness shall not be rich: and he that contemneth small things shall fall by little and little.

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

bes@Sir:19:11 @ A fool travaileth with a word, as a woman in labour of a child.

bes@Sir:19:12 @ As an arrow that sticketh in a man’s thigh, so is a word within a fool’s belly.

bes@Sir:19:15 @ Admonish a friend: for many times it is a slander, and believe not every tale.

bes@Sir:19:19 @ The knowledge of the commandments of the Lord is the doctrine of life: and they that do things that please him shall receive the fruit of the tree of immortality.

bes@Sir:19:20 @ The fear of the Lord is all wisdom; and in all wisdom is the performance of the law, and the knowledge of his omnipotency.

bes@Sir:19:25 @ 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:19:29 @ A man may be known by his look, and one that hath understanding by his countenance, when thou meetest him.

bes@Sir:19:30 @ A man’s attire, and excessive laughter, and gait, shew what he is.

bes@Sir:20:1 @ There is a reproof that is not comely: again, some man holdeth his tongue, and he is wise.

bes@Sir:20:6 @ Some man holdeth his tongue, because he hath not to answer: and some keepeth silence, knowing his time.

bes@Sir:20:7 @ A wise man will hold his tongue till he see opportunity: but a babbler and a fool will regard no time.

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

bes@Sir:20:13 @ A wise man by his words maketh him beloved: but the graces of fools shall be poured out.

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:20:15 @ He giveth little, and upbraideth much; he openeth his mouth like a crier; to day he lendeth, and to morrow will he ask it again: such an one is to be hated of God and man.

bes@Sir:20:17 @ How oft, and of how many shall he be laughed to scorn! for he knoweth not aright what it is to have; and it is all one unto him as if he had it not.

bes@Sir:20:24 @ A lie is a foul blot in a man, yet it is continually in the mouth of the untaught.

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:20:27 @ A wise man shall promote himself to honour with his words: and he that hath understanding will please great men.

bes@Sir:20:31 @ Better is he that hideth his folly than a man that hideth his wisdom.

bes@Sir:21:5 @ A prayer out of a poor man’s mouth reacheth to the ears of God, and his judgement cometh speedily.

bes@Sir:21:7 @ An eloquent man is known far and near; but a man of understanding knoweth when he slippeth.

bes@Sir:21:13 @ The knowledge of a wise man shall abound like a flood: and his counsel is like a pure fountain of life.

bes@Sir:21:15 @ If a skilful man hear a wise word, he will commend it, and add unto it: but as soon as one of no understanding heareth it, it displeaseth him, and he casteth it behind his back.

bes@Sir:21:17 @ They enquire at the mouth of the wise man in the congregation, and they shall ponder his words in their heart.

bes@Sir:21:19 @ Doctrine unto fools is as fetters on the feet, and like manacles on the right hand.

bes@Sir:21:20 @ A fool lifteth up his voice with laughter; but a wise man doth scarce smile a little.

bes@Sir:21:21 @ Learning is unto a wise man as an ornament of gold, and like a bracelet upon his right arm.

bes@Sir:21:22 @ A foolish man’s foot is soon in his neighbour’s house: but a man of experience is ashamed of him.

bes@Sir:21:24 @ It is the rudeness of a man to hearken at the door: but a wise man will be grieved with the disgrace.

bes@Sir:22:1 @ A slothful man is compared to a filthy stone, and every one will hiss him out to his disgrace.

bes@Sir:22:2 @ A slothful man is compared to the filth of a dunghill: every man that takes it up will shake his hand.

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:22:12 @ Seven days do men mourn for him that is dead; but for a fool and an ungodly man all the days of his life.

bes@Sir:22:15 @ Sand, and salt, and a mass of iron, is easier to bear, than a man without understanding.

bes@Sir:23:11 @ A man that useth much swearing shall be filled with iniquity, and the plague shall never depart from his house: if he shall offend, his sin shall be upon him: and if he acknowledge not his sin, he maketh a double offence: and if he swear in vain, he shall not be innocent, but his house shall be full of calamities.

bes@Sir:23:15 @ The man that is accustomed to opprobrious words will never be reformed all the days of his life.

bes@Sir:23:18 @ A man that breaketh wedlock, saying thus in his heart, Who seeth me? I am compassed about with darkness, the walls cover me, and no body seeth me; what need I to fear? the most High will not remember my sins:

bes@Sir:23:19 @ Such a man only feareth the eyes of men, and knoweth not that the eyes of the Lord are ten thousand times brighter than the sun, beholding all the ways of men, and considering the most secret parts.

bes@Sir:23:21 @ This man shall be punished in the streets of the city, and where he suspecteth not he shall be taken.

bes@Sir:23:23 @ 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:23:27 @ 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:24:8 @ 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:24:23 @ 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:24:28 @ The first man knew her not perfectly: no more shall the last find her out.

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:25:2 @ Three sorts of men my soul hateth, and I am greatly offended at their life: a poor man that is proud, a rich man that is a liar, and an old adulterer that doateth.

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:25:8 @ Well is him that dwelleth with a wife of understanding, and that hath not slipped with his tongue, and that hath not served a man more unworthy than himself:

bes@Sir:25:13 @ Give me any plague, but the plague of the heart: and any wickedness, but the wickedness of a woman:

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

bes@Sir:25:20 @ As the climbing up a sandy way is to the feet of the aged, so is a wife full of words to a quiet man.

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:26:1 @ Blessed is the man that hath a virtuous wife, for the number of his days shall be double.

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:26:6 @ But a grief of heart and sorrow is a woman that is jealous over another woman, and a scourge of the tongue which communicateth with all.

bes@Sir:26:8 @ A drunken woman and a gadder abroad causeth great anger, and she will not cover her own shame.

bes@Sir:26:9 @ The whoredom of a woman may be known in her haughty looks and eyelids.

bes@Sir:26:14 @ 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:26:22 @ An harlot shall be accounted as spittle; but a married woman is a tower against death to her husband.

bes@Sir:26:23 @ A wicked woman is given as a portion to a wicked man: but a godly woman is given to him that feareth the Lord.

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

bes@Sir:26:25 @ A shameless woman shall be counted as a dog; but she that is shamefaced will fear the Lord.

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:26:27 @ A loud crying woman and a scold shall be sought out to drive away the enemies.

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:27:1 @ Many have sinned for a small matter; and he that seeketh for abundance will turn his eyes away.

bes@Sir:27:3 @ Unless a man hold himself diligently in the fear of the Lord, his house shall soon be overthrown.

bes@Sir:27:4 @ As when one sifteth with a sieve, the refuse remaineth; so the filth of man in his talk.

bes@Sir:27:5 @ The furnace proveth the potter’s vessels; so the trial of man is in his reasoning.

bes@Sir:27:6 @ The fruit declareth if the tree have been dressed; so is the utterance of a conceit in the heart of man.

bes@Sir:27:7 @ Praise no man before thou hearest him speak; for this is the trial of men.

bes@Sir:27:11 @ The discourse of a godly man is always with wisdom; but a fool changeth as the moon.

bes@Sir:27:18 @ For as a man hath destroyed his enemy; so hast thou lost the love of thy neighbour.

bes@Sir:27:24 @ I have hated many things, but nothing like him; for the Lord will hate him.

bes@Sir:27:30 @ Malice and wrath, even these are abominations; and the sinful man shall have them both.

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

bes@Sir:28:4 @ He sheweth no mercy to a man, which is like himself: and doth he ask forgiveness of his own sins?

bes@Sir:28:6 @ Remember thy end, and let enmity cease; remember corruption and death, and abide in the commandments.

bes@Sir:28:7 @ Remember the commandments, and bear no malice to thy neighbour: remember the covenant of the Highest, and wink at ignorance.

bes@Sir:28:8 @ Abstain from strife, and thou shalt diminish thy sins: for a furious man will kindle strife,

bes@Sir:28:9 @ A sinful man disquieteth friends, and maketh debate among them that be at peace.

bes@Sir:28:10 @ As the matter of the fire is, so it burneth: and as a man’s strength is, so is his wrath; and according to his riches his anger riseth; and the stronger they are which contend, the more they will be inflamed.

bes@Sir:28:13 @ Curse the whisperer and doubletongued: for such have destroyed many that were at peace.

bes@Sir:28:14 @ A backbiting tongue hath disquieted many, and driven them from nation to nation: strong cities hath it pulled down, and overthrown the houses of great men.

bes@Sir:28:18 @ Many have fallen by the edge of the sword: but not so many as have fallen by the tongue.

bes@Sir:29:1 @ He that is merciful will lend unto his neighbour; and he that strengtheneth his hand keepeth the commandments.

bes@Sir:29:4 @ Many, when a thing was lent them, reckoned it to be found, and put them to trouble that helped them.

bes@Sir:29:5 @ Till he hath received, he will kiss a man’s hand; and for his neighbour’s money he will speak submissly: but when he should repay, he will prolong the time, and return words of grief, and complain of the time.

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

bes@Sir:29:8 @ Yet have thou patience with a man in poor estate, and delay not to shew him mercy.

bes@Sir:29:9 @ Help the poor for the commandment’s sake, and turn him not away because of his poverty.

bes@Sir:29:11 @ Lay up thy treasure according to the commandments of the most High, and it shall bring thee more profit than gold.

bes@Sir:29:14 @ An honest man is surety for his neighbour: but he that is impudent will forsake him.

bes@Sir:29:18 @ Suretiship hath undone many of good estate, and shaken them as a wave of the sea: mighty men hath it driven from their houses, so that they wandered among strange nations.

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:29:27 @ Give place, thou stranger, to an honourable man; my brother cometh to be lodged, and I have need of mine house.

bes@Sir:29:28 @ These things are grievous to a man of understanding; the upbraiding of houseroom, and reproaching of the lender.

bes@Sir:30:14 @ Better is the poor, being sound and strong of constitution, than a rich man that is afflicted in his body.

bes@Sir:30:22 @ The gladness of the heart is the life of man, and the joyfulness of a man prolongeth his days.

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:31:1 @ The hopes of a man void of understanding are vain and false: and dreams lift up fools.

bes@Sir:31:5 @ Divinations, and soothsayings, and dreams, are vain: and the heart fancieth, as a woman’s heart in travail.

bes@Sir:31:7 @ For dreams have deceived many, and they have failed that put their trust in them.

bes@Sir:31:9 @ A man that hath travelled knoweth many things; and he that hath much experience will declare wisdom.

bes@Sir:31:11 @ When I travelled, I saw many things; and I understand more than I can express.

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

bes@Sir:31:26 @ So is it with a man that fasteth for his sins, and goeth again, and doeth the same: who will hear his prayer? or what doth his humbling profit him?

bes@Sir:32:1 @ He that keepeth the law bringeth offerings enough: he that taketh heed to the commandment offereth a peace offering.

bes@Sir:32:5 @ For all these things are to be done because of the commandment.

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

bes@Sir:32:13 @ He will not accept any person against a poor man, but will hear the prayer of the oppressed.

bes@Sir:32:19 @ Till he have rendered to every man according to his deeds, and to the works of men according to their devices; till he have judged the cause of his people, and made them to rejoice in his mercy.

bes@Sir:34:2 @ Watching care will not let a man slumber, as a sore disease breaketh sleep,

bes@Sir:34:6 @ Gold hath been the ruin of many, and their destruction was present.

bes@Sir:34:16 @ Eat as it becometh a man, those things which are set before thee; and devour note, lest thou be hated.

bes@Sir:34:17 @ Leave off first for manners’ sake; and be not unsatiable, lest thou offend.

bes@Sir:34:18 @ When thou sittest among many, reach not thine hand out first of all.

bes@Sir:34:19 @ A very little is sufficient for a man well nurtured, and he fetcheth not his wind short upon his bed.

bes@Sir:34:20 @ Sound sleep cometh of moderate eating: he riseth early, and his wits are with him: but the pain of watching, and choler, and pangs of the belly, are with an unsatiable man.

bes@Sir:34:25 @ Shew not thy valiantness in wine; for wine hath destroyed many.

bes@Sir:34:27 @ Wine is as good as life to a man, if it be drunk moderately: what life is then to a man that is without wine? for it was made to make men glad.

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

bes@Sir:35:9 @ If thou be among great men, make not thyself equal with them; and when ancient men are in place, use not many words.

bes@Sir:35:10 @ Before the thunder goeth lightning; and before a shamefaced man shall go favour.

bes@Sir:35:17 @ A sinful man will not be reproved, but findeth an excuse according to his will.

bes@Sir:35:18 @ A man of counsel will be considerate; but a strange and proud man is not daunted with fear, even when of himself he hath done without counsel.

bes@Sir:35:23 @ In every good work trust thy own soul; for this is the keeping of the commandments.

bes@Sir:35:24 @ He that believeth in the Lord taketh heed to the commandment; and he that trusteth in him shall fare never the worse.

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:36:3 @ A man of understanding trusteth in the law; and the law is faithful unto him, as an oracle.

bes@Sir:36:13 @ As the clay is in the potter’s hand, to fashion it at his pleasure: so man is in the hand of him that made him, to render to them as liketh him best. (note:)(36:13AA)(:note) O be merciful unto Jerusalem, thy holy city, the place of thy rest.

bes@Sir:36:20 @ A froward heart causeth heaviness: but a man of experience will recompense him.

bes@Sir:36:21 @ A woman will receive every man, yet is one daughter better than another.

bes@Sir:36:22 @ The beauty of a woman cheereth the countenance, and a man loveth nothing better.

bes@Sir:36:26 @ 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:37:11 @ Neither consult with a woman touching her of whom she is jealous; neither with a coward in matters of war; nor with a merchant concerning exchange; nor with a buyer of selling; nor with an envious man of thankfulness; nor with an unmerciful man touching kindness; nor with the slothful for any work; nor with an hireling for a year of finishing work; nor with an idle servant of much business: hearken not unto these in any matter of counsel.

bes@Sir:37:12 @ But be continually with a godly man, whom thou knowest to keep the commandments of the Lord, whose, mind is according to thy mind, and will sorrow with thee, if thou shalt miscarry.

bes@Sir:37:13 @ And let the counsel of thine own heart stand: for there is no man more faithful unto thee than it.

bes@Sir:37:14 @ For a man’s mind is sometime wont to tell him more than seven watchmen, that sit above in an high tower.

bes@Sir:37:18 @ Four manner of things appear: good and evil, life and death: but the tongue ruleth over them continually.

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

bes@Sir:37:23 @ A wise man instructeth his people; and the fruits of his understanding fail not.

bes@Sir:37:24 @ A wise man shall be filled with blessing; and all they that see him shall count him happy.

bes@Sir:37:25 @ The days of the life of man may be numbered: but the days of Israel are innumerable.

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

bes@Sir:37:31 @ By surfeiting have many perished; but he that taketh heed prolongeth his life.

bes@Sir:38:24 @ The wisdom of a learned man cometh by opportunity of leisure: and he that hath little business shall become wise.

bes@Sir:39:9 @ Many shall commend his understanding; and so long as the world endureth, it shall not be blotted out; his memorial shall not depart away, and his name shall live from generation to generation.

bes@Sir:39:15 @ Magnify his name, and shew forth his praise with the songs of your lips, and with harps, and in praising him ye shall say after this manner:

bes@Sir:39:16 @ All the works of the Lord are exceeding good, and whatsoever he commandeth shall be accomplished in due season.

bes@Sir:39:17 @ And none may say, What is this? wherefore is that? for at time convenient they shall all be sought out: at his commandment the waters stood as an heap, and at the words of his mouth the receptacles of waters.

bes@Sir:39:18 @ At his commandment is done whatsoever pleaseth him; and none can hinder, when he will save.

bes@Sir:39:21 @ A man need not to say, What is this? wherefore is that? for he hath made all things for their uses.

bes@Sir:39:26 @ The principal things for the whole use of man’s life are water, fire, iron, and salt, flour of wheat, honey, milk, and the blood of the grape, and oil, and clothing.

bes@Sir:39:31 @ They shall rejoice in his commandment, and they shall be ready upon earth, when need is; and when their time is come, they shall not transgress his word.

bes@Sir:39:34 @ So that a man cannot say, This is worse than that: for in time they shall all be well approved.

bes@Sir:40:1 @ 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:40:8 @ Such things happen unto all flesh, both man and beast, and that is sevenfold more upon sinners.

bes@Sir:40:15 @ The children of the ungodly shall not bring forth many branches: but are as unclean roots upon a hard rock.

bes@Sir:40:18 @ To labour, and to be content with that a man hath, is a sweet life: but he that findeth a treasure is above them both.

bes@Sir:40:19 @ Children and the building of a city continue a man’s name: but a blameless wife is counted above them both.

bes@Sir:40:29 @ The life of him that dependeth on another man’s table is not to be counted for a life; for he polluteth himself with other men’s meat: but a wise man well nurtured will beware thereof.

bes@Sir:41:1 @ O death, how bitter is the remembrance of thee to a man that liveth at rest in his possessions, unto the man that hath nothing to vex him, and that hath prosperity in all things: yea, unto him that is yet able to receive meat!

bes@Sir:41:15 @ A man that hideth his foolishness is better than a man that hideth his wisdom.

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:41:21 @ 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:42:6 @ Sure keeping is good, where an evil wife is; and shut up, where many hands are.

bes@Sir:42:14 @ Better is the churlishness of a man than a courteous woman, a woman, I say, which bringeth shame and reproach.

bes@Sir:42:22 @ Oh how desirable are all his works! and that a man may see even to a spark.

bes@Sir:43:4 @ A man blowing a furnace is in works of heat, but the sun burneth the mountains three times more; breathing out fiery vapours, and sending forth bright beams, it dimmeth the eyes.

bes@Sir:43:5 @ Great is the Lord that made it; and at his commandment runneth hastily.

bes@Sir:43:10 @ At the commandment of the Holy One they will stand in their order, and never faint in their watches.

bes@Sir:43:13 @ By his commandment he maketh the snow to fall apace, and sendeth swiftly the lightnings of his judgement.

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

bes@Sir:44:24 @ And he brought out of him a merciful man, which found favour in the sight of all flesh, even Moses, beloved of God and men, whose memorial is blessed.

bes@Sir:45:3 @ By his words he caused the wonders to cease, and he made him glorious in the sight of kings, and gave him a commandment for his people, and shewed him part of his glory.

bes@Sir:45:5 @ He made him to hear his voice, and brought him into the dark cloud, and gave him commandments before his face, even the law of life and knowledge, that he might teach Jacob his covenants, and Israel his judgements.

bes@Sir:45:6 @ 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:45:11 @ With twisted scarlet, the work of the cunning workman, with precious stones graven like seals, and set in gold, the work of the jeweller, with a writing engraved for a memorial, after the number of the tribes of Israel.

bes@Sir:45:17 @ He gave unto him his commandments, and authority in the statutes of judgements, that he should teach Jacob the testimonies, and inform Israel in his laws.

bes@Sir:46:19 @ And before his long sleep he made protestations in the sight of the Lord and his anointed, I have not taken any man’s goods, so much as a shoe: and no man did accuse him.

bes@Sir:48:5 @ Who didst raise up a dead man from death, and his soul from the place of the dead, by the word of the most High:

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:49:14 @ But upon the earth was no man created like Enoch; for he was taken from the earth.

bes@Sir:49:15 @ Neither was there a young man born like Joseph, a governor of his brethren, a stay of the people, whose bones were regarded of the Lord.

bes@Sir:50:9 @ As fire and incense in the censer, and as a vessel of beaten gold set with all manner of precious stones:

bes@Sir:50:25 @ There be two manner of nations which my heart abhorreth, and the third is no nation:

bes@Sir:51:3 @ And hast delivered me, according to the multitude of they mercies and greatness of thy name, from the teeth of them that were ready to devour me, and out of the hands of such as sought after my life, and from the manifold afflictions which I had;

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@Bar:1:6 @ They made also a collection of money according to every man’s power:

bes@Bar:1:10 @ And they said, Behold, we have sent you money to buy you burnt offerings, and sin offerings, and incense, and prepare ye manna, and offer upon the altar of the Lord our God;

bes@Bar:1:12 @ And the Lord will give us strength, and lighten our eyes, and we shall live under the shadow of Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon, and under the shadow of Balthasar his son, and we shall serve them many days, and find favour in their sight.

bes@Bar:1:18 @ And disobeyed him, and have not hearkened unto the voice of the Lord our God, to walk in the commandments that he gave us openly:

bes@Bar:1:22 @ But every man followed the imagination of his own wicked heart, to serve strange gods, and to do evil in the sight of the Lord our God.

bes@Bar:2:3 @ That a man should eat the flesh of his own son, and the flesh of his own daughter.

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:2:10 @ Yet we have not hearkened unto his voice, to walk in the commandments of the Lord, that he hath set before us.

bes@Bar:2:28 @ As thou spakest by thy servant Moses in the day when thou didst command him to write the law before the children of Israel, saying,

bes@Bar:3:9 @ Hear, Israel, the commandments of life: give ear to understand wisdom.

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:3:31 @ No man knoweth her way, nor thinketh of her path.

bes@Bar:4:1 @ This is the book of the commandments of God, and the law that endureth for ever: all they that keep it shall come to life; but such as leave it shall die.

bes@Bar:4:12 @ Let no man rejoice over me, a widow, and forsaken of many, who for the sins of my children am left desolate; because they departed from the law of God.

bes@Bar:4:13 @ They knew not his statutes, nor walked in the ways of his commandments, nor trod in the paths of discipline in his righteousness.

bes@Bar:4:15 @ For he hath brought a nation upon them from far, a shameless nation, and of a strange language, who neither reverenced old man, nor pitied child.

bes@Bar:5:8 @ Moreover even the woods and every sweetsmelling tree shall overshadow Israel by the commandment of God.

bes@Bar:6:1 @ A copy of an epistle, which Jeremy sent unto them which were to be led captives into Babylon by the king of the Babylonians, to certify them, as it was commanded him 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:6:8 @ As for their tongue, it is polished by the workman, and they themselves are gilded and laid over with silver; yet are they but false, and cannot speak.

bes@Bar:6:17 @ For like as a vessel that a man useth is nothing worth when it is broken; even so it is with their gods: when they be set up in the temple, their eyes be full of dust through the feet of them that come in.

bes@Bar:6:28 @ 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:6:35 @ In like manner, they can neither give riches nor money: though a man make a vow unto them, and keep it not, they will not require it.

bes@Bar:6:36 @ They can save no man from death, neither deliver the weak from the mighty.

bes@Bar:6:37 @ They cannot restore a blind man to his sight, nor help any man in his distress.

bes@Bar:6:40 @ How should a man then think and say that they are gods, when even the Chaldeans themselves dishonour them?

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:6:61 @ In like manner the lightning when it breaketh forth is easy to be seen; and after the same manner the wind bloweth in every country.

bes@Bar:6:62 @ And when God commandeth the clouds to go over the whole world, they do as they are bidden.

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:6:69 @ 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:1:2 @ And made many wars, and won many strong holds, and slew the kings of the earth,

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:1:9 @ And after his death they all put crowns upon themselves; so did their sons after them many years: and evils were multiplied in the earth.

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:1:18 @ And made war against Ptolemee king of Egypt: but Ptolemee was afraid of him, and fled; and many were wounded to death.

bes@1Macc:1:42 @ And every one should leave his laws: so all the heathen agreed according to the commandment of the king.

bes@1Macc:1:43 @ Yea, many also of the Israelites consented to his religion, and sacrificed unto idols, and profaned the sabbath.

bes@1Macc:1:48 @ That they should also leave their children uncircumcised, and make their souls abominable with all manner of uncleanness and profanation:

bes@1Macc:1:50 @ And whosoever would not do according to the commandment of the king, he said, he should die.

bes@1Macc:1:51 @ In the selfsame manner wrote he to his whole kingdom, and appointed overseers over all the people, commanding the cities of Juda to sacrifice, city by city.

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:1:57 @ And whosoever was found with any the book of the testament, or if any committed to the law, the king’s commandment was, that they should put him to death.

bes@1Macc:1:58 @ Thus did they by their authority unto the Israelites every month, to as many as were found in the cities.

bes@1Macc:1:60 @ At which time according to the commandment they put to death certain women, that had caused their children to be circumcised.

bes@1Macc:1:62 @ Howbeit many in Israel were fully resolved and confirmed in themselves not to eat any unclean thing.

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

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

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

bes@1Macc:2:17 @ Then answered the king’s officers, and said to Mattathias on this wise, Thou art a ruler, and an honourable and great man in this city, and strengthened with sons and brethren:

bes@1Macc:2:18 @ Now therefore come thou first, and fulfil the king’s commandment, like as all the heathen have done, yea, and the men of Juda also, and such as remain at Jerusalem: so shalt thou and thy house be in the number of the king’s friends, and thou and thy children shall be honoured with silver and gold, and many rewards.

bes@1Macc:2:19 @ 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:2:23 @ 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:2:29 @ Then many that sought after justice and judgement went down into the wilderness, to dwell there:

bes@1Macc:2:31 @ Now when it was told the king’s servants, and the host that was at Jerusalem, in the city of David, that certain men, who had broken the king’s commandment, were gone down into the secret places in the wilderness,

bes@1Macc:2:33 @ 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:2:53 @ Joseph in the time of his distress kept the commandment and was made lord of Egypt.

bes@1Macc:2:62 @ Fear not then the words of a sinful man: for his glory shall be dung and worms.

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:2:68 @ Recompense fully the heathen, and take heed to the commandments of the law.

bes@1Macc:3:7 @ He grieved also many kings, and made Jacob glad with his acts, and his memorial is blessed for ever.

bes@1Macc:3:11 @ Which thing when Judas perceived, he went forth to meet him, and so he smote him, and slew him: many also fell down slain, but the rest fled.

bes@1Macc:3:14 @ He said, I will get me a name and honour in the kingdom; for I will go fight with Judas and them that are with him, who despise the king’s commandment.

bes@1Macc:3:18 @ Unto whom Judas answered, It is no hard matter for many to be shut up in the hands of a few; and with the God of heaven it is all one, to deliver with a great multitude, or a small company:

bes@1Macc:3:28 @ He opened also his treasure, and gave his soldiers pay for a year, commanding them to be ready whensoever he should need them.

bes@1Macc:3:32 @ So he left Lysias, a nobleman, and one of the blood royal, to oversee the affairs of the king from the river Euphrates unto the borders of Egypt:

bes@1Macc:3:39 @ And with them he sent forty thousand footmen, and seven thousand horsemen, to go into the land of Juda, and to destroy it, as the king commanded.

bes@1Macc:3:42 @ Now when Judas and his brethren saw that miseries were multiplied, and that the forces did encamp themselves in their borders: for they knew how the king had given commandment to destroy the people, and utterly abolish them;

bes@1Macc:3:56 @ But as for such as were building houses, or had betrothed wives, or were planting vineyards, or were fearful, those he commanded that they should return, every man to his own house, according to the law.

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:4:27 @ 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:4:30 @ And when he saw that mighty army, he prayed and said, Blessed art thou, O Saviour of Israel, who didst quell the violence of the mighty man by the hand of thy servant David, and gavest the host of strangers into the hands of Jonathan the son of Saul, and his armourbearer;

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:5:7 @ So he fought many battles with them, till at length they were discomfited before him; and he smote them.

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

bes@1Macc:5:19 @ Unto whom he gave commandment, saying, Take ye the charge of this people, and see that ye make not war against the heathen until the time that we come again.

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

bes@1Macc:5:25 @ 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:5:26 @ And how that many of them were shut up in Bosora, and Bosor, and Alema, Casphor, Maked, and Carnaim; all these cities are strong and great:

bes@1Macc:5:42 @ Now when Judas came near the brook, he caused the scribes of the people to remain by the brook: unto whom he gave commandment, saying, Suffer no man to remain in the camp, but let all come to the battle.

bes@1Macc:5:48 @ 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:5:63 @ Howbeit the man Judas and his brethren were greatly renowned in the sight of all Israel, and of all the heathen, wheresoever their name was heard of;

bes@1Macc:6:9 @ And there he continued many days: for his grief was ever more and more, and he made account that he should die.

bes@1Macc:6:23 @ 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:6:31 @ These went through Idumea, and pitched against Bethsura, which they assaulted many days, making engines of war; but they of Bethsura came out, and burned them with fire, and fought valiantly.

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:6:54 @ 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:6:62 @ Then the king entered into mount Sion; but when he saw the strength of the place, he broke his oath that he had made, and gave commandment to pull down the wall round about.

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:7:8 @ Then the king chose Bacchides, a friend of the king, who ruled beyond the flood, and was a great man in the kingdom, and faithful to the king,

bes@1Macc:7:9 @ And him he sent with that wicked Alcimus, whom he made high priest, and commanded that he should take vengeance of the children of Israel.

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:7:26 @ Then the king sent Nicanor, one of his honourable princes, a man that bare deadly hate unto Israel, with commandment to destroy the people.

bes@1Macc:7:38 @ Be avenged of this man and his host, and let them fall by the sword: remember their blasphemies, and suffer them not to continue any longer.

bes@1Macc:8:1 @ Now Judas had heard of the fame of the Romans, that they were mighty and valiant men, and such as would lovingly accept all that joined themselves unto them, and make a league of amity with all that came unto them;

bes@1Macc:8:10 @ 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:8:16 @ 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:8:21 @ So that matter pleased the Romans well.

bes@1Macc:8:23 @ Good success be to the Romans, and to the people of the Jews, by sea and by land for ever: the sword also and enemy be far from them,

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:8:27 @ In the same manner also, if war come first upon the nation of the Jews, the Romans shall help them with all their heart, according as the time shall be appointed them:

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:8:29 @ According to these articles did the Romans make a covenant with the people of the Jews.

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:9:10 @ Then Judas said, God forbid that I should do this thing, and flee away from them: if our time be come, let us die manfully for our brethren, and let us not stain our honour.

bes@1Macc:9:17 @ Whereupon there was a sore battle, insomuch as many were slain on both parts.

bes@1Macc:9:20 @ Moreover they bewailed him, and all Israel made great lamentation for him, and mourned many days, saying,

bes@1Macc:9:21 @ How is the valiant man fallen, that delivered Israel!

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:9:29 @ 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:9:39 @ 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:9:54 @ Moreover in the hundred fifty and third year, in the second month, Alcimus commanded that the wall of the inner court of the sanctuary should be pulled down; he pulled down also the works of the prophets

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:9:71 @ Which thing he accepted, and did according to his demands, and sware unto him that he would never do him harm all the days of his life.

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:10:11 @ And he commanded the workmen to build the walls and the mount Sion and about with square stones for fortification; and they did so.

bes@1Macc:10:13 @ Insomuch as every man left his place, and went into his own country.

bes@1Macc:10:14 @ Only at Bethsura certain of those that had forsaken the law and the commandments remained still: for it was their place of refuge.

bes@1Macc:10:16 @ He said, Shall we find such another man? now therefore we will make him our friend and confederate.

bes@1Macc:10:19 @ We have heard of thee, that thou art a man of great power, and meet to be our friend.

bes@1Macc:10:28 @ And will grant you many immunities, and give you rewards.

bes@1Macc:10:35 @ Also no man shall have authority to meddle with or to molest any of them in any matter.

bes@1Macc:10:37 @ And of them some shall be placed in the king’s strong holds, of whom also some shall be set over the affairs of the kingdom, which are of trust: and I will that their overseers and governors be of themselves, and that they live after their own laws, even as the king hath commanded in the land of Judea.

bes@1Macc:10:58 @ 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:10:62 @ Yea more than that, the king commanded to take off his garments, and clothe him in purple: and they did so.

bes@1Macc:10:63 @ And he made him sit by himself, and said into his princes, Go with him into the midst of the city, and make proclamation, that no man complain against him of any matter, and that no man trouble him for any manner of cause.

bes@1Macc:10:81 @ But the people stood still, as Jonathan had commanded them: and so the enemies’ horses were tired.

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:11:20 @ 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:11:23 @ Nevertheless Jonathan, when he heard this, commanded to besiege it still: and he chose certain of the elders of Israel and the priests, and put himself in peril;

bes@1Macc:11:29 @ So the king consented, and wrote letters unto Jonathan of all these things after this manner:

bes@1Macc:11:48 @ Also they set fire on the city, and gat many spoils that day, and delivered the king.

bes@1Macc:12:4 @ Upon this the Romans gave them letters unto the governors of every place that they should bring them into the land of Judea peaceably.

bes@1Macc:12:16 @ For this cause we chose Numenius the son of Antiochus, and Antipater he son of Jason, and sent them unto the Romans, to renew the amity that we had with them, and the former league.

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:12:23 @ 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:12:43 @ But received him honourably, and commended him unto all his friends, and gave him gifts, and commanded his men of war to be as obedient unto him, as to himself.

bes@1Macc:13:9 @ Fight thou our battles, and whatsoever, thou commandest us, that will we do.

bes@1Macc:13:26 @ And all Israel made great lamentation for him, and bewailed him many days.

bes@1Macc:13:35 @ Unto whom king Demetrius answered and wrote after this manner:

bes@1Macc:13:53 @ And when Simon saw that John his son was a valiant man, he made him captain of all the hosts; and he dwelt in Gazera.

bes@1Macc:14:10 @ He provided victuals for the cities, and set in them all manner of munition, so that his honourable name was renowned unto the end of the world.

bes@1Macc:14:12 @ For every man sat under his vine and his fig tree, and there was none to fray them:

bes@1Macc:14:22 @ And did register the things that they spake in the council of the people in this manner; Numenius son of Antiochus, and Antipater son of Jason, the Jews’ ambassadors, came unto us to renew the friendship they had with us.

bes@1Macc:14:40 @ For he had heard say, that the Romans had called the Jews their friends and confederates and brethren; and that they had entertained the ambassadors of Simon honourably;

bes@1Macc:14:43 @ Beside this, that he should be obeyed of every man, and that all the writings in the country should be made in his name, and that he should be clothed in purple, and wear gold:

bes@1Macc:14:48 @ So they commanded that this writing should be put in tables of brass, and that they should be set up within the compass of the sanctuary in a conspicuous place;

bes@1Macc:15:4 @ My meaning also being to go through the country, that I may be avenged of them that have destroyed it, and made many cities in the kingdom desolate:

bes@1Macc:15:16 @ Lucius, consul of the Romans unto king Ptolemee, greeting:

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:15:35 @ 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:15:39 @ And commanded him to remove his host toward Judea; also he commanded him to build up Cedron, and to fortify the gates, and to war against the people; but as for the king himself, he pursued Tryphon.

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:16:7 @ That done, he divided his men, and set the horsemen in the midst of the footmen: for the enemies’ horsemen were very many.

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@2Macc:1:4 @ And open your hearts in his law and commandments, and send you peace,

bes@2Macc:1:20 @ Now after many years, when it pleased God, Neemias, being sent from the king of Persia, did send of the posterity of those priests that had hid it to the fire: but when they told us they found no fire, but thick water;

bes@2Macc:1:21 @ 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:1:24 @ And the prayer was after this manner; O Lord, Lord God, Creator of all things, who art fearful and strong, and righteous, and merciful, and the only and gracious King,

bes@2Macc:1:31 @ Now when the sacrifice was consumed, Neemias commanded the water that was left to be poured on the great stones.

bes@2Macc:1:35 @ And the king took many gifts, and bestowed thereof on those whom he would gratify.

bes@2Macc:1:36 @ And Neemias called this thing Naphthar, which is as much as to say, a cleansing: but many men call it Nephi.

bes@2Macc:2:1 @ It is also found in the records, that Jeremy the prophet commanded them that were carried away to take of the fire, as it hath been signified:

bes@2Macc:2:2 @ And how that the prophet, having given them the law, charged them not to forget the commandments of the Lord, and that they should not err in their minds, when they see images of silver and gold, with their ornaments.

bes@2Macc:2:4 @ 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:2:14 @ 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:2:21 @ And the manifest signs that came from heaven unto those that behaved themselves manfully to their honour for Judaism: so that, being but a few, they overcame the whole country, and chased barbarous multitudes,

bes@2Macc:2:27 @ Even as it is no ease unto him that prepareth a banquet, and seeketh the benefit of others: yet for the pleasuring of many we will undertake gladly this great pains;

bes@2Macc:3:7 @ Now when Apollonius came to the king, and had shewed him of the money whereof he was told, the king chose out Heliodorus his treasurer, and sent him with a commandment to bring him the foresaid money.

bes@2Macc:3:11 @ And that some of it belonged to Hircanus son of Tobias, a man of great dignity, and not as that wicked Simon had misinformed: the sum whereof in all was four hundred talents of silver, and two hundred of gold:

bes@2Macc:3:13 @ But Heliodorus, because of the king’s commandment given him, said, That in any wise it must be brought into the king’s treasury.

bes@2Macc:3:17 @ For the man was so compassed with fear and horror of the body, that it was manifest to them that looked upon him, what sorrow he had now in his heart.

bes@2Macc:3:21 @ Then it would have pitied a man to see the falling down of the multitude of all sorts, and the fear of the high priest being in such an agony.

bes@2Macc:3:26 @ Moreover two other young men appeared before him, notable in strength, excellent in beauty, and comely in apparel, who stood by him on either side; and scourged him continually, and gave him many sore stripes.

bes@2Macc:3:28 @ Thus him, that lately came with a great train and with all his guard into the said treasury, they carried out, being unable to help himself with his weapons: and manifestly they acknowledged the power of God.

bes@2Macc:3:32 @ 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:3:37 @ And when the king Heliodorus, who might be a fit man to be sent yet once again to Jerusalem, he said,

bes@2Macc:4:13 @ Now such was the height of Greek fashions, and increase of heathenish manners, through the exceeding profaneness of Jason, that ungodly wretch, and no high priest;

bes@2Macc:4:25 @ So he came with the king’s mandate, bringing nothing worthy the high priesthood, but having the fury of a cruel tyrant, and the rage of a savage beast.

bes@2Macc:4:31 @ Then came the king in all haste to appease matters, leaving Andronicus, a man in authority, for his deputy.

bes@2Macc:4:35 @ For the which cause not only the Jews, but many also of other nations, took great indignation, and were much grieved for the unjust murder of the man.

bes@2Macc:4:39 @ Now when many sacrileges had been committed in the city by Lysimachus with the consent of Menelaus, and the fruit thereof was spread abroad, the multitude gathered themselves together against Lysimachus, many vessels of gold being already carried away.

bes@2Macc:4:40 @ Whereupon the common people rising, and being filled with rage, Lysimachus armed about three thousand men, and began first to offer violence; one Auranus being the leader, a man far gone in years, and no less in folly.

bes@2Macc:4:42 @ Thus many of them they wounded, and some they struck to the ground, and all of them they forced to flee: but as for the churchrobber himself, him they killed beside the treasury.

bes@2Macc:5:4 @ Wherefore every man prayed that that apparition might turn to good.

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:5:12 @ And commanded his men of war not to spare such as they met, and to slay such as went up upon the houses.

bes@2Macc:5:18 @ For had they not been formerly wrapped in many sins, this man, as soon as he had come, had forthwith been scourged, and put back from his presumption, as Heliodorus was, whom Seleucus the king sent to view the treasury.

bes@2Macc:5:22 @ 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:5:24 @ He sent also that detestable ringleader Apollonius with an army of two and twenty thousand, commanding him to slay all those that were in their best age, and to sell the women and the younger sort:

bes@2Macc:5:25 @ Who coming to Jerusalem, and pretending peace, did forbear till the holy day of the sabbath, when taking the Jews keeping holy day, he commanded his men to arm themselves.

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:6:9 @ And whoso would not conform themselves to the manners of the Gentiles should be put to death. Then might a man have seen the present misery.

bes@2Macc:6:18 @ Eleazar, one of the principal scribes, an aged man, and of a well favoured countenance, was constrained to open his mouth, and to eat swine’s flesh.

bes@2Macc:6:21 @ But they that had the charge of that wicked feast, for the old acquaintance they had with the man, taking him aside, besought him to bring flesh of his own provision, such as was lawful for him to use, and make as if he did eat of the flesh taken from the sacrifice commanded by the king;

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:6:27 @ 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:6:31 @ And thus this man died, leaving his death for an example of a noble courage, and a memorial of virtue, not only unto young men, but unto all his nation.

bes@2Macc:7:3 @ Then the king, being in a rage, commanded pans and caldrons to be made hot:

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:7:10 @ After him was the third made a mocking stock: and when he was required, he put out his tongue, and that right soon, holding forth his hands manfully.

bes@2Macc:7:12 @ Insomuch that the king, and they that were with him, marvelled at the young man’s courage, for that he nothing regarded the pains.

bes@2Macc:7:13 @ Now when this man was dead also, they tormented and mangled the fourth in like manner.

bes@2Macc:7:15 @ Afterward they brought the fifth also, and mangled him.

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:7:23 @ But doubtless the Creator of the world, who formed the generation of man, and found out the beginning of all things, will also of his own mercy give you breath and life again, as ye now regard not your own selves for his laws’ sake.

bes@2Macc:7:24 @ Now Antiochus, thinking himself despised, and suspecting it to be a reproachful speech, whilst the youngest was yet alive, did not only exhort him by words, but also assured him with oaths, that he would make him both a rich and a happy man, if he would turn from the laws of his fathers; and that also he would take him for his friend, and trust him with affairs.

bes@2Macc:7:25 @ But when the young man would in no case hearken unto him, the king called his mother, and exhorted her that she would counsel the young man to save his life.

bes@2Macc:7:26 @ 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:7:40 @ So this man died undefiled, and put his whole trust in the Lord.

bes@2Macc:8:8 @ So when Philip saw that this man increased by little and little, and that things prospered with him still more and more, he wrote unto Ptolemeus, the governor of Celosyria and Phenice, to yield more aid to the king’s affairs.

bes@2Macc:8:10 @ So Nicanor undertook to make so much money of the captive Jews, as should defray the tribute of two thousand talents, which the king was to pay to the Romans.

bes@2Macc:8:16 @ 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:8:30 @ Moreover of those that were with Timotheus and Bacchides, who fought against them, they slew above twenty thousand, and very easily got high and strong holds, and divided among themselves many spoils more, and made the maimed, orphans, widows, yea, and the aged also, equal in spoils with themselves.

bes@2Macc:8:32 @ They slew also Philarches, that wicked person, who was with Timotheus, and had annoyed the Jews many ways.

bes@2Macc:8:36 @ 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:9:4 @ 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:9:7 @ Howbeit he nothing at all ceased from his bragging, but still was filled with pride, breathing out fire in his rage against the Jews, and commanding to haste the journey: but it came to pass that he fell down from his chariot, carried violently; so that having a sore fall, all the members of his body were much pained.

bes@2Macc:9:8 @ And thus he that a little afore thought he might command the waves of the sea, (so proud was he beyond the condition of man) and weigh the high mountains in a balance, was now cast on the ground, and carried in an horselitter, shewing forth unto all the manifest power of God.

bes@2Macc:9:9 @ So that the worms rose up out of the body of this wicked man, and whiles he lived in sorrow and pain, his flesh fell away, and the filthiness of his smell was noisome to all his army.

bes@2Macc:9:10 @ And the man, that thought a little afore he could reach to the stars of heaven, no man could endure to carry for his intolerable stink.

bes@2Macc:9:12 @ And when he himself could not abide his own smell, he said these words, It is meet to be subject unto God, and that a man that is mortal should not proudly think of himself if he were God.

bes@2Macc:9:16 @ And the holy temple, which before he had spoiled, he would garnish with goodly gifts, and restore all the holy vessels with many more, and out of his own revenue defray the charges belonging to the sacrifices:

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:9:25 @ Again, considering how that the princes that are borderers and neighbours unto my kingdom wait for opportunities, and expect what shall be the event. I have appointed my son Antiochus king, whom I often committed and commended unto many of you, when I went up into the high provinces; to whom I have written as followeth:

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: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:10:18 @ 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:10:35 @ Nevertheless upon the fifth day early twenty young men of Maccabeus’ company, inflamed with anger because of the blasphemies, assaulted the wall manly, and with a fierce courage killed all that they met withal.

bes@2Macc:11:1 @ Not long after the, Lysias the king’s protector and cousin, who also managed the affairs, took sore displeasure for the things that were done.

bes@2Macc:11:12 @ Many of them also being wounded escaped naked; and Lysias himself fled away shamefully, and so escaped.

bes@2Macc:11:13 @ Who, as he was a man of understanding, casting with himself what loss he had had, and considering that the Hebrews could not be overcome, because the Almighty God helped them, he sent unto them,

bes@2Macc:11:17 @ 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:11:24 @ 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:11:27 @ And the letter of the king unto the nation of the Jews was after this manner: King Antiochus sendeth greeting unto the council, and the rest of the Jews:

bes@2Macc:11:31 @ And the Jews shall use their own kind of meats and laws, as before; and none of them any manner of ways shall be molested for things ignorantly done.

bes@2Macc:11:34 @ The Romans also sent unto them a letter containing these words: Quintus Memmius and Titus Manlius, ambassadors of the Romans, send greeting unto the people of the Jews.

bes@2Macc:12:5 @ When Judas heard of this cruelty done unto his countrymen, he commanded those that were with him to make them ready.

bes@2Macc:12:8 @ But when he heard that the Jamnites were minded to do in like manner unto the Jews that dwelt among them,

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:12:24 @ Moreover Timotheus himself fell into the hands of Dositheus and Sosipater, whom he besought with much craft to let him go with his life, because he had many of the Jews’ parents, and the brethren of some of them, who, if they put him to death, should not be regarded.

bes@2Macc:12:25 @ So when he had assured them with many words that he would restore them without hurt, according to the agreement, they let him go for the saving of their brethren.

bes@2Macc:12:35 @ At which time Dositheus, one of Bacenor’s company, who was on horseback, and a strong man, was still upon Gorgias, and taking hold of his coat drew him by force; and when he would have taken that cursed man alive, a horseman of Thracia coming upon him smote off his shoulder, so that Gorgias fled unto Marisa.

bes@2Macc:12:40 @ 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:13:4 @ But the King of kings moved Antiochus’ mind against this wicked wretch, and Lysias informed the king that this man was the cause of all mischief, so that the king commanded to bring him unto Berea, and to put him to death, as the manner is in that place.

bes@2Macc:13:7 @ Such a death it happened that wicked man to die, not having so much as burial in the earth; and that most justly:

bes@2Macc:13:8 @ For inasmuch as he had committed many sins about the altar, whose fire and ashes were holy, he received his death in ashes.

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:13:14 @ So when he had committed all to the Creator of the world, and exhorted his soldiers to fight manfully, even unto death, for the laws, the temple, the city, the country, and the commonwealth, he camped by Modin:

bes@2Macc:13:18 @ Now when the king had taken a taste of the manliness of the Jews, he went about to take the holds by policy,

bes@2Macc:14:13 @ Commanding him to slay Judas, and to scatter them that were with him, and to make Alcimus high priest of the great temple.

bes@2Macc:14:15 @ Now when the Jews heard of Nicanor’s coming, and that the heathen were up against them, they cast earth upon their heads, and made supplication to him that had established his people for ever, and who always helpeth his portion with manifestation of his presence.

bes@2Macc:14:16 @ So at the commandment of the captain they removed straightways from thence, and came near unto them at the town of Dessau.

bes@2Macc:14:18 @ Nevertheless Nicanor, hearing of the manliness of them that were with Judas, and the courageousness that they had to fight for their country, durst not try the matter by the sword.

bes@2Macc:14:24 @ And he would not willingly have Judas out of his sight: for he love the man from his heart

bes@2Macc:14:27 @ Then the king being in a rage, and provoked with the accusations of the most wicked man, wrote to Nicanor, signifying that he was much displeased with the covenants, and commanding him that he should send Maccabeus prisoner in all haste unto Antioch.

bes@2Macc:14:28 @ When this came to Nicanor’s hearing, he was much confounded in himself, and took it grievously that he should make void the articles which were agreed upon, the man being in no fault.

bes@2Macc:14:31 @ But the other, knowing that he was notably prevented by Judas’ policy, came into the great and holy temple, and commanded the priests, that were offering their usual sacrifices, to deliver him the man.

bes@2Macc:14:32 @ And when they sware that they could not tell where the man was whom he sought,

bes@2Macc:14:33 @ He stretched out his right hand toward the temple, and made an oath in this manner: If ye will not deliver me Judas as a prisoner, I will lay this temple of God even with the ground, and I will break down the altar, and erect a notable temple unto Bacchus.

bes@2Macc:14:34 @ After these words he departed. Then the priests lifted up their hands toward heaven, and besought him that was ever a defender of their nation, saying in this manner;

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:14:43 @ But missing his stroke through haste, the multitude also rushing within the doors, he ran boldly up to the wall, and cast himself down manfully among the thickest of them.

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:15:12 @ And this was his vision: That Onias, who had been high priest, a virtuous and a good man, reverend in conversation, gentle in condition, well spoken also, and exercised from a child in all points of virtue, holding up his hands prayed for the whole body of the Jews.

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:15:17 @ Thus being well comforted by the words of Judas, which were very good, and able to stir them up to valour, and to encourage the hearts of the young men, they determined not to pitch camp, but courageously to set upon them, and manfully to try the matter by conflict, because the city and the sanctuary and the temple were in danger.

bes@2Macc:15:22 @ 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:15:30 @ And Judas, who was ever the chief defender of the citizens both in body and mind, and who continued his love toward his countrymen all his life, commanded to strike off Nicanor’s head, and his hand with his shoulder, and bring them to Jerusalem.

bes@2Macc:15:33 @ And when he had cut out the tongue of that ungodly Nicanor, he commanded that they should give it by pieces unto the fowls, and hang up the reward of his madness before the temple.

bes@2Macc:15:34 @ So every man praised toward the heaven the glorious Lord, saying, Blessed be he that hath kept his own place undefiled.

bes@2Macc:15:35 @ He hanged also Nicanor’s head upon the tower, an evident and manifest sign unto all of the help of the Lord.

bes@AddDaniel:1:2 @ Then Azarias stood up, and prayed on this manner; and opening his mouth in the midst of the fire said,

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@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:1:3 @ who hast bound the sea by the word of thy commandment; who hast shut up the deep, and sealed it by thy terrible and glorious name;

bes@PrMan:1:4 @ whom all men fear, and tremble before thy power;

bes@PrMan:1:5 @ for the majesty of thy glory cannot be borne, and thine angry threatening toward sinners is importable:

bes@PrMan:1:6 @ but thy merciful promise is unmeasurable and unsearchable;

bes@PrMan:1:7 @ for thou art the most high Lord, of great compassion, longsuffering, very merciful, and repentest of the evils of men. Thou, O Lord, according to thy great goodness hast promised repentance and forgiveness to them that have sinned against thee: and of thine infinite mercies hast appointed repentance unto sinners, that they may be saved.

bes@PrMan:1:8 @ Thou therefore, O Lord, that art the God of the just, hast not appointed repentance to the just, as to Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, which have not sinned against thee; but thou hast appointed repentance unto me that am a sinner:

bes@PrMan:1:9 @ for I have sinned above the number of the sands of the sea. My transgressions, O Lord, are multiplied: my transgressions are multiplied, and I am not worthy to behold and see the height of heaven for the multitude of mine iniquities.

bes@PrMan:1:10 @ I am bowed down with many iron bands, that I cannot lift up mine head, neither have any release: for I have provoked thy wrath, and done evil before thee: I did not thy will, neither kept I thy commandments: I have set up abominations, and have multiplied offences.

bes@PrMan:1:11 @ Now therefore I bow the knee of mine heart, beseeching thee of grace.

bes@PrMan:1:12 @ I have sinned, O Lord, I have sinned, and I acknowledge mine iniquities:

bes@PrMan:1:13 @ wherefore, I humbly beseech thee, forgive me, O Lord, forgive me, and destroy me not with mine iniquities. Be not angry with me for ever, by reserving evil for me; neither condemn me to the lower parts of the earth. For thou art the God, even the God of them that repent;

bes@PrMan:1:14 @ and in me thou wilt shew all thy goodness: for thou wilt save me, that am unworthy, according to thy great mercy.

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:1:3 @ 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:1:4 @ A fierce battle then took place; and the men of Antiochus prevailing, Arsinoe continually went up and down the ranks, and with dishevelled hair, with tears and entreaties, begged the soldiers to fight manfully for themselves, their children, and wives; and promised that if they proved conquerors, she would give them two minae of gold apiece.

bes@3Macc:1:5 @ It thus fell out that their enemies were defeated in hand-to-hand encounter, and that many of them were taken prisoners.

bes@3Macc:1:19 @ Women, but recently separated off, left their bridal chambers, left the reserve that befitted them, and ran about the city in a disorderly manner. 

bes@3Macc:1:25 @ The elders who surrounded the king strove in many ways to divert his haughty mind from the design which he had formed.

bes@3Macc:2:6 @ Thou didst make known thy power when thou causedst the bold Pharaoh, the enslaver of thy people, to pass through the ordeal of many and diverse inflictions.

bes@3Macc:2:13 @ see now, holy King, how through our many and great sins we are borne down, and made subject to our enemies, and are become weak and powerless.

bes@3Macc:2:14 @ We being in this low condition, this bold and profane man seeks to dishonour this thine holy place, consecrated out of the earth to the name of thy Majesty.

bes@3Macc:2:21 @ At that time God, who seeth all things, who is beyond all Holy among the holy, heard that prayer, so suitable; and scourged the man greatly uplifted with scorn and insolence.

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:3:6 @ What all the rest of mankind said, was, however, made of no account by the foreigners;

bes@3Macc:3:12 @ King Ptolemy Philopater, to the commanders and soldiers in Egypt, and in all places, health and happiness!

bes@3Macc:3:15 @ we resolved, not with strength of spear, but with gentleness and much humanity, as it were to nurse the inhabitants of Coele-Syria and Phoenicia, and to be their willing benefactors.

bes@3Macc:3:20 @ We then, having endeavoured to make allowance for the madness of these persons, and on our victorious return treating all people in Egypt courteously, acted in a manner which was befitting.

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:4:4 @ They were sent out unanimously by the generals in the several cities, with such stern and pitiless feeling, that the exceptional nature of the infliction moved even some of their enemies. These, influenced by sentiments of common humanity, and reflecting upon the uncertain issue of life, shed tears at this their miserable expulsion.

bes@3Macc:4:13 @ was full of rage, and commanded that they should be carefully subjected to the same (and not one whit milder) treatment.

bes@3Macc:4:18 @ 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:5:2 @ he commanded him, with a quantity of unmixed wine and handfuls of incense to drug the elephants early on the following day. These five hundred elephants were, when infuriated by the copious draughts of frankincense, to be led up to the execution of death upon the Jews.

bes@3Macc:5:8 @ to overthrow the evil purpose which was gone out against them, and to deliver them by extraordinary manifestation from that death which was in store for them.

bes@3Macc:5:16 @ The kind listened to this, and then turning aside to his potations, commanded the guests to sit down before him.

bes@3Macc:5:21 @ When the king said this, the company present were glad, and approved; and then each man went to his own home.

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:5:45 @ And the master of the elephants urged the beasts into an almost maniacal state, drenched them with incense and wine, and decked them with frightful instruments.

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:6:39 @ The Ruler over all did during this time manifest forth his mercy gloriously, and did deliver them all together unharmed.

bes@3Macc:6:41 @ The king commended them, and wrote the subjoined letter, of magnanimous import for them, to the commanders of every city.

bes@3Macc:7:1 @ King Ptolemy Philopator to the commanders throughout Egypt, and to all who are set over affairs, joy and strength.

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:7:20 @ These they registered as sacred upon a pillar, when they had dedicated the place of their festivity to be one of prayer. They departed unharmed, free, abundant in joy, preserved by the king's command, by land, by sea, and by river, each to his own home.

bes@3Macc:7:22 @ Every man received back his own, according to inventory; those who had obtained their goods, giving them up with the greatest terror. For the greatest God wrought with perfectness wonders for their salvation.

bes@4Macc:1:4 @ it surely also and manifestly has the rule over the affections which are contrary to justice, such as malice; and of those which are hindrances to manliness, as wrath, and pain, and fear.

bes@4Macc:1:6 @ For reasoning does not rule over its own affections, but over such as are contrary to justice, and manliness and temperance, and prudence; and yet over these, so as to withstand, without destroying them.

bes@4Macc:1:9 @ For all these, contemning pains even unto death, by this contempt, demonstrated that reasoning has command over the passions.

bes@4Macc:1:11 @ For they, winning admiration not only from men in general, but even from the persecutors, for their manliness and endurance, became the means of the destruction of the tyranny against their nation, having conquered the tyrant by their endurance, so that by them their country was purified.

bes@4Macc:1:14 @ 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:1:16 @ And wisdom is a knowledge of divine and human things, and of their causes.

bes@4Macc:1:17 @ And this is contained in the education of the law; by means of which we learn divine things reverently, and human things profitably.

bes@4Macc:1:18 @ And the forms of wisdom are prudence, and justice, and manliness, and temperance.19 The leading one of these is prudence; by whose means, indeed, it is that reasoning bears rule over the passions.

bes@4Macc:1:21 @ And there are many attendant affections surrounding pleasure and pain.

bes@4Macc:1:27 @ In the body it is greediness and gormandizing, and solitary gluttony.

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:1:29 @ And reasoning, the universal husbandman, purging, and pruning these severally, and binding round, and watering, and transplanting, in every way improves the materials of the morals and affections.

bes@4Macc:1:31 @ Now temperance consists of a command over the lusts.

bes@4Macc:1:33 @ For whence is it, otherwise, that when urged on to forbidden meats, we reject the gratification which would ensue from them? Is it not because reasoning is able to command the appetites? I believe so.

bes@4Macc:2:8 @ 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:2:21 @ For at the time when God created man, He implanted within him his passions and moral nature.

bes@4Macc:2:23 @ And He gave a law to this mind, by living according to which it will maintain a temperate, and just, and good, and manly reign.

bes@4Macc:2:24 @ How, then, a man may say, if reasoning be master of the passions, has it no control over forgetfulness and ignorance?

bes@4Macc:3:7 @ For after David had been attacking the Philistines the whole day, he with the soldiers of his nation slew many of them;

bes@4Macc:4:1 @ For a certain man named Simon, who was in opposition to Onias, who once held the high priesthood for life, and was an honourable and good man, after that by slandering him in every way, he could not injure him with the people, went away as an exile, with the intention of betraying his country.

bes@4Macc:4:6 @ he said that he came with the commands of the king that he should take the private money of the treasure.

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:4:14 @ and he being thus unexpectedly saved, departed to manifest to the king what had happened to him.

bes@4Macc:4:15 @ But on the death of Seleucus the king, his son Antiochus Epiphanes succeeds to the kingdom: a man of haughty pride and terrible.

bes@4Macc:4:19 @ And he both changed the manner of living of the people, and perverted their civil customs into all lawlessness.

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:5:4 @ And when many had been seized, a foremost man of the assembly, a Hebrew, by name Eleazar, a priest by family, by profession a lawyer, and advanced in years, and for this reason known to many of the king's followers, was brought near to him.

bes@4Macc:5:6 @ I would counsel thee, old man, before thy tortures begin, to tasted the swine's flesh, and save your life; for I feel respect for your age and hoary head, which since you have had so long, you appear to me to be no philosopher in retaining the superstition of the Jews.

bes@4Macc:5:14 @ While the tyrant incited him in this manner to the unlawful eating of flesh, Eleazar begged permission to speak.

bes@4Macc:5:23 @ Yet it instructs us in temperance, so that we are superior to all pleasures and lusts; and it exercises us in manliness, so that we cheerfully undergo every grievance.

bes@4Macc:5:31 @ I am not so old, and void of manliness, but that my rational powers are youthful in defence of my religion.

bes@4Macc:6:1 @ When Eleazar had in this manner answered the exhortations of the tyrant, the spearbearers came up, and rudely haled Eleazar to the instruments of torture.

bes@4Macc:6:2 @ And first, they stripped the old man, adorned as he was with the comeliness of piety.

bes@4Macc:6:4 @ a herald opposite crying out, Obey the commands of the king.

bes@4Macc:6:6 @ But raising his eyes on high to heaven, the old man's flesh was stripped off by the scourges, and his blood streamed down, and his sides were pierced through.

bes@4Macc:6:10 @ and like a noble athlete, the old man, when struck, vanquished his torturers.

bes@4Macc:6:21 @ and be condemned by the tyrant for unmanliness, by not contending to the death for our divine law.

bes@4Macc:6:30 @ Thus speaking, the holy man departed, noble in his torments, and even to the agonies of death resisted in his reasoning for the sake of the law.

bes@4Macc:7:4 @ Not so has ever a city, when besieged, held out against many and various machines, as did that holy man, when his pious soul was tried with the fiery trial of tortures and rackings, move his besiegers through the religious reasoning that shielded him.

bes@4Macc:7:10 @ O aged man of more power than tortures, elder more vigorous than fire, greatest king over the passions, Eleazar!

bes@4Macc:7:13 @ And, what is most wonderful, though an old man, though the labours of his body were now spent, and his fibres were relaxed, and his sinews worn out, he recovered youth.

bes@4Macc:7:14 @ By the spirit of reasoning, and the reasoning of Isaac, he rendered powerless the many-headed instrument.

bes@4Macc:7:16 @ If, then, an old man, through religion, despised tortures even unto death, confessedly religious reasoning is ruler of the passions.

bes@4Macc:7:23 @ For the wise and brave man only is lord over his passions.

bes@4Macc:7:25 @ for when the tyrant was manifestly vanquished in his first attempt, in being unable to force the old man to eat the unclean thing,-

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:8:4 @ O youths, with favourable feelings, I admire the beauty of each of you; and greatly honouring so numerous a band of brethren, I not only counsel you not to share the madness of the old man who has been tortured before,

bes@4Macc:8:5 @ but I do beg you to yield, and to enjoy my friendship; for I possess the power, not only of punishing those who disobey my commands, but of doing good to those who obey them.

bes@4Macc:8:12 @ And when the spearman brought forward the wheels, and the racks, and the hooks, and catapeltae, and caldrons, pans, and finger-racks, and iron hands and wedges, and bellows, the tyrant continue:

bes@4Macc:9:15 @ O most accursed tyrant, and enemy of heavenly justice, and cruel-hearted, I am no murderer, nor sacrilegious man, whom thou thus ill-usest; but a defender of the Divine law.

bes@4Macc:10:1 @ Now this one, having endured this praiseworthy death, the third was brought along, and exhorted by many to taste and save his life.

bes@4Macc: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: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:12:11 @ Impious tyrant, and most blasphemous man, wert thou not ashamed, having received prosperity and a kingdom from God, to slay His servants, and to rack the doers of godliness?

bes@4Macc:12:13 @ Wert thou not ashamed, man as thou art, yet most savage, to cut out the tongues of men of like feeling and origin, and having thus abused to torture them?

bes@4Macc:13:10 @ Let us not be cowards in the manifestation of piety.

bes@4Macc:13:15 @ for great is the trial of soul and danger of eternal torment laid up for those who transgress the commandment of God.

bes@4Macc:14:11 @ And think it not wonderful that reasoning bore rule over those men in their torments, when even a woman's mind despised more manifold pains.

bes@4Macc:14:17 @ And if not able to do this, they fly circling round them in agony of affection, calling out in their own note, and save their offspring in whatever manner they are able.

bes@4Macc: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:15:7 @ and through her many pains undergone in connection with each one, was compelled to feel sympathy with them;

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:15:17 @ O thou only woman who hast brought forth perfect holiness!

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:15:30 @ O thou nobler in endurance than males, and more manly than men in patience!

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:16:2 @ I have proved, then, that not only men have obtained the mastery of their passions, but also that a woman despised the greatest torments.

bes@4Macc:16:5 @ 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:16:8 @ Vainly, for your sakes, O sons, have I endured many pangs, and the more difficult anxieties of rearing.

bes@4Macc:16:10 @ Ah, that I who had many and fair children, should be a lone widow full of sorrows!

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:16:14 @ O woman, soldier of God for religion, thou, aged and a female, hast conquered through endurance even a tyrant; and though but weak, hast been found more powerful in deeds and words.

bes@4Macc:16:17 @ For it were disgraceful that this old man should endure pains for the sake of righteousness, and that you who are younger should be afraid of the tortures.

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:17:9 @ 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:17:23 @ For the tyrant Antiochus, looking to their manly virtue, and to their endurance in torture, proclaimed that endurance as an example to his soldiers.

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:18:15 @ He chanted to you David, the hymn-writer, who saith, Many are the afflictions of the just.

bes@1Esd:1:6 @ Offer the passover in order, and make ready the sacrifices for your brethren, and keep the passover according to the commandment of the Lord, which was given unto Moses.

bes@1Esd:1:18 @ And offer sacrifices upon the altar of the Lord, according to the commandment of king Josias.

bes@1Esd:1:49 @ The governors also of the people and of the priests did many things against the laws, and passed all the pollutions of all nations, and defiled the temple of the Lord, which was sanctified in Jerusalem.

bes@1Esd:1:52 @ So far forth, that he, being wroth with his people for their great ungodliness, commanded the kings of the Chaldees to come up against them;

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:2:4 @ And commanded me to build him an house at Jerusalem in Jewry.

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:2:25 @ Then the king wrote back again to Rathumus the storywriter, to Beeltethmus, to Semellius the scribe, and to the rest that were in commission, and dwellers in Samaria and Syria and Phenice, after this manner;

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:2:28 @ 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: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:4:3 @ But yet the king is more mighty: for he is lord of all these things, and hath dominion over them; and whatsoever he commandeth them they do.

bes@1Esd:4:5 @ They slay and are slain, and transgress not the king’s commandment: if they get the victory, they bring all to the king, as well the spoil, as all things else.

bes@1Esd:4:7 @ And yet he is but one man: if he command to kill, they kill; if he command to spare, they spare;

bes@1Esd:4:8 @ If he command to smite, they smite; if he command to make desolate, they make desolate; if he command to build, they build;

bes@1Esd:4:9 @ If he command to cut down, they cut down; if he command to plant, they plant.

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:4:20 @ A man leaveth his own father that brought him up, and his own country, and cleaveth unto his wife.

bes@1Esd:4:22 @ By this also ye must know that women have dominion over you: do ye not labour and toil, and give and bring all to the woman?

bes@1Esd:4:23 @ Yea, a man taketh his sword, and goeth his way to rob and to steal, to sail upon the sea and upon rivers;

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:4:27 @ Many also have perished, have erred, and sinned, for women.

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:4:52 @ 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:4:56 @ And he commanded to give to all that kept the city pensions and wages.

bes@1Esd:4:57 @ He sent away also all the vessels from Babylon, that Cyrus had set apart; and all that Cyrus had given in commandment, the same charged he also to be done, and sent unto Jerusalem.

bes@1Esd:4:58 @ Now when this young man was gone forth, he lifted up his face to heaven toward Jerusalem, and praised the King of heaven,

bes@1Esd:5:8 @ 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:5:47 @ 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:5:49 @ To offer burnt sacrifices upon it, according as it is expressly commanded in the book of Moses the man of God.

bes@1Esd:5:51 @ Also they held the feast of tabernacles, as it is commanded in the law, and offered sacrifices daily, as was meet:

bes@1Esd:5:55 @ Unto them of Zidon also and Tyre they gave carrs, that they should bring cedar trees from Libanus, which should be brought by floats to the haven of Joppa, according as it was commanded them by Cyrus king of the Persians.

bes@1Esd:5:64 @ But many with trumpets and joy shouted with loud voice,

bes@1Esd:5:71 @ We ourselves alone will build unto the Lord of Israel, according as Cyrus the king of the Persians hath commanded us.

bes@1Esd:6:11 @ Then asked we these elders, saying, By whose commandment build ye this house, and lay the foundations of these works?

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:6:14 @ And as for this house, it was builded many years ago by a king of Israel great and strong, and was finished.

bes@1Esd:6:19 @ With commandment that he should carry away the same vessels, and put them in the temple at Jerusalem; and that the temple of the Lord should be built in his place.

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:6:27 @ And also he commanded that Sisinnes the governor of Syria and Phenice, and Sathrabuzanes, and their companions, and those which were appointed rulers in Syria and Phenice, should be careful not to meddle with the place, but suffer Zorobabel, the servant of the Lord, and governor of Judea, and the elders of the Jews, to build the house of the Lord in that place.

bes@1Esd:6:28 @ I have commanded also to have it built up whole again; and that they look diligently to help those that be of the captivity of the Jews, till the house of the Lord be finished:

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:7:1 @ Then Sisinnes the governor of Celosyria and Phenice, and Sathrabuzanes, with their companions following the commandments of king Darius,

bes@1Esd:7:4 @ And they finished these things by the commandment of the Lord God of Israel, and with the consent of Cyrus, Darius, and Artaxerxes, kings of Persia.

bes@1Esd:8:7 @ For Esdras had very great skill, so that he omitted nothing of the law and commandments of the Lord, but taught all Israel the ordinances and judgements.

bes@1Esd:8:11 @ 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:8:19 @ And I king Artaxerxes have also commanded the keepers of the treasures in Syria and Phenice, that whatsoever Esdras the priest and the reader of the law of the most high God shall send for, they should give it him with speed,

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:8:43 @ Then sent I unto Eleazar, and Iduel, and Masman,

bes@1Esd:8:46 @ And commanded them that they should speak unto Daddeus, and to his brethren, and to the treasurers in that place, to send us such men as might execute the priests’ office in the house of the Lord.

bes@1Esd:8:67 @ And they delivered the king’s commandments unto the king’s stewards’ and to the governors of Celosyria and Phenice; and they honoured the people and the temple of God.

bes@1Esd:8:82 @ And now, O Lord, what shall we say, having these things? for we have transgressed thy commandments, which thou gavest by the hand of thy servants the prophets, saying,

bes@1Esd:8:94 @ Like as thou hast decreed, and as many as do obey the law of the Lord.

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:9:30 @ Of the sons of Mani; Olamus, Mamuchus, Jedeus, Jasubus, Jasael, and Hieremoth.

bes@1Esd:9:31 @ And of the sons of Addi; Naathus, and Moosias, Lacunus, and Naidus, and Mathanias, and Sesthel, Balnuus, and Manasseas.

bes@1Esd:9:33 @ And of the sons of Asom; Altaneus, and Matthias, and Baanaia, Eliphalet, and Manasses, and Semei.

bes@1Esd:9:40 @ So Esdras the chief priest brought the law unto the whole multitude from man to woman, and to all the priests, to hear law in the first day of the seventh month.

bes@Sus:1:1 @ There dwelt a man in Babylon, called Joacim:

bes@Sus:1:2 @ And he took a wife, whose name was Susanna, the daughter of Chelcias, a very fair woman, and one that feared the Lord.

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:1:18 @ And they did as she bade them, and shut the garden doors, and went out themselves at privy doors to fetch the things that she had commanded them: but they saw not the elders, because they were hid.

bes@Sus:1:20 @ 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:1:31 @ Now Susanna was a very delicate woman, and beauteous to behold.

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:1:36 @ And the elders said, As we walked in the garden alone, this woman came in with two maids, and shut the garden doors, and sent the maids away.

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:1:40 @ But having taken this woman, we asked who the young man was, but she would not tell us: these things do we testify.

bes@Sus:1:46 @ Who cried with a loud voice, I am clear from the blood of this woman.

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@BelTh:1:14 @ So when they were gone forth, the king set meats before Bel. Now Daniel had commanded his servants to bring ashes, and those they strewed throughout all the temple in the presence of the king alone: then went they out, and shut the door, and sealed it with the king’s signet, and so departed.