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'May his life be cut short, someone else take over his office, (Psalms 109, 8)
They also brought out the priestly vestments, with first-fruits and tithes, and marshalled the Nazirites who had completed the period of their vow. (1 Maccabees 3, 49)
Jonathan now learned that Demetrius' generals had arrived at Kadesh in Galilee with a large army, intending to remove him from office, (1 Maccabees 11, 63)
therefore he has confirmed him in the high-priestly office, has raised him to the rank of Friend and has showered great honours on him, also confirming him as their commander-in-chief, (1 Maccabees 14, 41)
since Simon, for his part, has given his assent, and has consented to assume the high-priestly office and to be commander-in-chief and ethnarch of the Jews and their priests, and to preside over all: (1 Maccabees 14, 47)
As for Menelaus, he secured the office, but defaulted altogether on the sums promised to the king, (2 Maccabees 4, 27)
Antiochus thought he was being ridiculed, suspecting insult in the tone of her voice; and as the youngest was still alive he appealed to him not with mere words but with promises on oath to make him both rich and happy if he would abandon the traditions of his ancestors; he would make him his Friend and entrust him with public office. (2 Maccabees 7, 24)
Denounced, in consequence, to Eupator by the Friends of the King, he heard himself called traitor at every turn: for having abandoned Cyprus, which had been entrusted to him by Philometer, for having gone over to Antiochus Epiphanes, and for having shed no lustre on his illustrious office: he committed suicide by poisoning himself. (2 Maccabees 10, 13)
to levy a tax on the Temple as on other national shrines, and to put the office of high priest up for sale every year; (2 Maccabees 11, 3)
Menelaus, too, joined them and very craftily kept urging Antiochus on, not for the welfare of his own country but in the hope of being restored to office. (2 Maccabees 13, 3)
for a blameless man hurried to their defence. Wielding the weapons of his sacred office, prayer and expiating incense, he confronted Retribution and put an end to the plague, thus showing that he was your servant. (Wisdom of Solomon 18, 21)
Hence a covenant of peace was sealed with him, making him governor of both sanctuary and people, and securing to him and his descendants the high priestly dignity for ever. (Ecclesiasticus 45, 24)