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For he spoke and so it was, he commanded, and everything stood firm. (Psalms 33, 9)
He issued decrees for Jacob and set up a law in Israel, which he commanded our ancestors to teach their children, (Psalms 78, 5)
Yet he commanded the skies above and opened the doors of heaven; (Psalms 78, 23)
They dared not destroy the pagans, as the Lord commanded; (Psalms 106, 34)
He commanded the builders to build the walls and the defenses of Mount Zion with hewn stones. And they did so. (1 Maccabees 10, 11)
But the Israelites faced them as Jonathan had commanded until the horses of the enemy tired. Once the cavalry were exhausted, (1 Maccabees 10, 81)
He fortified Kedron, stationed horsemen and troops there to make sorties and to patrol the roads to Judea, as the king had commanded him. (1 Maccabees 15, 41)
It is also said in these writings of the past that the prophet Jeremiah, fulfilling orders from Heaven, commanded that the ark of the Covenant with its tent be brought with him. And he went to the mountain which Moses had climbed before and from where he had seen the promised land. (2 Maccabees 2, 4)
as is commanded in his Law. God himself, as we do hope, will soon have mercy on us and gather us together from everywhere to the Holy Place, since he has rescued us from great evils and has purified this Place. (2 Maccabees 2, 18)
When these were red-hot, he commanded that the tongue of their spokesman be cut out, his head scalped, and his hands and feet cut off while his brothers and mother looked on. (2 Maccabees 7, 4)
Once all the people had carried out the order to pray to the merciful Lord with lamentations, fasting and prayer for three consecutive days, Judas encouraged them and commanded them to stand ready. (2 Maccabees 13, 12)
And the king immediately chose Nicanor, who commanded the squadron of elephants, and appointed him military commissioner of Judea (2 Maccabees 14, 12)