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A man called Dositheus, a horseman of the Tubian contingent, a valiant man, overpowered Gorgias and, gripping him by the cloak, was forcibly dragging him along, intending to take the accursed man alive, but one of the Thracian cavalry, hurling himself on Dositheus, slashed his shoulder and Gorgias escaped to Marisa. (2 Maccabees 12, 35)
Under cover of his cloak a bad man takes a gift to pervert the course of justice. (Proverbs 17, 23)
Anger is mollified by a covert gift, raging fury by a present under cover of the cloak. (Proverbs 21, 14)
Who has mounted to the heavens, then come down again? Who has gathered the wind in the clasp of his hand? Who has wrapped the waters in his cloak? Who has set all the ends of the earth firm? What is his name? What is his child's name? Do you know? (Proverbs 30, 4)
The watchmen met me, those who go on their rounds in the city. They beat me, they wounded me, they took my cloak away from me: those guardians of the ramparts! (Song of Solomon 5, 7)
As his blessing covers the dry land like a river and soaks it like a flood, (Ecclesiasticus 39, 22)
for all the cedars of Lebanon, high and proud, and for all the oaks of Bashan; (Isaiah 2, 13)
Yes, a man will catch hold of his brother in their father's house, to say, 'You have a cloak, so you be leader, and rule this heap of ruins.' (Isaiah 3, 6)
party dresses, cloaks, scarves, purses, (Isaiah 3, 22)
And suppose one-tenth of them are left in it, that will be stripped again, like the terebinth, like the oak, cut back to the stock; their stock is a holy seed.' (Isaiah 6, 13)
He has cut down cedars, has selected an oak and a terebinth which he has grown for himself among the trees in the forest and has planted a pine tree which the rain has nourished. (Isaiah 44, 14)
He put on saving justice like a breastplate, on his head the helmet of salvation. He put on the clothes of vengeance like a tunic and wrapped himself in jealousy like a cloak. (Isaiah 59, 17)