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When the men of the city saw that the Jews had gained control of the city as they pleased, their courage failed and they cried out to the king with this entreaty, (1 Maccabees 11, 49)
It has pleased our people to receive these men with honor and to put a copy of their words in the public archives, so that the people of the Spartans may have a record of them. And they have sent a copy of this to Simon the high priest.'" (1 Maccabees 14, 23)
But after many years had passed, when it pleased God, Nehemiah, having been commissioned by the king of Persia, sent the descendants of the priests who had hidden the fire to get it. And when they reported to us that they had not found fire but thick liquid, he ordered them to dip it out and bring it. (2 Maccabees 1, 20)
"O Lord of all, who hast need of nothing, thou wast pleased that there be a temple for thy habitation among us; (2 Maccabees 14, 35)
There was one who pleased God and was loved by him, and while living among sinners he was taken up. (Wisdom of Solomon 4, 10)
The Most High is not pleased with the offerings of the ungodly; and he is not propitiated for sins by a multitude of sacrifices. (Ecclesiasticus 35, 19)
Enoch pleased the Lord, and was taken up; he was an example of repentance to all generations. (Ecclesiasticus 45, 16)
The Lord saw it and was not pleased, and in the wrath of his anger they were destroyed; he wrought wonders against them to consume them in flaming fire. (Ecclesiasticus 46, 19)
The LORD was pleased, for his righteousness' sake, to magnify his law and make it glorious. (Isaiah 42, 21)
It pleased Darius to set over the kingdom a hundred and twenty satraps, to be throughout the whole kingdom; (Daniel 6, 1)
I saw the ram charging westward and northward and southward; no beast could stand before him, and there was no one who could rescue from his power; he did as he pleased and magnified himself. (Daniel 8, 4)
Therefore they cried to the LORD, "We beseech thee, O LORD, let us not perish for this man's life, and lay not on us innocent blood; for thou, O LORD, hast done as it pleased thee." (Jonah 1, 14)