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So the couriers, mounted on their swift horses that were used in the king's service, rode out in haste, urged by the king's command; and the decree was issued in Susa the capital. (Esther 8, 14)
"Has not man a hard service upon earth, and are not his days like the days of a hireling? (Job 7, 1)
If a man die, shall he live again? All the days of my service I would wait, till my release should come. (Job 14, 14)
And all the additional funds which the government officials have not paid as they did in the first years, they shall give from now on for the service of the temple. (1 Maccabees 10, 41)
And he sent him gold plate and a table service, and granted him the right to drink from gold cups and dress in purple and wear a gold buckle. (1 Maccabees 11, 58)
so that even Seleucus, the king of Asia, defrayed from his own revenues all the expenses connected with the service of the sacrifices. (2 Maccabees 3, 3)
that the priests were no longer intent upon their service at the altar. Despising the sanctuary and neglecting the sacrifices, they hastened to take part in the unlawful proceedings in the wrestling arena after the call to the discus, (2 Maccabees 4, 14)
And Ptolemy promptly appointed Nicanor the son of Patroclus, one of the king's chief friends, and sent him, in command of no fewer than twenty thousand Gentiles of all nations, to wipe out the whole race of Judea. He associated with him Gorgias, a general and a man of experience in military service. (2 Maccabees 8, 9)
For when a potter kneads the soft earth and laboriously molds each vessel for our service, he fashions out of the same clay both the vessels that serve clean uses and those for contrary uses, making all in like manner; but which shall be the use of each of these the worker in clay decides. (Wisdom of Solomon 15, 7)
Come to her like one who plows and sows, and wait for her good harvest. For in her service you will toil a little while, and soon you will eat of her produce. (Ecclesiasticus 7, 19)
Free men will be at the service of a wise servant, and a man of understanding will not grumble. (Ecclesiasticus 11, 25)
He whose service is pleasing to the Lord will be accepted, and his prayer will reach to the clouds. (Ecclesiasticus 36, 16)