Talált 36 Eredmények: Priesthood

• Phinehas our father, for his burning zeal, received the covenant of an everlasting priesthood. (1 Maccabees 2, 54)

• He sent him and the impious Alcimus, to whom he granted the high priesthood, with orders to take revenge on the Israelites. (1 Maccabees 7, 9)

• Alcimus spared no pains to maintain his high priesthood, (1 Maccabees 7, 21)

• He confirmed him in the high priesthood and in all the honors he had previously held, and had him enrolled among his Chief Friends. (1 Maccabees 11, 27)

• Then young Antiochus wrote to Jonathan: "I confirm you in the high priesthood and appoint you ruler over the four districts and wish you to be one of the King's Friends." (1 Maccabees 11, 57)

• Consequently, King Demetrius confirmed him in the high priesthood, (1 Maccabees 14, 38)

• It is God who has saved all his people and has restored to all of them their heritage, the kingdom, the priesthood, and the sacred rites, (2 Maccabees 2, 17)

• But Seleucus died, and when Antiochus surnamed Epiphanes succeeded him on the throne, Onias' brother Jason obtained the high priesthood by corrupt means: (2 Maccabees 4, 7)

• When he had been introduced to the king, he flattered him with such an air of authority that he secured the high priesthood for himself, outbidding Jason by three hundred talents of silver. (2 Maccabees 4, 24)

• He returned with the royal commission, but with nothing that made him worthy of the high priesthood; he had the temper of a cruel tyrant and the rage of a wild beast. (2 Maccabees 4, 25)

• Menelaus left his brother Lysimachus as his substitute in the high priesthood, while Sostratus left Crates, commander of the Cypriots, as his substitute. (2 Maccabees 4, 29)

• to levy tribute on the temple, as he did on the sanctuaries of the other nations; and to put the high priesthood up for sale every year. (2 Maccabees 11, 3)