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2 Maccabees 1:11 | View Chapter | Context

Insomuch as God hath delivered us from great perils, we thank him highly, as having been in battle against a king.

2 Maccabees 1:20 | View Chapter | Context

Now after many years, when it pleased God, Neemias, being sent from the king of Persia, did send of the posterity of those priests that had hid it to the fire: but when they told us they found no fire, but thick water;

2 Maccabees 1:24 | View Chapter | Context

And the prayer was after this manner; O Lord, Lord God, Creator of all things, who art fearful and strong, and righteous, and merciful, and the only and gracious King,

2 Maccabees 1:33 | View Chapter | Context

So when this matter was known, it was told the king of Persia, that in the place, where the priests that were led away had hid the fire, there appeared water, and that Neemias had purified the sacrifices therewith.

2 Maccabees 1:34 | View Chapter | Context

Then the king, inclosing the place, made it holy, after he had tried the matter.

2 Maccabees 1:35 | View Chapter | Context

And the king took many gifts, and bestowed thereof on those whom he would gratify.

2 Maccabees 3:6 | View Chapter | Context

And told him that the treasury in Jerusalem was full of infinite sums of money, so that the multitude of their riches, which did not pertain to the account of the sacrifices, was innumerable, and that it was possible to bring all into the king's hand.

2 Maccabees 3:7 | View Chapter | Context

Now when Apollonius came to the king, and had shewed him of the money whereof he was told, the king chose out Heliodorus his treasurer, and sent him with a commandment to bring him the foresaid money.

2 Maccabees 3:8 | View Chapter | Context

So forthwith Heliodorus took his journey; under a colour of visiting the cities of Celosyria and Phenice, but indeed to fulfil the king's purpose.

2 Maccabees 3:13 | View Chapter | Context

But Heliodorus, because of the king's commandment given him, said, That in any wise it must be brought into the king's treasury.

2 Maccabees 3:32 | View Chapter | Context

So the high priest, suspecting lest the king should misconceive that some treachery had been done to Heliodorus by the Jews, offered a sacrifice for the health of the man.

2 Maccabees 3:35 | View Chapter | Context

So Heliodorus, after he had offered sacrifice unto the Lord, and made great vows unto him that had saved his life, and saluted Onias, returned with his host to the king.

2 Maccabees 3:37 | View Chapter | Context

And when the king Heliodorus, who might be a fit man to be sent yet once again to Jerusalem, he said,

2 Maccabees 4:5 | View Chapter | Context

He went to the king, not to be an accuser of his countrymen, but seeking the good of all, both publick and private:

2 Maccabees 4:6 | View Chapter | Context

For he saw that it was impossible that the state should continue quiet, and Simon leave his folly, unless the king did look thereunto.

2 Maccabees 4:8 | View Chapter | Context

Promising unto the king by intercession three hundred and threescore talents of silver, and of another revenue eighty talents:

2 Maccabees 4:10 | View Chapter | Context

Which when the king had granted, and he had gotten into his hand the rule he forthwith brought his own nation to Greekish fashion.

2 Maccabees 4:18 | View Chapter | Context

Now when the game that was used every faith year was kept at Tyrus, the king being present,

2 Maccabees 4:21 | View Chapter | Context

Now when Apollonius the son of Menestheus was sent into Egypt for the coronation of king Ptolemeus Philometor, Antiochus, understanding him not to be well affected to his affairs, provided for his own safety: whereupon he came to Joppa, and from thence to Jerusalem:

2 Maccabees 4:23 | View Chapter | Context

Three years afterward Jason sent Menelaus, the aforesaid Simon's brother, to bear the money unto the king, and to put him in mind of certain necessary matters.

2 Maccabees 4:24 | View Chapter | Context

But he being brought to the presence of the king, when he had magnified him for the glorious appearance of his power, got the priesthood to himself, offering more than Jason by three hundred talents of silver.

2 Maccabees 4:25 | View Chapter | Context

So he came with the king's mandate, bringing nothing worthy the high priesthood, but having the fury of a cruel tyrant, and the rage of a savage beast.

2 Maccabees 4:27 | View Chapter | Context

So Menelaus got the principality: but as for the money that he had promised unto the king, he took no good order for it, albeit Sostratis the ruler of the castle required it:

2 Maccabees 4:28 | View Chapter | Context

For unto him appertained the gathering of the customs. Wherefore they were both called before the king.

2 Maccabees 4:30 | View Chapter | Context

While those things were in doing, they of Tarsus and Mallos made insurrection, because they were given to the king's concubine, called Antiochus.

2 Maccabees 4:31 | View Chapter | Context

Then came the king in all haste to appease matters, leaving Andronicus, a man in authority, for his deputy.

2 Maccabees 4:36 | View Chapter | Context

And when the king was come again from the places about Cilicia, the Jews that were in the city, and certain of the Greeks that abhorred the fact also, complained because Onias was slain without cause.

2 Maccabees 4:44 | View Chapter | Context

Now when the king came to Tyrus, three men that were sent from the senate pleaded the cause before him:

2 Maccabees 4:45 | View Chapter | Context

But Menelaus, being now convicted, promised Ptolemee the son of Dorymenes to give him much money, if he would pacify the king toward him.

2 Maccabees 4:46 | View Chapter | Context

Whereupon Ptolemee taking the king aside into a certain gallery, as it were to take the air, brought him to be of another mind: