Verses with the word and in the Apocrypha (4485 verses; showing verse 3001 - 3500):

Baruch 4:31
Miserable are they that afflicted thee, and rejoiced at thy fall.

Baruch 4:33
For as she rejoiced at thy ruin, and was glad of thy fall: so shall she be grieved for her own desolation.

Baruch 4:34
For I will take away the rejoicing of her great multitude, and her pride shall be turned into mourning.

Baruch 4:35
For fire shall come upon her from the Everlasting, long to endure; and she shall be inhabited of devils for a great time.

Baruch 4:36
O Jerusalem, look about thee toward the east, and behold the joy that cometh unto thee from God.

Baruch 5:1
Put off, O Jerusalem, the garment of mourning and affliction, and put on the comeliness of the glory that cometh from God for ever.

Baruch 5:2
Cast about thee a double garment of the righteousness which cometh from God; and set a diadem on thine head of the glory of the Everlasting.

Baruch 5:4
For thy name shall be called of God for ever The peace of righteousness, and The glory of God's worship.

Baruch 5:5
Arise, O Jerusalem, and stand on high, and look about toward the east, and behold thy children gathered from the west unto the east by the word of the Holy One, rejoicing in the remembrance of God.

Baruch 5:6
For they departed from thee on foot, and were led away of their enemies: but God bringeth them unto thee exalted with glory, as children of the kingdom.

Baruch 5:7
For God hath appointed that every high hill, and banks of long continuance, should be cast down, and valleys filled up, to make even the ground, that Israel may go safely in the glory of God,

Baruch 5:8
Moreover even the woods and every sweetsmelling tree shall overshadow Israel by the commandment of God.

Baruch 5:9
For God shall lead Israel with joy in the light of his glory with the mercy and righteousness that cometh from him.

Additions to Esther 10:5
For I remember a dream which I saw concerning these matters, and nothing thereof hath failed.

Additions to Esther 10:6
A little fountain became a river, and there was light, and the sun, and much water: this river is Esther, whom the king married, and made queen:

Additions to Esther 10:7
And the two dragons are I and Aman.

Additions to Esther 10:8
And the nations were those that were assembled to destroy the name of the Jews:

Additions to Esther 10:9
And my nation is this Israel, which cried to God, and were saved: for the Lord hath saved his people, and the Lord hath delivered us from all those evils, and God hath wrought signs and great wonders, which have not been done among the Gentiles.

Additions to Esther 10:10
Therefore hath he made two lots, one for the people of God, and another for all the Gentiles.

Additions to Esther 10:11
And these two lots came at the hour, and time, and day of judgment, before God among all nations.

Additions to Esther 10:12
So God remembered his people, and justified his inheritance.

Additions to Esther 10:13
Therefore those days shall be unto them in the month Adar, the fourteenth and fifteenth day of the same month, with an assembly, and joy, and with gladness before God, according to the generations for ever among his people.

Additions to Esther 11:1
In the fourth year of the reign of Ptolemeus and Cleopatra, Dositheus, who said he was a priest and Levite, and Ptolemeus his son, brought this epistle of Phurim, which they said was the same, and that Lysimachus the son of Ptolemeus, that was in Jerusalem, had interpreted it.

Additions to Esther 11:3
Who was a Jew, and dwelt in the city of Susa, a great man, being a servitor in the king's court.

Additions to Esther 11:4
He was also one of the captives, which Nabuchodonosor the king of Babylon carried from Jerusalem with Jechonias king of Judea; and this was his dream:

Additions to Esther 11:5
Behold a noise of a tumult, with thunder, and earthquakes, and uproar in the land:

Additions to Esther 11:6
And, behold, two great dragons came forth ready to fight, and their cry was great.

Additions to Esther 11:7
And at their cry all nations were prepared to battle, that they might fight against the righteous people.

Additions to Esther 11:8
And lo a day of darkness and obscurity, tribulation and anguish, affliction and great uproar, upon earth.

Additions to Esther 11:9
And the whole righteous nation was troubled, fearing their own evils, and were ready to perish.

Additions to Esther 11:10
Then they cried unto God, and upon their cry, as it were from a little fountain, was made a great flood, even much water.

Additions to Esther 11:11
The light and the sun rose up, and the lowly were exalted, and devoured the glorious.

Additions to Esther 11:12
Now when Mardocheus, who had seen this dream, and what God had determined to do, was awake, he bare this dream in mind, and until night by all means was desirous to know it.

Additions to Esther 12:1
And Mardocheus took his rest in the court with Gabatha and Tharra, the two eunuchs of the king, and keepers of the palace.

Additions to Esther 12:2
And he heard their devices, and searched out their purposes, and learned that they were about to lay hands upon Artexerxes the king; and so he certified the king of them.

Additions to Esther 12:3
Then the king examined the two eunuchs, and after that they had confessed it, they were strangled.

Additions to Esther 12:4
And the king made a record of these things, and Mardocheus also wrote thereof.

Additions to Esther 12:5
So the king commanded, Mardocheus to serve in the court, and for this he rewarded him.

Additions to Esther 12:6
Howbeit Aman the son of Amadathus the Agagite, who was in great honour with the king, sought to molest Mardocheus and his people because of the two eunuchs of the king.

Additions to Esther 13:1
The copy of the letters was this: The great king Artexerxes writeth these things to the princes and governours that are under him from India unto Ethiopia in an hundred and seven and twenty provinces.

Additions to Esther 13:2
After that I became lord over many nations and had dominion over the whole world, not lifted up with presumption of my authority, but carrying myself always with equity and mildness, I purposed to settle my subjects continually in a quiet life, and making my kingdom peaceable, and open for passage to the utmost coasts, to renew peace, which is desired of all men.

Additions to Esther 13:3
Now when I asked my counsellors how this might be brought to pass, Aman, that excelled in wisdom among us, and was approved for his constant good will and steadfast fidelity, and had the honour of the second place in the kingdom,

Additions to Esther 13:4
Declared unto us, that in all nations throughout the world there was scattered a certain malicious people, that had laws contrary to ail nations, and continually despised the commandments of kings, so as the uniting of our kingdoms, honourably intended by us cannot go forward.

Additions to Esther 13:5
Seeing then we understand that this people alone is continually in opposition unto all men, differing in the strange manner of their laws, and evil affected to our state, working all the mischief they can that our kingdom may not be firmly established:

Additions to Esther 13:6
Therefore have we commanded, that all they that are signified in writing unto you by Aman, who is ordained over the affairs, and is next unto us, shall all, with their wives and children, be utterly destroyed by the sword of their enemies, without all mercy and pity, the fourteenth day of the twelfth month Adar of this present year:

Additions to Esther 13:7
That they, who of old and now also are malicious, may in one day with violence go into the grave, and so ever hereafter cause our affairs to be well settled, and without trouble.

Additions to Esther 13:8
Then Mardocheus thought upon all the works of the Lord, and made his prayer unto him,

Additions to Esther 13:9
Saying, O Lord, Lord, the King Almighty: for the whole world is in thy power, and if thou hast appointed to save Israel, there is no man that can gainsay thee:

Additions to Esther 13:10
For thou hast made heaven and earth, and all the wondrous things under the heaven.

Additions to Esther 13:11
Thou art Lord of all things, and and there is no man that can resist thee, which art the Lord.

Additions to Esther 13:12
Thou knowest all things, and thou knowest, Lord, that it was neither in contempt nor pride, nor for any desire of glory, that I did not bow down to proud Aman.

Additions to Esther 13:15
And now, O Lord God and King, spare thy people: for their eyes are upon us to bring us to nought; yea, they desire to destroy the inheritance, that hath been thine from the beginning.

Additions to Esther 13:17
Hear my prayer, and be merciful unto thine inheritance: turn our sorrow into joy, that we may live, O Lord, and praise thy name: and destroy not the mouths of them that praise thee, O Lord.

Additions to Esther 14:2
And laid away her glorious apparel, and put on the garments of anguish and mourning: and instead of precious ointments, she covered her head with ashes and dung, and she humbled her body greatly, and all the places of her joy she filled with her torn hair.

Additions to Esther 14:3
And she prayed unto the Lord God of Israel, saying, O my Lord, thou only art our King: help me, desolate woman, which have no helper but thee:

Additions to Esther 14:5
From my youth up I have heard in the tribe of my family that thou, O Lord, tookest Israel from among all people, and our fathers from all their predecessors, for a perpetual inheritance, and thou hast performed whatsoever thou didst promise them.

Additions to Esther 14:6
And now we have sinned before thee: therefore hast thou given us into the hands of our enemies,

Additions to Esther 14:9
That they will abolish the thing that thou with thy mouth hast ordained, and destroy thine inheritance, and stop the mouth of them that praise thee, and quench the glory of thy house, and of thine altar,

Additions to Esther 14:10
And open the mouths of the heathen to set forth the praises of the idols, and to magnify a fleshly king for ever.

Additions to Esther 14:11
O Lord, give not thy sceptre unto them that be nothing, and let them not laugh at our fall; but turn their device upon themselves, and make him an example, that hath begun this against us.

Additions to Esther 14:12
Remember, O Lord, make thyself known in time of our affliction, and give me boldness, O King of the nations, and Lord of all power.

Additions to Esther 14:13
Give me eloquent speech in my mouth before the lion: turn his heart to hate him that fighteth against us, that there may be an end of him, and of all that are likeminded to him:

Additions to Esther 14:14
But deliver us with thine hand, and help me that am desolate, and which have no other help but thee.

Additions to Esther 14:15
Thou knowest all things, O Lord; thou knowest that I hate the glory of the unrighteous, and abhor the bed of the uncircumcised, and of all the heathen.

Additions to Esther 14:16
Thou knowest my necessity: for I abhor the sign of my high estate, which is upon mine head in the days wherein I shew myself, and that I abhor it as a menstruous rag, and that I wear it not when I am private by myself.

Additions to Esther 14:17
And that thine handmaid hath not eaten at Aman's table, and that I have not greatly esteemed the king's feast, nor drunk the wine of the drink offerings.

Additions to Esther 14:19
O thou mighty God above all, hear the voice of the forlorn and deliver us out of the hands of the mischievous, and deliver me out of my fear.

Additions to Esther 15:1
And upon the third day, when she had ended her prayers, she laid away her mourning garments, and put on her glorious apparel.

Additions to Esther 15:2
And being gloriously adorned, after she had called upon God, who is the beholder and saviour of all things, she took two maids with her:

Additions to Esther 15:3
And upon the one she leaned, as carrying herself daintily;

Additions to Esther 15:4
And the other followed, bearing up her train.

Additions to Esther 15:5
And she was ruddy through the perfection of her beauty, and her countenance was cheerful and very amiable: but her heart was in anguish for fear.

Additions to Esther 15:6
Then having passed through all the doors, she stood before the king, who sat upon his royal throne, and was clothed with all his robes of majesty, all glittering with gold and precious stones; and he was very dreadful.

Additions to Esther 15:7
Then lifting up his countenance that shone with majesty, he looked very fiercely upon her: and the queen fell down, and was pale, and fainted, and bowed herself upon the head of the maid that went before her.

Additions to Esther 15:8
Then God changed the spirit of the king into mildness, who in a fear leaped from his throne, and took her in his arms, till she came to herself again, and comforted her with loving words and said unto her,

Additions to Esther 15:11
And so be held up his golden sceptre, and laid it upon her neck,

Additions to Esther 15:12
And embraced her, and said, Speak unto me.

Additions to Esther 15:13
Then said she unto him, I saw thee, my lord, as an angel of God, and my heart was troubled for fear of thy majesty.

Additions to Esther 15:14
For wonderful art thou, lord, and thy countenance is full of grace.

Additions to Esther 15:15
And as she was speaking, she fell down for faintness.

Additions to Esther 15:16
Then the king was troubled, and ail his servants comforted her.

Additions to Esther 16:1
The great king Artexerxes unto the princes and governors of an hundred and seven and twenty provinces from India unto Ethiopia, and unto all our faithful subjects, greeting.

Additions to Esther 16:3
And endeavour to hurt not our subjects only, but not being able to bear abundance, do take in hand to practise also against those that do them good:

Additions to Esther 16:4
And take not only thankfulness away from among men, but also lifted up with the glorious words of lewd persons, that were never good, they think to escape the justice of God, that seeth all things and hateth evil.

Additions to Esther 16:5
Oftentimes also fair speech of those, that are put in trust to manage their friends' affairs, hath caused many that are in authority to be partakers of innocent blood, and hath enwrapped them in remediless calamities:

Additions to Esther 16:6
Beguiling with the falsehood and deceit of their lewd disposition the innocency and goodness of princes.

Additions to Esther 16:8
And we must take care for the time to come, that our kingdom may be quiet and peaceable for all men,

Additions to Esther 16:9
Both by changing our purposes, and always judging things that are evident with more equal proceeding.

Additions to Esther 16:10
For Aman, a Macedonian, the son of Amadatha, being indeed a stranger from the Persian blood, and far distant from our goodness, and as a stranger received of us,

Additions to Esther 16:11
Had so far forth obtained the favour that we shew toward every nation, as that he was called our father, and was continually honoured of all the next person unto the king.

Additions to Esther 16:12
But he, not bearing his great dignity, went about to deprive us of our kingdom and life:

Additions to Esther 16:13
Having by manifold and cunning deceits sought of us the destruction, as well of Mardocheus, who saved our life, and continually procured our good, as also of blameless Esther, partaker of our kingdom, with their whole nation.

Additions to Esther 16:16
And that they be children of the most high and most mighty, living God, who hath ordered the kingdom both unto us and to our progenitors in the most excellent manner.

Additions to Esther 16:20
And ye shall aid them, that even the same day, being the thirteenth day of the twelfth month Adar, they may be avenged on them, who in the time of their affliction shall set upon them.

Additions to Esther 16:23
That both now and hereafter there may be safety to us and the well affected Persians; but to those which do conspire against us a memorial of destruction.

Additions to Esther 16:24
Therefore every city and country whatsoever, which shall not do according to these things, shall be destroyed without mercy with fire and sword, and shall be made not only unpassable for men, but also most hateful to wild beasts and fowls for ever.

Letter of Jeremiah 1:2
So when ye be come unto Babylon, ye shall remain there many years, and for a long season, namely, seven generations: and after that I will bring you away peaceably from thence.

Letter of Jeremiah 1:3
Now shall ye see in Babylon gods of silver, and of gold, and of wood, borne upon shoulders, which cause the nations to fear.

Letter of Jeremiah 1:4
Beware therefore that ye in no wise be like to strangers, neither be ye and of them, when ye see the multitude before them and behind them, worshipping them.

Letter of Jeremiah 1:6
For mine angel is with you, and I myself caring for your souls.

Letter of Jeremiah 1:7
As for their tongue, it is polished by the workman, and they themselves are gilded and laid over with silver; yet are they but false, and cannot speak.

Letter of Jeremiah 1:8
And taking gold, as it were for a virgin that loveth to go gay, they make crowns for the heads of their gods.

Letter of Jeremiah 1:9
Sometimes also the priests convey from their gods gold and silver, and bestow it upon themselves.

Letter of Jeremiah 1:10
Yea, they will give thereof to the common harlots, and deck them as men with garments, [being] gods of silver, and gods of gold, and wood.

Letter of Jeremiah 1:11
Yet cannot these gods save themselves from rust and moth, though they be covered with purple raiment.

Letter of Jeremiah 1:13
And he that cannot put to death one that offendeth him holdeth a sceptre, as though he were a judge of the country.

Letter of Jeremiah 1:14
He hath also in his right hand a dagger and an ax: but cannot deliver himself from war and thieves.

Letter of Jeremiah 1:17
And as the doors are made sure on every side upon him that offendeth the king, as being committed to suffer death: even so the priests make fast their temples with doors, with locks, and bars, lest their gods be spoiled with robbers.

Letter of Jeremiah 1:19
They are as one of the beams of the temple, yet they say their hearts are gnawed upon by things creeping out of the earth; and when they eat them and their clothes, they feel it not.

Letter of Jeremiah 1:21
Upon their bodies and heads sit bats, swallows, and birds, and the cats also.

Letter of Jeremiah 1:27
As for the things that are sacrificed unto them, their priests sell and abuse; in like manner their wives lay up part thereof in salt; but unto the poor and impotent they give nothing of it.

Letter of Jeremiah 1:28
Menstruous women and women in childbed eat their sacrifices: by these things ye may know that they are no gods: fear them not.

Letter of Jeremiah 1:29
For how can they be called gods? because women set meat before the gods of silver, gold, and wood.

Letter of Jeremiah 1:30
And the priests sit in their temples, having their clothes rent, and their heads and beards shaven, and nothing upon their heads.

Letter of Jeremiah 1:31
They roar and cry before their gods, as men do at the feast when one is dead.

Letter of Jeremiah 1:32
The priests also take off their garments, and clothe their wives and children.

Letter of Jeremiah 1:34
In like manner, they can neither give riches nor money: though a man make a vow unto them, and keep it not, they will not require it.

Letter of Jeremiah 1:38
Their gods of wood, and which are overlaid with gold and silver, are like the stones that be hewn out of the mountain: they that worship them shall be confounded.

Letter of Jeremiah 1:39
How should a man then think and say that they are gods, when even the Chaldeans themselves dishonour them?

Letter of Jeremiah 1:40
Who if they shall see one dumb that cannot speak, they bring him, and intreat Bel that he may speak, as though he were able to understand.

Letter of Jeremiah 1:41
Yet they cannot understand this themselves, and leave them: for they have no knowledge.

Letter of Jeremiah 1:44
They are made of carpenters and goldsmiths: they can be nothing else than the workmen will have them to be.

Letter of Jeremiah 1:45
And they themselves that made them can never continue long; how should then the things that are made of them be gods?

Letter of Jeremiah 1:46
For they left lies and reproaches to them that come after.

Letter of Jeremiah 1:49
For seeing they be but of wood, and overlaid with silver and gold, it shall be known hereafter that they are false:

Letter of Jeremiah 1:50
And it shall manifestly appear to all nations and kings that they are no gods, but the works of men's hands, and that there is no work of God in them.

Letter of Jeremiah 1:53
Neither can they judge their own cause, nor redress a wrong, being unable: for they are as crows between heaven and earth.

Letter of Jeremiah 1:54
Whereupon when fire falleth upon the house of gods of wood, or laid over with gold or silver, their priests will flee away, and escape; but they themselves shall be burned asunder like beams.

Letter of Jeremiah 1:56
Neither are those gods of wood, and laid over with silver or gold, able to escape either from thieves or robbers.

Letter of Jeremiah 1:57
Whose gold, and silver, and garments wherewith they are clothed, they that are strong take, and go away withal: neither are they able to help themselves.

Letter of Jeremiah 1:59
For sun, moon, and stars, being bright and sent to do their offices, are obedient.

Letter of Jeremiah 1:60
In like manner the lightning when it breaketh forth is easy to be seen; and after the same manner the wind bloweth in every country.

Letter of Jeremiah 1:61
And when God commandeth the clouds to go over the whole world, they do as they are bidden.

Letter of Jeremiah 1:62
And the fire sent from above to consume hills and woods doeth as it is commanded: but these are like unto them neither in shew nor power.

Letter of Jeremiah 1:67
The beasts are better than they: for they can get under a cover and help themselves.

Letter of Jeremiah 1:69
For as a scarecrow in a garden of cucumbers keepeth nothing: so are their gods of wood, and laid over with silver and gold.

Letter of Jeremiah 1:70
And likewise their gods of wood, and laid over with silver and gold, are like to a white thorn in an orchard, that every bird sitteth upon; as also to a dead body, that is east into the dark.

Letter of Jeremiah 1:71
And ye shall know them to be no gods by the bright purple that rotteth upon them: and they themselves afterward shall be eaten, and shall be a reproach in the country.

Additions to Daniel 1:1
And they walked in the midst of the fire, praising God, and blessing the Lord.

Additions to Daniel 1:2
Then Azarias stood up, and prayed on this manner; and opening his mouth in the midst of the fire said,

Additions to Daniel 1:3
Blessed art thou, O Lord God of our fathers: thy name is worthy to be praised and glorified for evermore:

Additions to Daniel 1:4
For thou art righteous in all the things that thou hast done to us: yea, true are all thy works, thy ways are right, and all thy judgments truth.

Additions to Daniel 1:5
In all the things that thou hast brought upon us, and upon the holy city of our fathers, even Jerusalem, thou hast executed true judgment: for according to truth and judgment didst thou bring all these things upon us because of our sins.

Additions to Daniel 1:6
For we have sinned and committed iniquity, departing from thee.

Additions to Daniel 1:7
In all things have we trespassed, and not obeyed thy commandments, nor kept them, neither done as thou hast commanded us, that it might go well with us.

Additions to Daniel 1:8
Wherefore all that thou hast brought upon us, and every thing that thou hast done to us, thou hast done in true judgment.

Additions to Daniel 1:9
And thou didst deliver us into the hands of lawless enemies, most hateful forsakers of God, and to an unjust king, and the most wicked in all the world.

Additions to Daniel 1:10
And now we cannot open our mouths, we are become a shame and reproach to thy servants; and to them that worship thee.

Additions to Daniel 1:12
And cause not thy mercy to depart from us, for thy beloved Abraham's sake, for thy servant Issac's sake, and for thy holy Israel's sake;

Additions to Daniel 1:13
To whom thou hast spoken and promised, that thou wouldest multiply their seed as the stars of heaven, and as the sand that lieth upon the seashore.

Additions to Daniel 1:14
For we, O Lord, are become less than any nation, and be kept under this day in all the world because of our sins.

Additions to Daniel 1:15
Neither is there at this time prince, or prophet, or leader, or burnt offering, or sacrifice, or oblation, or incense, or place to sacrifice before thee, and to find mercy.

Additions to Daniel 1:16
Nevertheless in a contrite heart and an humble spirit let us be accepted.

Additions to Daniel 1:17
Like as in the burnt offerings of rams and bullocks, and like as in ten thousands of fat lambs: so let our sacrifice be in thy sight this day, and grant that we may wholly go after thee: for they shall not be confounded that put their trust in thee.

Additions to Daniel 1:18
And now we follow thee with all our heart, we fear thee, and seek thy face.

Additions to Daniel 1:19
Put us not to shame: but deal with us after thy lovingkindness, and according to the multitude of thy mercies.

Additions to Daniel 1:20
Deliver us also according to thy marvellous works, and give glory to thy name, O Lord: and let all them that do thy servants hurt be ashamed;

Additions to Daniel 1:21
And let them be confounded in all their power and might, and let their strength be broken;

Additions to Daniel 1:22
And let them know that thou art God, the only God, and glorious over the whole world.

Additions to Daniel 1:23
And the king's servants, that put them in, ceased not to make the oven hot with rosin, pitch, tow, and small wood;

Additions to Daniel 1:24
So that the flame streamed forth above the furnace forty and nine cubits.

Additions to Daniel 1:25
And it passed through, and burned those Chaldeans it found about the furnace.

Additions to Daniel 1:26
But the angel of the Lord came down into the oven together with Azarias and his fellows, and smote the flame of the fire out of the oven;

Additions to Daniel 1:27
And made the midst of the furnace as it had been a moist whistling wind, so that the fire touched them not at all, neither hurt nor troubled them.

Additions to Daniel 1:28
Then the three, as out of one mouth, praised, glorified, and blessed, God in the furnace, saying,

Additions to Daniel 1:29
Blessed art thou, O Lord God of our fathers: and to be praised and exalted above all for ever.

Additions to Daniel 1:30
And blessed is thy glorious and holy name: and to be praised and exalted above all for ever.

Additions to Daniel 1:31
Blessed art thou in the temple of thine holy glory: and to be praised and glorified above all for ever.

Additions to Daniel 1:32
Blessed art thou that beholdest the depths, and sittest upon the cherubims: and to be praised and exalted above all for ever.

Additions to Daniel 1:33
Blessed art thou on the glorious throne of thy kingdom: and to be praised and glorified above all for ever.

Additions to Daniel 1:34
Blessed art thou in the firmament of heaven: and above ail to be praised and glorified for ever.

Additions to Daniel 1:35
O all ye works of the Lord, bless ye the Lord : praise and exalt him above all for ever,

Additions to Daniel 1:36
O ye heavens, bless ye the Lord : praise and exalt him above all for ever.

Additions to Daniel 1:37
O ye angels of the Lord, bless ye the Lord: praise and exalt him above all for ever.

Additions to Daniel 1:38
O all ye waters that be above the heaven, bless ye the Lord: praise and exalt him above all for ever.

Additions to Daniel 1:39
O all ye powers of the Lord, bless ye the Lord: praise and exalt him above all for ever.

Additions to Daniel 1:40
O ye sun and moon, bless ye the Lord: praise and exalt him above all for ever.

Additions to Daniel 1:41
O ye stars of heaven, bless ye the Lord: praise and exalt him above all for ever.

Additions to Daniel 1:42
O every shower and dew, bless ye the Lord: praise and exalt him above all for ever.

Additions to Daniel 1:43
O all ye winds, bless ye the Lord: praise and exalt him above all for ever,

Additions to Daniel 1:44
O ye fire and heat, bless ye the Lord: praise and exalt him above all for ever.

Additions to Daniel 1:45
O ye winter and summer, bless ye the Lord: praise and exalt him above all for ever.

Additions to Daniel 1:46
0 ye dews and storms of snow, bless ye the Lord: praise and exalt him above all for ever.

Additions to Daniel 1:47
O ye nights and days, bless ye the Lord: bless and exalt him above all for ever.

Additions to Daniel 1:48
O ye light and darkness, bless ye the Lord: praise and exalt him above all for ever.

Additions to Daniel 1:49
O ye ice and cold, bless ye the Lord: praise and exalt him above all for ever.

Additions to Daniel 1:50
O ye frost and snow, bless ye the Lord: praise and exalt him above all for ever.

Additions to Daniel 1:51
O ye lightnings and clouds, bless ye the Lord: praise and exalt him above all for ever.

Additions to Daniel 1:52
O let the earth bless the Lord: praise and exalt him above all for ever.

Additions to Daniel 1:53
O ye mountains and little hills, bless ye the Lord: praise and exalt him above all for ever.

Additions to Daniel 1:54
O all ye things that grow in the earth, bless ye the Lord: praise and exalt him above all for ever.

Additions to Daniel 1:55
O ye mountains, bless ye the Lord: Praise and exalt him above all for ever.

Additions to Daniel 1:56
O ye seas and rivers, bless ye the Lord: praise and exalt him above all for ever.

Additions to Daniel 1:57
O ye whales, and all that move in the waters, bless ye the Lord: praise and exalt him above all for ever.

Additions to Daniel 1:58
O all ye fowls of the air, bless ye the Lord: praise and exalt him above all for ever.

Additions to Daniel 1:59
O all ye beasts and cattle, bless ye the Lord: praise and exalt him above all for ever.

Additions to Daniel 1:60
O ye children of men, bless ye the Lord: praise and exalt him above all for ever.

Additions to Daniel 1:61
O Israel, bless ye the Lord: praise and exalt him above all for ever.

Additions to Daniel 1:62
O ye priests of the Lord, bless ye the Lord: praise and exalt him above all for ever.

Additions to Daniel 1:63
O ye servants of the Lord, bless ye the Lord: praise and exalt him above all for ever.

Additions to Daniel 1:64
O ye spirits and souls of the righteous, bless ye the Lord: praise and exalt him above all for ever.

Additions to Daniel 1:65
O ye holy and humble men of heart, bless ye the Lord: praise and exalt him above all for ever.

Additions to Daniel 1:66
O Ananias, Azarias, and Misael, bless ye the Lord: praise and exalt him above all for ever: far he hath delivered us from hell, and saved us from the hand of death, and delivered us out of the midst of the furnace and burning flame: even out of the midst of the fire hath he delivered us.

Additions to Daniel 1:68
O all ye that worship the Lord, bless the God of gods, praise him, and give him thanks: for his mercy endureth for ever.

Susanna 1:2
And he took a wife, whose name was Susanna, the daughter of Chelcias, a very fair woman, and one that feared the Lord.

Susanna 1:3
Her parents also were righteous, and taught their daughter according to the law of Moses.

Susanna 1:4
Now Joacim was a great rich man, and had a fair garden joining unto his house: and to him resorted the Jews; because he was more honourable than all others.

Susanna 1:6
These kept much at Joacim's house: and all that had any suits in law came unto them.

Susanna 1:8
And the two elders saw her going in every day, and walking; so that their lust was inflamed toward her.

Susanna 1:9
And they perverted their own mind, and turned away their eyes, that they might not look unto heaven, nor remember just judgments.

Susanna 1:10
And albeit they both were wounded with her love, yet durst not one shew another his grief.

Susanna 1:13
And the one said to the other, Let us now go home: for it is dinner time.

Susanna 1:14
So when they were gone out, they parted the one from the other, and turning back again they came to the same place; and after that they had asked one another the cause, they acknowledged their lust: then appointed they a time both together, when they might find her alone.

Susanna 1:15
And it fell out, as they watched a fit time, she went in as before with two maids only, and she was desirous to wash herself in the garden: for it was hot.

Susanna 1:16
And there was no body there save the two elders, that had hid themselves, and watched her.

Susanna 1:17
Then she said to her maids, Bring me oil and washing balls, and shut the garden doors, that I may wash me.

Susanna 1:18
And they did as she bade them, and shut the garden doors, and went out themselves at privy doors to fetch the things that she had commanded them: but they saw not the elders, because they were hid.

Susanna 1:19
Now when the maids were gone forth, the two elders rose up, and ran unto her, saying,

Susanna 1:20
Behold, the garden doors are shut, that no man can see us, and we are in love with thee; therefore consent unto us, and lie with us.

Susanna 1:21
If thou wilt not, we will bear witness against thee, that a young man was with thee: and therefore thou didst send away thy maids from thee.

Susanna 1:22
Then Susanna sighed, and said, I am straitened on every side: for if I do this thing, it is death unto me: and if I do it not I cannot escape your hands.

Susanna 1:23
It is better for me to fall into your hands, and not do it, than to sin in the sight of the Lord.

Susanna 1:24
With that Susanna cried with a loud voice: and the two elders cried out against her.

Susanna 1:25
Then ran the one, and opened the garden door.

Susanna 1:28
And it came to pass the next day, when the people were assembled to her husband Joacim, the two elders came also full of mischievous imagination against Susanna to put her to death;

Susanna 1:29
And said before the people, Send for Susanna, the daughter of Chelcias, Joacim's wife. And so they sent.

Susanna 1:30
So she came with her father and mother, her children, and all her kindred.

Susanna 1:31
Now Susanna was a very delicate woman, and beauteous to behold.

Susanna 1:32
And these wicked men commanded to uncover her face, (for she was covered) that they might be filled with her beauty.

Susanna 1:33
Therefore her friends and all that saw her wept.

Susanna 1:34
Then the two elders stood up in the midst of the people, and laid their hands upon her head.

Susanna 1:35
And she weeping looked up toward heaven: for her heart trusted in the Lord.

Susanna 1:36
And the elders said, As we walked in the garden alone, this woman came in with two maids, and shut the garden doors, and sent the maids away.

Susanna 1:37
Then a young man, who there was hid, came unto her, and lay with her.

Susanna 1:39
And when we saw them together, the man we could not hold: for he was stronger than we, and opened the door, and leaped out.

Susanna 1:41
Then the assembly believed them as those that were the elders and judges of the people: so they condemned her to death.

Susanna 1:42
Then Susanna cried out with a loud voice, and said, O everlasting God, that knowest the secrets, and knowest all things before they be:

Susanna 1:43
Thou knowest that they have borne false witness against me, and, behold, I must die; whereas I never did such things as these men have maliciously invented against me.

Susanna 1:44
And the Lord heard her voice.

Susanna 1:47
Then all the people turned them toward him, and said, What mean these words that thou hast spoken?

Susanna 1:50
Wherefore all the people turned again in haste, and the elders said unto him, Come, sit down among us, and shew it us, seeing God hath given thee the honour of an elder.

Susanna 1:51
Then said Daniel unto them, Put these two aside one far from another, and I will examine them.

Susanna 1:52
So when they were put asunder one from another, he called one of them, and said unto him, O thou that art waxen old in wickedness, now thy sins which thou hast committed aforetime are come to light.

Susanna 1:53
For thou hast pronounced false judgment and hast condemned the innocent and hast let the guilty go free; albeit the Lord saith, The innocent and righteous shalt thou not slay.

Susanna 1:55
And Daniel said, Very well; thou hast lied against thine own head; for even now the angel of God hath received the sentence of God to cut thee in two.

Susanna 1:56
So he put him aside, and commanded to bring the other, and said unto him, O thou seed of Chanaan, and not of Juda, beauty hath deceived thee, and lust hath perverted thine heart.

Susanna 1:57
Thus have ye dealt with the daughters of Israel, and they for fear companied with you: but the daughter of Juda would not abide your wickedness.

Susanna 1:60
With that all the assembly cried out with a loud voice, and praised God, who saveth them that trust in him.

Susanna 1:61
And they arose against the two elders, for Daniel had convicted them of false witness by their own mouth:

Susanna 1:62
And according to the law of Moses they did unto them in such sort as they maliciously intended to do to their neighbour: and they put them to death. Thus the innocent blood was saved the same day.

Susanna 1:63
Therefore Chelcias and his wife praised God for their daughter Susanna, with Joacim her husband, and all the kindred, because there was no dishonesty found in her.

Bel and the Dragon 1:1
And king Astyages was gathered to his fathers, and Cyrus of Persia received his kingdom.

Bel and the Dragon 1:2
And Daniel conversed with the king, and was honoured above all his friends.

Bel and the Dragon 1:3
Now the Babylons had an idol, called Bel, and there were spent upon him every day twelve great measures of fine flour, and forty sheep, and six vessels of wine.

Bel and the Dragon 1:4
And the king worshipped it and went daily to adore it: but Daniel worshipped his own God. And the king said unto him, Why dost not thou worship Bel?

Bel and the Dragon 1:5
Who answered and said, Because I may not worship idols made with hands, but the living God, who hath created the heaven and the earth, and hath sovereignty over all flesh.

Bel and the Dragon 1:6
Then said the king unto him, Thinkest thou not that Bel is a living God? seest thou not how much he eateth and drinketh every day?

Bel and the Dragon 1:7
Then Daniel smiled, and said, O king, be not deceived: for this is but clay within, and brass without, and did never eat or drink any thing.

Bel and the Dragon 1:8
So the king was wroth, and called for his priests, and said unto them, If ye tell me not who this is that devoureth these expences, ye shall die.

Bel and the Dragon 1:9
But if ye can certify me that Bel devoureth them, then Daniel shall die: for he hath spoken blasphemy against Bel. And Daniel said unto the king, Let it be according to thy word.

Bel and the Dragon 1:10
Now the priests of Bel were threescore and ten, beside their wives and children. And the king went with Daniel into the temple of Bel.

Bel and the Dragon 1:11
So Bel's priests said, Lo, we go out: but thou, O king, set on the meat, and make ready the wine, and shut the door fast and seal it with thine own signet;

Bel and the Dragon 1:12
And to morrow when thou comest in, if thou findest not that Bel hath eaten up all, we will suffer death: or else Daniel, that speaketh falsely against us.

Bel and the Dragon 1:13
And they little regarded it: for under the table they had made a privy entrance, whereby they entered in continually, and consumed those things.

Bel and the Dragon 1:14
So when they were gone forth, the king set meats before Bel. Now Daniel had commanded his servants to bring ashes, and those they strewed throughout all the temple in the presence of the king alone: then went they out, and shut the door, and sealed it with the king's signet, and so departed.

Bel and the Dragon 1:15
Now in the night came the priests with their wives and children, as they were wont to do, and did eat and drinck up all.

Bel and the Dragon 1:16
In the morning betime the king arose, and Daniel with him.

Bel and the Dragon 1:17
And the king said, Daniel, are the seals whole? And he said, Yea, O king, they be whole.

Bel and the Dragon 1:18
And as soon as he had opened the dour, the king looked upon the table, and cried with a loud voice, Great art thou, O Bel, and with thee is no deceit at all.

Bel and the Dragon 1:19
Then laughed Daniel, and held the king that he should not go in, and said, Behold now the pavement, and mark well whose footsteps are these.

Bel and the Dragon 1:20
And the king said, I see the footsteps of men, women, and children. And then the king was angry,

Bel and the Dragon 1:21
And took the priests with their wives and children, who shewed him the privy doors, where they came in, and consumed such things as were upon the table.

Bel and the Dragon 1:22
Therefore the king slew them, and delivered Bel into Daniel's power, who destroyed him and his temple.

Bel and the Dragon 1:23
And in that same place there was a great dragon, which they of Babylon worshipped.

Bel and the Dragon 1:24
And the king said unto Daniel, Wilt thou also say that this is of brass? lo, he liveth, he eateth and drinketh; thou canst not say that he is no living god: therefore worship him.

Bel and the Dragon 1:26
But give me leave, O king, and I shall slay this dragon without sword or staff. The king said, I give thee leave.

Bel and the Dragon 1:27
Then Daniel took pitch, and fat, and hair, and did seethe them together, and made lumps thereof: this he put in the dragon's mouth, and so the dragon burst in sunder : and Daniel said, Lo, these are the gods ye worship.

Bel and the Dragon 1:28
When they of Babylon heard that, they took great indignation, and conspired against the king, saying, The king is become a Jew, and he hath destroyed Bel, he hath slain the dragon, and put the priests to death.

Bel and the Dragon 1:29
So they came to the king, and said, Deliver us Daniel, or else we will destroy thee and thine house.

Bel and the Dragon 1:32
And in the den there were seven lions, and they had given them every day two carcases, and two sheep: which then were not given to them, to the intent they might devour Daniel.

Bel and the Dragon 1:33
Now there was in Jewry a prophet, called Habbacuc, who had made pottage, and had broken bread in a bowl, and was going into the field, for to bring it to the reapers.

Bel and the Dragon 1:35
And Habbacuc said, Lord, I never saw Babylon; neither do I know where the den is.

Bel and the Dragon 1:36
Then the angel of the Lord took him by the crown, and bare him by the hair of his head, and through the vehemency of his spirit set him in Babylon over the den.

Bel and the Dragon 1:37
And Habbacuc cried, saying, O Daniel, Daniel, take the dinner which God hath sent thee.

Bel and the Dragon 1:38
And Daniel said, Thou hast remembered me, O God: neither hast thou forsaken them that seek thee and love thee.

Bel and the Dragon 1:39
So Daniel arose, and did eat: and the angel of the Lord set Habbacuc in his own place again immediately.

Bel and the Dragon 1:40
Upon the seventh day the king went to bewail Daniel: and when he came to the den, he looked in, and behold, Daniel was sitting.

Bel and the Dragon 1:41
Then cried the king with a loud voice, saying, Great art Lord God of Daniel, and there is none other beside thee.

Bel and the Dragon 1:42
And he drew him out, and cast those that were the cause of his destruction into the den: and they were devoured in a moment before his face.

Prayer of Manassheh 1:1
O Lord, Almighty God of our fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and of their righteous seed;

1 Maccabees 1:1
And it happened, after that Alexander son of Philip, the Macedonian, who came out of the land of Chettiim, had smitten Darius king of the Persians and Medes, that he reigned in his stead, the first over Greece,

1 Maccabees 1:2
And made many wars, and won many strong holds, and slew the kings of the earth,

1 Maccabees 1:3
And went through to the ends of the earth, and took spoils of many nations, insomuch that the earth was quiet before him; whereupon he was exalted and his heart was lifted up.

1 Maccabees 1:4
And he gathered a mighty strong host and ruled over countries, and nations, and kings, who became tributaries unto him.

1 Maccabees 1:5
And after these things he fell sick, and perceived that he should die.

1 Maccabees 1:6
Wherefore he called his servants, such as were honourable, and had been brought up with him from his youth, and parted his kingdom among them, while he was yet alive.

1 Maccabees 1:7
So Alexander reigned twelves years, and then died.

1 Maccabees 1:8
And his servants bare rule every one in his place.

1 Maccabees 1:9
And after his death they all put crowns upon themselves; so did their sons after them many years: and evils were multiplied in the earth.

1 Maccabees 1:10
And there came out of them a wicked root Antiochus surnamed Epiphanes, son of Antiochus the king, who had been an hostage at Rome, and he reigned in the hundred and thirty and seventh year of the kingdom of the Greeks.

1 Maccabees 1:11
In those days went there out of Israel wicked men, who persuaded many, saying, Let us go and make a covenant with the heathen that are round about us: for since we departed from them we have had much sorrow.

1 Maccabees 1:15
And made themselves uncircumcised, and forsook the holy covenant, and joined themselves to the heathen, and were sold to do mischief.

1 Maccabees 1:17
Wherefore he entered into Egypt with a great multitude, with chariots, and elephants, and horsemen, and a great navy,

1 Maccabees 1:18
And made war against Ptolemee king of Egypt: but Ptolemee was afraid of him, and fled; and many were wounded to death.

1 Maccabees 1:19
Thus they got the strong cities in the land of Egypt and he took the spoils thereof.

1 Maccabees 1:20
And after that Antiochus had smitten Egypt, he returned again in the hundred forty and third year, and went up against Israel and Jerusalem with a great multitude,

1 Maccabees 1:21
And entered proudly into the sanctuary, and took away the golden altar, and the candlestick of light, and all the vessels thereof,

1 Maccabees 1:22
And the table of the shewbread, and the pouring vessels, and the vials. and the censers of gold, and the veil, and the crown, and the golden ornaments that were before the temple, all which he pulled off.

1 Maccabees 1:23
He took also the silver and the gold, and the precious vessels: also he took the hidden treasures which he found.

1 Maccabees 1:24
And when he had taken all away, he went into his own land, having made a great massacre, and spoken very proudly.

1 Maccabees 1:26
So that the princes and elders mourned, the virgins and young men were made feeble, and the beauty of women was changed.

1 Maccabees 1:27
Every bridegroom took up lamentation, and she that sat in the marriage chamber was in heaviness,

1 Maccabees 1:28
The land also was moved for the inhabitants thereof, and all the house of Jacob was covered with confusion.

1 Maccabees 1:29
And after two years fully expired the king sent his chief collector of tribute unto the cities of Juda, who came unto Jerusalem with a great multitude,

1 Maccabees 1:30
And spake peaceable words unto them, but all was deceit: for when they had given him credence, he fell suddenly upon the city, and smote it very sore, and destroyed much people of Israel.

1 Maccabees 1:31
And when he had taken the spoils of the city, he set it on fire, and pulled down the houses and walls thereof on every side.

1 Maccabees 1:32
But the women and children took they captive, and possessed the cattle.

1 Maccabees 1:33
Then builded they the city of David with a great and strong wall, and with mighty towers, and made it a strong hold for them.

1 Maccabees 1:34
And they put therein a sinful nation, wicked men, and fortified themselves therein.

1 Maccabees 1:35
They stored it also with armour and victuals, and when they had gathered together the spoils of Jerusalem, they laid them up there, and so they became a sore snare:

1 Maccabees 1:36
For it was a place to lie in wait against the sanctuary, and an evil adversary to Israel.

1 Maccabees 1:37
Thus they shed innocent blood on every side of the sanctuary, and defiled it:

1 Maccabees 1:38
Insomuch that the inhabitants of Jerusalem fled because of them: whereupon the city was made an habitation of strangers, and became strange to those that were born in her; and her own children left her.

1 Maccabees 1:40
As had been her glory, so was her dishonour increased, and her excellency was turned into mourning.

1 Maccabees 1:42
And every one should leave his laws: so all the heathen agreed according to the commandment of the king.

1 Maccabees 1:43
Yea, many also of the Israelites consented to his religion, and sacrificed unto idols, and profaned the sabbath.

1 Maccabees 1:44
For the king had sent letters by messengers unto Jerusalem and the cities of Juda that they should follow the strange laws of the land,

1 Maccabees 1:45
And forbid burnt offerings, and sacrifice, and drink offerings, in the temple; and that they should profane the sabbaths and festival days:

1 Maccabees 1:46
And pollute the sanctuary and holy people:

1 Maccabees 1:47
Set up altars, and groves, and chapels of idols, and sacrifice swine's flesh, and unclean beasts:

1 Maccabees 1:48
That they should also leave their children uncircumcised, and make their souls abominable with all manner of uncleanness and profanation:

1 Maccabees 1:49
To the end they might forget the law, and change all the ordinances.

1 Maccabees 1:50
And whosoever would not do according to the commandment of the king, he said, he should die.

1 Maccabees 1:51
In the selfsame manner wrote he to his whole kingdom, and appointed overseers over all the people, commanding the cities of Juda to sacrifice, city by city.

1 Maccabees 1:52
Then many of the people were gathered unto them, to wit every one that forsook the law; and so they committed evils in the land;

1 Maccabees 1:53
And drove the Israelites into secret places, even wheresoever they could flee for succour.

1 Maccabees 1:54
Now the fifteenth day of the month Casleu, in the hundred forty and fifth year, they set up the abomination of desolation upon the altar, and builded idol altars throughout the cities of Juda on every side;

1 Maccabees 1:55
And burnt incense at the doors of their houses, and in the streets.

1 Maccabees 1:56
And when they had rent in pieces the books of the law which they found, they burnt them with fire.

1 Maccabees 1:57
And whosoever was found with any the book of the testament, or if any committed to the law, the king's commandment was, that they should put him to death.

1 Maccabees 1:59
Now the five and twentieth day of the month they did sacrifice upon the idol altar, which was upon the altar of God.

1 Maccabees 1:61
And they hanged the infants about their necks, and rifled their houses, and slew them that had circumcised them.

1 Maccabees 1:62
Howbeit many in Israel were fully resolved and confirmed in themselves not to eat any unclean thing.

1 Maccabees 1:63
Wherefore the rather to die, that they might not be defiled with meats, and that they might not profane the holy covenant: so then they died.

1 Maccabees 1:64
And there was very great wrath upon Israel.

1 Maccabees 2:1
In those days arose Mattathias the son of John, the son of Simeon, a priest of the sons of Joarib, from Jerusalem, and dwelt in Modin.

1 Maccabees 2:2
And he had five sons, Joannan, called Caddis:

1 Maccabees 2:5
Eleazar, called Avaran: and Jonathan, whose surname was Apphus.

1 Maccabees 2:6
And when he saw the blasphemies that were committed in Juda and Jerusalem,

1 Maccabees 2:7
He said, Woe is me! wherefore was I born to see this misery of my people, and of the holy city, and to dwell there, when it was delivered into the hand of the enemy, and the sanctuary into the hand of strangers?

1 Maccabees 2:10
What nation hath not had a part in her kingdom and gotten of her spoils?

1 Maccabees 2:12
And, behold, our sanctuary, even our beauty and our glory, is laid waste, and the Gentiles have profaned it.

1 Maccabees 2:14
Then Mattathias and his sons rent their clothes, and put on sackcloth, and mourned very sore.

1 Maccabees 2:16
And when many of Israel came unto them, Mattathias also and his sons came together.

1 Maccabees 2:17
Then answered the king's officers, and said to Mattathias on this wise, Thou art a ruler, and an honourable and great man in this city, and strengthened with sons and brethren:

1 Maccabees 2:18
Now therefore come thou first, and fulfil the king's commandment, like as all the heathen have done, yea, and the men of Juda also, and such as remain at Jerusalem: so shalt thou and thy house be in the number of the king's friends, and thou and thy children shall be honoured with silver and gold, and many rewards.

1 Maccabees 2:19
Then Mattathias answered and spake with a loud voice, Though all the nations that are under the king's dominion obey him, and fall away every one from the religion of their fathers, and give consent to his commandments:

1 Maccabees 2:20
Yet will I and my sons and my brethren walk in the covenant of our fathers.

1 Maccabees 2:21
God forbid that we should forsake the law and the ordinances.

1 Maccabees 2:24
Which thing when Mattathias saw, he was inflamed with zeal, and his reins trembled, neither could he forbear to shew his anger according to judgment: wherefore he ran, and slew him upon the altar.

1 Maccabees 2:25
Also the king's commissioner, who compelled men to sacrifice, he killed at that time, and the altar he pulled down.

1 Maccabees 2:27
And Mattathias cried throughout the city with a loud voice, saying, Whosoever is zealous of the law, and maintaineth the covenant, let him follow me.

1 Maccabees 2:28
So he and his sons fled into the mountains, and left all that ever they had in the city.

1 Maccabees 2:29
Then many that sought after justice and judgment went down into the wilderness, to dwell there:

1 Maccabees 2:30
Both they, and their children, and their wives; and their cattle; because afflictions increased sore upon them.

1 Maccabees 2:31
Now when it was told the king's servants, and the host that was at Jerusalem, in the city of David, that certain men, who had broken the king's commandment, were gone down into the secret places in the wilderness,

1 Maccabees 2:32
They pursued after them a great number, and having overtaken them, they camped against them, and made war against them on the sabbath day.

1 Maccabees 2:33
And they said unto them, Let that which ye have done hitherto suffice; come forth, and do according to the commandment of the king, and ye shall live.

1 Maccabees 2:37
But said, Let us die all in our innocency: heaven and earth will testify for us, that ye put us to death wrongfully.

1 Maccabees 2:38
So they rose up against them in battle on the sabbath, and they slew them, with their wives and children and their cattle, to the number of a thousand people.

1 Maccabees 2:39
Now when Mattathias and his friends understood hereof, they mourned for them right sore.

1 Maccabees 2:40
And one of them said to another, If we all do as our brethren have done, and fight not for our lives and laws against the heathen, they will now quickly root us out of the earth.

1 Maccabees 2:43
Also all they that fled for persecution joined themselves unto them, and were a stay unto them.

1 Maccabees 2:44
So they joined their forces, and smote sinful men in their anger, and wicked men in their wrath: but the rest fled to the heathen for succour.

1 Maccabees 2:45
Then Mattathias and his friends went round about, and pulled down the altars:

1 Maccabees 2:46
And what children soever they found within the coast of Israel uncircumcised, those they circumcised valiantly.

1 Maccabees 2:47
They pursued also after the proud men, and the work prospered in their hand.

1 Maccabees 2:48
So they recovered the law out of the hand of the Gentiles, and out of the hand of kings, neither suffered they the sinner to triumph.

1 Maccabees 2:49
Now when the time drew near that Mattathias should die, he said unto his sons, Now hath pride and rebuke gotten strength, and the time of destruction, and the wrath of indignation:

1 Maccabees 2:50
Now therefore, my sons, be ye zealous for the law, and give your lives for the covenant of your fathers.

1 Maccabees 2:51
Call to remembrance what acts our fathers did in their time; so shall ye receive great honour and an everlasting name.

1 Maccabees 2:52
Was not Abraham found faithful in temptation, and it was imputed unto him for righteousness?

1 Maccabees 2:53
Joseph in the time of his distress kept the commandment and was made lord of Egypt.

1 Maccabees 2:54
Phinees our father in being zealous and fervent obtained the covenant of an everlasting priesthood.

1 Maccabees 2:58
Elias for being zealous and fervent for the law was taken up into heaven.

1 Maccabees 2:59
Ananias, Azarias, and Misael, by believing were saved out of the flame.

1 Maccabees 2:61
And thus consider ye throughout all ages, that none that put their trust in him shall be overcome.

1 Maccabees 2:62
Fear not then the words of a sinful man: for his glory shall be dung and worms.

1 Maccabees 2:63
To day he shall be lifted up and to morrow he shall not be found, because he is returned into his dust, and his thought is come to nothing.

1 Maccabees 2:64
Wherefore, ye my sons, be valiant and shew yourselves men in the behalf of the law; for by it shall ye obtain glory.

1 Maccabees 2:65
And behold, I know that your brother Simon is a man of counsel, give ear unto him alway: he shall be a father unto you.

1 Maccabees 2:66
As for Judas Maccabeus, he hath been mighty and strong, even from his youth up: let him be your captain, and fight the battle of the people.

1 Maccabees 2:67
Take also unto you all those that observe the law, and avenge ye the wrong of your people.

1 Maccabees 2:68
Recompense fully the heathen, and take heed to the commandments of the law.

1 Maccabees 2:69
So he blessed them, and was gathered to his fathers.

1 Maccabees 2:70
And he died in the hundred forty and sixth year, and his sons buried him in the sepulchres of his fathers at Modin, and all Israel made great lamentation for him.

1 Maccabees 3:2
And all his brethren helped him, and so did all they that held with his father, and they fought with cheerfulness the battle of Israel.

1 Maccabees 3:3
So he gat his people great honour, and put on a breastplate as a giant, and girt his warlike harness about him, and he made battles, protecting the host with his sword.

1 Maccabees 3:4
In his acts he was like a lion, and like a lion's whelp roaring for his prey.

1 Maccabees 3:5
For He pursued the wicked, and sought them out, and burnt up those that vexed his people.

1 Maccabees 3:6
Wherefore the wicked shrunk for fear of him, and all the workers of iniquity were troubled, because salvation prospered in his hand.

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He grieved also many kings, and made Jacob glad with his acts, and his memorial is blessed for ever.

1 Maccabees 3:8
Moreover he went through the cities of Juda, destroying the ungodly out of them, and turning away wrath from Israel:

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So that he was renowned unto the utmost part of the earth, and he received unto him such as were ready to perish.

1 Maccabees 3:10
Then Apollonius gathered the Gentiles together, and a great host out of Samaria, to fight against Israel.

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Which thing when Judas perceived, he went forth to meet him, and so he smote him, and slew him: many also fell down slain, but the rest fled.

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Wherefore Judas took their spoils, and Apollonius' sword also, and therewith he fought all his life long.

1 Maccabees 3:13
Now when Seron, a prince of the army of Syria, heard say that Judas had gathered unto him a multitude and company of the faithful to go out with him to war;

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He said, I will get me a name and honour in the kingdom; for I will go fight with Judas and them that are with him, who despise the king's commandment.

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So he made him ready to go up, and there went with him a mighty host of the ungodly to help him, and to be avenged of the children of Israel.

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And when he came near to the going up of Bethhoron, Judas went forth to meet him with a small company:

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Who, when they saw the host coming to meet them, said unto Judas, How shall we be able, being so few, to fight against so great a multitude and so strong, seeing we are ready to faint with fasting all this day?

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Unto whom Judas answered, It is no hard matter for many to be shut up in the hands of a few; and with the God of heaven it is all one, to deliver with a great multitude, or a small company:

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They come against us in much pride and iniquity to destroy us, and our wives and children, and to spoil us:

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But we fight for our lives and our laws.

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Wherefore the Lord himself will overthrow them before our face: and as for you, be ye not afraid of them.

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Now as soon as he had left off speaking, he leapt suddenly upon them, and so Seron and his host was overthrown before him.

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And they pursued them from the going down of Bethhoron unto the plain, where were slain about eight hundred men of them; and the residue fled into the land of the Philistines.

1 Maccabees 3:25
Then began the fear of Judas and his brethren, and an exceeding great dread, to fall upon the nations round about them:

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Insomuch as his fame came unto the king, and all nations talked of the battles of Judas.

1 Maccabees 3:27
Now when king Antiochus heard these things, he was full of indignation: wherefore he sent and gathered together all the forces of his realm, even a very strong army.

1 Maccabees 3:28
He opened also his treasure, and gave his soldiers pay for a year, commanding them to be ready whensoever he should need them.

1 Maccabees 3:29
Nevertheless, when he saw that the money of his treasures failed and that the tributes in the country were small, because of the dissension and plague, which he had brought upon the land in taking away the laws which had been of old time;

1 Maccabees 3:31
Wherefore, being greatly perplexed in his mind, he determined to go into Persia, there to take the tributes of the countries, and to gather much money.

1 Maccabees 3:32
So he left Lysias, a nobleman, and one of the blood royal, to oversee the affairs of the king from the river Euphrates unto the borders of Egypt:

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And to bring up his son Antiochus, until he came again.

1 Maccabees 3:34
Moreover he delivered unto him the half of his forces, and the elephants, and gave him charge of all things that he would have done, as also concerning them that dwelt in Juda and Jerusalem:

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To wit, that he should send an army against them, to destroy and root out the strength of Israel, and the remnant of Jerusalem, and to take away their memorial from that place;

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And that he should place strangers in all their quarters, and divide their land by lot.

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So the king took the half of the forces that remained, and departed from Antioch, his royal city, the hundred forty and seventh year; and having passed the river Euphrates, he went through the high countries.

1 Maccabees 3:38
Then Lysias chose Ptolemee the son of Dorymenes, Nicanor, and Gorgias, mighty men of the king's friends:

1 Maccabees 3:39
And with them he sent forty thousand footmen, and seven thousand horsemen, to go into the land of Juda, and to destroy it, as the king commanded.

1 Maccabees 3:40
So they went forth with all their power, and came and pitched by Emmaus in the plain country.

1 Maccabees 3:41
And the merchants of the country, hearing the fame of them, took silver and gold very much, with servants, and came into the camp to buy the children of Israel for slaves: a power also of Syria and of the land of the Philistines joined themselves unto them.

1 Maccabees 3:42
Now when Judas and his brethren saw that miseries were multiplied, and that the forces did encamp themselves in their borders: for they knew how the king had given commandment to destroy the people, and utterly abolish them;

1 Maccabees 3:43
They said one to another, Let us restore the decayed fortune of our people, and let us fight for our people and the sanctuary.

1 Maccabees 3:44
Then was the congregation gathered together, that they might be ready for battle, and that they might pray, and ask mercy and compassion.

1 Maccabees 3:45
Now Jerusalem lay void as a wilderness, there was none of her children that went in or out: the sanctuary also was trodden down, and aliens kept the strong hold; the heathen had their habitation in that place; and joy was taken from Jacob, and the pipe with the harp ceased.

1 Maccabees 3:46
Wherefore the Israelites assembled themselves together, and came to Maspha, over against Jerusalem; for in Maspha was the place where they prayed aforetime in Israel.

1 Maccabees 3:47
Then they fasted that day, and put on sackcloth, and cast ashes upon their heads, and rent their clothes,

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And laid open the book of the law, wherein the heathen had sought to paint the likeness of their images.

1 Maccabees 3:49
They brought also the priests' garments, and the firstfruits, and the tithes: and the Nazarites they stirred up, who had accomplished their days.

1 Maccabees 3:50
Then cried they with a loud voice toward heaven, saying, What shall we do with these, and whither shall we carry them away?

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For thy sanctuary is trodden down and profaned, and thy priests are in heaviness, and brought low.

1 Maccabees 3:52
And lo, the heathen are assembled together against us to destroy us: what things they imagine against us, thou knowest.

1 Maccabees 3:54
Then sounded they with trumpets, and cried with a loud voice.

1 Maccabees 3:55
And after this Judas ordained captains over the people, even captains over thousands, and over hundreds, and over fifties, and over tens.

1 Maccabees 3:57
So the camp removed, and pitched upon the south side of Emmaus.

1 Maccabees 3:58
And Judas said, arm yourselves, and be valiant men, and see that ye be in readiness against the morning, that ye may fight with these nations, that are assembled together against us to destroy us and our sanctuary:

1 Maccabees 3:59
For it is better for us to die in battle, than to behold the calamities of our people and our sanctuary.

1 Maccabees 4:1
Then took Gorgias five thousand footmen, and a thousand of the best horsemen, and removed out of the camp by night;

1 Maccabees 4:2
To the end he might rush in upon the camp of the Jews, and smite them suddenly. And the men of the fortress were his guides.

1 Maccabees 4:3
Now when Judas heard thereof he himself removed, and the valiant men with him, that he might smite the king's army which was at Emmaus,

1 Maccabees 4:5
In the mean season came Gorgias by night into the camp of Judas: and when he found no man there, he sought them in the mountains: for said he, These fellows flee from us

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And they saw the camp of the heathen, that it was strong and well harnessed, and compassed round about with horsemen; and these were expert of war.

1 Maccabees 4:10
Now therefore let us cry unto heaven, if peradventure the Lord will have mercy upon us, and remember the covenant of our fathers, and destroy this host before our face this day:

1 Maccabees 4:11
That so all the heathen may know that there is one who delivereth and saveth Israel.

1 Maccabees 4:12
Then the strangers lifted up their eyes, and saw them coming over against them.

1 Maccabees 4:14
So they joined battle, and the heathen being discomfited fled into the plain.

1 Maccabees 4:15
Howbeit all the hindmost of them were slain with the sword: for they pursued them unto Gazera, and unto the plains of Idumea, and Azotus, and Jamnia, so that there were slain of them upon a three thousand men.

1 Maccabees 4:17
And said to the people, Be not greedy of the spoil inasmuch as there is a battle before us,

1 Maccabees 4:18
And Gorgias and his host are here by us in the mountain: but stand ye now against our enemies, and overcome them, and after this ye may boldly take the spoils.

1 Maccabees 4:20
Who when they perceived that the Jews had put their host to flight and were burning the tents; for the smoke that was seen declared what was done:

1 Maccabees 4:21
When therefore they perceived these things, they were sore afraid, and seeing also the host of Judas in the plain ready to fight,

1 Maccabees 4:23
Then Judas returned to spoil the tents, where they got much gold, and silver, and blue silk, and purple of the sea, and great riches.

1 Maccabees 4:24
After this they went home, and sung a song of thanksgiving, and praised the Lord in heaven: because it is good, because his mercy endureth forever.

1 Maccabees 4:26
Now all the strangers that had escaped came and told Lysias what had happened:

1 Maccabees 4:27
Who, when he heard thereof, was confounded and discouraged, because neither such things as he would were done unto Israel, nor such things as the king commanded him were come to pass.

1 Maccabees 4:28
The next year therefore following Lysias gathered together threescore thousand choice men of foot, and five thousand horsemen, that he might subdue them.

1 Maccabees 4:29
So they came into Idumea, and pitched their tents at Bethsura, and Judas met them with ten thousand men.

1 Maccabees 4:30
And when he saw that mighty army, he prayed and said, Blessed art thou, O Saviour of Israel, who didst quell the violence of the mighty man by the hand of thy servant David, and gavest the host of strangers into the hands of Jonathan the son of Saul, and his armourbearer;

1 Maccabees 4:31
Shut up this army in the hand of thy people Israel, and let them be confounded in their power and horsemen:

1 Maccabees 4:32
Make them to be of no courage, and cause the boldness of their strength to fall away, and let them quake at their destruction:

1 Maccabees 4:33
Cast them down with the sword of them that love thee, and let all those that know thy name praise thee with thanksgiving.

1 Maccabees 4:34
So they joined battle; and there were slain of the host of Lysias about five thousand men, even before them were they slain.

1 Maccabees 4:35
Now when Lysias saw his army put to flight, and the manliness of Judas' soldiers, and how they were ready either to live or die valiantly, he went into Antiochia, and gathered together a company of strangers, and having made his army greater than it was, he purposed to come again into Judea.

1 Maccabees 4:36
Then said Judas and his brethren, Behold, our enemies are discomfited: let us go up to cleanse and dedicate the sanctuary.

1 Maccabees 4:37
Upon this all the host assembled themselves together, and went up into mount Sion.

1 Maccabees 4:38
And when they saw the sanctuary desolate, and the altar profaned, and the gates burned up, and shrubs growing in the courts as in a forest, or in one of the mountains, yea, and the priests' chambers pulled down;

1 Maccabees 4:39
They rent their clothes, and made great lamentation, and cast ashes upon their heads,

1 Maccabees 4:40
And fell down flat to the ground upon their faces, and blew an alarm with the trumpets, and cried toward heaven.

1 Maccabees 4:43
Who cleansed the sanctuary, and bare out the defiled stones into an unclean place.

1 Maccabees 4:44
And when as they consulted what to do with the altar of burnt offerings, which was profaned;

1 Maccabees 4:46
And laid up the stones in the mountain of the temple in a convenient place, until there should come a prophet to shew what should be done with them.

1 Maccabees 4:47
Then they took whole stones according to the law, and built a new altar according to the former;

1 Maccabees 4:48
And made up the sanctuary, and the things that were within the temple, and hallowed the courts.

1 Maccabees 4:49
They made also new holy vessels, and into the temple they brought the candlestick, and the altar of burnt offerings, and of incense, and the table.

1 Maccabees 4:50
And upon the altar they burned incense, and the lamps that were upon the candlestick they lighted, that they might give light in the temple.

1 Maccabees 4:51
Furthermore they set the loaves upon the table, and spread out the veils, and finished all the works which they had begun to make.

1 Maccabees 4:52
Now on the five and twentieth day of the ninth month, which is called the month Casleu, in the hundred forty and eighth year, they rose up betimes in the morning,

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And offered sacrifice according to the law upon the new altar of burnt offerings, which they had made.

1 Maccabees 4:54
Look, at what time and what day the heathen had profaned it, even in that was it dedicated with songs, and citherns, and harps, and cymbals.

1 Maccabees 4:55
Then all the people fell upon their faces, worshipping and praising the God of heaven, who had given them good success.

1 Maccabees 4:56
And so they kept the dedication of the altar eight days and offered burnt offerings with gladness, and sacrificed the sacrifice of deliverance and praise.

1 Maccabees 4:57
They decked also the forefront of the temple with crowns of gold, and with shields; and the gates and the chambers they renewed, and hanged doors upon them.

1 Maccabees 4:59
Moreover Judas and his brethren with the whole congregation of Israel ordained, that the days of the dedication of the altar should be kept in their season from year to year by the space of eight days, from the five and twentieth day of the month Casleu, with mirth and gladness.

1 Maccabees 4:60
At that time also they builded up the mount Sion with high walls and strong towers round about, lest the Gentiles should come and tread it down as they had done before.

1 Maccabees 4:61
And they set there a garrison to keep it, and fortified Bethsura to preserve it; that the people might have a defence against Idumea.

1 Maccabees 5:1
Now when the nations round about heard that the altar was built and the sanctuary renewed as before, it displeased them very much.

1 Maccabees 5:2
Wherefore they thought to destroy the generation of Jacob that was among them, and thereupon they began to slay and destroy the people.


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