Sacred History, in Familiar Dialogues, for the Instruction of Youth: with Maps: To which is Added, The History of the Jews, from the Time of Nehemiah to the Destruction of Jerusalem, Volume 1T. Gardiner, ... W. Button; Sherwood Neely, and Jones; Gale, Curtis, and Fenner; T. Hamilton; and Cradock and Joy, Paternoster-Row; C. Law, ... Williams and Son, ... Darton and Harvey, ... J. Hatchard; and Sharpe and Hales, Piccadilly., 1813 - Bible - 363 pages |
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Page xii
... Menelaus , for a larger sum , gets the high - priesthood from his brother Jason , and plunders the temple of its golden vessels . Onias reproves Menelaus , who procures his assas- sination . Jason takes advantage of a false report of ...
... Menelaus , for a larger sum , gets the high - priesthood from his brother Jason , and plunders the temple of its golden vessels . Onias reproves Menelaus , who procures his assas- sination . Jason takes advantage of a false report of ...
Page xiii
... Menelaus , being accused by Lysias , as the instigator of the war , is condemned to suffer death , and Alcimus made high - priest in his room . Onias , nephew of Menelaus , retires to Egypt , where he obtains permission of king Ptolemy ...
... Menelaus , being accused by Lysias , as the instigator of the war , is condemned to suffer death , and Alcimus made high - priest in his room . Onias , nephew of Menelaus , retires to Egypt , where he obtains permission of king Ptolemy ...
Page 207
... Menelaus , who , following the example of Jason , obtained his office by offering the king three hundred talents more than his brother had done . He supported his claim by force , and Jason was put to flight . But shortly after , not ...
... Menelaus , who , following the example of Jason , obtained his office by offering the king three hundred talents more than his brother had done . He supported his claim by force , and Jason was put to flight . But shortly after , not ...
Page 208
... Menelaus , whom , in the king's presence , they proved to be guilty of impiety and sacrilege . The king was about to condemn him , but , through the inter- position of Ptolemy Macron , one of his ministers in the interest of Menelaus ...
... Menelaus , whom , in the king's presence , they proved to be guilty of impiety and sacrilege . The king was about to condemn him , but , through the inter- position of Ptolemy Macron , one of his ministers in the interest of Menelaus ...
Page 209
... Menelaus ; exercising every species of cruelty upon those whom he suspected to be of the opposite party . When advice of this was brought to Antiochus in Egypt , he , concluding that the Jews had made a general revolt , set forward ...
... Menelaus ; exercising every species of cruelty upon those whom he suspected to be of the opposite party . When advice of this was brought to Antiochus in Egypt , he , concluding that the Jews had made a general revolt , set forward ...
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