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But that which is made with hands is
cursed, as well it, as he that made it: he,
because he made it; and it,
because, being corruptible, it was called god.
Therefore even upon the idols of the Gentiles shall there be a
visitation:
because in the creature of God they are become an
abomination, and stumblingblocks to the souls of men, and a
snare to the feet of the unwise.
Whom men could not honour in presence,
because they dwelt far off, they took the
counterfeit of his
visage from far, and made an express image of a king whom they honoured, to the end that by this their forwardness they might
flatter him that was absent, as if he were present.
Nevertheless thy saints had a very great light, whose voice they hearing, and not seeing their shape, because they also had not suffered the same things, they counted them happy.
And not only so, but
peradventure some respect shall be had of those,
because they used strangers not friendly:
Exalt not
thyself, lest thou fall, and bring dishonour upon thy soul, and so God discover thy secrets, and cast thee down in the midst of the congregation,
because thou camest not in truth to the fear of the Lord, but thy heart is full of
deceit.
Because of unrighteous dealings,
injuries, and riches got by
deceit, the kingdom is translated from one people to another.
Why is earth and ashes proud? There is not a more wicked thing than a
covetous man: for such an one setteth his own soul to sale;
because while he liveth he casteth away his
bowels.
For all things cannot be in men,
because the son of man is not
immortal.
Some man holdeth his tongue, because he hath not to answer: and some keepeth silence, knowing his time.
There is an
abasement because of glory; and there is that lifteth up his head from a low estate.
Help the poor for the commandment’s sake, and turn him not away because of his poverty.
If thou have a servant, let him be unto thee as
thyself,
because thou hast bought him with a price.
I was
ofttimes in danger of death: yet I was delivered
because of these things.
For all these things are to be done because of the commandment.
For grace is not given, him from the Lord, because he is deprived of all wisdom.
The children will
complain of an ungodly father,
because they shall be reproached for his sake.
The third in glory is Phinees the son of
Eleazar,
because he had zeal in the fear of the Lord, and stood up with good courage of heart: when the people were turned back, and made
reconciliation for Israel.
And with hailstones of mighty power he made the battle to fall violently upon the nations, and in the descent of Beth-horon he destroyed them that resisted, that the nations might know all their strength, because he fought in the sight of the Lord, and he followed the Mighty One.
Thus we were cast down, and not
exalted,
because we have
sinned against the Lord our God, and have not been
obedient unto his voice.
That all the earth may know that thou art the Lord our God,
because Israel and his
posterity is called by thy name.
For I knew that they would not hear me,
because it is a stiffnecked people: but in the land of their
captivities they shall remember themselves.
Hear, O Lord, and have mercy; ar thou art
merciful: and have
pity upon us,
because we have
sinned before thee.
But they were destroyed,
because they had no wisdom, and perished through their own
foolishness.
Ye were sold to the nations, not for your destruction: but because ye moved God to wrath, ye were delivered unto the enemies.
Let no man
rejoice over me, a widow, and
forsaken of many, who for the sins of my children am left
desolate;
because they departed from the law of God.
For my hope is in the
Everlasting, that he will save you; and joy is come unto me from the Holy One,
because of the mercy which shall soon come unto you from the
Everlasting our Saviour.
Because of the sins which ye have committed before God, ye shall be led away
captives into Babylon by Nabuchodonosor king of the Babylonians.
They
wipe their faces
because of the dust of the temple, when there is much upon them.
For how can they be called gods? because women set meat before the gods of silver, gold, and wood.
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.
For we, O Lord, are become less than any nation, and be kept under this day in all the world because of our sins.
O give
thanks unto the Lord,
because he is
gracious: for his mercy endureth for ever.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Both they, and their children, and their wives; and their cattle;
because afflictions increased
sore upon them.
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.
Wherefore the wicked
shrunk for fear of him, and all the workers of iniquity were troubled,
because salvation
prospered in his hand.
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;
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.
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.
They thought it best to pull it down, lest it should be a reproach to them,
because the heathen had
defiled it: wherefore they pulled it down,
Then
Judas fought against the children of
Esau in
Idumea at Arabattine,
because they besieged
Gael: and he gave them a great overthrow, and
abated their courage, and took their spoils.
So they went up to mount
Sion with joy and
gladness, where they offered burnt offerings,
because not one of them were slain until they had returned in peace.
Thus was there a great overthrow among the children of Israel,
because they were not
obedient unto
Judas and his brethren, but thought to do some
valiant act.
Wherefore he came and sought to take the city, and to
spoil it; but he was not able,
because they of the city, having had
warning thereof,
Now when the king heard these words, he was
astonished and
sore moved:
whereupon he laid him down upon his bed, and fell sick for grief,
because it had not
befallen him as he looked for.
But with them that were in Bethsura he made peace: for they came out of the city,
because they had no
victuals there to
endure the siege, it being a year of rest to the land.
There were but a few left in the sanctuary,
because the famine did so prevail against them, that they were
fain to
disperse themselves, every man to his own place.
And covenant with them, that they shall live after their laws, as they did before: for they are therefore displeased, and have done all these things, because we abolished their laws.
Then removed he, and came with a great host, and sent letters
privily to his adherents in
Judea, that they should take
Jonathan and those that were with him:
howbeit they could not,
because their counsel was known unto them.
And beside this, the five thousand shekels of silver, which they took from the uses of the temple out of the accounts year by year, even those things shall be released,
because they
appertain to the priests that minister.
Now when
Jonathan and the people heard these words, they gave no credit unto them, nor received them,
because they remembered the great evil that he had done in Israel; for he had
afflicted them very
sore.
But with Alexander they were well pleased,
because he was the first that
entreated of true peace with them, and they were
confederate with him always.
And he pitched his tents against
Joppa: but; they of
Joppa shut him out of the city,
because Apollonius had a garrison there.
Whereupon he took his journey into Spain in peaceable manner, so as they of the cities opened unto him, and met him: for king Alexander had commanded them so to do,
because he was his brother in law.
In the mean season was king Alexander in
Cilicia,
because those that dwelt in those parts had revolted from him.
We are determined to do good to the people of the Jews, who are our friends, and keep covenants with us, because of their good will toward us.
Who might have said,
Because I sent him not the money and the children, therefore is
Jonathan dead.
Moreover Simon chose men, and sent to king
Demetrius, to the end he should give the land an
immunity,
because all that Tryphon did was to
spoil.
And entered into it the three and
twentieth day of the second month in the hundred seventy and first year, with
thanksgiving, and branches of palm trees, and with harps, and cymbals, and with viols, and hymns, and songs:
because there was destroyed a great enemy out of Israel.
The people therefore
sang the acts of Simon, and unto what glory he thought to bring his nation, made him their governor and chief priest,
because he had done all these things, and for the justice and faith which he kept to his nation, and for that he sought by all means to
exalt his people.
And Moses said, Because the sin offering was not to be eaten, it was consumed.
Now when the holy city was inhabited with all peace, and the laws were kept very well,
because of the
godliness of Onias the high priest, and his hatred of wickedness,
But
Heliodorus,
because of the king’s commandment given him, said, That in any wise it must be brought into the king’s treasury.
Others ran flocking out of their houses to the general
supplication,
because the place was like to come into contempt.
This
ungracious Jason sent special messengers from Jerusalem, who were Antiochians, to carry three hundred drachms of silver to the sacrifice of
Hercules, which even the bearers thereof thought fit not to
bestow upon the sacrifice,
because it was not convenient, but to be reserved for other charges.
This money then, in regard of the sender, was appointed to
Hercules’ sacrifice; but
because of the bearers thereof, it was employed to the making of gallies.
While those things were in doing, they of
Tarsus and Mallos made insurrection,
because they were given to the king’s
concubine, called
Antiochus.
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.
And others, that had run together into caves near by, to keep the sabbath day secretly, being discovered by Philip, were all burnt together, because they made a conscience to help themselves for the honour of the most sacred day.
They that led him changing the good will they bare him a little before into hatred,
because the
foresaid speeches proceeded, as they thought, from a
desperate mind.
But when he was ready to die with stripes, he
groaned, and said, It is manifest unto the Lord, that hath the holy knowledge, that whereas I might have been delivered from death, I now
endure sore pains in body by being beaten: but in soul am well content to suffer these things,
because I fear him.
But the mother was marvellous above all, and worthy of honourable memory: for when she saw her seven sons slain within the space of one day, she bare it with a good courage, because of the hope that she had in the Lord.
For we suffer because of our sins.
And he told them of the battle that they had in Babylon with the
Galatians, how they came but eight thousand in all to the business, with four thousand Macedonians, and that the Macedonians being
perplexed, the eight thousand destroyed an hundred and twenty thousand
because of the help that they had from heaven, and so received a great
booty.
Thus he, that took upon him to make good to the Romans their tribute by means of
captives in Jerusalem, told abroad, that the Jews had God to fight for them, and therefore they could not be
hurt,
because they followed the laws that he gave them.
Whereupon being accused of the king’s friends before Eupator, and called
traitor at every word
because he had left
Cyprus, that Philometor had committed unto him, and departed to
Antiochus Epiphanes, and seeing that he was in no honourable place, he was so discouraged, that he poisoned himself and died.
And
because certain, who were no less than nine thousand, were fled together into two very strong castles, having all manner of things convenient to
sustain the siege,
Nevertheless upon the fifth day early twenty young men of Maccabeus’ company, inflamed with anger
because of the blasphemies,
assaulted the wall manly, and with a fierce courage killed all that they met
withal.
Who, as he was a man of understanding, casting with himself what loss he had had, and considering that the Hebrews could not be overcome,
because the
Almighty God helped them, he sent unto them,
Moreover
Timotheus himself fell into the hands of Dositheus and Sosipater, whom he
besought with much craft to let him go with his life,
because he had many of the Jews’ parents, and the brethren of some of them, who, if they put him to death, should not be regarded.
This was done in the break of the day, because the protection of the Lord did help him.
Came to
Ptolemais: the people there were
grieved for the covenants; for they stormed,
because they would make their covenants void:
But
because there was no dealing against the king, he watched his time to
accomplish this thing by policy.
Thus being well comforted by the words of
Judas, which were very good, and able to
stir them up to valour, and to
encourage the hearts of the young men, they determined not to pitch camp, but
courageously to set upon them, and
manfully to try the matter by conflict,
because the city and the sanctuary and the temple were in danger.