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But we would not
hearken unto thy voice, to serve the king of Babylon:
therefore hast thou made good the words that thou spakest by thy servants the prophets, namely, that the bones of our kings, and the bones of our fathers, should be taken out of their place.
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.
Whereby they are known not to be gods: therefore fear them not.
By this ye may know that they are no gods: therefore fear them not.
Therefore it is better to be a king that sheweth his power, or else a profitable vessel in an house, which the owner shall have use of, than such false gods; or to be a door in an house, to keep such things therein, than such false gods. or a
pillar of wood in a a palace, than such false gods.
Knowing therefore that they are no gods, fear them not,
It is then by no means manifest unto us that they are gods: therefore fear them not.
Better therefore is the just man that hath none idols: for he shall be far from reproach.
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.
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.
Therefore her friends and all that saw her
wept.
Therefore when she was led to be put to death, the Lord raised up the holy spirit of a young youth whose name was Daniel:
Now
therefore tell me, Under what tree
didst thou take them companying together? Who answered, Under an
holm tree.
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.
Therefore the king
slew them, and delivered
Bel into Daniel’s power, who destroyed him and his temple.
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.
Thou
therefore, O Lord, that art the God of the just, hast not appointed
repentance to the just, as to Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, which have not
sinned against thee; but thou hast appointed
repentance unto me that am a
sinner:
Therefore I will praise thee for ever all the days of my life: for all the powers of the heavens do praise thee, and thine is the glory for ever and ever.
Amen.
Therefore there was a great
mourning in Israel, in every place where they were;
To what end therefore shall we live any longer?
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.
At that time
therefore they decreed, saying,
Whosoever shall come to make battle with us on the sabbath day, we will fight against him; neither will we die all, as our brethren that were murdered
im the secret places.
Now
therefore, my sons, be ye
zealous for the law, and give your lives for the covenant of your fathers.
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:
When
therefore they perceived these things, they were
sore afraid, and seeing also the host of
Judas in the plain ready to fight,
The next year
therefore following
Lysias gathered together
threescore thousand choice men of foot, and five thousand
horsemen, that he might
subdue them.
He shut them up
therefore in the towers, and
encamped against them, and destroyed them utterly, and burned the towers of that place with fire, and all that were therein.
Come now therefore, and deliver us from their hands, for many of us are slain:
When
Judas therefore saw that the battle was begun, and that the cry of the city went up to heaven, with
trumpets, and a great sound,
I perceive therefore that for this cause these troubles are come upon me, and, behold, I perish through great grief in a strange land.
Now therefore let us be friends with these men, and make peace with them, and with all their nation;
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.
Now
therefore send some man whom thou trustest, and let him go and see what
havock he hath made among us, and in the king’s land, and let him
punish them with all them that aid them.
They went therefore to Rome, which was a very great journey, and came into the senate, where they spake and said.
Neither shall they give any thing unto them that make war upon them, or aid them with
victuals, weapons, money, or ships, as it hath seemed good unto the Romans; but they shall keep their covenants without taking any thing
therefore.
If
therefore they
complain any more against thee, we will do them justice, and fight with thee by sea and by land.
When
Judas therefore saw that his host slipt away, and that the battle pressed upon him, he was
sore troubled in mind, and much distressed, for that he had no time to gather them together.
Now
therefore we have chosen thee this day to be our prince and captain in his
stead, that thou mayest fight our battles.
Therefore they remembered John their brother, and went up, and
hid themselves under the
covert of the mountain:
Then all the ungodly men held a council, saying, Behold,
Jonathan and his company are at ease, and dwell without care: now
therefore we will bring Bacchides
hither, who shall take them all in one night.
When
therefore he had restored unto him the prisoners that he had taken
aforetime out of the land of
Judea, he returned and went his way into his own land, neither came he any more into their borders.
He said, Shall we find such another man? now
therefore we will make him our friend and
confederate.
He sent unto them
therefore to this effect: King
Demetrius unto the people of the Jews sendeth
greeting:
Now
therefore let us make a league of
amity together, and give me now thy daughter to wife: and I will be thy son in law, and will give both thee and her as according to thy dignity.
And now will I do to thee, as thou hast written: meet me
therefore at
Ptolemais, that we may see one another; for I will marry my daughter to thee according to thy desire.
Now therefore, if thou trustest in thine own strength, come down to us into the plain field, and there let us try the matter together: for with me is the power of the cities.
King Ptolemee
therefore, having
gotten the dominion of the cities by the sea unto
Seleucia upon the sea coast, imagined wicked counsels against Alexander.
Now
therefore see that thou make a copy of these things, and let it be delivered unto
Jonathan, and set upon the holy mount in a conspicuous place.
And lay
sore upon him to deliver him this young
Antiochus, that he might reign in his father’s
stead: he told him
therefore all that
Demetrius had done, and how his men of war were at
enmity with him, and there he remained a long season.
Now therefore thou shalt do well, if thou send me men to help me; for all my forces are gone from me.
Therefore we also,
albeit we need none of these things, that we have the holy books of scripture in our hands to comfort us,
We therefore at all times without ceasing, both in our feasts, and other convenient days, do remember you in the sacrifices which we offer, and in our prayers, as reason is, and as it becometh us to think upon our brethren:
Now therefore, since this is come to our knowledge, ye shall do well to write unto us of your prosperity.
We do write back again to you, that your cattle and goods are our’s, and our’s are your’s We do command therefore our ambassadors to make report unto you on this wise.
Therefore send them now home again, and choose a few men to wait on thee, and come thou with me to
Ptolemais, for I will give it thee, and the rest of the strong holds and forces, and all that have any charge: as for me, I will return and depart: for this is the cause of my coming.
They therefore that followed upon them, perceiving that they were ready to fight for their lives, turned back again.
Then all the heathen that were round about then sought to destroy them: for said they, They have no captain, nor any to help them: now
therefore let us make war upon them, and take away their
memorial from among men.
Now
therefore be it far from me, that I should
spare mine own life in any time of trouble: for I am no better than my brethren.
Who might have said, Because I sent him not the money and the children,
therefore is
Jonathan dead.
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.
Now
therefore I
confirm unto thee all the oblations which the kings before me granted thee, and
whatsoever gifts besides they granted.
We thought it good
therefore to write unto the kings and countries, that they should do them no
harm, nor fight against them, their cities, or countries, nor yet aid their enemies against them.
If
therefore there be any
pestilent fellows, that have fled from their country unto you, deliver them unto Simon the high priest, that he may
punish them according to their own law.
Now
therefore deliver the cities which ye have taken, and the tributes of the places,
whereof ye have
gotten dominion without the borders of
Judea:
Therefore whereas we are now purposed to keep the
purification of the temple upon the five and
twentieth day of the month Casleu, we thought it necessary to
certify you thereof, that ye also might keep it, as the feast of the tabernacles, and of the fire, which was given us when Neemias offered sacrifice, after that he had builded the temple and the altar.
Therefore to us, that have taken upon us this painful labour of
abridging, it was not easy, but a matter of
sweat and watching;
In the end
therefore he had an unhappy return, being accused before Aretas the king of the Arabians,
fleeing from city to city, pursued of all men,
hated as a
forsaker of the laws, and being had in
abomination as an open enemy of his country and countrymen, he was cast out into Egypt.
And so
haughty was
Antiochus in mind, that he considered not that the Lord was
angry for a while for the sins of them that dwelt in the city, and
therefore his eye was not upon the place.
And
therefore the place itself, that was
partaker with them of the
adversity that happened to the nation, did afterward communicate in the benefits sent from the Lord: and as it was
forsaken in the wrath of the
Almighty, so again, the great Lord being
reconciled, it was set up with all glory.
But he began to consider
discreetly, and as became his age, and the
excellency of his ancient years, and the honour of his gray head,
whereon was come, and his most
honest education from a child, or rather the holy law made and given by God:
therefore he answered accordingly, and willed them
straightways to send him to the grave.
After him also they brought the sixth, who being ready to die said, Be not
deceived without cause: for we suffer these things for ourselves, having
sinned against our God:
therefore marvellous things are done unto us.
Therefore he came at unawares, and burnt up towns and cities, and got into his hands the most
commodious places, and overcame and put to flight no small number of his enemies.
For it was the day before the sabbath, and therefore they would no longer pursue them.
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.
Then swelling with anger. he thought to
avenge upon the Jews the disgrace done unto him by those that made him
flee.
Therefore commanded he his chariotman to drive without ceasing, and to
dispatch the journey, the judgment of God now following him. For he had spoken proudly in this sort, That he would come to Jerusalem and make it a common
burying place of the Jews.
Here
therefore, being plagued, he began to leave off his great pride, and to come to the knowledge of himself by the
scourge of God, his pain increasing every moment.
But for all this his pains would not cease: for the just judgment of God was come upon him:
therefore despairing of his health, he wrote unto the Jews the letter underwritten, containing the form of a
supplication, after this manner:
Therefore I pray and request you to remember the benefits that I have done unto you generally, and in special, and that every man will be still faithful to me and my son.
Therefore they bare branches, and fair boughs, and palms also, and
sang psalms unto him that had given them good success in
cleansing his place.
Therefore what things
soever were meet to be reported to the king, I have declared them, and he hath granted as much as might be.
Thou shalt do well
therefore to send unto them, and grant them peace, that when they are
certified of our mind, they may be of good comfort, and ever go
cheerfully about their own affairs.
Therefore send some with speed, that we may know what is your mind.
All men
therefore praising the Lord, the righteous Judge, who had opened the things that were
hid,
But Rhodocus, who was in the Jews’ host, disclosed the secrets to the enemies;
therefore he was sought out, and when they had
gotten him, they put him in prison.
Therefore I, being deprived of mine ancestors’ honour, I mean the high priesthood, am now come
hither:
Therefore now, O holy Lord of all
holiness, keep this house ever
undefiled, which lately was
cleansed, and stop every unrighteous mouth.
Therefore in his prayer he said after this manner; O Lord, thou
didst send thine angel in the time of Ezekias king of
Judea, and
didst slay in the host of
Sennacherib an hundred
fourscore and five thousand: