50 verses contain “deme” (in the KJV: 48, in the BSB: 5) — showing 1–50
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Whom he called together with the workmen of like occupation, and said, Sirs, ye know that by this craft we have our wealth.
Demetrius assembled the
craftsmen, along with the workmen in related trades. “Men,” he said, “you know that this business is our source of prosperity.
So if
Demetrius and his fellow
craftsmen have a
complaint against
anyone, the courts are open and proconsuls are available. Let them bring charges against one another there.
While they behold your
chaste conversation coupled with fear.
Demetrius hath good report of all men, and of the truth itself:
yea, and we also bear record; and ye know that our record is true.
Demetrius has received a good testimony from
everyone, and from the truth itself. We also
testify for him, and you know that our testimony is true.
In the hundred and one and
fiftieth year
Demetrius the son of Seleucus departed from Rome, and came up with a few men unto a city of the sea coast, and reigned there.
So his host
slew them. Now when
Demetrius was set upon the throne of his kingdom,
And as touching the evils that
Demetrius doeth to the Jews, we have written unto him, saying, Wherefore thou made thy yoke heavy upon our friends and confederates the Jews?
Furthermore, when
Demetrius heard the Nicanor and his host were slain in battle, he sent Bacchides and Alcimus into the land of
Judea the second time, and with them the chief strength of his host:
Now when king
Demetrius heard thereof, he gathered together an exceeding great host, and went forth against him to fight.
Now when king Alexander had heard what promises
Demetrius had sent unto
Jonathan: when also it was told him of the battles and noble acts which he and his brethren had done, and of the pains that they had
endured,
He sent unto them therefore to this effect: King
Demetrius unto the people of the Jews sendeth
greeting:
Then gathered king Alexander great forces, and camped over against
Demetrius.
And after the two kings had joined battle,
Demetrius’ host fled: but Alexander followed after him, and prevailed against them.
And he continued the battle very
sore until the sun went down: and that day was
Demetrius slain.
Forasmuch as I am come again to my realm, and am set in the throne of my progenitors, and have
gotten the dominion, and overthrown
Demetrius, and recovered our country;
Then
Demetrius made
Apollonius the governor of Celosyria his general, who gathered together a great host, and camped in Jamnia, and sent unto
Jonathan the high priest, saying,
Whereupon he sent ambasadors unto king
Demetrius, saying, Come, let us make a league
betwixt us, and I will give thee my daughter whom Alexander hath, and thou shalt reign in thy father’s kingdom:
Wherefore he took his daughter from him, and gave her to
Demetrius, and
forsook Alexander, so that their hatred was openly known.
After this, when king
Demetrius saw that the land was quiet before him, and that no resistance was made against him, he sent away all his forces, every one to his own place, except certain bands of strangers, whom he had gathered from the isles of the heathen: wherefore all the forces of his fathers
hated him.
Moreover there was one Tryphon, that had been of Alexander’s part
afore, who, seeing that all the host
murmured against
Demetrius, went to Simalcue the Arabian that brought up
Antiochus the young son of Alexander,
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.
In the mean time
Jonathan sent unto king
Demetrius, that he would cast those of the tower out of Jerusalem, and those also in the fortresses: for they fought against Israel.
So
Demetrius sent unto
Jonathan, saying, I will not only do this for thee and thy people, but I will greatly honour thee and thy nation, if opportunity serve.
So king
Demetrius sat on the throne of his kingdom, and the land was quiet before him.
Then there gathered unto him all the men of war, whom
Demetrius had put away, and they fought against
Demetrius, who turned his back and fled.
Now when
Jonathan heard that
Demetrius’ princes were come to Cades, which is in
Galilee, with a great power, purposing to remove him out of the country,
Now when
Jonathan heard that
Demebius’ princes were come to fight against him with a greater host than
afore,
For he had heard that they would deliver the hold unto them that took
Demetrius’ part; wherefore he set a garrison there to keep it.
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.
Unto whom king
Demetrius answered and wrote after this manner:
King
Demetrius unto Simon the high priest, and friend of kings, as also unto the elders and nation of the Jews, sendeth
greeting:
Now in the hundred
threescore and
twelfth year king
Demetrius gathered his forces together, and went into Media to get him help to fight against Tryphone.
But when Arsaces, the king of Persia and Media, heard that
Demetrius was entered within his borders, he sent one of his princes to take him alive:
Who went and
smote the host of
Demetrius, and took him, and brought him to Arsaces, by whom he was put in ward.
King
Demetrius also confirmed him in the high priesthood according to those things,
Moreover
Antiochus son of
Demetrius the king sent letters from the isles of the sea unto Simon the priest and prince of the Jews, and to all the people;
The same things wrote he likewise unto
Demetrius the king, and Attalus, to Ariarathes, and Arsaces,
What time as
Demetrius reigned, in the hundred
threescore and ninth year, we the Jews wrote unto you in the extremity of trouble that came upon us in those years, from the time that
Jason and his company revolted from the holy land and kingdom,
After three years was
Judas informed, that
Demetrius the son of Seleucus, having entered by the
haven of Tripolis with a great power and navy,
Came to king
Demetrius in the hundred and one and
fiftieth year, presenting unto him a crown of gold, and a palm, and also of the boughs which were used solemnly in the temple: and so that day he held his peace.
Howbeit having
gotten opportunity to further his
foolish enterprize, and being called into counsel by
Demetrius, and asked how the Jews stood affected, and what they intended, he answered
thereunto:
This was no sooner spoken of him, but others of the king’s friends, being
maliciously set against
Judas, did more incense
Demetrius.
But Alcimus, perceiving the love that was
betwixt them, and considering the covenants that were made, came to
Demetrius, and told him that Nicanor was not well affected toward the state; for that he had ordained
Judas, a
traitor to his realm, to be the king’s successor.
