114 verses contain “few” (in the KJV: 95, in the BSB: 66) — showing 101–114
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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.
Let there be no battle between me and you; I will come with a few men, that I may see you in peace.
But they
dehorted him, saying, We shall never be able: let us now rather save our lives, and
hereafter we will return with our brethren, and fight against them: for we are but
few.
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.
In the hundred
threescore and
fourteenth year went
Antiochus into the land of his fathers: at which time all the forces came together unto him, so that
few were left with Tryphon.
And the manifest signs that came from heaven unto those that
behaved themselves
manfully to their honour for
Judaism: so that, being but a
few, they overcame the whole country, and
chased barbarous multitudes,
And there were destroyed within the space of three whole days
fourscore thousand,
whereof forty thousand were slain in the conflict; and no
fewer sold than slain.
But let this that we at spoken be for a
warning unto us. And now will we come to the declaring of the matter in a
few words.
Then
forthwith choosing Nicanor the son of Patroclus, one of his special friends, he sent him with no
fewer than twenty thousand of all nations under him, to root out the whole generation of the Jews; and with him he joined also
Gorgias a captain, who in matters of war had great experience.
And
assaulting them strongly, they won the holds, and kept off all that fought upon the wall, and
slew all that fell into their hands, and killed no
fewer than twenty thousand.
Now
Timotheus, whom the Jews had overcome before, when he had gathered a great multitude of foreign forces, and horses out of Asia not a
few, came as though he would take
Jewry by force of arms.
Now when they were gone from thence nine furlongs in their journey toward
Timotheus, no
fewer than five thousand men on foot and five hundred
horsemen of the Arabians set upon him.
And it happened that in their fighting together a few of the Jews were slain.
Notwithstanding, when Maccabeus saw that Nicanor began to be
churlish unto him, and that he
entreated him more roughly than he was
wont, perceiving that such
sour behaviour came not of good, he gathered together not a
few of his men, and withdrew himself from Nicanor.
