1,764 verses contain “let” (in the KJV: 1,515, in the BSB: 981) — showing 1,701–1,764
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Make them to be of no courage, and cause the boldness of their strength to fall away, and let them quake at their destruction:
Cast them down with the sword of them that love thee, and let all those that know thy name praise thee with thanksgiving.
Then said Judas and his brethren, Behold, our enemies are discomfited: let us go up to cleanse and dedicate the sanctuary.
And sent letters unto Judas and his brethren, The heathen that are round about us are assembled together against us to destroy us:
While these letters were yet reading, behold, there came other messengers from Galilee with their clothes rent, who reported on this wise,
Wherefore they said, Let us also get us a name, and go fight against the heathen that are round about us.
Now therefore let us be friends with these men, and make peace with them, and with all their nation;
Wherefore, when he knew it, he said, Let me not see their faces.
Let there be no battle between me and you; I will come with a few men, that I may see you in peace.
Be avenged of this man and his host, and let them fall by the sword: remember their blasphemies, and suffer them not to continue any longer.
Nevertheless unto them that remained he said, Let us arise and go up against our enemies, if peradventure we may be able to fight with them.
Then Jonathan said to his company, Let us go up now and fight for our lives, for it standeth not with us to day, as in time past:
For said he, Let us first make peace with him, before he join with Alexander against us:
Upon this he wrote a letter, and sent it unto him, according to these words, saying,
Let Jerusalem also be holy and free, with the borders thereof, both from tenths and tributes.
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.
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.
So the king consented, and wrote letters unto Jonathan of all these things after this manner:
We send you here a copy of the letter which we did write unto our cousin Lasthenes concerning you, that ye might see it.
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.
Grant us peace, and let the Jews cease from assaulting us and the city.
He sent letters also to the Lacedemonians, and to other places, for the same purpose.
And this is the copy of the letters which Jonathan wrote to the Lacedemonians:
At which time Onias entreated the ambassador that was sent honourably, and received the letters, wherein declaration was made of the league and friendship.
We commanded them also to go unto you, and to salute and to deliver you our letters concerning the renewing of our brotherhood.
And this is the copy of the letters which Oniares sent.
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.
Wherefore now send an hundred talents of silver, and two of his sons for hostages, that when he is at liberty he may not revolt from us, and we will let him go.
So he sent them the children and the hundred talents: howbeit Tryphon dissembled neither would he let Jonathan go.
And this is the copy of the letters that the Lacedemonians sent; The rulers of the Lacedemonians, with the city, unto Simon the high priest, and the elders, and priests, and residue of the people of the Jews, our brethren, send greeting:
And as concerning Jerusalem and the sanctuary, let them be free; and all the armour that thou hast made, and fortresses that thou hast built, and keepest in thine hands, let them remain unto thee.
In the mean season came Numenius and his company from Rome, having letters to the kings and countries; wherein were written these things:
He sent others also to Gazera to kill John: and unto the tribunes he sent letters to come unto him, that he might give them silver, and gold, and rewards.
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.
Let this be enough now to have spoken concerning the idolatrous feasts, and the extreme tortures.
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:
Now they that were with Simon, being led with covetousness, were persuaded for money through certain of those that were in the castle, and took seventy thousand drachms, and let some of them escape.