38 verses contain “lys” (in the KJV: 38, in the BSB: 9) — showing 1–38
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They were ware of it, and fled unto
Lystra and Derbe, cities of
Lycaonia, and unto the region that lieth round about:
they found out about it and fled to the Lycaonian cities of
Lystra and Derbe and to the surrounding region,
In
Lystra there sat a man
crippled in his feet, who was
lame from birth and had never walked.
And when they had preached the gospel to that city, and had taught many, they returned again to
Lystra, and to
Iconium, and Antioch,
They preached the gospel to that city and made many disciples. Then they returned to
Lystra,
Iconium, and Antioch,
Then came he to Derbe and
Lystra: and, behold, a certain disciple was there, named
Timotheus, the son of a certain woman, which was a
Jewess, and believed; but his father was a Greek:
Paul came to Derbe and then to
Lystra, where he found a disciple named
Timothy, the son of a believing Jewish woman and a Greek father.
Which was well reported of by the brethren that were at
Lystra and
Iconium.
But the chief captain
Lysias came upon us, and with great violence took him away out of our hands,
And when
Felix heard these things, having more perfect knowledge of that way, he
deferred them, and said, When
Lysias the chief captain shall come down, I will know the
uttermost of your matter.
Then
Felix, who was well informed about the Way,
adjourned the hearing and said, “When
Lysias the commander comes, I will decide your case.”
Persecutions, afflictions, which came unto me at Antioch, at
Iconium, at
Lystra; what persecutions I
endured: but out of them all the Lord delivered me.
my persecutions, and the sufferings that came upon me in Antioch,
Iconium, and
Lystra. What persecutions I
endured! Yet the Lord
rescued me from all of them.
In the fourth year of the reign of Ptolemeus and
Cleopatra, Dositheus, who said he was a priest and
Levite, and Ptolemeus his son, brought this epistle of Phurim, which they said was the same, and that
Lysimachus the son of Ptolemeus, that was in Jerusalem, had interpreted it.
So he left
Lysias, a
nobleman, and one of the blood royal, to oversee the affairs of the king from the river Euphrates unto the borders of Egypt:
Then
Lysias chose Ptolemee the son of Dorymenes, Nicanor, and
Gorgias, mighty men of the king’s friends:
Now all the strangers that had escaped came and told
Lysias what had happened:
The next year therefore following
Lysias gathered together
threescore thousand choice men of foot, and five thousand
horsemen, that he might
subdue them.
So they joined battle; and there were slain of the host of
Lysias about five thousand men, even before them were they slain.
Now when
Lysias saw his army put to flight, and the
manliness of
Judas’ soldiers, and how they were ready either to live or die
valiantly, he went into Antiochia, and gathered together a company of strangers, and having made his army greater than it was, he purposed to come again into
Judea.
And that
Lysias, who went forth first with a great power was driven away of the Jews; and that they were made strong by the armour, and power, and store of spoils, which they had
gotten of the armies, whom they had destroyed:
Now when
Lysias knew that the king was dead, he set up
Antiochus his son, whom he had brought up being young, to reign in his
stead, and his name he called Eupator.
At that time
Lysias heard say, that Philip, whom
Antiochus the king, whiles he lived, had appointed to bring up his son
Antiochus, that he might be king,
And as he entered into the palace of his ancestors, so it was, that his forces had taken
Antiochus and
Lysias, to bring them unto him.
Now when many sacrileges had been committed in the city by
Lysimachus with the consent of
Menelaus, and the fruit thereof was spread abroad, the multitude gathered themselves together against
Lysimachus, many vessels of gold being already carried away.
Whereupon the common people rising, and being filled with
rage,
Lysimachus armed about three thousand men, and began first to offer violence; one Auranus being the leader, a man far gone in years, and no less in folly.
They then seeing the attempt of
Lysimachus, some of them caught stones, some clubs, others taking handfuls of dust, that was next at hand, cast them all together upon
Lysimachus, and those that set upon them.
So when he was come to the crown, he set one
Lysias over the affairs of his realm, and appointed him his chief governor of Celosyria and Phenice.
Not long after the,
Lysias the king’s
protector and cousin, who also managed the affairs, took
sore displeasure for the things that were done.
Many of them also being wounded escaped naked; and
Lysias himself fled away
shamefully, and so escaped.
Then Maccabeus consented to all that
Lysias desired, being careful of the common good; and
whatsoever Maccabeus wrote unto
Lysias concerning the Jews, the king granted it.
For there were letters written unto the Jews from
Lysias to this effect:
Lysias unto the people of the Jews sendeth
greeting:
When these covenants were made,
Lysias went unto the king, and the Jews were about their
husbandry.
And after he had put to flight and destroyed them,
Judas removed the host toward Ephron, a strong city, wherein
Lysias abode, and a great multitude of
divers nations, and the strong young men kept the walls, and defended them
mightily: wherein also was great provision of engines and darts.
And with him
Lysias his
protector, and ruler of his affairs, having either of them a
Grecian power of
footmen, an hundred and ten thousand, and
horsemen five thousand and three hundred, and elephants two and twenty, and three hundred
chariots armed with hooks.
But the King of kings moved
Antiochus’ mind against this wicked
wretch, and
Lysias informed the king that this man was the cause of all mischief, so that the king commanded to bring him unto
Berea, and to put him to death, as the manner is in that place.
Lysias went up to the judgment seat, said as much as could be in defence of the cause, persuaded,
pacified, made them well affected, returned to Antioch. Thus it went touching the king’s coming and departing.
