Topic
Friends; Chief Friends
9 passages cited, from 1 classic reference work.
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The verses
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- 1 Maccabees 2:18ISBE
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…
- 1 Maccabees 3:38ISBE
Then Lysias chose Ptolemee the son of Dorymenes, Nicanor, and Gorgias, mighty men of the king’s friends:
- 1 Maccabees 6:10ISBE
Wherefore he called for all his friends, and said unto them, The sleep is gone from mine eyes, and my heart faileth for very care.
- 1 Maccabees 6:14ISBE
Then called he for Philip, one of his friends, who he made ruler over all his realm,
- 1 Maccabees 10:60ISBE
Who thereupon went honourably to Ptolemais, where he met the two kings, and gave them and their friends silver and gold, and many presents, and found favour in their sight.
- 1 Maccabees 10:65ISBE
So the king honoured him, and wrote him among his chief friends, and made him a duke, and partaker of his dominion.
- 1 Maccabees 11:26ISBE
Yet the king entreated him as his predecessors had done before, and promoted him in the sight of all his friends,
- 1 Maccabees 11:27ISBE
And confirmed him in the high priesthood, and in all the honours that he had before, and gave him preeminence among his chief friends.
- 2 Maccabees 8:9ISBE
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…
In the reference works
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915) · 9 references
(hoi philoi proton): Expressions used in 1 and 2 Macc to designate the favored courtiers of the Antiochi. Mattathias is promised enrollment among the king's Friends, to tempt him to apostatize (1 Macc 2:18); Alexander Balas writes Jonathan among his Chief Friends (1 Macc 10:65). Compare also 1 Macc 3:38; 6:10,14; 10:60; 11:26,27; 2 Macc 8:9.
Texts: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.