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Jerusalem's Queen: A Novel of Salome Alexandra (The Silent Years, #3) QUOTES

Jerusalem's Queen: A Novel of Salome Alexandra (The Silent Years, #3) QUOTES

1 " become as numerous as the sand in the sea, I am content to wait in faith that HaShem will bring His will to pass. "

― Angela Elwell Hunt , Jerusalem's Queen: A Novel of Salome Alexandra (The Silent Years, #3)

2 " queen. You have power, but you have paid dearly for it. You have wealth, but it brings you no joy, for you are dressed even more simply than my mother. You can have anything you desire, and hundreds of servants obey your command, but you cannot retrieve the things you have lost—like your son. Your family. "

― Angela Elwell Hunt , Jerusalem's Queen: A Novel of Salome Alexandra (The Silent Years, #3)

3 " HaShem makes us all different, and we are to be who HaShem meant us to be. As it says in the writings, ‘You fashioned my inmost being, You knit me together in my mother’s womb. I thank You because I am awesomely made, wonderfully; Your works are wonders "

― Angela Elwell Hunt , Jerusalem's Queen: A Novel of Salome Alexandra (The Silent Years, #3)

4 " I have heard that people once spoke of making Judas Maccabaeus king, but he would have none of it. I think he was wise as well as strong. I think he may have been the wisest of all the Hasmoneans "

― Angela Elwell Hunt , Jerusalem's Queen: A Novel of Salome Alexandra (The Silent Years, #3)

5 " HaShem came to him in a dream at night and said, ‘What should I give you?’ And Solomon said, ‘I am but a youth. I don’t know how to go out or come in. So give Your servant a mind of understanding to judge Your people, to discern between good and evil—for who is able to judge this great people of Yours? "

― Angela Elwell Hunt , Jerusalem's Queen: A Novel of Salome Alexandra (The Silent Years, #3)

6 " the outcome of these things. As our King Solomon wrote, ‘Man may throw the dice, but HaShem decides the outcome. "

― Angela Elwell Hunt , Jerusalem's Queen: A Novel of Salome Alexandra (The Silent Years, #3)

7 " have done according to your words. I have given you a wise and discerning mind, so that there has been none like you before you, nor shall anyone like you arise after you.’ And then HaShem said He would give Solomon riches and long life, as well. "

― Angela Elwell Hunt , Jerusalem's Queen: A Novel of Salome Alexandra (The Silent Years, #3)

8 " The prince frowned again. “The name? Why do you not speak your God’s name? "

― Angela Elwell Hunt , Jerusalem's Queen: A Novel of Salome Alexandra (The Silent Years, #3)

9 " The prince frowned again. “The name? Why do you not speak your God’s name?” “Because His name is holy,” I answered, “and not to be invoked lightly. "

― Angela Elwell Hunt , Jerusalem's Queen: A Novel of Salome Alexandra (The Silent Years, #3)

10 " I’ve heard that about your people. But how can one God do everything? He would have to be huge, and he would have to be everywhere "

― Angela Elwell Hunt , Jerusalem's Queen: A Novel of Salome Alexandra (The Silent Years, #3)

11 " to heaven, He is there, and if I make my bed in the grave, He is there, too. If I take the wings of the dawn and settle on the other side of the sea, even there His hand will lead me, and His right hand will lay hold of me.’” The words of the psalm "

― Angela Elwell Hunt , Jerusalem's Queen: A Novel of Salome Alexandra (The Silent Years, #3)

12 " My studies had taught me that Israel did have a divinely ordained royal line, but it sprang from David and the tribe of Judah, not Levi. "

― Angela Elwell Hunt , Jerusalem's Queen: A Novel of Salome Alexandra (The Silent Years, #3)

13 " Yet I knew life did not end with death. David spoke of living after this life, and so did Job. Enoch and Elijah had been taken away, and where did they go? Surely they were with HaShem. "

― Angela Elwell Hunt , Jerusalem's Queen: A Novel of Salome Alexandra (The Silent Years, #3)

14 " Ezra Diagos is correct when he says men’s words do not have the authority of HaShem’s. "

― Angela Elwell Hunt , Jerusalem's Queen: A Novel of Salome Alexandra (The Silent Years, #3)

15 " He allows men to make choices. Just as He allows nations to rise and fall according to their actions. "

― Angela Elwell Hunt , Jerusalem's Queen: A Novel of Salome Alexandra (The Silent Years, #3)

16 " Man and God act together. Surely we can all agree with Solomon. "

― Angela Elwell Hunt , Jerusalem's Queen: A Novel of Salome Alexandra (The Silent Years, #3)

17 " The prophets speak of a Messiah who is the begotten Son of HaShem,” Simeon said. “And if they truly spoke for HaShem, then He is coming, just as the prophets foretold. From where is He coming? HaShem knows, and when it is time, He will send Him. "

― Angela Elwell Hunt , Jerusalem's Queen: A Novel of Salome Alexandra (The Silent Years, #3)

18 " He says there are three kinds of people in any society, because people are tripartite. What does that mean?” “Comprised of three parts. Plato believes humans are appetite, spirit, and reason. But I am not certain HaShem would agree. The Torah tells us that man is body and soul. "

― Angela Elwell Hunt , Jerusalem's Queen: A Novel of Salome Alexandra (The Silent Years, #3)

19 " Plato says there are three types of people in a society—those who produce, like slaves, carpenters, masons, and farmers; those who "

― Angela Elwell Hunt , Jerusalem's Queen: A Novel of Salome Alexandra (The Silent Years, #3)

20 " protect, like soldiers; and those who govern. He says the producers align with the appetite of man, the protectors with the spirit of man, and those who govern with the reason of man. "

― Angela Elwell Hunt , Jerusalem's Queen: A Novel of Salome Alexandra (The Silent Years, #3)