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1 Maccabees 8:16
They trust one man each year to rule over them and to control all their land. All listen to this one man, and there is no envy or jealousy among the Romans.
And that they committed their government to one man every year, to rule over all their country, and they all obey one, and there is no envy, nor jealousy amongst them.
Each year they entrusted to one man the responsibility of governing them and controlling their whole territory. Everyone obeyed this one man, and there was no envy or jealousy among them.
They entrust their government to one man every year, to rule over their entire land, and they all obey that one, and there is no envy or jealousy among them.
They entrusted one man each year to rule over them and their dominions; all obeyed this one man without any envy or jealousy.
They trust one man each year to rule over them and to control all their land; they all heed the one man, and there is no envy or jealousy among them.
They trust one man each year to rule over them and to control all their land; they all heed the one man, and there is no envy or jealousy among them.
They trust one man each year to rule over them and to control all their land; they all heed the one man, and there is no envy or jealousy among them.
They trust one man each year to rule over them and to control all their land; they all heed the one man, and there is no envy or jealousy among them.
They trust one man each year to rule over them and to control all their land; they all heed the one man, and there is no envy or jealousy among them.
They trust one man each year to rule over them and to control all their land; they all heed the one man, and there is no envy or jealousy among them.
And they betake to one man their mastery, either chief governance, by each year, for to be lord of all their land; and all obeish (or obey) to one, and envy is not, neither wrath among them.
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