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Pharaoh Necho put him in chains at Riblah in Hamath, to prevent his reigning any longer in Jerusalem, and imposed a levy of a hundred talents of silver and ten talents of gold on the country. (2 Kings 23, 33)
As soon as the men of the town sighted them, they snatched up their weapons, left the town and made for the mountain tops, while all the slingers pelted them with stones to prevent them from coming up. (Judith 6, 12)
since that is what provides the population of Bethulia with their water supply. Thirst will then force them to surrender their town. Meanwhile, we and our men will climb the nearest mountain tops and form advance posts there to prevent anyone from leaving the town. (Judith 7, 13)
and Holofernes had ordered his guards not to prevent her. She stayed in the camp for three days; she went out each night to the valley of Bethulia and washed at the spring where the picket had been posted. (Judith 12, 7)
If he intervenes to close or convoke the assembly, who is to prevent him? (Job 11, 10)
They then proceeded to build high walls with strong towers round Mount Zion, to prevent the gentiles from coming and riding roughshod over it as in the past. (1 Maccabees 4, 60)
Judas went right round the whole territory of Judaea to take vengeance on those who had deserted him and to prevent their free movement about the country. (1 Maccabees 7, 24)
and to heighten the walls of Jerusalem and erect a high barrier between the Citadel and the city, to cut the former off from the city and isolate it, to prevent the occupants from buying or selling. (1 Maccabees 12, 36)
Let nothing prevent your discharging a vow in good time, and do not wait till death to set matters right. (Ecclesiasticus 18, 22)
The worries of the daytime prevent you from sleeping, like a serious illness, they keep sleep at bay. (Ecclesiasticus 31, 2)
Their roar is like that of a lioness, like fierce young lions they roar, growling they seize their prey and carry it off, with no one to prevent it, (Isaiah 5, 29)
I have been looking for someone among them to build a barricade and oppose me in the breach, to defend the country and prevent me from destroying it; but I have found no one. (Ezekiel 22, 30)