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Ask and learn who I am and who the others supporting us are. You will hear that you cannot stand up to us, since your ancestors were twice routed on their own ground, (1 Maccabees 10, 72)
Suddenly Heliodorus fell to the ground, enveloped in thick darkness. His men came to his rescue and placed him in a litter, (2 Maccabees 3, 27)
that the priests ceased to show any interest in serving the altar; but, scorning the Temple and neglecting the sacrifices, they would hurry, on the stroke of the gong, to take part in the distribution, forbidden by the Law, of the oil on the exercise ground; (2 Maccabees 4, 14)
to have mercy on the city now being destroyed and levelled to the ground, to hear the blood of the victims that cried aloud to him, (2 Maccabees 8, 3)
He who only a little while before had thought in his superhuman boastfulness he could command the waves of the sea, he who had imagined he could weigh mountain peaks in a balance, found himself flat on the ground and then being carried in a litter, a visible demonstration to all of the power of God, (2 Maccabees 9, 8)
that the holy city, towards which he had been speeding to rase it to the ground and turn it into a mass grave, should be declared free; (2 Maccabees 9, 14)
When they had done this, prostrating themselves on the ground, they implored the Lord never again to let them fall into such adversity, but if they should ever sin, to correct them with moderation and not to deliver them over to blasphemous and barbarous nations. (2 Maccabees 10, 4)
he stretched out his right hand towards the Temple and swore this oath, 'If you do not hand Judas over to me as prisoner, I shall rase this dwelling of God to the ground, I shall demolish the altar, and on this very spot I shall erect a splendid temple to Dionysus.' (2 Maccabees 14, 33)
Plan what you want on the open ground, make your preparation in the field; then go and build your house. (Proverbs 24, 27)
I too, when I was born, drew in the common air, I fell on the same ground that bears us all, and crying was the first sound I made, like everyone else. (Wisdom of Solomon 7, 3)
The whole world, for you, can no more than tip a balance, like a drop of morning dew falling on the ground. (Wisdom of Solomon 11, 22)
Many monarchs have been made to sit on the ground, and the person nobody thought of has worn the crown. (Ecclesiasticus 11, 5)
