Gefunden 84 Ergebnisse für: Fortifying Cities
Simon, meanwhile, rebuilt Adida in the lowlands, fortifying it, and erecting gates with bolts. (1 Maccabees 12, 38)
So he assembled all the fighting men and hurried on with completing the walls of Jerusalem, fortifying the whole perimeter. (1 Maccabees 13, 10)
But as soon as they heard that his brother Simon had succeeded him as high priest and was master of the country and the cities in it, (1 Maccabees 14, 17)
fortifying the towns of Judaea, as well as Beth-Zur on the Judaean frontier where the enemy arsenal had formerly been, and stationing in it a garrison of Jewish soldiers; (1 Maccabees 14, 33)
fortifying Joppa on the coast, and Gezer on the borders of Azotus, a place formerly inhabited by the enemy, founding a Jewish colony there, and providing the settlers with everything they needed to set them on their feet; (1 Maccabees 14, 34)
Ptolemy wrote a report of the affair and sent it to the king, in the expectation of being sent reinforcements and of having the cities and the province made over to him. (1 Maccabees 16, 18)
Thinking he had found a favourable opportunity, Menelaus abstracted a number of golden vessels from the Temple and presented them to Andronicus, and managed to sell others to Tyre and the surrounding cities. (2 Maccabees 4, 32)
A decree was issued at the instance of the people of Ptolemais for the neighbouring Greek cities, enforcing the same conduct on the Jews there, obliging them to share in the sacrificial meals, (2 Maccabees 6, 8)
She it was who, while the godless perished, saved the upright man as he fled from the fire raining down on the Five Cities, (Wisdom of Solomon 10, 6)
That third tongue has shattered the peace of many and driven them from nation to nation; it has pulled down fortified cities, and overthrown the houses of the great. (Ecclesiasticus 28, 14)
How splendid he was when, arms uplifted, he brandished his sword against cities! (Ecclesiasticus 46, 2)
He made the world a desert, he levelled cities and never freed his prisoners to go home." (Isaiah 14, 17)
