Gefunden 26 Ergebnisse für: Fortress
At the news of Judas’ coming, Timotheus was fain to send on women, children, and stores, to Carnion, an impregnable fortress and one difficult of approach, so narrow the pass was. (2 Maccabees 12, 21)
And first he would deliver an attack upon Bethsura, a fortress of the Jews, but ever he was thrown back and repulsed with great loss, (2 Maccabees 13, 19)
And now orders came to them from their leader; they must be on the march. Their mustering-place was a fortress called Dessau, (2 Maccabees 14, 16)
Till field and fill belly; idle pursuits are but foolishness. (Sit long enjoying thy wine, and there is no strong fortress will win thee renown.✻ ) (Proverbs 12, 11)
When brother helps brother, theirs is the strength of a fortress; their cause is like a city gate barred, unassailable.✻ (Proverbs 18, 19)
Wisdom can scale the fortress great warriors hold, and bring low its boasted strength. (Proverbs 21, 22)
And I, I am a wall; impregnable this breast as a fortress; and the man who claimed me found in me a bringer of content. (Song of Solomon 8, 10)
Never give thy soul into a woman’s power, and let her command the fortress of it, to thy shame. (Ecclesiasticus 9, 2)
A heap of stones where, but for thy decree, a town stood; a crumbling ruin, all that is left of a walled city; a fortress of the invader, dismantled now and never to be built again. (Isaiah 25, 2)
But in the land of Juda, when that day comes, what shall their song be? Sion is ours, an impregnable fortress; divine protection it has for wall and breast-work; (Isaiah 26, 1)
And thus to Moab speaks the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel. Alas for Nabo, spoiled and shamed, for Cariathaim taken, the high fortress humbled, a prey to alarms! (Jeremiah 48, 1)
Pelusium, her fortress, shall feel my vengeance, Alexandria✻ be laid waste; (Ezekiel 30, 15)
