Gefunden 68 Ergebnisse für: Siege
After all this faithful service done, Juda was invaded by Sennacherib, king of the Assyrians, who laid siege to its fortified cities, thinking to make them his own. (2 Chronicles 32, 1)
Sennacherib, the Assyrian king, was laying siege with his army to Lachis; and now he sent envoys to Jerusalem with a message for king Ezechias and for all the citizens; (2 Chronicles 32, 9)
So Judas must needs take arms against them, Esau’s race in Idumaea, and the men of Acrabathane, that were keeping Israelite folk under strict siege; and signally he defeated them. (1 Maccabees 5, 3)
So Judas was fain to make an end of it, and summoned the whole people to rally for the siege. (1 Maccabees 6, 19)
Rally they did, and began the siege in the hundred and fiftieth year, with much contriving of catapults and engines. (1 Maccabees 6, 20)
With the defenders of Bethsura he had made terms; yield up the city they must, so ill were they victualled for a siege, in a year when the land lay fallow;✻ (1 Maccabees 6, 49)
the news greatly angered him, and he hastened to Ptolemais, bidding Jonathan raise the siege and come to meet him in conference without more ado. (1 Maccabees 11, 22)
This message notwithstanding, Jonathan would have the siege go forward; certain elders of Israel, and certain of the priests, he chose out to bear him company, and so put his own life in peril, (1 Maccabees 11, 23)
came to Gaza, where they shut the gates on him, and he must needs undertake the siege of it. But when he had spread fire and rapine through the country-side, (1 Maccabees 11, 61)
and began the siege of it; his ships, too, blockaded the coast, so that it was cut off by land and sea alike; enter it none might, nor leave it … (1 Maccabees 15, 14)
Once again✻ king Antiochus laid siege to Dora, bringing fresh force to bear, and devising fresh engines; and ever he kept Tryphon hemmed in, so that escape was none. (1 Maccabees 15, 25)
Thereupon Simon despatched two thousand picked men to aid in the siege, with silver and gold and a deal of tackle besides; (1 Maccabees 15, 26)
