Found 12 Results for: Timotheus

  • From there he crossed over to the land of the Ammonites where he encountered a large and well-organized army under the command of Timotheus. (1 Maccabees 5, 6)

  • Then, in an encounter with the army of Timotheus and Bacchides, they killed more than twenty thousand men, and took control of the fortified cities. They divided the abundant plunder into equal shares among themselves, those who had been tortured, the orphans, the widows and the aged. (2 Maccabees 8, 30)

  • They killed the chief guard of Timotheus, an extremely wretched man who had done so much evil against the Jews. (2 Maccabees 8, 32)

  • When Antiochus came to Ecbatana, he was informed of what had happened to the two generals - Nicanor and Timotheus - in Israel. (2 Maccabees 9, 3)

  • But the commanders of the different regions, Timotheus and Apollonius, the son of Genneus, as well as Hieronymus and Domophenes, and Nicanor, the leader of the Cypriots, would not let them live in peace and quiet. (2 Maccabees 12, 2)

  • From there, they set out and marched against Timotheus, but when they had marched for about two kilometers, five thousand Arabs supported by five hundred horses, attacked them. (2 Maccabees 12, 10)

  • They did not find Timotheus there, for he had gone without having achieved anything; but he had left a strong garrison in one place. (2 Maccabees 12, 18)

  • Dositheus and Sosipater, leaders of the troops of Maccabeus, marched against them and destroyed the garrison of more than ten thousand men left behind by Timotheus. (2 Maccabees 12, 19)

  • Maccabeus then organized his army, set these two as their commanders, and rushed out against Timotheus who had twenty thousand infantrymen and two thousand five hundred horsemen with him. (2 Maccabees 12, 20)

  • When Timotheus learned that Judas was approaching, he sent the women and children away with a good deal of the baggage to a fortress called Carnaim which was in an impregnable place and difficult to reach because of the narrow approaches surrounding it. (2 Maccabees 12, 21)

  • Judas pursued Timotheus in fury and ardor, putting to the sword those wicked men and killing about thirty thousand of them. (2 Maccabees 12, 23)

  • Timotheus himself fell into the hands of Dositheus' and Sosipater's troops. He very cunningly pleaded with them to let him go, for, as he said, he had the parents and brothers of most of the Jews in his power and they would surely be put to death if he were to be killed. (2 Maccabees 12, 24)


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