Found 346 Results for: Sword

• rare treasure of hers into exile carried away; young and old, in the open streets of her, put to the sword! (1 Maccabees 2, 9)

• Here was one that brought his race renown; as great a warrior as ever donned breastplate, or armed himself for the fight, or drew sword to save his camp from peril; (1 Maccabees 3, 3)

• leaving their spoils behind them. The sword of Apollonius Judas himself carried away; and this it was he evermore used in battle. (1 Maccabees 3, 12)

• sword of the pursuer ever catching the hindmost. All the way to Gezeron they were chased, and on into the plains by Idumaea,✻ Azotus and Jamnia, with a loss of three thousand men. (1 Maccabees 4, 15)

• sword of thy true lovers be their undoing, triumph-song of thy worshippers their dirge! (1 Maccabees 4, 33)

• Whereupon Judas and his men suddenly turned aside from their course into the desert of Bosor, and took the city; all its men-folk he put to the sword, and carried off the spoil of it, and burned it to the ground. (1 Maccabees 5, 28)

• Never a male creature there but was put to the sword; the city was plundered and pulled down; and so he passed on through the streets of it, all paved with dead men. (1 Maccabees 5, 51)

• Do thou avenge thyself on chieftain and army both; die they at the sword’s point! Wouldst thou forget their blasphemy; should they escape with their lives? (1 Maccabees 7, 38)

• Out came Jewish folk from all the villages round about, to head them off,✻ till at last they turned at bay and fell at the sword’s point all of them, never a man left. (1 Maccabees 7, 46)

• So perished, by sword and fire, some eight thousand men; (1 Maccabees 10, 85)

• No sooner had he entered Ptolemais than the townsfolk shut the gates behind him, secured his person, and put his retinue to the sword. (1 Maccabees 12, 48)

• These, by a very courageous assault, they occupied, and cut down all they met, putting not less than twenty thousand men to the sword; (2 Maccabees 10, 17)