Found 581 Results for: Enemies Of The Jews

• "Moreover, concerning the wrongs that King Demetrius has done to them, we have written to him thus: 'Why have you made your yoke heavy upon our friends and allies the Jews? (1 Maccabees 8, 31)

• But in spite of his discouragement, he said to those who remained: "Let us go forward to meet our enemies; perhaps we can put up a good fight against them." (1 Maccabees 9, 8)

• "Since your brother Judas died, there has been no one like him to oppose our enemies, Bacchides and those who are hostile to our nation. (1 Maccabees 9, 29)

• The Jews rose up against them from their ambush and killed them. Many fell wounded, and after the survivors fled toward the mountain, all their spoils were taken. (1 Maccabees 9, 40)

• Having taken their revenge for the blood of their brother, the Jews returned to the marshes of the Jordan. (1 Maccabees 9, 42)

• Cry out now to Heaven for deliverance from our enemies." (1 Maccabees 9, 46)

• "Why have we allowed Alexander to get ahead of us by gaining the friendship of the Jews and thus strengthening himself? (1 Maccabees 10, 23)

• We have heard how you have kept the treaty with us and continued in our friendship and not gone over to our enemies, and we are glad. (1 Maccabees 10, 26)

• "I now free you, as I also exempt all the Jews, from the tribute, the salt tax, and the crown levies. (1 Maccabees 10, 29)

• Every one of the Jews who has been carried into captivity from the land of Judah into any part of my kingdom I set at liberty without ransom; and let all their taxes, even those on their cattle, be canceled. (1 Maccabees 10, 33)

• "Let thirty thousand Jews be enrolled in the king's army and allowances be given them, as is due to all the king's soldiers. (1 Maccabees 10, 36)

• He pitched camp near Joppa, but the men in the city shut him out because Apollonius had a garrison there. When the Jews besieged it, (1 Maccabees 10, 75)