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The men in the city, with their wives and children, went up on the wall with their clothes rent, and they cried out with a loud voice, asking Simon to make peace with them; (1 Maccabees 13, 45)
When the priests of the temple of Nanea had set out the treasures and Antiochus had come with a few men inside the wall of the sacred precinct, they closed the temple as soon as he entered it. (2 Maccabees 1, 15)
It was also in the writing that the prophet, having received an oracle, ordered that the tent and the ark should follow with him, and that he went out to the mountain where Moses had gone up and had seen the inheritance of God. (2 Maccabees 2, 4)
When a false rumor arose that Antiochus was dead, Jason took no less than a thousand men and suddenly made an assault upon the city. When the troops upon the wall had been forced back and at last the city was being taken, Menelaus took refuge in the citadel. (2 Maccabees 5, 5)
For example, two women were brought in for having circumcised their children. These women they publicly paraded about the city, with their babies hung at their breasts, then hurled them down headlong from the wall. (2 Maccabees 6, 10)
Attacking them vigorously, they gained possession of the places, and beat off all who fought upon the wall, and slew those whom they encountered, killing no fewer than twenty thousand. (2 Maccabees 10, 17)
But at dawn of the fifth day, twenty young men in the army of Maccabeus, fired with anger because of the blasphemies, bravely stormed the wall and with savage fury cut down every one they met. (2 Maccabees 10, 35)
Maccabeus, having regard for the common good, agreed to all that Lysias urged. For the king granted every request in behalf of the Jews which Maccabeus delivered to Lysias in writing. (2 Maccabees 11, 15)
But in the heat of the struggle he did not hit exactly, and the crowd was now rushing in through the doors. He bravely ran up on the wall, and manfully threw himself down into the crowd. (2 Maccabees 14, 43)
A rich man's wealth is his strong city, and like a high wall protecting him. (Proverbs 18, 11)
and lo, it was all overgrown with thorns; the ground was covered with nettles, and its stone wall was broken down. (Proverbs 24, 31)
He who digs a pit will fall into it; and a serpent will bite him who breaks through a wall. (Ecclesiastes 10, 8)
