Löydetty 431 Tulokset: Military Power
Wait, and you shall see his great power when he torments you and your descendants." (2 Maccabees 7, 17)
The Lord's anger turned into compassion, and as soon as Maccabeus had organized his troops, they became invincible against the pagans. Judas generally took advantage of the night for his military campaigns. (2 Maccabees 8, 5)
When Philip saw that Judas was making progress little by little and his victories increased from day to day, he wrote to Ptolemy, the military commissioner of Coele-Syria and Phoenicia, to come and help him under the king's service. (2 Maccabees 8, 8)
Not long before, in his conceit and sense of superiority he thought of giving orders to the sea and measuring the heights of the mountains. Now he lay down and had to be brought on a stretcher, giving to all a clear testimony of the power of God. (2 Maccabees 9, 8)
And he promised to become a Jew and to proclaim in all the inhabited countries the power of God. (2 Maccabees 9, 17)
But I thought of how my father would designate his successor whenever he set out for any military expedition into the uplands, (2 Maccabees 9, 23)
so that his subjects would not be upset if anything unexpected should happen or any misfortune should befall him. Everyone would know who is in power. (2 Maccabees 9, 24)
It was then that Gorgias was appointed military commissioner of those regions, and began to stir up war against the Jews by any means. (2 Maccabees 10, 14)
They carried on with their assaults and the place fell into their power. They repelled those who fought on the ramparts, slaughtered all who fell into their hands, and killed more than twenty thousand men. (2 Maccabees 10, 17)
He took God's power for granted, and went up with his infantry regiments, his horsemen by the thousands, and his eighty elephants. (2 Maccabees 11, 4)
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)
And the king immediately chose Nicanor, who commanded the squadron of elephants, and appointed him military commissioner of Judea (2 Maccabees 14, 12)
