Löydetty 1020 Tulokset: Destruction Of Jerusalem
Invading Judaea, he approached Beth-Zur, a fortified position about twenty miles from Jerusalem, and began to subject it to strong pressure. (2 Maccabees 11, 5)
They were still near Jerusalem when a rider attired in white appeared at their head, brandishing golden weapons. (2 Maccabees 11, 8)
he made a night attack on the Jamnites and fired the port with its fleet; the glow of the flames was seen as far off as Jerusalem, thirty miles away. (2 Maccabees 12, 9)
seventy-five miles from Jerusalem. But as the Jews who had settled there assured Judas that the people of Scythopolis had always treated them well and had been particularly kind to them when times were at their worst, (2 Maccabees 12, 30)
he and his men thanked them and urged them to extend the same friendship to his race in the future. They reached Jerusalem shortly before the feast of Weeks. (2 Maccabees 12, 31)
after this he took a collection from them individually, amounting to nearly two thousand drachmas, and sent it to Jerusalem to have a sacrifice for sin offered, an action altogether fine and noble, prompted by his belief in the resurrection. (2 Maccabees 12, 43)
Nicanor took up residence in Jerusalem and did nothing out of place there; indeed, he sent away the crowds that had flocked to join him. (2 Maccabees 14, 23)
Now, a man called Razis, one of the elders of Jerusalem, was denounced to Nicanor. He was a man who loved his countrymen and stood high in their esteem, and he was known as the father of the Jews because of his kindness. (2 Maccabees 14, 37)
He who, as protagonist, had devoted himself, body and soul, to his fellow-citizens, and had preserved the love he felt even in youth for those of his own race, gave orders for Nicanor's head to be cut off, with his arm up to the shoulder, and taken to Jerusalem. (2 Maccabees 15, 30)
But the adulterer has no sense; he works his own destruction. (Proverbs 6, 32)
Pride goes before destruction, a haughty spirit before a fall. (Proverbs 16, 18)
The human heart is haughty until destruction comes, before there can be glory there must be humility. (Proverbs 18, 12)
