Trouvé 1492 Résultats pour: Recovery Of Land
Joppa and Gazara, which you claim, did great harm to our people and laid waste our land; but we are prepared to give you a hundred talents for them." Athenobius did not say anything, (1 Maccabees 15, 35)
In the year one hundred and seventy-nine, when Demetrius was king, we Jews wrote to you during the most critical moment of trials that we had to endure during those years. And we said to you: "Jason and his associates have betrayed the cause of the Holy Land and of the Kingdom. (2 Maccabees 1, 7)
It is also said in these writings of the past that the prophet Jeremiah, fulfilling orders from Heaven, commanded that the ark of the Covenant with its tent be brought with him. And he went to the mountain which Moses had climbed before and from where he had seen the promised land. (2 Maccabees 2, 4)
for God has saved all his people and returned to everyone his own land. He let us recover the kingdom, the Temple, and the worship rendered to him in that Temple, (2 Maccabees 2, 17)
and the heavenly manifestations in favor of those who fought bravely and gloriously for Judaism. Although they were few in number, they liberated the whole land and put to flight hordes of foreigners. (2 Maccabees 2, 21)
The High Priest, on his part, feared that the king might suspect the Jews of some foul play against Heliodorus, so he offered a sacrifice for the man's recovery. (2 Maccabees 3, 32)
Jason, who had usurped the office of his brother, was now supplanted by another, and had to flee to the land of Ammon. (2 Maccabees 4, 26)
But he did not stay in power for long and after obtaining nothing but shame for himself, he had to flee once again to the land of Ammon. (2 Maccabees 5, 7)
Antiochus took with him eighteen hundred talents which he had stolen from the Temple, and hurriedly went back to Antioch, so proud that he thought himself capable of sailing by land and walking on the sea. (2 Maccabees 5, 21)
He said to them, "They come with confidence in their weapons and their boldness, but we trust in the almighty God, who is able to wipe out in one stroke all who invade our land and even the whole world." (2 Maccabees 8, 18)
His pains however did not diminish, for the just judgment of God had come upon him. He lost hope of recovery and wrote to the Jews this letter of supplication, (2 Maccabees 9, 18)
In this way that blasphemer and murderer ended, suffering the terrible torments he had inflicted on others. He died miserably in the mountains of a foreign land. (2 Maccabees 9, 28)
