Trouvé 2488 Résultats pour: King Saul
As for the king's orders, we will not follow them: we shall not swerve from our own religion either to right or to left.' (1 Maccabees 2, 22)
At the same time he killed the king's commissioner who was there to enforce the sacrifice, and tore down the altar. (1 Maccabees 2, 25)
Word was brought to the royal officials and forces stationed in Jerusalem, in the City of David, that those who had repudiated the king's edict had gone down to the hiding places in the desert. (1 Maccabees 2, 31)
and said, 'Enough of this! Come out and do as the king orders and you will be spared.' (1 Maccabees 2, 33)
The others, however, replied, 'We refuse to come out, and we will not obey the king's orders and profane the Sabbath day.' (1 Maccabees 2, 34)
He brought bitterness to many a king and rejoicing to Jacob by his deeds, his memory is blessed for ever and ever. (1 Maccabees 3, 7)
Seron, commander of the Syrian troops, said, 'I shall make a name for myself and gain honour in the kingdom if I fight Judas and those supporters of his who are so contemptuous of the king's orders.' (1 Maccabees 3, 14)
His name even reached the king's ears, and among the nations there was talk of Judas and his battles. (1 Maccabees 3, 26)
The king took the remaining half of his troops with him and set out from Antioch, the capital of his kingdom, in the year 147; he crossed the River Euphrates and made his way through the Upper Provinces. (1 Maccabees 3, 37)
Lysias chose Ptolemy son of Dorymenes, with Nicanor and Gorgias, influential men from among the Friends of the King, (1 Maccabees 3, 38)
and, under their command, despatched forty thousand foot and seven thousand horse to invade the land of Judah and devastate it, as the king had ordered. (1 Maccabees 3, 39)
Judas and his brothers saw that the situation was going from bad to worse and that armies were camping in their territory; they were also well aware that the king had ordered the people's total destruction. (1 Maccabees 3, 42)
