Trouvé 2856 Résultats pour: Sin
There was no end to the rejoicing among the people, since the disgrace inflicted by the gentiles had been effaced. (1 Maccabees 4, 58)
When Judas saw that the attack had begun and that the war cry was rising to heaven from the city, mingled with trumpet calls and a great clamour, (1 Maccabees 5, 31)
The troops of Timotheus, recognising that this was Maccabaeus, fled before his advance; Maccabaeus dealt them a crushing defeat; about eight thousand of their men fell that day. (1 Maccabees 5, 34)
He was himself the first across to the enemy side, with all the people following. He defeated all the opposing gentiles, who threw down their arms and ran for refuge in the sanctuary of Carnaim. (1 Maccabees 5, 43)
They climbed Mount Zion in joy and gladness and presented burnt offerings because they had returned safe and sound without having lost a single man. (1 Maccabees 5, 54)
When the king heard this news he was amazed and profoundly shaken; he threw himself on his bed and fell sick with grief, since things had not turned out for him as he had planned. (1 Maccabees 6, 8)
They advanced through Idumaea and besieged Beth-Zur, pressing the attack for days on end; they also constructed siege-engines, but the defenders made a sortie and set these on fire, putting up a brave resistance. (1 Maccabees 6, 31)
Eleazar, called Avaran, noticing that one of the elephants was royally caparisoned and was also taller than all the others, and supposing that the king was mounted on it, (1 Maccabees 6, 43)
The Jews however realising how strong the king was and how ferocious his army, retreated ahead of them. (1 Maccabees 6, 47)
He granted peace terms to the people of Beth-Zur, who evacuated the town; it lacked store of provisions to withstand a siege, since the land was enjoying a sabbatical year. (1 Maccabees 6, 49)
But they had no food in their stores since it was the seventh year, and because those who had taken refuge in Judaea from the gentiles had eaten up the last of their reserves. (1 Maccabees 6, 53)
Let us grant them permission to follow their own customs as before, since it is our abolition of these customs that has provoked them into acting like this.' (1 Maccabees 6, 59)
