Trouvé 32 Résultats pour: towers
for your faithful love towers to heaven, and your constancy to the clouds. (Psalms 108, 4)
They then rebuilt the City of David with a great strong wall and strong towers and made this their Citadel. (1 Maccabees 1, 33)
They then proceeded to build high walls with strong towers round Mount Zion, to prevent the gentiles from coming and riding roughshod over it as in the past. (1 Maccabees 4, 60)
Having blockaded them in their town and besieged them, he put them under the curse of destruction; he then set fire to their towers and burned them down with everyone inside. (1 Maccabees 5, 5)
Judas marched out with his brothers to fight the Edomites in the country towards the south; he stormed Hebron and its dependent villages, threw down its fortifications and burned down its encircling towers. (1 Maccabees 5, 65)
Simon built up the fortresses of Judaea, surrounding them with high towers, great walls and gates with bolts, and stocked these fortresses with food. (1 Maccabees 13, 33)
Their flight took them as far as the towers in the countryside of Azotus, and John burnt these down. The enemy losses amounted to ten thousand men; John returned safely to Judaea. (1 Maccabees 16, 10)
Nine thousand at least took refuge in two exceptionally strong towers with everything they needed to withstand a siege, (2 Maccabees 10, 18)
But Simon's men were greedy for money and allowed themselves to be bribed by some of the men in the towers; accepting seventy thousand drachmas, they let a number of them escape. (2 Maccabees 10, 20)
Having executed them as traitors, he at once proceeded to capture both towers. (2 Maccabees 10, 22)
Others, in a similar scaling operation, took the defenders in the rear, and set fire to the towers, lighting pyres on which they burned the blasphemers alive. The first, meanwhile, breaking open the gates, let the rest of the army in and, at their head, captured the town. (2 Maccabees 10, 36)
I am a wall, and my breasts represent its towers. And under their eyes I have found true peace. (Song of Solomon 8, 10)
