Trouvé 1172 Résultats pour: Temple Of Jerusalem
For the temple was filled with debauchery and reveling by the Gentiles, who dallied with harlots and had intercourse with women within the sacred precincts, and besides brought in things for sacrifice that were unfit. (2 Maccabees 6, 4)
They besought the Lord to look upon the people who were oppressed by all, and to have pity on the temple which had been profaned by ungodly men, (2 Maccabees 8, 2)
Collecting the arms of the enemy, they stored them all carefully in strategic places, and carried the rest of the spoils to Jerusalem. (2 Maccabees 8, 31)
Thus he who had undertaken to secure tribute for the Romans by the capture of the people of Jerusalem proclaimed that the Jews had a Defender, and that therefore the Jews were invulnerable, because they followed the laws ordained by him. (2 Maccabees 8, 36)
Transported with rage, he conceived the idea of turning upon the Jews the injury done by those who had put him to flight; so he ordered his charioteer to drive without stopping until he completed the journey. But the judgment of heaven rode with him! For in his arrogance he said, "When I get there I will make Jerusalem a cemetery of Jews." (2 Maccabees 9, 4)
Now Maccabeus and his followers, the Lord leading them on, recovered the temple and the city; (2 Maccabees 10, 1)
Besides this, the Idumeans, who had control of important strongholds, were harassing the Jews; they received those who were banished from Jerusalem, and endeavored to keep up the war. (2 Maccabees 10, 15)
and to levy tribute on the temple as he did on the sacred places of the other nations, and to put up the high priesthood for sale every year. (2 Maccabees 11, 3)
Invading Judea, he approached Beth-zur, which was a fortified place about five leagues from Jerusalem, and pressed it hard. (2 Maccabees 11, 5)
And there, while they were still near Jerusalem, a horseman appeared at their head, clothed in white and brandishing weapons of gold. (2 Maccabees 11, 8)
Accordingly, since we choose that this nation also be free from disturbance, our decision is that their temple be restored to them and that they live according to the customs of their ancestors. (2 Maccabees 11, 25)
he attacked the people of Jamnia by night and set fire to the harbor and the fleet, so that the glow of the light was seen in Jerusalem, thirty miles distant. (2 Maccabees 12, 9)
