Trouvé 1152 Résultats pour: Battle Of Jerusalem
And now, in a great taking of rage, he would make the Jews suffer for the ignominy of his own defeat; on, on his chariot must be driven, and never a halt in the journey, with the divine vengeance ever at his heels. Had he not boasted, Jerusalem was his goal, and he would bury the Jewish race under the ruins of it? (2 Maccabees 9, 4)
Forgotten, his haste to lay Jerusalem in ruins, and make a cemetery of it; a free city it should be thenceforward. (2 Maccabees 9, 14)
and there were natives of the country besides,✻ well entrenched in their strongholds, that gave welcome to deserters from Jerusalem, and so fanned the flames of enmity. (2 Maccabees 10, 15)
Upon marching into Judaea he first reached Bethsura,✻ that stood in a narrow pass five furlongs away from Jerusalem, and laid siege to the citadel of it. (2 Maccabees 11, 5)
Then they armed for battle, Machabaeus himself the first of all, as he summoned the rest to share with him the hour of danger, for the relief of their brethren. (2 Maccabees 11, 7)
So, in good heart, they set out together, and before they left Jerusalem a vision came to them; of a rider that went before them in white array, with armour of gold, brandishing his spear. (2 Maccabees 11, 8)
They marched on, ready for battle, sure now of a heavenly champion, and of the Lord’s favour; (2 Maccabees 11, 10)
so he fell on Jamnia, too, by night, and burnt both wharves and ships there; the light of that blaze was seen at Jerusalem, thirty miles off. … (2 Maccabees 12, 9)
And thence to Scythopolis, at seventy-five miles’ distance from Jerusalem; (2 Maccabees 12, 29)
Thanking all such, and desiring them they would continue their good offices towards the Jewish folk, the army returned to Jerusalem, to keep the festival of the Weeks. (2 Maccabees 12, 31)
Battle was joined, and some few Jews fell. (2 Maccabees 12, 34)
battle-hymn and battle-cry raising in his own language; and so he put Gorgias’ army to the rout. (2 Maccabees 12, 37)
