Trouvé 986 Résultats pour: City Gates
What was I to do? I determined to win audience with your general, Holofernes, and tell him of their secret plans; shew him, too, means by which he may reduce the city without losing a man of his army. (Judith 10, 13)
Then they went out, both of them, right through the camp, as if bound on their customary errand of prayer; but this time they took the winding path along the valley, right up to the city gates. (Judith 13, 12)
Far away rang the cry of Judith to the watchmen on the city walls, Open the gates! God is on our side. Open the gates! His power yet lives in Israel. (Judith 13, 13)
These, upon hearing her voice, ran to tell the elders of the city, (Judith 13, 14)
so Ozias sent out messengers to all Israel, city-dwellers and country-dwellers alike, (Judith 15, 5)
and was firmly established on the throne of his kingdom, with the city of Susan for his capital. (Esther 1, 2)
And when the festivity drew to an end, he would entertain all the folk of Susan, high and low; for a whole week a banquet was spread for them at the gates of his garden, amid trees planted by art at the royal bidding. (Esther 1, 5)
And now, the brides summoned and housed anew,✻ Mardochaeus took up his post at the gates of the palace itself. (Esther 2, 19)
And it was while Mardochaeus haunted the palace gates that two of the royal chamberlains, Bagathan and Thares, door-keepers both at the palace entry, grew disaffected, and would have made a murderous attack on the king’s person. (Esther 2, 21)
And all the royal attendants at the palace gates must bow the knee and do Aman reverence, such were their orders. But Mardochaeus went his own way, and would neither bow nor bend. (Esther 3, 2)
When the news reached Mardochaeus, he tore his garments about him; put on sackcloth, and sprinkled ashes on his head; and as he went through the open square in the heart of the city, loud lament betrayed the bitterness of his grief. (Esther 4, 1)
Lamenting he made his way to the outer gates of the palace; further than that he might not go, into the royal court, with sackcloth for his wear. (Esther 4, 2)
