Trouvé 986 Résultats pour: City Gates
and he marched on Judaea at the head of eighty thousand men, with all the cavalry he could muster. Here was a city worth the capture, for Gentile folk to dwell in; (2 Maccabees 11, 2)
A city there was called Casphin, moated and walled about for its defence, and held by a rabble of many races; this, too, Judas attacked. (2 Maccabees 12, 13)
and, so God willed, became master of the city. The slaughter in it was past reckoning; there was a pool hard by, of two furlongs’ breadth, that seemed as if it ran in full tide with the blood of slain men. (2 Maccabees 12, 16)
routed and slain; thence to Ephron, a fortified city, where stout warriors of many different breeds manned the walls most valiantly, well provided with engines and weapons. (2 Maccabees 12, 27)
Yet strength is none can hold its own against the Omnipotent; to him the Jews made appeal, and so took the city, killing twenty-five thousand of the defenders. (2 Maccabees 12, 28)
And now, recalling his men from the pursuit, he made his way to the city of Adollam; the week had gone round, and here, duly cleansed from defilement, they kept the sabbath. (2 Maccabees 12, 38)
and himself called the elders to a council; his plan was, he told them, to march out and engage the king before he could reach Judaea and overpower the city, and the issue of it he would leave to the Lord’s good pleasure. (2 Maccabees 13, 13)
So, committing all to God, the world’s creator, and bidding his men fight bravely, even to the death, for law, temple, city, country and kinsmen, he pitched his camp at Modin. (2 Maccabees 13, 14)
who this might be, Onias told him forthwith: Here is one that loves our brethren, the people of Israel, well; one that for Israel and for every stone of the holy city prays much; God’s prophet Jeremias. (2 Maccabees 15, 14)
A most noble harangue, and one very apt to rouse the emulation of his followers, and to stiffen their courage. No wonder if they resolved they would put it to the touch, and manfully engage the enemy; valour should decide all. Was not the holy city, was not the temple itself in jeopardy? (2 Maccabees 15, 17)
And what of those who were left in the city? No common anxiety they felt for these others that were going into battle. (2 Maccabees 15, 19)
Now was the hour of decision; the enemy was at the gates, drawn up in full array; here were the elephants, here was the cavalry, posted at points of vantage. (2 Maccabees 15, 20)
