Trouvé 365 Résultats pour: Fortified Cities
Both in Jerusalem and in all the cities of Juda the king’s envoys published this edict; men must live by the law of the heathen round about, (1 Maccabees 1, 46)
At this time, too, they fortified the hill of Sion, with walls and strong towers all about; never more should Gentile feet profane it. (1 Maccabees 4, 60)
how there were many whom their fellow-citizens had brought to bay in such great fortified cities as Barasa, Bosor, Alima, Casphor, Mageth and Carnaim; (1 Maccabees 5, 26)
besides many others cut off in the rest of the Galaadite towns. And to-morrow, he was told, the heathen mean to occupy these cities with their army, seizing upon the Israelites and making an end of them, all in one day’s work. (1 Maccabees 5, 27)
then on to seize Casbon, and Mageth, and Bosor, and the remaining cities of Galaad.✻ (1 Maccabees 5, 36)
They journeyed safely as far as Ephron, that was a great city and well fortified, the very gate of Juda; turn to right or left they might not, their road lay through the heart of it. (1 Maccabees 5, 46)
And now Judas turned aside to Azotus, in the country of the Philistines; altars he pulled down, images of their gods burned to ashes, gave up their cities to plunder, and so came back again to the land of Juda. (1 Maccabees 5, 68)
even now they stand arrayed against the citadel of Jerusalem, ready to take it by storm, and have fortified Bethsura. (1 Maccabees 6, 26)
After this, they took to fortifying the cities of Judaea with high walls and barred gates, making strongholds at Jericho, Ammaum, Bethoron, Bethel, Thamnata, Phara and Thopo; (1 Maccabees 9, 50)
Bethsura, too, Bacchides fortified, and Gazara, and the Citadel itself, keeping all of them well manned and provisioned; (1 Maccabees 9, 52)
In the king’s army, Jews may be enrolled up to the number of thirty thousand, paid according to the common rate of the royal troops; and the same shall be free to serve in all the fortified towns of our empire. (1 Maccabees 10, 36)
both Azotus and all the neighbouring cities Jonathan burnt and plundered, and Dagon’s temple, with all that took shelter there, was burnt with the rest. (1 Maccabees 10, 84)
