Trouvé 170 Résultats pour: Half-brothers
Half his army he entrusted to Lysias, and the elephants besides; and he signified all that he would have done, concerning Juda and Jerusalem particularly. (1 Maccabees 3, 34)
As for his body, his brothers Jonathan and Simon recovered it, and so buried him where his fathers were buried, in the city of Modin. (1 Maccabees 9, 19)
and half your fruit-crop. From this day forward, now and for ever, I resign all this; from Juda and from the three cantons of Samaria and Galilee✻ lately added to it, there shall be no toll taken. (1 Maccabees 10, 30)
Never feast-day passes, nor day apt for remembrance, but you are remembered, as brothers should be, in sacrifice and prayer we offer; (1 Maccabees 12, 11)
In that cause, and for the love of Israel, my brothers have died, one and all, till I only am left; (1 Maccabees 13, 4)
And at that, Simon must have his two elder sons present, Judas and John both, and made the command over to them. Still young we were, he said, I and my brothers and my father’s kin, when we began that war on Israel’s enemies which is being fought yet; under our banners once and again came victory, and the day was saved for Israel. (1 Maccabees 16, 2)
But too late; a messenger had reached John at Gazara, telling him his father and brothers were dead, and himself too marked down for slaughter; (1 Maccabees 16, 21)
Seven brothers there were, that lay under arrest, and their mother with them; these too were tortured at the king’s command, to see if whip and thong would not make them eat swine’s flesh, for all their scruples. (2 Maccabees 7, 1)
As for Timotheus, he fell into the hands of another force, under Dositheus and Sosipater; of these he begged earnestly for his life, telling them of Jewish hostages in his keeping, their own fathers and brothers, that would get no quarter if he came by his death. (2 Maccabees 12, 24)
Take no note of this Ethiop colour; it was the sun tanned me, when my own brothers, that had a grudge against me, set me a-watching in the vineyards. I have a vineyard of my own that I have watched but ill. (Song of Solomon 1, 5)
How fair thou art, my true love, how fair!✻ Eyes soft as dove’s eyes, half-seen behind thy veil; hair that clusters thick as the flocks of goats, when they come home from the Galaad hills; (Song of Solomon 4, 1)
Half-formed, the boughs will be snapped off, and their fruit go to waste, unripe, unprofitable. (Wisdom of Solomon 4, 5)
