Trouvé 330 Résultats pour: Jordan River
The seas fled at the sight they witnessed, backward flowed the stream of Jordan; (Psalms 113, 3)
What ailed you, seas, that you fled in terror, Jordan’s stream, what drove thee back? (Psalms 113, 5)
With that, the king left his capital of Antioch, taking the remainder of his army with him; it was the hundred and forty-seventh year of the empire. Soon he was across Euphrates river, and on the march through the high countries. (1 Maccabees 3, 37)
Meanwhile Judas Machabaeus and his brother Jonathan had crossed the Jordan, and marched for three days through the desert. (1 Maccabees 5, 24)
Jordan they must still cross, there by the great plain that faces Bethsan; (1 Maccabees 5, 52)
and it was there that Bacchides, well informed of their movements, crossed Jordan at the head of his army and came upon them, one sabbath day. (1 Maccabees 9, 34)
to avenge the murder of their brother, and withdrew to the banks of Jordan again.✻ (1 Maccabees 9, 42)
Hearing of these alarms, Bacchides marched down to Jordan bank one sabbath day, in great force. (1 Maccabees 9, 43)
here is armed force confronting us, and all around us is Jordan stream, Jordan banks full of marshes and thickets; escape is none. (1 Maccabees 9, 45)
What did Jonathan then? With all his company, he leapt into Jordan. So now, to reach them, the enemy must swim for it across the stream.✻ (1 Maccabees 9, 48)
nor would Jonathan return to Jerusalem till he had escorted the king as far as the river called Eleutherus. (1 Maccabees 11, 7)
And now Jonathan was on the march, across the river, patrolling the cities everywhere, with all the armies of Syria gathered to aid him. … He came to Ascalon, where the townsfolk welcomed him with all honour;✻ (1 Maccabees 11, 60)
