Trouvé 166 Résultats pour: Judas Maccabaeus
Stern was the encounter, but with God’s help they won the day; and the defeated remnant of the Arabs asked Judas for quarter, promising a grant of pasture-lands, with other advantages. (2 Maccabees 12, 11)
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)
Such trust the defenders had in the strength of their ramparts, and their plentiful supplies of food, they carried themselves recklessly, hurling taunts at Judas, with blasphemies and other talk little fit to be uttered. (2 Maccabees 12, 14)
At the news of Judas’ coming, Timotheus was fain to send on women, children, and stores, to Carnion, an impregnable fortress and one difficult of approach, so narrow the pass was. (2 Maccabees 12, 21)
And now the first of Judas’ companies came in sight, and with it the presence of the all-seeing God.✻ What fear fell upon the enemy, how they scattered in flight, stumbling over their own fellows, wounded by the point of their own swords! (2 Maccabees 12, 22)
And all the while Judas pressed them hard, the scourge of ill-doers; thirty thousand of them that day he slaughtered. (2 Maccabees 12, 23)
Judas went on to Carnion, where the enemy lost twenty-five thousand men, (2 Maccabees 12, 26)
A long fight Esdrin’s company had of it, and were full weary, when Judas called upon the Lord to succour them and lead them onwards, (2 Maccabees 12, 36)
Next day, with Judas at their head, they went back to recover the bodies of the slain, for burial among their own folk in their fathers’ graves; (2 Maccabees 12, 39)
and so they fell to prayer, pleading that the sin might go unremembered. Judas himself, their gallant commander, gave public warning to his men, of fault they should evermore keep clear, with the fate of these transgressors under their eyes. (2 Maccabees 12, 42)
It was in the hundred and forty-ninth year news came to Judas that Antiochus Eupator was marching on Judaea in great force. (2 Maccabees 13, 1)
and Judas, when the news came to him, bade the people entreat God night and day he would come to their rescue, as ever he was wont hitherto. (2 Maccabees 13, 10)
