Trouvé 3833 Résultats pour: Red
But Judas and his men closed with them, and gave battle; and of the king’s soldiers, there were six hundred that fell. (1 Maccabees 6, 42)
What did Eleazar that day, the son of Sauran?✻ Here was one of the beasts that went decked in royal trappings, and towered high above the rest; There rides the king, thought he, (1 Maccabees 6, 43)
But it was against the holy place itself that he turned his arms, and long he beleaguered it; what catapults he brought to bear on it, what engines! Flew fiery darts, flew stone and javelin and arrow from mangonel and arbalest, and the slings took their turn. (1 Maccabees 6, 51)
and what must the king do, once he had set foot on mount Sion and discovered the strength of its defences, but break his oath, and have all the walls of it pulled down! (1 Maccabees 6, 62)
It was now, in the hundred and fifty-first year, that Demetrius, the son of Seleu-cus, escaped from Rome and landed with a small retinue at one of the sea-ports, where he was proclaimed king. (1 Maccabees 7, 1)
So Bacchides left Jerusalem and pitched his camp at Bethzecha, where he made search and laid hands on many that had deserted from his own army; some of the Jews he massacred besides, and had their bodies thrown into the Great Cistern; (1 Maccabees 7, 19)
Nicanor, then, his plot being now manifestly discovered, would take to the field; it was close to Capharsalama that he engaged Judas; (1 Maccabees 7, 31)
It was after this that Nicanor made his way to mount Sion, where some of the priests and elders came out to greet him in friendly fashion, and shew him how burnt-sacrifice was offered there on the king’s behalf. (1 Maccabees 7, 33)
But nothing could they get from him but mockery and contempt; he did despite to their sacred persons, and sent them away with threats. (1 Maccabees 7, 34)
Time was, Lord, when Sennacherib’s men were loud in their blasphemy, and thy angel must go out to smite them down, a hundred and eighty thousand of them. (1 Maccabees 7, 41)
Spoil of them was plundered where they lay; as for Nicanor, the Jews cut off the head from his body, and that right hand he lifted up so defiantly, and took them away, to be hung up in full sight of Jerusalem. (1 Maccabees 7, 47)
what battles they had fought, what exploits achieved yonder among the Galatians, their conquered vassals now! (1 Maccabees 8, 2)
