Trouvé 65 Résultats pour: Spoil
and in one day slew a hundred thousand men, setting fire to the town besides. There was spoil enough for the winning, that day when they saved the king’s life. (1 Maccabees 11, 48)
As for Jason, he fell upon his own fellow-countrymen, and that without mercy. His own flesh and blood to vanquish, what was this but shameful defeat? Ay, but to him friend was foe, were there spoil for the winning! (2 Maccabees 5, 6)
Other invaders they slew, twenty thousand of them and more, under Bacchides and Timotheus; and when they seized their high fortresses, and had spoil to divide in plenty, once more cripples and orphans and widows, and the aged folk too, must have a share to match their own. (2 Maccabees 8, 30)
Weapons of war they gathered with all care, and bestowed where they were most needed; it was the rest of the spoil they carried back to Jerusalem. (2 Maccabees 8, 31)
here was a temple that would yield a fine spoil, as temples did everywhere; a priesthood, too, that might be put up for sale year after year. (2 Maccabees 11, 3)
Better a humble lot among peaceful folk, than all the spoil a tyrant’s friendship can bring thee. (Proverbs 16, 19)
Bound to her in loving confidence, he will have no need of spoil. (Proverbs 31, 11)
Thou hast daughters; keep them chaste, and do not spoil them with thy smile; (Ecclesiasticus 7, 26)
The Lord will enter into a reckoning with the senators and the rulers of his people: You have made spoil of the vineyard, your houses are full of the plunder you have taken from the oppressed; (Isaiah 3, 14)
suppress the claims of the poor, and refuse redress to humble folk; the widow your spoil, the orphan your prey! (Isaiah 10, 2)
Now, thy tackle hangs loose and unserviceable, too weak thy mast is to display thy pennon; then, thou wilt have the spoil of many forays to divide, even lame folk shall carry plunder away. (Isaiah 33, 23)
yet here is a people robbed and spoiled, caught by warriors that have hidden it away in dungeons, a prey there is none to deliver, spoil none bids them restore. (Isaiah 42, 22)
