Trouvé 2999 Résultats pour: King David
David, for his piety, received as a heritage a throne of everlasting royalty. (1 Maccabees 2, 57)
So he said, "I will make a name for myself and win glory in the kingdom by defeating Judas and his followers, who have despised the king's command." (1 Maccabees 3, 14)
His fame reached the king, and all the Gentiles talked about the battles of Judas. (1 Maccabees 3, 26)
He left Lysias, a nobleman of royal blood, in charge of the king's affairs from the Euphrates River to the frontier of Egypt, (1 Maccabees 3, 32)
The king took the remaining half of the army and set out from Antioch, his capital, in the year one hundred and forty-seven; he crossed the Euphrates River and advanced inland. (1 Maccabees 3, 37)
Lysias chose Ptolemy, son of Dorymenes, and Nicanor and Gorgias, capable men among the King's Friends, (1 Maccabees 3, 38)
and with them he sent forty thousand men and seven thousand cavalry to invade the land of Judah and ravage it according to the king's orders. (1 Maccabees 3, 39)
Judas and his brothers saw that the situation had become critical now that armies were encamped within their territory; they knew of the orders which the king had given to destroy and utterly wipe out the people. (1 Maccabees 3, 42)
Judas heard of it, and himself set out with his soldiers to attack the king's army at Emmaus, (1 Maccabees 4, 3)
When he heard it he was disturbed and discouraged, because things in Israel had not turned out as he intended and as the king had ordered. (1 Maccabees 4, 27)
Seeing that the army was strong, he prayed thus: "Blessed are you, O Savior of Israel, who broke the rush of the mighty one by the hand of your servant David and delivered the camp of the Philistines into the hand of Jonathan, the son of Saul, and his armor-bearer. (1 Maccabees 4, 30)
As King Antiochus was traversing the inland provinces, he heard that in Persia there was a city called Elymais, famous for its wealth in silver and gold, (1 Maccabees 6, 1)
