Talált 19332 Eredmények: És
As for the matters about which Lysias considered it necessary to inform the king and take up with him, we ask that you study them carefully and send someone to us at once, so we can explain everything to the king to your advantage, for we are now leaving for Antioch. (2 Maccabees 11, 36)
After these agreements had been concluded, Lysias returned to the king and the Jews began to return to their fields. (2 Maccabees 12, 1)
But the commanders of the different regions, Timotheus and Apollonius, the son of Genneus, as well as Hieronymus and Domophenes, and Nicanor, the leader of the Cypriots, would not let them live in peace and quiet. (2 Maccabees 12, 2)
Moreover, the inhabitants of Joppa committed this grave crime. They invited the Jews with their wives and children to a cruise on some boats they had prepared, as if they did not have any hostility. (2 Maccabees 12, 3)
This was decided by the city authorities and the Jews accepted in order to show their desire to live with them in peace and without any suspicion at all. But once out in the open sea, the men of Joppa pushed them into the water and at least two hundred died. (2 Maccabees 12, 4)
But, as the gates were closed, he could not enter the city, so he withdrew, intending to come back to wipe out all the inhabitants of Joppa. (2 Maccabees 12, 7)
From there, they set out and marched against Timotheus, but when they had marched for about two kilometers, five thousand Arabs supported by five hundred horses, attacked them. (2 Maccabees 12, 10)
A bloody battle took place, and the men of Judas emerged victorious with the help of God. The defeated Arabs sued for peace, and promised to give them livestock, and to help them in the future. (2 Maccabees 12, 11)
Judas attacked a city strongly fortified with ditches and walls. The city was called Caspin. People of every race lived there. (2 Maccabees 12, 13)
The besieged, confident in the strength of their walls and because they had their storehouses full of provisions, underestimated the men of Judas and behaved most insolently toward them. They also shouted insults, blasphemies and sacrilegious words at them. (2 Maccabees 12, 14)
The men of Judas called on the great Sovereign of the world who had demolished the walls of Jericho without engines of war during the time of Joshua, and then rushed furiously upon the walls. (2 Maccabees 12, 15)
God willed that they should take possession of the city, and they carried out an incredible slaughter: the nearby lake, five hundred meters wide, seemed filled with blood. (2 Maccabees 12, 16)
