Talált 851 Eredmények: Mar
Some of his companions went back later to mark out the path but were unable to find it. (2 Maccabees 2, 6)
But a certain Simon, of the tribe of Bilgah, on being appointed administrator of the Temple, came into conflict with the high priest over the regulation of the city markets. (2 Maccabees 3, 4)
Heliodorus offered sacrifice to the Lord and made most solemn vows to the preserver of his life, and then took courteous leave of Onias and marched his forces back to the king. (2 Maccabees 3, 35)
where he was given a magnificent welcome by Jason and the city, and escorted in by torchlight with acclamation. After which, he marched his army into Phoenicia. (2 Maccabees 4, 22)
When the king came to hear of what had happened, he concluded that Judaea was in revolt. He therefore marched from Egypt, raging like a wild beast, and began by storming the city. (2 Maccabees 5, 11)
The king fell into a rage and treated this one more cruelly than the others, for he was himself smarting from the young man's scorn. (2 Maccabees 7, 39)
Maccabaeus marshalled his men, who numbered about six thousand, and exhorted them not to be dismayed at the enemy or discouraged at the vast horde of gentiles wickedly advancing against them, but to fight bravely, (2 Maccabees 8, 16)
'They may put their trust in their weapons and their exploits,' he said, 'but our confidence is in almighty God, who is able with a single nod to overthrow both those marching on us and the whole world with them.' (2 Maccabees 8, 18)
and pulled down the altars erected by the foreigners in the market place, as well as the shrines. (2 Maccabees 10, 2)
Dositheus and Sosipater, two of the Maccabaean generals, marched out and destroyed the force Timotheus had left behind in the fortress, amounting to more than ten thousand men. (2 Maccabees 12, 19)
After Pentecost, as it is called, they marched against Gorgias, the general commanding Idumaea. (2 Maccabees 12, 32)
A man called Dositheus, a horseman of the Tubian contingent, a valiant man, overpowered Gorgias and, gripping him by the cloak, was forcibly dragging him along, intending to take the accursed man alive, but one of the Thracian cavalry, hurling himself on Dositheus, slashed his shoulder and Gorgias escaped to Marisa. (2 Maccabees 12, 35)
