Talált 19150 Eredmények: Or
They also challenged the forces of Timotheus and Bacchides and destroyed over twenty thousand of them, gaining possession of several high fortresses. They divided their enormous booty into two equal shares, one for themselves, the other for the victims of the persecution and the orphans and widows, not forgetting the aged. (2 Maccabees 8, 30)
They carefully collected the enemy's weapons and stored them in suitable places. The rest of the spoils they took to Jerusalem. (2 Maccabees 8, 31)
In the course of their victory celebrations in Jerusalem, they burned the men who had fired the Holy Gates; with Callisthenes they had taken refuge in one small house; so these received a fitting reward for their sacrilege. (2 Maccabees 8, 33)
The triple-dyed scoundrel Nicanor, who had brought the thousand merchants to buy the Jews, (2 Maccabees 8, 34)
finding himself with the Lord's help humbled by men he had himself reckoned as of very little account, stripped off his robes of state, and made his way across country unaccompanied, like a runaway slave, reaching Antioch by a singular stroke of fortune, since his army had been destroyed. (2 Maccabees 8, 35)
Thus the man who had promised the Romans to make good their tribute money by selling the prisoners from Jerusalem, bore witness that the Jews had a defender and that they were in consequence invulnerable, since they followed the laws which that defender had ordained. (2 Maccabees 8, 36)
At about the same time, Antiochus was beating a disorderly retreat from Persia. (2 Maccabees 9, 1)
He had entered the city called Persepolis, planning to rob the temple and occupy the city; but the population at once sprang to arms to defend themselves, with the result that Antiochus was routed by the inhabitants and forced to beat a humiliating retreat. (2 Maccabees 9, 2)
On his arrival in Ecbatana he learned what had happened to Nicanor and to Timotheus' forces. (2 Maccabees 9, 3)
Flying into a passion, he resolved to make the Jews pay for the disgrace inflicted by those who had routed him, and with this in mind he ordered his charioteer to drive without stopping and get the journey over. But the sentence of Heaven was already hanging over him. In his pride, he had said, 'When I reach Jerusalem, I shall turn it into a mass grave for the Jews.' (2 Maccabees 9, 4)
But the all-seeing Lord, the God of Israel, struck him with an incurable and unseen complaint. The words were hardly out of his mouth when he was seized with an incurable pain in his bowels and with excruciating internal torture; (2 Maccabees 9, 5)
and this was only right, since he had inflicted many barbaric tortures on the bowels of others. (2 Maccabees 9, 6)
