Talált 1180 Eredmények: Rot
On each elephant, to protect it, was a stout wooden tower, kept in position by girths, each with its three combatants, as well as its mahout. (1 Maccabees 6, 37)
approached the king and denounced our people to him. 'Judas and his brothers', they said, 'have killed all your friends, and he has driven us out of our country. (1 Maccabees 7, 6)
So they set out with a large force and, on reaching Judaea, sent emissaries to Judas and his brothers with proposals peaceable yet treacherous. (1 Maccabees 7, 10)
Reaching Jerusalem with a large force, Nicanor sent a friendly, yet treacherous, message to Judas and his brothers, as follows: (1 Maccabees 7, 27)
'Judas Maccabaeus and his brothers, with the Jewish people, have sent us to you to conclude a treaty of alliance and peace with you, and to enrol ourselves as your allies and friends.' (1 Maccabees 8, 20)
His men tried to dissuade him, declaring, 'We have no strength for anything but to escape with our lives this time; then we can come back with our brothers to fight them; by ourselves we are too few.' (1 Maccabees 9, 9)
Jonathan and Simon took up their brother Judas and buried him in his ancestral tomb at Modein. (1 Maccabees 9, 19)
'Since your brother Judas died, there has been no one like him to head the resistance against our enemies, people like Bacchides and others who hate our nation. (1 Maccabees 9, 29)
Whereupon, Jonathan took command, in succession to his brother Judas. (1 Maccabees 9, 31)
But this became known to Jonathan, his brother Simon and all his supporters, and they took refuge in the desert of Tekoa, camping by the water-supply at Asphar storage-well. (1 Maccabees 9, 33)
Jonathan sent his brother, who was one of his commanders, to ask his friends the Nabataeans to store their considerable baggage for them. (1 Maccabees 9, 35)
Later, Jonathan and his brother Simon were told that the sons of Amrai were celebrating an important wedding, and were escorting the bride, a daughter of one of the great notables of Canaan, from Nabata with a large retinue. (1 Maccabees 9, 37)
