Talált 822 Eredmények: Sanctuary City
'Give us the right hand of peace, and let the Jews stop their fight against us and the city.' (1 Maccabees 11, 50)
and to heighten the walls of Jerusalem and erect a high barrier between the Citadel and the city, to cut the former off from the city and isolate it, to prevent the occupants from buying or selling. (1 Maccabees 12, 36)
Rebuilding the city was a co-operative effort: part of the wall over the eastern ravine had fallen down; he restored the quarter called Chaphenatha. (1 Maccabees 12, 37)
and exhorted them thus, 'You know yourselves how much I and my brothers and my father's family have done for the laws and the sanctuary; you know what wars and hardships we have experienced. (1 Maccabees 13, 3)
Rather will I avenge my nation and the sanctuary and your wives and children, now that the foreigners are all united in malice to destroy us.' (1 Maccabees 13, 6)
About that time Simon laid siege to Gezer, surrounding it with his troops. He constructed a mobile tower, brought it up to the city, opened a breach in one of the bastions and took it. (1 Maccabees 13, 43)
The men in the mobile tower sprang out into the city, where great confusion ensued. (1 Maccabees 13, 44)
Simon came to terms with them and stopped the fighting; but he expelled them from the city, purified the houses which contained idols, and then made his entry with songs of praise. (1 Maccabees 13, 47)
This is the copy of the letter sent by the Spartans: 'The rulers and the city of Sparta, to Simon the high priest and to the elders and priests and the rest of the people of the Jews, greetings. (1 Maccabees 14, 20)
'When there was almost incessant fighting in the country Simon, son of Mattathias, a priest of the line of Joarib, and his brothers courted danger and withstood their nation's enemies to safeguard the integrity of their sanctuary and of the Law, and so brought their nation great glory; (1 Maccabees 14, 29)
the enemy planned to invade the country, intending to devastate their territory and to lay hands on their sanctuary, (1 Maccabees 14, 31)
'It has fallen to him in his time to expel the foreigners from his country, including those in the City of David in Jerusalem, who had converted it into a citadel for their own use, from which they would sally out to defile the surroundings of the sanctuary and to violate its sacred character; (1 Maccabees 14, 36)
