Talált 638 Eredmények: Sol
When they had left the town barely a mile behind them in their advance on Timotheus, Judas was attacked by an Arab force of at least five thousand foot soldiers, with five hundred cavalry. (2 Maccabees 12, 10)
Confident in the strength of their walls and their stock of provisions, the besieged adopted an insolent attitude to Judas and his men, reinforcing their insults with blasphemies and profanity. (2 Maccabees 12, 14)
and gave themselves to prayer, begging that the sin committed might be completely forgiven. Next, the valiant Judas urged the soldiers to keep themselves free from all sin, having seen with their own eyes the effects of the sin of those who had fallen; (2 Maccabees 12, 42)
After separate consultation with the elders, he resolved not to wait for the king's army to invade Judaea and take possession of the city, but to march out and settle the whole matter with the Lord's help. (2 Maccabees 13, 13)
Having thus committed the outcome to the Creator of the world, and having exhorted his soldiers to fight bravely to the death for the laws, the Temple, the city, their country and their way of life, he encamped his army near Modein. (2 Maccabees 13, 14)
Nicanor, however, had heard how brave Judas and his men were and how resolutely they always fought for their country, and he did not dare allow bloodshed to decide the issue. (2 Maccabees 14, 18)
Nicanor, by way of demonstrating the enmity he had for the Jews, sent over five hundred soldiers to arrest him, (2 Maccabees 14, 39)
nobly resolving to die rather than fall into the clutches of these villains and suffer outrages unworthy of his noble birth. (2 Maccabees 14, 42)
He showed them the head of the abominable Nicanor, and the hand which this infamous man had stretched out so insolently against the holy House of the Almighty. (2 Maccabees 15, 32)
The proverbs of Solomon son of David, king of Israel: (Proverbs 1, 1)
The proverbs of Solomon. A wise child is a father's joy, a foolish child a mother's grief. (Proverbs 10, 1)
Disappointment crowns the labours of the wicked, whoever sows uprightness reaps a solid reward. (Proverbs 11, 18)
