Talált 623 Eredmények: Ton
He ordered those responsible for the work to build the walls and the defences round Mount Zion of squared stone blocks to make them stronger, and this was done. (1 Maccabees 10, 11)
nor will you now be able to withstand the cavalry or so great an army on the plain, where there is neither rock, nor stone, nor refuge of any kind.' (1 Maccabees 10, 73)
Over the tomb of his father and brothers, Simon raised a monument high enough to catch the eye, using dressed stone back and front. (1 Maccabees 13, 27)
opened a trap-door hidden in the ceiling and struck the leader down by hurling stones like thunderbolts. They then cut him into pieces and threw his head to those who were waiting outside. (2 Maccabees 1, 16)
When this had been done, and when in due course the sun, which had previously been clouded over, shone out, a great fire flared up, to the astonishment of all. (2 Maccabees 1, 22)
While the sacrifice was being burned, the priests offered prayer, Jonathan intoning with all the priests, and the rest responding with Nehemiah. (2 Maccabees 1, 23)
When the sacrifice had been burnt, Nehemiah ordered the remaining liquid to be poured over large stones, (2 Maccabees 1, 31)
Recognising this act of aggression as the work of Lysimachus, some snatched up stones, others cudgels, while others scooped up handfuls of ashes lying at hand, and all hurled everything indiscriminately at Lysimachus' men, (2 Maccabees 4, 41)
As soon as these were red-hot, he commanded that their spokesman should have his tongue cut out, his head scalped and his extremities cut off, while the other brothers and his mother looked on. (2 Maccabees 7, 4)
Replying in his ancestral tongue, he said, 'No!' So he too was put to the torture in his turn. (2 Maccabees 7, 8)
After him, they tortured the third, who on being asked for his tongue promptly thrust it out and boldly held out his hands, (2 Maccabees 7, 10)
Indeed she encouraged each of them in their ancestral tongue; filled with noble conviction, she reinforced her womanly argument with manly courage, saying to them, (2 Maccabees 7, 21)
