Talált 7906 Eredmények: City Of The Lord
When they had accomplished these things, with hymns and thanksgivings they blessed the Lord who shows great kindness to Israel and gives them the victory. (2 Maccabees 10, 38)
gathered about eighty thousand men and all his cavalry and came against the Jews. He intended to make the city a home for Greeks, (2 Maccabees 11, 2)
When Maccabeus and his men got word that Lysias was besieging the strongholds, they and all the people, with lamentations and tears, besought the Lord to send a good angel to save Israel. (2 Maccabees 11, 6)
They advanced in battle order, having their heavenly ally, for the Lord had mercy on them. (2 Maccabees 11, 10)
and this was done by public vote of the city. And when they accepted, because they wished to live peaceably and suspected nothing, the men of Joppa took them out to sea and drowned them, not less than two hundred. (2 Maccabees 12, 4)
Then, because the city's gates were closed, he withdrew, intending to come again and root out the whole community of Joppa. (2 Maccabees 12, 7)
He also attacked a certain city which was strongly fortified with earthworks and walls, and inhabited by all sorts of Gentiles. Its name was Caspin. (2 Maccabees 12, 13)
They took the city by the will of God, and slaughtered untold numbers, so that the adjoining lake, a quarter of a mile wide, appeared to be running over with blood. (2 Maccabees 12, 16)
After the rout and destruction of these, he marched also against Ephron, a fortified city where Lysias dwelt with multitudes of people of all nationalities. Stalwart young men took their stand before the walls and made a vigorous defense; and great stores of war engines and missiles were there. (2 Maccabees 12, 27)
But the Jews called upon the Sovereign who with power shatters the might of his enemies, and they got the city into their hands, and killed as many as twenty-five thousand of those who were within it. (2 Maccabees 12, 28)
As Esdris and his men had been fighting for a long time and were weary, Judas called upon the Lord to show himself their ally and leader in the battle. (2 Maccabees 12, 36)
Then Judas assembled his army and went to the city of Adullam. As the seventh day was coming on, they purified themselves according to the custom, and they kept the sabbath there. (2 Maccabees 12, 38)
