Talált 6823 Eredmények: Not
Menelaus also joined them and with utter hypocrisy urged Antiochus on, not for the sake of his country's welfare, but because he thought that he would be established in office. (2 Maccabees 13, 3)
There they all push to destruction any man guilty of sacrilege or notorious for other crimes. (2 Maccabees 13, 6)
and not to let the people who had just begun to revive fall into the hands of the blasphemous Gentiles. (2 Maccabees 13, 11)
"Those of the Jews who are called Hasideans, whose leader is Judas Maccabeus, are keeping up war and stirring up sedition, and will not let the kingdom attain tranquillity. (2 Maccabees 14, 6)
Nicanor stayed on in Jerusalem and did nothing out of the way, but dismissed the flocks of people that had gathered. (2 Maccabees 14, 23)
But when Alcimus noticed their good will for one another, he took the covenant that had been made and went to Demetrius. He told him that Nicanor was disloyal to the government, for he had appointed that conspirator against the kingdom, Judas, to be his successor. (2 Maccabees 14, 26)
Since it was not possible to oppose the king, he watched for an opportunity to accomplish this by a stratagem. (2 Maccabees 14, 29)
But Maccabeus, noticing that Nicanor was more austere in his dealings with him and was meeting him more rudely than had been his custom, concluded that this austerity did not spring from the best motives. So he gathered not a few of his men, and went into hiding from Nicanor. (2 Maccabees 14, 30)
And when they declared on oath that they did not know where the man was whom he sought, (2 Maccabees 14, 32)
he stretched out his right hand toward the sanctuary, and swore this oath: "If you do not hand Judas over to me as a prisoner, I will level this precinct of God to the ground and tear down the altar, and I will build here a splendid temple to Dionysus." (2 Maccabees 14, 33)
"O Lord of all, who hast need of nothing, thou wast pleased that there be a temple for thy habitation among us; (2 Maccabees 14, 35)
But in the heat of the struggle he did not hit exactly, and the crowd was now rushing in through the doors. He bravely ran up on the wall, and manfully threw himself down into the crowd. (2 Maccabees 14, 43)
