Talált 9363 Eredmények: Só
After the sabbath they gave some of the spoils to those who had been tortured and to the widows and orphans, and distributed the rest among themselves and their children. (2 Maccabees 8, 28)
When they had done this, they made common supplication and besought the merciful Lord to be wholly reconciled with his servants. (2 Maccabees 8, 29)
In encounters with the forces of Timothy and Bacchides they killed more than twenty thousand of them and got possession of some exceedingly high strongholds, and they divided very much plunder, giving to those who had been tortured and to the orphans and widows, and also to the aged, shares equal to their own. (2 Maccabees 8, 30)
While they were celebrating the victory in the city of their fathers, they burned those who had set fire to the sacred gates, Callisthenes and some others, who had fled into one little house; so these received the proper recompense for their impiety. (2 Maccabees 8, 33)
About that time, as it happened, Antiochus had retreated in disorder from the region of Persia. (2 Maccabees 9, 1)
Transported with rage, he conceived the idea of turning upon the Jews the injury done by those who had put him to flight; so he ordered his charioteer to drive without stopping until he completed the journey. But the judgment of heaven rode with him! For in his arrogance he said, "When I get there I will make Jerusalem a cemetery of Jews." (2 Maccabees 9, 4)
But the all-seeing Lord, the God of Israel, struck him an incurable and unseen blow. As soon as he ceased speaking he was seized with a pain in his bowels for which there was no relief and with sharp internal tortures -- (2 Maccabees 9, 5)
Yet he did not in any way stop his insolence, but was even more filled with arrogance, breathing fire in his rage against the Jews, and giving orders to hasten the journey. And so it came about that he fell out of his chariot as it was rushing along, and the fall was so hard as to torture every limb of his body. (2 Maccabees 9, 7)
And so the ungodly man's body swarmed with worms, and while he was still living in anguish and pain, his flesh rotted away, and because of his stench the whole army felt revulsion at his decay. (2 Maccabees 9, 9)
and in addition to all this he also would become a Jew and would visit every inhabited place to proclaim the power of God. (2 Maccabees 9, 17)
but I observed that my father, on the occasions when he made expeditions into the upper country, appointed his successor, (2 Maccabees 9, 23)
so that, if anything unexpected happened or any unwelcome news came, the people throughout the realm would not be troubled, for they would know to whom the government was left. (2 Maccabees 9, 24)
