Talált 589 Eredmények: Ancient Of Days
In those days it was that Mattathias came forward, son of John, son of Simeon, a priest of Joarib’s family; he was for Jerusalem no more, but would take up his dwelling on the hill-side at Modin. (1 Maccabees 2, 1)
Meanwhile, the life of Mattathias was drawing to an end. And this charge he gave to his sons: Here be days when tyrant and blasphemer have their will, when all is calamity and bitter retribution. (1 Maccabees 2, 49)
And here is Judas Machabaeus, from boyhood’s days a warrior; let him be your leader, and fight Israel’s battles. (1 Maccabees 2, 66)
Why, what was this? So heavily had Juda suffered, so great the discord he had aroused by the abolishing of its ancient usages, that scant revenue had come in from it, and the treasury was in default! (1 Maccabees 3, 29)
Not at Jerusalem; Jerusalem lay there, no city but a desert waste, nor any of her sons came and went; her sanctuary defiled, her citadel garrisoned by the alien, she was but a haunt of the Gentiles. Sad days for the men of Jacob; pipe nor harp sounded there now. (1 Maccabees 3, 45)
and for eight days together they celebrated the altar’s renewal, burned victim and brought welcome-offering with glad and grateful hearts. (1 Maccabees 4, 56)
No wonder if Judas and his brethren, with the whole assembly of Israel, made a decree that this feast should be kept year by year for eight days together, the feast-day of the altar’s dedication.✻ Came that season, from the twenty-fifth day of Casleu onwards, all was to be rejoicing and holiday. (1 Maccabees 4, 59)
Meanwhile Judas Machabaeus and his brother Jonathan had crossed the Jordan, and marched for three days through the desert. (1 Maccabees 5, 24)
Thus runs my thought: How comes it that I have fallen upon such evil times, such a flood of calamity as now engulfs me; I, that in the days of my greatness loved men well, and was well beloved? (1 Maccabees 6, 11)
Feast-day and new moon and sabbath, and all other such solemnities as are appointed to be observed, with the three days before and after the feast itself, shall be days of immunity and respite for all the Jews in my realm; (1 Maccabees 10, 34)
Three days later, Ptolemy himself lay dead; whereupon the garrisons he had left in the towns were massacred by the citizens, (1 Maccabees 11, 18)
delegates of ours, Numenius son of Antiochus and Antipater son of Jason, are on their way to Rome, friendship and alliance of former days to confirm afresh; (1 Maccabees 12, 16)
