Talált 675 Eredmények: Folk Wisdom
took children and women-folk and cattle with them, and settled down there, castaways in a flood of misfortune. (1 Maccabees 2, 30)
and here was this army of heathen folk, both strong and well protected, with cavalry circling about them, men bred to war! (1 Maccabees 4, 7)
And now the heathen folk caught sight of them as they advanced to the attack, (1 Maccabees 4, 12)
So Judas must needs take arms against them, Esau’s race in Idumaea, and the men of Acrabathane, that were keeping Israelite folk under strict siege; and signally he defeated them. (1 Maccabees 5, 3)
But by this all the heathen folk in the country of Galaad were making common cause against the Israelites who dwelt there, eager to be rid of them. And these, taking refuge in the stronghold of Datheman, (1 Maccabees 5, 9)
Ptolemais, Tyre and Sidon were up in arms together, and all Galilee was overrun with heathen folk, bent on massacre. (1 Maccabees 5, 15)
Whereupon Judas and his men suddenly turned aside from their course into the desert of Bosor, and took the city; all its men-folk he put to the sword, and carried off the spoil of it, and burned it to the ground. (1 Maccabees 5, 28)
But as for Judas and his company,✻ they were held high in honour, both among Israelite folk, and wherever the renown of them was heard; (1 Maccabees 5, 63)
Out came Jewish folk from all the villages round about, to head them off,✻ till at last they turned at bay and fell at the sword’s point all of them, never a man left. (1 Maccabees 7, 46)
But, as they went, some of Jambri’s folk came out from Madaba, seized John and all that he had with him, and went off with them. (1 Maccabees 9, 36)
Israel had a respite from fighting at last, and Jonathan took up his dwelling at Machmas, whence he ruled the people thenceforward, ridding the land of godless folk altogether. (1 Maccabees 9, 73)
As for the alien folk that guarded the strongholds Bacchides had left, they fled incontinently; (1 Maccabees 10, 12)
