Talált 4918 Eredmények: Rom
Upon marching into Judaea he first reached Bethsura,✻ that stood in a narrow pass five furlongs away from Jerusalem, and laid siege to the citadel of it. (2 Maccabees 11, 5)
The Romans, too, wrote to them after the manner following; Quintus Memmius and Titus Manlius, envoys of Rome, to the Jewish people, all health! (2 Maccabees 11, 34)
Stern was the encounter, but with God’s help they won the day; and the defeated remnant of the Arabs asked Judas for quarter, promising a grant of pasture-lands, with other advantages. (2 Maccabees 12, 11)
And thence to Scythopolis, at seventy-five miles’ distance from Jerusalem; (2 Maccabees 12, 29)
And now, recalling his men from the pursuit, he made his way to the city of Adollam; the week had gone round, and here, duly cleansed from defilement, they kept the sabbath. (2 Maccabees 12, 38)
and what found they? Each of the fallen was wearing, under his shirt, some token carried away from the false gods of Jamnia. Here was defiance of the Jewish law, and none doubted it was the cause of their undoing; (2 Maccabees 12, 40)
from its walls the author of sacrilege is thrust forward to his death by the common impulse of the bystanders. (2 Maccabees 13, 6)
as for Machabaeus, the king made a friend of him, and appointed him both governor and commander of all the territory from Ptolemais to the Gerrenes.✻ (2 Maccabees 13, 24)
and had wrested the whole kingdom from Antiochus, and from Lysias his general. (2 Maccabees 14, 2)
And now orders came to them from their leader; they must be on the march. Their mustering-place was a fortress called Dessau, (2 Maccabees 14, 16)
But Nicanor had heard much about the valour of Judas’ men, and how nobly they fought in their country’s quarrel; no wonder if he shrank from the arbitrament of the sword, (2 Maccabees 14, 18)
Long time this man had held to his resolve of keeping aloof from the Gentiles, ready to put life and limb in jeopardy, so he might persevere. (2 Maccabees 14, 38)
