Talált 978 Eredmények: City Of Refuge
Thus, those who had prosecuted the case for the city, for the people, and for the sacred vessels, quickly suffered unjust punishment. (2 Maccabees 4, 48)
It then happened that all over the city, for nearly forty days, there appeared horsemen charging in midair, clad in garments interwoven with gold--companies fully armed with lances (2 Maccabees 5, 2)
But when a false rumor circulated that Antiochus was dead, Jason gathered fully a thousand men and suddenly attacked the city. As the defenders on the walls were forced back and the city was finally being taken, Menelaus took refuge in the citadel. (2 Maccabees 5, 5)
Even so, he did not gain control of the government, but in the end received only disgrace for his treachery, and once again took refuge in the country of the Ammonites. (2 Maccabees 5, 7)
At length he met a miserable end. Called to account before Aretas, king of the Arabs, he fled from city to city, hunted by all men, hated as a transgressor of the laws, abhorred as the butcher of his country and his countrymen. After being driven into Egypt, (2 Maccabees 5, 8)
He ordered his soldiers to cut down without mercy those whom they met and to slay those who took refuge in their houses. (2 Maccabees 5, 12)
Puffed up in spirit, Antiochus did not realize that it was because of the sins of the city's inhabitants that the Lord was angry for a little while and hence disregarded the holy Place. (2 Maccabees 5, 17)
All those who came out to watch, he massacred, and running through the city with armed men, he cut down a large number of people. (2 Maccabees 5, 26)
Thus, two women who were arrested for having circumcised their children were publicly paraded about the city with their babies hanging at their breasts and then thrown down from the top of the city wall. (2 Maccabees 6, 10)
to have mercy on the city, which was being destroyed and about to be leveled to the ground; to hearken to the blood that cried out to him; (2 Maccabees 8, 3)
keeping before their eyes the lawless outrage perpetrated by the Gentiles against the holy Place and the affliction of the humiliated city, as well as the subversion of their ancestral way of life. (2 Maccabees 8, 17)
While celebrating the victory in their ancestral city, they burned both those who had set fire to the sacred gates and Callisthenes, who had taken refuge in a little house; so he received the reward his wicked deeds deserved. (2 Maccabees 8, 33)
