Fondare 1046 Risultati per: Holy Land
He laid siege to the city while the ships closed in from the sea, so that he had the city under attack from land and sea, and allowed no one to go in or come out. (1 Maccabees 15, 14)
'During the reign of Demetrius, in the year 169, we Jews wrote to you as follows, "In the extremity of trouble that befell us in the years after Jason and his associates had betrayed the Holy Land and the kingdom, (2 Maccabees 1, 7)
for he it was who carried off those who had taken up arms against the Holy City. (2 Maccabees 1, 12)
and plant your people firmly in your Holy Place, as Moses promised." (2 Maccabees 1, 29)
Then the Lord will bring these things once more to light, and the glory of the Lord will be seen, and so will the cloud, as it was revealed in the time of Moses and when Solomon prayed that the holy place might be gloriously hallowed." (2 Maccabees 2, 8)
as he has promised in the Law, will surely, as our hope is in him, be swift to show us mercy and gather us together from everywhere under heaven to the holy place, since he has rescued us from great evils and has purified it.' (2 Maccabees 2, 18)
While the holy city was inhabited in all peace and the laws were observed as perfectly as possible, owing to the piety of Onias the high priest and his hatred of wickedness, (2 Maccabees 3, 1)
it came about that the kings themselves honoured the holy place and enhanced the glory of the Temple with the most splendid offerings, (2 Maccabees 3, 2)
People rushed headlong from the houses, intent on making public supplication because of the indignity threatening the holy place. (2 Maccabees 3, 18)
the Jews blessed the Lord who had miraculously glorified his own holy place. And the Temple, which a little while before had been filled with terror and commotion, now overflowed with joy and gladness at the manifestation of the almighty Lord. (2 Maccabees 3, 30)
'If you have some enemy or anyone disloyal to the state, send him there, and you will get him back well flogged, if he survives at all, since some peculiarly divine power attaches to the holy place. (2 Maccabees 3, 38)
with impure hands he seized the sacred vessels; with impious hands he seized the offerings presented by other kings for the aggrandisement, glory and dignity of the holy place. (2 Maccabees 5, 16)
