Fondare 909 Risultati per: Promises Of Jerusalem
Thus he who had undertaken to secure tribute for the Romans by the capture of the people of Jerusalem proclaimed that the Jews had a Defender, and that therefore the Jews were invulnerable, because they followed the laws ordained by him. (2 Maccabees 8, 36)
Transported with rage, he conceived the idea of turning upon the Jews the injury done by those who had put him to flight; so he ordered his charioteer to drive without stopping until he completed the journey. But the judgment of heaven rode with him! For in his arrogance he said, "When I get there I will make Jerusalem a cemetery of Jews." (2 Maccabees 9, 4)
Besides this, the Idumeans, who had control of important strongholds, were harassing the Jews; they received those who were banished from Jerusalem, and endeavored to keep up the war. (2 Maccabees 10, 15)
Invading Judea, he approached Beth-zur, which was a fortified place about five leagues from Jerusalem, and pressed it hard. (2 Maccabees 11, 5)
And there, while they were still near Jerusalem, a horseman appeared at their head, clothed in white and brandishing weapons of gold. (2 Maccabees 11, 8)
he attacked the people of Jamnia by night and set fire to the harbor and the fleet, so that the glow of the light was seen in Jerusalem, thirty miles distant. (2 Maccabees 12, 9)
Setting out from there, they hastened to Scythopolis, which is seventy-five miles from Jerusalem. (2 Maccabees 12, 29)
they thanked them and exhorted them to be well disposed to their race in the future also. Then they went up to Jerusalem, as the feast of weeks was close at hand. (2 Maccabees 12, 31)
He also took up a collection, man by man, to the amount of two thousand drachmas of silver, and sent it to Jerusalem to provide for a sin offering. In doing this he acted very well and honorably, taking account of the resurrection. (2 Maccabees 12, 43)
Nicanor stayed on in Jerusalem and did nothing out of the way, but dismissed the flocks of people that had gathered. (2 Maccabees 14, 23)
A certain Razis, one of the elders of Jerusalem, was denounced to Nicanor as a man who loved his fellow citizens and was very well thought of and for his good will was called father of the Jews. (2 Maccabees 14, 37)
And the man who was ever in body and soul the defender of his fellow citizens, the man who maintained his youthful good will toward his countrymen, ordered them to cut off Nicanor's head and arm and carry them to Jerusalem. (2 Maccabees 15, 30)
