Fondare 11 Risultati per: Capture
A signal had been agreed upon between them and the rest of the Israelites; when they had taken the city, they were to make a great fire, whose smoke rolling upwards would announce the capture. (Judges 20, 38)
The king himself rose, and held a midnight council. This is the trick, said he, the Syrians are playing us; they know we are hard put to it by famine, and they think to lure us out by leaving their camp and hiding in the open country; so they hope to capture us alive, and make their way into the city. (2 Kings 7, 12)
till at last the Egyptians were fain to be rid of them. But not for long; plagued no more, they tried to capture the men of Israel and make slaves of them anew. (Judith 5, 11)
Thou dost mount up on high, thou dost capture thy spoil, and men must be thy tribute,✻ will they or no, yonder heathen must have the Lord God for their neighbour. (Psalms 67, 19)
and he marched on Judaea at the head of eighty thousand men, with all the cavalry he could muster. Here was a city worth the capture, for Gentile folk to dwell in; (2 Maccabees 11, 2)
It was for his prophesying that king Sedecias had imprisoned him; what meant this threat from the Lord, of giving Jerusalem over to capture by the king of Babylon? (Jeremiah 32, 3)
This is the divine sentence;✻ I mean to hand over this city to capture by the king of Babylon and his Chaldaeans; they shall take it by storm, (Jeremiah 32, 28)
These, at my command, shall march on this city again, lay siege to it, and capture it, and burn it to the ground; and I will make the townships of Juda into a desert, never a soul to dwell there. (Jeremiah 34, 22)
whereupon the Chaldaeans will return to the attack, will capture this city and burn it to the ground. (Jeremiah 37, 7)
And this: Past doubt, the city will fall into the hands of the king of Babylon, by right of capture. (Jeremiah 38, 3)
Ay, says the Lord God, still fresh is the memory of that guilt; open rebels you are, and never a thought in your hearts but shews vile; capture awaits you, that revive those memories still. (Ezekiel 21, 24)
