Fondare 1014 Risultati per: City Of Refuge
So, mustering their forces, they wrought indignant vengeance upon sinners that were false to the law, till they were fain to take refuge among the heathen; (1 Maccabees 2, 44)
From city to city he went, ridding Juda of its law-breakers, averting the vengeance guilt of theirs had deserved; (1 Maccabees 3, 8)
all down the pass of Bethoron he gave them chase, down into the plain, and eight hundred of them had fallen before ever they took refuge in the country of the Philistines. (1 Maccabees 3, 24)
Not at Jerusalem; Jerusalem lay there, no city but a desert waste, nor any of her sons came and went; her sanctuary defiled, her citadel garrisoned by the alien, she was but a haunt of the Gentiles. Sad days for the men of Jacob; pipe nor harp sounded there now. (1 Maccabees 3, 45)
But by this all the heathen folk in the country of Galaad were making common cause against the Israelites who dwelt there, eager to be rid of them. And these, taking refuge in the stronghold of Datheman, (1 Maccabees 5, 9)
Whereupon Judas and his men suddenly turned aside from their course into the desert of Bosor, and took the city; all its men-folk he put to the sword, and carried off the spoil of it, and burned it to the ground. (1 Maccabees 5, 28)
Here was the battle fairly begun; the cry of them went up to heaven, loud as clarion-call, and a great cry, too, was raised within the city. (1 Maccabees 5, 31)
So he crossed, challenging them, and all the army at his heels, and sure enough the Gentile host was routed at their coming; threw arms away, and sought refuge in the temple at Carnaim.✻ (1 Maccabees 5, 43)
Upon taking the city, he burned its temple to the ground with all that were sheltered in it; so was Carnaim vanquished, and could make head against Juda no more. (1 Maccabees 5, 44)
They journeyed safely as far as Ephron, that was a great city and well fortified, the very gate of Juda; turn to right or left they might not, their road lay through the heart of it. (1 Maccabees 5, 46)
and go to the assault they did, the fighting men of his company. All day and all night they attacked the city, and Judas was given the mastery of it. (1 Maccabees 5, 50)
Never a male creature there but was put to the sword; the city was plundered and pulled down; and so he passed on through the streets of it, all paved with dead men. (1 Maccabees 5, 51)
