Fondare 154 Risultati per: Gates
After this, they took to fortifying the cities of Judaea with high walls and barred gates, making strongholds at Jericho, Ammaum, Bethoron, Bethel, Thamnata, Phara and Thopo; (1 Maccabees 9, 50)
and together they appeared before the gates of Joppe. Enter they might not, for Apollonius had a garrison there, but must needs attack it; (1 Maccabees 10, 75)
whereupon the citizens took alarm, and themselves opened the gates. Thus came Joppe into the power of Jonathan; (1 Maccabees 10, 76)
as for Jonathan, he had no sooner encamped before Ascalon, than the townsfolk opened the gates to him, and gave him honourable welcome. (1 Maccabees 10, 86)
To Syria he came, full of fair speeches, and all the towns opened their gates to welcome him; such welcome Alexander himself had prescribed; was not the king of Egypt his father-in-law? (1 Maccabees 11, 2)
came to Gaza, where they shut the gates on him, and he must needs undertake the siege of it. But when he had spread fire and rapine through the country-side, (1 Maccabees 11, 61)
No sooner had he entered Ptolemais than the townsfolk shut the gates behind him, secured his person, and put his retinue to the sword. (1 Maccabees 12, 48)
With a hundred and twenty thousand foot, and eight thousand horse, Antiochus came to the gates of Dora (1 Maccabees 15, 13)
The priests, then, had the money laid out in readiness; into the precincts he came, with a meagre retinue, and they, now that Antiochus was within, shut the temple gates. (2 Maccabees 1, 15)
There was Callisthenes, too, that had burnt down the gates of the sanctuary; when all Jerusalem was rejoicing over the victory, he took refuge within doors, and they burnt the place down about his ears; he too was served right for his godless doings. (2 Maccabees 8, 33)
Now was the hour of decision; the enemy was at the gates, drawn up in full array; here were the elephants, here was the cavalry, posted at points of vantage. (2 Maccabees 15, 20)
or at the city’s approach, close beside the gates, making proclamation. (Proverbs 8, 3)
