Fondare 694 Risultati per: Hiding Place
At Maspha, then, they gathered, looking across towards Jerusalem; time was when Maspha, too, had its place of prayer. (1 Maccabees 3, 46)
What saw they? The holy place desolate, the altar profaned, charred gates, courts overgrown with brushwood, like forest clearing or mountain glen, the priests’ lodging in ruins. (1 Maccabees 4, 38)
And what did Judas? First, he sent a force to engage the citadel’s garrison, while the holy place was a-cleansing; (1 Maccabees 4, 41)
who thereupon cleansed the sanctuary, nor any stone that was polluted with idolatry but they had it away into a place unclean. (1 Maccabees 4, 43)
and laid up the stones in a place apt for their purpose, there on the temple hill. Here they must remain, until the coming of a prophet that should give sentence, what was to be done with them. (1 Maccabees 4, 46)
Then they raised a new altar in place of the old, using stones that had never felt the pick, as the law bade;✻ (1 Maccabees 4, 47)
incense be put on the altar, lamps kindled to light the holy place, (1 Maccabees 4, 50)
Meanwhile, what of the Jews that dwelt about the holy place? Here was the garrison of the citadel hemming them in, seeking ever to do them injury, and to sustain the Gentile cause. (1 Maccabees 6, 18)
But it was against the holy place itself that he turned his arms, and long he beleaguered it; what catapults he brought to bear on it, what engines! Flew fiery darts, flew stone and javelin and arrow from mangonel and arbalest, and the slings took their turn. (1 Maccabees 6, 51)
Only a few defenders were left in the holy place now; the rest, overtaken by famine, had dispersed to their homes. (1 Maccabees 6, 54)
This day a new enemy overwhelm with our onslaught, and let all the world know what comes of threatening thy holy place; for his ill-doing, ill requite him! (1 Maccabees 7, 42)
What a sight was this met their eyes! All manner of rout and display; the bridegroom, his friends and his brethren, passing on their way to the trysting-place, with beating of drums, and making of music, and all manner of warlike array! (1 Maccabees 9, 39)
