Fondare 2623 Risultati per: King David
Thereupon Holofernes summoned all the chieftains and commanders of the Assyrian army, and mustered a force to march out and do the king’s bidding, a hundred and twenty thousand that went on foot, and twelve thousand mounted archers. (Judith 2, 7)
And now from every city and province, from the Syrians of Mesopotamia and Sobal and from (Libya✻ and) Cilicia, king and chieftain sent envoys to Holofernes. (Judith 3, 1)
Spare us thy further vengeance, they said; better we should live as slaves to the great king Nabuchodonosor, under thy commands, than be reduced by slaughter, undergoing massacre and slavery both. (Judith 3, 2)
king Nabuchodonosor had bidden him destroy all traces of the countryside gods, so that the nations overpowered by Holofernes might acknowledge no other god but himself. (Judith 3, 13)
The king of Egypt oppressed them, forcing them to make bricks of clay and build cities for him; so they cried out to this Lord of theirs, and he smote the whole land of Egypt with plagues of every sort, (Judith 5, 10)
So it was they overthrew kings a many, Chanaanite and Jebusite, Pherezite and Hethite and Hevite; the Amorrhite king, too, and all the warrior chiefs of Hesebon; took possession of their lands, and garrisoned their cities. (Judith 5, 20)
Can the men of Israel, without arms, without valour, without skill in war, hold out against king Nabuchodonosor and his troops? (Judith 5, 27)
But now chief and captain and commander in the Assyrian king’s service were waiting there, and they said to Holofernes’ attendants, (Judith 14, 11)
Here is great despite done, he cried, to the court of king Nabuchodonosor, and one Jewish woman its author! Holofernes lies there felled to the earth, and no head on his body! (Judith 14, 16)
From golden cups they drank, and the very trenchers on which the meat was served were ever of new design. Wine they had in plenty, and of rare vintage, as befitted a king’s state; (Esther 1, 7)
nor was any man compelled to drink; the king had set one of his nobles at the head of each table, bidding him see that each man drank as drink he would. (Esther 1, 8)
The seventh day had come; the king’s heart was merry, warmed by long draughts of wine; and now he had an errand for the seven chamberlains that waited on him, Maumam, Bazatha, Harbona, Bagatha, Abgatha, Zethar and Charchas. (Esther 1, 10)
