Fondare 147 Risultati per: Simon

• And now Tryphon invaded Juda, bent on its undoing; his troops must fetch a compass by the road that leads round to Ador, and, march they where they would, Simon and his army were at their heels. (1 Maccabees 13, 20)

• There lay the bones of Simon’s brother Jonathan, till he sent to fetch them, and gave them burial at Modin, the city of his fathers. (1 Maccabees 13, 25)

• Over the graves of his father and his brethren Simon raised a towering monument, of dressed stone behind and before; (1 Maccabees 13, 27)

• All the fortresses of Judaea Simon repaired, building them up with high tower and stout wall, with bolt and bar; and never a garrison but had provisions laid up in store. (1 Maccabees 13, 33)

• King Demetrius to the high priest Simon, the friend of kings, and to all the elders and people of the Jews, greeting. (1 Maccabees 13, 36)

• and this style the people began to use, were it private bond or public instrument they indited, In the first year of Simon’s high priesthood, chief paramount and governor of the Jews. (1 Maccabees 13, 42)

• Then it was that Simon marched on Gaza,✻ and beleaguered it with his army; built engines, and forced an entry into one of the towers. (1 Maccabees 13, 43)

• here were the townsfolk, with their wives and children, mounting the walls with their garments rent about them, and crying aloud, Simon should give them quarter; (1 Maccabees 13, 45)

• At that, Simon relented; harry them to the death he would not, but he drove them out of the city, and cleansed all the houses where idols had stood; then, with singing of psalms and giving of thanks, he made his entry; (1 Maccabees 13, 47)

• At last they cried out to Simon, he should give them quarter, and give them quarter he did, but drove them out, and cleansed the citadel of its pollution. (1 Maccabees 13, 50)

• Every year, Simon proclaimed, holiday should be kept at this time; (1 Maccabees 13, 52)

• And now here was his son John grown into a brave warrior; him Simon put at the head of the whole army, with his quarters at Gazara. (1 Maccabees 13, 54)