Fondare 1895 Risultati per: War
Thanking all such, and desiring them they would continue their good offices towards the Jewish folk, the army returned to Jerusalem, to keep the festival of the Weeks. (2 Maccabees 12, 31)
As for Gorgias, one Dositheus, a great warrior that was in Bacenor’s company of horse, kept close on his heels and would have taken him alive; but one of the Thracian horsemen fell upon him and cut off his arm at the shoulder, so Gorgias escaped safe to Maresa. (2 Maccabees 12, 35)
A long fight Esdrin’s company had of it, and were full weary, when Judas called upon the Lord to succour them and lead them onwards, (2 Maccabees 12, 36)
and so they fell to prayer, pleading that the sin might go unremembered. Judas himself, their gallant commander, gave public warning to his men, of fault they should evermore keep clear, with the fate of these transgressors under their eyes. (2 Maccabees 12, 42)
from its walls the author of sacrilege is thrust forward to his death by the common impulse of the bystanders. (2 Maccabees 13, 6)
A fitting reward, this, for one that had done so many outrages upon God’s altar; fire of it and ashes of it are sacred, and it was by ashes Menelaus went to his death. (2 Maccabees 13, 8)
Yet still the king pressed forward on his mad career, as if he would prove himself a worse enemy of Jewry than his father; (2 Maccabees 13, 9)
And this was his answer: It is the faction of the Assideans, with Judas Machabaeus at their head, that will ever be fanning the flames of war, and moving revolt, and destroying the peace of the realm. (2 Maccabees 14, 6)
Towards Judas he shewed unaffected friendship, such a liking he had taken for the man; (2 Maccabees 14, 24)
And now, as if to give public proof of hatred towards the Jews, Nicanor sent five hundred men to take him alive; (2 Maccabees 14, 39)
Then he was ware of another, a man of great age and reverence, nothing about him but was most worshipful; (2 Maccabees 15, 13)
And with that, Jeremias reached forward to Judas, and gave him a golden sword; (2 Maccabees 15, 15)
