Znaleziono 647 Wyniki dla: Fortified City
mustered about eighty thousand foot soldiers and his entire cavalry and advanced against the Jews, intending to make the city a place for Greeks to live in, (2 Maccabees 11, 2)
Invading Judaea, he approached Beth-Zur, a fortified position about twenty miles from Jerusalem, and began to subject it to strong pressure. (2 Maccabees 11, 5)
Judas also attacked a certain fortified town, closed by ramparts and inhabited by a medley of races; its name was Caspin. (2 Maccabees 12, 13)
Having defeated and destroyed them, he led his army against Ephron, a fortified town, where Lysanias was living. Stalwart young men drawn up outside the walls offered vigorous resistance, while inside there were quantities of war-engines and missiles in reserve. (2 Maccabees 12, 27)
After separate consultation with the elders, he resolved not to wait for the king's army to invade Judaea and take possession of the city, but to march out and settle the whole matter with the Lord's help. (2 Maccabees 13, 13)
Having thus committed the outcome to the Creator of the world, and having exhorted his soldiers to fight bravely to the death for the laws, the Temple, the city, their country and their way of life, he encamped his army near Modein. (2 Maccabees 13, 14)
Onias began to speak: 'This is a man', he said, 'who loves his brothers and prays much for the people and the holy city-Jeremiah, the prophet of God.' (2 Maccabees 15, 14)
Encouraged by the noble words of Judas, which had the power to inspire valour and give the young the spirit of mature men, they decided not to entrench themselves in a camp, but bravely to take the offensive and, in hand-to-hand fighting, to commit the result to the fortune of war, since the city, their holy religion and the Temple were in danger. (2 Maccabees 15, 17)
Those left behind in the city felt a similar anxiety, alarmed as they were about the forthcoming encounter in the open country. (2 Maccabees 15, 19)
So ends the episode of Nicanor, and as, since then, the city has remained in the possession of the Hebrews, I shall bring my own work to an end here too. (2 Maccabees 15, 37)
she calls out at the street corners, she delivers her message at the city gates. (Proverbs 1, 21)
by the gates, at the entrance to the city, on the access-roads, she cries out, (Proverbs 8, 3)
