Znaleziono 169 Wyniki dla: Judas
When Philip saw Judas was making steady progress and winning more and more frequent successes, he wrote to Ptolemy, the general officer commanding Coele-Syria and Phoenicia, asking for reinforcements in the royal interest. (2 Maccabees 8, 8)
When news reached Judas of Nicanor's advance, he warned his men of the enemy's approach, (2 Maccabees 8, 12)
When Judas heard of the cruel fate of his countrymen, he issued his orders to his men (2 Maccabees 12, 5)
When they had left the town barely a mile behind them in their advance on Timotheus, Judas was attacked by an Arab force of at least five thousand foot soldiers, with five hundred cavalry. (2 Maccabees 12, 10)
A fierce engagement followed, and with God's help Judas' men won the day; the defeated nomads begged Judas to offer them the right hand of friendship, and promised to surrender their herds and make themselves generally useful to him. (2 Maccabees 12, 11)
Realising that they might indeed prove valuable in many ways, Judas consented to make peace with them and after an exchange of pledges the Arabs withdrew to their tents. (2 Maccabees 12, 12)
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)
Confident in the strength of their walls and their stock of provisions, the besieged adopted an insolent attitude to Judas and his men, reinforcing their insults with blasphemies and profanity. (2 Maccabees 12, 14)
But Judas and his men invoked the great Sovereign of the world who without battering-ram or siege-engine had overthrown Jericho in the days of Joshua; they then made a fierce assault on the wall. (2 Maccabees 12, 15)
Timotheus' first move on learning of Judas' advance was to send away the women and children and the rest of the baggage train to the place called the Carnaim, since it was an impregnable position, difficult of access owing to the narrowness of all the approaches. (2 Maccabees 12, 21)
Judas' cohort came into sight first. The enemy, seized with fright and panic-stricken by the manifestation of the All-seeing, began to flee, one running this way, one running that, often wounding one another in consequence and running on the points of one another's swords. (2 Maccabees 12, 22)
Judas pursued them with a will, cutting the sinners to pieces and killing something like thirty thousand men. (2 Maccabees 12, 23)
