Znaleziono 2576 Wyniki dla: Deliverance Of The People
When Maccabeus and his men got word that Lysias was besieging the strongholds, they and all the people, with lamentations and tears, besought the Lord to send a good angel to save Israel. (2 Maccabees 11, 6)
The letter written to the Jews by Lysias was to this effect: "Lysias to the people of the Jews, greeting. (2 Maccabees 11, 16)
The Romans also sent them a letter, which read thus: "Quintus Memmius and Titus Manius, envoys of the Romans, to the people of the Jews, greeting. (2 Maccabees 11, 34)
he attacked the people of Jamnia by night and set fire to the harbor and the fleet, so that the glow of the light was seen in Jerusalem, thirty miles distant. (2 Maccabees 12, 9)
After a hard fight Judas and his men won the victory, by the help of God. The defeated nomads besought Judas to grant them pledges of friendship, promising to give him cattle and to help his people in all other ways. (2 Maccabees 12, 11)
Then Judas marched against Carnaim and the temple of Atargatis, and slaughtered twenty-five thousand people. (2 Maccabees 12, 26)
After the rout and destruction of these, he marched also against Ephron, a fortified city where Lysias dwelt with multitudes of people of all nationalities. Stalwart young men took their stand before the walls and made a vigorous defense; and great stores of war engines and missiles were there. (2 Maccabees 12, 27)
But when the Jews who dwelt there bore witness to the good will which the people of Scythopolis had shown them and their kind treatment of them in times of misfortune, (2 Maccabees 12, 30)
and they turned to prayer, beseeching that the sin which had been committed might be wholly blotted out. And the noble Judas exhorted the people to keep themselves free from sin, for they had seen with their own eyes what had happened because of the sin of those who had fallen. (2 Maccabees 12, 42)
But when Judas heard of this, he ordered the people to call upon the Lord day and night, now if ever to help those who were on the point of being deprived of the law and their country and the holy temple, (2 Maccabees 13, 10)
and not to let the people who had just begun to revive fall into the hands of the blasphemous Gentiles. (2 Maccabees 13, 11)
The king negotiated a second time with the people in Beth-zur, gave pledges, received theirs, withdrew, attacked Judas and his men, was defeated; (2 Maccabees 13, 22)
