Znaleziono 340 Wyniki dla: Fortifying Cities
Spent is the enemy’s power, doomed to everlasting ruin; the memory of them has died with the fall of their cities. (Psalms 9, 7)
God will grant deliverance to Sion; the cities of Juda will rise from their ruins, inhabited now and held firmly in possession, (Psalms 68, 36)
Two years passed, and then the king sent his chief collector of revenue to visit the cities of Juda. To Jerusalem he came, with a great rabble at his heels, (1 Maccabees 1, 30)
Both in Jerusalem and in all the cities of Juda the king’s envoys published this edict; men must live by the law of the heathen round about, (1 Maccabees 1, 46)
how there were many whom their fellow-citizens had brought to bay in such great fortified cities as Barasa, Bosor, Alima, Casphor, Mageth and Carnaim; (1 Maccabees 5, 26)
besides many others cut off in the rest of the Galaadite towns. And to-morrow, he was told, the heathen mean to occupy these cities with their army, seizing upon the Israelites and making an end of them, all in one day’s work. (1 Maccabees 5, 27)
then on to seize Casbon, and Mageth, and Bosor, and the remaining cities of Galaad.✻ (1 Maccabees 5, 36)
And now Judas turned aside to Azotus, in the country of the Philistines; altars he pulled down, images of their gods burned to ashes, gave up their cities to plunder, and so came back again to the land of Juda. (1 Maccabees 5, 68)
After this, they took to fortifying the cities of Judaea with high walls and barred gates, making strongholds at Jericho, Ammaum, Bethoron, Bethel, Thamnata, Phara and Thopo; (1 Maccabees 9, 50)
both Azotus and all the neighbouring cities Jonathan burnt and plundered, and Dagon’s temple, with all that took shelter there, was burnt with the rest. (1 Maccabees 10, 84)
All the cities of the sea-coast, as far as maritime Seleucia, king Ptolemy occupied, and with no friendly purpose towards Alexander; (1 Maccabees 11, 8)
We therefore confirm them in the possession of all Judaea, the three cities of Ephraim, Lydda and Ramathan, that formerly belonged to Samaria, and all their neighbouring townships … to all those who do sacrifice at Jerusalem; instead of the yearly revenues hitherto set apart for the king from harvest and fruit-gathering.✻ (1 Maccabees 11, 34)
