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Thinking he had found a favourable opportunity, Menelaus abstracted a number of golden vessels from the Temple and presented them to Andronicus, and managed to sell others to Tyre and the surrounding cities. (2 Maccabees 4, 32)
A decree was issued at the instance of the people of Ptolemais for the neighbouring Greek cities, enforcing the same conduct on the Jews there, obliging them to share in the sacrificial meals, (2 Maccabees 6, 8)
She it was who, while the godless perished, saved the upright man as he fled from the fire raining down on the Five Cities, (Wisdom of Solomon 10, 6)
That third tongue has shattered the peace of many and driven them from nation to nation; it has pulled down fortified cities, and overthrown the houses of the great. (Ecclesiasticus 28, 14)
How splendid he was when, arms uplifted, he brandished his sword against cities! (Ecclesiasticus 46, 2)
He made the world a desert, he levelled cities and never freed his prisoners to go home." (Isaiah 14, 17)
Make ready to slaughter his sons for the guilt of their father! Never again must they rise to conquer the world and cover the face of the earth with their cities. (Isaiah 14, 21)
That day, its cities of refuge will be abandoned as were the woods and heaths at the Israelites' advance: there will be desolation. (Isaiah 17, 9)
Do you hear? Long ago I prepared this, from days of old I actually planned it, now I carry it out. You were to lay walled cities in heaps of ruins; (Isaiah 37, 26)
Let the desert and its cities raise their voices, the encampments where Kedar lives. Let the inhabitants of the Rock cry aloud for joy and shout from the mountain tops. (Isaiah 42, 11)
They will rebuild the ancient ruins, they will raise what has long lain waste, they will restore the ruined cities, all that has lain waste for ages past. (Isaiah 61, 4)
your holy cities have become a desert, Zion has become a desert, Jerusalem a wasteland. (Isaiah 64, 9)