Fundar 105 Resultados para: Walls
and to heighten the walls of Jerusalem and erect a high barrier between the Citadel and the city, to cut the former off from the city and isolate it, to prevent the occupants from buying or selling. (1 Maccabees 12, 36)
So he assembled all the fighting men and hurried on with completing the walls of Jerusalem, fortifying the whole perimeter. (1 Maccabees 13, 10)
Simon built up the fortresses of Judaea, surrounding them with high towers, great walls and gates with bolts, and stocked these fortresses with food. (1 Maccabees 13, 33)
to station Jewish soldiers there instead for the security of the country and the city; and to heighten the walls of Jerusalem; (1 Maccabees 14, 37)
The rest of John's acts, the battles he fought and the exploits he performed, the city walls he built, and all his other achievements, (1 Maccabees 16, 23)
Women thronged the streets swathed in sackcloth below their breasts; girls secluded indoors came running, some to the doorways, some to the city walls, while others leaned out of the windows, (2 Maccabees 3, 19)
Then, on the strength of a false report that Antiochus was dead, Jason took at least a thousand men and launched an unexpected attack on the city. When the walls had been breached and the city was finally on the point of being taken, Menelaus took refuge in the Citadel. (2 Maccabees 5, 5)
With one accord they all blessed the God of mercy, and found themselves filled with such courage that they were ready to lay low not men only but the fiercest beasts and walls of iron. (2 Maccabees 11, 9)
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)
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)
he lodges close to her house, and fixes his peg in her walls; (Ecclesiasticus 14, 24)
and the man who sins against the marriage bed and says to himself, 'Who can see me? There is darkness all round me, the walls hide me, no one can see me, why should I worry? The Most High will not remember my sins.' (Ecclesiasticus 23, 18)