Löydetty 79 Tulokset: meaning of the tower of babel
He ordained also that that day should be kept every year with gladness. Moreover the hill of the temple that was by the tower he made stronger than it was, and there he dwelt himself with his company. (1 Maccabees 13, 52)
And gathered together a great number of captives, and had the dominion of Gazera, and Bethsura, and the tower, out of the which he took all uncleaness, neither was there any that resisted him. (1 Maccabees 14, 7)
For in his time things prospered in his hands, so that the heathen were taken out of their country, and they also that were in the city of David in Jerusalem, who had made themselves a tower, out of which they issued, and polluted all about the sanctuary, and did much hurt in the holy place: (1 Maccabees 14, 36)
My meaning also being to go through the country, that I may be avenged of them that have destroyed it, and made many cities in the kingdom desolate: (1 Maccabees 15, 4)
Furthermore he sent unto him Athenobius, one of his friends, to commune with him, and say, Ye withhold Joppa and Gazera; with the tower that is in Jerusalem, which are cities of my realm. (1 Maccabees 15, 28)
For he built gladly a place of exercise under the tower itself, and brought the chief young men under his subjection, and made them wear a hat. (2 Maccabees 4, 12)
Now there was in that place a tower of fifty cubits high, full of ashes, and it had a round instrument which on every side hanged down into the ashes. (2 Maccabees 13, 5)
Now when the multitude would have taken the tower, and violently broken into the outer door, and bade that fire should be brought to burn it, he being ready to be taken on every side fell upon his sword; (2 Maccabees 14, 41)
So when he was there, and called them of his nation together, and set the priests before the altar, he sent for them that were of the tower, (2 Maccabees 15, 31)
He hanged also Nicanor's head upon the tower, an evident and manifest sign unto all of the help of the Lord. (2 Maccabees 15, 35)
The name of the LORD [is] a strong tower: the righteous runneth into it, and is safe. (Proverbs 18, 10)
Thy neck [is] like the tower of David builded for an armoury, whereon there hang a thousand bucklers, all shields of mighty men. (Song of Solomon 4, 4)