Talált 194 Eredmények: safe refuge

• Thus Jason, who had supplanted his own brother, was in turn supplanted by a third, and obliged to take refuge in Ammanitis. (2 Maccabees 4, 26)

• 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)

• Even so, he did not manage to seize power; and, in the end, his machinations brought him nothing but shame, and he took refuge once more in Ammanitis. (2 Maccabees 5, 7)

• He then ordered his soldiers to cut down without mercy everyone they encountered, and to butcher all who took refuge in their houses. (2 Maccabees 5, 12)

• In the course of their victory celebrations in Jerusalem, they burned the men who had fired the Holy Gates; with Callisthenes they had taken refuge in one small house; so these received a fitting reward for their sacrilege. (2 Maccabees 8, 33)

• Nine thousand at least took refuge in two exceptionally strong towers with everything they needed to withstand a siege, (2 Maccabees 10, 18)

• and after invoking God, the just judge, he attacked his brothers' murderers. Under cover of dark he set fire to the port, burned the boats and put to the sword everyone who had taken refuge there. (2 Maccabees 12, 6)

• When at long last he convinced them that he would honour his promise and return these people safe and sound, they let him go for the sake of saving their brothers. (2 Maccabees 12, 25)

• Do not desert her, she will keep you safe; love her, she will watch over you. (Proverbs 4, 6)

• Whoever goes bail for a stranger does himself harm, but one who shuns going surety is safe. (Proverbs 11, 15)

• The words of the wicked are snares to shed blood, what the honest say keeps them safe. (Proverbs 12, 6)

• Pride sprouts in the mouth of the fool, the lips of the wise keep them safe. (Proverbs 14, 3)