Fondare 31 Risultati per: Towers

• Then they rebuilt the city of David with a high and solid wall protected by strong towers, and this became their fortress. (1 Maccabees 1, 33)

• At that time, they built around Mount Zion high walls and strong towers to prevent the pagans from coming in to occupy it as they had done before. (1 Maccabees 4, 60)

• So Judas, after blockading and besieging them in their towers, took an oath to exterminate them; he then burned the towers with all who were inside. (1 Maccabees 5, 5)

• Judas with his brothers went to the Negeb to fight the Edomites. He seized Hebron and its villages, demolished its walls and burned its defending towers. (1 Maccabees 5, 65)

• Now Simon rebuilt the fortresses of Judea, surrounded them with high towers and great walls with barred gates, and stored food in them. (1 Maccabees 13, 33)

• The enemy fled as far as the towers in the fields of Azotus, but John burned these down. About two thousand of the enemy perished. And after this, John returned safely to Judea. (1 Maccabees 16, 10)

• At least nine thousand men took refuge in the two towers that were strongly fortified with everything they needed to withstand a prolonged siege. (2 Maccabees 10, 18)

• Yet the men of Simon were tempted by greed, and let themselves be bought with the silver of those in the towers. So in exchange for sixty thousand pieces of silver, they allowed a number of them to escape. (2 Maccabees 10, 20)

• He condemned them to death as traitors, and proceeded at once to capture the towers. (2 Maccabees 10, 22)

• He killed more than twenty thousand men in those two towers, successfully bringing to an end the undertaking they had begun. (2 Maccabees 10, 23)

• Others took advantage of this diversion to climb the walls and set fire to the towers. They made bonfires and burned the blasphemers alive. Others destroyed the gates while the rest of the army entered to occupy the city. (2 Maccabees 10, 36)

• If she were a rampart, we would build towers of silver on it. If she were a gate, we would enclose it with panels of cedar. (Song of Solomon 8, 9)