Fondare 179 Risultati per: wall of protection
How long will you set upon a man to shatter him, all of you, like a leaning wall, a tottering fence? (Psalms 62, 3)
Then they fortified the city of David with a great strong wall and strong towers, and it became their citadel. (1 Maccabees 1, 33)
But when the king entered Mount Zion and saw what a strong fortress the place was, he broke the oath he had sworn and gave orders to tear down the wall all around. (1 Maccabees 6, 62)
In the one hundred and fifty-third year, in the second month, Alcimus gave orders to tear down the wall of the inner court of the sanctuary. He tore down the work of the prophets! (1 Maccabees 9, 54)
So Alexander fled into Arabia to find protection there, and King Ptolemy was exalted. (1 Maccabees 11, 16)
So they gathered together to build up the city; part of the wall on the valley to the east had fallen, and he repaired the section called Chaphenatha. (1 Maccabees 12, 37)
The men in the city, with their wives and children, went up on the wall with their clothes rent, and they cried out with a loud voice, asking Simon to make peace with them; (1 Maccabees 13, 45)
When the priests of the temple of Nanea had set out the treasures and Antiochus had come with a few men inside the wall of the sacred precinct, they closed the temple as soon as he entered it. (2 Maccabees 1, 15)
This was the outcome of the episode of Heliodorus and the protection of the treasury. (2 Maccabees 3, 40)
When a false rumor arose that Antiochus was dead, Jason took no less than a thousand men and suddenly made an assault upon the city. When the troops upon the wall had been forced back and at last the city was being taken, Menelaus took refuge in the citadel. (2 Maccabees 5, 5)
and he who had driven many from their own country into exile died in exile, having embarked to go to the Lacedaemonians in hope of finding protection because of their kinship. (2 Maccabees 5, 9)
For example, two women were brought in for having circumcised their children. These women they publicly paraded about the city, with their babies hung at their breasts, then hurled them down headlong from the wall. (2 Maccabees 6, 10)