Fondare 310 Risultati per: large stones
Reacting against Lysimachus' attack, the people picked up stones or pieces of wood or handfuls of the ashes lying there and threw them in wild confusion at Lysimachus and his men. (2 Maccabees 4, 41)
All those who came out to watch, he massacred, and running through the city with armed men, he cut down a large number of people. (2 Maccabees 5, 26)
Coming unexpectedly upon towns and villages, he would set them on fire. He captured strategic positions, and put to flight a large number of the enemy. (2 Maccabees 8, 6)
Maccabeus assembled his men, six thousand strong, and exhorted them not to be panic-stricken before the enemy, nor to fear the large number of the Gentiles attacking them unjustly, but to fight courageously, (2 Maccabees 8, 16)
Timothy, who had previously been defeated by the Jews, gathered a tremendous force of foreign troops and collected a large number of cavalry from Asia; then he appeared in Judea, ready to conquer it by force. (2 Maccabees 10, 24)
After the defeat and destruction of these, he moved his army to Ephron, a fortified city inhabited by people of many nationalities. Robust young men took up their posts in defense of the walls, from which they fought valiantly; inside were large supplies of machines and missiles. (2 Maccabees 12, 27)
In the year one hundred and forty-nine, Judas and his men learned that Antiochus Eupator was invading Judea with a large force, (2 Maccabees 13, 1)
But Maccabeus noticed that Nicanor was becoming cool in his dealings with him, and acting with unaccustomed rudeness when they met; he concluded that this coldness betokened no good. So he gathered together a large number of his men, and went into hiding from Nicanor. (2 Maccabees 14, 30)
Where there are no oxen, the crib remains empty; but large crops come through the strength of the bull. (Proverbs 14, 4)
Better a little with virtue, than a large income with injustice. (Proverbs 16, 8)
A time to scatter stones, and a time to gather them; a time to embrace, and a time to be far from embraces. (Ecclesiastes 3, 5)
He who moves stones may be hurt by them, and he who chops wood is in danger from it. (Ecclesiastes 10, 9)