Fondare 108 Risultati per: military victory
Open the gates of victory; I will enter and thank the LORD. (Psalms 118, 19)
You give victory to kings; you delivered David your servant. From the menacing sword (Psalms 144, 10)
For the LORD takes delight in his people, honors the poor with victory. (Psalms 149, 4)
for victory in war does not depend upon the size of the army, but on strength that comes from Heaven. (1 Maccabees 3, 19)
The king also honored him by numbering him among his Chief Friends and made him military commander and governor of the province. (1 Maccabees 10, 65)
Jason then slaughtered his fellow citizens without mercy, not realizing that triumph over one's own kindred was the greatest failure, but imagining that he was winning a victory over his enemies, not his fellow countrymen. (2 Maccabees 5, 6)
Ptolemy promptly selected Nicanor, son of Patroclus, one of the Chief Friends, and sent him at the head of at least twenty thousand armed men of various nations to wipe out the entire Jewish race. With him he associated Gorgias, a professional military commander, well-versed in the art of war. (2 Maccabees 8, 9)
While celebrating the victory in their ancestral city, they burned both those who had set fire to the sacred gates and Callisthenes, who had taken refuge in a little house; so he received the reward his wicked deeds deserved. (2 Maccabees 8, 33)
As soon as dawn broke, the armies joined battle, the one having as pledge of success and victory not only their valor but also their reliance on the Lord, and the other taking fury as their leader in the fight. (2 Maccabees 10, 28)
On completing these exploits, they blessed, with hymns of grateful praise, the Lord who shows great kindness to Israel and grants them victory. (2 Maccabees 10, 38)
A man called Dositheus, a powerful horseman and one of Bacenor's men, caught hold of Gorgias, grasped his military cloak and dragged him along by main strength, intending to capture the vile wretch alive, when a Thracian horseman attacked Dositheus and cut off his arm at the shoulder. Then Gorgias fled to Marisa. (2 Maccabees 12, 35)
Giving his men the battle cry "God's Victory," he made a night attack on the king's pavilion with a picked force of the bravest young men and killed about two thousand in the camp. They also slew the lead elephant and its rider. (2 Maccabees 13, 15)