Trouvé 310 Résultats pour: exiled Jews
When the battle was at its height, the enemy saw five magnificent men appear from heaven on horses with golden bridles and put themselves at the head of the Jews; (2 Maccabees 10, 29)
mustered about eighty thousand foot soldiers and his entire cavalry and advanced against the Jews, intending to make the city a place for Greeks to live in, (2 Maccabees 11, 2)
Maccabaeus, thinking only of the common good, agreed to all that Lysias proposed, and whatever Maccabaeus submitted to Lysias in writing concerning the Jews was granted by the king. (2 Maccabees 11, 15)
Here is the text of the letter Lysias wrote to the Jews: 'Lysias to the Jewish people, greetings. (2 Maccabees 11, 16)
We understand that the Jews do not approve our father's policy, the adoption of Greek customs, but prefer their own way of life and ask to be allowed to observe their own laws. (2 Maccabees 11, 24)
The king's letter to the Jewish nation was in these terms: 'King Antiochus to the Jewish Senate and the rest of the Jews, greetings. (2 Maccabees 11, 27)
The Jews may make use of their own kind of food and their own laws as formerly, and none of them is to be molested in any way for any unwitting offences. (2 Maccabees 11, 31)
The Romans also sent the Jews a letter, which read as follows: 'Quintus Memmius, Titus Manilius, Manius Sergius, legates of the Romans, to the people of the Jews, greetings. (2 Maccabees 11, 34)
These agreements once concluded, Lysias returned to the king and the Jews went back to their farming. (2 Maccabees 12, 1)
Among the local generals, Timotheus and Apollonius son of Gennaeus, as also Hieronymus and Demophon, and Nicanor the Cypriarch as well, would not allow the Jews to live in peace and quiet. (2 Maccabees 12, 2)
The people of Joppa committed a particularly wicked crime: they invited the Jews living among them to go aboard some boats they had lying ready, taking their wives and children. There was no hint of any intention to harm them; (2 Maccabees 12, 3)
there had been a public vote by the citizens, and the Jews accepted, as well they might, being peaceable people with no reason to suspect anything. But once out in the open sea they were all sent to the bottom, a company of at least two hundred. (2 Maccabees 12, 4)