 | Arthur S. P. Woodhouse, Douglas Bush - 1970 - 416 Seiten
...(which Masson omits) connotes massive weapons of defence: 'engines, invented by cunning men, to be on the towers and upon the bulwarks, to shoot arrows and great stones withal' (2 Chron. 26. 15). As to two-handed and smite [smites in 1638 text], Milton used them in his poetry... | |
 | Bernard Brodie, Fawn M. Brodie - 1973 - 324 Seiten
...Old Testament King Uzziah, of the eighth century BC, seems to have used catapults which he placed "on the towers and upon the bulwarks to shoot arrows and great stones withal." But it was the Greeks and Romans who developed the astonishing siege machines capable of destroying... | |
 | 1954 - 164 Seiten
...the Bible which says that King Uzziah, who lived in the eighth century BC, made engines “to be on the towers and upon the bulwarks to shoot arrows and great stones withal.” The Greeks and Bronze (about 1000 BC) The weapons of the early days of Greece were mostly bronze. Though... | |
 | Jonas Clark - 2000 - 316 Seiten
...teamwork, etc. DIVINE STRATEGIES “And he made in Jerusalem engines, invented by cunning men, to be on the towers and upon the bulwarks, to shoot arrows and great stones withal. And his name spread far abroad; for he was marvelously helped, till he was strong” (2 Chronicles... | |
 | 2003 - 322 Seiten
...God's. II Chronicles 20:15. 2 He [Uzziah] made in Jerusalem engines, invented by cunning men, to be on the towers and upon the bulwarks, to shoot arrows and great stones withal. And his name spread far abroad. 11 Chronicles 26:15. ¿ I will not trust in my bow, neither shall my... | |
 | 230 Seiten
...bows, and slings to east stones. And he made in Jerusalem engines, invented by cunning men, to be on the towers and upon the bulwarks, to shoot arrows and great stones withal. And his name spread far abroad; for he was marvelously helped, till he was strong. But when he was... | |
 | John Phillips - 2004 - 232 Seiten
...15:18—20). We read of King Uzziah, “And he made in Jerusalem engines, invented by cunning men, to be on the towers and upon the bulwarks, to shoot arrows and great stones withal. And his name spread far abroad; for he was marvellously helped, till he was strong. But. . .“ (2... | |
 | Margaret Oliphant - 2005 - 609 Seiten
...no water for the besiegers. Perhaps some of the uncouth machines " invented by cunning men to be on the towers, and upon the bulwarks, to shoot arrows and great stones withal," might still remain in their old places—means of desperate defence such as that made in later times... | |
 | James C. Muir - 2005 - 113 Seiten
...we read in 2 Chronicles 26:15: "And he made in Jerusalem engines, invented by cunning men, to be on the towers and upon the bulwarks, to shoot arrows and great stones withal." Ezekiel, prophesying the destruction of Tyre, wrote: "And he shall set engines of war against thy walls"... | |
 | Walter Curtis Lichfield - 2005 - 626 Seiten
...slings (to cast) stones. 26:15 And he made in Jerusalem engines, invented by cunning men, to be on the towers and upon the bulwarks, to shoot arrows and great stones withal. And his name spread far abroad; for he was marvelously helped, till he was strong. 26:16 But when he... | |
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engines, invented by cunning men, to be upon the towers and upon the bulwarks, to shoot arrows and great stones withal." It is therefore probable that the ram was at least known in those days, although 
