Sentences with phrase «great slaughter»
The phrase "great slaughter" means a large-scale killing or massacre of a significant number of people or animals. It refers to a violent event where many lives are lost. Full definition
Jerusalem, Bethlehem, and other sacred places were taken, with great slaughter of Moslems, and the crusading Kingdom of Jerusalem was set up.
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The First Crusade captured Antioch in 1098, with great slaughter, and in the following year took Jerusalem, killing many of its inhabitants.
33 He struck them from Aroer until you come to Minnith, even twenty cities, and to Abelcheramim, with a very great slaughter.
He made a similar suggestion in 2003 during a speech at Georgetown University, pointing to a Bible scripture that spoke of a «day of great slaughter, when the towers fall,» adding «there are consequences when we turn away from our source of our strength.»
So Isaiah was LYING and JUST MADE UP THIS STUFF about God when he said «The sword of the Lord is filled with blood, it is made fat with fatness, and with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams: for the Lord hath a sacrifice in Bozrah, and a great slaughter in the land of Idumea.
In the day of great slaughter, when the towers fall, streams of water will flow on every high mountain and every lofty hill.
But if Brahms could write a powerful requiem without mentioning the words «God» or «Christ» or «Jesus» and Britten can write an effective requiem about war, why not a requiem for the victims of one of the great slaughters of human history?
Yet the Bible states that it was not the free will of Pharaoh that brought about this great slaughter.
In the great slaughters of the past century or two in Europe and America, Christians have killed Christians and Jews have killed Jews because they were separated by citizenship in time of war.
But there are fine, understated poetic moments throughout the book... (though the chapters on hunting methods and the great slaughters were so effectively awful that I found my teeth grinding and my slapping hand itching a little bit for our stupid, stupid ancestors.)