The Battle of Beth Zur was fought between the Maccabees led by Judas Maccabeus (Judah Maccabee) and a Seleucid Greek army led by Regent Lysias in October...

of the West Bank. Beth Zur is mentioned several times in the Hebrew Bible and the writings of the Roman Jewish historian Josephus. The Battle of Beth-Zur...

The Battle of Beth Zechariah took place around May 162 BC during the Maccabean revolt fought between Jewish rebels under the leadership of Judas Maccabeus...

Maccabees fought at the Battle of Beth Zur but it ended either inconclusively or with a minor Maccabee victory. However, news of Antiochus IV's death in...

of the revolt, 10,000 men at the Battle of Beth Zur, and possibly as many as 22,000 soldiers by the time of the defeat at Elasa. In several battles,...

Seleucids did indeed successfully occupy Beth-Zur, rather than the account here. The series of battles around Beth-Zur, the attack on Judas's forces, and a...

him, the Senate can influence events in the Seleucid kingdom. The Battle of Beth Zur was fought between Jewish rebel forces led by Judas Maccabeus and...

Timothy of Ammon and others. (~163 BC) Chapter 11: Lysias leads a military expedition to Judea. Judas defeats him at the Battle of Beth Zur. Four documents...

Seleucid camp while the Seleucid forces are split. Battle of Beth Zur: Judas Maccabeus defeats the army of Lysias, and captures Jerusalem soon after. Lysias...

200 BC, Battle of Panium 197 BC, Battle of Cynoscephalae 190 BC, Battle of Magnesia 167-160 BC, Revolt of the Maccabees 164 BC, Battle of Beth-zur 153 BC...

version of the Battle of Beth Zur where an angel armed with a golden weapon helped send the Seleucid army to flight. Thrones guard the gate of the holy of holies...

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question of the siege of Beth-zur, which was one year too late for Zuckermann's calendar. A consistent problem has been the ambiguity alleged in some of the...

of battles between the Seleucid Empire and the Ptolemaic kingdom. It was fortified by Judah the Maccabee after his victory in the Battle of Beth Zur nearby...

Jerusalem in 163 BCE. Lysias's second expedition. Beth Zur is besieged again and taken. The Battle of Beth Zechariah ends in Seleucid victory. The Acra is...

Led to the guerilla Battle of Wadi Haramia. 164 BC 25 Kislev: The Maccabees capture Jerusalem following the Battle of Beth Zur, and rededicate the Temple...

This is a list of known wars, conflicts, battles/sieges, missions and operations involving ancient Greek city states and kingdoms, Magna Graecia, other...

him, the Senate can influence events in the Seleucid kingdom. The Battle of Beth Zur was fought between Jewish rebel forces led by Judas Maccabeus and...

Maccabees to block the northward advance of the Seleucid army, after the Maccabee defeat in the Battle of Beth Zur. Alon Shvut sits on the ancient road to...

Seleucid force was forced to withdraw by a combination of the Battle of Beth Zur as well as the death of Antiochus IV. Lysias returned to the capital Antioch...

and today, Israel and Palestine. In addition to wars and battles, there may also be periods of violent, civil unrest included in this list, such as: massacres...

south, and besieged Beth-Zur. Judah raised the siege of the Acra and went to meet Lysias. In the Battle of Beth-zechariah, south of Bethlehem, the Seleucids...

Beth-horon, Bethel, Timnath, Pharathon, and Tephon. The largest concentration of Greek troops remained at the Acra citadel in Jeruslalem, Beth-zur, and...

Beth-Nimrah or Beth-nimrah (Hebrew: בית נמרה), also called Nimrin and Bethennabris,[citation needed] was an ancient city in Transjordan, which features...

derives from the Aramaic maqqəḇa, "the hammer", in recognition of Judah's ferocity in battle. The traditional Jewish explanation is that Maccabee (Hebrew:...

except those at Jerusalem's Akra fortress and at Beth-zur; he also made a bid for the loyalty of Jonathan, whom he permitted to recruit an army and...

Mary Beth Edelson (born Mary Elizabeth Johnson) (February 6, 1933 – April 20, 2021) was an American artist and pioneer of the feminist art movement, deemed...

BC – Maccabean Revolt Battle of Emmaus – 165 BC – Maccabean Revolt Battle of Beth Zur – 164 BC – Maccabean Revolt Battle of Beth Zechariah – 162 BC – Maccabean...

Beit El or Beth El (Hebrew: בֵּית אֵל) is an Israeli settlement and local council located in the Binyamin Region of the West Bank. The Orthodox Jewish...

Emmaus, Beth-horon, Beth-el, Thamnata (Timnatha), Pharathon, Tephon, Beth-zur, and Gazara. Bacchides also orders the taking hostages of the sons of various...