Cutlass and corselet of steel, and his trusty sword of Damascus.
And he gathered men unto him, and became captain over a band, when David slew them of Zobah: and they went to Damascus, and dwelt therein, and reigned in Damascus.
And the Lord said to me: Arise, and go to Damascus; and there it shall be told thee of all things that thou must do.
Activists are intent on using the extra nightly prayers during the month of fasting to intensify protests, particularly in Damascus and Aleppo.
A well-orchestrated demonstration in favour of Mr Assad on March 29th drew tens of thousands of people onto the streets of Damascus, many of them genuinely keen to support him.
The burden of Damascus.
The attacks on Arab embassies in Damascus in recent days were stupid.
Are not Abana and Pharpar, the rivers of Damascus, better than any of the waters of Israel?
Israeli police broke up the protest along with another one at Damascus Gate using tear gas and stun grenades, AP reported.
Damascus and Aleppo are still loyal to the regime, but so much blood has been shed that Assad must realise that the prospect of keeping hold of his country has gone.
"Now the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, and all he did, and his power, and how he went to war with Damascus, causing the wrath of the Lord to be turned away from Israel, are they not recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Israel?"
Es Safa is a striking basaltic volcanic field located to the south-east of Damascus, Syria.
Then David put garrisons in Syria of Damascus: and the Syrians became servants to David, and brought gifts.
The fortress also shall cease from Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damascus, and the remnant of Syria: they shall be as the glory of the children of Israel, saith the LORD of hosts.
You can not imagine how beautiful Damascus.
She relentlessly tracks them down to their abodes of exile in Abu Dhabi, Amman, Beirut, Damascus and London.
Hazael went to meet Elisha, taking with him as a gift forty camel-loads of all the finest wares of Damascus.
This diplomatic gambit hasn't done anything to curb Damascus.
At the same time, he has decided to send two high-level officials to Damascus for talks with Syria.
兩個關鍵問題之一是，叛亂會否行進至敍利亞首都大馬士革（Damascus ）和第二大城市哈拉普（Aleppo）。這兩個城市目前相對安定，但絕非毫無動靜。
And when the Syrians of Damascus came to help Hadarezer king of Zobah, David slew of the Syrians two and twenty thousand men.
Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.
Anxiety is rising in central Damascus, thus far mainly insulated from the unrest.
When the Arameans of Damascus came to help Hadadezer king of Zobah, David struck down twenty-two thousand of them.
The first of two big questions is whether the revolt will get going in Damascus and Aleppo, the capital and Syria's second city respectively, which have been relatively but by no means entirely quiet.
The security forces are now pinning down several districts of Damascus, ringing them with checkpoints. In the past few days they have made a series of raids and arrests.
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