Gefunden 31 Ergebnisse für: Foundation
It was in his days that Hiel, a man of Bethel, rebuilt Jericho; the foundation of it cost him his eldest son Abiram, and the gates of it his youngest son Segub; such was the doom pronounced by Josue, son of Nun, in the Lord’s name.✻ (1 Kings 16, 34)
Those of you, priests, Levites and door-keepers, whose turn it is to mount guard this week, will be keeping watch, a third of them over the gates, a third over the royal palace, and a third at the Foundation-stone Gate. All the rest are to be in the temple courts, (2 Chronicles 23, 5)
So at last the masons laid the foundation of the Lord’s temple. There stood the priests in full array with their trumpets; there stood the Levites, come down from Asaph, with their cymbals, ready to praise God as David bade them, that long ago was king of all Israel. (Ezra 3, 10)
And as their hymn of praise went up to the Lord, The Lord is gracious, his mercy to Israel endures for ever, the whole people raised a great shout, thanking the Lord that now the foundation of his temple was laid. (Ezra 3, 11)
Perpetual time shall leave them changeless; right and truth are their foundation. (Psalms 110, 8)
Remember, Lord, how the sons of Edom triumphed when Jerusalem fell; O’erthrow it, they cried, o’erthrow it, till the very foundation is left bare. (Psalms 136, 7)
The Gentiles whom Judas had chased out of the country flocked, now, to Nicanor’s side, confident that the miserable ruin of the Jews would be the foundation of their own prosperity. (2 Maccabees 14, 14)
No foundation for a house like wisdom, no buttress like discernment; (Proverbs 24, 3)
they themselves, doomed to lie there dishonoured among the dead, eternally a laughing-stock! How they will stand aghast, when he pricks the bubble of their pride!✻ Ruins they shall be, overthrown from the foundation, land for ever parched dry; bitter torment shall be theirs, and their name shall perish irrecoverably. (Wisdom of Solomon 4, 19)
Justice shall be thy sure foundation; far from thy thoughts be all oppression, now thou hast nothing to fear, all tumult of the mind,✻ when peril is none to threaten thee. (Isaiah 54, 14)
that never corner-stone, never foundation-stone shall yield; the Lord dooms thee to lie for ever desolate. (Jeremiah 51, 26)
But feet and toes of the image were part iron, part clay; this fourth empire will be divided within itself. Foundation of iron there shall yet be, from which it springs; sure enough, in the feet thou sawest, earthenware was mixed with true steel. (Daniel 2, 41)
