Found 390 Results for: Jacob's Story

• May God do good to you, and may he remember his covenant with Abraham and Isaac and Jacob, his faithful servants. (2 Maccabees 1, 2)

• The story of Judas Maccabeus and his brothers, and the purification of the great temple, and the dedication of the altar, (2 Maccabees 2, 19)

• Let what we have said serve as a reminder; we must go on briefly with the story. (2 Maccabees 6, 17)

• This, then, is how matters turned out with Nicanor. And from that time the city has been in the possession of the Hebrews. So I too will here end my story. (2 Maccabees 15, 37)

• For just as it is harmful to drink wine alone, or, again, to drink water alone, while wine mixed with water is sweet and delicious and enhances one's enjoyment, so also the style of the story delights the ears of those who read the work. And here will be the end. (2 Maccabees 15, 39)

• An ungracious man is like a story told at the wrong time, which is continually on the lips of the ignorant. (Ecclesiasticus 21, 19)

• He who tells a story to a fool tells it to a drowsy man; and at the end he will say, "What is it?" (Ecclesiasticus 23, 8)

• There is an utterance which is comparable to death; may it never be found in the inheritance of Jacob! For all these errors will be far from the godly, and they will not wallow in sins. (Ecclesiasticus 24, 12)

• "Then the Creator of all things gave me a commandment, and the one who created me assigned a place for my tent. And he said, `Make your dwelling in Jacob, and in Israel receive your inheritance.' (Ecclesiasticus 25, 8)

• All this is the book of the covenant of the Most High God, the law which Moses commanded us as an inheritance for the congregations of Jacob. (Ecclesiasticus 25, 23)

• He will not ignore the supplication of the fatherless, nor the widow when she pours out her story. (Ecclesiasticus 36, 14)

• Gather all the tribes of Jacob, and give them their inheritance, as at the beginning. (Ecclesiasticus 37, 11)