Found 130 Results for: Burning Serpent
The idols of Egypt he shall carry away into banishment, first setting light to their temples and burning them down. Lightly as shepherd dons cloak, he shall invest himself with sovereignty over its people, and unmolested go his way, (Jeremiah 43, 12)
breaking in pieces the statues that adorn Egypt’s sun-temple, the shrines of Egypt burning to the ground. (Jeremiah 43, 13)
Does a temple catch fire? You shall see priests taking refuge in flight, and the wooden gods, for all the silver and gold on them, burning among the woodwork. (Baruch 6, 54)
Scarce had I brought them into the promised land, when the sight of high mountain here, thick forest there, set them offering victims in honour of my rivals, burning incense, pouring libations! (Ezekiel 20, 28)
Pile high the fuel for its burning! Why, how is this, meat wasted, the whole dish charred, the very bones calcined? (Ezekiel 24, 10)
the townsfolk of Israel will come out to gather kindling-wood and fire-wood out of the spoils that were left; shield and spear, bow and arrow, staff and pole; and they will be seven years a-burning. (Ezekiel 39, 9)
breaking out and burning such Chaldaeans as stood near it. (Daniel 3, 48)
and with one accord governor and judge and courtier clustered round them to look. Plain it was, the heat had no power over them; never a hair singed, nor a coat shrivelled, nor any smell of burning marked its passage. (Daniel 3, 94)
Clear as topaz his body was, like the play of lightning shone his face, and like burning cressets his eyes; arms and legs of him had the sheen of bronze, and when he spoke, it was like the murmur of a throng. (Daniel 10, 6)
There was a great serpent, too, in those parts that was worshipped by the folk of Babylon; (Daniel 14, 22)
and what did Daniel? Pitch and fat and hairs he boiled all together, and with lumps of this fed the serpent, which thereupon burst all to pieces; and, Here, said Daniel, is your god. (Daniel 14, 26)
Cast calf, Samaria, is yonder calf of thine; for this burning affront, it shall be long ere thou canst find acquittal. (Hosea 8, 5)
