Found 1518 Results for: Chosen People
no chief, no clan but took part in this general muster of the Lord’s people. Four hundred thousand foot, (Judges 20, 2)
Lord God of Israel, they cried, what curse is this that has fallen on thy people, that a whole tribe of us should disappear? (Judges 21, 3)
she bade farewell to Moab and set out, with her two daughters-in-law, on the journey home; the Lord had been merciful to his people, she was told, and there was food to be had once more. (Ruth 1, 6)
and declared they would go on in her company, to the home of her own people. (Ruth 1, 10)
Here is thy sister-in-law gone back, Noemi said, back to her own people and the gods they worship; do thou, too, go with her. (Ruth 1, 15)
Nay, said Ruth, do not press me to go back and leave thee. I mean to go where thou goest, and dwell where thou dwellest; thy people shall be my people, thy God my God; (Ruth 1, 16)
Of this, I thought it well to give thee notice, and challenge thee before the neighbours who are sitting by, and these, the elders of my people. Hast thou a mind to play a kinsman’s part, and claim it for thy own? Then thou must buy it, and so enter into possession. If not, tell me, so that I may know what to do; thy right comes first, and mine second; there is no other kinsman. Yes, said he, I will buy it. (Ruth 4, 4)
and moreover, that I have taken Mahalon’s widow, Ruth the Moabitess, to wife. I mean to hand on the dead man’s property to heirs of his own, so that his name may never be lost to his family, his kindred and his people. Of all this, you are witnesses. (Ruth 4, 10)
The Lord will strike terror into his adversaries; hark, how his thunders roll above them in heaven! The Lord will sit in judgement on the remotest people of earth, the Lord will grant dominion and a sceptre of majesty to the king he has anointed. (1 Samuel 2, 10)
or the duty of his priests to the people. When a man was sacrificing some victim, the priest’s servant used to come up, with a three-pronged fork in his hand, while the meat was still cooking; (1 Samuel 2, 13)
What wickedness is this of yours, he said to them, that brings me the complaints of a whole people! (1 Samuel 2, 23)
Amend your ways; it is ill hearing, that you should lead the Lord’s people into transgression. (1 Samuel 2, 24)
