Found 26 Results for: zeal

• "Phinehas, son of Eleazar, son of Aaron the priest, has turned my anger from the Israelites by his zeal for my honor among them; that is why I did not put an end to the Israelites for the offense to my honor. (Numbers 25, 11)

• So the king called the Gibeonites and spoke to them. (Now the Gibeonites were not Israelites, but survivors of the Amorites; and although the Israelites had given them their oath, Saul had attempted to kill them off in his zeal for the men of Israel and Judah.) (2 Samuel 21, 2)

• "Come with me," he said, "and see my zeal for the LORD." And he took him along in his own chariot. (2 Kings 10, 16)

• For out of Jerusalem shall come a remnant, and from Mount Zion, survivors. The zeal of the LORD of hosts shall do this.' (2 Kings 19, 31)

• Their wives you handed over to plunder, and their daughters to captivity; and all the spoils you divided among your favored sons, who burned with zeal for you, and in their abhorrence of the defilement of their kinswoman, called on you for help. (Judith 9, 4)

• Because zeal for your house consumes me, I am scorned by those who scorn you. (Psalms 69, 10)

• When Mattathias saw him, he was filled with zeal; his heart was moved and his just fury was aroused; he sprang forward and killed him upon the altar. (1 Maccabees 2, 24)

• Thus he showed his zeal for the law, just as Phinehas did with Zimri, son of Salu. (1 Maccabees 2, 26)

• Phinehas our father, for his burning zeal, received the covenant of an everlasting priesthood. (1 Maccabees 2, 54)

• Elijah, for his burning zeal for the law, was taken up to heaven. (1 Maccabees 2, 58)

• In the early days of the revolt, he had been convicted of Judaism, and had risked body and life in his ardent zeal for it. (2 Maccabees 14, 38)

• Without knowledge even zeal is not good; and he who acts hastily, blunders. (Proverbs 19, 2)