Löydetty 1737 Tulokset: Abraham Father Of Many Nations

• Nations will proclaim his wisdom, the assembly will celebrate his praises. (Ecclesiasticus 39, 10)

• so retribution is his legacy to the nations, just as he has turned fresh waters to salt. (Ecclesiasticus 39, 23)

• A godless father will be blamed by his children for the reproach he has brought on them. (Ecclesiasticus 41, 7)

• Be ashamed, before father and mother, of depraved behaviour, and before prince or potentate of telling lies; (Ecclesiasticus 41, 17)

• Unknown to her, a daughter keeps her father awake, the worry she gives him drives away his sleep: in her youth, in case she never marries, married, in case she should be disliked, (Ecclesiasticus 42, 9)

• as a virgin, in case she should be defiled and found with child in her father's house, having a husband, in case she goes astray, married, in case she should be sterile! (Ecclesiasticus 42, 10)

• Abraham, the great ancestor of a host of nations, no one was ever his equal in glory. (Ecclesiasticus 44, 19)

• The Lord therefore promised him on oath to bless the nations through his descendants, to multiply him like the dust on the ground, to exalt his descendants like the stars, and to give them the land as their heritage, from one sea to the other, from the River to the ends of the earth. (Ecclesiasticus 44, 21)

• To Isaac too, for the sake of Abraham his father, he assured (Ecclesiasticus 44, 22)

• He fell on that enemy nation, and at the Descent destroyed all resistance to make the nations acknowledge his warlike prowess and that he was waging war on behalf of the Lord. (Ecclesiasticus 46, 6)

• For Hezekiah did what is pleasing to the Lord, and was steadfast in the ways of David his father, enjoined on him by the prophet Isaiah, a great man trustworthy in his vision. (Ecclesiasticus 48, 22)

• There are two nations that my soul detests, the third is not a nation at all: (Ecclesiasticus 50, 25)