Löydetty 703 Tulokset: City Gates
Up! March on a nation at its ease, living secure, Yahweh declares, that has no gates, no bars, that lives in a remote place! (Jeremiah 49, 31)
The warriors of Babylon have done with fighting, they have stayed inside their fortresses; their courage exhausted, they are now like women. Her houses are on fire, her gates are shattered. (Jeremiah 51, 30)
Courier follows close on courier, messenger on messenger, to tell the king of Babylon that his city has been taken from all sides, (Jeremiah 51, 31)
Yahweh Sabaoth says this: The walls of Babylon the Great will be rased to the ground, and her lofty gates will be burnt down. Thus peoples toil for nothing and nations wear themselves out, for the flames. (Jeremiah 51, 58)
In the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, on the tenth day of the month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon advanced on Jerusalem with his entire army; he pitched camp in front of the city and threw up earthworks round it. (Jeremiah 52, 4)
The city lay under siege till the eleventh year of King Zedekiah. (Jeremiah 52, 5)
In the fourth month, on the ninth day of the month, when famine was raging in the city and there was no food for the populace, (Jeremiah 52, 6)
a breach was made in the city wall. The king and all the fighting men then fled, leaving the city under cover of dark, by way of the gate between the two walls, which is near the king's garden -- the Chaldaeans had surrounded the city -- and made his way towards the Arabah. (Jeremiah 52, 7)
Nebuzaradan commander of the guard deported (some of the poor people and) the remainder of the population left in the city, the deserters who had gone over to the king of Babylon, and the rest of the artisans. (Jeremiah 52, 15)
In the city he took prisoner an official who was in command of the fighting men, seven of the king's personal friends who were discovered in the city, the secretary to the army commander responsible for military conscription, and sixty men of distinction discovered in the city. (Jeremiah 52, 25)
How deserted she sits, the city once thronged with people! Once the greatest of nations, she is now like a widow. Once the princess of states, she is now put to forced labour. (Lamentations 1, 1)
I called to my lovers; they failed me. My priests and my elders expired in the city, as they searched for food to keep themselves alive. (Lamentations 1, 19)
