Löydetty 1138 Tulokset: David's Prayer
and so they fell to prayer, pleading that the sin might go unremembered. Judas himself, their gallant commander, gave public warning to his men, of fault they should evermore keep clear, with the fate of these transgressors under their eyes. (2 Maccabees 12, 42)
As for the Jews, when they heard Nicanor was on the march, with all this rabble of alien folk, they cast earth on their heads and betook themselves to prayer. Was it not God’s appointment, his people he should evermore preserve? Was he not wont to protect them with signal marks of his favour? (2 Maccabees 14, 15)
With that, he left them; and the priests, lifting up their hands to heaven, called upon the God that was ever the champion of their race, with such prayer as this: (2 Maccabees 14, 34)
to the confusion of yonder blasphemers that levy war on thy holy people! And so he brought his prayer to an end. (2 Maccabees 15, 24)
These proverbs were written by David’s son Solomon, that was king of Israel, (Proverbs 1, 1)
From the wicked, the Lord withholds his presence, listens only to the prayer of the just. (Proverbs 15, 29)
Turn a deaf ear to thy teachers, and thy prayer shall be all sacrilege. (Proverbs 28, 9)
Words of the Spokesman,✻ king David’s son, that reigned once at Jerusalem. (Ecclesiastes 1, 1)
Thy neck rising proudly, nobly adorned, like David’s embattled tower, hung about with a thousand shields, panoply of the brave; (Song of Solomon 4, 4)
Whence, then, did the prudence spring that endowed me? Prayer brought it; to God I prayed, and the spirit of wisdom came upon me.✻ (Wisdom of Solomon 7, 7)
And so, unashamed, for home and children and wife he utters his prayer, addressing himself all the while to a senseless thing. (Wisdom of Solomon 13, 17)
Nay, here is one that will go a-voyaging, the wild waves for his pathway, and perishable wood to carry him, yet he makes his prayer to a piece of wood more perishable yet! (Wisdom of Solomon 14, 1)
