Löydetty 547 Tulokset: Divine Vengeance
to make proof of Israel still; will they remember and follow the divine commands like their fathers, or not? (Judges 2, 22)
but his answer was, What, does Baal need champions such as you to vindicate him? Nay, let the man who is his adversary be struck dead before to-morrow’s light, if he is indeed a god; let him take his own vengeance on the man who destroyed his altar.✻ (Judges 6, 31)
And with that Joatham fled, and took refuge in Bara, where he could dwell safe from his brother Abimelech’s vengeance. (Judges 9, 21)
But now Ephraim raised the banners of civil war, crossing the river and march-ing northwards. The complaint they made to Jephte was, Why didst thou not summon us to thy aid when thou didst go to war with the Ammonites? We mean to take vengeance by burning thy house down about thy ears. (Judges 12, 1)
and when the men of Juda asked on what errand they came, they said they had come to make Samson prisoner, and take vengeance on him for all the ill he had done them. (Judges 15, 10)
And now he called the Lord to his aid; Lord God, he said, bethink thyself of me, and give me back, for this once, the strength I had of old. One stroke of vengeance, my God, on the enemies who have robbed me of both my eyes! (Judges 16, 28)
and these now mustered at Silo,✻ where they asked divine counsel to know who should lead them into battle against Benjamin; Juda, the Lord told them, is to be your leader. (Judges 20, 18)
and Samuel was asleep, there in the divine presence, where God’s ark was, with the sacred lamp still burning. (1 Samuel 3, 3)
Till then, Samuel was a stranger to the divine voice; the Lord had not made any revelation to him. (1 Samuel 3, 7)
Only she gave her son the name of Ichabod, thinking how the divine presence had left Israel, now the ark was taken; thinking, too, of her father-in-law and her husband; (1 Samuel 4, 21)
and this was the answer given: You must make five little mounts of gold, and five golden mice, one for each of the Philistine provinces; it was the same divine punishment that afflicted all the provinces, all the chiefs alike. When they are ready, these emblems of your shame, these figures of the mice that have ravaged your land, make amends with them to the God of Israel, and ask relief for yourselves, and your gods, and your lands. (1 Samuel 6, 5)
And now Samuel bade the whole people gather in the divine presence at Maspha, (1 Samuel 10, 17)
