Löydetty 339 Tulokset: Foreign Gods
he would even offer victims to the gods of Damascus, that were his enemies; These Syrian gods, thought he, help their own country now, they will be on my side instead, if I win them over with gifts. But in truth these gods were his ruin, and all Israel’s.✻ (2 Chronicles 28, 23)
First they set about destroying the altars up and down Jerusalem, overthrowing all the shrines at which incense had been burned to false gods; and these they threw down into Cedron valley. (2 Chronicles 30, 14)
See how I and my fathers have subdued the world, and the gods of a whole world could not rescue it from me! (2 Chronicles 32, 13)
Do not be deluded by the persuasions of Ezechias; do not listen to him. All those peoples and kingdoms my fathers and I have conquered, their gods notwithstanding; will your God do better? (2 Chronicles 32, 15)
there was a letter, too, Sennacherib wrote, full of blasphemy against the Lord God of Israel, boasting that Ezechias’ God could not save his people from attack, where the gods of so many other nations had failed them. (2 Chronicles 32, 17)
Lightly did they speak of Jerusalem’s God, as if he had been all one with those old gods the Chanaanites worshipped, idols made by human hands. (2 Chronicles 32, 19)
And he defied the Lord’s will, by courting the false gods of those nations which the Lord destroyed to make room for the sons of Israel. (2 Chronicles 33, 2)
He restored once again the hill-shrines which his father Ezechias had overthrown; he raised altars to the gods of the country-side, and set up sacred trees, and gave to all the host of heaven worship and observance. (2 Chronicles 33, 3)
Meanwhile, there was an end of the false gods, of the idol that stood in the Lord’s house, of the altars he had set up on the temple hill and all over Jerusalem; he cast them away beyond the city walls. (2 Chronicles 33, 15)
All the altars of the countryside gods must be destroyed in his presence; sacred trees and statues he cut down everywhere and broke in pieces, which he scattered on the tombs of their worshippers; (2 Chronicles 34, 4)
and on the altars that were raised to false gods he burned the bones of their own priests, till Juda and Jerusalem were defiled no more. (2 Chronicles 34, 5)
The men of Juda have forsaken me, and offered sacrifice to alien gods; all they do is done in defiance of me; the fire of my vengeance must needs rain down on this city, and there is no quenching it. (2 Chronicles 34, 25)
