Löydetty 404 Tulokset: Jacob's Dream
Twelve stones he took, one for each tribe that sprang from the sons of Jacob, to whom the divine voice gave the surname of Israel; (1 Kings 18, 31)
The time was now come for offering the evening burnt-sacrifice; and as the prophet Elias went to the altar, thus he prayed, Lord God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, give proof this day that thou art the Lord God, and I am thy servant, and all I have done was done at thy command. (1 Kings 18, 36)
but now the Lord relented and came to their aid once more. Faithful to his covenant with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, he would not make an end of them and cast them off utterly as yet. (2 Kings 13, 23)
And so it is to this day; the old habits still cling. This is not to fear the Lord, this is not to keep observance and decree, law and command, as the sons of Jacob should; Jacob, to whom the Lord gave his name of Israel. (2 Kings 17, 34)
In thy name, these servants of thine have hurled insults at the Lord. It was thy dream that thou hadst scaled, with those many chariots of thine, the slopes of Lebanon; thou hadst cut down its tall cedars, its noble fir-trees, till thou couldst reach the very summit of its ascent, the garden its woods enclosed. (2 Kings 19, 23)
are you not the posterity of Israel, his own servant, sons of that Jacob on whom his choice fell? (1 Chronicles 16, 13)
by that law Jacob should live, his Israel, engaged to him by an eternal covenant. (1 Chronicles 16, 17)
And so, taking his daughter’s right hand and putting it into the right hand of Tobias, he gave them his blessing: May the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob be with you and himself join you in one, and fulfil his merciful purpose in you. (Tobit 7, 15)
how Isaac, Jacob, Moses, and all who won God’s favour, must be loyal to him under great affliction first. (Judith 8, 23)
Wherever the sons of Jacob dwell, said he, God has made thy name a name of blessing; wherever thy renown reaches through the world, the God of Israel shall be glorified in the telling of it. (Judith 13, 31)
I have not forgotten the dream I had, and all this was foretold in it; not a word but has come true. (Esther 10, 5)
And the single nation in my dream was Israel; did not Israel cry out to the Lord, and win his protection, win deliverance from its wrongs? Wondrous proof he gave of his power, for all the world to see. (Esther 10, 9)
