Trouvé 1518 Résultats pour: Chosen People
Thus was the worship of the Lord’s house restored in full. Greatly did Ezechias and all the people rejoice over their duty well done, for all that the resolve was taken so suddenly. (2 Chronicles 29, 36)
keep it at the appointed time they might not, but must wait till priests had cleansed themselves in sufficient number, and the people could assemble at Jerusalem. (2 Chronicles 30, 3)
In answer to this prayer, the Lord gave his people quittance. (2 Chronicles 30, 20)
Then priests and Levites stood up to bless the people, nor did their voices go unheard; heaven’s holy dwelling-place echoed to their prayer. (2 Chronicles 30, 27)
No sooner was this decree made public, than the people began sending in the first-fruits of their corn, wine and oil; tithes, too, of their honey and of all their lands produced; (2 Chronicles 31, 5)
and when Ezechias and his nobles came to see them, they blessed the Lord’s name, and blessed the people of Israel. (2 Chronicles 31, 8)
their answer was, they had eaten their fill ever since the first-fruits began to come in, and now, such plenty had the Lord granted to his people, much was left unconsumed; it was this surplus that lay before him. (2 Chronicles 31, 10)
Tell me, in all these countries my fathers and I have laid waste, was there ever a god found could save his people from my power, that you should trust this God of yours when the same power threatens you? (2 Chronicles 32, 14)
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)
Warnings enough the Lord sent to him and to his people, but they went unheeded; (2 Chronicles 33, 10)
And he had his word for the Levites, too, that must teach all Israel and hallow it to the Lord’s service: Let the ark of God rest in its shrine, in the temple David’s son Solomon, that was king of all Israel, built for it; no need any longer for you to carry it this way and that.✻ You have tasks to perform for the Lord your God, and for his people of Israel. (2 Chronicles 35, 3)
Other gifts had been promised, for priests, Levites and people, by the men of his court; the controllers of the Lord’s house, Helcias, Zacharias and Jahiel, gave the priests, for their paschal victims, two thousand six hundred lambs and kids, and three hundred bulls; (2 Chronicles 35, 8)
