Trouvé 94 Résultats pour: Destruction Of Altars
sent dispatches to Judas and his brethren. Here be all the neighbours, they wrote, banded together for our destruction. (1 Maccabees 5, 10)
And now Judas turned aside to Azotus, in the country of the Philistines; altars he pulled down, images of their gods burned to ashes, gave up their cities to plunder, and so came back again to the land of Juda. (1 Maccabees 5, 68)
Down came the altars Gentile folk had set up in the open streets, down came the shrines, (2 Maccabees 10, 2)
what meant his creation, but that all created things should have being? No breed has he created on earth but for its thriving; none carries in itself the seeds of its own destruction. Think not that mortality bears sway on earth;✻ (Wisdom of Solomon 1, 14)
When they themselves encountered brute malice, and the bites of writhing serpents threatened them with destruction, (Wisdom of Solomon 16, 5)
no fellowship hast thou with those others, no share in their sepulture, thou who didst lead thy country to ruin, thou, who didst bring destruction on thy people. The posterity of the wicked shall be nameless for ever; (Isaiah 14, 20)
He will turn no longer towards altars of his own designing, have eyes no longer for pillar and shrine of his own fashioning. (Isaiah 17, 8)
Or wilt thou answer, We trust, I and my people, in the Lord our God? Tell me, who is he? Is he not the God whose hill-shrines and altars their king, Ezechias, has cleared away, bidding Juda and Jerusalem worship at one altar here? (Isaiah 36, 7)
I brought thy inviolable princes to dishonour, gave up Jacob to destruction, Israel to the scorn of his enemies. (Isaiah 43, 28)
Lift up your eyes to the heavens, cast them down to earth again; those heavens shall vanish like smoke, that earth be fretted away like a garment, and all who dwell on it share the same destruction; my saving power is eternal, my faithfulness inexhaustible. (Isaiah 51, 6)
openly defying me. Shrines hidden away in gardens, altars of brick! (Isaiah 65, 3)
No township of thine, Juda, but must have its own deity, no street in Jerusalem but thou wouldst set up there altars abominable, where sacrifice is offered to the gods of the country-side! (Jeremiah 11, 13)
