Trouvé 1160 Résultats pour: Father Of The Nation
After this, he asked Zebee and Salmana about the men they had killed on mount Thabor;✻ What was the look of them? he said. None other, they answered, than thy own; not one of them but might have had such a royal father as thyself. (Judges 8, 18)
So Gedeon the son of Joas died, content in late old age, and was buried in the tomb of his father Joas, in Ephra, that belongs to the clan of Abiezer. (Judges 8, 32)
then went back to his father’s house at Ephra and his own brothers, the sons of Jerobaal. He murdered these at one blow,✻ all seventy of them except Joatham, the youngest, who hid away and escaped. (Judges 9, 5)
And now you have risen in arms against my father’s house, you have murdered at one blow seventy men that were his sons, and you have made Abimelech, the son of his serving-wench, king of all Sichem; one that is your own kin. (Judges 9, 18)
What, cried Gaal son of Obed, should Sichem, being the city she is, obey such a man as Abimelech? Shall this son of Jerobaal send his servant Zebul to rule over men that come down from Hamor, the father of Sichem? And must we all be his slaves? (Judges 9, 28)
Thus God punished Abimelech for the wrong he did to his father’s name by slaughtering those seventy brethren of his, (Judges 9, 56)
There was a Galaadite at this time called Jephte, who was brave and a skilful warrior; his mother was a harlot, his father bore the name of Galaad. (Judges 11, 1)
Why, said he, are you not the very men that have used me ill, and thrust me out of my father’s house? You must be hard driven by your need, that you should come to me now. (Judges 11, 7)
Why, father, she answered, if thou hast uttered a vow to the Lord, carry out thy promise; I am well content, now that thou hast won redress, and victory over thy enemies. (Judges 11, 36)
But, father, grant me this one request. Let me go away and spend two months with my fellow-maidens, out among the hills, bewailing my ill fortune, that I must die unwed. (Judges 11, 37)
And when the two months were over, she came back to her father; and he fulfilled his promise, and she died unwed. That is why the custom grew up in Israel which has been kept ever afterwards, (Judges 11, 39)
and when he went home he told his father and mother, I have seen a Philistine woman in Thamnatha I would fain have you choose out for my bride. (Judges 14, 2)
