Trouvé 675 Résultats pour: Folk Wisdom
But I bade my own messengers answer, It is a hard task I must perform here; I am not for the plain. There would be folk standing idle here, while I came down to meet you. (Nehemiah 6, 3)
they might not partake of the food reserved for the priests, the governor told them, until there should be a high priest that bore the touchstones of wisdom and truth. (Nehemiah 7, 65)
And there in the open space before the Water-gate he proclaimed the law, before men and women and such younger folk as could take it in, from daybreak to noon, and all listened attentively while the reading went on. (Nehemiah 8, 3)
and the whole breed of Israel severed itself from all contact with alien folk. They met to confess their sins, and all the guilt their fathers had brought on them. (Nehemiah 9, 2)
The rulers must needs have their dwelling in Jerusalem; the common folk had their residence assigned by lot, every tenth man going to live in the holy city, while the other nine remained in the country parts; (Nehemiah 11, 1)
No sooner was this injunction made known, than the Israelites began to rid themselves of all contact with alien folk. (Nehemiah 13, 3)
Even now I found Jewish folk treading out their wine-presses and carrying burdens on the sabbath day. On the sabbath day they would load their asses with wine-skins, or grapes, or figs, or some other freight, and bring them to Jerusalem for sale. These I warned that they must find some other day for selling their wares; (Nehemiah 13, 15)
and every third year he tithed his goods afresh, for the needs of wanderers and homeless folk. (Tobit 1, 7)
if he has dispersed you among heathen folk who know nothing of him, it was so that you might tell them the story of his great deeds, convince them that he, and no other, is God all-powerful. (Tobit 13, 4)
Nay, the high priest Eliachim sent letters even further afield; the hill-folk that lived facing Esdrelon across the wide plain around Dothain, controlling the passes to the south, (Judith 4, 5)
and so with one voice they made appeal to the Lord, the God of Israel. Were they to see their children slaves, their women-folk allotted as spoil, their cities razed, their sanctuary profaned? Were they to become the scorn of the Gentiles? (Judith 4, 10)
And Eliachim, the Lord’s high priest, went about everywhere among the Israelite folk with words of comfort. (Judith 4, 11)
