Trouvé 675 Résultats pour: Folk Wisdom
So Josue conquered all the hill-country of the south, and the plains, and the foot-hills, and overthrew the kings that reigned there; with the Lord God of Israel for his warrant, he left no trace of the folk who dwelt there, but killed every living thing (Joshua 10, 40)
And when he caught sight of them, Gaal said to Zebul, Why, what is this throng of folk coming down from the hill-top? It is the shadows on the mountain-side, said he, thou art mistaking for human forms. (Judges 9, 36)
Thereupon the common folk took up the same cry of praise; Our god has given us the mastery, they said, over this enemy of ours, that so ruined our lands, that slew so many. (Judges 16, 24)
So these men went on their way, and when they reached Lais, they found a city where men dwelt free from all alarms. This was the way of the Sidonian folk, to live tranquilly and at ease; no civil power restrained them, and they had great wealth. Lais, too, was at a distance from Sidon, and remote from all the world. (Judges 18, 7)
bidding them hand over the wanton folk at Gabaa that had been the authors of it, so that their death might rid Israel of a disgrace. But the sons of Benjamin would take no orders from their fellow-Israelites; (Judges 20, 13)
but while they slew all the men-folk, and all the women who had had commerce with man, they must be careful to spare the unwedded maids. (Judges 21, 11)
still the elders were at a loss what to do for the rest of the Benjamites; Here are all their women-folk slain, they said, (Judges 21, 16)
And the Lord smote some of the Bethsamites themselves, for prying into the ark of the Lord. (And he smote seventy men out of the people, and fifty thousand of the common folk.✻ ) Over this visitation the Lord had brought on them there was great grief among the people; (1 Samuel 6, 19)
There were others, graceless folk, who asked contemptuously whether such a man as this could bring them victory; and no gift would they offer him. But Saul made as if he could not hear their mutterings. (1 Samuel 10, 27)
And now the Israelite folk found themselves hard pressed; and their evil plight drove them to take hiding in den and thicket, cave and cleft and pit; (1 Samuel 13, 6)
Then he said, Go round and bid the folk bring ox and ram to me here, to slaughter their meat on this stone; sin no more by eating it with the blood in it. So, till late at night, each man brought his ox with him and slaughtered it there. (1 Samuel 14, 34)
He captured Agag, the Amalecite king, but although he put all the common folk to the sword, (1 Samuel 15, 8)
