Trouvé 339 Résultats pour: Foreign Gods
Strict charge he gave them, the Lord’s commandments they should keep ever in mind, nor let false gods, all gold and silver and fine array, steal away their hearts; (2 Maccabees 2, 2)
But Timotheus could not be content with one defeat at the hands of the Jews; he would bring in hordes of foreign soldiery, and cavalry from Asia, threatening Judaea with slavery. (2 Maccabees 10, 24)
Now that our father has found his place among the gods, it is for us to see that our subjects live at peace, and go quietly about their business. (2 Maccabees 11, 23)
and what found they? Each of the fallen was wearing, under his shirt, some token carried away from the false gods of Jamnia. Here was defiance of the Jewish law, and none doubted it was the cause of their undoing; (2 Maccabees 12, 40)
And from her, too, right counsel shall protect thee, the woman that is no daughter of Israel, with her mincing foreign ways, (Proverbs 2, 16)
Listen well, all you that have multitudes at your command, foreign hordes to do your bidding. (Wisdom of Solomon 6, 3)
And so it was that thou didst plague the Egyptians,✻ that were knaves and fools both; their own false gods should be the undoing of them. (Wisdom of Solomon 12, 23)
This was the worst error of all their erring, that they worshipped the meanest of beasts as gods; silly children had been no more credulous. (Wisdom of Solomon 12, 24)
Humiliated they well might be at those sufferings of theirs, the very gods they worshipped the instruments of their distress; a sight enough to convince them that he was the true God, whom all this while they had rejected! But no, they must needs bring upon themselves the full rigours of justice. (Wisdom of Solomon 12, 27)
Instead, they have pointed us to fire, or wind, or to the nimble air, wheeling stars, or tempestuous waves, or sun and moon, and made gods of them, to rule the world! (Wisdom of Solomon 13, 2)
And no marvel; what hurt should they take from the oath falsely sworn, since all their faith is in dead gods? (Wisdom of Solomon 14, 29)
Gods, for them, were all the idols of the heathen, with their sightless eyes, their nostrils that never drew breath, deaf ears, unfeeling hands, and feet that still would walk, yet still tarry; (Wisdom of Solomon 15, 15)
