Trouvé 765 Résultats pour: Gold Altar
three hundred bucklers, too, of assayed gold, with three (hundred) minas of gold to cover each;✻ and all these the king put in the building that was called the Forest of Lebanon. (1 Kings 10, 17)
He also made a great throne of ivory, and lined it with gold unalloyed; (1 Kings 10, 18)
Of gold were all the goblets from which king Solomon drank, of purest gold all the furniture in the building called the Forest of Lebanon; no silver was used, for indeed in King Solomon’s day silver was little thought of. (1 Kings 10, 21)
And every three years the king’s fleet and Hiram’s would sail to Tharsis, whence they came back laden with gold and silver; with ivory, too, and apes, and peacocks for their freight. (1 Kings 10, 22)
And all these brought him gifts, so that gold and silver ware, presents of clothes and of armour, spices too, and horses and mules, came in year by year. (1 Kings 10, 25)
And he appointed a feast-day of his own, on the fifteenth day of the month, to match the feast-day kept in Juda, but it was in the eighth month. He too, in Bethel, would mount the steps of the altar and do sacrifice, but to calf-gods of his own making. And at Bethel he established the priests that served the hill-shrines he had made. (1 Kings 12, 32)
On the fifteenth day, then, of the eighth month, his self-devised feast-day for the sons of Israel, Jeroboam went up to the altar he had built in Bethel, and began, standing there, to offer incense. (1 Kings 12, 33)
At that very moment, as Jeroboam stood at the altar and cast the incense down, a prophet came to Bethel, sent by the Lord from Juda; (1 Kings 13, 1)
and in the Lord’s name he cried aloud against the altar, Listen, thou altar, listen to a message from the Lord. I see a prince that is to come, born of David’s race, Josias by name, that shall sacrifice on thee the very priests who now feed thee with incense; the bones of dead men shall be thy sacrifice. (1 Kings 13, 2)
And he offered them proof, there and then; Here is a sign, he told them, to prove that this message comes from the Lord; see if this altar does not fall apart, and spill the ashes it holds! (1 Kings 13, 3)
So cried the prophet against the altar at Bethel; and the king, hearing it, lifted his hand from the altar, pointed to the prophet and cried, Seize him! With that, his outstretched hand withered up; no more could he bring it back to his side; (1 Kings 13, 4)
and meanwhile, the altar fell apart, spilling its ashes; the very sign which the Lord had inspired his prophet to foretell. (1 Kings 13, 5)
