Trouvé 432 Résultats pour: Jacob's Story
Has not the Lord made choice of Jacob, claimed Israel for his own? (Psalms 134, 4)
Down the ages the story of thy deeds is told, thy power is ever acclaimed; (Psalms 144, 4)
Happier the man who turns to the God of Jacob for help, puts no confidence but in the Lord his God, (Psalms 145, 5)
This is the God who makes his word known to Jacob, gives Israel ruling and decree. (Psalms 147, 8)
Great deeds, that kings rued bitterly, Jacob with exultation heard, posterity holds blessed evermore! (1 Maccabees 3, 7)
Not at Jerusalem; Jerusalem lay there, no city but a desert waste, nor any of her sons came and went; her sanctuary defiled, her citadel garrisoned by the alien, she was but a haunt of the Gentiles. Sad days for the men of Jacob; pipe nor harp sounded there now. (1 Maccabees 3, 45)
Their first thought was to rid their own territory of Jacob’s breed, and all at once they set about to murder and harry them. (1 Maccabees 5, 2)
So now Judas made choice of two envoys, Eupolemus, son of John, son of Jacob, and Jason, son of Eleazar; to Rome they should go, and there make a treaty of good will and alliance. (1 Maccabees 8, 17)
King Alexander heard of these overtures made by Demetrius; heard, too, the story of Jonathan and his brethren, battles fought, and deeds done, and labours endured. (1 Maccabees 10, 15)
Never a city but he furnished it with store of provisions; a bulwark each of them should be of sturdy defence. What wonder if the story of his renown was noised to the world’s end? (1 Maccabees 14, 10)
God speed you well, the covenant he made with his true worshippers, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, never forgetting; (2 Maccabees 1, 2)
And here, in this same document, the story was told, how a divine oracle came to Jeremias, and he must needs go out, with tabernacle and ark to bear him company, to the very mountain Moses climbed long ago, when he had sight of God’s domain.✻ (2 Maccabees 2, 4)
