Trouvé 866 Résultats pour: Jerusalem's Reconstruction
So, amid great rejoicing, for seven days together, all the Israelites assembled at Jerusalem kept the feast of unleavened bread. Day by day priest and Levite stood there praising the Lord as best their music might; (2 Chronicles 30, 21)
such high festival was kept in Jerusalem as the city had never seen since the days of David’s son Solomon, that was king of all Israel. (2 Chronicles 30, 26)
it was for the citizens of Jerusalem to provide for the priests and Levites, so that they might devote all their time to the demands of the Lord’s law. (2 Chronicles 31, 4)
Ezechias, warned by his approach that Jerusalem was the chief object of his attack, (2 Chronicles 32, 2)
Sennacherib, the Assyrian king, was laying siege with his army to Lachis; and now he sent envoys to Jerusalem with a message for king Ezechias and for all the citizens; (2 Chronicles 32, 9)
Word to you, they said, from the king of Assyria. What confidence is it that makes you so bold, cooped up there in Jerusalem? (2 Chronicles 32, 10)
Nay, they must needs raise a cry in the Hebrew tongue, to daunt the folk who sat on Jerusalem walls, and persuade them to yield up the city. (2 Chronicles 32, 18)
Lightly did they speak of Jerusalem’s God, as if he had been all one with those old gods the Chanaanites worshipped, idols made by human hands. (2 Chronicles 32, 19)
Thus it was the Lord rescued Ezechias and the men of Jerusalem from the Assyrian king’s power, and of all else that assailed them; on every side he kept them free from alarm. (2 Chronicles 32, 22)
Many were the victims and offerings that were brought to the Lord at Jerusalem; many were the gifts made by Ezechias king of Juda, whom all the nations held thenceforward in high renown. (2 Chronicles 32, 23)
Yet it was an ill return he made for all these benefits; his heart was puffed up with pride, so that he brought punishment upon himself, on Juda, too, and Jerusalem; (2 Chronicles 32, 25)
for this pride of his, both he and the citizens of Jerusalem afterwards humbled themselves, and it was not in Ezechias’ own time that the Lord’s vengeance fell. (2 Chronicles 32, 26)
