Trouvé 147 Résultats pour: Precious Stones
bidding the very stones yield water, till fountains gushed from them, abundant as rivers. (Psalms 77, 16)
Precious beyond gold or jewel I hold thy law. (Psalms 118, 127)
and laid up the stones in a place apt for their purpose, there on the temple hill. Here they must remain, until the coming of a prophet that should give sentence, what was to be done with them. (1 Maccabees 4, 46)
Then they raised a new altar in place of the old, using stones that had never felt the pick, as the law bade;✻ (1 Maccabees 4, 47)
never be it said of me, in the hour of peril I held life dear, more precious than theirs! (1 Maccabees 13, 5)
Thereupon, letting themselves in by their secret door, they killed the general and his company with throwing of stones, cut them limb from limb, and threw them down headless to the populace without. (2 Maccabees 1, 16)
and when all was finished, Nehemias would have them drench great stones with the water that was left. (2 Maccabees 1, 31)
but the rabble, when they saw what he would be at, caught up stones or stout clubs for the attack, and some of them pelted him with cinders. (2 Maccabees 4, 41)
A precious heirloom it is, the tradition I teach, not to be lightly bartered away. (Proverbs 4, 2)
kept jealously, as thou lovest thy own life; precious to thee as the apple of thy eye be the teaching I give thee. (Proverbs 7, 2)
Mine is a yield better than gold or jewels, mine are revenues more precious than the finest silver. (Proverbs 8, 19)
Never yet did cunning achieve the gains it hoped for; a contented heart is precious as fine gold.✻ (Proverbs 12, 27)
