pronađen 33 Rezultati za: Slavery
No memory of the wondrous protection thou hadst given them could win their obedience; they would spurn the yoke, and take their own defiant path, the path that led back to slavery. But thou, a God so indulgent, so kind, so merciful, so patient, so pitying, wouldst not abandon them; (Nehemiah 9, 17)
Here are we, this day, living as slaves; here are the wide lands, the rich lands thou gavest to our fathers, to till and to enjoy, and we are living on them in slavery. (Nehemiah 9, 36)
Spare us thy further vengeance, they said; better we should live as slaves to the great king Nabuchodonosor, under thy commands, than be reduced by slaughter, undergoing massacre and slavery both. (Judith 3, 2)
thou didst mark down their wives for spoil, their daughters for slavery, their goods as forfeit, to reward the men who had thy honour at heart. Listen now, O Lord my God, to a widow’s prayer. (Judith 9, 3)
to send fire through our country-side, put our warriors to the sword, mark down our children for slavery, our maidens for spoil. (Judith 16, 6)
I have eased his shoulder of the burden, freed his hands from the slavery of the hod! (Psalms 80, 7)
women and children carried off into slavery, cattle driven away. (1 Maccabees 1, 34)
and in Israel itself there were many that chose slavery, offering sacrifice to false gods and leaving the sabbath unobserved. (1 Maccabees 1, 45)
Rome’s task it should be to rid them of the Grecian yoke; from the Greeks it was plain they could expect nothing better than grinding slavery. (1 Maccabees 8, 18)
By the end of three days, eighty thousand had been massacred, forty thousand held as prisoners, and as many more sold into slavery. (2 Maccabees 5, 14)
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)
a race even more inhospitable than the men of Sodom before them? These did but refuse a welcome when strangers came to their doors; the Egyptians condemned their own guests, their own benefactors, to slavery. (Wisdom of Solomon 19, 13)
