Talált 4347 Eredmények: King Of Israel
"Behold, we the servants of Nebuchadnezzar, the Great King, lie prostrate before you. Do with us whatever you will. (Judith 3, 2)
By this time the people of Israel living in Judea heard of everything that Holofernes, the general of Nebuchadnezzar the king of the Assyrians, had done to the nations, and how he had plundered and destroyed all their temples; (Judith 4, 1)
So the Israelites did as Joakim the high priest and the senate of the whole people of Israel, in session at Jerusalem, had given order. (Judith 4, 8)
And every man of Israel cried out to God with great fervor, and they humbled themselves with much fasting. (Judith 4, 9)
And all the men and women of Israel, and their children, living at Jerusalem, prostrated themselves before the temple and put ashes on their heads and spread out their sackcloth before the Lord. (Judith 4, 11)
They even surrounded the altar with sackcloth and cried out in unison, praying earnestly to the God of Israel not to give up their infants as prey and their wives as booty, and the cities they had inherited to be destroyed, and the sanctuary to be profaned and desecrated to the malicious joy of the Gentiles. (Judith 4, 12)
With ashes upon their turbans, they cried out to the Lord with all their might to look with favor upon the whole house of Israel. (Judith 4, 15)
When Holofernes, the general of the Assyrian army, heard that the people of Israel had prepared for war and had closed the passes in the hills and fortified all the high hilltops and set up barricades in the plains, (Judith 5, 1)
and said to them, "Tell me, you Canaanites, what people is this that lives in the hill country? What cities do they inhabit? How large is their army, and in what does their power or strength consist? Who rules over them as king, leading their army? (Judith 5, 3)
So the king of Egypt became hostile to them; he took advantage of them and set them to making bricks, and humbled them and made slaves of them. (Judith 5, 11)
"And who are you, Achior, and you hirelings of Ephraim, to prophesy among us as you have done today and tell us not to make war against the people of Israel because their God will defend them? Who is God except Nebuchadnezzar? (Judith 6, 2)
He will send his forces and will destroy them from the face of the earth, and their God will not deliver them -- we the king's servants will destroy them as one man. They cannot resist the might of our cavalry. (Judith 6, 3)
