Talált 1160 Eredmények: Father Of The Nation
On his death-bed, he called his seven grandsons to him, with their father Tobias, and spoke thus: (Tobit 14, 5)
This, then, my sons, is your father’s testament: Keep true to the Lord’s service, studying ever to carry out his will; (Tobit 14, 10)
Meanwhile, in good earnest, the whole nation made appeal to the Lord, doing penance, men and women alike, with fast and prayer. (Judith 4, 8)
But there was a time, these many years back, when they forsook the old paths God had given them to follow; then, in battle after battle, nation after nation defeated them, and a multitude of them were borne away as captives into an alien land; (Judith 5, 22)
Lord God of my father Simeon, thou didst put a sword in his hand to punish the alien for foul wrong done, for a virgin stripped and shamed;✻ (Judith 9, 2)
sent a letter to each nation in the tongue it spoke, the characters it used, decreeing that a man should be lord and master in his own house, and the whole world must take note of it.✻ (Esther 1, 22)
And the single nation in my dream was Israel; did not Israel cry out to the Lord, and win his protection, win deliverance from its wrongs? Wondrous proof he gave of his power, for all the world to see. (Esther 10, 9)
Roused by their clamour, the whole world rose to levy war against one innocent nation; (Esther 11, 7)
Then this innocent nation, terrified by the misfortunes which threatened it, already marked down to die, (Esther 11, 9)
but already he had an enemy, Aman son of Amadathi, the Bugaean. This Aman was in high favour with the king, and owed both Mardochaeus and his nation a grudge for bringing the two chamberlains to their death.Here is a copy of the letter.) (Esther 12, 6)
This Aman, next to the king in dignity, is one we reverence like a father; in all our provinces, he is supreme. He will name the malefactors, who must be put to death with their wives and children, and no mercy shewn, on the fourteenth of Adar in this present year. (Esther 13, 6)
He received from us nothing but friendly usage; we would have him called our father, we would have reverence paid to him as one that stood next to the king’s person. (Esther 16, 11)
