Talált 4578 Eredmények: God
but they made their abode in Mesopotamia, because they had no mind to worship the old gods of Chaldaea; (Judith 5, 7)
gods a many their fathers’ worship owned, but they forsook it, (Judith 5, 8)
to worship one God only, the God of heaven. He it was bade them remove thence, and dwell in Charan. At a time when famine overspread the world, they took refuge in Egypt; and there, when four hundred years had passed,✻ they had grown so numerous that there was no counting the muster of them. (Judith 5, 9)
To these, as they fled, the God of heaven opened a path through the sea, whose waves stood firm as a wall to right and left while they marched across its floor dry-shod; (Judith 5, 12)
Go where they would, without bow or arrow, shield or spear, God fought for them, and won the victory; (Judith 5, 16)
there was no beating down such a people as this, save when they forsook the worship of the Lord their God; (Judith 5, 17)
only when they worshipped some god other than himself, their own God, would he let them be plundered, and slaughtered, and treated with insult. (Judith 5, 18)
Even then, did they but repent of their revolt from his allegiance, the God of heaven would give them strength to resist their assailants. (Judith 5, 19)
All went well with them, so long as no sin of theirs offended his eye, the God that is an enemy to all wrong. (Judith 5, 21)
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)
it was but lately that they turned to their God again, and he reunited the scattered remnants of them. So they returned to these hills, and took possession anew of Jerusalem, where their sanctuary is. (Judith 5, 23)
Of this, then, my lord, assure thyself first; has any guilt of theirs lost them the favour of their God? Then indeed march we against them; none more ready than this God of theirs to hand them over to thee, fit subjects for thy overmastering yoke. (Judith 5, 24)
