Talált 6608 Eredmények: Lord
So it was decreed, from the time when the Israelites first cut themselves off from David’s line, and made Jeroboam, son of Nabat, their king; Jeroboam it was that drove men away from the Lord’s worship, and taught them to commit heinous sin. (2 Kings 17, 21)
until at last the Lord banished them from his presence, as all his prophets had foretold in his name, and they were carried off from their own country into Assyria, where they remain to this day. (2 Kings 17, 23)
but at their first coming they paid the Lord no reverence, and thereupon he sent a plague of lions, that preyed upon them. (2 Kings 17, 25)
News of this came to the Assyrian king, and a warning with it: The nations thou hast removed, and settled down in the cities of Samaria, have never learned how the God of that land would be worshipped; and he, the Lord, has sent a plague of lions among them. Must they die for want of knowledge how their new God is to be worshipped? (2 Kings 17, 26)
So the Assyrian king gave orders that one of the priests carried away thence should be restored to his home; should go to live among them, and teach them how to worship the Lord. (2 Kings 17, 27)
And in spite of it, they worshipped the Lord. They found priests among the dregs of the people, fit to serve hill-shrines, and in the hill-shrines they installed them; (2 Kings 17, 32)
but though they worshipped the Lord, they still paid court to their own gods with the usages of their own folk, learned before ever they came to Samaria. (2 Kings 17, 33)
And so it is to this day; the old habits still cling. This is not to fear the Lord, this is not to keep observance and decree, law and command, as the sons of Jacob should; Jacob, to whom the Lord gave his name of Israel. (2 Kings 17, 34)
To the Lord your God, he told them, the God who rescued you from Egypt with such signal proofs of his constraining power, all fear, all worship, all sacrifice belongs; (2 Kings 17, 36)
Here then, were nations that worshipped the Lord, yet obeyed their own false gods still; their sons, their grandsons did no better; and such is the rule they follow down to this day. (2 Kings 17, 41)
Here was one that obeyed the Lord’s will no less than his father David before him; (2 Kings 18, 3)
In the Lord God of Israel he put all his trust; never was a king of Juda to rival him before or after; (2 Kings 18, 5)
