Talált 1146 Eredmények: Nations Of The Earth
So she came up, and fell at his feet, bowing down to the earth; then she took up her son and went out, (2 Kings 4, 37)
he followed the example of the Israelite kings, even consecrating his son by passage through the fire, after the idolatrous wont of those nations which the Lord drove out to make room for Israel. (2 Kings 16, 3)
Afterwards, they took their forms of worship from the very nations the Lord had driven out to make room for them, or from kings who imitated their ways. (2 Kings 17, 8)
and there they burnt incense on their altars, imitating the nations God had dispossessed before their onslaught. Foul deeds were done, to challenge the Lord’s anger, (2 Kings 17, 11)
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)
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)
What of other nations? Were their countries delivered, by this god or that, when the king of Assyria threatened them? (2 Kings 18, 33)
What, hast thou not heard what the kings of Assyria have done to the nations everywhere, destroying them utterly? And what hope hast thou of deliverance? (2 Kings 19, 11)
And this was the prayer which Ezechias made to him, Lord God of Israel, who hast thy throne above the cherubim, thou alone art God over all the kingdoms of the world, heaven and earth are of thy fashioning. (2 Kings 19, 15)
It is true, Lord, that the kings of Assyria have brought ruin on whole nations, and the lands they lived in, (2 Kings 19, 17)
A remnant of Juda’s race will be saved, and this remnant will strike root deep in earth, bear fruit high in air; (2 Kings 19, 30)
This, then, is what the Lord has to tell thee about the king of the Assyrians; he shall never enter this city, or shoot an arrow into it; no shield-protected host shall storm it, no earth-works shall be cast up around it. (2 Kings 19, 32)
