Talált 237 Eredmények: Stone Cutting
First Ammon and Moab fell on the Edomites, cutting them down till there was nothing left of them; and when this was done, the two armies turned against one another, till their feud brought destruction on both. (2 Chronicles 20, 23)
Those of you, priests, Levites and door-keepers, whose turn it is to mount guard this week, will be keeping watch, a third of them over the gates, a third over the royal palace, and a third at the Foundation-stone Gate. All the rest are to be in the temple courts, (2 Chronicles 23, 5)
was paid over by the king and Joiada to the master-builders, who hired stone-cutters with it, and other craftsmen, to repair the Lord’s house; workers, too, in iron and bronze, so as to prop up what was like to fall down. (2 Chronicles 24, 12)
When this was duly done, all the Israelites there assembled went about among the cities of Juda, breaking the idols and cutting down the shrines from forest and hill-side, and destroying the altars; and this they did not only in Juda and Benjamin, but all over the territory of Ephraim and Manasses, till none were left. Then the Israelites made their way home to their own cities. (2 Chronicles 31, 1)
And they, in their turn, gave it to the craftsmen and masons, that must buy stone from the quarries; wood, too, for joiner’s work, and for roofing the buildings which earlier kings had left in ruins. (2 Chronicles 34, 11)
But meanwhile, money was being spent on quarrymen and stone-masons; on food, too, and drink, and oil for the men of Tyre and Sidon, who must convey cedar planks from Lebanon by sea to Joppe, in pursuance of the Persian king’s decree. (Ezra 3, 7)
This is to inform the king’s grace that we have paid a visit to Judaea, where they are building a temple of rough-hewn stone in honour of the great God; timber is already being fitted into the walls; they are busily employed, and have the work well in hand. (Ezra 5, 8)
upon these three rows of rough-hewn stone, and then courses of timber. For all this, the expense to be defrayed by the royal treasury. (Ezra 6, 4)
Thou didst part the waters at their coming, so that they crossed the sea dry-shod, didst hurl their pursuers into the depths of it, so that they sank like a stone beneath the rushing waves. (Nehemiah 9, 11)
How came its base to stand so firm; who laid its corner-stone? (Job 38, 6)
to make water hard as stone, imprison the depths beneath its surface? (Job 38, 30)
firm-set, too, is the heart of him, firm as ever stone was, or smith’s anvil. (Job 41, 15)
