Talált 25 Eredmények: opposition to Nehemiah
We shall be celebrating the purification of the temple on the twenty-fifth day of the month Chislev, so we thought it right to inform you, that you too may celebrate the feast of Booths and of the fire that appeared when Nehemiah, the rebuilder of the temple and the altar, offered sacrifices. (2 Maccabees 1, 18)
Many years later, when it so pleased God, Nehemiah, commissioned by the king of Persia, sent the descendants of the priests who had hidden the fire to look for it. (2 Maccabees 1, 20)
When they informed us that they could not find any fire, but only muddy water, he ordered them to scoop some out and bring it. After the material for the sacrifices had been prepared, Nehemiah ordered the priests to sprinkle with the water the wood and what lay on it. (2 Maccabees 1, 21)
While the sacrifice was being burned, the priests recited a prayer, and all present joined in with them, Jonathan leading and the rest responding with Nehemiah. (2 Maccabees 1, 23)
After the sacrifice was burned, Nehemiah ordered the rest of the liquid to be poured upon large stones. (2 Maccabees 1, 31)
When the event became known and the king of the Persians was told that, in the very place where the exiled priests had hidden the fire, a liquid was found with which Nehemiah and his people had burned the sacrifices, (2 Maccabees 1, 33)
Nehemiah and his companions called the liquid nephthar, meaning purification, but most people named it naphtha. (2 Maccabees 1, 36)
Besides these things, it is also told in the records and in Nehemiah's Memoirs how he collected the books about the kings, the writings of the prophets and of David, and the royal letters about sacred offerings. (2 Maccabees 2, 13)
Onias saw that the opposition was serious and that Apollonius, son of Menestheus, the governor of Coelesyria and Phoenicia, was abetting Simon's wickedness. (2 Maccabees 4, 4)
Extolled be the memory of NEHEMIAH! He rebuilt our ruined walls, Restored our shattered defenses, and set up gates and bars. (Ecclesiasticus 49, 13)
and Jason has welcomed them. They all act in opposition to the decrees of Caesar and claim instead that there is another king, Jesus." (Acts 17, 7)
I urge you, brothers, to watch out for those who create dissensions and obstacles, in opposition to the teaching that you learned; avoid them. (Romans 16, 17)
