Fondare 2290 Risultati per: Enemies Of Israel
I, alone, often went to Jerusalem for the feasts, as is ordered for all the people of Israel by an everlasting decree. I went with the first fruits and tithes of my crop, and with the first shearings of the sheep. (Tobit 1, 6)
Give him thanks, sons of Israel, before all the nations. Though he has dispersed you among them (Tobit 13, 3)
and go to Media because I believe in the word of God which Nahum prophesied about Nineveh. Everything that the prophets sent by God pronounced about Assyria and Nineveh will happen. No word will be forgotten but it will all come to pass in due time. Nineveh will be destroyed. You will be safer in Media, where there will be peace for some time, because I am certain and I believe that all that God has said will be fulfilled. Our brothers and sisters who live in the land of Israel will be dispersed and led away into captivity. As a result the whole of the land of Israel will be deserted. Jerusalem and Samaria will be desolate. The House of God will be burned down and left in ruins for some time. (Tobit 14, 4)
The children of Israel in Judea learned what had happened to the other nations at the hands of Holofernes, the chief general of Nebuchadnezzar, the king of the Assyrians, and how he had plundered the neighboring villages and destroyed their sanctuaries. (Judith 4, 1)
The children of Israel obeyed the orders of Joakim and of the Council of the Elders which assembled in Jerusalem. (Judith 4, 8)
All the people of Israel called upon God with great fervor and humbled themselves before him. (Judith 4, 9)
All the men of Israel in Jerusalem, with their wives and children, bowed before the Temple, sprinkled ashes on their heads and held out their hands in supplication before the Lord. (Judith 4, 11)
They covered the Altar in sackcloth, and with one voice earnestly begged the God of Israel not to let their children be massacred, their wives raped, their towns destroyed and their Sanctuary profaned, that they might not become the laughingstock of other nations. (Judith 4, 12)
They put ashes on their turbans and cried out with all their strength to the Lord, asking him to watch over the whole house of Israel. (Judith 4, 15)
It was reported to Holofernes that the people of Israel were prepared for war, that they had closed the mountain passes, fortified the ramparts on the summits of all the high mountains and placed blockades in the plains. (Judith 5, 1)
But when they strayed from the path he had set for them, they were completely annihilated in many battles, and they were led off into captivity in a country not their own. The temple of their God was leveled to the ground and their cities were occupied by their enemies. (Judith 5, 18)
"We are not afraid of the children of Israel. Look, they are a people with no strength or energy to sustain a violent conflict. (Judith 5, 23)
