Fondare 375 Risultati per: dedication of the altar
They burned incense on the altar and lit the lamps on the lamp-stand, and these shone inside the Temple. (1 Maccabees 4, 50)
and offered a lawful sacrifice on the new altar of burnt offering which they had made. (1 Maccabees 4, 53)
The altar was dedicated, to the sound of hymns, zithers, lyres and cymbals, at the same time of year and on the same day on which the gentiles had originally profaned it. (1 Maccabees 4, 54)
For eight days they celebrated the dedication of the altar, joyfully offering burnt offerings, communion and thanksgiving sacrifices. (1 Maccabees 4, 56)
Judas, with his brothers and the whole assembly of Israel, made it a law that the days of the dedication of the altar should be celebrated yearly at the proper season, for eight days beginning on the twenty-fifth of the month of Chislev, with rejoicing and gladness. (1 Maccabees 4, 59)
When the surrounding nations heard that the altar had been rebuilt and the sanctuary restored to what it had been before, they became very angry (1 Maccabees 5, 1)
and that they had pulled down the abomination which he had erected on the altar in Jerusalem, had encircled the sanctuary with high walls as in the past, and had fortified Beth-Zur, one of his cities. (1 Maccabees 6, 7)
Then he went off in a fury. At this, the priests went in again, and stood weeping in front of the altar and the Temple, saying, (1 Maccabees 7, 36)
'As we shall be celebrating the purification of the Temple on the twenty-fifth of Chislev, we consider it proper to notify you, so that you too may celebrate it, as you do the feast of Shelters and the fire that appeared when Nehemiah, the builder of the Temple and the altar, offered sacrifice. (2 Maccabees 1, 18)
For when our ancestors were being deported to Persia, the devout priests of the time took some of the fire from the altar and hid it secretly in a hole like a dry well, where they concealed it in such a way that the place was unknown to anyone. (2 Maccabees 1, 19)
and when this was done a flame flared up, to be absorbed in a corresponding blaze of light from the altar. (2 Maccabees 1, 32)
On his arrival, Jeremiah found a cave-dwelling, into which he put the tent, the ark and the altar of incense, afterwards blocking up the entrance. (2 Maccabees 2, 5)
