Fondare 1522 Risultati per: Alt
So bulls and rams and lambs were slaughtered, and the altar received their blood; (2 Chronicles 29, 22)
and then the priests slaughtered them, and poured out their blood at the altar to expiate Israel’s common guilt; the king’s command was that burnt-sacrifice and offering for fault should both be offered on behalf of the whole people. (2 Chronicles 29, 24)
First they set about destroying the altars up and down Jerusalem, overthrowing all the shrines at which incense had been burned to false gods; and these they threw down into Cedron valley. (2 Chronicles 30, 14)
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)
Tell me, who is Ezechias? Is he not the man who has robbed this God of hill-shrine and altar, leaving you but one altar to repair to, when you would do worship and burn incense before him? (2 Chronicles 32, 12)
He restored once again the hill-shrines which his father Ezechias had overthrown; he raised altars to the gods of the country-side, and set up sacred trees, and gave to all the host of heaven worship and observance. (2 Chronicles 33, 3)
Nay, he must set up these altars of his in the temple itself, where the Lord fulfilled his promise that Jerusalem should be the shrine of his name for ever; (2 Chronicles 33, 4)
altars there must be for all the host of heaven in the two temple courts. (2 Chronicles 33, 5)
Meanwhile, there was an end of the false gods, of the idol that stood in the Lord’s house, of the altars he had set up on the temple hill and all over Jerusalem; he cast them away beyond the city walls. (2 Chronicles 33, 15)
The Lord’s altar must be restored; to this he brought his victims, his welcome-offerings and thank-offerings, and bade Juda serve the Lord, the God of Israel. (2 Chronicles 33, 16)
All the altars of the countryside gods must be destroyed in his presence; sacred trees and statues he cut down everywhere and broke in pieces, which he scattered on the tombs of their worshippers; (2 Chronicles 34, 4)
and on the altars that were raised to false gods he burned the bones of their own priests, till Juda and Jerusalem were defiled no more. (2 Chronicles 34, 5)
