Fondare 986 Risultati per: City Gates
At this time they appointed certain priests and Levites to take charge of the treasury, and receive offering and first-fruit and tithe from the city chiefs, in honour and gratitude; so well content were the men of Juda with the ministrations of priest and Levite both.✻ (Nehemiah 12, 43)
but there were still traders from Tyre in the city itself, importing fish and all manner of goods, who sold them to their Jewish neighbours on the sabbath, there in Jerusalem. (Nehemiah 13, 16)
All these late afflictions that God brought on us and on our city were a punishment for such disobedience as this; would you crown Israel’s guilt by breaking the sabbath? (Nehemiah 13, 18)
When the sabbath came, and the traffic of the market-place had died away, and the gates were shut, I gave orders that they should not be opened till the sabbath was over; I set a guard there, too, of my own men, to make sure that no load came in that day. (Nehemiah 13, 19)
Meanwhile, I bade the Levites rid themselves of defilement and keep watch over the gates, for the better hallowing of the sabbath day. For this too, O my God, let me not go unremembered; as thou art rich in mercy, grant me pardon still. (Nehemiah 13, 22)
There was a man of Nephthali dwelling in the city of that name, which lies in the hill-country of Galilee, beyond Naasson, by the road leading westwards with Sephet on the left of it. His name was Tobias; (Tobit 1, 1)
Once he was at a Median city called Rages, and had with him ten talents of silver, a gift from the king’s bounty. (Tobit 1, 16)
Now turn we to Rages,✻ a city in Media, and another soul that must undergo taunts on this same day, Sara, the daughter of Raguel. It was one of her father’s maid-servants that taunted her; (Tobit 3, 7)
I know it well, he answered; no step of it but I have marched often enough, when I would visit a fellow-countryman of ours who lives there; one Gabelus. The city where he dwells, Rages, is in Media, in the hill-country about Ecbatana. (Tobit 5, 8)
Jerusalem, city of God, what divine punishments thy own ill deeds have brought on thee! (Tobit 13, 11)
Give thanks, my soul, to the Lord, the Lord our God who has delivered Jerusalem, his own city, from all the afflictions she endured; (Tobit 13, 19)
Sapphire and emerald Jerusalem’s gates shall be, of precious stones the wall that rings her round; (Tobit 13, 21)
