Fondare 1417 Risultati per: Counting The People
A weary man was the king, and weary were all the people with him, when they reached their halting-place; and there they rested. (2 Samuel 16, 14)
All the people I will bring round to thy cause, as easily as I would persuade a single man; thou hast but one enemy, the rest of the people will be well content. (2 Samuel 17, 3)
Then the most lion-hearted will be overcome with sudden fear; well all the people of Israel knows that thy father and the warriors that bear him company are men of mettle. (2 Samuel 17, 10)
So, when he and all the people had crossed over Jordan, the king kissed Berzellai and blessed him, and he went home, (2 Samuel 19, 39)
and asked what he could do to content them; what amends he could make, to recover their good will for the Lord’s chosen people. (2 Samuel 21, 3)
Thou wilt deliver me, then, from sedition among my people; nay, thou hast a higher destiny for me yet, to rule over other nations, with alien folk for my subjects. (2 Samuel 22, 44)
It is thou, my God, that bringest me redress, that grantest me dominion over my people, (2 Samuel 22, 48)
The king said to Joab, the chief of his army, Go through all the tribes of Israel from Dan to Bersabee, and make a muster-roll of the people, so that I may know the full tale of them. (2 Samuel 24, 2)
Why, said Joab, my prayer is that the Lord may increase yet more the number of the people, great as it is, and that thou mayest live to see it a hundred times as great! But what is it my lord the king means by this design? (2 Samuel 24, 3)
But when the angel of the Lord was stretching out his hand over Jerusalem, to bring destruction on it, the Lord was moved with pity over their calamity, and said to the angel who was smiting the people down, It is enough, stay thy hand. The angel of the Lord stood close, then, to the threshing-floor of Areuna the Jebusite. (2 Samuel 24, 16)
David, when he saw how the angel was smiting the people down, had said to the Lord, The sin is mine, the fault is mine; these poor sheep of mine, what wrong have they done? Nay, turn thy hand against me, and my own father’s race! (2 Samuel 24, 17)
he came forward, bowing down with his face to the ground to do the king reverence. What would my lord king with his servant? he asked. And David said, I have come to buy thy threshing-floor; I must build an altar here to the Lord, to put an end to the mortality which goes unhindered among the people. (2 Samuel 24, 21)
