Fondare 2204 Risultati per: End
To us, beholden as we are to the royal bounty,✻ the sight of any wrong done to the king is something not to be borne; that is why we are sending him this information. (Ezra 4, 14)
Now turn we to the reign of Artaxerxes in Persia, and to Esdras. This Esdras was descended through Saraias, Helcias, (Ezra 7, 1)
and to convey thither such silver and gold as the king and his council are sending to the God who dwells there, the God of Israel, as their own free gift. (Ezra 7, 15)
All else thou must needs spend upon thy God’s house shall be defrayed by the treasury and the royal purse, at my own cost. (Ezra 7, 20)
The leaders, who took part with me in this migration under Artaxerxes, were descended as follows: (Ezra 8, 1)
I would have asked the king for an escort of horsemen to defend us from attack, but shame withheld me; had we not boasted in the king’s presence that our God graciously protected all who had recourse to him, that only faithless servants of his brought down on themselves the constraining power of his vengeance? (Ezra 8, 22)
Slaves we were, but in our slavery the Lord did not abandon us; he deigned to win us the favour of the Persian king; we were to live still, the house of our God was to rise anew, restored from its ruins, Juda and Jerusalem should have a wall to defend them. (Ezra 9, 9)
should we turn back? Should we defy thy commandments, by mating with these, the abominable? Oh, then indeed thy patience is at an end; no remnant of us is to be left surviving! (Ezra 9, 14)
At last Sechenias the son of Jehiel, of Aelam’s clan, said to him, We have offended our God by marrying foreign wives, women of the neighbouring peoples; but is there no hope of pardon for Israel? (Ezra 10, 2)
Come, let us make a covenant with the Lord our God; let us send away these wives, and the children born of them. That is the Lord’s counsel; that is the counsel of all who reverence his commands; let the law be obeyed! (Ezra 10, 3)
all these engaged themselves to send their wives away and sacrifice a ram as an offering for fault. (Ezra 10, 19)
made answer thus, Did I but stand so high in the royal favour, my request would be that thou wouldst send me to Judaea, to this city where my father lies buried, and give me leave to rebuild it. (Nehemiah 2, 5)
