Fondare 313 Risultati per: Exiled Jews
Time passed; Salmanasar died, and the throne passed to his son Sennacherib, who was no friend to the Jews; (Tobit 1, 18)
The Lord’s words must needs come true; it will not be long before Nineve is destroyed. After that, our exiled brethren will be able to return to the land of Israel; (Tobit 14, 6)
In the Hebrew calendar, a day of rejoicing commemorates her victory; in such honour have the Jews held it from that day to this. (Judith 16, 31)
It was in the twelfth year of the reign, in Nisan, the first month of it, that the lot (which the Hebrews call Pur) was cast into the urn in Aman’s presence, to determine the day and month when he would make an end of the Jews; and the month chosen was the twelfth month, Adar. (Esther 3, 7)
There and then Assuerus took off the ring he wore on his hand, and gave it to the Agagite Aman, son of Amadathi, the Jews’ enemy; (Esther 3, 10)
All through his dominions the couriers went out on their errand, bearing death and ruin to all the Jews, to young and old, to women and little children with the rest. The day fixed for their massacre and the seizing of their goods was the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, Adar. (Esther 3, 13)
and heard from him all the news; of the money Aman had promised to the royal treasury in return for the Jews’ destruction. (Esther 4, 7)
Keep silence, and the Jews will find some other means of deliverance; on thee and thine destruction shall fall. Who knows, but thou hast reached the throne only to be ready for such an opportunity as this? (Esther 4, 14)
Go and muster all the Jews thou canst find in Susan, and pray for me. Spend three days and nights without food or drink, while I and my maidens fast too. Then I will break the law by appearing in the king’s presence unsummoned, though I must die for it. (Esther 4, 16)
That same day, Assuerus made a present to Esther of Aman’s house, that was the Jews’ enemy, and gave audience to Mardochaeus; for now Esther had told him that this was her uncle. (Esther 8, 1)
Nor would Esther be content, till she had fallen weeping at the king’s feet and prayed him to prevent the mischief Aman had thought to do by his false plotting against the Jews. (Esther 8, 3)
Please it the king’s grace, she said, to look favourably on my suit, and find nothing in it to his disadvantage. I would have new dispatches sent out, to revoke the order made by Aman, our crafty enemy, for the slaying of the Jews in all thy domains. (Esther 8, 5)
