Fondare 1110 Risultati per: Great Distress
Great was the rage of Sanaballat when news reached him that we were rebuild-ing the walls, and cruel were the taunts he uttered against the Jews in his anger. (Nehemiah 4, 1)
And when this news came, that the breach in Jerusalem walls was healing, and the gaps were being filled, great was the indignation of Sanaballat and Tobias, of Arab, Ammonite and Philistine alike; (Nehemiah 4, 7)
That provision made, I set about encouraging them, nobles and chiefs and common folk alike; Fear no assault, I told them; bethink you how great, how fearsome the Lord is, and fight well each for his own kindred, for son and daughter and wife, for house and home. (Nehemiah 4, 14)
And now there was a great outcry of the common sort, men and women, against their richer neighbours, that were Jews too. (Nehemiah 5, 1)
Poor folk, who had sons and daughters in great number, had bethought themselves of bartering these for the corn they must have if they would live; (Nehemiah 5, 2)
some, in the great scarcity, had been ready to pledge lands, vineyards and house in return for corn; (Nehemiah 5, 3)
Great was my anger when I heard such cause of complaint was theirs. (Nehemiah 5, 6)
I took deep thought over it, and then taxed nobles and rulers with their fault; would they play the usurer with their own brethren? Summoning a great assembly of the citizens to confront them, (Nehemiah 5, 7)
he had married the daughter of Sechenias, son of Area, and wedded his son Johanan to the daughter of Mosollam, son of Barachias, and so had a great following in Judaea. (Nehemiah 6, 18)
So there and then, on the first day of the seventh month, the priest Esdras fetched out the book, in the presence of a great throng of men and women, with such children as were old enough to understand it. (Nehemiah 8, 2)
and when he blessed the name of the Lord, the great God, all lifted their hands and answered, Amen, amen; and with that they bowed down and worshipped with their faces close to the ground. (Nehemiah 8, 6)
Thus the whole body of those who had come back from exile made arbours and lodged in them; since the days of Josue son of Nun the rite had fallen into abeyance, and now there was great rejoicing. (Nehemiah 8, 17)
