Fondare 1009 Risultati per: Holy Days
Still faithful to his bidding, Esther had said no word about her race or her country; still, as in her nursery days, she remembered and did all he told her. (Esther 2, 20)
No subject of the king’s grace, no province in his domains, but knows the inner court of the palace to be sacred. Man or woman entering it unbidden dies there and then; unless indeed the king should grant them life, by holding out his gold sceptre in token of pardon. These thirty days past I have not been summoned to the king’s presence; how can I venture in? (Esther 4, 11)
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)
In the city of Susan itself, the killing went on for two days; it was the fifteenth day, when their work was over, that they set apart for feasting and merry-making; (Esther 9, 18)
as the days of Jewry’s vengeance, when weeping and lament gave place to mirth and gladness. There was to be feasting on both days, and on both days rejoicing; dainties should be exchanged, and gifts made to the poor. (Esther 9, 22)
griefs borne, and strange vicissitudes. And the Jews pledged themselves and their children, with all who in after times should seek admission to their way of worship, to observe two days in each year, at the fixed time by this record determined.✻ (Esther 9, 27)
With eager and glad hearts all must come together and observe that time, the fourteenth and fifteenth days of Adar, as long as Israel’s race shall last. (Esther 10, 13)
… At this time his days were passed at the king’s palace, and two of the royal chamberlains, Bagatha and Thara, were much in his company. (Esther 12, 1)
Remember, said he, the days of thy humbler fortunes, and how it was my care nurtured thee. Now thou art matched against Aman, that is next to the king’s person; he pleads for our overthrow, and it is thine to plead for our preservation. (Esther 15, 2)
And for seven days and seven nights they sat there on the ground beside him, and no word spoken; here, they saw plainly, was overmastering grief. (Job 2, 13)
Shrouded be that night in a black storm, let it not be reckoned among the days of the year, nor marked in the moon’s calendar; (Job 3, 6)
Swift as a royal courier my days pass, and joyless each one, (Job 9, 25)
