Fondare 565 Risultati per: Holy Nation
but still each nation would fashion the image of its own god, and they set up these images in the hill-shrines they had made, one in this city and another in that. (2 Kings 17, 29)
So thou wouldst hurl insults, and blaspheme, and talk boastfully, and brave it out with disdainful looks, against whom? Against the Holy One of Israel. (2 Kings 19, 22)
Triumph in that holy name; let every heart that longs for the Lord rejoice. (1 Chronicles 16, 10)
Cry we to God, our deliverer, Deliver us now, gather us again in safety, scattered as we are among the heathen, to praise thy holy name, to triumph in thy renown. (1 Chronicles 16, 35)
Can any other nation say, like thy people Israel, that its God came to buy it back for himself as his own people, as thou didst, in rescuing us from Egypt, in dispossessing the nations, through thy dread power, to make room for us? (1 Chronicles 17, 21)
Give yourselves, then, heart and soul, to the following of the Lord your God; bestir yourselves, and build the Lord God a sanctuary, a house dedicated to his name, where the ark that bears witness of the Lord’s covenant, and all the holy things consecrated to him, may find a resting-place. (1 Chronicles 22, 19)
Such love had I to the house of my God; and now, over and above the preparations I have made for this holy work, I offer gold and silver out of my own purse for the temple’s needs; (1 Chronicles 29, 3)
nation fighting against nation, city against city, because the Lord would have them ever restless, ever in sore straits.✻ (2 Chronicles 15, 6)
to withstand the royal will. Not for thee, Ozias, they cried, to burn incense in the Lord’s honour; that is for the priests, the sons of Aaron, that are set apart for this office. Leave this holy place, and profane it no more; thou wilt win no favour from the Lord God by such doings as these. (2 Chronicles 26, 18)
Then priests and Levites stood up to bless the people, nor did their voices go unheard; heaven’s holy dwelling-place echoed to their prayer. (2 Chronicles 30, 27)
Gifts that were freely made, and what was set apart for the priests and for holy uses, were in charge of Core, son of Jemna, the Levite that was door-keeper of the eastern gate. (2 Chronicles 31, 14)
For a brief moment it seemed as if the Lord our God had listened to our prayers; he would leave a remnant of our race surviving, leave us a foot-hold✻ on this holy ground; some gleam of hope our God would afford us, some breath of life in our bondage. (Ezra 9, 8)
