Fondare 117 Risultati per: Jewish Festival
Tobias, at this time, was exchanging letters with many of the Jewish nobles; (Nehemiah 6, 17)
Day after day while the feast continued Esdras read out the book of God’s law to them. So for seven days they kept high festival, and on the eighth there was a gathering of the whole people, held with due solemnity. (Nehemiah 8, 18)
Even now I found Jewish folk treading out their wine-presses and carrying burdens on the sabbath day. On the sabbath day they would load their asses with wine-skins, or grapes, or figs, or some other freight, and bring them to Jerusalem for sale. These I warned that they must find some other day for selling their wares; (Nehemiah 13, 15)
but there were still traders from Tyre in the city itself, importing fish and all manner of goods, who sold them to their Jewish neighbours on the sabbath, there in Jerusalem. (Nehemiah 13, 16)
So I took my complaint to the Jewish rulers; Here are fine doings of yours, I said, that profane the sabbath day! (Nehemiah 13, 17)
and for a whole week they all kept high festival, and rejoiced together. (Tobit 11, 21)
Bless the Lord, souls whom the Lord has chosen; keep high festival in his honour. (Tobit 13, 10)
Here is great despite done, he cried, to the court of king Nabuchodonosor, and one Jewish woman its author! Holofernes lies there felled to the earth, and no head on his body! (Judith 14, 16)
keeping high festival, while man and maid, wed and unwedded, played flute and harp together. (Judith 15, 15)
High festival the people kept, there before the sanctuary; for three whole months they solemnized their victory, and Judith among them. (Judith 16, 24)
When she left her house on festival days, great reverence was hers indeed. (Judith 16, 27)
No time the couriers lost in following out the royal command; at Susan, the decree was posted up forthwith, and before the king and Aman had finished their wine, all the Jewish citizens were in tears. (Esther 3, 15)