Fondare 322 Risultati per: Royal Priesthood
then they delivered the royal edict to the governors, that were the king’s officers; and now God’s people and God’s house were held in honour by all that bore rule in the country west of Euphrates. (Ezra 8, 36)
These are the memoirs of Nehemias, son of Helchias. One day in the month of Casleu, the year, the twentieth of Artaxerxes, in the royal city of Susa, (Nehemiah 1, 1)
Let not thy ears be deaf, Lord, I beseech thee, to thy servant’s prayer, to the prayer of all these servants of thine who love to hold thy name in reverence. Speed thy servant well this day, and win for him the pity of a human heart.It was of the king I spoke; I was the royal cup-bearer. (Nehemiah 1, 11)
It was the month of Nisan, in the twentieth year of king Artaxerxes’ reign. The king sat at his wine, and as I took it up to hand it to him, I stood there sad of mien in the royal presence.✻ (Nehemiah 2, 1)
made answer thus, Did I but stand so high in the royal favour, my request would be that thou wouldst send me to Judaea, to this city where my father lies buried, and give me leave to rebuild it. (Nehemiah 2, 5)
a letter, moreover, to Asaph, the ranger of the royal forest, bidding him supply me with timber for coping the gates of the temple palace and the city walls, and roofing my own house besides. All this, by God’s favour, the king granted me. (Nehemiah 2, 8)
So I made my way to the governors beyond Euphrates, with royal letters to give them, and a royal escort of captains and horsemen. (Nehemiah 2, 9)
The next gate I came to was that of the Well, and beyond that was the royal aqueduct; here the beast I was mounted on could find no way to pass. (Nehemiah 2, 14)
and the Gate of the Well by Sellum son of Cholhoza, chief of the Maspha district;✻ coping and door and bolt and bar he finished it, built the wall, too, of Siloe pool right up to the royal garden, and to the steps that lead down from David’s Keep. (Nehemiah 3, 15)
then came Phalel, son of Ozi, for the part by the corner itself and the high tower of the royal palace that looks out on the prison yard; then Phadaia, son of Pharos, (Nehemiah 3, 25)
some had offered vineyard or lands for a pledge when they would borrow money to pay the royal tribute. (Nehemiah 5, 4)
they could find no written record of their ancestry, and were expelled from the priesthood; (Nehemiah 7, 64)
