Fondare 330 Risultati per: Sabbatical Year
Year by year, too, we will bring to the Lord’s house the first-fruits of all that our lands or fruit-trees yield; (Nehemiah 10, 35)
All this had happened while I was away from Jerusalem. During the thirty-second year of Artaxerxes’ reign I went to court, and it was only at the end of the year that I had leave to return. (Nehemiah 13, 6)
and every third year he tithed his goods afresh, for the needs of wanderers and homeless folk. (Tobit 1, 7)
till at last war was levied upon him by the Assyrian king Nabuchodonosor,✻ then in the twelfth year of his reign, with his capital at Nineve. This Nabuchodonosor defeated him (Judith 1, 5)
It was on the twenty-second day of the first month, in the thirteenth year of his reign, that this resolve was taken at Nabuchodonosor’s court. (Judith 2, 1)
It was now the third year of his reign, and he held high feast for all his lords and vassals; Persian warriors, Median notables, and the governor of every province, were his guests. (Esther 1, 3)
It was in Tebeth, the tenth month, in the seventh year of Assuerus’ reign, that she was escorted to the royal bed-chamber.✻ (Esther 2, 16)
It was in the twelfth year of the reign, in Nisan, the first month of it, that the lot (which the Hebrews call Pur) was cast into the urn in Aman’s presence, to determine the day and month when he would make an end of the Jews; and the month chosen was the twelfth month, Adar. (Esther 3, 7)
So Adar came, the last month of the year, and the thirteenth day of Adar. All preparations had been made, by blood-thirsty enemies, for a massacre of the Jews on that day, but instead, the Jews had the better of them, and could set about avenging themselves. (Esther 9, 1)
setting all this out and bidding them observe both the fourteenth and the fifteenth, year by year, (Esther 9, 21)
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)
This document about the feast of Purim, said to have been translated by Lysimachus son of Ptolemy, a native of Jerusalem, was first made public in the fourth year of king Ptolemy and queen Cleopatra, by Dosithaeus, who claimed to be a priest of true Levite descent, and his son, who was also called Ptolemy.✻ (Esther 11, 1)
