Fondare 100 Risultati per: Sacred Objects
Play the man, fight we valiantly for our people, and for the city walls that are sacred to our God; the Lord’s will be done. (2 Samuel 10, 12)
planted, too, a sacred wood, and did more to earn the Lord’s displeasure than any king of Israel in earlier times. (1 Kings 16, 33)
No high hill, no leafy wood, but had its images and its sacred trees; (2 Kings 17, 10)
Forgotten, all the commandments of the Lord their God; they must have two golden calves, they must have sacred trees, they must worship all the host of heaven, and become Baal’s servants; (2 Kings 17, 16)
scattered the hill-shrines, overthrew the images, cut down the sacred trees; broke in pieces, too, the brazen serpent Moses had made, because the Israelites, till his day, used to offer incense to it; the name given to it was Nohestan.✻ (2 Kings 18, 4)
He restored once again the hill-shrines which his father Ezechias had overthrown; he raised altars to Baal, and set up sacred trees, like Achab king of Israel, and gave to all the host of heaven worship and observance. (2 Kings 21, 3)
He made an idol, too, after the fashion of the sacred trees, and set it up there in the Lord’s temple. And this was at Jerusalem, the Lord’s choice among all the cities of Israel; this was in the temple that was to be the everlasting shrine of his name; so he had promised David and Solomon, (2 Kings 21, 7)
Then the king bade the high priest Helcias, and the priests of lesser rank, and the door-keepers, cast out from the Lord’s temple all the appurtenances of worship that belonged to Baal and to the sacred tree and to all the host of heaven; these he burned in the valley of Cedron, and carried the ashes of them away to Bethel. (2 Kings 23, 4)
The sacred tree must be carried away from the temple, away from Jerusalem, to Cedron valley, where they burned it to ashes, that were scattered over the common burying-ground. (2 Kings 23, 6)
He destroyed the rooms in the Lord’s house which had belonged to the prostitutes, and were now used by the women that wove curtains for the sacred tree. (2 Kings 23, 7)
and he rid the temple of those horses, sacred to the sun, which earlier kings had stabled at the entrance, by the hall of the chamberlain Nathan-Melech; the chariots of the sun he burned to ashes. (2 Kings 23, 11)
he broke their images, and cut down the sacred trees, and filled up the ruins with the bones of dead men. (2 Kings 23, 14)
