Fondare 1095 Risultati per: Sanctuary City
At last the priests left the sanctuary; all of them who were present had purified themselves so as to gain admission, for as yet they had no times and manners of service planned out for them. (2 Chronicles 5, 11)
So many years since he had rescued his people from Egypt, and never a city among all the tribes of Israel had he chosen to be the site of his dwelling-place or the shrine of his name, never a prince had he appointed over his people of Israel, (2 Chronicles 6, 5)
This I ask, that thy eyes should be ever watching, night and day, over this temple of thine, the chosen sanctuary of thy name; (2 Chronicles 6, 20)
Is there famine in the land, or pestilence, blight or mildew, plague of locust or caterpillar? Does some enemy press hard on it, besieging its city gates? Whatever be the plague or the sickness that weighs us down, (2 Chronicles 6, 28)
Sometimes thy people will go out to levy war upon their enemies, here and there at thy bidding. Then, as they fall to prayer, let them but turn in the direction of the city thou hast chosen, the temple I have built there in thy honour, (2 Chronicles 6, 34)
In that alien land, the land of their captivity, they will turn back to thee with all the purpose of their heart and soul. Then, if they turn in prayer towards the land thou gavest their fathers, the city of thy choice, and the temple I have built in thy honour, (2 Chronicles 6, 38)
So Roboam took courage, and ruled his people yet. He was forty-one years old when he came to the throne, and for seventeen years he reigned at Jerusalem, the city the Lord chose, out of all Israel’s tribes, to be the shrine of his name. His mother was called Naama, an Ammonitess. (2 Chronicles 12, 13)
No city in Juda but he rid it of altar and of shrine, and so he reigned in peace. (2 Chronicles 14, 5)
nation fighting against nation, city against city, because the Lord would have them ever restless, ever in sore straits.✻ (2 Chronicles 15, 6)
Then, in the thirty-sixth year of Asa’s reign, Baasa king of Israel invaded Juda, and began making a fortified city of Rama, so as to deny Asa’s subjects free passage. (2 Chronicles 16, 1)
Boldly he upheld the Lord’s commandments, sweeping away hill-shrine and forest sanctuary from Juda.✻ (2 Chronicles 17, 6)
Then the king of Israel gave his orders; Take Michaeas hence, said he, and put him in the charge of Amon, the city governor, and of Joas, son of Amelech. (2 Chronicles 18, 25)
