Fondare 1095 Risultati per: Sanctuary City
It was thou, Lord God, that didst make choice of Abram, and beckon him away from Chaldaea, from the City of Fire.✻ And now thou wouldst call him Abraham; (Nehemiah 9, 7)
The rulers must needs have their dwelling in Jerusalem; the common folk had their residence assigned by lot, every tenth man going to live in the holy city, while the other nine remained in the country parts; (Nehemiah 11, 1)
All these were under the charge of Joel son of Zechri; Judas son of Senua was next in command of the city. (Nehemiah 11, 9)
There were two hundred and eighty-four of these Levites in the city; (Nehemiah 11, 18)
At this time they appointed certain priests and Levites to take charge of the treasury, and receive offering and first-fruit and tithe from the city chiefs, in honour and gratitude; so well content were the men of Juda with the ministrations of priest and Levite both.✻ (Nehemiah 12, 43)
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)
All these late afflictions that God brought on us and on our city were a punishment for such disobedience as this; would you crown Israel’s guilt by breaking the sabbath? (Nehemiah 13, 18)
There was a man of Nephthali dwelling in the city of that name, which lies in the hill-country of Galilee, beyond Naasson, by the road leading westwards with Sephet on the left of it. His name was Tobias; (Tobit 1, 1)
Once he was at a Median city called Rages, and had with him ten talents of silver, a gift from the king’s bounty. (Tobit 1, 16)
Now turn we to Rages,✻ a city in Media, and another soul that must undergo taunts on this same day, Sara, the daughter of Raguel. It was one of her father’s maid-servants that taunted her; (Tobit 3, 7)
I know it well, he answered; no step of it but I have marched often enough, when I would visit a fellow-countryman of ours who lives there; one Gabelus. The city where he dwells, Rages, is in Media, in the hill-country about Ecbatana. (Tobit 5, 8)
Jerusalem, city of God, what divine punishments thy own ill deeds have brought on thee! (Tobit 13, 11)
