Fondare 472 Risultati per: Strange Fire
Enemy hands set fire to the Lord’s house, pulled down Jerusalem’s walls, burnt its towers to the ground, destroyed all that was of price. (2 Chronicles 36, 19)
and, wishing the king long life, I answered, Little wonder if my looks are sad, when the city where my father lies buried is but a wilderness, and its gates blackened with fire. (Nehemiah 2, 3)
At dead of night, I went out by the Valley Gate, past the Dragon’s Well, and on to the Scavengers’ Gate, and all the way I found the wall of Jerusalem lying in ruins, and its gates blackened with fire. (Nehemiah 2, 13)
But now I called upon them to witness the sore strait we had been brought to, Jerusalem a wilderness, the gates blackened with fire; Come, I said, let us build Jerusalem walls, and endure contempt no longer! (Nehemiah 2, 17)
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)
Thou thyself didst lead thy people on their journey, hidden by day in a pillar of cloud, by night in a pillar of fire, to light the path they must tread. (Nehemiah 9, 12)
still in thy great mercy thou wouldst not cast them off in the desert. Never lacked they by day the pillar of cloud that led them, never by night the pillar of fire that shone upon their path; (Nehemiah 9, 19)
the deserted country-side will be populous once again, and its temple, long since destroyed by fire, will be built anew, and all those who fear God will find their way back to it. (Tobit 14, 7)
to send fire through our country-side, put our warriors to the sword, mark down our children for slavery, our maidens for spoil. (Judith 16, 6)
Their flesh the fire shall scorch, the worm shall devour; lament they must and bear their pain for ever. (Judith 16, 21)
So now Aman said to king Assuerus, There is a race spread here and there throughout thy domains that follows strange law and custom, in defiance of the royal decrees; judge whether it consorts with thy royal dignity that licence should embolden them. (Esther 3, 8)
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)
