Znaleziono 2187 Wyniki dla: Chosen People
He took counsel with the ancients, who had stood before his father Solomon, while he yet lived, saying: What counsel give you to me, that I may answer the people? (2 Chronicles 10, 6)
And they said to him: If thou please this people, and soothe them with kind words, they will be thy servants for ever. (2 Chronicles 10, 7)
And he said to them: What seemeth good to you? or what shall I answer this people, who have said to me: Ease the yoke which thy father laid upon us? (2 Chronicles 10, 9)
But they answered as young men, and brought up with him in pleasures, and said: Thus shalt thou speak to the people, that said to thee: Thy father made our yoke heavy, do thou ease it: thus shalt thou answer them: My little finger is thicker than the loins of my father. (2 Chronicles 10, 10)
So Jeroboam, and all the people came to Roboam the third day, as he commanded them. (2 Chronicles 10, 12)
And he condescended not to the people's requests: for it was the will of God, that his word might be fulfilled which he had spoken by the hand of Ahias the Silonite to Jeroboam the son of Nabat. (2 Chronicles 10, 15)
And all the people upon the king's speaking roughly, said thus unto him: We have no part in David, nor inheritance in the son of Isai. Return to thy dwellings, O Israel, and do thou, O David, feed thy own house. And Israel went away to their dwellings. (2 Chronicles 10, 16)
And Roboam came to Jerusalem, and called together all the house of Juda and of Benjamin, a hundred and fourscore thousand chosen men and warriors, to fight against Israel, and to bring back his kingdom to him. (2 Chronicles 11, 1)
With twelve hundred chariots and threescore thousand horsemen: and the people were without number that came with him out of Egypt, to wit, Libyans, and Troglodites, and Ethiopians. (2 Chronicles 12, 3)
And when Abia had begun battle, and had with him four hundred thou- sand most valiant and chosen men, Jeroboam put his army in array against him, eight hundred thousand men, who were also chosen and most valiant for war. (2 Chronicles 13, 3)
And now you say that you are able to withstand the kingdom of the Lord, which he possesseth by the sons of David, and you have a great multitude of people, and golden calves, which Jeroboam hath made you for gods. (2 Chronicles 13, 8)
And Abia and his people slew them with a great slaughter, and there fell wounded of Israel five hundred thousand valiant men. (2 Chronicles 13, 17)
