Znaleziono 830 Wyniki dla: Altar Of Burnt Offering
We, then, on this twenty-fifth day of Casleu, mean to solemnize the purification of the temple, and hold ourselves bound to notify you of it, so that you too may keep holiday, with making of bowers. …… And of the fire imparted to us, when Nehemias offered sacrifice at the re-building of temple and altar.✻ (2 Maccabees 1, 18)
Long ago, when our fathers were being carried off into the Persian country, such priests of the true God as held office in those days took away the fire from the altar, and hid it down in the valley, in a pit both deep and dry, so well guarding their secret that none might know where it was to be found. (2 Maccabees 1, 19)
And what did Nehemias? He would have some of the water drawn and fetched to him; with this water, once the sacrifice was laid on the altar, both the wood and the offerings themselves must be sprinkled. (2 Maccabees 1, 21)
Thereupon, a flame broke out from them, but died away when the altar fires blazed up again over yonder.✻ (2 Maccabees 1, 32)
A cave Jeremias found there, in which he set down tabernacle and ark and incense-altar, and stopped up the entrance behind him. (2 Maccabees 2, 5)
Prayed Moses, prayed Solomon, and fire came down from heaven to consume the burnt-sacrifice. … (2 Maccabees 2, 10)
Speak we of Judas Machabaeus and his brethren, and how the great temple was purified, and the altar hallowed anew;✻ (2 Maccabees 2, 20)
and gave him great news indeed; here was the treasury at Jerusalem stocked with treasures innumerable, here was vast public wealth, unclaimed by the needs of the altar, and nothing prevented but it should fall into the king’s hands. (2 Maccabees 3, 6)
Priests, in their sacred vesture, cast themselves down before the altar, and cried out upon heaven; would not he, whose law enjoined safe-keeping, keep property safe for its rightful owners? (2 Maccabees 3, 15)
Why, the priests themselves had no more stomach for serving the altar; temple scorned, and sacrifice unheeded, off they went to the wrestling-ground, there to enter their names and win unhallowed prizes, soon as ever the first quoit was thrown! (2 Maccabees 4, 14)
with forbidden meats, to the law’s injury, the very altar groaned. (2 Maccabees 6, 5)
So, before aught else was done, he sent word to the towns on the sea-coast, crying a sale of Jewish captives, and offering them at ninety for the talent; so little did he guess what divine vengeance was to overtake him. (2 Maccabees 8, 11)
