Znaleziono 911 Wyniki dla: Destruction Of Jerusalem
Josias was eight years old when he came to the throne, and his reign at Jerusalem lasted thirty-one years; (2 Chronicles 34, 1)
It was while he was still a boy, in the eighth year of his reign, that he betook himself to the God his father David worshipped; and in the twelfth year of his reign he rid Juda and Jerusalem of hill-shrine and forest shrine, carved image and molten image. (2 Chronicles 34, 3)
and on the altars that were raised to false gods he burned the bones of their own priests, till Juda and Jerusalem were defiled no more. (2 Chronicles 34, 5)
Then he must carry out the same work of destruction in the cities of Manasses, Ephraim and Simeon, and all the way to Nephthali; (2 Chronicles 34, 6)
altars were thrown down, images crushed to pieces, and shrines demolished, all over the land of Israel; and so he returned to Jerusalem.✻ (2 Chronicles 34, 7)
So they made their way to the high priest, Helcias, who handed over to them the offerings collected by Levites and door-keepers for the temple fabric; offerings from Manasses and Ephraim and all the rest of Israel, as well as Juda, Benjamin and Jerusalem. (2 Chronicles 34, 9)
So Helcias and his companions went on the king’s errand to the prophetess Olda. She was wife to Sellum, son of Thecuath, son of Hasra, that once kept the royal wardrobe; her dwelling was at Jerusalem, in the new part of the city. So they told her their business, (2 Chronicles 34, 22)
When they brought the king his answer, he summoned all the elders of Juda and Jerusalem; (2 Chronicles 34, 29)
then he went up to the Lord’s temple, and all the men of Juda bore him company, all the citizens of Jerusalem, priest and Levite and common folk high and low. There, in their hearing, he read the whole book out to them. (2 Chronicles 34, 30)
And he bound them by an oath, all the men of Jerusalem and of Benjamin. This pact with the Lord God of their fathers was kept loyally.✻ (2 Chronicles 34, 32)
And now Josias proclaimed a paschal feast at Jerusalem; the victims should be duly slain on the fourteenth day of the first month. (2 Chronicles 35, 1)
Never was such a paschal feast as this in all Israel’s history since the days of the prophet Samuel; never a king, of all who reigned in Israel, so kept it as Josias did, with priests and Levites and pilgrims from Juda and Israel, besides the citizens of Jerusalem. (2 Chronicles 35, 18)
