Znaleziono 1238 Wyniki dla: Fall Of Jerusalem
thou wouldst play the wanton, like the house of Achab, teach the men of Juda and Jerusalem to betray their troth, after Israel’s fashion, and wouldst slay thy brethren, princes of thy own father’s line, better men than thyself. (2 Chronicles 21, 13)
It was his youngest son, Ochozias, that the citizens of Jerusalem made king in his place. All his elder brothers had been killed by Arab freebooters, that fell on the camp where they were lodged; and so Ochozias became Joram’s heir, and reigned in Juda. (2 Chronicles 22, 1)
When he came to the throne, he had lived (twice) a score of years and two,✻ and his reign at Jerusalem lasted but a year. His mother’s name was Athalia, descended from Amri. (2 Chronicles 22, 2)
and these went round the whole of Juda, mustering the Levites and the clan chiefs in each city and summoning them to Jerusalem. (2 Chronicles 23, 2)
Thus Joas came to the throne as a boy of seven years old, and his reign at Jerusalem lasted forty years. His mother’s name was Sebia, a woman of Bersabee. (2 Chronicles 24, 1)
and the king must needs send for the high priest Joiada; Why hast thou been at no pains, he asked, to make the Levites collect money throughout Juda and Jerusalem, the same money which the Lord’s servant Moses bade all Israel devote to the needs of the tabernacle?✻ (2 Chronicles 24, 6)
And word went round Juda and Jerusalem that each man was to pay the tax Moses enjoined on all Israel, out in the desert. (2 Chronicles 24, 9)
was paid over by the king and Joiada to the master-builders, who hired stone-cutters with it, and other craftsmen, to repair the Lord’s house; workers, too, in iron and bronze, so as to prop up what was like to fall down. (2 Chronicles 24, 12)
forgotten, now, was the Lord’s temple, God of their fathers though he were; they must worship before forest shrines, and carved images. This guilt of theirs brought the Lord’s vengeance on Juda and Jerusalem; (2 Chronicles 24, 18)
A year passed, and the army of Syria was on the march against Joas. Into Juda, into Jerusalem they came, killed all that were of note among the people, plundered, and sent back what they had plundered to their master at Damascus. (2 Chronicles 24, 23)
Amasias was twenty-five years old when he came to the throne, and his reign at Jerusalem lasted twenty-nine years; his mother’s name was Joadan, a woman of Jerusalem. (2 Chronicles 25, 1)
But Amasias would have his way; the Lord’s will was that he should fall into his enemy’s hands, to punish him for worshipping the gods of Edom. (2 Chronicles 25, 20)
