Znaleziono 389 Wyniki dla: Priests
Such money the priests may take for their own, according to their rank; but they must be answerable for repairing the Lord’s house, if they find anything that needs to be made good. (2 Kings 12, 5)
The twenty-third year of King Joas came, and still the priests had done nothing to repair the temple. (2 Kings 12, 6)
Whereupon king Joas summoned Joiada and the other priests; What means it, he asked, that you have not made good the temple’s needs? Henceforth there must be no more taking money according to your rank; it must all be given up to the repairing of the temple. (2 Kings 12, 7)
It was ordered, then, that the priests should no longer receive the gifts, and no longer be answerable for the repairs; (2 Kings 12, 8)
instead, the high priest Joiada had a chest made, with a hole in the top of it, and put it close to the altar at the right hand side of the temple entrance; into this the priests who keep the door put all the money that was brought there. (2 Kings 12, 9)
Meanwhile the fines paid for fault or wrong done were not put into the treasury, since these belonged to the priests as of right. (2 Kings 12, 16)
So the Assyrian king gave orders that one of the priests carried away thence should be restored to his home; should go to live among them, and teach them how to worship the Lord. (2 Kings 17, 27)
So one of the exiled priests from Samaria came to live at Bethel, and teach them he did; (2 Kings 17, 28)
And in spite of it, they worshipped the Lord. They found priests among the dregs of the people, fit to serve hill-shrines, and in the hill-shrines they installed them; (2 Kings 17, 32)
Meanwhile, he sent word to the prophet Isaias, son of Amos. Eliacim, the controller of the household, and Sobna, the secretary, and some of the older priests, went on this errand. (2 Kings 19, 2)
Then the king bade the high priest Helcias, and the priests of lesser rank, and the door-keepers, cast out from the Lord’s temple all the appurtenances of worship that belonged to Baal and to the sacred tree and to all the host of heaven; these he burned in the valley of Cedron, and carried the ashes of them away to Bethel. (2 Kings 23, 4)
All round Jerusalem, and all over Juda, he disbanded the priests whom the kings of Juda had appointed for the hill-shrines; priests, too, that burned incense to Baal, and sun, and moon, and the twelve stars, and all the host of heaven. (2 Kings 23, 5)
