Fondare 35 Risultati per: cistern
And so they took Jeremiah and threw him into the cistern of Prince Malchiah, which was in the quarters of the guard, letting him down with ropes. There was no water in the cistern, only mud, and Jeremiah sank into the mud. (Jeremiah 38, 6)
Now Ebed-melech, a Cushite, a courtier in the king's palace, heard that they had put Jeremiah into the cistern. The king happened just then to be at the Gate of Benjamin, (Jeremiah 38, 7)
"My lord king, these men have been at fault in all they have done to the prophet Jeremiah, casting him into the cistern. He will die of famine on the spot, for there is no more food in the city." (Jeremiah 38, 9)
Then the king ordered Ebed-melech the Cushite to take three men along with him, and draw the prophet Jeremiah out of the cistern before he should die. (Jeremiah 38, 10)
Ebed-melech took the men along with him, and went first to the linen closet in the palace, from which he took some old, tattered rags; these he sent down to Jeremiah in the cistern, with ropes. (Jeremiah 38, 11)
and they drew him up with the ropes out of the cistern. But Jeremiah remained in the quarters of the guard. (Jeremiah 38, 13)
"Come to Gedaliah, son of Ahikam," he said as he met them. When they were once inside the city, Ishmael, son of Nethaniah, and his men slew them and threw them into the cistern. (Jeremiah 41, 7)
The cistern into which Ishmael threw all the corpses of the men he had killed was the large one made by King Asa to defend himself against Baasha, king of Israel; this cistern Ishmael, son of Nethaniah, filled with the slain. (Jeremiah 41, 9)
Then he said to them, "Who among you, if your son or ox falls into a cistern, would not immediately pull him out on the sabbath day?" (Luke 14, 5)
(The woman) said to him, "Sir, you do not even have a bucket and the cistern is deep; where then can you get this living water? (John 4, 11)
Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us this cistern and drank from it himself with his children and his flocks?" (John 4, 12)