Znaleziono 141 Wyniki dla: destruction of statues
Judas next turned on Azotus, which belonged to the Philistines; he overthrew their altars, burned the statues of their gods and, having pillaged their towns, withdrew to Judaea. (1 Maccabees 5, 68)
or else pay me five hundred talents of silver in compensation for them and for the destruction you have done, and another five hundred talents for the taxes from the towns; otherwise we shall come and make war on you.' (1 Maccabees 15, 31)
His ambition was fired; he hoped to make himself master of the whole country and therefore treacherously began to plot the destruction of Simon and his sons. (1 Maccabees 16, 13)
and how, having given them the Law, the prophet warned the deportees never to forget the Lord's precepts, nor to let their thoughts be tempted by the sight of gold and silver statues or the finery adorning them. (2 Maccabees 2, 2)
keeping before their eyes the outrage committed by them against the holy place and the infamous and scornful treatment inflicted on the city, not to mention the destruction of their traditional way of life. (2 Maccabees 8, 17)
But the adulterer has no sense; he works his own destruction. (Proverbs 6, 32)
Pride goes before destruction, a haughty spirit before a fall. (Proverbs 16, 18)
The human heart is haughty until destruction comes, before there can be glory there must be humility. (Proverbs 18, 12)
The Upright One watches the house of the wicked; he hurls the wicked to destruction. (Proverbs 21, 12)
Do not court death by the errors of your ways, nor invite destruction through the work of your hands. (Wisdom of Solomon 1, 12)
Rulers were the ones who ordered that statues should be worshipped: people who could not honour them in person, because they lived too far away, would have a portrait made of their distant countenance, to have an image that they could see of the king whom they honoured; meaning, by such zeal, to flatter the absent as if he were present. (Wisdom of Solomon 14, 17)
Those whose spells had made them completely incredulous, when faced with the destruction of their first-born, acknowledged this people to be child of God. (Wisdom of Solomon 18, 13)