Sentences with phrase «kings of ancient»
He has a strong rivalry with Black Panther, one that is only given more depth considering that both men are Kings of ancient and advanced nations.
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The kings of ancient Babylon built temples to their moon god in the form of stepped pyramids known as ziggaruts.
Hence the dynasty of the wisest king of ancient Israel gave way to the political rebellion of Jeroboam (I Kings 11)(see James L. Crenshaw, Old Testament Wisdom: An Introduction, John Knox, 1981).
The community of the New Testament understood and accepted the interpretation of David as the king of ancient Israel, as peculiarly the Yahweh - man, as uniquely foreshadowing the fulfillment of the covenant purpose; and from that interpretation, already given in the history of David, they understood and interpreted the work and mission of Jesus.
The modern king of ancient Persia recaptures for an American visitor the adventure and elegance of sport in one of the world's oldest civilizations
CROESUS, the king of ancient Lydia, wanted to know the future.
CLEVELAND «Pharaoh: King of Ancient Egypt.»
The Anjanath is the king of the Ancient Forest.
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The company, which employs approximately 400 people in King's Cross, is perhaps best known for developing an AI agent that defeated the world champion of the ancient Chinese board, Go.
Consider the fact that the office of the king took some time to establish itself in ancient Israel.
Mormon spelled backwards is NomroM, the ancient name of a wicked king during the time of Erozokiah.
the one is the old theocratic messianic title, given to anointed kings in ancient times; the other is the new apocalyptic title of the heavenly Man, the celestial Anthropos, Urmensch, the Primal Man, who is to appear at the end of days, raise the dead, and judge the whole world — angels, demons, and men.
The author labored to give his words and phrases the quaint, old - fashioned sound and structure of our King James's translation of the Scriptures; and the result is a mongrel — half modern glibness, and half ancient simplicity and gravity.
«Laws of peace, of love, of unity, Of pity, compassion, forgiveness; Let each chuse one habitation, His ancient infinite mansion, One command, one joy, one desire, One curse, one weight, one measure, One King, one God, one Law.»f peace, of love, of unity, Of pity, compassion, forgiveness; Let each chuse one habitation, His ancient infinite mansion, One command, one joy, one desire, One curse, one weight, one measure, One King, one God, one Law.»f love, of unity, Of pity, compassion, forgiveness; Let each chuse one habitation, His ancient infinite mansion, One command, one joy, one desire, One curse, one weight, one measure, One King, one God, one Law.»f unity, Of pity, compassion, forgiveness; Let each chuse one habitation, His ancient infinite mansion, One command, one joy, one desire, One curse, one weight, one measure, One King, one God, one Law.&raquOf pity, compassion, forgiveness; Let each chuse one habitation, His ancient infinite mansion, One command, one joy, one desire, One curse, one weight, one measure, One King, one God, one Law.»
It fit ancient Hebrew scripture foretelling the birth of a king in Bethlehem, the birth place of David.
Two other ancient prayers, the eleventh of the Eighteen Benedictions, from the period before the destruction of the Temple in AD 70, and the Alenu prayer, probably from the third century AD, both use a form of the verb mlk, «to reign, be king», with God as the subject.
The teaching of Jesus, on the other hand, not only regularly uses the verb to come in connection with the Kingdom and avoids the other verbs more characteristic of ancient Judaism, it also never speaks of God «appearing» as king as do the Jewish texts.
How does that fit with Samuel's chastising ancient Israel for their craving of an earthly king?
Perhaps you've seen the flurry of chatter about an ancient piece of papyrus discovered by Harvard Divinity School historian Karen L. King in which the words «Jesus said to them, «My wife...,»» appear very clearly, before the sentence is broken off.
Slipping in, he will find an ancient shrine where kings have worshipped and martyrs lie buried, with glorious old windows where the light shines through the scenes of the Savior's passion.
An ancient Talmudic story tells of a king who sent two of his servants out with very interesting instructions.
In Wilson it mingled missionary nationalism with a vision of internationalism, and in the eloquence of Martin Luther King Jr., it found a voice for the revitalization of a civic religion in the context of demands for the renewal of the premises and promises of the ancient covenants.79
One of the ancient prophets — the same, indeed, who spoke of the «king coming in gentleness» — also drew a picture of a good time to come when men of all nations will go up to Jerusalem to worship the King, the Lord of hosts; and on that day the prophet adds, «there shall no more be a trader in the house of the Lord of hosts,» 11 Jesus was offering symbolically a fulfillment of that prophecy, in line with his basic affirmation that the kingdom of God is hking coming in gentleness» — also drew a picture of a good time to come when men of all nations will go up to Jerusalem to worship the King, the Lord of hosts; and on that day the prophet adds, «there shall no more be a trader in the house of the Lord of hosts,» 11 Jesus was offering symbolically a fulfillment of that prophecy, in line with his basic affirmation that the kingdom of God is hKing, the Lord of hosts; and on that day the prophet adds, «there shall no more be a trader in the house of the Lord of hosts,» 11 Jesus was offering symbolically a fulfillment of that prophecy, in line with his basic affirmation that the kingdom of God is here.
Did you know the Middle East is where mathematical calculations, algebra, geometry, etc. started??? Did you know it was an ancient Iranian who discovered alcohol??? Did you know that the earliest known Bill of Human Rights was written by King Cyrus, ruler of the Persian Empire?
It is true that the King James bible is referenced in a good deal of pre 20th century literature, but so was ancient Roman / Greek mythology.
The only genuinely ancient part — not used for any governing purpose — is the astonishing chilly space of Westminster Hall, faintly redolent of the horrible show trial of King Charles I, still an awkward moment in the national family album.
Up and down its narrow valleys and across its great plain went the pomp and panoply of the ancient world, and its more commonplace traffic as well: rich argosies from far Babylon, carrying the wares down to Egypt; royal messengers of the great kings who ruled in Persepolis, bearing decrees for the officer in charge at the frontier station of Assouan; plenipotentiaries of Hatti and of Egypt, seeking a modus vivendi in the political stresses of the thirteenth century; conquerors with their chariots and footmen and their tale of atrocities behind and yet before; wandering bands of foot - loose adventurers, seeking a good land where they might strike roots into the soil - all these and hosts of others were led among the Palestinian hills where went the great trunk roads of the ancient world, camped in the plains, bartered in the little cities, or stayed to lay permanent claim to some hit of the land.
It was the kingship of Yahweh that had constituted Israel, and Israel would survive only as that imperium continued, overarching and overruling the power of human kings.1 So when the prophets said, «Thus says the LORD,» they were representing the ancient, original, final, and legitimate authority in Israel.
Perhaps in highly personalized societies of the ancient type, such a usage might make sense — under kings, tyrants, or tribal chiefs, for example, where one person made all the crucial social decisions.
Strategy becomes idolatry, for ancient Israel and for us today, when we make alliances with those who seem to offer strength — the chariots of Egypt, the vassal kings of Rome — at the expense of our dependence on God who judges all nations, and in defiance of God's manifest concern for the stranger, the widow, the orphan, and the oppressed.
These traditionalists pine for a simpler age, for ancient myths, and gentler Christmases evoked by Dickens — along with scenes of sleigh bells, King Wenceslas, and farmlands covered with snow.
The ancient hope that a king would arise as the manager and guarantor of peace is revived, but this king differs from the king in Isaiah 9, 11, 32, or 33; in Micah 5 or Jeremiah 30 or Ezekiel 34 or 37.
The Ancient of Days, after the execution of the arrogant earthly king, gives a kingdom to one like a human being who comes on the clouds of heaven.
The ancient Egyptian early dynastic period in which the first of the God - Kings ruled over a unified Upper and Lower Egypt, began circa 3100BCE.
Paul's name was originally Saul; he had been named after the ancient king of Israel who was the most famous member of Paul's tribe (I Sam.
He preferred to see himself as the apocalyptic figure of Daniel 7, whose coming would spell the end of the bestial earthly kingdoms, and to whom the Ancient of Days would give the kingdom of God, rather than seeing himself a king in David's line, even an apocalyptic one.
In the ancient Near Eastern world, kings were considered divine image - bearers, appointed representatives of God on earth.
This is not the same Eshba'al who is referenced in 1 Chronicles 8:33, a son of King Saul, but that's the only other mention of the name in ancient records, both from the identical era.
Apocrypha were the ancient equivalent of horror stories, written to frighten and entertain the public, much the same way that Shakespearean plays did in the 1600s and Stephen King novels do today.
At least one description of ancient Israel sounds very much like modern America: «In those days there was no king in Israel; everyone did what was right in his own eyes» (Judges 17:6, 21:25).
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Against the charge of being a meddling outsider, King points to St. Paul, the man who traveled the ancient world to preach the gospel of freedom.
The sons of Noah in the plain of Shinar were documented in Genesis as the origin of the peoples in the land of ancient Sumer where Gilgamesh was King.
In that ancient binding concept of community it is king and people who are judged.
Biblical scholars often use the term gospel to refer to a genre of ancient writings featuring dialogue between Jesus and his disciples, King notes in her paper.
Many OT, NT and koran thu - mpers are actually thu - mping the rules and codes of the ancients like King Hammurabi and the Egyptians who wrote the Book of the Dead and who did NOT need revelations from angels or mountain voices to develop needed rules of conduct for us h - o - minids.
He then points to archeological finds such as the Tel Dan inscription and the Siloam Tunnel Inscription to highlight the likely historicity of King David and Israel's monarchs as well as similarities in how ancient people reported historical events.
Anthony Le Donne is a New Testament historian whose book The Wife of Jesus: Ancient Texts and Modern Scandals (Oneworld) examines the infamous Karen King manuscript as well as other historical claims that Jesus was married.
«Just like most of the earliest papyri of the New Testament and other literary and documentary papyri, a fragment this damaged could have come from an ancient garbage heap,» the King says building on prior research by Luijendijk.
Examples of these human marks include the fact that the Bible was written in Hebrew and Greek, that the Old Testament world was a world of temples, priests and sacrifice, that Israel as well as the surrounding nations has prophets that mediated divine will to them, that Israel was ruled by kings, that Israel's legal system shares striking similarities with those of surrounding nations, that the creation narrative and the story of Noah resemble other ancient stories of the time, that the writers of Scripture operated within the paradigm of ancient cosmology, etc..