Sentences with phrase «osv oxen»

Putney seemed cool, because it was a place where you would drive oxen through the woods, build stone walls, do cross-country skiing.

- Contrary to what 1 Nephi 18:25 asserts, North America had no cows, oxen, asses, horses, or goats «for the use of man» between 600 B.C. and the time European colonists brought them.

With you I will shatter shepherds and flocks, farmers and oxen, captains and rulers.

15 And when he had made a scourge of small cords, he drove them all out of the temple, and the sheep, and the oxen; and poured out the changers» money, and overthrew the tables;

Exd 20:24 An altar of earth you shall make for me and sacrifice on it your burnt offerings and your peace offerings, your sheep and your oxen.

2) The Overcomers are the Elite, the Barley Harvest — the Oxen.

You have rescued me from the horns of the wild oxen!

When Abraham enters into the covenant with Yahweh he slays oxen and parts the beasts in two, creating a corridor drenched in the blood of the sacrificed animals.

The manger scene began to take shape during the last week of Advent, when we cut fragrant pine branches and spread them on the hall table, then placed figurines of oxen...

We are told only that Elisha «ran after Elijah,» kissed his parents, sacrificed to the Lord his yoke of oxen — talk about burning bridges — and «set out and followed Elijah, and became his servant» (1 Kings 19:21).

Coming down from the mountain, Elijah finds his successor working behind 12 yoke of oxen, plowing his family's field.

The attentive reader remembers how Elisha kissed his folks goodbye, slaughtered his yoke of oxen, and not only followed Elijah but stuck to him like a burr: «As the Lord lives, and as you yourself live, I will not leave you.»

Likewise shalt thou do with thine oxen, and with thy sheep.»

Is it about oxen that God is concerned?

Sleep, infant, sleep among the oxen and the sheep which kneel before your manger.

And you shall spend that money for whatever your heart desires: for oxen or sheep, for wine or similar drink, for whatever your heart desires; you shall eat there before the Lord your God, and you shall rejoice, you and your household.

He suddenly shifts the point of view, and we find ourselves looking at the scene through the eyes of lowly shad seeking a way up the river to spawn; through the eyes of elderly citizens who remember their own childhood when the fish swam free; through the eyes of farmers with their oxen, barred from cutting hay.

Fun to read it is closer to sheep and goats then to oxen.

He had grown up, he said, on a farm where oxen were used, and he told how the yokes were fashioned so that they would fit without galling the animal's shoulders.

33 That very hour the word was fulfilled concerning Nebuchadnezzar; he was driven from men and ate grass like oxen; his body was wet with the dew of heaven till his hair had grown like eagles» feathers and his nails like birds» claws.

The story of shad and farmers and oxen is the true story.

The manger scene began to take shape during the last week of Advent, when we cut fragrant pine branches and spread them on the hall table, then placed figurines of oxen and cows in the center.

There was a temple to Jupiter in Lystra, and its priest fell in with the populace, bringing with them garlands and oxen to make sacrifice to Barnabas and his companion Paul, believing as they did that they were Jupiter in and Mercury.

Pagels points out how promiscuity and immorality in the late Roman Empire resulted in widespread infanticide and abortion, as well as a slave trade in child prostitutes who were treated, in Justin's phrase, «like herds of oxen, goats, or sheep.»

25 It stood on twelve oxen, three facing north, three facing west, three facing south, and three facing east; and the sea was set on top of them, and all their rear parts turned inward.

They shall make you eat grass like oxen; and seven times shall pass over you, until you know that the Most High rules in the kingdom of men, and gives it to whomever He chooses.»

Things of this kind are from God: the fertile land, moderate winds, abundance of seeds, the work of the oxen, and other things by which a farm is brought to productivity and abundance... But the avaricious one has not remembered our common nature, and has not thought of distribution...»

He suggested that oxen, lions and horses, if they could make gods, would make them like oxen, lions and horses.

While dying oxen bled to death on lattice floors built over their heads, initiates both drank and washed themselves with the blood that dripped on them.

For all the ill that Satan can do, when God describes what keeps us from the banquet table of his love, it is a piece of land, a yoke of oxen, and a wife (Luke 14:18 — 20).

I wan na see the amish making there stand with pitch forks and an army of oxen!

Xenophanes (approximately 570 «500 b.c.) has earned for himself a perpetual place in undergraduate philosophy textbooks with his famous line that «if horses or oxen or lions had hands they could draw with and thus could accomplish such works as men, horses would draw the figures of the gods as similar to horses, and oxen as similar to oxen, and they would make the bodies of the sort which each of them had.»

Oxen are still used for plowing, water may have to be carried from the tank, and pujahs are still said at the local shrine, but the oxen are tied with nylon rope, not hemp; the water is carried in plastic, not earthenware or brass, pots; and the donations for pujah are broadcast on a PA system.

14:26 And thou shalt bestow that money for whatsoever thy soul lusteth after, for oxen, or for sheep, or for wine, or for strong drink, or for whatsoever thy soul desireth: and thou shalt eat there before the LORD thy God, and thou shalt rejoice, thou...

19And another said, «I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I go to examine them; I pray you, have me excused.»

But Saul and the people spared Agag, and the best of the sheep and of the oxen and of the fatlings, and the lambs, and all that was good, and would not utterly destroy them: all that was despised and worthless they utterly destroyed.

Dinosaurs did not chew their cud like oxen or cattle.

The parable of the Great Banquet in Luke 14 recounts the excuses given by those invited: One of them says that he has to go look at his newly bought piece of land; another says that he has to examine his five yoke of oxen.

I discovered that the oxen and people were drinking water from the same source and that they were sleeping on bunks that had no mattress and were living in absolute squalor.

2 SAMUEL 6:6 - 7 The oxen carrying the Ark of God stumbled, and Uzzah reached out to steady it.

The procession was long and colorful with all the great men and sheep and oxen and incense — and the ark and the priests and the cherubim.

In that day the Lord Yahweh of hosts, called to weeping and mourning, to baldness and girding with sackcloth; and behold, joy and gladness, slaying oxen and killing sheep, eating flesh and drinking wine..

Society is topsy - turvy: «He who had no yoke of oxen is now possessor of a herd. . . .

Most often, we read these verses as talking about a vineyard owner and an oxen owner, and how the vineyard owner is the one who plants the vineyard and enjoys its harvest, and the oxen owner is the one who should not muzzle the ox, but let it eat some grain at the mill.

1Co 9:10 Is God simply thinking about the oxen?

In such a case, the man should not try to boost his own profits by muzzling his neighbor's oxen so they can not eat while treading out the grain.

Paul then is comparing himself (and all apostles) to a borrowed oxen, a traveling soldier, or someone who tends another man's field.

This is cruel to the oxen, and does not show appreciation to the man who owns the oxen.

But the people took of the spoil, sheep and oxen, the best of the things devoted to destruction, to sacrifice to the Lord your God in Gilgal.

John tells us that the merchants were selling «oxen and sheep» as well as pigeons (2:14).