Sentences with phrase «many of the oxen»

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.»

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.

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.»

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...»

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!

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.

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.

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

Leaving the cave... (Elijah) came upon Elisha son of Shaphat plowing with twelve yoke of oxen in front of him, and he with the twelfth.

Leaving him, Elisha went hack, took the pair of oxen, slaughtered them, used the implements (of plowing) to cook their flesh, and gave (it) to the people to eat.

Leaving him, Elisha went back, took the pair of oxen, slaughtered them, used the implements (of plowing) to cook their flesh, and gave (it) to the people to eat.

Then Araunah said to David, «Let my lord the king take and offer up what seems good to him; here are the oxen for the burnt offering, and the threshing sledges and the yokes of the oxen for the wood.

In preliminary work, European archaeologists had fired reproductions of Upper Paleolithic points made of antler at the carcasses of oxen and deer, then studied the marks that they left on the bones.

Some humanitarian organizations facilitate livestock donations to poor households in developing countries, but does giving a cow, a pair of oxen, or a herd of goats to a poor household really benefit the recipients?

Instead, he takes his students to Daggett Farm, an eighteenth - century homestead on the property where they dip candles, create linen from flax, and plow fields behind a team of oxen.

Fortunately for me I didn't need a team of oxen to pull up all those stumps.

It was burned where it lay including as much of the stump below ground as possible so you didn't have to come along later and pull out the stumps one by one with a team of oxen.

-- not «How can we make sure none of our oxen get gored?»

Not exact matches

- 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.»

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.»

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

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..

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.

The poor are not oxen - like workers ordained to be subservient to the rich but dignified human beings created in the image of God.

So David bought the threshing floor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver, -LCB- emphasis added)

Thats what the «good books says» Now more recent versions of «the word of God» have changed these ridiculous creatures to more reasonable creatures, such as oxen, etc. but only because they knew readers with today's knowledge would see this for the rubbish that it is!

This opposition by the Amalekites, at that time, is given as a reason, that the men, women, infants and sucklings, sheep and oxen, camels and asses, that were born four hundred years afterward, should be put to death; and to complete the horror, Samuel hewed Agag, the chief of the Amalekites, in pieces, as you would hew a stick of wood.

Yet the transfer of prophetic mission to Elisha suggests that the tension between the prophet and society will remain: Elisha must abandon his life as an ordinary member of society, bid farewell to his mother and father, and sacrifice the oxen with which he had made his living (I Kings 19:19 - 21)

You're probably familiar with the concept of a yoke as a piece of heavy wood or metal used to steer two oxen in the same direction while they are plowing.

Many who were here on earth are called nobles shall blush in deepest shame at that Judgment - seat, when around their necks they shall carry, before all the world, all the sheep and oxen and the beasts of the field that they confiscated or seized and did not pay for.52

17 And King Ahaz cut off the frames of the stands, and removed the layer from them, and he took down the sea from off the bronze oxen that were under it, and put it upon a pediment of stone.

He pulls down the sea from off the bronze oxen, the basin of purification, and puts it on a pediment of stone, probably to one side.

To the word boucan belongs the term boucanier, bucancir, given to the French hunters of St. Domingo, from their preparing the flesh of the wild oxen and boars in this way, and applied less appropriately to the rovers of the Spanish Main.

I'm currently having visions of the Oregon Trail... wondering how many oxen we'll lose if we cross over any water.

But back to the pages of TRADE - turmeric for health, cooking with seaweed, cultivating mushrooms, fiber in Tajikistan, sourdough recipes, farming with oxen, scything, an embroidery pattern, a crochet sweater, canning jar labels, oh and so much more!

Old Sturbridge Village Curator Tom Kelleher notes that snow in early New England was actually welcomed by travelers, saying, «Instead of plowing roads clear after a storm as we do today, in the 1800s teams of horses and oxen were driven out to trample the snow down, leaving a hard packed surface for sleighs.