Sentences with phrase «of oxen»

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

It is a derivation of the word yuj, which means to yoke, as in harnessing together a team of 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...

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...»

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

Nothing is said of oxen and sheep, but Mark and Matthew say that Jesus «overturned the tables of the money - changers and the seats of those who sold pigeons.»

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.

To appease their ancestors, the kings offered sacrifices, slaughtering scores of convicts and slaves, and transforming fields of oxen into seas of cloying blood and wild flies.

But, she has a wonderful knack for goring many of the oxen that need to be gored.

If you're after desolate beaches, rolling hills, the odd appearance of oxen pulling carts, and not much else, then Mbotyi is possibly one of the best hidden secrets in the Eastern Cape's Pondoland.

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

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.

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).

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.

We swerved around herds of oxen and goats.

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.»

And another said: I have bought five yoke of oxen and I am going to try them; I beg you to excuse me.

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).

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.

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?

Last, but certainly not least, as a longtime organic farmer and biodynamic gardener, Coach has raised chickens, goats, sheep, and pigs, and driven a team of oxen.