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Hezekiah (/ ˌhɛzɪˈkaɪ.ə /; Biblical Hebrew: חִזְקִיָּהוּ, romanized: Ḥizqiyyāhu), or Ezekias[c] (born c. 741 BCE, sole ruler c. 716/15–687/86), was the son of Ahaz and the thirteenth king of Judah according to the Hebrew Bible. [2] In the Biblical narrative, Hezekiah witnessed the destruction of the northern Kingdom of ...
Jerusalem. The Assyrian siege of Jerusalem (circa 701 BC) was an aborted siege of Jerusalem, then capital of the Kingdom of Judah, carried out by Sennacherib, king of the Neo-Assyrian Empire. The siege concluded Sennacharib's campaign in the Levant, in which he attacked the fortified cities and devastated the countryside of Judah in a campaign ...
Grace (meals) Grace before the Meal, by Fritz von Uhde, 1885. A grace is a short prayer or thankful phrase said before or after eating. [1] The term most commonly refers to Christian traditions. Some traditions hold that grace and thanksgiving imparts a blessing which sanctifies the meal.
And you will find rest for yourselves. My yoke is easy to bear, and my burden is light.”. The Good News: Rest your weary souls with the Lord, and He will grant you peace of mind, body, and soul ...
Matthew 1:10. Michelangelo 's Hezekiah-Manasseh-Amon. Traditionally Manasseh is the man on the right and Amon is the child on the left. Matthew 1:10 is the tenth verse of the first chapter in the Gospel of Matthew in the Bible. The verse is part of the section where the genealogy of Joseph, the father of Jesus, is listed.
t. e. In Western Christian theology, grace is created by God who gives it as help to one because God desires one to have it, not necessarily because of anything one has done to earn it. [1] It is understood by Western Christians to be a spontaneous gift from God to people – "generous, free and totally unexpected and undeserved" [2] – that ...
Come, Lord Jesus, be our Guest; And bless what you have bestowed. or alternatively, a Moravian translation, Come, Lord, Jesus, our Guest to be. And bless these gifts bestowed by Thee. There are several variations common today for the second line. In English there are other second lines such as "Let these gifts to us be blessed," "Let Thy gifts ...
While he maintains his practice of the Jesus Prayer, which becomes automatic and continues twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, the hesychast cultivates nepsis, watchful attention, to reject tempting thoughts (the "thieves") that come to the hesychast as he watches in sober attention in his hermitage. St.