 | Wilfred G. E. Watson - 1994 - 546 pages
...burn them with fire. And you shall say to the whole house of Israel: Thus has the Lord Yahweh said: This is Jerusalem! I have set it in the midst of the nations with the lands round about it'. 45. Zimmerli, Ezekiel I, pp. 161-62. Clay tablets were also used for... | |
 | Alfred W. Crosby - 1997 - 268 pages
...center of the inhabited surface of the earth. Did not Ezekiel 5: 5 say, in anticipation of His agony, "This is Jerusalem: I have set it in the midst of the nations and countries that are round about her"? Medieval Europeans commonly believed that that center had... | |
 | Robert P. Carroll, Stephen Prickett - 1998 - 1828 pages
...fire; for thereof shall a fire come forth into all the house of Israel. 5 ^ Thus saith the Lord GOD ; ll die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at thin and countries that are round about her. 6 And she hath changed my judgments into wickedness more than... | |
 | David Buisseret - 1998 - 212 pages
...synonymous with Jerusalem. On medieval maps of the world, it is indicated as the center of the world: "This is Jerusalem. I have set it in the midst of the nations and countries that are round about her (Ezekiel 5:5). Among the cities on these maps, Milan, Venice,... | |
 | Catherine M. S. Alexander, Stanley Wells - 2000 - 254 pages
...as Christendom, centred on Jerusalem, not only because Ezekiel 5.5 reads, 'Thus saith the Lord God; This is Jerusalem: I have set it in the midst of the nations and countries that are round about her', but because the Holy Land represents the natural hub of Christian... | |
 | John W. Wohlfarth - 2001 - 409 pages
...is surrounded by the "Ocean Sea." At the center of each map was Jerusalem. "Thus saith the Lord God; This is Jerusalem: I have set it in the midst of the nations and countries that are round about her" (Ezekiel Chapter V, line v). "Navel of the world" (umbilicus... | |
 | Allardyce Nicoll - 2002 - 322 pages
...as Christendom, centred on Jerusalem, not only because Ezekiel v. 5 reads, "Thus saith the Lord God; This is Jerusalem: I have set it in the midst of the nations and countries that are round about her', but because the Holy Land represents the natural hub of Christian... | |
 | Rivka Gonen - 2003 - 224 pages
...it is located, and Jerusalem — represent three levels of holiness in diminishing order. The verse "This is Jerusalem: I have set it in the midst of the nations and countries that are round about her" (Ezekiel 5:5) is expanded to refer to the city of Jerusalem... | |
 | J. Rosalie Hooge - 2003 - 390 pages
...the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation. EzeMel 5:5, Thus saith the Lord God; This is Jerusalem: I have set it in the midst of the nations and countries that are round about her. Departure from Ur Abraham was seventy-five years old when he... | |
 | Walter Curtis Lichfield - 2005 - 626 pages
...fire; (for) thereof shall a fire come forth into all the house of Israel," 5:5 Thus saith the Lord God; "This (is) Jerusalem: I have set it in the midst of the nations and countries (that are) round about her, 5:6 "And she hath changed my judgments into wickedness more... | |
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Thus saith the Lord GOD ; This is Jerusalem: I have set it in the midst of the nations and countries that are round about her. 
