Now Herod was in a furious dispute with the people of Tyre and Sidon, and they convened before him. Having secured the support of Blastus, the king’s chamberlain, they asked for peace, because their region depended on the king’s country for food.
They gave money to the masons and carpenters, and food and drink and oil to the people of Sidon and Tyre to bring cedar
Judah and the land of Israel traded with you; they exchanged wheat from Minnith, cakes and honey, oil and balm for your
“Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the miracles that were performed in you had been performed in Tyre
The master commended the dishonest manager because he had acted shrewdly. For the sons of this age are more shrewd in de
Or what king on his way to war with another king will not first sit down and consider whether he can engage with ten tho
This is the burden against Tyre: Wail, O ships of Tarshish, for Tyre is laid waste, without house or harbor. Word has re
and the borders of Canaan extended from Sidon toward Gerar as far as Gaza, and then toward Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Z
from that time, when one came expecting a heap of twenty ephahs of grain, there were but ten. When one came to the winep
If the ruler’s temper flares against you, do not abandon your post, for calmness lays great offenses to rest.
The border then turned back toward Ramah as far as the fortified city of Tyre, turned toward Hosah, and came out at the
“I afflicted all your cities with cleanness of teeth and all your towns with lack of bread, yet you did not return to Me
And Canaan was the father of Sidon his firstborn, and of the Hittites,
Now let my lord send to his servants the wheat, barley, olive oil, and wine he promised.
To start a quarrel is to release a flood; so abandon the dispute before it breaks out.
My servants will haul the logs from Lebanon to the Sea, and I will float them as rafts by sea to the place you specify.
I will pay your servants, the woodcutters, 20,000 cors of ground wheat, 20,000 cors of barley, 20,000 baths of wine, and
For she does not acknowledge that it was I who gave her grain, new wine, and oil, who lavished on her silver and gold—wh
do not bring hastily to court. Otherwise, what will you do in the end when your neighbor puts you to shame?
I am not angry. If only thorns and briers confronted Me, I would march and trample them, I would burn them to the ground
Go up into the hills, bring down lumber, and build the house, so that I may take pleasure in it and be glorified, says t
Set plans by consultation, and wage war under sound guidance.