Israel

I will accept you with your sweet savour, when I bring you out from the people, and gather you out of the countries wherein you have been scattered; and I will be sanctified in you before the heathen. And ye shall know that I am the L, when I shall bring you into the land of Israel, into the country for the which I lifted up mine hand to give it to your fathers. And there shall ye remember your ways, and all your doings, wherein ye have been defiled; and ye shall loath yourselves in your own sight for all your evils that ye have committed.

—Bible (Old Testament)

Behold there appeared a chariot of fire, and horses of 92 fire, and parted them both asunder; and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven. And Elisha saw it, and he cried, My father, my father, the chariot of Israel, and the horsemen thereof.

—Bible (Old Testament)

Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace, according to thy word: For mine eyes have seen thy salvation,Which thou hast prepared before the face of all people; A light to lighten the Gentiles, and the glory of thy people Israel.

—Bible (NewTestament)

Truly God isgood to Israel, even to such as are of a clean heart.But as for me, my feet were almost gone; my steps had well nigh slipped. For I was envious at the foolish, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.

—Bible (Old Testament)

Hear,O Israel: the L our God is one L: And thou shalt love the L thy God with all thy soul, and with all thy might.

—Bible (Old Testament)

   He saved others; himself he cannot save. If he be the King of Israel, let him now come down from the cross, and we will believe him.

—Bible (NewTestament)

In Israel it's enough to liveöyou don't have to do anything else and you go to bed exhausted. Have you ever noticed that Jews shout? Even one ear is more than you need.

—Roth, Philip Milton

Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he was the son of his old age: and he made him a coat of many colours.

—Bible (Old Testament)

  But if ye shall at all turn from following me† Then will I cut off Israel out of the land which I have given them; and thishouse, which Ihavehallowed formy name, will Icast out of my sight; and Israel shall be a proverb and a byword among all people.

—Bible (Old Testament)

Still on Israel's head forlorn Every nation heaps its scorn. 496

—Lazarus, Emma

Then Israel's monarch, after Heaven's own heart, His vigorous warmth did, variously, impart To wives and slaves: and, wide as his command, Scattered his Maker's image through the land.

—Dryden,John

And thou shalt put in the breastplate of judgment the Urim and theThummim; and thy shall be upon Aaron's heart, whenhegoethinbeforetheL: and Aaronshall bear thejudgment ofthe childrenof Israel uponhisheart before the L continually.

—Bible (Old Testament)

But go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.

—Bible (NewTestament)

In those days there was no king in Israel, but every man did that which was right in his own eyes.

—Bible (Old Testament)

The centurion answered and said, Lord, I am not worthy that thou shouldest come under my roof: but speak the word only, and myservant shall be healed.For Iama man under authority, having soldiers under me: and I say to this man,Go, and he goeth; and to another,Come, and he cometh; and to my servant, Do this, and he doeth it. When Jesus heard it, he marvelled, and said to them that followed,Verily I say unto you, I have not found so great faith, no, not in Israel.

—Bible (NewTestament)

Circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, an Hebrew of the Hebrews; as touching the law, a Pharisee.

—Bible (NewTestament)

The best thing about the violence in Northern Ireland is that it's all so ancient and honorable† The Irish are in the same terrific position as the Shiites in Lebanon, the peasants in El Salvador, the blacks in America, the Jews in Palestine, the Palestinians in Israel (and everybody everywhere, if you read your history)öenough barbarism has been visited on the Irish to excuse all barbarities by the Irish barbarians.

—O'Rourke, P(atrick) J(ake)

But thou, Bethlehem, Ephratah, though thou be little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall he come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel.

—Bible (Old Testament)

A certain man drewa bowat a venture, and smote the king of Israel between the joints of the harness.

—Bible (Old Testament)

Let him come now to me, and he shall know that there is a prophet in Israel.

—Bible (Old Testament)

And he received them at their hand, and fashioned it with a graving tool, after he had made it a molten calf: and they said,These be thy gods,O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.

—Bible (Old Testament)

   When Israel was a child, then I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt.

—Bible (Old Testament)