Israelites

How To Use Israelites In A Sentence

• Psalm 137, one of the most evocative in the psalter, speaks from the perspective of the Israelites driven into exile and slavery after the Babylonian destruction of Jerusalem in 587 B.C.E.
• Old men used to mutter about him, rail at him, as the Israelites did to Moses.
• Abel-shittim, where the Israelites pitched their tents immediately after they had passed the river Jordan, in Josephus is called Abila, "distant from From the Talmud and Hebraica
• The Israelites, a messianic sabbatarian sect, whose ritual included baptism by total immersion at midnight, the kiss of peace, and an annual passover, had made their headquarters in the location at Ntaba Class and Colour in South Africa 1850-1950 - Chapter 12
• This inimitable pathetic elegy is supposed by many writers to have become a national war song, and to have been taught to the young Israelites under the name of "The Bow," in conformity with the practice of Hebrew and many classical writers in giving titles to their songs from the principal theme (Ps 22: 1; 56: 1; 60: 1; 80: 1; 100: 1). Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
• The Canaanites suffered a series of setbacks in the late 2nd millennium bc with attacks from the sea peoples in the north while in the south they were displaced by the Israelites and the Philistines.
• God had fed the Israelites in the wilderness with manna, but also with ‘miraculous flocks of quail’.
• Some imagine that it was designed to remind the Israelites of the time when they had no cornfields to reap but were daily supplied with manna; others think that it suited the convenience of the people better than any other period of the year for dwelling in booths; others that it was the time of Moses 'second descent from the mount; while a fourth class are of opinion that this feast was fixed to the time of the year when the Word was made flesh and dwelt -- literally, "tabernacled" -- among us (Joh 1: 14), Christ being actually born at that season. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
• The Israelites, according to Numbers 25, were camped at Shittim when the people began "profaning themselves" by having illicit sex with the local Moabites. Brad Hirschfield: Resisting the Seductions of Religious Zeal
• Say to the Israelites: 'Any Israelite or any alien living in Israel who gives any of his children to Molech must be put to death.