Bible Dictionary: Oil: Failure of, a Severe Calamity

◄ Oil: Failure of, a Severe Calamity ►

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Haggai 1:11
And I called for a drought on the land, and on the mountains, and on the corn, and on the new wine, and on the oil, and on that which the ground brings forth, and on men, and on cattle, and on all the labor of the hands.
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Lives of Faith and Trust
... single penny on hand, it seemed as if failure had come ... her almost continuously to
her bed in severe suffering ... I then knelt and anointed her with oil in the name ...
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Homiletical.
... are as eager for foreign perfumes as for oil from the ... must be groaning to-day at
the failure of his ... in this little tract with the severe restrictions which ...
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The Epistle of St. James
... Calamity is the occasion for valour,' said Seneca (De ... own hands, as though it were
not severe enough), whereas ... do with your faith, and any failure is therefore ...
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St. Gregory the Great.
... month he allotted portions of corn, wine, oil, cheese, fish ... or you will incur from
us severe punishment."[198 ... bishops and palatines; and after the failure of the ...
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Funeral Oration on the Great S. Basil, Bishop of Cæsarea in ...
... There was a famine, the most severe one ever recorded. The city was in distress,
and there was no source of assistance, or relief for the calamity. ...
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The Holy See and the Wandering of the Nations.
... Augustine, had been suffering a persecution so severe that no ... them into a land flowing
with oil and wine ... account of this expedition and its failure, see Thierry ...
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Another Wonderful Record of 25.
... "'In consequence of failure to obtain my ... destitute; there was no meal in the barrel
nor oil in the ... There had been several severe gales, and some of my friends ...
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The Power of Assyria at Its Zenith; Esarhaddon and Assur-Bani-Pal
... Its climate was severe and liable to great extremes of ... upon which he poured libations
of oil, honey, palm ... The expedition was a failure, and Taharqa was greatly ...
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Subtopics

Oil used for Anointing Kings

Oil used for Anointing the Person

Oil used for Anointing the Sick

Oil used for Anointing to offices of Trust

Oil used for Food

Oil used for Idols

Oil used for Lamps