Sentence examples for consecrated to god from inspiring English sources

One, chosen by lot, was consecrated to God and sacrificed.

Sacrilege: "The act of violating or subjecting sacred things to profanation; or the desecration of objects consecrated to God.

Mr. Panetti said he was being punished for being a Nazarite, those the ancient Hebrews said were especially consecrated to God.

At the beginning of 1610, aged 17, he sent his mother two sonnets with a letter saying, "My meaning is in these Sonnets to declare my resolution to be, that my poor Abilities in Poetry, shall be all, and ever consecrated to God's glory".

The Aztecs twice yearly made dough images of the sun god Huitzilopochtli that were consecrated to the god and thereby transubstantiated into his flesh to be eaten with fear and reverence by the worshippers.

The hair cut off on such occasions was consecrated to some god.

This was an altar consecrated to Clupeus, the god of herring, whose annual festival is celebrated in late spring by herring-lovers the world over.

Founded in AD32, the temple was consecrated to the Mesopotamian god Bel and formed the centre of religious life in Palmyra.

Hamas is to the Palestinians what the settlers are to Israel: it believes that the land was consecrated to Muslims by God, and is not negotiable.Divide and misruleForty years of conflict have convinced most Palestinians and Israelis that they are best off separating into two states.

For you are a people consecrated to the Lord your God: of all the peoples on earth the Lord your God chose you to be His treasured people.

The patriarchal narratives, beginning with the 12th chapter of Genesis, presuppose the choice, which is set forth explicitly in Deuteronomy 7 6 8 in the New Jewish Version: For you are a people consecrated to the Lord your God: of all the peoples on earth the Lord your God chose you to be His treasured people.