Judges 12:6 Then said they unto him, Say now Shibboleth: and he said Sibboleth: for he could not frame to pronounce [it] right. Then they took him, and slew him at the passages of Jordan: and there fell at that time of the Ephraimites forty and two thousand. In Judges 11 we learn
Leviticus 16:8: “And Aaron shall cast lots upon the two goats; one lot for the LORD, and the other lot for the scapegoat.” “We were made to suffer, it’s our lot in life.” 3CPO Star Wars In another ten days the Jewish people will be celebrating Yom Kippur. This is the
I Samuel 8:5: “And said unto him, Behold, thou art old, and thy sons walk not in thy ways: now make us a king to judge us like all the nations.(6) But the thing displeased Samuel, when they said, Give us a king to judge us. And Samuel prayed unto the LORD. (7) And
Psalms 63:8: “My soul follow hard after you, your right hand upholds me.” I don’t know about you but I have a hard time (that’s a pun) reconciling coincidences as just beating out the odds or as a message from God. For instance this morning I was reading about rabbis who entered a
Deuteronomy 30:20: “That thou mayest love the LORD thy God, [and] that thou mayest obey his voice, and that thou mayest cleave unto him: for he [is] thy life, and the length of thy days: that thou mayest dwell in the land which the LORD sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and
Psalms 73:26: “My flesh and my heart fails, but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion forever.” “I went to an Asperger support group, but no one showed up.” Chaim Bentorah This morning as I was driving to Rockford and fumbling with my GPS because I was certain I had
Exodus 8:2,7 “And if thou refuse to let [them] go, behold, I will smite all thy borders with frogs: (7) And the magicians did so with their enchantments, and brought up frogs upon the land of Egypt.” I have always wondered about this matter of the plague of frogs brought upon Egypt. Why frogs?
Psalms 127:1: A song of Ascent for Solomon: “Unless the Lord build the house, they labor in vain that build it.” Solomon’s Temple was called Solomon’s Temple for good reason. There was more Solomon in building the Temple than God. Thus this was more Solomon’s temple than it was God’s temple with regard to
Genesis 22:14: “And Abraham called the name of that place Jehovahjireh: as it is said [to] this day, In the mount where the LORD is seen.” Gn 24:63: “ And Isaac went out to meditate in the field at the eventide: and he lifted up his eyes, and saw, and, behold, the camels
Psalms 119:25: “My soul cleaveth unto the dust, quicken thou me according to thy word.” “In times of change, learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.” – Eric Hoffer Most Christian commentators interpret the phrase; My soul cleaveth unto
