Exodus 16:15: “And when the children of Israel saw [it], they said one to another, It [is] manna: for they wist not what it [was]. And Moses said unto them, This [is] the bread which the LORD hath given you to eat.” It is curious how a word makes its way into our
John 5:44 “How can ye believe, which receive honor one of another, and seek not the honor that [cometh] from God only?” Last night I was sort of feeling sorry for myself so I decided to cheer myself up a little and go to Amazon.com and look up the reviews on my books
Jeremiah 7:24: “But they harkened not nor inclined their ear.” I get the part of not harkening unto the Word of God which is the context here. I mean God spells out in his Word what we are to do and not to do. The Bible tells us not to steal, so if
Jeremiah 17:5: “Thus saith the Lord; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the Lord.” The word curse is ’arur. This has the idea of being removed or being without God, without His protection, presence or covering. When someone curses another person
Isaiah 66:20: “And they shall bring all your brethren for an offering unto the Lord, out of all nations upon horses and chariots and in litters and upon mules and upon swift beasts to my holy mountain Jerusalem saith the Lord as the children of Israel bring an offering in a clean vessel into
Isaiah 66:9: “Shall I bring forth birth and not cause to bring forth, says the Lord. Shall I cause to bring forth and shut the womb? says your God.” At first glance this repetition of the phrase, to bring forth, seems to say the same thing and indeed it does, once the
Genesis 32:10, “I am not worthy of the least of all the mercies, and of all the truth, which thou hast shewed unto thy servant; for with my staff I passed over this Jordan; and now I am become two bands.” Of all the modern translations I read this verse in I found
Isaiah 63:9: “In all their affliction he was afflicted…” Here is something I have never understood about the Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia or the Kittle which is the standard Masoric text used by our Western Christian translators. For you Hebrew students, check out the word lo in this passage in your Hebrew Bible. You will
Isaiah 62:3: “You will also be a crown of beauty in the hand of the Lord and a royal diadem in the hand of the your God.” In ancient Hebrew culture there were two types of crowns. There was an enduring crown and a temporary crown. The permanent or enduring crowns, were worn
Isaiah 60:1: “Arise, shine, for your light has come and the glory of the Lord has risen upon thee.” What probably runs through most peoples minds when they hear this verse is “Wake up, time to rise and shine.” I guess metaphorically this verse is a slap across the head telling us to
