Song of Solomon 1:12, “While the king sits at his table, my spikenard sends forth the smell thereof.” Esther 2:12, “Now when every maid’s turn was come to go in to king Ahasuerus, after that she had been twelve months, according to the manner of the women, (for so were the days of their
Isaiah 4:6: “And there shall be a tabernacle for a shadow in the daytime from the heat, and for a place of refuge, and for a covert from storm and from rain.” Isaiah was a prophet to the nation of Judah. His prophecies were filled with double meanings and not even he himself knew
Luke 2:8 “And there were shepherds in the same country abiding in the field, and keeping watch by night over their flock.” I remember as a child in church during Christmas time singing the song, While Shepherds Washed Their Socks By Night and wondering about this. Eventually, I got my words right, but I
Luke 1:32: “He shall be great and He shall be called the son of the highest, and the Lord shall give him the throne of his father David.” Ok, it is Christmas and I am compelled to study the Christmas story. This year I decided to read the story from the Peshitta or the
Isaiah 1:25: “I will turn my hand upon thee, and purely purge away thy dross, and take away all they tin.” I’m a little hunk of tin, Nobody knows what I’ve might have been Got four wheels and a running board, I’m a Ford a Ford a Ford, Honk, Honk, Rattle, Rattle, Crash, Crash
Psalms 51:7, “Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.” I wasted a lot of time searching out the internet, reading scientific journals on articles about hyssop, reading commentaries take on hyssop, articles on essentials oils and the use of hyssop throughout different ancient
Isaiah 1:8: “And the daughter of Zion is left as a cottage in a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city.” This is a passage that seems to go unnoticed by most Christians as its meaning tends to be obscure. Yet, it presents a very sobering thought, to
Ecclesiastes 12:14: ‘Because God will bring every act to judgment, everything which is hidden, whether it is good or evil.” It is interesting that the word for God has a definite article in front of it, “Because The God.” The word for God is haelohim which is referring to one who has authority over us. The root word is alah, the same
Isaiah 55:8: “For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord.” The word for thought here is not sh’ar as it is in Proverbs 23:7: Here the word is chashav. Sh’ar has the idea of thinking to make a decision; this thinking is to invent or create
Isaiah 54:11: “O thou afflicted, tossed with tempest, and not comforted, behold, I will lay thy stones with fair colors, and lay thy foundations with sapphires.” We need to keep in mind that Hebrew is constantly drawing a picture for us. Here the nation of Israel is pictured as a people being tossed around
