Genesis 5:24, “And Enoch walked with God: and he [was] not; for God took him.” Hebrews 11:5, “By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translated him: for before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased God.” Jude 1:14, “And
Psalms 30:9 “What profit is there in my blood, if I go down to the pit. Will the dust praise thee, will it declare your faithfulness?” It is believed that David wrote this Psalm during a time of illness when he thought he was going to die and he was pleading with God
Haggai 1:4-6: “ [Is it] time for you, O ye, to dwell in your cieled houses, and this house [lie] waste? Now therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts; Consider your ways.You have sown much, and bring in little; you eat, but you have not enough; you drink, but you are not filled with
Song of Solomon 1:15: “Behold, thou [art] fair, my love; behold, thou [art] fair; thou [hast] doves’eyes.” Song of Solomon 5:12: “His eyes [are] as [the eyes] of doves by the rivers of waters, washed with milk, [and] fitly set.” So here we have these beautiful romantic passages. I mean what can
Genesis 12:1: “Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father’s house, unto a land that I will shew thee:” The focus and most of my attention to my Hebraic study is dealing with words, their origins, their variety of usages, their
Amos 5:21, “I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not smell in your solemn assemblies.” “Honey, if you could see the color of my winter underwear you’d backslide.” Stuart Hamblin speaking to a woman during one of his concerts who declared that his red tie had caused her to miss
Haggai 1:4-6: “ [Is it] time for you, O ye, to dwell in your cieled houses, and this house [lie] waste? Now therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts; Consider your ways.You have sown much, and bring in little; you eat, but you have not enough; you drink, but you are not filled with drink;
Exodus 33:14: “And he said, My presence shall go with thee, and I will give thee rest.” Last night was a warm, beautiful November evening. I went to the nearby park and took a walk alone with God. Together we sat under the stars and I just reflected on the many years God
Deuteronomy 24:1 “ When a man hath taken a wife, and married her, and it come to pass that she find no favor in his eyes, because he hath found some uncleanness in her: then let him write her a bill of divorcement, and give it in her hand, and send her out of
Genesis 12:10 “There was famine in the land.” “Water, water everywhere, nor any drop to drink.” Samuel Taylor Coleridge – Rime of the Ancient Mariner. I read in Jewish literature an interesting twist to this verse in Genesis 12:10. The word for there was yehi can also be rendered and he was
