I Samuel 18:12: “And Saul was afraid of David because the Lord was with him and was departed from Saul.” Here we have a powerful king afraid of a little shepherd boy. The word for fear here is yara. This is a fear of respect and awe. The word is spelled Yod, messenger or
Psalms 51:1: “To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David, when Nathan the prophet came unto him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba. Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness: according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions”. We move to the next name mentioned
Psalms 51:1: “To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David, when Nathan the prophet came unto him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba. Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness: according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions”. The very first verse in this Psalms
Psalms 51:2: “Wash me thoroughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin.” Practically every modern translations says wash me thoroughly. I mean that’s cool that expresses the idea. David has committed adultery and murder and he wants to be washed thoroughly, get a clean slate. However, in the Hebrew I
II Chronicles 12:1,7: “And it came to pass when Rehoboam had established the kingdom and had strengthened himself he forsook the law of the Lord and Israel with him…(7) And when the Lord saw that they humbled themselves the Word of the Lord came to Shemalah saying they have humbled themselves, therefore I
Jeremiah 16:16: “Behold, I will send many fishermen says the Lord and they shall fish them and afterward I will send for many hunters and they will hunt them from every mountain and every hill and out of the holes of the rocks.” I recently had someone write to me with the following
Genesis 28:16 “When Jacob awoke from his sleep, he said surely the Lord is in this place and I was not aware of it.” In Jewish literature there is the story of a man who started to say some negative things about the king. After going through his list of nasty things
Psalms 51:1 “To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David, when Nathan the prophet came unto him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba. Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness: according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions.” Unless you are really rank liberal you
I Kings 17: 9,12-13: “Arise, get thee to Zarephath, which [belongeth] to Zidon, and dwell there: behold, I have commanded a widow woman there to sustain thee. And she said, As the Lord they God liveth, I have not a cake, but, an handful of meal in a barrel, and a little oil in a
Romans 8:1: “There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.” Martin Luther, the sixteen century monk who started the Protestant reformation was a monk with an attitude. It was never his intention to split from the Catholic church
