Psalms 27:10: “When my mother and father forsake me, then the Lord will take me up.” The first word in this verse in Hebrew is Ki. Translators take a lot of liberty with this word. Generally it is rendered as a conjunction because or a pronoun that. The KJV uses the word when. That’s
Amos 7:7-8, “Thus he shewed me: and, behold, the Lord stood upon a wall [made] by a plumb line, with a plumb line in his hand. And the LORD said unto me, Amos, what seest thou? And I said, A plumb line. Then said the Lord, Behold, I will set a plumb line in the
Leviticus 19:10, “And thou shalt not glean thy vineyard, neither shalt thou gather [every] grape of thy vineyard; thou shalt leave them for the poor and stranger: I [am] the LORD your God.” Most of us are familiar with the concept of gleaning from the story of Ruth (Ruth 2:2) who went out to
Zephaniah 1:18: “Neither their silver nor their gold will be able to deliver them in the day of the Lord’s wrath. But the whole land will be devoured by the fire of his jealousy.” There was a conference in France for a large number of international engineers. During a break one of the European
Zechariah 4:6: “Not by might, not by power but by my Spirit says the Lord of Host.” “Preacher, you’re trying too hard.” From “The Cross and the Switchblade” by David Wilkerson. I remember as a teenager, I read the book “The Cross and Switchblade” by David Wilkerson at least a dozen times. Aside
Psalms 106:23: “Therefore he said that he would destroy them had not Moses his chosen stood before him in the breach to turn away his wrath lest he should destroy them.” Well here we go again. One of those verses that have people convinced that God is a ruthless, short tempered God who
Exodus 23:25, “And ye shall serve the LORD your God, and he shall bless thy bread, and thy water; and I will take sickness away from the midst of thee.” Yesterday I explained how the Hebrew pronoun you have both a singular and a plural form. In Exodus 20:2 the pronoun your in your
Deuteronomy 28:63, “And it shall come to pass, [that] as the LORD rejoiced over you to do you good, and to multiply you; so the LORD will rejoice over you to destroy you, and to bring you to naught; and ye shall be plucked from off the land whither thou goest to possess it.”
Ezekiel 16:30: “How weak is thine heart, saith the Lord God, seeing thou doest all these things, the work of an imperious, whorish woman.” Am I missing something or did Ezekiel just call Judah a whore. There are three words in Hebrew for a whore or prostitute. None get rave reviews, but there
Exodus 27:20: “And thou shalt command the children of Israel that they bring thee pure olive oil beaten for the light, to cause the lamp to burn always.” I once asked a rabbi why the children of Israel had to bring olive oil that was beaten to be used to light the tabernacle. as
