II Samuel 22:27: “With the pure thou will show thyself pure, and with the fraudulent thou wilt show thyself unsavory.” This passage is part of a Psalm of praise by David. It is the same as Psalm 18:26. This sounds real good that to the pure he will be pure. Still I am really
II Samuel 16:11b-12: “Let him alone, let him curse for the Lord has bidden him. It may be that the Lord will look upon my affliction and that the Lord will requite me good for his cursing this day.” “If a man loses pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a
II Samuel 12:8; “And I gave thee thy master’s house, and thy master’s wives into thy bosom, and gave thee the house of Israel and of Judah; and if that had been too little, I would moreover have given unto thee such and such things.” “As the last straw breaks the laden camels’ back.”
II Samuel 18:10: “And it came to pass on the morrow that the evil spirit from God came upon Saul and he prophesied in the midst of the house.” “There is no witness so terrible, no accuser so powerful as conscience which dwells within us.” – Sophocles The spelling for the word ra’ah
II Kings 22:19: “Because your heart was tender and you humbled yourself before the Lord when you heard what I spoke against this place.” Josiah was a king who not only sought to serve God, he loved God. He became King of Judah at the age of 8 years. Ten years into his reign
II Samuel 12:10 “Now therefore the sword shall never depart from your house; because you have despised me, and have taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your wife.” Every modern translation renders the Hebrew word bazah as despised. When you check this word out in the lexicon or the back of
II Kings 14:26-27: “For the Lord saw the affliction of Israel, that it was bitter, for there was not any shut up, nor any left, nor any helper for Israel. And the Lord said that he would not blot out the name of Israel from under heaven: but he saved them by the hand of
II Kings 12:2-3: “And Jehoash did right in the sight of the Lord all his days in which Jehoiada the priest instructed him. Only the high places were not taken away; the people still sacrificed and burned incense on the high places.” King Ahab and Jezebel, King and Queen of Israel had a daughter
II Kings 5:10: “And Elisha sent a messenger unto him saying: Go and wash in the Jordan seven times and thy flesh shall come again to thee and thou shalt be clean.” Why did God make Naaman do such silly stuff? Why not just heal the old boy and get it over with. Of
II Corinthians 5:8: “We are confident I say and willing rather to be absent from the body and to be present with the Lord.” I had a friend who was a retired Greek professor and Greek Orthodox. I was a retired Hebrew teacher and Baptist. We would get together once a week for a
