Isaiah 48:10: “Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction.” Someone on my blog asked me to comment on this verse. The really wonderful thing about writing a blog as opposed to speaking before a live audience is that when someone asks me a
Last week I shared from Psalm 119 (which is arranged in an acrostic style) with a verse that starts with the letter Aleph (א) and this week I’m going to continue with the letter Bet(ב). Psalm 119:10 With all my heart I have sought Thee; Do not let me wander from Thy commandments What’s interesting about this first word with all (בכל) is that though it means
Isaiah 63:9: “In all their affliction he was afflicted…” Here is something I have never understood about the Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia or the Kittle which is the standard Masoric text used by our Western Christian translators. For you Hebrew students, check out the word lo in this passage in your Hebrew Bible. You will
Deuteronomy 26:7: “And we cried unto the Lord, the God of our fathers, and the Lord heard our cries and saw our affliction.” When I was teaching in an academic setting, I never referred to the gematria because it is usually considered very unacademic. The Western world pretty much rejects the gematria and relegates it to
Isaiah 30:20: “And though the Lord give you the bread of adversity, and the water of affliction, yet shall not thy teachers be hidden any more, but thine eyes shall see thy teachers:” The word give (nathan) is in an imperfect form and should be translated: “And even if the Lord will give
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
The letter “teth” ט is shaped like a womb and is the number 9 which parallels the 9 month gestation period where new life develops while being nourished and protected. The letter “teth” also represents inner reflection. Psalm 119:71 It is good for me that I was afflicted, That I may learn Your statutes. The word
WORD STUDY – BESOUGHT II Chronicles 33:12: “And when he was in affliction, he besought the Lord His God and humbled himself greatly before the God of his Fathers.” Besought – Hebrew: chalah – to seek favor by being pleasant If you go II Chronicles 33 and II Kings 19-21 you find a very interesting
WORD STUDY – STRONG DONKEY Genesis 49:14: “Issachar is a strong donkey, crouched down between two burdens.” Strong Donkey – Chamor Garem – Idiomatic expression for a bitter medicine that cures through cleansing the body. There is a sort of play on words here. Issachar comes from the root word “shacar” which means reward, gift,
WORD STUDY – LIBERTY Liberty – Hebrew : darar – to flow freely, to fly away, freedom, liberty Isaiah 61:1: The spirit of the Lord is upon me; because the Lord has anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek, He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the
