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
Ecclesiastes 12:14: “Because God will bring every act to judgment, everything which is hidden, whether it is good or evil.” It is interesting that the word for God is haelohim and has an article in front of it. It should more properly be rendered as Because The God. This word for God haelohim
Matthew 5:29, “And if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast [it] from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not [that] thy whole body should be cast into hell.” I remember hearing this verse read as a child and being very
Deuteronomy 31:18: “And I will surely hide my face in that day for all the evils which they shall have wrought, in that they are turned unto other gods.” There is a story told by Abraham Heschel a Jewish philosopher. Abraham Heschel often referred to what he called “divine anthropopathy.” We speak of
Psalms 23:4: “Yea though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil for thou art with me, thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.” Most all your English translations will have David saying shadow of death. Indeed it really looks like it should be rendered that
Ecclesiastes 12:14: “Because God will bring every act to judgment, everything which is hidden, whether it is good or evil.” It is interesting that the word for God has an article in front of it. Because “The God.” The word for God is haelohim which is referring to one who has authority over you.
Jeremiah 18:12: “And they said, There is no hope, but we will walk after our own devices and we will everyone do the imaginations of his own evil heart.” “If I do it, I get a vippin,—– I do it.” Red Skelton -Mean Little Kid That is quite a thing for the
Ecclesiastes 12:14: ‘Because God will bring every act to judgment, everything which is hidden, whether it is good or evil.” It is interesting that the word for God has a definite article in front of it, “Because The God.” The word for God is haelohim which is referring to one who has authority over us. The root word is alah, the same
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 Chronicles 36:5: “Jehoiakim was twenty and five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem: and he did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord his God.” Jehoiakim was the son of Josiah, king of Judah. Josiah was the last of the good kings.
