7但是他们没有孩子,因为伊利莎白不能生育,并且他们已经很老了。 8当轮到撒迦利亚分支在主的殿堂里供职时,撒迦利亚在上帝面前担任祭司的职务,9按照祭司们遵循的规矩,以抽签的方式,他被选中去主的大殿烧香。10当撒迦利亚烧香的时候,所有的人都聚集在外面祈祷着。11这...
亚伯拉罕买地葬撒拉 - 撒拉享年一百二十七岁, 在迦南境内的基列·亚巴,即希伯仑去世。亚伯拉罕在那里痛哭,哀悼她。 他从妻子尸体旁边站起来对赫人说: “我是寄居在你们这里的异乡人,请你们给我一块地,我好埋葬我的亡妻。”
Both the Old Testament and New Testament are packed with words specifically geared toward motivating and inspiring men to love and serve in their most closely held relationships. As with all Bible verses, it can be helpful to read entire passages surrounding a Bible verse that piques your interes...
these bitter lamentations of the lead character do not represent the perspectives of God or the author. Circumstances have obscured his vision. The reader knows the end of the story and feels compelled to challenge Job's quality of life argument, as do other passages, which confirm that God'...
After the inscription, which gives the title of the book, and describes the author by his name, descent, and dignity,Pr 1:1, follows the scope and design of it, which is to teach men wisdom and knowledge; even such as are simple and foolish, and particularly young men; nay, hereby ...
And when we read passages in the Bible that talk about “in the world but not of the world” or “those who have ears should hear” or “He was in the world but the world did not know Him” we should also think about this meaning. As Christians, it’s not us versus them. Just...
and not assuming to embody any mystic disclosures of truth beyond the reach of human reason. As such, it has a vocabulary and range of ideas of its own, which distinguishes it from other strains of literature. This is seen in those passages outside of the Book of Proverbs which deliberatel...
“peculiar way of looking at things,” in that most people – today and throughout history – have seen religious matters in terms ofblack or white: “our attitude toward the possibility of divine control of things tends to be all or nothing.” And how our puny human minds are as ...
II, passages on pages 248-50 (London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1899). You will notice that Winston Churchill there mentions the rise of Islam in Central Africa, and it is also worth noting here that imperialistic Muslim armies in various countries of Africa have recently massacred many ...
When I was diagnosed with cancer and my life was threatened by it, I began to see things in familiar biblical passages that I had before overlooked. Why?You only get answers from the Bible to the questions you ask of it, and a man with cancer asks different questions of a Bible passage...