76.10 furious: One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text of verse 10. 77.6 my mind … questions: One ancient translation; Hebrew “I remember my music.” 78.12 Zoan: A city in the eastern part of the Nile Delta. 78.24 manna: When the people of Israel were wandering through the ...
And the last bit here about being “snatched up among the clouds” is the basis – almost the sole basis – for what we know today as “rapture theology.” The Left Behind franchise and its imitators are all largely based on a dispensationalist interpretation of verse 17, and very ...
picture our courtroom scene. Verse 6 tells us that one day Satan and his angels came to present themselves before God. (Stop a moment and think about that. Satan has access into heaven!) And God said to Satan “
Samuel’s Birth - There was a [certain] man named Elkanah son of Jeroham from ·Ramathaim [Ramah; just north of Jerusalem] in the ·mountains [hill
Author simply desires to make the mid-Acts position look bad and by doing so, only demonstrates his own ignorance of scripture. I will close this very long yet still not exhaustive post with two last verses. The first is a verse of warning, the second of admonition. I warn you of ...
2.15,16 her: The Hebrew text adds, “Esther was the daughter of Abihail and was the cousin of Mordecai, who had adopted her after her parents died” (see verse 7). 2.18 holiday: The Hebrew expression refers to a certain amount of time when the people did not have to ...
Jeremiah 50:21 The Hebrew term refers to the irrevocable giving over of things or persons to the Lord, often by totally destroying them; also in verse 26. Jeremiah 50:38 Or A sword against Jeremiah 51:1 Leb Kamai is a cryptogram for Chaldea, that is, Babylonia. Jeremiah 51:3 The Heb...
Then they should show it by ·living right[their good life/conduct/lifestyle]and ·doing good things[their deeds/works]with a ·gentleness[humility; meekness;Matt. 5:5;11:29;Gal. 6:1]that comes from wisdom.14But if you have bitter ·jealousy[orenvy]and ·are selfish[have selfish ambitio...
17These people are like springs without water. They are like mists driven by a storm. The blackest darkness is reserved for them.18They speak empty, bragging words. They make their appeal to the evil desires that come from sin’s power. They tempt new believers who are just escaping from...
Heber had put up his tent by the great tree in Zaanannim, near Kedesh [C this verse introduces the family of Jael, the woman alluded to by Deborah in v. 9; see v. 17]. 12 When Sisera was told that Barak son of Abinoam had gone to Mount Tabor, 13 Sisera gathered his nine ...