The name meaning is sad, but Leah remains a powerful figure in biblical accounts. Leah had a sad story as the unloved wife of Jacob, who preferred her younger sister, Rachel. According to the Old Testament, Jacob loved Rachel but was tricked by his father-in-law into marrying Leah, the...
derived from “Ha-Agar,” which means this is the reward. The servant of Sarah with the same name was later given to Abraham so that he may continue his lineage and have a child to call his own. Ishmael was a renowned figure in Islam and one of the prophets Muhammad’s great forebea...
I modified the chart with the red/green boxes arrows and text. The upper part of the figure in green is science. The lower part in red is the part where they try to “prove” evolution, but it’s in the assumption category because there is no evidence for their claim From this evolut...
Samson’s Parents Later on in the Judges period, an angel appears to a married couple and informs them that they will have a son (Samson), himself a future judge of Israel. And the angel of the Lord appeared to [Samson’s mother] and said to her […] Then the woman came and told...
Besides, the vine hills rising in the different parts of Palestine, and resembling heads covered with hair, may have suggested this figure to the Oriental mind, since the summits of mountains are called their heads (ראשׁ) in Hebrew (Ge 8:5; Ex 17:9-10; Ex 19:20; Am 1:2...
Oh, you can figure out a way to make it so smooth and soft, take out all the hard parts so it doesn't have the sting. But if you give the unadulterated, unexpurgated, pure Word of God, it will generate a negative reaction in many environments. You need to speak the truth in love...
Using hospital and police records, Yap (1958) showed that the annual suicide rate rose from a low figure of 3 per 100,000 in 1946 to 12 per 100,000 in 1955. A later stidy by Alley (1982) investigated suicidal tendencies among a sample of 4192 Indochinese refugees to America who had...