Lot is also used metaphorically for portion, or destiny, as assigned to men from God (Ps 16:5): "And arise to thy lot in the end of days" in the Messiah's kingdom (Da 12:13; comp. Re 20:6). SEE HERITAGE. ← Lost Tribes Lôt →Don't trust your Bible study to a mere ...
The same custom prevails to the present day among other Oriental nations, as in the kingdom of Morocco, where courts of justice are holden in the gate of the capital town (Dopter, Theatrum pomarum, page 9 sq.). Hence came the usage of the word "Porte" in speaking of the government ...
In Matt., v, 13 sqq., e.g., the sentence, “You are the salt of the earth” etc., is not first to be understood in its non-figurative sense, and then in the figurative; it does not first class the Apostles among the mineral kingdom, and then among the social and religious ...
The Spiral Mirabilis Phi Pattern as seen in the Plant Kingdom and the Heavens The word for "seed" above is used four times in these two verses detailing the Third Day of Creation. In the cycles of life that God instituted in the Plant Kingdom, the cycle of the fruit tree is archetyp...
This paper seeks to provide a further model that suggests the author renarrativizes the ‘woman with the ointment’ tradition in service of their wider narrative project in portraying Jesus as the Isaianic prophet whose “beautiful feet” brings the good news of the kingdom of God, ...
79This is not fully clear; theNeṣḥānā(Wallis Budge,The History of Alexander the Great, 155) says:“the kingdom of the Greeks”, whereas the Ethiopic text (Wallis Budge,Life and Exploits of Alexanderthe Great, 241) has“the royal armies”. The word“armies”is probably based on ...
2and the usage of the wordnationis consistent throughout the Bible. After a number of generations had passed after the Flood, a man named Nimrod tried to build an empire. His kingdom was called Babel, and he united several different groups of people by his charismatic leadership. The ...
God gave the ideas of good things coming in their future: A promised Land they would own, a Messiah coming, a coming Kingdom that would continue to grow until if filled the whole earth (Dan. 2:35). All this pushed the Hebrews to think of the world as moving in a positive, God ...
once for a female and twice for men. The female reference is to a daughter of Ahab and Jezebel, who eventually married the king of Judah at the time, Jehoram, and had a son with him named Ahaziah. After slaughtering the rest of Judah’s royal family, she ruled the kingdom for six ...
of Israel and the Israelites fled south to the Aramean controlled kingdom of Judah. At this point, the Aramean tribal heroes, Abram and Jacob, became the patriarchs of a ‘united kingdom’, which ‘occurred’ when the defeated Israelites became citizens of the Aramean led kingdom of ...