40 In the five and twentieth year of our captivity, in the beginning of the year, in the tenth day of the month, in the fourteenth year after that the city was smitten, in the selfsame day the hand of the Lord was upon me, and brought me thither. 2 In the visions of God brought...
And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the third month, in the first day of the month, that the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, Son of
…18The fruit of your womb will be cursed, as well as the produce of your land, the calves of your herds, and the lambs of your flocks. 19You will be cursed when you come in and cursed when you go out. 20The LORD will send curses upon you, confusion and reproof in all to ...
When I bring you from the peoples and gather you from the lands to which you have been scattered, I will accept you as a pleasing aroma. And I will show My holiness through you in the sight of the nations.King James BibleI will accept you with your sweet savour, when I bring you ...
“Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.” (Matthew 5:3 KJV) A more simplistic translation tells us, “Blessed are those who recognize they are spiritually helpless. The kingdom f heaven belongs to them.” (Matthew 5:3 GW) Look at what Dr. J. Vernon ...
“But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear:” (1Pe 3:15) “Buy the truth, and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.” ...
As the unit on the Gospels drew to a close, I asked the professing Christians, “How has this reading of these accounts of Jesus’ life and ministry changed your understanding of him?” A hand went up in the back row. “I don’t know exactly how to put this,” the young woman muse...
and he went into captivity and Lavan sent and redeemed him and gave him Ḥanah, one of [his] amahot [and she gave birth to]3. Zilpah first and he gave her name (as) Zilpah aer the name of the city [to] which he was taken captive4. and she conceived and gave birth to ...
Picture two Jewish men the day before the first Passover in Exodus 12. They’ve been living as slaves in captivity in Egypt all their lives. Their names? Smith and Brown, remarkably Jewish names! They’re having a sobering conversation there where they’ve been living in the land of Goshe...
But in the midst of affliction, pain and suffering I am reminded of Lamentations 3:32-33 where the Holy Spirit inspires “the weeping prophet” who was watching the brutal collapse and captivity of his nation to write, “Though (the Lord) causes grief, yet He will show compassion, ...