Israelites- the ethnic group claiming descent from Abraham and Isaac (especially from Isaac's son Jacob); the nation whom God chose to receive his revelation and with whom God chose to make a covenant (Exodus 19) Hebrews Old Testament- the collection of books comprising the sacred scripture of...
The scarlet thread teaching originates from Joshua 2.Two spies had been sent to Jericho in advance of the Israelites’ taking of that city. The spies were hidden in Jericho by Rahab the harlot, who expressed her faith in Israel’s God and protected the spies (Hebrews 11:31 KJV). Rahab ...
The Sabbath is a time to remember that God has brought us out of bondage and that He is able to sanctify us [make us holy]. Keeping the Sabbath shows that we believe that He can bring us out of bondage to the world, the flesh, and the devil, just as He brought the Israelites out...
While Israel became recognized by the United Nations as a nation again in 1949, certainly not all Israelites are living in the land God gave them, nor are their boundaries as large as what God promised to them (see Numbers 34:1-12). While this is certainly a start to a return to the...
A Hebrew word that has come up quite often in the Old Testament is pānîm (פָּנִים). This word has been translated in different ways. Sometimes we will see it as “presence.” But we might also see it as “before” (as in before God or in front of God). It...
We are as the Israelites in Egypt, or as the captives in Babylon who remembered Zion. Hence the possibility of deliverance, if we feel the burden of our slavery and long to be free, when the Deliverer comes. Parallel Commentaries ... GreekWe knowΟἴδαμεν (Oidamen)Verb - ...
I’ve had the privilege of working at a university my whole adult life—I arrived as a freshman 52 years ago this fall—with more than half of that spent in the classroom. I really believe that thinking and speaking for a living is good for your brain, and for your mind as well (wh...
4Just think how great he was: Even the patriarchAbraham gave him a tenth of the plunder!5Now the law requires the descendants of Levi who become priests to collect a tenth from the people—that is, from their fellow Israelites—even though they also are descended from Abraham.6This man, ...
(See Hebrews 1:11-12.) Parallel Commentaries ... GreekJesusἸησοῦς (Iēsous)Noun - Nominative Masculine SingularStrong's 2424: Of Hebrew origin; Jesus, the name of our Lord and two other Israelites.ChristΧριστὸς (Christos)Noun - Nominative Masculine SingularStrong's ...
Because their land does not belong to you, the Israelites; it belongs to another nation. Do not lay a finger on that which is not yours. The Eternal Lesson Why does the Torah record these apparently insignificant instructions of Moses concerning the Jewish encounter with the three countries of...