Psalm 122:3-4 highlights its significance: "Jerusalem is built up as a city united together, where the tribes go up, the tribes of the LORD, as a testimony for Israel, to give thanks to the name of the LORD." Jerusalem is also the site of Jesus' crucifixion and resurrection, central...
Psalm 139:13-14 declares, "For You formed my inmost being; You knit me together in my mother’s womb. I praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made." This passage reflects the intimate involvement of God in the creation of each person, suggesting a deep, personal significance....
The missionary significance of Psalm 117 in the Book of Psalms and in the New TestamentJournal Articles (subsidisedThere is a double missionary call to the praise of God in the Psalms. In some Psalms Israel is urged to proclaim Yahweh's praise among the nations. In others the nations are ...
Israel acquired the Promised Land only through God’s guidance and his miraculous intervention in history (Exodus 33:14–16; Psalm 44:1–8; 136:10–22). At that time, in the Bible, the boundaries of the Promised Land were from the River of Egypt (the Nile) to the Euphrates (Exodus ...
This Psalm is attributed to David the King of Israel around 1000 BCE. In most versions of the Psalm there is a reference to a brass bow, but in the King James Version it is a bow of steel. Neither alloy was known at that time in the Middle East and Biblical scholars have surmised ...
I cry unto Thee, O Christ our Savior, with the voice of the Publican: be Thou gracious unto me, as Thou was unto him, and have mercy on me O God. Create in Me a Clean Heart, O God (Psalm 51) Have mercy on me, O God, according to your steadfast love; according to your abund...
A covenant is an agreement. That bonds God and people together. In the Old Testament Abraham and Melchizedek ratified an agreement between them with bread and wine, the elements of communion [Genesis 14:18-19]. Jesus is in the order of Melchizedek, according toPsalm 110. Melchizedek ...
As we study the Torah portions, Parshiot Lech Lecha, Vayera, and Chayei Sarah, we are faced with the idea of growing old. Old age has many frightening
以撒年老,眼睛昏花,不能看见,就叫了他大儿子以扫来,说:我儿。以扫说:我在这里。他说:我如今老了,不知道那一天死。现在拿你的器械,就是箭囊和弓,往田野
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