The word "heart" in Hebrew, "lev," often represents the center of one's being, encompassing mind, will, and emotions. The phrase underscores a pursuit of emotional and sensual gratification. In biblical times, the heart was seen as the seat of decision-making and moral reflection. This ...
In the ancient world, hospitality was a sacred duty, especially towards strangers who were vulnerable and without support. This phrase calls Christians to reflect on the biblical mandate to love and welcome the outsider, echoing the Old Testament laws that instructed Israel to care for the ...
Samuel’s Birth - There was a [certain] man named Elkanah son of Jeroham from ·Ramathaim [Ramah; just north of Jerusalem] in the ·mountains [hill
There was no “ice age” after the flood. There was a “little ice age” during the dark ages but that was just a temporary general cooling worldwide but didn’t create a larger ice pack or lower sea levels. The last ice age ended 10,000 years ago and we are still in an interglac...
Pompeo also lashed out at Biden for the disastrous pullout from Afghanistan and blamed him for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and Gaza’s attack on Israel. “We can’t trust the Biden administration,” he said. Pompeo, who also served as Trump’s CIA director and represented Kansas in Congr...
10 The Lord came and stood there, calling as at the other times, “Samuel! Samuel!” Then Samuel said, “Speak, for your servant is listening.” 11 And the Lord said to Samuel: “See, I am about to do something in Israel that will make the ears of everyone who hears about it tin...
“And when he had opened the seventh seal, there wassilence in heavenabout the space of half an hour.”Revelation 8:1 (KJB) On this episode of Rightly Dividing, we take a deep-dive into the seventh seal where we see seven angels who are given 7 trumpets that p...
religious studies at the University of Iowa and editor of Biblical Archaeology Review.“Jesus is from the northern part of Israel, or Roman Palestine. But [Judas’s] surname might be evidence that he's from the southern part of the country, meaning he may be a little bit of an outsider....
There's no indication it was an apple," Rabbi Ari Zivotofsky, a professor of brain science at Israel's Bar-Ilan University, told Live Science. Related: What led to the emergence of monotheism? The pivotal scene is described in Genesis, the first book of the Hebrew Bible, shortly after...
And it will be in the seventh day, and the child will die. And David's servants feared to announce to him that the child died: for they said, Behold, in the child being living we spake to him and he heard not to our voice, and how shall we say to him the child died, and do...