Samuel’s Birth - There was a [certain] man named Elkanah son of Jeroham from ·Ramathaim [Ramah; just north of Jerusalem] in the ·mountains [hill
And it came to pass, when Israel had made an end of slaying all the inhabitants of Ai in the field, in the wilderness wherein they chased them, and when they were all fallen on the edge of the sword, until they were consumed, that all the Israelites returned unto Ai, and smote it...
14 And David said to Gad, I am in great distress. Let us fall into the hands of the Lord, for His mercies are many and great; but let me not fall into the hands of man. 15 So the Lord sent a pestilence upon Israel from the morning even to the time appointed; and there died ...
What we can learn from Esther in the Bible God uses ordinary people to do extraordinary things Remember that Esther lived in a time whenIsraelwas in captivity, consequently to their disobedience to God. She was just anadopteddaughter of a cousin living in a foreign land. Other than her beaut...
The use of "Israel" instead of "Jacob" emphasizes the spiritual and covenantal aspect of the blessing he is about to bestow. stretched out his right handThe right hand in biblical times symbolized power, authority, and blessing. It was customary for the right hand to be used in conferring...
Biblical literalist chronology is theattempt to correlate the theological dates used in the Biblewith the real chronology of actual events. The Bible measures time from the date of Creation (years are measured as anno mundi, or AM, meaning Year of the World), but there is no agreement on ...
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...
religious studies at the University of Iowa and editor ofBiblical 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....
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...
Second, there’s a new debate about the identity of the historical Jesus. Some critics of the Israel-Hamas war aredeclaringthat Jesus was a “Palestinian Jew,” an assertion that at least onebiblical scholarsays is false and reprises an ugly historical pattern of “using Jesus against Jews on...