“But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, though you are small among the clans of Judah, out of you will come for me one who will be ruler over Israel, whose origins are from of old, from ancient times.”New Living TranslationBut you, O Bethlehem Ephrathah, are only a small village among all ...
Then Johanan son of Kareah said privately to Gedaliah in Mizpah, “Let me go and kill Ishmael son of Nethaniah, and no one will know it. Why should he take your life and cause all the Jews who are gathered around you to be scattered and the remnant of Judah to perish?”New ...
Judas lived near the beginning of the first century A.D. If the speculations about the meaning of “Iscariot” are true, he would have been from southern Judah, which also means he would have been the only one of the 12 disciples from Judea; the rest were from Galilee. Though we don’...
The people who returned to Jerusalem 9 All the Israelites' names were included in the lists of their ancestors. Those lists are written in the history book about Israel's kings. The people of Judah had turned away from the Lord. Their enemies took them away to Babylon as their prisoners....
The list of the people who returned - These are the people who returned to Jerusalem and the other towns in Judah. Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon,
destruction is not Jerusalem’s alone, but includes the people of Judah as well. Sidon is representative of all the people (Joshua 13:4, Judges 3:3). We note from Isaiah 23:1 the people are to wail over their destruction. The mourning process includes both wailing out loud and remaining...
Those of us who are baptized into Christ and have put on Christ are the Israel of God (Galatians 3:27). The Jews are a desolate people, devoid of any real life (life in Christ). Their culture is that of death, and their service is to their father the Devil (Saint John 8:44)....
The Assyrians are well known for their vast ancient empire in the Middle East; ancient cities, such as Nimrud and Nineveh; and their fierce invasions, including into the Kingdom of Judah and Egypt.
Afterwards single sections are selected, and some of them so fully treated, as to grow into regular monographs. Thus e.g. Philo takes occasion from the history of Noah to write two books on drunkenness (περιμεθης), which he does with such thoroughness, that a collection of ...
18 Now be the first to come and do what the king commands, as all the Gentiles and the people of Judah and those that are left in Jerusalem have done. Then you and your sons will be numbered among the Friends of the king, and you and your sons will be honored with silver and ...