The an-swer is Israel, the people of God, a people who lived in the vicinity of God’s words, where God had256Eivor Andersen Oftestad Goiske is, however, that a people who outwardly are“an Israel”and the people of Godcould at the same time also be an ungodly people. Among this...
The Israelites had moved about in the wilderness forty years until all the men who were of military age when they left Egypt had died, since they had not obeyed the LORD. For the LORD had sworn to them that they would not see the land he had solemnly promised their ancestors to give ...
even of the children of Israel's half, Moses took one drawn out of every fifty, both of man and of beast, and gave them unto the Levites, which kept the charge of the tabernacle of the LORD; as the LORD commanded Moses.GOD'S WORD® TranslationFrom the Israelites' half Moses ...
In Isaiah 40:1-11 we read how the Lord God of Israel wants to deliver His people. The Lord does not give up on us because of repeated sinning, but is always calling us back to His holy and righteous ways, to repentance, and to faith and faithfulness. This gives us continued hop...
For Israelites within Israel it is elsewhere used only in connection to conscription to work on royal building projects making it like a form of taxation (forced labor has often been used in world history as taxation instead of money). The precise use of the term here is unclear because of...
Who are the four fathers in the Bible? The patriarchs (Hebrew: אבות Avot or Abot, singular Hebrew: אב Ab) of the Bible, when narrowly defined, areAbraham, his son Isaac, and Isaac's son Jacob, also named Israel, the ancestor of the Israelites. ...
Last week, in Parasha Re’eh, God set a blessing and a curse before the Israelites. The blessing was a result of obeying God’s commandments and the curse a result of forsaking them. In this week’s Torah portion, Moses instructed the nation of Israel in the appointing of judges (calle...
The truth was, we already lived in paradise but were worked too hard by the land-grabbers to enjoy it. This is what my mother, and perhaps the other women knew, and this was one reason why they were not permitted to speak. They might have d...
Moses was Ji Yuanqian 13th century Jewish prophets, who wrote the old testament first book. Led Egypt lived a life of slaves Israel people. God had prepared the stream is reached the land of milk and honey – Canaan (ancient place names in Palestine, in the Jordan River and dead sea alo...
One day David (Israel’s second king and Solomon’s father) became uncomfortably aware that while he lived in a palace, God’s “house” was a tent: After David was settled in his palace, he said to Nathan the prophet, “Here I am, living in a house of cedar, while the ark of ...