The Canaanites were the inhabitants of the land promised to the Israelites, representing both a physical and spiritual challenge. The question reflects the ongoing struggle to fully possess the land, as commanded by God (Deuteronomy 7:1-2). This inquiry also foreshadows the tribal conflicts and...
for they forsook Him and served Baal and the Ashtoreths. / Then the anger of the LORD burned against Israel, and He delivered them into the hands of those who plundered them. He sold them into the hands of their enemies all around, whom they were no longer able to resist. / Wherever...
He had seven hundred wives who were from royal families and three hundred ·slave women who gave birth to his children [concubines; a secondary wife
Interestingly, Solomon’s wealth here is tied to Israel’s prosperity. It doesn’t say Solomon himself had so much gold and silver that these precious metals were as common as stones. It says he made them as common as stonesin Jerusalem. Similarly, cedar trees—which were traditionally the ...
7 Then Jerubbaal, who is Gideon, and all the people that were with him, rose up early, and pitched beside the well of Harod: so that the host of the Midianites were on the north side of them, by the hill of Moreh, in the valley. 2 And the Lord said unto Gideon, The people ...
During the time of Joshua the people of Israel worshipped the true God, by in large.But a generation after Joshua died they turned away from YHWH to the worship of Baal & Ashtoreth.The "supreme beings" of Canaan were theBaalsandAsherahs(http://home.comcast.net/~chris.s/canaanite-faq....
Enki is Jesus and for some Jungians, Enki becomes an archetype of the Messiah. Whatever the moniker, Enki and the other Anunnunaki were PEOPLE, not all-knowing, all-good, all-powerful; none of them are what the Anunnaki call “the Creator-of-All,” Native Americans call “Great Spirit...
Then Jacob said unto his household, and to all that were with him, Put away the strange gods that are among you, and purify yourselves, and change your garments:GOD'S WORD® TranslationSo Jacob said to his family and those who were with him, "Get rid of the foreign gods which you ...
And the second angel sounded, and as it were a great mountain burning with fire was cast into the sea: and the third part of the sea became blood; and will 2 Peter 3:10 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with ...
He had seven hundred wives who were princesses and three hundred concubines, and his wives turned his heart away. For when Solomon was old, his wives