Then Johanan son of Kareah spoke privately to Gedaliah at Mizpah. “Let me go and kill Ishmael son of Nethaniah,” he said. “No one will know it. Why should he take your life and scatter all the people of Judah who have gathered to you, so that the remnant of Judah would ...
Jeremiah's Woe…17I never sat with the band of revelers, nor did I celebrate with them. Because Your hand was on me, I sat alone, for You have filled me with indignation. 18Why is my pain unending, and my wound incurable, refusing to be healed? You have indeed become like a ...
4Thus the slain shall fall in the land of the Chaldeans, and they that are thrust through in her streets. 5For Israel hath been no[c]widow, nor Judah from his God, from the Lord of hosts, though their land was filled with sin against the holy one of Israel. ...
Why were the Ottoman Turks able to conquer Constantinople? Why did crusaders take Constantinople? Why did Assyria fall? Why did the Fourth Crusade sack Constantinople? Why did the Sassanid Empire fall? Why did Constantine move the capital of Rome to Constantinople? Why did the Babylonian Empire ...
Why did Judah and Benjamin form the Kingdom of Judah? Why is King David important to understanding ancient history? Why did Jehoikim lose the Kingdom of Judah? Why did the Kingdom of Judah fall? Why would Mephibosheth have felt beholden to King David? Why did the Crusades fight for th...
And the 9th of Tevet – namely, the anniversaries of the deaths of Ezra and Nehemiah, who represent for Jews the restoration of Oral Torah study and practice and exaltation of rabbinic Sages, and the return of the woefully small numbers of the Judahites and Israelites to Eretz Yisrael from...
He fails. This is still a poignant story, since human beings still face loss and grief and death, just as did Gilgamesh. Indeed, Enkidu's vision of death is still chilling: There is the house whose people sit in darkness; dust is their food and clay their meat. They are clothed ...
“Movement Critic” is the Nazophile Rodney Martin. Rodney used to be on friendly terms with Carolyn Yeager until right wing schisiming did its thing. On a subsequent stream he said that he has no sympathy for the Poles that were killed in the Polish Warsaw upris...
Why All the Fuss about Idols? The strange practice that led to a kingdom’s fall. YOU CANNOT READ VERY FAR in the Old Testament without encountering idols, for idolatry ranks as perhaps the most common topic in the Bible. A nagging question haunts these pages: Why did the Israelit...
Angels were put here to finish the creation of the earth. I wonder if you ever realized that God and the original creation did not complete the creation of the earth. So far as the plain round earth is concerned, and other planets the same way, they were complete. And everything that ...