When Abram was told by God to leave the land of his father and travel to Canaan, he obeyed and set about establishing his household and making an heir. At the age of 99, Abram made a covenant with God concerning his offspring and circumcised himself on God's command and changed his nam...
When did Israelites enter the Promised Land? Why did God punish the Northern Kingdom of Israel? Why is Israel important to Judaism? Why is the Holy Land important to Christianity? Define Holy Land Who invaded Israel in the Old Testament? Why did Jacob change his name to Israel in the Bibl...
Why did the Israelites halt their conquest of Canaan before it was complete? (11:22–23) Although... PLUS Save 20% on yearly plans and access $3,100 worth of biblical study resources on the go! Upgrade to Bible Gateway Plus and get the ...
They had worshiped other gods / and walked in the customs of the nations that the LORD had driven out before the Israelites, as well as in the practices introduced by the kings of Israel. / The Israelites secretly did things against the LORD their God that were not right. From watchtower...
And Jehovah leaveth these nations, so as not to dispossess them hastily, and did not give them into the hand of Joshua.Smith's Literal TranslationAnd Jehovah will leave these nations, not to drive them out quickly, and he gave them not into the hand of Joshua. Catholic TranslationsDouay-...
The Prohibition of Incest Leviticus contains two lists of sexual prohibitions, one in ch. 18 and the other in ch. 20. After an introduction in which the Israelites are warned not to behave like Egyptians or Canaanites (18:1-3), but instead to follow God’s laws (18:4-5), Leviticus...
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 Israelites keep deserting the God who had delivered them from Egypt for the sake of carved tree trunk...
Why did you make us leave Egypt and bring us here to this terrible place? This land has no grain, no figs, no grapes, no pomegranates, and no water to drink!”English Standard VersionAnd why have you made us come up out of Egypt to bring us to this evil place? It is no place ...
“Pardon me, my lord,” Gideon replied, “but if the LORD is with us, why has all this happened to us? Where are all his wonders that our ancestors told us about when they said, ‘Did not the LORD bring us up out of Egypt?’ But now the LORD has abandoned us and given us ...
But require of them the same quota of bricks as before;In this passage, Pharaoh commands that the Israelites maintain their brick production despite no longer being provided with straw. This reflects the harsh conditions of their slavery in Egypt. Historically, brick-making was a labor-intensive ...