“Neither he [king Zedekiah] nor his attendants nor the people of the land paid any attention to the words the Lord had spoken through Jeremiah the prophet. . . the king of Babylon slaughtered the sons of...
“But the men who had gone up with him said, ‘We can’t attack those people; they are stronger than we are’” Numbers 13:31. The 12 spies had just come back from spying out Canaan....
“Because this people has rejected the gently flowing waters of Shiloah and rejoices over Rezin and the son of Remaliah, therefore the Lord is about to bring against them the mighty floodwaters of the Euphrates—the...
We sometimes hear about Israel’s exodus from Egypt into the wilderness and ultimately into the promise land as a metaphor for salvation, and the new birth. And of course, it is. Click here to...
“. . . but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat from it you will certainly die” Genesis 2:17. We are told in this...
“How awful that day will be! No other will be like it. It will be a time of trouble for Jacob,but he will be saved out of it. “‘In that day,’ declares the Lord Almighty, ‘I will break the...
. . . caraway is beaten out with a rod, and cumin with a stick. Grain must be ground to make bread. . . Isaiah 28: 27a, 28b. This passage alludes to how spices...
“The Israelites said to them, “If only we had died by the Lord’s hand in Egypt! There we sat around pots of meat and ate all the food we wanted, but you have brought us out into...
“Now stop your mocking, or your chains will become heavier; the Lord, the Lord Almighty, has told me of the destruction decreed against the whole land” Isaiah 28:22. Isaiah was a powerful prophet who lived in the...
“. . . he [humans] will crush your [the serpent’s] head, and you will strike his heel” Genesis 3:15b. This short passage is part of the curse God pronounced upon the serpent in the Garden...