Then Abraham fell on his face and laughed, and said in his heart, “Will a child be born to a man one hundred years old? And will Sarah, who is ninety years old, bear a child?” Genesis 17:17 NASB Laughed– Yesterday we looked at this verse in comparison with Genesis 18:12. We noticed that God does not correct…
Then Abraham fell on his face and laughed, and said in his heart, “Will a child be born to a man one hundred years old? And will Sarah, who is ninety years old, bear a child?” Genesis 17:17 NASB Laughed– Before Isaac was born, God made a promise to Abraham. But when Abraham heard the promise, he couldn’t…
O God, You are my God; I shall seek You earnestly; My soul thirsts for You, my flesh yearns for You, In a dry and weary land where there is no water. Psalm 63:1 NASB Thirsts– The Hebrew word ṣāmēʾ doesn’t take much scholarly explanation. We all know what it means. Water is life and when you don’t have it…
O God, You are my God; I shall seek You earnestly; My soul thirsts for You, my flesh yearns for You, In a dry and weary land where there is no water. Psalm 63:1 NASB Seek You earnestly– If you’re going to understand what it means to seek God earnestly, you’ll have to know something about the Piel stem. …
O God, You are my God; I shall seek You earnestly; My soul thirsts for You, my flesh yearns for You, in a dry and weary land where there is no water. Psalm 63:1 NASB God/my God– David’s opening two words in Hebrew are ʾĕlōhîm ʾēli. You might think that he is addressing only the one true God…
“Did he not fear the LORD and entreat the favor of the LORD, and the LORD changed His mind about the misfortune which He had pronounced against them?” Jeremiah 26:19 Entreat– What does it mean to entreat someone? Even in English we have a difficult time expressing this thought succinctly. Certainly the concept involves a gesture of respect,…
No man can by any means redeem his brother or give to God a ransom for him— Psalm 49:7 NASB No man – One of the ideas about atonement was formulated at the time of the Reformation. It’s call the Penal Theory of Atonement. Basically, it asserts that Yeshua’s death paid the price required by God for our salvation.[1] Whether or…
I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may be with you forever; John 14:16 NASB Another Helper– Shall we make an attempt to understand this verse in the context of orthodox Galilean Jewish living in the first century? Or shall we just accept the usual Christian doctrinal rendition? Is…
Now Jacob came safely to the city of Shechem, which is in the land of Canaan, when he came from Paddan-aram, and camped before the city. Genesis 33:18 NASB Safely – In Hebrew there are really only two verb tenses; complete actions and incomplete actions. That’s because Hebrew sees the world with a completely different framework than…
Then Jacob awoke from his sleep and said, “Surely the Lord is in this place, and I did not know it.” Genesis 28:16 NASB I did not know it – lo yada’etti. But how could he not know? Isn’t God everywhere? How could Jacob think for a moment that God wasn’t in the place where he…
