For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek. Romans 1:16 NASB To the Jew first – Paul was not ashamed, but don’t cut his sentence short. He was not ashamed of the good…
However, Rahab the harlot and her father’s household and all she had, Joshua spared; and she has lived in the midst of Israel to this day; for she hid the messengers whom Joshua sent to spy out Jericho. Joshua 6:25 NASB In the midst – Rahab’s life changed when those two spies came to visit. …
Now therefore, please swear to me by the LORD, since I have dealt kindly with you, that you will deal kindly with my father’s household, and give me a pledge of truth, Joshua 2:12 NASB Please – So far everything about Rahab is just a little strange. It’s almost as if the narrator left out…
Now therefore, please swear to me by the LORD, since I have dealt kindly with you, that you will deal kindly with my father’s household, and give me a pledge of truth, Joshua 2:12 NASB Kindly – Why should these spies help Rahab? What do they have to gain from a promise to save her? …
and said to the men, “I know that the LORD has given you the land, and that the terror of you has fallen on us, and that all the inhabitants of the land have melted away before you.” Joshua 2:9 NASB I know – How did Rahab know? How did she know that these men…
So they went and came into the house of a harlot whose name was Rahab, and lodged there. Joshua 2:1 NASB Lodged – Rahab presents a problem. It’s bad enough that she might be a prostitute, but worse that even if she isn’t, she is a Gentile who becomes part of Israel, is in the…
“But the LORD was angry with me on your account, and would not listen to me; and the LORD said to me, ‘Enough! Speak to Me no more of the matter.’” Deuteronomy 3:26 NASB Enough! – Was God fair to Moses? Before you put on your theological-correctness hat, does this declaration from God seem consistent…
And YHWH Elohim formed Man out of dry, loose earth dirt, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living person. Genesis 2:7 (my translation) Breath – Once we realize that this word, hayim is plural, we are forced to ask why, especially since the preceding word, nishmat, is singular. …
And YHWH Elohim formed Man out of dry, loose earth dirt, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living person. Genesis 2:7 (my translation) Breath / living – If you read this verse in Hebrew, you will be impressed at its internal elegance. There is alliteration (adam – afar…
And YHWH Elohim formed Man out of dry, loose earth dirt Genesis 2:7a (my translation) Dry, loose earth dirt – We found some unusual implications in the verb in this verse. When God formed Man, it seems that God had decision polarity in mind. But that’s not all. There is another odd construction in this…
