Down The Rabbit Hole—Again

“I will never desert you, nor will I ever forsake you.” Hebrews 13:5 NASB Forsake – This verse in Hebrews is really a modified quotation from a verse in Deuteronomy 31:6. The passage in Deuteronomy reads eemach lo yarpeka velo ya’azveka (He will not fail you, nor forsake you). The promise is very old. It…

Paradigm Exemplars (2)

It is your own wickedness that will punish you and your apostasy that will condemn you.  Consider and take note what a bitter and evil thing it is to forsake Yahweh your God so that you have no reverence for me – The word of the Lord, Yahweh of Hosts.  Jeremiah 2:19  (J. A. Thompson…

Hebrew Anagrams

Naomi said to her daughter-in-law, “Blessed be he of the LORD, who has not failed in His kindness to the living or to the dead! For,” Naomi explained to her, “the man is related to us; he is one of our redeeming kinsmen.”  Ruth 2:20  JPS Failed – “Hebrew words suggest each other,” says Eskenazi.[1] …

Down The Rabbit Hole

“I will never desert you, nor will I ever forsake you.”  Hebrews 13:5  NASB Forsake – This verse in Hebrews is really a modified quotation from a verse in Deuteronomy 31:6. The passage in Deuteronomy reads eemach lo yarpeka velo ya’azveka (He will not fail you, nor forsake you).  The promise is very old.  It…

According to Knowledge: a Study of Forsaking and Clinging

“Therefore a man forsakes his father and mother and clings to his wife . .”    Genesis 2:24 “Likewise, you husbands, dwelling together with your wives according to knowledge, .”   1 Peter 3:7 It is unfortunate that Christianity has been slandered with the idea that wives are the submissive slaves of their husbands. Only sloppy…