For the zeal of Your house has consumed me, the reproach of Your reproachers has fallen on me. Psalm 69:10 [Hebrew Bible] Robert Alter Consumed – Do you know what necrotizing fasciitis is? It’s flesh-eating disease. I am reminded of this terrible condition when I read the Hebrew term used here, ʾakal. This Hebrew word…
“Build houses and live in them; and plant gardens and eat their produce. Take wives and become the fathers of sons and daughters, and take wives for your sons and give your daughters to husbands, that they may bear sons and daughters; and multiply there and do not decrease. Seek the welfare of the city where I have sent you…
And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, “You may surely eat of every tree of the garden . . .” Genesis 2:16 ESV Surely eat – “It is primarily in the way in which we gratify physical needs that the seed of holiness is planted.”[1] Is Heschel right? Is holiness really about how we…
Whether, then, you eat or drink or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God. 1 Corinthians 10:31 NASB Whatever – “Whatever” covers a lot of things. The little word, ti, envelopes our whole lives. Maybe that’s why Paul starts with the basics. Eating and drinking. How much more ordinary can it get?…
But I have a few things against you, because you have there some who hold the teaching of Balaam, who kept teaching Balak to put a stumbling block before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed to idols, and to commit acts of immorality. Revelation 2:14 NASB To eat things – Have you considered…
Then He said to me, “Son of man, eat what you find; eat this scroll, and go, speak to the house of Israel.” So I opened my mouth, and He fed me this scroll. He said to me, “Son of man, feed your stomach and fill your body with this scroll which I am giving you.” Then…
Therefore do not let what is for you a good thing be spoken of as evil; for the kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but rightouesness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit. Romans 14:16-17 NASB Good thing – What is the emphasis of Paul’s statement? Is it on the “good thing”? …
For even when we were with you, we used to give you this order: If anyone will not work, neither let him eat. 2 Thessalonians 3:10 NASB Will not work – There is a South African colloquialism describing men who would rather sit than work. It’s called “chasing shadows.” These men sit against the side…
And you shall eat and be satisfied, and shall bless YHWH your Elohim for the good land which He has given you. . . . [less] that then your heart becomes lifted up, and you forget YHWH your Elohim who brought you out of the land of Mitsrayim, from the house of bondage, Deuteronomy 8:10,…
“He who eats My flesh and drinks My blood abides in Me and I in him.” John 6:56 NASB Eat/ Drink – Pagan religions of the ancient world believed that eating the flesh of an enemy or drinking the blood of an enemy transported the power of the enemy to the one eating or drinking. …
