elders

  • Age Before Beauty

    I understand more than those who are old, because I have complied with Your precepts.  Psalm 119:100  NASB More than – The grammatical error spreads.  Consider the strikingly different translation of Chabad: “From the wise elders I gain understanding, for I kept Your precepts.”  The NASB rearranges the syntax and translates מִזְּקֵנִ֥ים as “more than the aged”…

  • Experience Matters

    Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land that the lord your God is giving you.  Exodus 20:12  ESV Experience Matters by Michael Moen My son, Michael, wrote this on his birthday nine years ago.  I think it’s time to read it again. Honor – The word kābēd…

  • Experience Matters

    Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land that the lord your God is giving you.  Exodus 20:12  ESV by Michael Moen Honor – The word kabbed is found 376 times in the Hebrew Bible. It is used over half the time as a reference to a “weighty”…