Buy truth, and do not sell it, get wisdom, instruction, and understanding. Proverbs 23:23 NASB Do not sell – The verb is mākar. Kaiser comments: “One passage uses the verb figuratively, ‘buying the truth and selling it not’ (Prov 23:23). Perhaps the Israelite king, Ahab, illustrates that passage, since ‘he sold himself to work wickedness’ under the…
The one who is not with Me is against Me; and the one who does not gather with Me scatters. Matthew 12:30 NASB Not – “Are you with Jesus?” That seems to be a rather common spiritual question in these times. But what does it mean? Yeshua offered an oblique answer, an answer that requires…
And I on My part gave them statutes that were not good and law through which they could not live. And I defiled them with their gifts when they passed every womb-breach in sacrifice, so that I might desolate them, so they might know that I am the LORD. Ezekiel 20:25-26 Robert Alter Not good…
They did not remember His [w]power, the day when He redeemed them from the enemy, Psalm 78:42 NASB Not remember – In the next ten verses Asaph lists all the mighty works that God did to redeem His people from Egypt. You might notice that his list isn’t quite the same as the sequence of events in Exodus. For…
