Twice Turning

BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

But turned back and acted treacherously like their fathers; they turned aside like a treacherous bow.  Psalm 78:57  NASB Turned back – Don’t be mistaken.  This Hebrew word is not שׁוּב (šûb) (re)turn.  šûb is “turning back” to God.  Jeremiah uses this Hebrew verb in seventeen different ways, all connected to returning.  But Asaph doesn’t employ šûb. …

Turn Around or Turn Back

BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

“And those who bow down on the housetops to the host of heaven, and those who bow down and swear to the Lord and yet swear by Milcom, and those who have turned back from following the Lord, and those who have not sought the Lord or inquired of Him.” Zephaniah 1:5-6 NASB Turned back…