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  • Extra-Ordinary

    So they stationed the people, all the army that was on the north side of the city, and its rear guard on the west side of the city, and Joshua spent that night in the midst of the valley. Joshua 8:13 NASB Stationed/ rear guard – The verse makes perfect sense in English, but in Hebrew…

  • Now Hear This

    My mouth shall tell of Your righteousness and of Your salvation all day long; For I do not know the art of writing.  Psalm 71:15  NASB Art of writing – A bit ironic, don’t you think?  According to this translation, here is a poet writing that he doesn’t know the art of writing.  Does that make sense?  Everything thus…

  • Chain of Command

    So Moses came and called the elders of the people, and set before them all these words which the LORD had commanded him.  Exodus 19:7  NASB Set before them – Until the revolution of the “new,” no one wanted to embrace a way of life that did not have a long legacy of success.  In…

  • Lifting Up the Curse

    Moses made a copper serpent and mounted it on a standard; and when anyone was bitten by a serpent, he would look at the copper serpent and recover.  Numbers 21:9  JPS Recover – There is no doubt that Yeshua refers to this event as an explanation of the cross and the ascension (see John 3:14)….