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  • Language of the First-Born Son

    The language of 'royal priesthood' is a connection with the role that the first-born sons were to play in the time before the Sinaitic covenant. At Sinai, the Israelites were called to be a representative…

    Created about 1 month ago

    1 Peter 2:9 (NASB)

  • Context brings new perspective

    All my life I have seen these verses printed on plaques and paintings in homes and churches, and heard them proclaimed in a cliche manor. They are almost always used to try and bring comfort to those…

    Created 4 months ago

    Matthew 10:29 (NASB), Matthew 10:30 (NASB), Matthew 10:31 (NASB)

  • Avoid the Bit

    I spent a summer working with horses. I did not get to ride them, but spent hours moving them around to clean stalls, feeding them, and letting them out to run. Some horses were much easier to work with…

    Created 4 months ago

    Psalm 32:9 (NASB)

  • What does this say about God?

    These words seem like those of a patient and forgiving God, who is "slow to anger and abounding in love." A God willing to wait (though it does not excuse the Israelites).

    Created 5 months ago

    Jeremiah 3:7 (NASB)

  • Earned a Badge — Created 10 Highlights

    2012-01-14

  • Potter and vessel

    Isaiah 45:9 (NASB)
    "Woe to the one who quarrels with his Maker- An earthenware vessel among the vessels of earth! Will the clay say to the potter, 'What are you doing?' Or the thing you are making say, 'He has no hands'?

    Created 5 months ago

  • Earned a Badge — Subscribed to First Reading Plan

    2012-01-14

  • Isaiah tells story as well

    The prophet Isaiah tells this story and the surrounding material as well. Hezekiah's illness is told in Isaiah 38 and includes a prayer from Hezekiah.

    Created 7 months ago

    2 Kings 20:1 (NASB)

  • Isaiah 29:13

    Isaiah 29:13 (NASB)
    Then the Lord said, "Because this people draw near with their words And honor Me with their lip service, But they remove their hearts far from Me, And their reverence for Me consists of tradition learned by rote,

    Created 7 months ago

  • Isaiah 14:11

    Isaiah 14:11 (NASB)
    'Your pomp and the music of your harps Have been brought down to Sheol; Maggots are spread out as your bed beneath you And worms are your covering.'

    Created 7 months ago

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  • Isaiah 14:9

    Isaiah 14:9 (NASB)
    "Sheol from beneath is excited over you to meet you when you come; It arouses for you the spirits of the dead, all the leaders of the earth; It raises all the kings of the nations from their thrones.

    Created 7 months ago

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  • A Prophetic Purpose

    Illustrated here, we find one of the primary purposes for God's coming judgment: he will punish Israel so that they may no longer rely on the nations or idols around them, but on their God who called…

    Created 7 months ago

    Isaiah 10:20 (NASB)

  • Deeper truth

    The message of the story here? Do not make fun of bald people.

    Created 9 months ago

    2 Kings 2:23 (NASB), 2 Kings 2:24 (NASB)

  • 2 Kings 2:23-24

    2 Kings 2:23-24 (NASB)
    Then he went up from there to Bethel; and as he was going up by the way, young lads came out from the city and mocked him and said to him, "Go up, you baldhead; go up, you baldhead!"

    Created 9 months ago

  • 1 Kings 3:11-12

    1 Kings 3:11-12 (NASB)
    God said to him, "Because you have asked this thing and have not asked for yourself long life, nor have asked riches for yourself, nor have you asked for the life of your enemies, but have asked for yourself discernment to understand justice,

    Created 10 months ago

  • An offering needs to be sacrifice

    2 Samuel 24:24 (NASB)
    However, the king said to Araunah, "No, but I will surely buy it from you for a price, for I will not offer burnt offerings to the Lord my God which cost me nothing." So David bought the threshing floor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver.

    Created 10 months ago

  • 1 Samuel 17:45

    1 Samuel 17:45 (NASB)
    Then David said to the Philistine, "You come to me with a sword, a spear, and a javelin, but I come to you in the name of the Lord of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have taunted.

    Created 11 months ago

  • 1 Samuel 17:45

    1 Samuel 17:45 (NASB)
    Then David said to the Philistine, "You come to me with a sword, a spear, and a javelin, but I come to you in the name of the Lord of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have taunted.

    Created 11 months ago

  • 1 Samuel 16:7

    1 Samuel 16:7 (NASB)
    But the Lord said to Samuel, "Do not look at his appearance or at the height of his stature, because I have rejected him; for God sees not as man sees, for man looks at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart."

    Created 11 months ago

  • Earned a Badge — Created 10 Bookmarks

    2011-07-12

  • 1 Samuel 15:22

    1 Samuel 15:22 (NASB)
    Samuel said, "Has the Lord as much delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices As in obeying the voice of the Lord? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, And to heed than the fat of rams.

    Created 11 months ago

  • 1 Samuel 14:6

    1 Samuel 14:6 (NASB)
    Then Jonathan said to the young man who was carrying his armor, "Come and let us cross over to the garrison of these uncircumcised; perhaps the Lord will work for us, for the Lord is not restrained to save by many or by few."

    Created 12 months ago

  • Samson's Neglect of Vow

    This is one of many instances that Samson neglects his Nazarite status. Any Jewish listener would recognize that Samson's touching of a dead animal would make him unclean. Other reasons Samson was not…

    Created 12 months ago

    Judges 14:9 (NASB)

  • Earned a Badge — Created First [Public] Note

    2011-06-07

  • collection of tribal states

    Israel is at this time not acting as one nation, but as a collection of tribal states. Here, the tribe of Benjamin is more loyal to it's tribesman than to all of Israel.

    Created 12 months ago

    Judges 20:13 (NASB)

  • Judges 17:6

    Judges 17:6 (NASB)
    In those days there was no king in Israel; every man did what was right in his own eyes.

    Created 12 months ago

  • Judges 11:24

    Judges 11:24 (NASB)
    Do you not possess what Chemosh your god gives you to possess? So whatever the Lord our God has driven out before us, we will possess it.

    Created about 1 year ago

  • Judges 6:31

    Judges 6:31 (NASB)
    But Joash said to all who stood against him, "Will you contend for Baal, or will you deliver him? Whoever will plead for him shall be put to death by morning. If he is a god, let him contend for himself, because someone has torn down his altar."

    Created about 1 year ago

  • Deuteronomy 15:7

    Deuteronomy 15:7 (NASB)
    "If there is a poor man with you, one of your brothers, in any of your towns in your land which the Lord your God is giving you, you shall not harden your heart, nor close your hand from your poor brother;

    Created about 1 year ago

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  • Deuteronomy 10:12

    Deuteronomy 10:12 (NASB)
    "Now, Israel, what does the Lord your God require from you, but to fear the Lord your God, to walk in all His ways and love Him, and to serve the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul,

    Created about 1 year ago

  • Deuteronomy 8:3

    Deuteronomy 8:3 (NASB)
    He humbled you and let you be hungry, and fed you with manna which you did not know, nor did your fathers know, that He might make you understand that man does not live by bread alone, but man lives by everything that proceeds out of the mouth of the Lord.

    Created about 1 year ago

  • Earned a Badge — Created Your First Bookmark

    2010-12-26

  • Exodus 23:14

    Exodus 23:14 (NASB)
    "Three times a year you shall celebrate a feast to Me.

    Created over 1 year ago

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  • Genesis 50:20

    Genesis 50:20 (NASB)
    As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good in order to bring about this present result, to preserve many people alive.

    Created over 1 year ago

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