Robert Goodman

  • deepthinker
  • Apex, NC
  • Earned a Badge — Subscribed to First Reading Plan

    2011-12-31

  • What a city...

    The length, width and height are equal, and they are each 1500 miles.  Even if there were a place on this earth to specify the length and width, there is nowhere on earth to specify the height.  It's…

    Created 5 months ago

    Revelation 21:16 (KJV)

  • Job 7:11

    Job 7:11 (NASB)
    "Therefore I will not restrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit, I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.

    Created 7 months ago

  • With no one's regret

    A lot has been said about a lot of evil people in the Bible, but this one is particularly cold. He (I assume Jehoram) departed with no one's regret. What a tragic title to have after your name for all…

    Created 12 months ago

    2 Chronicles 21:20 (NASB)

  • The position indicates the heart

    The last time we saw Nathan was when he told the little lamb story. I did not get the impression that even though David was king then that Nathan was prostrate before him. David was proud, and Nathan…

    Created about 1 year ago

    1 Kings 1:23 (KJV)

  • The echo of the first commandment

    And for the rest of this man's life, or until he repented and did what Jesus asked of him, he will hear in the back of his mind the echo of the first commandment "You shall have no other gods before me".

    Created about 1 year ago

    Matthew 19:10 (NASB), Matthew 19:11 (NASB), Matthew 19:21 (NASB), Matthew 19:22 (NASB)

  • Too Close To Home

    I'm certain that the "this" in "like this" is not referring to "for any reason at all". There must have been talk about the frustration that husband have with wives or about the typical withholding of…

    Created about 1 year ago

    Matthew 19:10 (NASB), Matthew 19:11 (NASB)

  • And the trouble begins

    What in the world is a household idol doing in David's house? If David had trouble in his life, I bet he can trace it back to the time when he should have gotten rid of that idol but didn't.

    Created about 1 year ago

    1 Samuel 19:13 (NASB)

  • A new helmet commissioned

    Obviously the Philistine helmets didn't have nose protection, and were more made to resist impact from above and not stones from below. The Roman helmets had the nose protection, probably as a result…

    Created about 1 year ago

    1 Samuel 17:49 (NASB)

  • David's real thought

    It's not out of the realm of possibility here that David was thinking "If I get lucky, then I'll really get lucky."

    Created about 1 year ago

    1 Samuel 17:25 (NASB), 1 Samuel 17:26 (NASB)

  • Jewish Magi

    What were (in theory non-Jewish) Magi from the west (previous post) doing memorizing Jewish scriptures so as to know where a Jewish King was to be born? And what would compel them to even look? Joe Sarver…

    Created about 1 year ago

    Matthew 2:5 (NASB), Matthew 2:6 (NASB)

  • Guess I got that one wrong too

    I always thought it was Magi from the east that came to visit Jesus when in fact, if what is written is true, they were from the west, northwest, or southwest.

    Created about 1 year ago

    Matthew 2:2 (NASB)

  • Now I understand, but I still don't understand

    I was always told that the tithe in Israel was 20%. Now I understand where it comes from. 10% to God, 10% to the king. But this I don't understand. Samuel says to the people that taxes will double, you…

    Created about 1 year ago

    1 Samuel 8:19 (NASB)

  • Earned a Badge — Created Your First Bookmark

    2011-04-02

  • 1 Corinthians 14:1

    1 Corinthians 14:1 (NASB)
    Pursue love, yet desire earnestly spiritual gifts, but especially that you may prophesy.

    Created about 1 year ago

  • Oh the irony

    I guess if you have some foreknowledge, you can have some fun before you're sentenced to death. One demon says to another, "The Phillistines want to worship a god. What do we call him?" The other demon…

    Created about 1 year ago

    Judges 16:23 (NASB)

  • What an indictment

    A mere 45 years after leaving Egypt Israel forgot God. What a wretched generation that one was that they did not teach their kids who God was.

    Created about 1 year ago

    Judges 1:2 (NASB)

  • 12 Gideons

    You just have to wonder here. You don't detect that anyone wanted to go fight the Canaanites. So God in effect said "Hail, valiant warrior" to Judah. And Judah, being the Gideon that he was, asked for…

    Created about 1 year ago

    Judges 1:2 (NASB)

  • Work? On the Sabbath?

    6 days after the day after the Passover would be the next Passover, where no work was to be done. Obviously, walking around a city in battle fatigues is not work. Note that it is on the day after the…

    Created about 1 year ago

    Joshua 5:11 (NASB), Joshua 6:3 (NASB)

  • First time seeing the Ark

    I bet that was the first time many of the Israelites had ever seen the Ark of the Covenant. You can bet the parents had to take their kids wide of it otherwise they would, like me, have wanted to touch…

    Created about 1 year ago

    Joshua 3:17 (NASB)

  • God digs

    How honorable it is when God Himself buries you, and how sweet that eulogy must sound. No doubt God formed a tabernacle of uncut stones on top of the grave as the gravestone. Or maybe he just planted…

    Created about 1 year ago

    Deuteronomy 34:6 (NASB)

  • Talk About A Flawed Man

    Aaron was chosen by God to speak for Moses in front of Pharaoh. He personally witnessed the miracles that God performed. How in the world could he have built the golden calf. And even afterwards, two…

    Created about 1 year ago

    Deuteronomy 9:20 (NASB)

  • The Rocks Cried Out

    I imagine if you were Joshua or Caleb, those rocks, the broken pieces of the stone tablets, cried out. I imagine their cry being like a deafening silence, reverberating yet without form.

    Created about 1 year ago

    Deuteronomy 9:17 (NASB)

  • Why spare any?

    I don't get it. You've just killed the girl's mother, aunts, cousins, sisters and brothers. Do you really think she's going to serve you with her whole heart? Do you really think she won't remember this…

    Created over 1 year ago

    Numbers 31:15 (NASB), Numbers 31:16 (NASB), Numbers 31:17 (NASB), Numbers 31:18 (NASB), Numbers 31:19 (NASB)

  • A strategic day for who?

    Obviously not for Herod, for "he used to enjoy listening to him", and he is saddened a couple of verses later. Strategic can only be for his wife. I hope the daughter was scarred for life. Of course with…

    Created over 1 year ago

    Numbers 22:29 (NASB), Mark 6:28 (NASB)

  • Blacksheep

    You have to wonder what kind of a blacksheep Simon felt like. The dad and the other brothers had J names. Blah blah blah, and Simon.

    Created over 1 year ago

    Numbers 22:29 (NASB)

  • Equals to the miracle

    Jairus and his wife were equals in creating the child, and equals in seeing her suffer to the point of death. Jesus made it so that they were equals in seeing the miracle of her healing. Even if later…

    Created over 1 year ago

    Numbers 22:29 (NASB)

  • Letting the a** live

    You just have to wonder how much lower than an a** you are when the a** would have lived and you died. Balaam should have asked himself "Who is the real a** now?"

    Created over 1 year ago

    Numbers 22:29 (NASB)

  • When animals speak

    You just have to wonder why there is not recorded shock and awe by Balaam at an animal speaking Hebrew. And what was he on that he would even carry on a conversion with a donkey speaking Hebrew.

    Created over 1 year ago

    Numbers 22:29 (NASB)

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    2011-01-08

  • Earned a Badge — Created First [Public] Note

    2011-01-04