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Was it Jacob's fault? really?
As I read this passage carefully I started piecing together all that has transpired in Jacob's life until this chapter. For years I have heard preached from many pulpits that Rebekah and Jacob took matters…
Created 4 months ago
Genesis 26:1 (KJV), Genesis 26:3 (KJV), Genesis 26:4 (KJV), Genesis 26:6 (KJV), Genesis 26:7 (KJV), Genesis 26:9 (KJV), Genesis 26:11 (KJV), Genesis 26:12 (KJV), Genesis 26:14 (KJV), Genesis 26:15 (KJV), Genesis 26:17 (KJV), Genesis 26:25 (KJV), Genesis 26:26 (KJV), Genesis 26:34 (KJV)
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12 tribes of Ishmael
It is worth noticing how 12 tribes of the Abraham's older son, Ishmael were also established from the beginning. I would like to trace them throughout history. Here is some interesting views on the subject:…
Created 4 months ago
Genesis 17:1 (NIV84), Genesis 17:16 (NIV84), Genesis 17:18 (NIV84), Genesis 17:20 (NIV84)
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Earned a Badge — Created 10 [Public] Notes
2011-11-23
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We fall and God picks us up
God's grace is amazing. In this chapter is shown to us a very human and frail side of Abraham but in spite of it God was faithful. I would like to share with you the thoughts of this brother that goes…
Created 6 months ago
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Why did God destroy Sodom and Gomorrah?
Normally, when we think of main reasons God destroyed these cities were because of their pervert sexual behavior. Yet, that's part of the ultimate consequences of their core sins: pride, idolatry and…
Created 7 months ago
Genesis 19:13 (KJV), Ezekiel 16:49 (KJV), Ezekiel 16:50 (KJV)
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The Three Amigos of Abraham
It was very intriguing to me how in this chapter when one of the three visitors or angels speak the scriptures refer to it as "the Lord...." So I inquired of a jewish source -midrash- a term the is defined…
Created 7 months ago
Genesis 18:1 (KJV), Genesis 18:2 (KJV), Genesis 18:3 (KJV), Genesis 18:4 (KJV)
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Why God chose circumcision?
I pondered about it and the best explanation possible I found in this link: http://www.thirstytheologian.com/2008/12/29/why_circumcision.php (http://www.thirstytheologian.com/2008/12/29/why_circumcision.php)…
Created 7 months ago
Genesis 17:10 (KJV), Genesis 17:11 (KJV), Genesis 17:12 (KJV)
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God's sovereignty and man's free will
I was pondering in these scriptures because it is difficult to understand how God used Assyria to punish Israel, then turn around and punish Assyria because what they did to Israel. I found this resource,…
Created 7 months ago
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do you want to triumph? BE ONE
"..nothing they plan will be impossible for them" or in KJV "Nothing will be restrained from them to do" The power of unity acknowledged from above. From this passage in Genesis, my mind jumps forward…
Created 8 months ago
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tough love from a loving God
Tough words from our loving Savior.But he knows that once we love Him, the kind of love we will display for our close dear ones is going to be the proper one.
Created 8 months ago
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Famous wife: where did she come from?
- Adam and Eve had more children. - Cain's was more likely already married before moving to the land of Nod -His wife was more likely a sister or Adam's grand daughter - First generation gene pool was…
Created 8 months ago
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Earned a Badge — Created First [Public] Note
2011-10-06
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Earned a Badge — Subscribed to First Reading Plan
2011-10-04
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Earned a Badge — Created 10 Bookmarks
2011-02-02
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Psalm 121:2
Psalm 121:2 (NIV)
My help comes from the lord, the Maker of heaven and earth.Created over 1 year ago
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Psalm 121:5
Psalm 121:5 (NIV)
The lord watches over you— the lord is your shade at your right hand;Created over 1 year ago
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2 Chronicles 26:4
2 Chronicles 26:4 (NIV)
He did what was right in the eyes of the lord, just as his father Amaziah had done.Created over 1 year ago
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2 Chronicles 26:5
2 Chronicles 26:5 (NIV)
He sought God during the days of Zechariah, who instructed him in the fear of God. As long as he sought the lord, God gave him success.Created over 1 year ago
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2 Chronicles 26:6
2 Chronicles 26:6 (NIV)
He went to war against the Philistines and broke down the walls of Gath, Jabneh and Ashdod. He then rebuilt towns near Ashdod and elsewhere among the Philistines.Created over 1 year ago
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Earned a Badge — Created Your First Bookmark
2011-01-01
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John the Baptist : an Essene?
It is believed that John the Baptist could have been part of a religious group called "Essenes". A group that retreated to the dessert and possibly the ones that hid the Dead Sea Scrolls http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essenes…
Created over 2 years ago
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Job 3:21
Job 3:21 (NIV84)
to those who long for death that does not come, who search for it more than for hidden treasure,Created over 2 years ago
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Esther 9:1
Esther 9:1 (NIV84)
On the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, the month of Adar, the edict commanded by the king was to be carried out. On this day the enemies of the Jews had hoped to overpower them, but now the tables were turned and the Jews got the upper hand over those who hated them.Created almost 3 years ago
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Nehemiah 12:47
Nehemiah 12:47 (NIV84)
So in the days of Zerubbabel and of Nehemiah, all Israel contributed the daily portions for the singers and gatekeepers. They also set aside the portion for the other Levites, and the Levites set aside the portion for the descendants of Aaron.Created almost 3 years ago
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Nehemiah 10:38
Nehemiah 10:38 (NIV84)
A priest descended from Aaron is to accompany the Levites when they receive the tithes, and the Levites are to bring a tenth of the tithes up to the house of our God, to the storerooms of the treasury.Created almost 3 years ago
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Nehemiah 9:1
Nehemiah 9:1 (NIV84)
On the twenty-fourth day of the same month, the Israelites gathered together, fasting and wearing sackcloth and having dust on their heads.Created almost 3 years ago
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Nehemiah 6:1
Nehemiah 6:1 (NIV84)
When word came to Sanballat, Tobiah, Geshem the Arab and the rest of our enemies that I had rebuilt the wall and not a gap was left in it—though up to that time I had not set the doors in the gates—Created almost 3 years ago
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