Tag: God
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Saul and Jonathan
33Ner was the father of Kish, Kish of Saul, Saul of Jonathan, Malchi-shua, Abinadab and Eshbaal; 34and the son of Jonathan was Merib-baal; and Merib-baal was the father of Micah.–1 Chronicles 8 Today’s genealogy focuses on the family line of Saul, the first king of Israel. As usual, I am highlighting a couple of names and…
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Levi and Sons
16 The sons of Levi: Gershom, Kohath, and Merari.–1 Chronicles 6 The genealogy in today’s Scripture reading took me down memory lane. Many years ago, I taught a class in the Old Testament book of Numbers. And the clans of Levi’s sons were given the task of transporting the Tabernacle, “God’s Mobile Home” through the wilderness…
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God Stirred
23The members of the half-tribe of Manasseh lived in the land. They were very numerous from Bashan to Baal-hermon, Senir, and Mount Hermon. 24These were the heads of their fathers’ houses: Epher, Ishi, Eliel, Azriel, Jeremiah, Hodaviah, and Jahdiel, mighty warriors, famous men, heads of their fathers’ houses. 25But they broke faith with the God of…
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Jabez and Pain
9Jabez was more honorable than his brothers; and his mother called his name Jabez, saying, “Because I bore him in pain.” 10Jabez called upon the God of Israel, saying, “Oh that you would bless me and enlarge my border, and that your hand might be with me, and that you would keep me from harm so that…
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Royal Lineage
9All these were David’s sons, besides the sons of the concubines, and Tamar was their sister.–1 Chronicles 3 Another set of genealogies. The purpose here seems to list out the sons of King David and his successor, Solomon. It would have been important to keep track of royal lineage. Some people do that today with…
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Warts and All
1These are the sons of Israel: Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Zebulun, 2Dan, Joseph, Benjamin, Naphtali, Gad, and Asher. 3The sons of Judah: Er, Onan and Shelah; these three Bath-shua the Canaanite bore to him. Now Er, Judah’s firstborn, was evil in the sight of the LORD, and he put him to death. 4His daughter-in-law Tamar also bore him…
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Genealogies and Belief
1Adam, Seth, Enosh; 2Kenan, Mahalalel, Jared; 3Enoch, Methuselah, Lamech; 4Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth. 5The sons of Japheth: Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras. 6The sons of Gomer: Ashkenaz, Riphath, and Togarmah.7The sons of Javan: Elishah, Tarshish, Kittim, and Rodanim. 8The sons of Ham: Cush, Egypt, Put, and Canaan. 9The sons of Cush: Seba, Havilah, Sabta, Raamah, and…
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Manasseh and Molech
1In his days, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up, and Jehoiakim became his servant for three years. Then he turned and rebelled against him. 2And the LORD sent against him bands of the Chaldeans and bands of the Syrians and bands of the Moabites and bands of the Ammonites, and sent them against Judah to destroy it, according…
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Josiah and You
24Moreover, Josiah put away the mediums and the necromancers and the household gods and the idols and all the abominations the\t were seen in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, that he might establish the words of the law that were written in the book that Hilkiah the priest found in the house of…
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Josiah and Change
11When the king [Josiah] heard the words of the Book of the Law, he tore his clothes. 12And the king commanded Hilkiah the priest, and Ahikam the son of Shaphan, and Achbor the son of Micaiah, and Shaphan the secretary, and Asaiah the king’s servant, saying, 13“Go, inquire of the LORD for me, and for the people, and…
