WORD STUDY – NO OZAR

II Kings 14:26-27: “For the Lord saw the affliction of Israel, that it was bitter, for there was not any shut up, nor any left, nor any helper for Israel.  And the Lord said that he would not blot out the name of Israel from under heaven: but he saved them by the hand...

WORD STUDY – RIGHT (YASAR)

II Kings 12:2-3: “And Jehoash did right in the sight of the Lord all his days in which Jehoiada the priest instructed him.  Only the high places were not taken away; the people still sacrificed and burned incense on the high places.”   King Ahab and Jezebel, King...

WORD STUDY – WASH SEVEN TIMES

II Kings 5:10: “And Elisha sent a messenger unto him saying: Go and wash in the Jordan seven times and thy flesh shall come again to thee and thou shalt be clean.”   Why did God make Naaman do such silly stuff?  Why not just heal the old boy and get it over with....

WORD STUDY – ABSENT AND PRESENT

II Corinthians 5:8: “We are confident I say and willing rather to be absent from the body and to be present with the Lord.”   I had a friend who was a retired Greek professor and Greek Orthodox.  I was a retired Hebrew teacher and Baptist.  We would get together...

WORD STUDY – HARA (THE EVIL)

II Chronicles 36:5: “Jehoiakim was twenty and five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem: and he did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord his God.”   Jehoiakim was the son of Josiah, king of Judah.  Josiah was the last...