WORD STUDY – FOR THE SAKE OF

by | Jan 18, 2017 | Devotionals

WORD STUDY – FOR THE SAKE OF   I Kings 11:13:  “Howbeit I will not rend away all the kingdom; [but] will give one tribe to thy son for David my servant’s sake, and for Jerusalem’s sake which I have chosen.”   I remember an orthodox rabbi once...

WORD STUDY – HATE – שׁנה

by | Jan 17, 2017 | Devotionals

WORD STUDY – HATE – שׁנה      Psalms 139:21 Do not I hate them, O LORD, that hate thee? and am not I grieved with those that rise up against thee?   Reading this verse in the English gives me a very unsettling feeling.  Every translation I read this verse in...

WORD STUDY – TAKE CAPTIVE – שׁבה

by | Jan 16, 2017 | Devotionals

WORD STUDY – TAKE CAPTIVE – שׁבה   Numbers 10:35-36: “Whenever the ark set out, Moses said: ‘Arise O’Lord let the enemy be scattered, may your foes flee before you.’ Whenever it came to rest, he said: ‘Return Lord to the countless thousands of Israel.’”   This...

WORD STUDY – ONE, ECHAD OR YACHID

by | Jan 15, 2017 | Devotionals

WORD STUDY – ONE, ECHAD OR YACHID   Deuteronomy 6:4:  “Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God [is] one LORD:”   “There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than dreamt of in your philosophy.” Shakespeare  Hamlet  Act I, Scene 5   I try not to deal...

by | Jan 14, 2017 | Devotionals

WORD STUDY – YOUR NEIGHBOR – קריבא  (Aramaic)   Leviticus 19:18: “But thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.”   Mark 12:31: “And the second is like this, thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.”   “Good shepherd, tell this youth what tis to love? It...