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WORD STUDY – HAVING A STIFF NECK קשׁהפרע
Exodus 33:3: “For I will not go up in the midst of thee; for thou art a stiff-necked people: Lest I consume thee in the way.” The children of Israel were two and one half months into their journey to the Promised Land (Exodus 16:1). All the food they packed...
WORD STUDY – THE BOSOM OF ABRAHAM עובא אברהמ
Luke 16:22, “And it came to pass, that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels into Abraham's bosom: the rich man also died, and was buried.” Psalms 35:13, “But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing [was] sackcloth: I humbled my soul with fasting;...
WORD STUDY – GOD DOES NOT SLUMBER נומ
Psalms 121:3: “Behold, he that keeps Israel neither slumbers nor sleeps.” Many years ago when I taught school in Arlington, Virginia which borders Washington D.C., I took a room in a house with three other borders. One was an engineer working on the new rapid...
WORD STUDY – A POSITIVE IMAGINATION סברא
Genesis 30:37: “Then Jacob took fresh rods of poplar and almond and plane trees and peeled white stripes in them exposing the white which was in the rods. And he set the rods which he had peeled in front of the flocks in the gutters, even in the watering...
WORD STUDY – PRAISE THE LORD הללוי
Psalms 147:1: “Praise ye the Lord, for it is good to sing praises unto our God, for it is pleasant and praise is comely.” Some people tend to think that worship only takes place with music. Actually, everything that takes place during a church service is...
BEYOND THE DALETH ‘EZER עזר
Psalms 121:1: “I will lift up my eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help?” Mark 13:14: “But when you see the abomination of desolations spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing where it ought not, let him that readeth understand, then let them be...
WORD STUDY – THE RANSOMED OF THE LORD פדויי יהוה
Isaiah 35:10: “And the ransomed of the LORD shall return, and come to Zion with songs and everlasting joy upon their heads: they shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.” Oh the wonders of our modern age. I can download the...
WORD STUDY – ENLARGE OUR HEARTS תרחיבלבי
Psalms 119:32: “I will run the way of thy commandments when thou shalt enlarge my heart.” As we all know, Psalms 119 is written in an acrostic poetical style. In other words David has taken this Psalm with 22 stanzas of eight verses each. Each stanza follows...
WORD STUDY – VINDICATE THE VENGENCE נקם נקמת
Numbers 31:2: “Avenge the children of Israel of the Midianites: afterward shalt thou be gathered unto thy people.” This news has been filled lately with the recent terrorist attacks in France by radical Islamic groups not only against the Jews but against the...
WORD STUDY – THE LIGHT האור
Psalms 119:135: “Make thy face to shine upon thy servant and teach me they statutes.” “Rollin a sea, adrift on the water, Could it be finally, I’m turning for home? Finally a chance to say: ‘Hey I love you.’ Never again to be all alone, And you light up...


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