COMMENTARY:
: 2 After two days will he revive us: in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight. (2416 “revive” [chay] means life, live, renewal, to recover health, preserve, keep alive, cause to flourish or nurture.
DEVOTION: When children are given a punishment of a week without out … Read More
COMMENTARY
: 3 I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hid from ME: for now, O Ephraim, you commit whoredom, and Israel is defiled. (3582 “hid” [kachad] means cut off, conceal, desolate, make disappear, or unknowable to.)
DEVOTION: We have all at one time played the game hide and seek. It is done with … Read More
COMMENTARY:
: 1 Hear the word of the LORD, you children of Israel: for the LORD has a controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land. (7379 “controversy” [riyb] means cause, strife, dispute, quarrel, case at law, contention, lawsuit, or legal dispute.)… Read More
COMMENTARY:
: 1 Then said the LORD unto me, Go yet, love a woman beloved of her friend, yet an adulteress, according to the love of the LORD toward the children of Israel, who look to other gods, and love flagons of wine (157 “love” [ahab] means desire, to breath after, to be inclined, to delight … Read More
COMMENTARY:
: 7 She will chase her lovers, But not overtake them; Yes, she will seek them, but not find them. Then she will say, ‘I will go and return to my first husband, for then it was better for me than now.
DEVOTION: Too often we are prone to wander. There are many songs that … Read More
COMMENTARY:
: 2 The beginning of the word of the LORD by Hosea, And the LORD said to Hosea, Go take to you’re a wife of whoredoms, for the land has committed great whoredom, departing from the LORD. (2183 “whoredoms” [zanuum] means adultery, fornications, prostitution, idolatry, commerce, or the figurative extension of an illicit relationship … Read More
COMMENTARY:
: 2 And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt. (1860 “contempt” [d@ra’own] means aversion, abhorrence, loathing, or abhorring.)
DEVOTION: Daniel wants to know about the future. He is told by the angel Michael that … Read More
COMMENTARY:
: 27 And both these kings’ hearts shall be to do mischief, and they shall speak lies at one table; but it shall not prosper: for yet the end shall beat the time appointed. (4150 “time appointed” [mow‘ed] means season, appointed place, meeting, fixed day, space of time, or unit of time.)
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COMMENTARY:
: 2 When this vision came to me, I, Daniel, had been in mourning for three whole weeks.
: 3 All that time I had eaten no pleasant food. No meat or wine crossed my lips, and I used no fragrant lotions until those three weeks had passed. (2531 “pleasant” [chemed] means desirable, delight, beauty, … Read More
COMMENTARY:
: 4 And I prayed unto the LORD my God, and made my confession, and said, O Lord, the great and dreadful God, keeping the covenant and mercy to them that love him, and to them that keep his commandments (3034 “confession” [yadah] means confess sin, to profess, to show, make an admission, or … Read More