COMMENTARY:
: 5 And you shall flee to the valley of the mountains; for the valley of the mountains shall reach to Azal: yea, you shall flee, like as you fled from before the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah: and the LORD my God shall come, and all the saints with you. (… Read More
COMMENTARY:
: 1 In that day there shall be a fountain opened to the house of David and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem for sin and for uncleanness. (4726 “fountain” [maqowr] means well-spring, source of life, joy and purification, descendants of Israel, with an associative with meaning of life and cleansing of association with clean water.… Read More
COMMENTARY:
: 1 The burden of the word of the LORD for Israel, says the LORD, which stretches forth the heavens, and lays the foundation of the earth, and forms the spirit of man within him. (3335 “forms” [yatsar] means to create, fashion, frame, plan, shape, or mold.)
DEVOTION: The Bible doesn’t teach evolution. Nowhere … Read More
COMMENTARY:
: 5 Whose possessors slay them, and hold themselves not guilty: and they that sell them say, Blessed be the LORD; for I am rich: and their own shepherds pity them not. (6238 “rich” [ashar] means enrich, to make rich, to gain riches, get abundance, or pretend to be rich.)
DEVOTION: Money is … Read More
COMMENTARY
: 1 Ask you of the LORD rain in the time of the latter rain; so that LORD shall make bright clouds, and give them showers of rain, to every one grass in the field. (7592 “ask” [sha’al] means consult, beg for, to make a request, to seek, or find out.)
DEVOTION: Control is … Read More
COMMENTARY:
: 7 And I take away his blood out of his mouth, and his abominations from between his teeth: but he that remains, even he, shall be for our God, and he shall be as a governor in Judah, and Ekron as a Jebusite. (3249 “I will take away” [yacuwr] means to change direction, to … Read More
COMMENTARY:
: 2 This says the LORD of hosts, I was jealous for Zion with great jealousy, and I was jealous for her with great fury. (7065 “jealous” [qana’] means to get heated, envy, become excited, to become desirous of exclusivity in relationship, or zealous.)
DEVOTION: There is nothing wrong with being passionate about what … Read More
COMMENTARY:
: 3 And to speak to the priests which were in the house of the LORD of hosts, and to the prophets, saying, Should I weep in the fifth month, separating myself, as I have done these so many years? (5144 “separating myself” [nazar] means to consecrate oneself to a deity, to deal respectfully, … Read More
COMMENTARY:
: 7 And the bay went forth, and sought to go that they might walk to and fro through the earth: and he said, Get you hence, walk to and fro through the earth. So they walked to and fro through the earth. (1245 “sought” [baqash] means require, request, seek out, besought, ask, begging, to … Read More
COMMENTARY:
: 3 Then said he unto me, This is the curse that goeth forth over the face of the whole earth: for every one that stealeth shall be cut off as on this side according to it; and every one that sweareth shall be cut off as on that side according to it. (7650 “sweareth” … Read More