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1 Chronicles 1:29-31

Understanding Series

Louis C. Jonker

... is understandable. He wanted to emphasize that the origin of this people goes back to the covenant bearer, whose name was changed from Jacob to Israel. 1:35–54 The genealogy of Esau starts in 1:35. It is clear that this list is an abridged version of Genesis 36:1–19. Apart from Eliphaz and Reuel, three other sons of Esau are mentioned. This differs slightly from Genesis 36:10, which features only the first two. For each of these two sons, the Chronicler lists a few sons, again with slight differences ...

527. Descendants of Keturah

1 Chronicles 1:32-33

Understanding Series

Louis C. Jonker

528. Gad

1 Chronicles 5:11-22

Understanding Series

Louis C. Jonker

... against the Hagrites and other groups. The strife with the Hagrites is picked up from the reference in 5:10. This subsection already acts as a prelude to some of the battle accounts that will play such a prominent role in the Chronicler’s version of (particularly) the history during the divided kingdom. One good example is the account of King Asa’s reign (2 Chron. 14–16). The subsection under discussion here shares many motifs with that type of account, one being the cry to God in battle, which ...

529. The Half-Tribe of Manasseh

1 Chronicles 5:23-26

Understanding Series

Louis C. Jonker

530. The Temple Musicians

1 Chronicles 6:31-81

Understanding Series

Louis C. Jonker

... Chronicles 1–9, p. 428). On the other hand, the present formulation, which stops in the time of David, situates the following section on the allocation of cities to the Levites in the time of this monarch. It thereby changes the Deuteronomistic version’s scheduling of this event in the time of Joshua (Klein, 1 Chronicles, p. 213). Both of these suggested functions, therefore, emphasize the integration of this brief excerpt into the broader genealogical construction. 6:54–81 The last subsection in the ...

531. David Conquers Jerusalem

1 Chronicles 11:4-9

Understanding Series

Louis C. Jonker

... ), men of Zebulun (12:33), men of Naphtali (12:34), men of Dan (12:35), men of Asher (12:36), and from east of the Jordan, men of Reuben, Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh (12:37). It is clear that the writer wanted to present a version of David’s support similar to that given in the genealogies: All-Israel supported this king! After the list is presented, the discussion proceeds in 12:38 with the indication that they all came to Hebron with one intention, namely, fully determined to make David king over ...

532. David's Mighty Men

1 Chronicles 11:10-47

Understanding Series

Louis C. Jonker

533. Warriors Join David

1 Chronicles 12:1-22

Understanding Series

Louis C. Jonker

534. Others Join David at Hebron

1 Chronicles 12:23-40

Understanding Series

Louis C. Jonker

535. Later Opposition Under Xerxes and Artaxerxes

Ezra 4:6-24

Understanding Series

Leslie C. Allen

... Elam and destruction of Susa make them feasible, while his deportation of a group to Egypt shows that he continued Assyrian imperial practice (J. M. Myers, Ezra, Nehemiah [AB 14; Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1965], p. 33). City: The ancient versions rightly took the Aramaic qiraʾ as plural, “cities” (NRSV; Rosenthal, Biblical Aramaic, p. 35), so that Samaria refers to the province. 4:12 Restoring . . . repairing: The Aramaic verbs, of which the meaning of the second is uncertain, are strangely perfect ...

536. Completion and Dedication of the Temple

Ezra 6:13-18

Understanding Series

Leslie C. Allen

... land” (4:4, NRSV) is matched by a synonym “the nations of the land” (6:21, NRSV). A negative attitude is taken in both places to the general population, as “enemies” there and as marked by “unclean practices” here. A less obvious parallel in modern versions, but one that is preserved in the literal KJV, is that “the people of the land weakened the hands of the people of Judah” (4:4) in the matter of building the temple, while in 6:22 the king was caused to “strengthen their hands.” As ...

537. The Passover

Ezra 6:19-22

Understanding Series

Leslie C. Allen

538. How Beautiful Your Feet

Song of Songs 7:1-13

Understanding Series

Elizabeth Huwiler

... of (and contrasting with) Genesis 3:16. The woman then issues an invitation to the man to go out to the countryside for a night of love. Finally, the woman tells her lover of her fantasy that that he is her brother, and she issues a modified version of the adjuration to the daughters of Jerusalem. 7:1–6 This is another descriptive motif, spoken about the central woman and apparently by the man. It moves up from the feet instead of from the head down. This arrangement may be related to the reference to ...

539. Sennacherib's Fall

Isaiah 37:21-38

Understanding Series

John Goldingay

... know which of these alternatives is right. It does not seem to make a difference to the significance of the story. Additional Notes 37:8–38 A common critical view has been that these are two versions of the same events. Instead of trying to combine the two into one story, the text puts the two versions of the story one after each other. The effect is rather like that in Gen. 1–2, where two creation stories are placed one after the other rather than being interwoven. The usual conservative view has ...

540. The Week

Mark 14:1-15:47

Sermon

John Jamison

... the north to be here. Jesus is reclining at the dinner table with the rest of the group, watching closely as Mary walks over to him, takes a small vial of very expensive perfume from the cord around her neck, and pours it over Jesus’ head. In his version of the story, John tells us that it was Judas who spoke up first, but Mark says there were several in the group who became angry, upset that the expensive oil had been “wasted” and could instead have been sold and the money given to the poor. They ...

541. A Divided Family

Mark 3:20-25

Sermon

King Duncan

... the story of Noah in the Bible. So they slipped into the church and glued two pages of the large Bible in the pulpit together. On the following Sunday the preacher got up to read his text. He was reading, of course, from the King James Version of the Bible. “Noah took himself a wife,” he began, “and she was . . .” He paused for a moment as he turned the page to continue . . . “she was . . . 300 cubits long, 50 cubits wide and 30 cubits high.” He paused, scratched his head, turned the page back ...

542. The House on The Rock

Lk 6:12-49 · Mt 5:1-12

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... . His message: the kingdom of God is near, here. Repent. For God’s promise of restoration is coming. In fact, it has come in him –he is the Messiah! Matthew gives us a fairly detailed report of Jesus’ ‘sermon’ that day. Luke gives a shortened version but with the same material. In it, he outlined --as a rabbi would at the beginning of his ministry-- his “take” on the Torah and the prophets, his theology if you will. He did it in images, metaphors, stories, parables. He began his preface with ...

543. Do you need a Pharisectomy?

Matthew 9:27-34, Matthew 9:35-38, Matthew 12:15-21, Matthew 12:22-37, Matthew 12:38-45, Matthew 12:46-50

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... had cured many, so that all who had diseases pressed upon him to touch him. Whenever the unclean spirits saw him, the fell down before him and shouted, “You are the Son of God!” But he sternly ordered them not to make him known. [In Mark’s version, Jesus appoints the twelve before coming back down the mountain again.] Then he went home; and the crowd came together again, so that they could not even eat. When his family heard it, they went out to restrain him, for people were saying, “He has gone out ...

544. The Master's Voice

Matthew 13:53-58, Mark 6:1-6, Luke 4:14-30

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... passed through the midst of them and went on his way. Image Exegesis: The Master’s Voice “The God of our ancestors has chosen you to know his will and to see the Righteous One and to hear words from his mouth.” Acts 22:14 The Hebrew version of Isaiah 53:1-12 (the suffering servant passage) notes that “the Messiah was despised and rejected by others: a man of suffering acquainted with infirmity; and as one from whom others hid their faces, he was despised, and we held him no account.” On the other ...

545. Praise God! Selah!

Luke 1:67-80, Luke 1:57-66, Luke 1:46-56, Luke 1:39-45, Luke 1:26-38, Luke 1:5-25, Luke 1:1-4

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... the Mediterranean dish would seem unusual where John resided. Some say, the fruit pods from the carob (locust trees) which were prevalent in the wilderness areas. Some say, “honey cakes” which appear to be the correct translation according to the Ebionite version of the scriptures. Essenes were vegetarians. So it’s likely that it was one of the latter two options. The Essenes represented the “holiness movement” of the day. They were the hasya (pious) –the Hasidim. Important also to note is that ...

546. Unstoppable Joy!

Mark 7:31-37

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... think of a song that makes your heart leap with love and joy for God every time you sing it? What are some of those stories? What are some of those songs? Share them with us now. [Allow people to take the mic and witness to their version of GodSong.] *The ideas in this sermon about music and resonance are built upon two sources from the imagination of Leonard Sweet. The first was The Soul Café, in which Len’s ideas of resonance were formed in conjunction with conversations about music that he had with ...

547. Clear to Enter

John 20:1-9, John 20:10-18, John 20:19-23, Matthew 28:1-10, Luke 24:1-12, Hebrews 10:1-18, Hebrews 10:19-39, Genesis 3:1-24

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... your password. But here’s the real beauty –if you are on your own computer, you can just push “remember my password,” and then next time you try to log in, you’re put right through! The system remembers you! It’s your own little version of “Clear!” Because really, the ultimate in being “Clear!” is to be remembered. No hoops, no hoopla! Once you are remembered, you’re in. And to be remembered, all you need is to set up a secret “relationship” between you and your device –a secret ...

548. Vendetta

2 Kings 1:1-18

Sermon

Lori Wagner

You probably all know the play by Shakespeare called “Romeo and Juliet.” Even if you aren’t a Shakespeare fan, or even if you detest trying to read an older version of English, modernized versions of the play in the form of movies and references have made the story timeless. For those of you who may not know the whole story, it centers around two families, the Capulets and the Montagues. Another family, the Verona family is in different ways tied to both. But the ...

549. The Politics of Love

Mark 15:1-15

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... in keeping the status quo with Rome in order to feed their own status and pockets. Revolts were quashed with stringent and brutal force. Sicarii, an early version of “hit men” or “terrorists,” aimed to take out Roman sympathizers. Soldiers roamed the streets of the cities and along the roadways, often imposing their own version of “justice” at will. Zealots could be revolt mongers among the people and were sought out and squashed. Within Jerusalem itself, Shammai Pharisees had imposed severe ...

550. Hold Me When I'm Angry

Joshua 5:1-12

Sermon

Carl Jech

... but he knew that there was something more important than the anger. His message to his wife was "hold me when I'm angry." But she was so busy with her anger that she was seemingly blind to the possibility of a positive response. The marriage ended in divorce. Their version of All In the Family was canceled. God knows we get angry. But as God made a covenant with the Children of Israel, his "Family," and held on to them even when they were angry, so God holds us even when we are angry. "Be angry, but do not ...

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