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2376. The Kings of the South and the North

Daniel 11:2-35

Understanding Series

William Nelson

... makes much more sense, yielding “and he will rule a dominion greater than his dominion,” that is, Seleucus will rule a dominion greater than Ptolemy’s dominion. With two mems (the Hebrew letter m) in the text already, a third could easily have dropped out. This accords better with the history as well. 11:6 The phrase translated after some years, uleqets shanim, is literally “and at the end of years.” But the NIV is correct in translating as it does. The phrase is not eschatological here, pointing ...

2377. Additional Teachings

Luke 16:16-18

Understanding Series

Craig A. Evans

... Prophets” speak of Christ, foretelling his suffering, death, and resurrection. Viewed from this angle, then, it is easier to see how v. 17 would have been understood. The third saying (v. 18) supplies an example of the ethical aspect of the law that is never to “drop out” (see v. 17b). This saying on divorce upholds God’s perfect will for marriage (that it is not to be broken), as implied in Gen. 2:24. (In Matt. 19:3–9 Jesus acknowledges that Deut. 24:1–4 allows for divorce, but he views this ...

2378. Cities of Refuge

Numbers 35:6-34

Understanding Series

W.H. Bellinger, Jr.

... . The same execution will await those who kill by shoving another or throwing something at him intentionally or if in hostility he hits him with his fist so that he dies. If, on the other hand, the shoving or throwing is unintentional or if the killer drops a stone on someone without seeing him, then a hearing is required. The assembly is apparently a judicial body that determines whether the killing is murder or unintentional. In the case of an unintentional killing, the accused is sent to a city of refuge ...

2379. Absalom Kills Amnon

2 Samuel 13:23-39

Understanding Series

Mary J. Evans

... with a carefully worked out plan, Jonadab demonstrates his shrewdness in his understanding of David’s nature. He assumes that David will visit his loved son when he is ill and also that his concern for Amnon’s health will allow normal convention to be dropped so that Tamar can visit. Tamar, when specifically requested by David, would have had no choice but to go. Her feelings are seen as irrelevant and therefore ignored by David and Amnon. It was a common custom to prepare a special meal for the sick ...

2380. The World Hates the Disciples

John 15:18--16:4

Understanding Series

J. Ramsey Michaels

... confusing in the present context because Jesus, instead of assuming that his disciples are disciples, speaks of the possibility of them becoming disciples (showing yourselves to be is, lit., “that you might become,” v. 8). It is helpful to remember a clue dropped much earlier when Jesus was addressing a group of “believers” who turned out not to be believers at all: “If you hold to [lit., “If you remain in”] my teaching, you are really my disciples” (8:31). The clue was that discipleship ...

2381. Two Kinds of Wisdom

James 3:13-18, James 3:1-12

Understanding Series

Peter H. Davids

... Cor. 10:13–16; Eph. 2:9). The tongue is like a small spark, which can set a great forest on fire, whether the forest is Palestinian scrub, dried to explosive tinder by the long dry season, or a California mountainside. A fire is left unguarded or a match is dropped; the action can never be taken back, for with a whoosh and roar it is soon eating up acres at a galloping pace. 3:6 The tongue also is a fire: With this James begins to pile up almost psychedelic portraits of the evil in the tongue. As a fire ...

2382. Praying for Endurance and Healing

James 5:1-6, James 4:13-17, James 5:7-12, James 5:13-20

Understanding Series

Peter H. Davids

... should see the deal I’m going to get,” or perhaps a more modest-sounding, “Well, tomorrow I’m going to Rome. My agent has lined up a fine shop right by the new agora. It is said only the wealthiest shop there.” And on it goes: name-dropping, allusions to places and persons of power, gloating over deals to be made, but all of it empty boasting, for only God controls their lives. James evaluates this harshly: It is evil, for it robs God of his rightful honor as sovereign and exalts a mere human as ...

2383. Praying for Endurance and Healing

James 5:7-12, James 4:13-17, James 5:1-6, James 5:13-20

Understanding Series

Peter H. Davids

2384. Praying for Endurance and Healing

James 5:13-20, James 4:13-17, James 5:1-6, James 5:7-12

Understanding Series

Peter H. Davids

2385. Jacob Wrestles with God

Genesis 32:1-32

Understanding Series

John E. Hartley

... way of referring to God contrasted with that of Israel’s neighbors, who referred to their gods in relationship to a place; e. g., Baal Ekron was Baal of the town Ekron. 32:22 The Jabbok runs from the Transjordan plateau westward into the Jordan River. Dropping several thousand feet in a short distance, it cuts a deep gorge in the hillside. 32:28 The meaning of “Israel” is popularly interpreted as “he fought with God.” There is no scholarly consensus on the meaning of this name based on an exact ...

2386. The Golden Calf

Deuteronomy 9:7-29

Understanding Series

Christopher J. H. Wright

... the actions taken regarding the golden calf. Two of these are echoed from the Exodus narrative. The smashing of the two stone tablets of the covenant (vv. 15–17) was like a prophetic sign (cf. Jer. 19) that signified the broken covenant. Moses did not drop them accidentally in shock. This was a deliberate public action, before your eyes, with an unmistakable message. The burning and destruction of the golden image was an object lesson in what Israel was to do to the idols of other nations (7:25). The ...

2387. Solomon's Wisdom

1 Kings 4:29-34

Understanding Series

Iain W. Provan

... 1 Kings 10:26–29, just before we hear again of Pharaoh’s daughter (11:1; cf. 3:1) and of Solomon’s apostasy. Once more, as if to bring us down to earth in the midst of this heavenly picture of the great king and his kingdom, the authors drop into the text (in a curious place, as if to catch our attention—why not place vv. 26 and 28 together?) something of a time bomb. It is a bomb that will tick away quietly, along with all the others in 1 Kings 1–11, until the combined explosion occurs ...

2388. Elisha Traps Blinded Arameans

2 Kings 6:8-23

Understanding Series

Iain W. Provan

... their “meeting” with Elisha, Hb. yšḇ lipnê, in 4:38 and 6:1). A new meeting place is being built—the NIV’s place . . . to live (for Hb. māqôm lāšeḇeṯ) overstates the building’s function (cf. Gen. 43:33; Ezek. 8:1)—and someone drops a borrowed iron implement (axhead is a plausible guess) in the water. Elisha has experience in manipulating waters, however (2 Kgs. 2:14), and he is able to make the iron float like the piece of wood he has thrown in beside it. It is an amazing event ...

2389. The Siege Lifted

2 Kings 7:3-20

Understanding Series

Iain W. Provan

... pods: The extremity of the situation, confirmed by the woman’s awful story in 6:26ff., is already evident in the Hb. from the reference here to the “food” that was available, although it is somewhat obscured by the NIV’s seed pods for Hb.’s “pigeon droppings.” The point is that there was really nothing at all worth speaking of to eat—thus the cannibalism, which is hinted at or explicitly described as a consequence of siege in other places in the OT (Deut. 28:53–57; Lam. 2:20; 4:10; Ezek. 5 ...

2390. To Noah's Sons

1 Chronicles 1:1-4

Understanding Series

Louis C. Jonker

... Genesis 10:1 there. Second, 1 Chronicles 1:17 in the Hebrew text is a shortened version of Genesis 10:22–23. The sons of Aram are included in Genesis, but they are left out in the Hebrew text of Chronicles. This part probably dropped out of the text during the long manuscript transmission process. The NIV therefore includes this phrase on account of some Septuagint manuscript evidence (see the footnote there). Third, the Chronicler omits the closing verses of the source genealogy (Gen. 10:30–32). In ...

2391. The Japhethites

1 Chronicles 1:5-7

Understanding Series

Louis C. Jonker

2392. The Hamites

1 Chronicles 1:8-16

Understanding Series

Louis C. Jonker

2393. The Semites

1 Chronicles 1:17-27

Understanding Series

Louis C. Jonker

2394. Completion and Dedication of the Temple

Ezra 6:13-18

Understanding Series

Leslie C. Allen

... C. F. Keil). Another possibility is to insert extra material attested in 1 Esd. 7:11 after the first sentence, “Not all the returned exiles were purified, but the Levites were all purified together (and slaughtered . . . ).” This material could easily have dropped out due to a similar ending (Barthélemy, Critique textuelle, vol. 1, p. 537). 6:21–22 H. C. M. Vogt, Studie zur nachexilischen Gemeinde in Esra-Nehemia (Weil: Dietrich Coelde Verlag, 1966), pp. 51–53, has set out seven parallels, both ...

2395. The Passover

Ezra 6:19-22

Understanding Series

Leslie C. Allen

2396. Jeremiah's Complaint

Jeremiah 12:1-4, Jeremiah 12:5-17, Jeremiah 11:18-23

Understanding Series

Tremper Longman III

... unlike Isa. 53:7; John 1:29, 36). The NIV follows the MT with its rendering the tree and its fruit, the word lakhmo translated “fruit” being literally “bread, food.” Some want to emend the text to “its sap” (lekho), either by dropping the letter mem or treating it as an enclitic mem (Lundbom, Jeremiah 1–20, p. 636). The difference in meaning may be negligible. To destroy Jeremiah “tree and fruit” or “tree and sap” may simply mean “totally,” but commentators sometimes argue that ...

2397. Deathbed Confessions

Matthew 20:1-16

Sermon

King Duncan

... of you, like Cooper, have learned that the hard way. But you know it’s true. In his book, Six Hours One Friday Max Lucado tells the story of how he and his boat once survived a hurricane. An old seaman advised Max to take his boat to deep water, drop four anchors off each corner of the boat, and pray that the anchors held. Max survived that storm, but he says that he learned an important lesson: all of us need an anchor that will hold during the storms of life. (3) If we are wise enough to have a ...

2398. When You're Rejected

Matthew 21:33-46

Sermon

King Duncan

... , he can help us with our feelings of hurt and despair. How do we deal with feelings of rejection? Think about that for a few moments while I suggest a couple of thoughts. First of all, when we’re rejected, we do not give up the fight. We don’t drop out of the race. We don’t crawl off and hide under a rock. We remember St. Paul who also knew what it was to be rejected. Still he wrote, “One thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal ...

2399. You Are Invited to a Banquet

Matthew 22:1-14

Sermon

King Duncan

... water again. Then another man appeared above. “I can get you out of the well,” he said, “But you must trust me. Do you?” The man in the well couldn’t see how this man could get him out, but he said, “Yes, I’ll trust you.” And Jesus Christ dropped into that well. Upon his shoulders the man climbed out while Christ remained in the man’s place. (2) That is not one man’s story. It is the story of humanity. We are sinners. To say that is not to demean us. It is to say simply that we ...

2400. Giving Back to Caesar

Matthew 22:15-22

Sermon

King Duncan

... . He heard a woman screaming as she knelt in front of a small child. The man understood enough Spanish to realize that the boy had swallowed a coin. Seizing the child by the heels, the man held him up and gave him a few shakes. Suddenly an American quarter dropped to the sidewalk from the child’s mouth. “Oh, thank you sir!” cried the woman. “You seemed to know just how to get it out of him. Are you a doctor?” “No, ma’am,” replied the man. “I’m with the IRS.” (2) Years ago there was a ...

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