The Lord God's presence is physically manifest inside the Holy of Holies, or the Most Holy Place room inside the Tent of Meeting, Tabernacle, and Temple. God enters. God leaves. In 586 BC God leaves. Did you notice?
God Leaves the Building
Jeremiah’s Lamentation’s Greek Verse One
The book of Jeremiah is followed by its sequel, Lamentations. Lamentations has a curious one-line introductory preface in the Greek Septuagint. It also carries alphabetic acrostics in the original Hebrew, and the creators of the Greek Septuagint had a clever way of dealing with this.
The Babylonian Army Drives Red Chevy Volts
We ponder Nahum's prophesy regarding Assyria, Nineveh, Judah and modern automobiles. We stop to examine some 7th century place names and Nahum's reluctance to use the wicked city Nineveh's name. While we poke a little fun of the modern car idea, we urge other Christians not to do so.
God Arrives at the Crack of Dawn
We see God arriving at the break of dawn in Psalm 46, plus some missing text (perhaps).
Weeds Wrapped ‘Round My Head
We connect the seaweed wrapped around Jonah's head, while he is inside the big fish, with the cloth wrappings around Jesus' face and head while his inside the tomb.
God Repeats Stuff
The Bible contains a fair amount of repeated material. We give an example from Kings, Chronicles, and Isaiah involving Hezekiah's extension of life.
They Laughed at Them and Mocked Them
Hezekiah, Godly king of Judah, invites the remnant in recently destroyed Israel to a refreshing Passover service. Many refuse!
How Do You Piece Together the Lord’s Prayer?
The Lord's Prayer does not come cleanly out of the Bible in one nice, well-formulated piece. Matthew and Luke present different versions, and scholarly publications of both Greek and English New Testaments differ on the exclusion and inclusion of phrases in both Matthew and Luke.
Psalms Have a Verse Zero
The Book of Psalms places headings and labels at the beginning of 116 out of the 150 Psalms. In Hebrew-based publications of the Tanakh and Psalms, these headings are numbered as verse one. In Christian Bibles, these headings are not numbered. And so, for these 116 Psalms, the verse numbers are off by one as one compares Jewish and Christian printings.
Gods Sends Moses Up & Down and Up & Down the Mountain. Don’t Touch! No Priests!
Moses ascends and descends Mount Sinai three times in Exodus 19. After the second ascent, God tells Moses to go straight back down. God wants nobody other than Moses and Aaron to ascend the mountain. Also, no priests are allowed to ascend the mountain.
