When it was day, the Jews made a plot and bound themselves by an oath neither to eat nor drink till they had killed Paul. There were more than forty who made this conspiracy. They went to the chief priests and elders and said, “We have strictly bound ourselves by an oath to taste noContinue reading “Acts 23: 12-22….Ambush and murder discovered.”
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Genesis 34: 27-31…..The bigger picture.
The sons of Jacob came upon the slain and plundered the city, because they had defiled their sister. They took their flocks and their herds, their donkeys, and whatever was in the city and in the field. All their wealth, all their little ones and their wives, all that was in the houses, they capturedContinue reading “Genesis 34: 27-31…..The bigger picture.”
Genesis 34: 18-27…..Nasty, nasty!
Their words pleased Hamor and Hamor’s son Shechem. And the young man did not delay to do the thing, because he delighted in Jacob’s daughter. Now he was the most honored of all his father’s house. So Hamor and his son Shechem came to the gate of their city and spoke to the men ofContinue reading “Genesis 34: 18-27…..Nasty, nasty!”
Genesis 34: 8-17…..A social dowry – proposed.
But Hamor spoke with them, saying, “The soul of my son Shechem longs for your daughter. Please give her to him to be his wife. Make marriages with us. Give your daughters to us, and take our daughters for yourselves. You shall dwell with us, and the land shall be open to you. Dwell andContinue reading “Genesis 34: 8-17…..A social dowry – proposed.”
Genesis 34: 1-7….. Jacob’s (Israel’s) Daughter Dinah Defiled.
Now Dinah the daughter of Leah, whom she had borne to Jacob, went out to see the women of the land. And when Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, the prince of the land, saw her, he seized her and lay with her and humiliated her. And his soul was drawn to Dinah theContinue reading “Genesis 34: 1-7….. Jacob’s (Israel’s) Daughter Dinah Defiled.”
Genesis 33: 9-20….Safely home!
But Esau said, “I have enough, my brother; keep what you have for yourself.” Jacob said, “No, please, if I have found favor in your sight, then accept my present from my hand. For I have seen your face, which is like seeing the face of God, and you have accepted me. Please accept myContinue reading “Genesis 33: 9-20….Safely home!”
Genesis 33: 1-9…..On the surface all is well!
And Jacob lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, Esau was coming, and four hundred men with him. So he divided the children among Leah and Rachel and the two female servants. And he put the servants with their children in front, then Leah with her children, and Rachel and Joseph last of all.Continue reading “Genesis 33: 1-9…..On the surface all is well!”
Genesis 32: 24-32….A sleepless night, yet profitable!
And Jacob was left alone. And a man wrestled with him until the breaking of the day. When the man saw that he did not prevail against Jacob, he touched his hip socket, and Jacob’s hip was put out of joint as he wrestled with him. Then he said, “Let me go, for the dayContinue reading “Genesis 32: 24-32….A sleepless night, yet profitable!”
Genesis 32: 17-24a…..Everything in place.
He instructed the first, “When Esau my brother meets you and asks you, ‘To whom do you belong? Where are you going? And whose are these ahead of you?’ then you shall say, ‘They belong to your servant Jacob. They are a present sent to my lord Esau. And moreover, he is behind us.’” HeContinue reading “Genesis 32: 17-24a…..Everything in place.”
Genesis 32: 9-16….Prayer and Planning.
And Jacob said, “O God of my father Abraham and God of my father Isaac, O LORD who said to me, ‘Return to your country and to your kindred, that I may do you good,’ I am not worthy of the least of all the deeds of steadfast love and all the faithfulness that youContinue reading “Genesis 32: 9-16….Prayer and Planning.”
As I read it! 