How the Jewish Feasts were Fulfilled “The seven annual feasts…
How the Jewish Feasts were Fulfilled “The seven annual feasts were spread over seven months (Deuteronomy 16, Leviticus 23), at set times appointed by…
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Were Egyptians, as a large group, slaves in Abram’s time & does this have anything to do with the iniquity of the Amorites?
NASB95 for reference
Genesis 16:1
Hagar is the Egyptian handmaid/slave of Abram & Sarai.
Genesis 15:16
God tells Abram his descendants will be enslaved for 400 years because of the iniquity of the Amorites.
Are the Hebrews enslaved by …
Were tongues for believers or unbelievers?
1 Corinthians 14:
22 Tongues, then, are a sign, not for believers but for unbelievers; prophecy, however, is not for unbelievers but for believers.
Tongues were for unbelievers and not for believers. Only 4 verses later:
26b When you co…
Were Joseph and the Virgin Mary cousins?
Scholar Bruce R. McConkie wrote:
Mary’s ancestors were the same as Joseph’s. She was a descendant through the royal line of King David. “Matthew says Joseph was a son of Jacob, and Luke says that he was a son of Heli. It appears, however,…
Were the first three days equal in length to the fourth in Genesis 1?
The first three days were marked by the separation of light from darkness
Genesis 1:3 NLT
Then God said, "Let there be light," and there was light.:4 And God saw that it was good. Then he separated the light from the darkness.:5…
Galatians 3:22 – Did the law imprison us under sin or imprison the things which were already under sin?
I have a question on the translation of Galatians 3:22. Most English translations give something like the NIV gives:
But Scripture has locked up everything under the control of sin, so that what was promised, being given through faith…
Were tongues for believers or unbelievers?
1 Corinthians 14:
22 Tongues, then, are a sign, not for believers but for unbelievers; prophecy, however, is not for unbelievers but for believers.
Tongues were for unbelievers and not for believers. Only 4 verses later:
26b When you co…
Is there anything in Genesis to suggest why the ancient Israelites were made to be slaves in Egypt?
Is there a reason provided in Genesis for the enslavement of the ancient Israelites for 400 years?:
Genesis 15:13 And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed
shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall ser…
The attacks, Iran says, were retaliation for the killing of…
The attacks, Iran says, were retaliation for the killing of a top Revolutionary Guards commander in Baghdad.
Who were Esau’s wives?
In Genesis 26:34-35 (NASB)
When Esau was forty years old he married Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Basemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite; 35 and they brought grief to Isaac and Rebekah.
in Genesis 28:9 (NASB)
and Esau…
Luke 1:61 what were the rules of how contemporary Jews named their children?
From this verse it seems Jews picked a name among their relatives for their children. How exactly did this convention work?
How were the false prophets in Jeremiah 23:27 able to make God’s people forget His name?
Jeremiah 23:27 Literal Standard Version
Who are devising to cause My people | To forget My Name by their dreams, | That they each recount to his neighbor, | As their fathers forgot My Name for Ba‘al
What is the meaning of the name Baal and…