This collection of pages gathers writings that help readers to get a handle on troublesome passages and important concepts for understanding the Old Testament.
Understanding the Bible’s figurative use of the word “horn”.
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OT First Day Festivals in Leviticus 23 Foreshadow Sunday Worship
Two key OT Festivals were held on the first day of the week This year I have started reading through the Bible again using the New International Version. I was impressed as I was reading in Leviticus this time in a way that I had not been before as I noticed that two of the...
The First Three Temple Furnishings
Meditation on Exodus 25 The Furnishings of the Tabernacle and the Holy Trinity I was impressed as I was reading through Exodus chapter 25 this year that the first three furnishings for the wilderness tabernacle which God instructed Moses and the people to make were likely very symbolic of the three persons of the Trinity. ...
Difficult Passages Series — 1 Samuel 16:14; 18:10; 19:9 for Jan 27 2010
1. Why is this passage listed among difficult passages? We find it very hard to understand how there can be an “evil spirit from the LORD,” a phrase which occurs in all three of these passages. It is used twice more in chapter 16 in describing that incident. Besides 1 Samuel, the only other time it is...