Holy Ghost Teach me....
Deuteronomy 19
Accidental murderers guidelines...cities of refuge.
:21 - Famous Instructions eye for an eye...and the Lord even gives note that they should not have pity, but this was the justice of the day.
Deuteronomy 20
Battle guidelines. Priests were to give words of encouragement before battles were fought. They were to proclaim peace before fighting. If the city answered in peace, they could enslave those people. If they didn't answer in peace, they spared the women and children but killed all the men.
Deuteronomy 21
What to do with people they find in the cities they take over.
Deuteronomy 22
What to do with animals they find in the new cities.
Building instructions for new houses, vineyards, and even marriages.
Deuteronomy 23
Who can enter the congregation of the Lord, and who can't.
No usury allowed within the bretheren! (No interest.)
Deuteronomy 24
Divorce.
:5 - No business or war allowed for newlywed men. They were instructed to "cheer up" their new wife!
:16 - Every man shall be put to death for his own sin. One could not die for another's sin. Hmmm.
Stranger, fatherless, and widow.
Deuteronomy 25
:2 - 40 stripes allowed when beating someone wicked.
:10 - Duty of a husband's brother. If this was not performed by a man, he was known as "The house of him that hath his shoe loosed."
:19 - Forget Amalek.
Deuteronomy 26
:10 - firstfruits - 1) fruithttp://www.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?Strongs=H6529&t=KJV
a) fruit, produce (of the ground)
b) fruit, offspring, children, progeny (of the womb)
c) fruit (of actions) (fig.)
AND
1) first, beginning, best, chief
Deuteronomy 27
a) beginning
b) first
c) chief
d) choice part
http://www.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?Strongs=H7225&t=KJV
:15 - Look down from thy holy habitation, from heaven, and bless thy people Israel... Beautiful words. Bless us still, O God.
Deuteronomy 28
:8 - Command the blessing
Popular words people claim:
:3 - Blessed in the city; blessed in the field
:12 - Bless the work of thine hand, lend and not borrow
:13 - Make thee the head and not the tail; shalt be above and not beneath...IFF commandments are followed
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:27 - botch=1) boil, inflamed spot, inflammation, eruption a) of man, leprosy, of man and beast
emerods=1) tumours, haemorrhoids, piles http://www.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?Strongs=H2914&t=KJV
--Very explicit detail of curses that would occur for disobeying God's law--including going back to Egypt (:68) and mothers eating their own children (:57).
Deuteronomy 29
Reminder of all that God has supernaturally done releasing COI from Egypt...but more details about curses that disobedience will bring.
:19 - And it come to pass, when he heareth the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, I shall have peace, though I walk in the imagination of mine heart, to add drunkenness to thirst:
:20 - I am still working on comprehending God having jealousy.=1) ardour, zeal, jealousy
a) ardour, jealousy, jealous disposition (of husband)
1) sexual passion
b) ardour of zeal (of religious zeal)
1) of men for God
2) of men for the house of God
3) of God for his people
c) ardour of anger
1) of men against adversaries
2) of God against men
d) envy (of man)
e) jealousy (resulting in the wrath of God)
http://www.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?Strongs=H7068&t=KJV:23 - The common expression "fire & brimstone," according to this verse should rather be "brimstone and salt"...brimstone being akin to sulphur, associated with volcanic activity. http://www.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?Strongs=H1614&t=KJV Mix it with water and salt, and you have sulfuric acid...which is not fire, but would feel like it if you touched it. It burns worse than hydrochloric acid because of the severe dehydration it causes. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sulfuric_acid Sulfer mixed with magnesium, another kind of salt, gives you a laxative (epsom salt)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sulfur
:29 - The secret [things belong] unto the LORD our God: but those [things which are] revealed [belong] unto us and to our children for ever
Deuteronomy 30
Redemption in returning.
:6 - circumcision of heart
:15 - See, I have set before thee this day life and good, and death and evil; --reminds of
:19 - I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, [that] I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live:
Deuteronomy 31
Moses encourages Israel so mercifully and graciously, even though he will not enjoy the promised land with them.
:15 - God speaks out of the pillar of the cloud over the door of the tabernacle. For some reason I always pictured a pillar of fire by night and a cloud by day...but the normal shape of a cloud, not in the form of a pillar.
:19 - The first prophetic song. And the prophecy was not a happy one.
:21 - Imagination is a problem. Perhaps the "other gods" the Lord was constantly warning against included that of their own mind. imagination = 1) form, framing, purpose, framework a) form 1) pottery 2) graven image 3) man (as formed from the dust)
b) purpose, imagination, device (intellectual framework)
Deuteronomy 32
:1 - The lyrics of the song begin by imploring heaven and earth to listen.
:18 - the Rock begat Israel
:30 - How should one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, except their Rock had sold them, and the LORD had shut them up?
Deuteronomy 33
Each tribe is spoken to by name.
Deuteronomy 34
Moses got to see the promised land, and then died. This chapter is only 12 verses long! Here is the kicker verse: :12 - And there arose not a prophet since in Israel like unto Moses, whom the LORD knew face to face
We are on the 6th book!!!
Joshua 1
Moses got to see it, Joshua got to feel it with his feet.
:13 - The LORD your God hath given you rest, and hath given you this land Yes, it is rest after moving for many years to live in one place....but there is only rest if it is God that gave you that experience.
:14-15 - Had to keep armor on even after being in the promised land to help the brethren possess it fully
:17 - Not sure how Joshua felt about this promise. Israelites didn't listen to Moses that well and/or that often.
Joshua 2
If "son of Nun" were Joshua's last name, it would be Nunson. Ha.
:1 - Shittim spies and Rahab
Rahab conveys to the spies she has heard of the stories of their travels, fears them, and knows the Lord has given them the land.
Joshua 3
Now they follow the ark instead of the cloud and fire.
It is interesting to me that the Jordan crossing is not glamorized as much as the Red Sea parting. Just as huge of a miracle! And it was overflowing because it was harvest season...so there was still a lot of water! And the Jordan is a HUGE river! Take a look at this pic of the Jordan from space:
One person from each tribe had to keep one stone each - large enough to have to carry on their shoulder- as a memorial to future generations of the place where the priests' feet stood firm (:3) They did, in fact, have to go in the river before it dried to cross...in other words the priests had to get their feet wet. They had to keep standing there while the Israelites passed clean over (3:17) Wonder how long that was? Hundreds of thousands of people walking across that massive river? Wow. In fact, they had to be commanded to move (4:17)
Joshua 5
The second circumcision. Wilderness children had not yet been circumcised.
:9 - God rolled away the reproach of Egypt from the Israelites in Gilgal = "a wheel, rolling"
1) the first site of an Israelite camp west of the Jordan, east of Jericho, here Samuel was judge, and Saul was made king; later used for illicit worship
2) dwelling place of prophets in northern Israel about four miles (7 km) from Shiloh and Bethel
3) a region conquered by Joshua, site unsure
:12 - Manna ends and fruit of the promised land begins.
:13 - The captain of the Lord's host appeared to Joshua with his sword drawn in his hand while he told him to take his shoes off on that holy ground. Yes, God means business.
