1 John 2:27

But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him.

Monday, March 22, 2010

Through 1 Chronicles 3 (p. 540 in my Bible)








Bonus:  Names of God! (Some of them)





http://www.blueletterbible.org/study/misc/name_god.cfm#link1


2 Kings 10
:1 - Ahab has 70 sons!
:7 - heads in baskets sent to Jezreel
:27 - Baal's house became the outhouse, thanks to Jehu!
:32 - Hazael was used to cut Israel short


2 Kings 11
:2 - Joash was hid as a baby from the slaying of the royal offspring - reminds me of Moses
:7 - Assignments for keeping watch - including over the Lord's house
:16 - and they laid hands on her Not in a good way.
Jehoiada is the priest that commandment watch to be kept over the anointing of Joash as king.  Sometimes it is hard to distinguish all these Hebrew names.
:20 - Athaliah was almost doomed from the beginning just because Jezebel was her mama


2 Kings 12
:7 - Good for King Jehoash.  He stood strong to make the priests fix the leaks in God's house!
:9 - No doubt a system some places still use to collect money.  A chest on the right side as you enter with a hole on top to put in money.
:13 - Money was taken away from decorating God's house with precious gold and silver to pay the workmen fixing the house.
:16 - trespass & sin money = similar to penance.  Some piano teachers use this principle with their students.  Every time they miss a note, they have to put a penny in the jar!
:19 - King Jehoash, King over Israel; King Joash, King over Judah.  Parallel accounts of their kingships.


2 Kings 13
:9, 13 - When kings' death are recorded, it is said that they "slept with their fathers."  This is not said of the prophets' deaths.
:19 - Elisha was still prophecying for God on his deathbed
:21 - Elisha's bones in the grave raised someone from the dead


2 Kings 14
:2 - Ahaz became king when he was only 20 years old, which seems even younger considering how much longer they lived back then.  Also, mother's name is mentioned:  Jehoaddan
:13 - Jehoash, Israel's king, took gold, silver, and vessels out of the house of the LORD from Amaziah, king of Judah
:21 - Azariah became king at 16 when his dad, Amaziah, was murdered.  16!!
:27 - God saved Israel from his own wrath by the hand of Jeroboam, Joash's son


2 Kings 15
:1 - Another 16 yr old king!  And his mom's name is mentioned - Jecholiah
:5 - This king Azariah became a leper by the smiting of God.  God did it to him.  Perhaps in retribution for his father's murder and the way he became king?  It is clear that God has always enforced His own order.
:8 - Zachariah only got to be king for 6 months before he got assasinated


2 Kings 16
:3 - made his son to pass through the fire - clearly a heathen abomination to subject your own child to torture 
:8 - King Ahaz gave away treasures from God's house as a gift to another king!
:10 - King Ahaz had a replica built of an altar he saw in Damascus, a trading city of Syria http://www.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?Strongs=H1834&t=KJV


2 Kings 17
:9 - Secret disobedience towards God?  How can that exist?
:17 - Again, forcing children to hurt themselves by passing them through the fire is not something that pleases God
:18- Israel is first removed from God's sight, leaving only Judah, who is not far behind in being removed herself
God allows Israel to be encamped by the Assyrians (different from Syrians).  They get attacked by lions God sent because they didn't fear Him.  So Assyria's King asks for Israel to send priests to teach their people how to fear God!  Too bad the teaching didn't last.


2 Kings 18
:4 - Finally, King Hoshea removes the high places (idol worship altar places)  The children of Israel had actually named and started worshipping the snake Moses had made for them to look upon and be healed in the wilderness.  They named it Nehushtan = a thing of brass http://www.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?Strongs=H5180&t=KJV
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:6 - First king that it is said "clave to the LORD"
:17 - fuller's field = laundry field
:21 - King of Assyria describes Egypt & Pharoah = bruised reed that will pierce you if you lean on it 
:27 - that they may eat their own dung and drink their own piss with you - a timeless, descriptive, effective insult
:35 - Finally, obedience.


2 Kings 19
:2 - Putting on sackcloth is such a foreign tradition to me.  When I searched it out, the consensus is that putting on sackcloth is a way of penance, as it is not very comfortable to wear.  


:5 - Hello Isaiah!
:14 - King Hezekiah spreads the threatening letter before the Lord
:28 - Because thy rage against me and thy tumult is come up into mine ears, therefore I will put my hook in thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou camest. What if God said this to us?
:35 - the angel of the LORD went out, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians an hundred fourscore and five thousand (185,000).  A death angel sent with no Passover salvation given


2 Kings 20
:1- Doesn't it seem like prophets of God should always prophecy life instead of death?  I am amazed by how often prophets had to give such morbidly bad news.
:6 - Is it really a comfort to know you have 15 more years?  I guess you still don't know exactly when the Lord will give you your last breath...
:7 - a lump of figs healed the boil.  Figs heal.


To find out more about fig health benefits:  http://www.elements4health.com/figs.html
:11 - God turned back time 10 degrees to prove to Hezekiah he would live
Hezekiah showed off all his material goods to the King of Babylon, which got him into trouble.  


2 Kings 21
:1 - Manasseh became king at 12 and got Israel in trouble again.
:24 - The people chose for themselves at times who would be king...or they would speed up the lineage/next-in-line process.


2 Kings 22
:1 - Josiah - an 8 year old king!!!  Jedidah was his mom.
:14 - a woman prophetess I have just heard of for the first time = Huldah
:20 - She gets to prophecy another death, but this time it is presented as a good thing-an escape from witnessing the evil that will come
*God's anger was stirred up again in this chapter because the people refused to fix the breaches (leaks) in His house.


2 Kings 23
:10 - Topheth = where children were passed through fire.  One of the places King Josiah did away with.
:25 - No one like Josiah.  Good job!


2 Kings 24
Nebuchadnezzar,king of Babylon - Jehoiakim birthed Jehoiachin - Mattaniah changed his name to Zedekiah


2 Kings 25
:3 - famine strikes
:5 - army of the Chaldees - also Chaldeans, inhabitants of Babylonia associated with astrology and magic http://www.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?Strongs=H3778&t=KJV
:11 - Nebuzaradan
:27 - Evilmerodach - king of Babylon, son of Nebuchadnezzar. If this were my name, I would change it.  However, he acts better than his name suggests when he shows kindness to the king of Judah, giving him a daily allowance 


1 Chronicles 1
family records from Adam to Abraham, Ishmael and Keturah's family records, Esau's Family record


1 Chronicles 2
Judah's family record
begat, begat, had another wife, which bare him


1 Chronicles 3
David's sons, Solomon's family record
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Sunday, March 21, 2010

Through 2 Kings 9 (p.510 in my Bible)

1 Kings 14
:6 - You can fool man, but you can't fool God.
:24 - sodomites = male temple prostitutes http://www.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?Strongs=H6945&t=KJV
:28 - You can steal from man, but not from God.
Such a shift from Solomon to Rehoboam & Jeroboam.
1 Kings 15
Abijam becomes reigning king.
:2 - Mother is soley named for genealogy purposes.  Very rare.
:4 - God honors David even unto his great grandchildren.
:10 - Same mother is mentioned as in vs.2 - Maachah, daughter of Abishalom.
:9 - Asa becomes reigning king.  He was Abijam's brother.
:24 - GREAT KING JEHOSAPHAT!
:31 -  Now the rest of the acts of ______and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?  This is stated multiple times in Kings books.  We have so much to look forward to in Chronicles!


1 Kings 16
This chapter makes me want to look at family trees of the kings.  Here are a couple I found.  I also found another Bible site with many translation options.  logos.com  I still prefer blueletterbible.org.


:21 - Now not only do we have the Judah - Israel split, but now Israel is split in 2.
:31 - Jezebel marries into the family.  Here comes trouble.  Even her name = Baal exalts, Baal is husband to, unchaste http://www.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?Strongs=H348&t=KJV
Baal = lord, supreme male divinity of the Phoenicians or Canaanites, a Reubenite, the son of Jehiel and grandfather of Saul http://www.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?Strongs=H1168&t=KJV
1 Kings 17
HELLO ELIJAH!

What an uncomfortable way of living.  Being fed by ravens, wandering in the wilderness, just waiting for the next "Thus saith the Lord".  And yet, such a great life!
 :12 - You know, unless that widow woman were outside gathering sticks, Elijah would not have seen her to call out to her and give her the miracle.
1 Kings 18
Elijah - Ahab - Obadiah
:4 - Prophets had to hide 50 people in a cave and eat old time prison food - bread and water.
:24 - and the God that answereth by fire, let him be God. Good call.


Was it the 450 prophets of Baalim against 1 prophet of God, Elijah?
:43 -  It was Elijah's servant that saw the cloud in the shape of a mans' hand after going up to the top of Carmel 7 times
:46 - Ahab was riding (horse or camel or carriage, we don't know) but Elijah beat him to Jezreel running himself.


1 Kings 19
I have always chuckled at the thought that Elijah wanted to quit it all after being threatened by a woman.
:3 - Elijah left his servant to go on and pray.  Maybe later that's why he expects Elisha to stay when he tells him to.
:6 - Upgraded from ravens to angels
:9 - He went into the cave, but that isn't where God's provision would come from this time, like it did with Obadiah
:11-12 - Wind, earthquake, fire, then still small voice
:19 - Elisha was plowing with 24 oxen in front of him!  A yoke is a pair, so 12 yokes = 24 oxen.  http://www.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?Strongs=H6776&t=KJV




:21 - What people ate the oxen they slew?


1 Kings 20
Benhadad - King of Syria is named, but King of Israel is not.
:11 - What an answer/expression.  Other translations call it armor instead of harness.  So it does make sense that the one to boast should be the one taking it off, obviously because he lived through the battle.  The armor worked.  The one just putting it on is just beginning the fight.


1 Kings 21
Ahab - Naboth
This is an example of "bearing false witness against thy neighbor" if I ever saw it!  Lying to get someone killed so you can inherit their property.  Must have been some vineyard.
:24 - Him that dieth of Ahab in the city the dogs shall eat; and him that dieth in the field shall the fowls of the air eat.  A common curse.
:27 - Part of Ahab's repentance includes walking softly.  A wonderful expression.  I believe I will try that also. 
:29 -  Does it make things better as a parent to know that God has spared his wrath against you but that your children have to suffer instead?  Perhaps this will be a motivation to teach the children how to humble themselves before God in the same way so that judgment continues to pass from their household.


1 Kings 22
:16 - Looks like the king is having a hard time believing that they can actually take Ramothgilead.
:23 - Now therefore, behold, the LORD hath put a lying spirit in the mouth of all these thy prophets, and the LORD hath spoken evil concerning thee.  God can make prophets lie.  Wow.  I know that's true because of all the false prophecy that happened about Y2K.  I remember being shunned when I wouldn't store water after the advice and warning of the so-called charismatic "prophets."
:39 - Ahab made an ivory house
Jehoshaphat = Jehovah has judged.  He was the king of Judah and had his blood licked up by the dogs, in fulfillment of the curse.  http://www.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?strongs=H3092
Ahab = father's brother.  He was the king of Israel.  http://www.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?strongs=H256


2 Kings 1
:4 - What a job...to have to deliver a message from God that someone will die
:13 - What would it be like as that third captain of 50?  2 captains with 50 men each had been sent before him and had all been consumed by fire.  Would that be like being struck by lightning?  I watched a special on that where it was said that anything struck close enough by lightning would be disintegrated.  Thank God that 3rd captain bowed the knee in humility.  Saved his life...but not the king's.


2 Kings 2
:4 - Was it disobedient or honorable to disobey Elijah and follow even when he said to stay?  Maybe both?  Maybe a test?
:3 - Knowest thou that the LORD will take away thy master from thy head = head, top, summit, upper part, chief, total, sum, height, front, beginning
http://www.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?Strongs=H7218&t=KJV
:7 - 50 Comes up frequently when speaking of groups of men
:15 - Schools of Prophets were certainly different back then.
:17 - I don't remember this part...that the 50 men were sent to look for Elijah and couldn't find him 3 days after the whirlwind took him.  
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:21 - Salt heals
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:23 - 24 - Children made fun of Elisha's baldness and he cursed them in the name of the Lord, AND God sent 2 female bears to rip up those 42 kids.


2 Kings 3
minstrel = to play or strike strings, play a stringed instrument http://www.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?Strongs=H5059&t=KJV
:15 - Strength came to Elisha when the minstrel played


2 Kings 4
:7 - Oil pays the bills.
:13 - Shunammite woman requires no restitution for making Elisha his own room in her house
:14 - Wonderful for someone to be so moved to bless you that they are looking for what you want even when you won't tell them.  Also, I love the name Gehazi = valley of vision http://www.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?Strongs=H1522&t=KJV  
*A very cool feature here is the pronunciation box in the upper right.  You can click on the little play arrow, and it lets you hear the correct way to say the Hebrew or Greek word!
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:26 - The lady tells Gehazi that it is well, even when clearly it is not.  Her son is dead.



Elisha really had to work at this miracle.  Sending his servant to put the staff on the child's face did not raise him up.  Laying upon the child mouth on mouth, eyes on eyes didn't work until he did it the 2nd time...and Elisha paced about praying in between those 2 times.  Did God tell him to do this or was he in divine faith?  Had he seen Elijah do it that way?  
:41 - Flour heals.
:42 - Firstfruits = a) the first of the crops and fruit that ripened, was gathered, and offered to God according to the ritual of Pentecost  b) the bread made of the new grain offered at Pentecost  c) the day of the first-fruits (Pentecost) http://www.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?Strongs=H1061&t=KJV
:43 - Elisha feeds a multitude from a gift of firstfruits with 20 loaves of bread and corn


2 Kings 5
:11 - Naaman had a picture of how God's prophet should pray for him.  He must not have heard the story about the child Elisha stretched over to raise from the dead.  Since it didn't line up to his imagination, he wouldn't do it.  Thank God he changed his mind.  Thank God he listened to his servants and humbled himself to just do what God said.
:25 - How can a servant of a prophet think he can get away with lying to the prophet???


2 Kings 6
:17 - Chariots of fire appear again


2 Kings 7
:2 - [if] the LORD would make windows in heaven, might this thing be  Expressing disbelief because of the current state of famine.


2 Kings 8
Joram - Ahaziah - Athaliah - Hazael


2 Kings 9
:10 - Wow - Elisha gives a child of the prophets (student in the "school of the prophets" of their day) quite a task when he has to deliver the message that dogs shall eat Jezebel.  I would run away after giving that message, too!
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Friday, March 12, 2010

Through 1 Kings 13 (page 480 in my Bible)


Holy Ghost, please teach me as I read.
2 Samuel 23
Davids' last words.  Also another summation chapter.
:5 - he hath made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all [things], and sure Amazing the confidence David has in God.  
:6 - who are these sons of Belial = 1) worthlessness



a) worthless, good for nothing, unprofitable, base fellow
b) wicked
c) ruin, destruction (construct)
http://www.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?strongs=H1100
Obviously not a good thing because it was what people accused others of being when they didn't like them.
:13 - valley of Rephaim = giants, old tribe of giants http://www.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?strongs=H7497

2 Samuel 24
:9 - 800K men in Israel, 500K in Judah.  That is a powerfully close number considering Judah was one tribe and Israel was the other 11!
:10 - David repented for counting the people 
:13 - Choice of punishments.
:16 - Interesting that the angel of the Lord's location is recognized...and again it is crop related...this time not during harvest, but by the threshingplace 


1 Kings 1
:1-:4 - Old King David couldn't get warm, so they found him a young virgin.  Ha!  Thank God for 2010!


:5 - Adonijah, http://www.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?Strongs=H138&t=KJV not to be confused with Adonai, http://www.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?Strongs=H136&t=KJVa name of God. 
[Here is a beautfiul song I love called Adonai on youtube (you have to fastforward to 2:22 when the song actually starts) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCv29tPOWjk ]
:9 - another stone with a name, Zoheleth = serpent http://www.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?Strongs=H2120&t=KJV
where Adonijah slew sacrificial animals.  Just because gifts were made doesn't make the giver of them God's anointed priest or king.
:39 - Solomon is anointed king by Zadok
:50 - caught hold on the horns of the altar - an expression still heard today by people who also talk about praying it through


1 Kings 2
David gives last words of wisdom and instruction to Solomon.
:34 - Benaiah killed Joab while he was in the tabernacle holding the horns of the alter (:28).


1 Kings 3
:5 - The Lord appears to Solomon in a dream, not by an angelic visitation, which seems to be the featured method of His appearing to this point.  Or His comings.  
:10 - the speech pleased the Lord - didn't call it the prayer, but the speech
:26 - her bowels yearned upon her son - bowels = womb, compassion http://www.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?Strongs=H7356&t=KJV so utterly descriptive of the emotion of this baby's mother 


1 Kings 4
Leadership rankings.
:22 - Did he eat all his daily provisions himself?
:34 - All kinds of people from all over the earth came to hear Solomons' wisdom.  One man recognized famously in his own lifetime.

 1 Kings 5
:5 - I purpose to build an house unto the name of the LORD my God
Solomon recruits King Hiram to help him build God's house.
:18 - stonesquarers = a boundary http://www.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?Strongs=H1382&t=KJV
 1 Kings 6
:1 - Already it has been 480 years after Israel is out of Egypt!
I don't see God giving specific instructions to Solomon on measurements or design.  Perhaps Solomon was just birthed by God for this purpose and God wrote it in his heart ahead of time.
:7 - The only tradition I see followed here is that the sound of a hammer or ax or any tool was not heard in the house while it was being built.
:12 - God speaks.  Solomon is in the middle of building His house.  He gives no physical building instructions, only walking/living instruction.  If you build it, God will speak. 
:19 - Oracle is used to interchangably for Holy of Holies

http://www.esvstudybible.org/#features

1 Kings 7
Solomons' own house and porch are described.
:21 - Pillars named Jachin (right) = He will establish,http://www.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?Strongs=H3199&t=KJV and Boaz (left) = fleetness http://www.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?Strongs=H1162&t=KJV
:22 - Lillies on top of the pillars!
http://www.artsales.com/ARTistory/ark_covenant/Columns_at_the_Temple_of_Solomon_Joachim_and_Boaz.htm


1 Kings 8
:7 - Did the statue cherubims actually move their wings when the ark came into the room?
Solomon's Molten Sea for priests to wash
Laver base with wheels
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:10 - :11 - And it came to pass, when the priests were come out of the holy [place], that the cloud filled the house of the LORD, So that the priests could not stand to minister because of the cloud: for the glory of the LORD had filled the house of the LORD.  Often quoted.  Rarely witnessed.
:12 - God said he would dwell in the thick darkness.  So there is no darkness in God, but He lives in the midst of it.  Useful to know.
:22 - :53 - What a prayer!


1 Kings 9
:10 - 11 - It took 20 years to build 2 houses!  God's and Solomon's!
:24 - Solomon built a house just for his wife, Pharoah's daughter!
:26 - navy of ships - Who knew the navy existed in Bible days?!


1 Kings 10
Queen of Sheba.
:7 - thy wisdom and prosperity exceedeth the fame which I heard. Compliments from Sheba Queen!
:11 - The navy brought gold to Solomon
:22 - Navy of Tharshish brought gold, silver, ivory, apes, and peacocks every 3 years.
Tharshish = yellow jasper http://www.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?strongs=H8659
:26 - Solomon has 1,400 chariots and 12,000 horsemen


1 Kings 11
Women.  Should have known he had too many.  
:3 - 700 wives and 300 concubines.  1000 women...you might get one night with him every 3 years!  
:14 - God stirred up enemies to Solomon for punishment!
:30 - Ahijah the prophet ripped Jeroboam's clothes in 12 pieces symbolizing God dividing Israel
:36 - Jerusalem is the city where God chose to put his name


1 Kings 12
Rehoboam, Solomon's son, takes the throne.
:4 - What yoke?  Serving only 1 God?
:28 -  2 more golden calves made to worship.  Tsk tsk.


1 Kings 13
I like the man of God in this chapter.  It is unfortunate that he was eaten by lions for disobeying God.  And it is unfortunate because accidental disobedience could happen to anyone, since he was deceived into a trap.  Thank God for MERCY!


Thank you God for mercy!  And thank you for your wonderful word.  Who has time for the rest of the books in this world?  The Bible is the best!
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