Prayer before reading the Bible:
Merciful God, anoint me with Your Holy Spirit. As I read Your Word, let me hear Your voice speaking to me from within. Give me wisdom to understand Your message to me. Let Your Word be the joy to my heart and the light to my feet. Ge me strength to build my life on Your Word. Let it be done to me according to Your Word. May I rejoice in the blessedness of hearing Your Word and keeping it. Speak Lord; Your servant is listening. Thank You Jesus ... Praise You Jesus. [Author unknown]
to shew thyself approved
unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.
2Ti 2:15Till I come, give attendance to reading, to exhortation, to doctrine. 1Ti 4:13
Thank you for your participation in the weekly bible study, Hope you are enjoying it.
| Bible Questions & Answers from prior weeks: |
1. From the book of Gen., What did God not create? 2. How long did it take for Jacob to marry Rachel? 3. At the death of Moses, who had an argument over his body? 4. What prophet was mocked? He then cursed his mockers, in the name of the Lord, and who was killed? 5. What Patriarch did not practice bigamy or polygamy? 6. What was the major reason for the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah? 7. How do you get faith? 8. Genesis is basically broke down into nine (9) categories, what are they? 9. In the book of Hosea, the book has two stories to tell, what are they? 10.
In the book of the Judges,
1. What was a judge?2. Was the office of a judge hereditary?3. Name at least 5 judges.4. What judge does the bible talk about the most?
11. Who was "Gang Raped and Dismembered?
12. Who was "Bored to death?
13. When did God do something evil and not for the good?
14. According to the scriptures, who is the youngest recorded father and what was his age?
15. There were two direct commands given to Lot by the angels, what were they?
16. A man's body was threw into the grave of _________?; and as soon as it touched
the bones of the prophet, the man was restored to life. Who was the prophet?
17. In the book of Exodus, the Ten Commandments are basically divided into two parts; What are
they?
18. Where did Abram first receive his calling?
19. The book of Jonah, can basically be divided into four sections; What are they?
20. What King lost his mind, and ate grass with the cattle for seven years?
21. What chapter in the Psalm gives a descriptive of the exodus of Israel from Egypt?
22. What King died of Leprosy?
23. Who was known as the weeping babe?
24. In the book of Samuel list three methods by which the deity can answer a human question.
25. Saul was anointed king three times. Name the three.
26. Who was the first gentile convert?
27. What is the KEY factor in finding freedom from Satan's influence?
28. In the New Testament Joseph had two fathers. How was this so?
29. What preacher grieved because men listened to his preaching and turned to God?
30. In the Old Testament, God told the people of Israel
not to intermarry with the nations that surrounded them. Why?
31. What are the divisions of the New Testament?
32. Name at least two ways in which a lender could collect on a defaulted debt.
33. Where was Jesus when the wise men presented unto him gifts?
34. In what year was Jesus born?
35. Which king was fatally injured when a woman threw down a millstone on him?
36. Elijah or Elisha
1. Poisonous pottage made edible
2. River Jordan divided
3. A sack of corn and 20 loaves of bread increased to feed 100 men
4. Caused fire to fall and consume an altar with its sacrifice, and evaporate water in a ditch.
5. Life of a child restored 37.
1. Who threw stones at David?
2. Why?
3. What was his punishment? 38. Which soldier became angry with his young shepherd brother because he left his sheep to come and watch a battle? 39. Who were the 72 that wrote the Septuagint and where did they come from? 40. Did the Jews believe in Moses?
Darkness, Gen 1:2 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
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7 years and 1 week: Gen 29:20 And Jacob served seven years for Rachel; and they seemed unto him but a few days, for the love he had to her.
Gen 29:21 And Jacob said unto Laban, Give me my wife, for my days are fulfilled, that I may go in unto her.
Gen 29:22 And Laban gathered together all the men of the place, and made a feast.
Gen 29:23 And it came to pass in the evening, that he took Leah his daughter, and brought her to him; and he went in unto her.
Gen 29:24 And Laban gave unto his daughter Leah Zilpah his maid for an handmaid.
Gen 29:25 And it came to pass, that in the morning, behold, it was Leah: and he said to Laban, What is this thou hast done unto me? did not I serve with thee for Rachel? wherefore then hast thou beguiled me?
Gen 29:26 And Laban said, It must not be so done in our country, to give the younger before the firstborn.
Gen 29:27 Fulfil her week, and we will give thee this also for the service which thou shalt serve with me yet seven other years.
Gen 29:28 And Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week: and he gave him Rachel his daughter to wife also.
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Michael the archangel, and the devil: Jud 1:9 Yet Michael the archangel, when contending with the devil he disputed about the body of Moses, durst not bring against him a railing accusation, but said, The Lord rebuke thee.
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Elisha: 2Ki 2:22 So the waters were healed unto this day, according to the saying of Elisha which he spake.
2Ki 2:23 And he went up from thence unto Bethel: and as he was going up by the way, there came forth little children out of the city, and mocked him, and said unto him, Go up, thou bald head; go up, thou bald head.
2Ki 2:24 And he turned back, and looked on them, and cursed them in the name of the LORD. And there came forth two she bears out of the wood, and tare forty and two children of them.
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Isaac: You will not fine in the scriptures where Isaac had other women
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Inhospitality: Ezekiel 16:48 As I live, saith the Lord GOD, Sodom thy sister hath not done, she nor her daughters, as thou hast done, thou and thy daughters.
Eze 16:49 Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, pride, fulness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.
Eze 16:50 And they were haughty, and committed abomination before me: therefore I took them away as I saw good. Then research the word "inhospitality" unkind and inconsiderate Classical Jewish texts do not stress the homosexual aspect of the attitude of the inhabitants of Sodom as much as their cruelty and lack of hospitality to the "stranger." (See Jewish Encyclopedia on the importance of hospitality.) The people of Sodom were seen as guilty of many other significant sins. Rabbinic writings affirm that the Sodomites also committed economic crimes, blasphemy and bloodshed[1]. One of the worst was to give money or even gold ingots to beggars, after inscribing their names on them, and then subsequently refusing to sell them food. The unfortunate stranger would end up starving and after his death, the people who gave him the money would reclaim it. A rabbinic tradition, described in the Mishnah, postulates that the sin of Sodom was related to property: Sodomites believed that "what is mine is mine, and what is yours is yours" (Abot), which is interpreted as a lack of compassion. Another rabbinic tradition is that these two wealthy cities treated visitors in a sadistic fashion. One major crime done to strangers was almost identical to that of Procrustes in Greek mythology. This would be the story of the "bed" that guests to Sodom were forced to sleep in: if they were too short they were stretched to fit it, and if they were too tall, they were cut up. In another incident, Eliezer, Abraham's servant, went to visit Lot in Sodom and got in a dispute with a Sodomite over a beggar, and was hit in the forehead with a stone, making him bleed. The Sodomite demanded Eliezer pay him for the service of bloodletting, and a Sodomite judge sided with the Sodomite. Eliezer then struck the judge in the forehead with a stone and asked the judge to pay the Sodomite. The Talmud and the book of Jasher also recount two incidents of a young girl (one involved Lot's daughter Paltith) who gave some bread to a poor man who had entered the city. When the townspeople discovered their acts of kindness, they burned Paltith and smeared the other girl's body with honey and hung her from the city wall until she was eaten by bees. (Sanhedrin 109a) It is this gruesome event, and her scream in particular, the Talmud concludes, that are alluded to in the verse that heralds the city's destruction: "So Hashem said, 'Because the outcry of Sodom and Gomorrah has become great, and because their sin has been very grave, I will descend and see...'" (Genesis 18:20-21).
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Rom 10:17 So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.
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1. Creation
2. The Fall
3. The Flood
4. Spread of the nations
5. Abraham
6. Isaac
7. Jacob
8. Joseph
9. Enslavement in Egypt
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The unfaithful wife: Hosea 1-3 (Hosea and his wife Gomer)
The unfaithful nation: Hosea 4-14 (The story of the Lord and his people Iserael.)
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1. What was a judge? A judge was an individual whom God raised up to lead one or more Israelite tribes.
2. Was the office of a judge hereditary? No
3. Name at least 5 judges: Gideon, Samson, Jephthah, Deborah, and Ehud. (Othniel, Shamgar, Tola, Jair, Izban, Elon, Adbon)
4. What judge does the bible talk about the most? Gideon
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A Levite man's concubine. Judges 19: 22-29
Jdg 19:22 Now as they were making their hearts merry, behold, the men of the city, certain sons of Belial, beset the house round about, and beat at the door, and spake to the master of the house, the old man, saying, Bring forth the man that came into thine house, that we may know him.
Jdg 19:23 And the man, the master of the house, went out unto them, and said unto them, Nay, my brethren, nay, I pray you, do not so wickedly; seeing that this man is come into mine house, do not this folly.
Jdg 19:24 Behold, here is my daughter a maiden, and his concubine; them I will bring out now, and humble ye them, and do with them what seemeth good unto you: but unto this man do not so vile a thing.
Jdg 19:25 But the men would not hearken to him: so the man took his concubine, and brought her forth unto them; and they knew her, and abused her all the night until the morning: and when the day began to spring, they let her go.
Jdg 19:26 Then came the woman in the dawning of the day, and fell down at the door of the man's house where her lord was, till it was light.
Jdg 19:27 And her lord rose up in the morning, and opened the doors of the house, and went out to go his way: and, behold, the woman his concubine was fallen down at the door of the house, and her hands were upon the threshold.
Jdg 19:28 And he said unto her, Up, and let us be going. But none answered. Then the man took her up upon an ass, and the man rose up, and gat him unto his place.
Jdg 19:29 And when he was come into his house, he took a knife, and laid hold on his concubine, and divided her, together with her bones, into twelve pieces, and sent her into all the coasts of Israel.
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Acts 20:7-9
Act 20:7 And upon the first day of the week, when the disciples came together to break bread, Paul preached unto them, ready to depart on the morrow; and continued his speech until midnight.
Act 20:8 And there were many lights in the upper chamber, where they were gathered together.
Act 20:9 And there sat in a window a certain young man named Eutychus, being fallen into a deep sleep: and as Paul was long preaching, he sunk down with sleep, and fell down from the third loft, and was taken up dead.
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Jeremiah 39:16 Go and speak to Ebedmelech the Ethiopian, saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will bring my words upon this city for evil, and not for good; and they shall be accomplished in that day before thee.
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2KI 16:2, 20, 18:1-2: 2Ki 16:2 Twenty years old was Ahaz when he began to reign, and reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem, and did not that which was right in the sight of the LORD his God, like David his father. (Think about it) 20 years old when he began to reign. He reigned for 16 years. That will make him 36. 2Ki 16:20 And Ahaz slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David: and Hezekiah his son reigned in his stead. Hezekiah, Ahaz son 2Ki 18:1 Now it came to pass in the third year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel, that Hezekiah the son of Ahaz king of Judah began to reign. 2Ki 18:2 Twenty and five years old was he when he began to reign; and he reigned twenty and nine years in Jerusalem. His mother's name also was Abi, the daughter of Zachariah. Now, Hezekiah, Ahaz son, was 25 years old when he began to reign. Ahaz was 36 when he died, and Hezekiah took over. Now if my calculation is correct, that would have make Ahaz 11 years old when he fathered Hezekiah.
A commentary on the Old and New Testament by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset, and David Brown (Jamieson_Fausset_Brown) Hezekiah ... began to reign. Twenty and five years old - According to this statement (compare 2Ki_16:2), he must have been born when his father Ahaz was no more than eleven years old. Paternity at an age so early is not unprecedented in the warm climates of the south, where the human frame is matured sooner than in our northern regions. But the case admits of solution in a different way. It was customary for the later kings of Israel to assume their son and heir into partnership in the government during their lives; and as Hezekiah began to reign in the third year of Hoshea (2Ki_18:1), and Hoshea in the twelfth year of Ahaz (2Ki_17:1), it is evident that Hezekiah began to reign in the fourteenth year of Ahaz his father, and so reigned two or three years before his father's death. So that, at the beginning of his reign in conjunction with his father, he might be only twenty-two or twenty-three, and Ahaz a few years older than the common calculation makes him. Or the case may be solved thus: As the ancient writers, in the computation of time, take notice of the year they mention, whether finished or newly begun, so Ahaz might be near twenty-one years old at the beginning of his reign, and near seventeen years older at his death; while, on the other hand, Hezekiah, when he began to reign, might be just entering into his twenty-fifth year, and so Ahaz would be near fourteen years old when his son Hezekiah was born - no uncommon age for a young man to become a father in southern latitudes [Patrick]. Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole Bible
2Ki 18:1-8 We have here a general account of the reign of Hezekiah. It appears, by comparing his age with his father's, that he was born when his father was about eleven or twelve years old, divine Providence so ordering that he might be of full age, and fit for business, when the measure of his father's iniquity should be full. Here
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Go & Don't look back; Gen 19:17 And it came to pass, when they had brought them forth abroad, that he said, Escape for thy life; look not behind thee, neither stay thou in all the plain; escape to the mountain, lest thou be consumed.
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2Ki 13:20 And Elisha died, and they buried him. And the bands of the Moabites invaded the land at the coming in of the year.
2Ki 13:21 And it came to pass, as they were burying a man, that, behold, they spied a band of men; and they cast the man into the sepulchre of Elisha: and when the man was let down, and touched the bones of Elisha, he revived, and stood up on his feet.
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Ten Commandments were the basis of Hebrew Law. The first Four of the Commandments deal primarily with man's relationship with God and the other six deal primarily with man's relationship with one another.
Jesus condensed them into two:
Mat 22:37 Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.
Mat 22:38 This is the first and great commandment.
Mat 22:39 And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
Mat 22:40 On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.
the 10 Commandments From The King James Version Exodus 20
Ex 20:1 And God spake all these words, saying,
Ex 20:2 I am the LORD thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of Bondage. Commandment 1:
Thou shalt have no other gods before ME. Commandment 2:
Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth:
Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;
And showing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments Commandment 3:
Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain; for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain. Commandment 4:
Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.
Ex 20:9 Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work:
Ex 20:10 But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates:
Ex 20:11 For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it. Commandment 5:
Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee Comandment 6:
Thou shalt not kill. Commandment 7:
Thou shalt not commit adultery. Commandment 8:
Thou shalt not steal. Commandment 9:
Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour. Commandment 10:
Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour's 18. Where did Abram first receive his calling?
Act 7:1 Then said the high priest, Are these things so?
Act 7:2 And he said, Men, brethren, and fathers, hearken; The God of glory appeared unto our father Abraham, when he was in Mesopotamia, before he dwelt in Charran,
Act 7:3 And said unto him, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and come into the land which I shall shew thee.
Act 7:4 Then came he out of the land of the Chaldaeans, and dwelt in Charran: and from thence, when his father was dead, he removed him into this land, wherein ye now dwell.
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1. The Mission of Jonah; Jonah 1:1-17
2. Jonah's prayer and deliverance; Jonah 2:1-10
3. Jonah;s preaching in Nineveh, the repentance of the Ninevites; Jonah 3:1-10
4. Jonah's displeasure, and its correction; Jonah 4:1-11
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King Nebuchadnezzar:
Dan 4:32 And they shall drive thee from men, and thy dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field: they shall make thee to eat grass as oxen, and seven times shall pass over thee, until thou know that the most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will.
Dan 4:33 The same hour was the thing fulfilled upon Nebuchadnezzar: and he was driven from men, and did eat grass as oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven, till his hairs were grown like eagles' feathers, and his nails like birds' claws.
Dan 4:34 And at the end of the days I Nebuchadnezzar lifted up mine eyes unto heaven, and mine understanding returned unto me, and I blessed the most High, and I praised and honoured him that liveth for ever, whose dominion is an everlasting dominion, and his kingdom is from generation to generation:
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Psalm 114, 78, 105, 90, 136, 135
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King Uzziah (II Chronicles 26th chapter); however King Baldwin IV of Jerusalem who died in 1185 was affectionately called the Leper of the Leprous; not Biblical, but it was Jerusalem...
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Moses Ex 2:5,6
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I Samuel 28:6 by dreams, by urim (priestly oracle) and by prophets.
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1. Secretly by Samuel I Samuel 9:1-10:16
2. After Saul was selected by Lot I Samuel 10:17-27a
3. By the people at Gilgal I Samuel 10:27b
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Cornelius;Acts 10
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The Word of God
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1) Jacob was the father of Joseph (Matt. 2:16) and Joseph was the son of Heli (God) (Lk.4:22-23)
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Jonah (Nineveh)
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Deu 7:3 Neither shalt thou make marriages with them; thy daughter thou shalt not give unto his son, nor his daughter shalt thou take unto thy son.
Deu 7:4 For they will turn away thy son from following me, that they may serve other gods: so will the anger of the LORD be kindled against you, and destroy thee suddenly.
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Gospel
History
Letters
Prophecy
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Mat 18:25 But forasmuch as he had not to pay, his lord commanded him to be sold, and his wife, and children, and all that he had, and payment to be made. NOTES:As he had not to pay, his lord commanded him to be sold - Such was the power which creditors anciently had over their insolvent debtors in several countries. By the laws of the Hebrews they were permitted to sell debtors, with their wives and children, into servitude for a time sufficient to pay a debt. DEBT Another factor contributing to the poverty in Israel was widespread indebtedness. Because with subsistence farming there is no surplus left after, basic consumption, large numbers of peasants had to borrow funds from the wealthy in order to pay Roman taxes. Similar to the experiences of sharecroppers in America's southland, many farmers had no choice but to repeat this pattern of borrowing every year until their burden of debt be-came so great that they were no longer able to meet the payments and were forced into default. The terrible consequences of debt default are reflected in Matthew 18:25-35, which describes two ways in which the lender could collect on a defaulted debt. The first was for the debtor himself to be sold into slavery. Some farmers with smaller defaults discharged them by making the painful choice of selling their eldest children (who commanded higher prices) into slavery so they themselves could stay to support the remaining family. Others committed suicide to avoid enslavement and the torture that often accompanied it. The practice of forturning enslaved debtors is reflected in Matthew 18:21-34, which, when correctly translated, matter-of-factly mentions that a lender seized his indebted worker and "delivered him to the torturers [basanistais] till he should pay all his debt." In cases of extraordinary default, the lender could enslave the debtor's wife and children, then seize members of the extended family and all their possessions, down to the most distant relations. If the sale of those already seized still did not satisfy the debt, the lender could even enslave the debtor's neighbors. In at least one case a whole village was emptied in this way because everyone was either sold into slavery or escaped into the surrounding hills. Debt slavery was such a bitter issue in Israel that one of the first acts of the rebels in the Jewish War was to seize and burn the records of debts that were stored in the Temple. The Significance of Taxes and Debt for the Ministry of Jesus A significant indicator of the degree to which the effects of taxation and indebtedness pervaded the lives of the people of Israel is present in the words of Jesus himself. In Matthew's Gospel, Jesus clearly mentions debt default as if it were a reality with which everyone was familiar: he says of a slave who owes a large sum to a king, "as he could not pay, his lord ordered him to be sold, together with his wife and children and all his possessions" (Matthew 18:23-35). When asked by the disciples how to pray and what they should pray for, Jesus told them to ask, "Forgive us our debts" (Matthew 6:12). The Greek word signifying "debts" in Jesus' prayer is opheleimata, which does not occur often in the New Testament, but when it does appear in any of its forms, it refers to debt or other legal obligations, not "trespasses" as the King James Version translates it. Commetary by Obery M. Hendricks, Jr. "The Politicus of Jesus" p64-65 Furthermore, aphiemi, from which "forgive" is translated, also has "release" as a primary meaning, which would mean that Jesus' instruction to his disciples is that their prayer should be "release us [from] our debts."
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Mat 2:11 And when they were come into the house, they saw the young child with Mary his mother, and fell down, and worshipped him: and when they had opened their treasures, they presented unto him gifts; gold, and frankincense, and myrrh.
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Jesus was born during the reign of King Herod and he died around 4 B.C.
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Jdg 9:51 But there was a strong tower within the city, and thither fled all the men and women, and all they of the city, and shut it to them, and gat them up to the top of the tower.
Jdg 9:52 And Abimelech came unto the tower, and fought against it, and went hard unto the door of the tower to burn it with fire.
Jdg 9:53 And a certain woman cast a piece of a millstone upon Abimelech's head, and all to brake his skull. 2Sa 11:21 Who smote Abimelech the son of Jerubbesheth? did not a woman cast a piece of a millstone upon him from the wall, that he died in Thebez? why went ye nigh the wall? then say thou, Thy servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also.
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2. River Jordan divided:Both (2 Kings 2:8-14)
3. A sack of corn and 20 loaves of bread increased to feed 100 men: Elisha (2 Kings 4:42-44)
4. Caused fire to fall and consume an altar with its sacrifice, and evaporate water in a ditch: Both (1 Kings 17:17-24; 2 Kings 4:20, 32-35
5. Life of a child restored: Elijah (1 Kings 18:36-38
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1. Who threw stones at David?
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Eliab,David's brother (I Sam. 17:28)
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Six (6) each from the twelve (12) tribes of Jacob
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