by admin | Feb 13, 2017 | Deuteronomy, Section Three, The Fear of the Lord
Get up, make your way across Wadi Arnon,[1] Moses’ account of the words yehôvâh (יהוה) spoke to him after all the military men had been eliminated from the community[2] continued. Look! I have already delivered over to you Sihon the Amorite, king of Heshbon, and his...
by admin | Feb 9, 2017 | Deuteronomy, Section Three, The Fear of the Lord
I’m considering the third occurrence of yirʼâh (ויראתך) in the Bible, the word I’d hoped would distinguish the fear of the Lord from ordinary fear: This very day, yehôvâh (יהוה) said to Moses, I will begin to fill all the people of the earth with dread and to terrify...
by admin | Jan 27, 2017 | Deuteronomy, Section Three, The Fear of the Lord
This very day, yehôvâh (יהוה) said to Moses, I will begin to fill all the people of the earth with dread and to terrify them when they hear about you. They will shiver and shake in anticipation of your approach.[1] This very day was past as Moses recounted Israel’s...
by admin | Dec 23, 2016 | Deuteronomy, Section Three, The Fear of the Lord
Instruct these people as follows, yehôvâh had said to Moses: ‘You are about to cross the border of your relatives the descendants of Esau [Jacob’s brother], who inhabit Seir. They will be afraid (yârêʼ, וייראו; Septuagint: φοβηθήσονται, afraid) of you, so watch...
by admin | Nov 28, 2016 | Deuteronomy, Section Three, The Fear of the Lord
Then we left Horeb, Moses said, and passed through all that immense, forbidding (yârêʼ, והנורא) wilderness that you saw on the way to the Amorite hill country as the Lord our God had commanded us to do, finally arriving at Kadesh Barnea.[1] The word forbidding gives...
by admin | Nov 28, 2014 | Numbers, Section Three, The Fear of the Lord
The Hebrew word yârê does not occur in the story of the waters of Meribah (either time). Still, it seemed important to me to study the story I alluded to earlier. I want to compare and contrast the two stories. The first in Exodus involves Moses and the parents who...