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 | May 14, 2013 | Exodus, Section Two, The Fear of the Lord
Here I continue to see the Lord cultivating the fear that is a conviction to act in accordance with his word in Israel. It happened at midnight – the Lord attacked all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sat on his throne to the...