According to the Hebrew Bible Dictionary, this word is only used for... “Then Jacob made a vow , saying, “If God will be with me, and keep me in this way that I am going, and give me bread to eat and clothing to put on, so that I come back to my father’s house in peace, then the Lord shall be my God. And this stone which I have set as a pillar shall be God’s house, and of all that You give me I will surely give a tenth to You.” Genesis 28.20-22 In the English Bible we see

For they call themselves after the holy city, And lean on the God of Israel; The Lord of hosts is His name: “I have declared the former things from the beginning; They went forth from My mouth, and I caused them to hear it. Suddenly I did them, and they came to pass. (Isaiah 48:2 - 3 ) God told His people that He created all things with His Word and that He chose the Holy City to reveal salvation there through His Son. However, many do not accept Him as their Savior. They jus

Why did God choose Jacob? Because he had no right. He was the second, not the first. When it comes to being the first, it is already expected that you will receive. This is something so strong in people's minds, because, even though God told Rebeca that the second would be bigger than the first, Isaac wanted to bless the first, because it was the right thing to do. However, if God had blessed the first, what would become of us today? We were the last in our family, the proble

"Nothing I say will justify what I did" is one of the most repeated phrases in recent times. It seems that it comes from a repentant person who humbly prefers not to explain himself, since his mistake was unacceptable. But what's wrong with that speech? It is common knowledge that when we speak, we put out what is inside us, even when we talk nonsense, it came from the heart, so nothing, absolutely nothing, was by chance. So the Lord Jesus said: "Not what goes into the mouth

When Jesus entered Capernaum, a city of Israel, there was a centurion, a Roman soldier responsible for another 100 soldiers. He was an important person in the Roman Army and was not a Jew. There was a servant highly esteemed by him who was sick. When he heard about Jesus, the centurion asked the Jewish elders to call him to heal the servant. Rome was taking over Israel, which was a colony of the Roman Empire. The soldiers were there to watch over, to collect the taxes and fee