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DEFINITION OF THE DAY (PAGAN TEMPLES, PT1)

August 23, 2022Uncategorized1961, Antioch, Asherah, Baal, Bronze Age, Canaan, canaanite, chamber, Christ, cuneiform, definition, Ein Gedi, El, God, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, inner court, Iron Age, jesus, Jesus Christ, Judges, Mardikh, Matthew, modern day Aleppo, Near East, Neo-Hittite, new testament, Old Testament, pantheon, polytheistic, Solomon's Temple, southwest, sphinx, temple, temples, worship, Yamabarkley8

Temples built for polytheistic worship, many pagan temples within the land of Canaan predated Solomon’s temple and some featured similar designs. The earliest excavated temples from the Chalcolithic Period (4600-3300 B.C.), such as those uncovered at Ein Gedi in 1961 and Eshtaol in 2013, illustrate the ubiquitous nature of pagan worship in Canaan prior to the arrival of Abram (Gen 12:5). The cultic site at Eshtaol contained a standing stone, just over four feet high and smoothed on all sides; it was erected to face east.

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EVERYDAY LIFE IN BIBLE TIMES (WEAVE PT3)

September 13, 2021Uncategorized2 Kings, Asherah, body, Christ, cloth, clothes, cut wrap, David, dead, death, God, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, ground looms, Hezekiah, Isaiah, Israelite, jesus, Jesus Christ, Job, Josiah, loom, Matthew, metaphor, new testament, Old Testament, passed on, pasture, reforms, shepherd, threads, weaveabarkley8

And worse yet, we hear of Israelite women who, prior to the reforms of Josiah, took it on themselves to weave in service to the pagan goddess Asherah (2 Kings 23:7).

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MEN OF THE BIBLE (ELIJAH “SOLO, BUT NOT ALONE”)

April 1, 2021bible customs, bible customs and curiosities, bible studies, bible study, bible times, Christ, Christian, christian studies, Christian study, christianity, Church, curiosities, death, God, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, harvest, Holy Bible, idolatry, jesus, Jesus Christ, King James Holy Bible, Lord, new testament, NIV, Old Testament, preach, preaching, prophet, Proverbs, rock, rocks, stones, sunday, the church, theology, Uncategorized1 Kings, 12 stones, 12 tribes, 2 Kings, altar, Asherah, Baal, bild, built, devour, Elijah, evil, evil doers, facedown, false god, False gods, hell, Israel, large water, live, living, Lord, Meat, Men of the Bible, message, Mount Carmel, offer, offering, pots, prophets, Queen Jezebel, sacrifice, trench, twelve stones, twelve tribes, water, water pots, waterlogged, women of the bible, wood, worshipping, YaHWeHabarkley8

As a prophet of God in Israel during the reign of King Ahab and Queen Jezebel, Elijah was an endangered species. The evil royal couple had done everything in their power to rid the nation of God’s spokespeople so that their own prophets of the false gods Baal and Asherah could do their work unopposed.

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DEFINITON OF THE DAY (IDOL)

February 19, 2021bible customs, bible customs and curiosities, bible studies, bible study, bible times, Christ, Christian, christian studies, Christian study, christianity, Church, curiosities, customs, death, God, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, Holy Bible, jesus, Jesus Christ, King James Holy Bible, Lord, new testament, NIV, Old Testament, preach, preaching, primitive, prophet, Proverbs, stones, sunday, the church, theology, Uncategorized1 corinthians, 1 Kings, 2 Kings, Aaron's, acts, ancient, ancient hebrews, Asherah, Asia, Baal, babylonian, Bethel, bible definition, block of wood, bronze, canaanite, carved, cast, christianity, claves, Colossians, community, condemn, Dan, definition, definition of the day, definitions, egyptians, exile, Exodus, fertility, gold, greek, Hebrews, human animals, idolatry, idols, images, Isaiah, Jewish, Joshua, King Jeroboam, material, Moses, NASB, northern tribes, Numbers, OT, paul, powerless, Roman religion, scholars, silver, temples, Testaments, wilderness, workman, worship, YaHWeHabarkley8

Physical or material image or form representing a reality or being considered divine and thus an object of worship. In the Bible various terms are used to refer to idols or idolatry: “image,” either graven (carved) or cast, “statue,” “abomination.” Both Testaments condemn idols, but with idols the OT expresses more concern than the NT, probably reflecting the fact that the threat of idolatry was more pronounced for the people of the OT.

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DEFINITON OF THE DAY (HIGH PLACE)

June 5, 2020bible customs, bible customs and curiosities, bible studies, bible study, bible times, Christ, Christian, christian studies, Christian study, christianity, Church, curiosities, customs, Forgivness, God, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, Holy Bible, jesus, Jesus Christ, King James Holy Bible, Lord, new testament, NIV, Old Testament, rock, rocks, sunday, the church, theology, Uncategorized1 Chronicles, 1 Kings, 2 Chronicles, 2 Kings, altar, Ammonite, Amos, animal, Animal Sacrifice, animals, Asherah, Baal, baby, Bethel, bible definition, bible signs and symbols, books, burned, burned babies, Canaanites, central role, Chemosh, David, death, definition, definition of the day, definitions, deity, Deuteronomy, Exodus, Ezekiel, false worship, female goddess, Gezer, Gibeon, hated, hatred, Heathen, high places, hill, Hosea, idol, idols, incense, Israel, Jerusalem, Joshua, Judah, land, male, male deity, megiddo, Moab, Moabite, molech, most High, mountain hill, Moutain, moutains, Numbers, pagan, pagan worship, prophets, sacrifice, Shiloh, signs and symbols, solomon, stone, stones, symbol, symbolic, symbolizing, tabernacle, worshipabarkley8

Elevate site, usually found on the top of a mountain or hill; most high places were Canaanite places of pagan worship.

HEATHEN WORSHIP AT THE HIGH PLACE: The average high place would have an altar (2 Kings 21:3; 2 Chron 14:3), a carved wooden pole that depicted the female goddess of fertility (Asherah), a stone pillar symbolizing the male deity (2 Kings 3:2), other idols (2 Kings 12:31; 13:32; 16:32-33). At these places of worship the people sacrificed animals (at some high places children were sacrificed according to Jer 7:31), burned incense to their gods, prayed, ate sacrificial meals, and were involved with male or female cultic Continue reading DEFINITON OF THE DAY (HIGH PLACE) →

SIGNS AND SYMBOLS OF THE BIBLE (BULL/CALF)

June 1, 2020bible customs, bible customs and curiosities, bible studies, bible study, bible times, Christ, Christian, christian studies, Christian study, christianity, Church, curiosities, customs, God, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, Holy Bible, jesus, Jesus Christ, King James Holy Bible, Lord, new testament, NIV, Old Testament, the church, theology, Uncategorized1 Kings, 2 Kings, 3 yrs old, aaron, agricultural, altar, ancient, animal, animals, ark, Asherah, Baal, bible signs and symbols, breeding, bull, bull/calf, bulls, calf, calves, castrated, cattle, chopped, cows, creator, cultures, Deuteronomy, devil, eat, eats, Egypt, eli, evil, exile, fuel, gideon, God, gods, golden calf, Hannah, idol, Isaiah, Israel, Jeroboam, Job, Judges, leather, Leviticus, Luke, meal, Meat, milk, natural, oxen, perfect animals, Philistines, plows, power, prodigal son, Psalm, sacrificing, Samuel, Satan, Shiloh, signs and symbols, Sin, sinner, sinners, strenght, symbolic, Symbols, tabernacle, wagon, wagons, wealth, wild life, wooden, work, workforce, worship, young Samuelabarkley8

Cattle were primarily a measure or symbol of wealth in biblical times. They were both familiar and significant, good characteristics for symbolic use. Among his livestock, the wealthy Job had a thousand oxen (Job 1:3). Cattle not only provided meat, milk, leather, and other by-products, they were the main animal workforce in ancient agricultural societies. Oxen (castrated bulls) pulled plows as well as wagons. Continue reading SIGNS AND SYMBOLS OF THE BIBLE (BULL/CALF) →

WOMEN OF THE BIBLE (JEZEBEL: HOW NOT TO LIVE YOUR LIFE)

June 10, 2019Uncategorized10 tribes, 1kings, 2kings, ahab, Asherah, Baal, bankrupt, blasphemy, brazen, Christ, dog food, Ethbaal, false prophets, Father, God, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, jesus, Jesus Christ, Jezebel, life, live, Lord, love, morally, Mount Carmel, mountain, mountaintop, new testament, Old Testment, Phoenician, rain, royalty, shame, shameless, slaughtered, ten tribes, woman, women of the bible, YaHWeHabarkley8

It’s hard find nice things to say about the woman whose name has become synonymous for being shameless, brazen, and morally bankrupt.

Jezebel came from royalty-her father was Ethbaal, a Phoenician king. She also married into royalty-her husband, Ahab, was the king of the ten tribes that made up the northern kingdom of Israel (see 1 Kings 16:29-33).

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