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MANNERS & CUSTOMS OF THE BIBLE (THE LEGAL SYSTEM)

August 28, 2022Uncategorized10 Commandments, absolute truth, apodeictic law, Babylon, Christ, direct law, God, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, greeks, Hebrews, hittites, jail, jesus, Jesus Christ, Jewish, judicial, King, law, law is direct, legal code, legal system of the bible, manners and customs of the bible, Matthew, new testament, Old Testament, prisions, queen, rulers, Ten Commandments, the legal system, thou shall not killabarkley8

One of the remarkable institutions of Bible times was the Jewish legal system. It was quite different from anything that existed in any contemporary society of the time. There was no written law in Egypt at all, and the legal systems of Babylon and other nations were not documents to which judicial reference was made but rather were collections of the King’s judgment for the use of the people. Judgment was the action of the king who not only made the law but actually was the law.

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SCRIPTURES OF THE DAY (JEREMIAH 39:11-18)

September 8, 2021UncategorizedAhikam, Babylon, chief, Christ, Ebed-Melech, Ethiopian, God, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, jeremiah, jesus, Jesus Christ, King, King Nebuchadnezzar, Lord, Matthew, Nebuchadnezzar, new testament, Old Testament, people, prison, prisons, prizeabarkley8

¹¹Now Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon gave charge concerning Jeremiah to Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard, saying,

¹²Take him, and look well to him, and do him no harm; but do unto him even as he shall say unto thee.

¹³So Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard sent, and Nebushasban, Rabsaris, and Nergalsharezer, Rabmag, and all the king of Babylon’s princes;

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A LITTLE KNOWN FACT ABOUT (BABYLON)

August 9, 2021UncategorizedAkkad, Babylon, Babylon Empire, babylonian, babylonians, Calneh, Christ, city, Egypt, empire, foundation, Genesis, God, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, ham, Iran, japheth, Jesus Christ, King Hammurabi, Moses, Nimrod, Noah, Noah's sons, oldest cities, power, Sham, warriorabarkley8

A warrior hero built this city. How fitting since Babylon one of the oldest cities on the planet-eventually flexed its muscles and conquered most of the Middle East to become the sprawling Babylonian Empire,

Nimrod was that warrior. A descendant of Noah’s second son, Ham, Nimrod “built the foundation for his empire in the land of Babylonia, with the cities of Babel [Hebrew for “Babylon”], Erech, Akkad, and Calneh” (Genesis 10:10).

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MAN OF THE BIBLE (DANIEL “UNSHAKABLE FAITH”)

April 20, 2021bible customs, bible customs and curiosities, bible studies, bible study, bible times, Christ, Christian, christian studies, Christian study, christianity, christians, Church, curiosities, customs, death, fighting, forgive, Forgivness, God, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, Holy Bible, jesus, Jesus Christ, King James Holy Bible, Lord, metaphor, new testament, NIV, Old Testament, OT, Paul, preach, preaching, primitive, prophet, Proverbs, study, sunday, the church, theologyadviser, age, Babylon, babylonian, business, captivity, cried, cry, Daniel, decree, dens, enemies, Faith, government, intrigue, Israel, Jerusalem, King Darius, King Nebuchadnezzar, language, life, lion, live, Men of the Bible, Nation, palace, Persian, Pray, prayed, prayer, royal edict, safe, spiritual, unshakable, window, women of the bible, wrote, yearsabarkley8

From a historical perspective, it seems that Daniel came of age at exactly the wrong time in Israel. He was born just in time to see his once-great nation fall to the Babylonians. As punishment for their centuries unfaithfulness and disobedience. God allowed his people to be defeated by their enemies. Daniel, along with other young, strong, and capable people in Israel, was carried away into captivity in Babylon.

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WHY DID DANIEL IGNORE THE LAW CRIMINALIZING PRAYER?

April 15, 2021bible customs, bible customs and curiosities, bible studies, bible study, bible times, Christ, Christian, christian studies, Christian study, christianity, Church, curiosities, customs, Faith, 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, sunday, the church, theology, UncategorizedBabylon, criminializing, Daniel, enemies, Faith, forbidding prayer, fright, God's Power, hide, hungry, intergrity, law, lesson, lion, lion's den, power, Pray, prayer, puinsh, punishment, scary, win, winner, winningabarkley8

Daniel realized that the law against prayer was really against him. Babylon had captured his homeland but not his soul. To compromise by yielding to a statute forbidding prayer would be to deny the very basis of his life, to deny God’s mercy and care for him.

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BIBLE CUSTOMS AND CURIOSITIES (WOOD FOR THE ALTAR)

April 14, 2021bible 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, preaching, primitive, prophet, sunday, the church, theologyaltar, Babylon, babylonia, cast, exile, Ezra, fathers, house, house of God, Levites, Lord, nehemiah, Persia, population, priest, purpose, servants, supply, wood, yearabarkley8

Supplying wood for priests to use in offering burnt sacrifices on the altar was a task assigned to the Nethinims, or temple servants (Ezra 2:43). But not enough of these servants returned from the exile in Babylonia and Persia to handle this task.

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DEFINITION OF THE DAY (DRAGON)

March 23, 20211 corinthians, 2 Corinthians, bible customs, bible customs and curiosities, bible studies, bible study, bible times, Christ, Christian, christian studies, Christian study, christianity, Church, curiosities, customs, Faith, God, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, Holy Bible, jesus, Jesus Christ, Judah, King James Holy Bible, Lamentation, Lamentations, Lord, new testament, NIV, Old Testament, preach, preaching, the church, theology, UncategorizedBabylon, beast, chaos, definition, definition of the day, Deuteronomy, evil, Exodus, Genesis, great sea monster, great whales, Isaiah, jackal, Job, King Nebuchadnezzar, KJV, Lamentations, large sea creature, Leviathan, mythological, New Tesatment, Pharaoh, Psalm, Psalms, REB, Rehab, Revelations, symbolic, tannim, tanninabarkley8

Term used by the KJV to translate two closely related Hebrew words (tannim and tannin). At times the terms appear to be interchangeable. Context indicates that the first term refers to a mammal inhabiting the desert (Isa 13:22; 35:7; 43:20; Lam 4:3). Most modern speech translation equate the animal with the jackal, though perhaps the wolf (REB) is intended. The second term has four possible uses: (1) “great sea monster” (KJV, “great whales”) in the sense of a large sea

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DEFINITON OF THE DAY (SCHOOL)

March 16, 20211 corinthians, 2 Corinthians, bible customs, bible customs and curiosities, bible studies, bible study, bible times, Christ, Christian, christian studies, Christian study, christianity, Church, curiosities, customs, forgive, 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, preach, preaching, primitive, prophet, Proverbs, rise, risen, rock, stones, sunday, the church, theology, Uncategorizedacts, ancient, Babylon, children, definition, definition of the day, definitions, exiles, Father, greek, Jewish, judea, Kochab, Maccabees, mother, OT, pharisees, Religion, religious, Sabbath, school, shetah, Synagogue, worshipabarkley8

Place and agency for education, particularly of children. The word “school” is not mentioned in the OT and only once in the NT where the reference is to a Greek school (Acts 19:9). Until the exile in Babylon (586 B.C.), the education of children was like the of all ancient peoples: it was centered in the home. The main concern of the Jewish people was for religious education in the home.

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EVERYDAY LIFE IN BIBLE TIMES (PROSTITUTE P2)

March 4, 20211 corinthians, 2 Corinthians, bible customs, bible customs and curiosities, bible studies, bible study, bible times, Christ, Christian, christian studies, Christian study, christianity, Church, curiosities, customs, death, flour, forgive, Forgivness, God, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, Holy Bible, idolatry, jesus, Jesus Christ, King James Holy Bible, Lord, new testament, NIV, Old Testament, preach, preaching, primitive, prophet, Proverbs, rock, rocks, stones, sunday, the church, theology, Uncategorized1 Kings, 2 Kings, ahab, Assyria, Babylon, bible times, cast of dark cloud, daughter of Jacob, Deuteronomy, earth, Egypt, everyday life in bible times, Father, female infant, fertility cults, fertility statute, Genesis, immoral, Israel's leaders, Jephthah, Jericho, Jewish, John, Joshua, Judah, Judges, kingdom, Kingdom of God, Kingdoms of Israel, law of God, levi, Lord, Matthew, Messiah, metaphor, naked female images, pagan fertility cults, pagan gods, pagan worship, Promised land, prophets, prostitute, prostitute-financial gain, Revelations, rome, Samson, sexually birth, sexually violated, shechem, Simeon, Tax Collectorsabarkley8

The formal mention of prostitutes in the Bible is often used to shape our impression of people with whom they were associated. Because the law of God was clear on this matter, the linking of a man with a prostitute, whether sexually or by birth, cast a dark cloud over his character. This included notables like Judah, Jephthah, and Samson (Gen 38:15; Judg 11:1; 16:1). When Joshua sent spies to Jericho, the population was so immoral that the one person of redeeming value found in the city was a prostitute (Josh 2:1). And the image of Ahab was clearly tarnished by the fact that his bloody chariot was washed out at the place where the prostitutes bathed (1 Kings 22:38). By contrast, Israel’s leaders who aggressively expelled shrine prostitutes

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EVERYDAY LIFE IN BIBLE TIMES (PLUNDER)

February 2, 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, Judah, King James Holy Bible, Lord, new testament, NIV, Old Testament, preaching, prophet, the church, theology, Uncategorized1 Chronicles, 1 samuel, 2 Chronicles, 2 Samuel, ancient, Babylon, battle, Benjamin, bible times, community, CSB, day, dominance, egyptian, empires, Exodus, Ezekiel, farthless, fight, force, Genesis, gold, Hosea, Isaiah, jeremiah, Jewelry, Joshua, Judges, Kings, KJV, language, loot, metals, money, Near East, NIV, Numbers, Old Testament, philinstines, plunder, plundering, Proverbs, Psalm, silver, soldiers, threat, wealth, widow, widowsabarkley8

From an early age we are taught to respect the belongings of others even if our size and strength make it possible to take them by force. In order to understand the actions of the people of the ancient Near East, we need to make a major adjustment in this thinking. Within the cultural construct of this world, the expectation was that those who were victorious in battle had the right to seize the personal property of those defeated and even enslave the owners of that property. This practice of plundering is mentioned repeatedly in the literature of the ancient world peatedly in the literature of the ancient world and illustrated in the art of the empires that rose to power during the Old Testament era.

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