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BIBLE CUSTOMS AND CURIOSITIES (DISTURBANCE AT THE THEATER)

July 27, 2022Uncategorized25, 25000, amphitheaters, ancient, archaeologists, Aristarchus, athens, bible customs, bible customs and curiosities, built, Christ, city, Companion, corinth, curiosities, customs, Demetrius, Gaius, God, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, jesus, Jesus Christ, Matthew, new testament, paul, Pergamos, Philippi, roman, row, seats, stadium, theater, warabarkley8

The riot inspired by Demetrius spilled over into the entire city. The people gathered at the amphitheater to join in the demonstration.

The Roman theater at Ephesus has been unearthed by archaeologists. Built similar to a modern stadium, it had row upon row of tiered seats built of stone. It could seat about twenty-five thousand people.

The Roman theater in ancient Ephesus. The citizens of this city rioted when Paul confronted them with God’s Word.

Huge amphitheaters like this were built by the Greeks and Roman throughout the ancient world. Others have been discovered at Athens, Corinth, Miletus, Pergamos, and Philippi.

ACTS 19:29 – ²⁹And the whole city was filled with confusion: and having caught Gaius and Aristarchus, men of Macedonia, Paul’s companions in travel, they rushed with one accord into the theatre.

BIBLE CUSTOMS AND CURISITIES (THE ULTIMATE HONOR)

June 1, 2022Uncategorizedbible customs, bible customs and curiosities, capital, Christ, city, crown, curiosities, customs, Esther, God, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, haman, head, honor, Horse, jesus, Jesus Christ, Jew, jews, King James Version, king's throne, Matthew, Mordecai, new testament, Old Testament, royal, streets, sweet, sweeter, the ultimate honorabarkley8

This was Haman’s response to the king when he asked how to honor one of his subjects. Haman outlined the highest royal recognition possible because he thought the king intended to honor him.

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BIBLE CUSTOMS AND CURIOSITIES (SITTING IN DESPAIR)

August 24, 2021Uncategorized7 days, bible curiosities, bible customs, bible customs and curiosities, Christ, courses, CSB, curiosities, customs, fate, Friend, friends, God, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, ground, Isaiah, jeremiah, jesus, Jesus Christ, Job, Judah, KJV, lament, Matthew, Micah, mourn, mourning, new testament, NIV, Old Testament, sad, sadness, seven days, sitting in despari, symbolized, wallow, wordabarkley8

Sitting on the ground symbolized sadness and distress. So this is another image from Isaiah that expresses the fate of the nation of Judah if she continued on her present course (read Isaiah 3:24).

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BIBLE CUSTOMS AND CURIOSITIES (SEALED AND SURE)

August 13, 2021Uncategorizedaides, bible curiosities, bible customs, bible customs and curiosities, broken, cross, curiosities, customs, Daniel, dead, death, Disciples, God, God the Father, jesus, Jesus Christ, Jesus executed, King Darius, lions, lions den, Matthew, new testament, rope, seal, sealed, sepulchre, stone, tampered, tombabarkley8

These were some of the same religious who had succeeded in having Jesus executed. They started thinking that His disciples might remove the body from the tomb and claim that Jesus had been raised from the dead.

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BIBLE CUSTOMS AND CURIOSITIES (BARABBAS, NOT JESUS)

August 12, 2021Uncategorizedbarabbs, bible customs, bible customs and curiosities, Christ, country, crowd, curiosities, Feast, God, God the Holy Spirit, goodwill, governor, insurrectionist, Jerusalem, jesus, Jew, Jewish prisoner, Mark, Matthew, Old Testament, Passover, Passover in Jerusalem, prison, released, religious, roman, roman governor, scenes, workedabarkley8

At the annual celebration of the Passover in Jerusalem (see note on Matthew 26:19), the Roman governor released on Jewish prisoner who was selected by the people. This was a gesture of goodwill to the Jews, who resented the Roman occupation of their country.

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BIBLE CUSTOMS AND CURIOSITIES (A BOUNTIFUL RETURN)

August 11, 2021Uncategorizedbible curiosities, bible customs, bible customs and curiosities, boat, boats, bountiful, bountiful return, bounty, bread, carry goods, centuries, Christ, curiosities, customs, distant, eatten, ecclesiastes, find, flood, flooded, food, foods, God, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, goods, harvest, harvesttime, Jesus Christ, Matthew, sowing, trade, traders, widespreadabarkley8

This may refer to sowing grain in flooded areas. Or it could refer to ships that carry goods over the seas to distant places for sale or trade.

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THE BIBLE CUSTOMS & CURIOSITIES (HANGING BY THE HAND)

June 19, 2021Uncategorized1 samuel, 2 Samuel, Beth-shan, bible curiosities, bible customs, bible customs and curiosities, celebrate, changing, Christ, city, curiosities, customs, dead, death, died, enemies, form of torture, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, hanging, hanging by the hand, humiliate, jesus, Jesus Christ, Judah, kill, King Saul, Matthew, new testament, three sons, victoryabarkley8

This verse refers to the humiliation of the nobility of Judah by the army of Babylon after the fall of Jerusalem. Were these princes, or nobles, executed and then hung up by their hands as a public example? Or were they tied and hung up by the hands as a form of torture? We don’t know.

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BIBLE CUSTOMS AND CURIOSITIES (GOLIATH’S BATTLE GEAR)

May 10, 2021Uncategorized1 Chronicles, 1 samuel, 2 Chronicles, 2 Samuel, animal hide, army, battle gear, bible customs, bible customs and curiosities, body armor, bronze, close-quarter, curiosities, custom, David, enemy, Ezekiel, feet, fight, fighting, giant, Goliath, Goliath's battle gear, Greaves, helmet, Javelin, jeremiah, Job, King James Version, King Saul, leg armor, lower legs, metal, NIV, philistine, shield, Spear, tree branches, wood, zincabarkley8

Goliath, the Philistine giant whom David faced in battle, was equipped for close-quarter combat. Several implements of attack and defense are mentioned in these three verses.

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BIBLE CUSTOMS AND CURIOSITIES (A TAX FOR THE TEMPLE)

March 8, 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, prophet, Proverbs, stones, sunday, the church, theology, Uncategorizedannual tax, bible customs, bible customs and curiosities, bible times, common, curiosities, customs, Disciples, drachma, emperor, equivalent, honor, Matthew, required, roman coin, roman denarius, standard greek coin, tax, taxes, teach, teaching, tiberias, workabarkley8

An annual tax, required of every Jewish male, was designated for maintenance and support of the temple in Jerusalem. Perhaps the temple officials who collected this tax approached Peter about paying it because Jesus and His disciples were hard to pin down. Their teaching and healing ministry kept them moving from place to place.

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BIBLE CUSTOMS AND CURIOSITIES (THE DAY OF ATONEMENT)

October 2, 2020bible customs, bible customs and curiosities, bible studies, bible study, bible times, Christ, Christian, christian studies, Christian study, christianity, Church, curiosities, customs, death, 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, stones, sunday, the church, theology, Uncategorized7th month, Animal Sacrifice, atonement, bible customs, bible customs and curiosities, children, children of Israel, curiosities, customs, forgive, humiliation, Israel, Israelites, KJV, Leviticus, most high priest, most holy place, Nation, NIV, Numbers, priest, scapegoat, seventh month, Sin, sinned, sinner, stature, Symbolically, tenth, the day of atonementabarkley8

The Day of Atonement was an animal ceremony in which sacrifices were offered to atone for the sins of Israel. Marked by humiliation and fasting, it recognized the people’s inability to make atonement for their sins. This required God’s intervention and that of His representative-the high priest of the nation.

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