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BIBLE CUSTOMS AND CURIOSITIES (ANCIENT WRITTEN RECORDS)

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Job’s desire that his words be recorded for future generations shows three different ways that ancient records were written down. According to the New International Version, these methods were (1) writing on scrolls, (2) writing on lead tablets, and (3) writing on stone monuments. Continue reading BIBLE CUSTOMS AND CURIOSITIES (ANCIENT WRITTEN RECORDS) →

GOD KNOWS OUR TEARS

February 19, 2019Uncategorizedancient, cites, custom, David, funerals, God, God knows our tears, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, jesus, Jesus Christ, Matthew, Matthew 10:30, mourners, New International Version, new testament, NIV, note, notes, Old Testament, One, ones, Psalm, Psalm 56:8, reading, reading tears, record, scroll, shed, shedding, wineskinabarkley8

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David may have been referring in this psalm to an ancient custom observed by mourners at funerals. They would collect the tears they shed for departed loved ones in small flasks and place them in their tombs as memorials of their love. The New International Version renders this phrase as “list my tears on your scroll.” Continue reading GOD KNOWS OUR TEARS →