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EVERYDAY LIFE IN BIBILE TIMES (ORPHAN “FATHERLESS” PT2)

August 11, 2021Uncategorized3rd year, authors, Christ, Deuteronomy, disadvantaged, Disciples, everyday life in bible times, fair, Father, fatherless, gathering, gift, God, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, Isaiah, Israelites, jesus, Jesus Christ, John, Lamentations, less-privileged, Matthew, merisms, new testament, Old Testament, orphan, orphans, rhetorically, royals, ruin, specturm, third year, treatmentabarkley8

Given that reality, the LORD addressed the plight of orphans in the laws given to the Israelites. God’s people were to set aside a tent of their field produce and animals born in their herds as a gift given at the sanctuary. Every third year, however, this tithe was to remain in storage at the local level so the disadvantaged of society, including orphans, would have access to it (Deut 14:22-29; 26:12-13). In addition, Israelites were to refrain from gathering a portion of their grain, olive, and grape harvest so that orphans and other disadvantaged people could gather food from land they did not own (Deut 24:19-21).

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EVERYDAY LIFE IN BIBLE TIMES (TRAP/SNARE PT 3 OF 3)

May 13, 2021Uncategorizedanimals, arrogant, bid, cords, cruel, death, ecclesiastes, eternal fire, everyday life in bible times, Ezekiel, Fall, fish, harsh, Isaiah, jeremiah, last day, life, live, Luke, misfortune, path, Promised land, Psalm, ruin, snare, snares of death, trap, trapsabarkley8

Times of misfortune are also likened to the unexpected and inescapable nature of a trap: “Makeover, no one knows when their hour will come: As fish are caught in a cruel net, or birds are taken in a snare, so people are trapped by evil times that fall unexpectedly upon them” (Eccles 9:12). These harsh times could be the product of their own making, as in the case of the exile of God’s people from the Promised Land that entrapped them (Isa 42:22; Lam 4:20; Ezek 19:8).

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