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BIBLE CUSTOMS AND CURIOSITIES (A KING IN A STABLE)

April 27, 2022Uncategorizedbaby, bible customs and curiosities, bible times, bibles, custom, Ezekiel, Ezekiel 16:4, God, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, Jesus Christ, Joseph, King, King in a Stable, Kings, Luke, manger, mary, new testament, newborn, no room, Old Testament, primitive shelters, rock shelters, shelters, Stable, travelers, utensilsabarkley8

After His birth in a stable in Bethlehem, the baby Jesus was placed in a manger, a feeding trough for livestock. This manger may have been hewed out of rock. Stone mangers about tree feet long, eighteen inches wide, and two feet deep have been discovered in the ruins of King Ahab’s stables at the ancient city of Megiddo.

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DEFINITION OF THE DAY (INN)

September 6, 2021Uncategorizedanimals, building, camp, camping, camping place, Christ, definition of the day, dwellings, family, first century, Genesis, God, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, greek, ground, Hebrew, Innkeeper, jeremiah, jesus, Jesus Christ, Joshua, journey, lodging place, Mark, mary, Matthew, new testament, no room at the Inn, OT, passages, piece, presence, public, public inn, public inns, roman, shelter, shelters, smooth skinned, spring, virgin maryabarkley8

Different kinds of shelters or dwellings. In the OT the Hebrew word translated “inn” or “lodging place” might refer to a camping place for an individual (Jer 9:2), a family on a journey (Exod 4:24), an entire caravan (Gen 42:27; 43:21), or an army (Josh 4:3,8). In these passages (with the possible exception of the reference in Jeremiah) the presence of a building is not implied. Often the reference is only to a convenient piece of ground near a spring. It is doubtful that inns in the sense of public inns with a building existed in OT times.

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BIBLE CUSTOMS AND CURIOSITIES (A HUT ON THE ROOF)

June 24, 2021Uncategorizedbible customs and curiosities, Christ, cold, corner, curiosities, customs, Equal, flat roofs, God, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, houetop, humor, husband, husband and wife, hut, jesus, Jesus Christ, Matthew, Month, new testament, NIV, Old Testament, permanent, Proverbs, quarreling, rainy, rainy weather, roof, shelters, summertime, wife, winter, womanabarkley8

This verse uses humor to show that no house is big enough to accommodate two people who don’t get along. If the husband and wife are always quarreling, each one could say with equal justification to the other, “I would rather be living up on the roof than in this house with you.”

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