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Jotham was twenty-five years old when he began to reign; he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Jerushah daughter of Zadok. 2He did what was right in the sight of the LORD just as his father Uzziah had done—only he did not invade the…
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After these things had been done, the officials approached me and said, “The people of Israel, the priests, and the Levites have not separated themselves from the peoples of the lands with their abominations, from the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites. 2For they hav
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10 “And now, our God, what shall we say after this? For we have forsaken your commandments, 11which you commanded by your servants the prophets, saying, ‘The land that you are entering to possess is a land unclean with the pollutions of the peoples of the lands, with their abominations. They have filled it from end to end with their uncleanness. 12
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14 Who can open the doors of its face? There is terror all around its teeth. 15 Its back[156] is made of shields in rows, shut up closely as with a seal. 16 One is so near to another that no air can come between them. 17 They are joined one to another; they clasp each other and cannot be separated. 18 Its sneezes flash forth light, and its eyes are
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the earth. earthquake (earth plates) , tsunami & storms (water)if the behemoth & leviathan are also described in Revelations , perhaps the earth ending will be when the Messiah comes again? God , that’s when you would no longer then need to hold the earth together with gravity and watch over everything to keep it together on earth as it is
13Mortal, when a land sins against me by acting faithlessly, and I stretch out my hand against it, and break its staff of bread and send famine upon it, and cut off from it human beings and animals, 14even if Noah, Daniel,[32] and Job, these three, were in it, they would…
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land , favored , has human beings & animals
Therefore say to the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord GOD: Repent and turn away from your idols; and turn away your faces from all your abominations. 7For any of those of the house of Israel, or of the aliens who reside in Israel, who separate themselves from me, taking their idols into their hearts and placing their iniquity as a stumbling bloc
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to sin, live in sin without giving it up, and then also seeking God .. no buenowe have to Repent and turn away from our idolsTurn away our faces from all our abominationsalso interesting that He addresses “the aliens who reside in Israel” the same as “those of the house of Israel”and the “..who separate themselves from me” seems to imply that there are aliens in Israel who are after God’s heart, who seek Him, and they are embraced along with the israelites who seek & obey the Lord
Sometimes, as his published letters indicate, he would focus for a time on a particular book of the Bible such as Romans or the Psalms.
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There was once a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job.
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from other studying - Job was not an Israelite! but still (I think in text it says) the most God fearing, devoted, loving man , (sort of...boasted by God !)
16with all the silver and gold that you shall find in the whole province of Babylonia, and with the freewill offerings of the people and the priests, given willingly for the house of their God in Jerusalem.
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when someone is this reverent and genuinely fearful (?) of the Lord nut is not Jewish or Christian , how does this make you feel God? note the use of “your” or “their” God
26On the fourth day they assembled in the Valley of Beracah, for there they blessed the LORD; therefore that place has been called the Valley of Beracah[45] to this day.