Tag: cities
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Isaiah 6: Yehoweh’s throne room plan to distract and desensitise till destruction, leaving the seed of holiness in the stump of the repentant remnant tenth.
1: In the year of King Uzziah’s death (Yah my strength, 10th king of Judah 791-750 BC (Allbright) 783-742BC (Thiele), pious teenager made Judah a military power and subdued enemies but became proud and got Leprosy and was banned from the very Temple where he sought to be a priest king by man-made efforts (Josephus…
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Isaiah 17: Yshua signs off terrorism in decimated Damascus like weakened Jacob’s lost glory. Would we rather look at the work of our opportunist hands and the worship of our instant gratification than remember the God of our Salvation?
1: A Damashek (Damascus, fs) burden: Damascus turned aside from being a city (mayir) and became a heap (mayi) of ruins. 2: They happen to be forsaken in Aroer city (just north of Arnon on Moabite border). They happen to be for flocks. And no one lay down for fear. 3: And it had…
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Jeremiah 48: A selfish nationalistic materialistic nation (Moab) destroyed and a laughing stock but is eventually saved by The Word of God.
1: Thus speaks Yehoweh of Parliaments, God of Israel to Moab: “Woe upon Nebo (mountain overlooking the promised land where Moses died, became Reuben’s, also name of a Babylonian god, Is 15:2) for it had been devastated and caused to be shamed. Kiriathim ( twin moabite city? But fs noun with im suffix, if fp…