...................................................................LET US LEARN TOGETHER WHAT IS GOOD. Job 34:4b(NIV)................................................................Some people see the Bible as a long and boring book filled with incidents and events from the lives of ancient people who probably never existed. The biblical stories are seen as fables. In this blog, many of the situations and conversations found in the Holy Scriptures have been placed in categories that correspond to expressive sayings and phrases. Reference information, background information and links connecting the people and places are given to help you find a place to begin reading the Bible for yourself.

Monday, March 16, 2015

Aggravating and Agitating

Now there was a certain man of Ramathaim-zophim, of mount Ephraim, and his name was Elkanah, the son of Jeroham, the son of Elihu, the son of Tohu, the son of Zuph, an Ephrathite: And he had two wives; the name of the one was Hannah, and the name of the other Peninnah: and Peninnah had children, but Hannah had no children. And this man went up out of his city yearly to worship and to sacrifice unto the LORD of hosts in Shiloh. And the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, the priests of the LORD, were there. And when the time was that Elkanah offered, he gave to Peninnah Aaron his wife, and to all her sons and her daughters, portions: But unto Hannah he gave a worthy portion; for he loved Hannah: but the LORD had shut up her womb. And her adversary also provoked her sore, for to make her fret, because the LORD had shut up her womb. And as he did so year by year, when she went up to the house of the LORD, so she provoked her; therefore she wept, and did not eat.-1 Samuel 1:1-7***When Moses was upon Mount Sinai with the Lord God for 40 days and nights, the Lord God described the details and showed Moses the likeness for making the transportable tabernacle, the ark of the covenant of the Lord, the mercy seat, the table for the showbreadthe golden lampstand, the altar of burnt offering, the tabernacle courtyard, the garments and items for the priests, the altar of incense, the laver, and other sacred items the Israelites were to make. Months earlier, Moses and his older brother Aaron led their fellow Israelites, and those with them, away from Egyptian slavery, across the divinely parted Red Sea, and into the desert wilderness of Shur. Before the Israelites left Egypt, the Egyptians gave the Israelites an abundance of valuable goods, fulfilling the words that the Lord God spoke to Abraham (Abram the Hebrew) over 600 years earlier. With the goods and material the Israelites were given, everything was made. The tabernacle was set in place and became covered with a cloud and filled with the glory of the Lord God. Afterwards, whenever the cloud was raised above the tabernacle, the Israelites continued on their journey to Canaan, the Promised Land. During the 40th year of their journey, Aaron died and was buried upon Mount Hor, and Moses went upon Mount Nebo. The Lord God showed Moses the Promised Land, and Moses died and was divinely buried. Joshua, Moses' successor, led the Israelites across the divinely parted Jordan River and onto land that the Lord God promised to give to Abraham, and to Abraham's son Isaac, and to Isaac's youngest fraternal twin son Jacob (Israel), and to their descendants. Sometime thereafter, the tabernacle was set up in Shiloh. Over 200 years after Joshua died and was buried in his tribe's portion of the Promised Land, Samuel was born into the tribe of Jacob's 3rd born son Levi, the birth tribe of Aaron and Moses, to Elkanah and Hannah. After Hannah weaned Samuel, Hannah took Samuel to the tabernacle complex in Shiloh to live. Over 1,000 years after Samuel died, and his body was buried in Ramah (of Ephraim/Ramathaim Zophim), Jesus the Christ, the Son of God, was born. Jesus was conceived of the Holy Spirit in the womb of Mary, a virgin, and Jesus was born into the tribe of Jacob's 4th born son Judah to Mary and her husband Joseph when Mary was a virgin.-Genesis 11:26-50:26, Exodus, Numbers 9:15-10:36, 20:1-29, 27:12-23, Deuteronomy 31:1-30, 32:44-52, 34:1-12, Joshua 1:1-4:24, 18:1-10, 23:1-24:33, Judges 1:1-2:23, Ruth, 1 Samuel 1:1-25:1, 1 Chronicles 1:1-34, 2:1-17, 3:1-24, 6:1-81, Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Acts 1:1-26

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