Miscellaneous

King Gedaliah reigned during the time of the Babylonian siege and defeat of Jerusalem. He ruled after king Nebuchadnezzar plundered and ruined the Jerusalem temple in 587 BC. The Babylonians…

Serpent The Bible records in Genesis 3 verse 1, “Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made…“(JKV). Some suggest that…

King Jehoiakim ruled in Judah from 609 to 598 b.c.  He was the second son of the godly King Josiah. When Josiah died at Megiddo, the people made Jehoahaz, his…

Josiah and his predecessors King Josiah reigned from 640–609 b.c. After more than a half century of moral and spiritual decline under Manasseh (2 Kings 21:1–18; 2 Chron. 33:1–20) and…

Israel’s discouragement Israel belonged to God by right of divine selection. They were His elected people in the world. But Israel became very discouraged as they feared that God had…

A pagan god Nabu or Nebo was the Babylonian god of wisdom and Literacy in the 1st millennium BC. He was known as Nisaba in the Sumerian pantheon. His place…

Luke 5:36-38 In Luke 5, Jesus was asked about the freedoms that accompanied the work of Christ. They said for example, “Why do the disciples of John fast often and…

The twelve tribes of Israel came from the twelve sons of Jacob. The book of Genesis tells us that Jacob was the son of Isaac and Rebecca. He was the…

The return to Jerusalem Ezra recorded that King Cyrus of Persia granted the Jews in exile the permission to return to Jerusalem. And in response to the King’s decree, “the…

Geography The city of Damascus is considered one of the oldest in the world. Geographically, it is situated on the eastern foothills of the Anti-Lebanon mountain. And it ranges 50…