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Now Deborah, a prophet, the wife of Lappidoth, was leading Israel at that time. She held court under the Palm of Deborah between Ramah and Bethel in the hill country of Ephraim, and the Israelites went up to her to have their disputes decided.  (Judges 4:4-5 NIV) What is the first thing that comes to mind when you hear the word "judge"? A courtroom? A gavel? A flowing black robe? The Judges led Israel in the period between Joshua and the establishment of the kingdom. They wer

After the death of Moses the servant of the LORD, the LORD said to Joshua son of Nun, Moses’ aide: “Moses my servant is dead. Now then, you and all these people, get ready to cross the Jordan River into the land I am about to give to them—to the Israelites. I will give you every place where you set your foot, as I promised Moses. Your territory will extend from the desert to Lebanon, and from the great river, the Euphrates—all the Hittite country—to the Mediterranean Sea in t

So tell them, ‘As surely as I live, declares the LORD, I will do to you the very thing I heard you say: In this wilderness your bodies will fall—every one of you twenty years old or more who was counted in the census and who has grumbled against me. Not one of you will enter the land I swore with uplifted hand to make your home, except Caleb son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun.  (Numbers 14:28-30 NIV) At Kadesh Barnea, on the south edge of the Promised Land, the Israelites

And God spoke all these words: “I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery. “You shall have no other gods before me. “You shall not make for yourself an image in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below. You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the sin of the parents to the third and fourth generation of those who hate

Now Moses was tending the flock of Jethro his father-in-law, the priest of Midian, and he led the flock to the far side of the wilderness...

Joseph said to his brothers, “I am Joseph! Is my father still living?” But his brothers were not able to answer him, because they were...

The LORD had said to Abram, “Go from your country, your people and your father’s household to the land I will show you. “I will make you...

“I am the vine; you are the branches.  If you remain in me and I in you, you will bear much fruit; apart from me, you can do nothing.”...

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.  (Genesis 1:1 NIV) There are two stories going on in this world. One is the Upper...

“In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep,...