A Biblical Miscellany: 176 Pages of Offbeat, Zesty, Vitally Unnecessary Facts, Figures, and Tidbits about the Bible - Softcover

McTavish, T.J.

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ISBN 10: 084991745X ISBN 13: 9780849917455

Verlag: Thomas Nelson, 2010

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Wow your friends with the most unbelievable, the most outrageous, and the littlest-known facts about the Bible!

Ever feel like you don't know much about people, places, and other hard facts of the Bible? Well, help is here, dear friend. T.J. McTavish, knower of many things, is back with A Biblical Miscellany-and it includes everything you need to know to stump even your local religious scholar.

A Biblical Miscellany covers such topics as:

• Famous (and not so famous) shepherds
• The "Cursing" Psalms-What use are they?
• Infamous infidelities
• Least Popular biblical names

Using both wit and candor, McTavish informs as well as entertains, leading you down a path of enlightenment-or at least of trivial revelation-and doling out tidbits on the Bible along the way.

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T. J. McTavish is an amateur church historian and has the world's largest collection of bobble-head dolls.

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A BIBLICAL MISCELLANY

By T. J. McTAVISH

W Publishing Group

Copyright © 2007 T. J. McTavish
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ISBN: 978-0-8499-1745-5

Chapter One

* MAJOR THEMES IN THE BIBLE *

God: "Oh, the depth of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God! / How unsearchable his judgments, / and his paths beyond tracing out! / Who has known the mind of the Lord? / Or who has been his counselor? / Who has ever given to God, / that God should repay him? / For from him and through him and to him are all things" (Rom. 11:33-36).

Creation: "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth" (Gen. 1:1).

Humanity: "So God created man in his own image, / in the image of God he created him; / male and female he created them" (Gen. 1:27).

Sin: "For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God" (Rom. 3:23).

Judgment: "For the wages of sin is death" (Rom. 6:23).

Redemption: "God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ" (2 Cor. 5:19).

Faith: "Without faith it is impossible to please God" (Heb. 11:6).

Love: "Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends" (John 15:13).

Immortality: "Where, O death, is your victory? / Where, O death, is your sting?" (1 Cor. 15:55).

* MIRACULOUS BIRTHST *

The fact that Christ's earthly mother had not had sexual relations prior to her first-born's birth qualifies Jesus's arrival on earth as unique and supernatural. But in the Bible many women who, because of infertility or old age, should not have been physically capable of having children did so miraculously:

Isaac was born to Sarah and Abraham (Gen. 21:2).

Esau and Jacob were born to Rebekah and Isaac (Gen. 25:21).

Joseph was born to Rachel and Jacob (Gen. 30:22-23).

Samson was born to Manoah and his unnamed wife (Judg. 13:3).

Samuel was born to Elkanah and Hannah (1 Sam. 1:20).

John the Baptist was born to Elizabeth and Zechariah (Luke 1:24-25).

* MEN AND WOMEN OF THE BIBLE WITH TWO NAMES *

Judas Iscariot Simon Peter Mary Magdalene Jesus Christ Pontius Pilate Bar-Jesus John Mark Herod Antipas

* PLAGUES AND THEIR OCCASIONS *

Although today we tend to think of plagues as devastating infectious diseases, the Bible uses the term in a broader sense. As you will note below, some plagues affect nature directly (darkness, hail) or cause an outbreak of destructive natural effects (gnats, flies, locusts). Various examples from Scripture demonstrate that God has used such events as instruments of judgment. Consider:

Plague Scripture Reference Occasion

Water turned to blood Exodus 7:20 When Pharaoh would not release the Israelites. Frogs Exodus 8:6 When Pharaoh would not release the Israelites. Flies Exodus 8:24 When Pharaoh would not release the Israelites. Hail Exodus 9:24 When Pharaoh would not release the Israelites. Darkness Exodus 10:22 When Pharaoh would not release the Israelites. Death of firstborn Exodus 12:29 When Pharaoh would not in Egypt release the Israelites. Death of three thousand Exodus 32:27 When the Israelites worshiped Israelites by sword false gods. Death of Israelites Numbers 11:1 When the Israelites by fire complained to God. Poisonous snakes Numbers 21:6 God allowed deadly bites in judgment for rebellion. Death by a mysterious Numbers 11:31-34 When the Israelites plague complained to God. Earthquake Numbers 16:32 God killed the Israelites for rebellion. Tumors 1 Samuel 5:8-9 God's judgment on Philistia for capturing the ark of God. Death 1 Samuel 6:19 God claimed the lives of those who looked in the ark of God. Death 2 Samuel 24:15 God's judgment when King David took a census. Blindness 2 Kings 6:18 When the Arameans attacked Israel. Leprosy Numbers 12:1-10 When Miriam and Aaron criticized Moses Paralysis 1 Kings 13:4 God judged Jeroboam's false religion Eaten alive by worms Acts 12:20-23 When King Herod accepted worship

* FAMOUS (AND-NOT-SO FAMOUS) SHEPHERDS *

When you think of shepherds in the Bible, you tend to think of those who are associated with the original cast of Christmas. And those in Luke 2 definitely count. But they aren't the only shepherds in Scripture. Consider:

Abel, the first family's sheep keeper (Gen. 4:2).

Abraham owned a lot of sheep and oxen (Gen. 12:16).

Lot, Abraham's nephew, chose to graze his livestock in Sodom (Gen. 13:5).

Isaac carried on the family business his father, Abraham, began (Gen. 26:14).

Jacob went to work for his uncle Laban as a shepherd and then established his own flocks (Gen. 30:32).

Laban, Jacob's uncle and Rachel's father, was a shepherd before turning the flocks over to his nephew (Gen. 31:19).

Joseph was charged with caring for the sheep of his father, Jacob (Gen. 37:2).

Judah, the fourth son of Jacob, and Joseph's older brother, tended sheep (Gen. 38:12).

Reuel, the father-in-law of Moses, had extensive flocks. He's also called Jethro (Exod. 2:16).

Moses was tending sheep when God spoke to him in the burning bush (Exod. 3:1).

David, Israel's greatest king, first worked for his dad watching the family flock (1 Sam. 16:11).

Nabal, an unkind shepherd who insulted David (1 Sam. 25:2).

Amos, a shepherd God called to become a prophet (Amos 7:15).

Jesus called himself "the good shepherd" (John 10:11).

Peter was called by Jesus to be a shepherd of those who followed God (John 21:15).

* MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS MENTIONED IN THE BIBLE *

Flute Genesis 4:21 Harp 1 Samuel 10:5 Tambourines Genesis 31:27 Lyres 1 Chronicles 16:5 Cymbals Psalm 150:5 Trumpet 2 Samuel 6:15 Cornet 1 Chronicles 15:28 (KJV)...

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Thomas Nelson
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2010
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 084991745X
• ISBN 13: 9780849917455
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 176
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