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Speak to the Levites, and say to them, Take the tithes from the sons of Israel. I give you them for your inheritance. Uplift from it a contribution for Yahweh, a tithe of a tithe.
(Numbers18:26) ARTB
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Psalm 86:15, ARTB, EMOTION, ANGER |
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But you, Lord, are a nurturing God, gracious, patient in emotion, with much mercy and truth.
(Psalm 86:15) ARTB
A note from A. Frances Werner:
I love this beautiful verse, don't you? It truly captures the essence of God. There is much to comment about, but let's focus on the word EMOTION (Hebrew AP, Strong's 639). Most translations use the phrase SLOW TO ANGER rather than PATIENT IN EMOTION. Why is ARTB different?
The first reason is that there is another, stronger Hebrew word for ANGER (KEO, Strong's 3707,3708). If you examine those verses at the website, you will find an interesting trend. Doing EVIL and following OTHER GODS makes God ANGRY. This Hebrew word occurs about 75 times in the Old Testament.
So what is this other word, EMOTION? It occurs over 200 times in the Old Testament, and the identical word means NOSE. Many times, it occurs with the use of the word FLARED. You can picture it exactly--FLARED EMOTIONS equals FLARED NOSTRILS. So it's logical that other bible translations might have rendered that as ANGRY. But the word is broader than that. As a parent, I'm sure you have had an example of dealing with your child where you have paused your anger as you listen to your child explain why they disobeyed, or broke something. Your nostrils truly were flared as you BREATHED DEEPLY so you didn't jump to a wrong conclusion. You had an EMOTION that could be ANGER, but there's a measured control.
The other time I can reflect on seeing my parents with FLARED EMOTIONS as a child was when they specifically used my full name. If I ever heard "Anna Frances Werner, get in here right now!!!!" --I knew it was a serious moment of accountability. ANGER could be the result, but there was a point to respond and dismantle it, even if it was deserved.
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The lion roars! Who does not fear? The Lord Yahweh speaks! Who will not hear the prophesy?
(Amos 3:8) ARTB
A note from A. Frances Werner:
Lions are not currently found in Israel. However, it's clear that the danger from lions was a very real, regular concern to the Israelites. Did you know that there are 6 separate and distinct words specifically about LIONS in the Old Testament? Most bible versions lump them into LION and LIONESS. But there are 4 other distinct Hebrew words about lions. In the ARTB, they are rendered YOUNG-LION (Strong's 3715), OLD-LION (3918), LION-KING (7826) and PRIDE (7832), the word for a group of lions. In all, there are close to 150 references to LIONS in the Old Testament. Who did not fear the mighty beast?
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Psalm 92:12,13, ARTB, CEDARS, LEBANON |
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The righteous flower as the date-palm, increasing as a cedar in Lebanon transplanted in the house of Yahweh, and flowering in the courtyards of our God.
(Psalm 92:12,13) ARTB
A note from A. Frances Werner:
The famous cedars of Lebanon were traded throughout the Mediterranean area. Tyre and Sidon were huge shipbuilding ports in ancient times because the local cedars were the best for making masts for sailing vessels. Greeks, Romans and Egyptians all used them for shipbuilding. They were also used by Solomon in the construction of the permanent house of Yahweh, as chronicled in 1 Kings 5 & 6.
Both Tyre and Sidon were in the original territory given to the Israelites, even though it is excluded in modern Israel. Tyre was in the domain of Asher, and Sidon was in Dan. Yeshua (Jesus) traveled in both areas during his ministry. This verse compares the growth date-palms to the huge cedars, and suggests that the permanent house of Yahweh had the date-palms of the oasis in the courtyards.
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Genesis 27;33, ARTB, TREMBLE, HUNDREDFOLD |
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Isaac with great trembling trembled a hundredfold, and said, "Who? Here-and-now the hunter brought game, and I ate it all before you came, and blessed him, and he was also blessed!" When Esau heard the words of his father, he cried with a great and hundredfold bitter cry, and said to his father, "Bless me! Also me, my father!" (Genesis 27:33,34) ARTB
A note from A. Frances Werner:
Can you feel the anguish in this passage? Both Isaac and Esau are extremely dismayed as it dawns on them that they have been deceived to giving the blessing of inheritance to the younger son, Jacob. The original Hebrew underscores the anguish in two ways. First of all, the word TREMBLE is repeated in the first line. A repetition of a word is very important in ancient manuscripts and is equivalent to today's use of an UNDERLINE to show the importance of a word.
Secondly, the word HUNDREDFOLD is used in the ARTB, because it is based upon a Hebrew word MAD (Strong's 3966), which is based on the word HUNDRED (MAH, 3969). It is much more quantitative of telling the magnitude of the anguish. It gives a colorful, but painful hint of what will happen when we see the cost for passing up Yahweh's big blessings for short term gain in our own lives.
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