This NIVAC Bundle includes the six historical books found in the NIV Application Commentary series.
... eds., Preaching Biblical Texts: Expositions by Jewish and Christian Scholars (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1995), 150–53. 26. ... For comprehensive discussion of sexuality in the Hebrew Bible, see Davidson, Flame of Yahweh. 20.
House as temple. It is clear that the hope expressed is to dwell in the temple and not simply to be with God in his heavenly dwelling. In 27:4 and 65:4 the “house” (bet) of Yahweh is parallel with the more explicit word hekal (“temple, ...
Timothy Savage, Power Through Weakness, 183. 23. Ibid., 19–53. What follows in regard to Corinthian culture is a summary of his helpful study. The reflections on contemporary society and evangelical Christianity are my own, except where ...
See, e.g., Kenneth Copeland, The Laws of Prosperity (Fort Worth: Kenneth Copeland Publications, 1974); idem, Prosperity: The Choice Is Yours (Fort Worth: Kenneth Copeland Publications, 1992); Kenneth E. Hagin, Obedience in Finances ...
Egypt has been an unstable support, a “staff of reed” to Judah. The term “staff of reed” is an oxymoron: A staff needs to be strong and reliable to support the weight placed on it, while a reed is by definition something thin and ...
Roy Pearson comments that God meant for the church to get mixed up in messes and with people who have messed up their lives. It is a fact too long neglected that the church has in common with the chimney sweep that it cannot do its job ...
Concise exegesis to help readers understand the original meaning of the biblical text in its historical, literary, and cultural context. Bridging Contexts.
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J. T. Willis, “The Structure of the Book of Micah,” SEÅ 34 (1969): 35, properly finds the sentence to the lawsuit in 9:13–16. 5. See the survey of opinions in Allen, Joel, Obadiah, Jonah, and Micah, 249–50, and Wolff, Micah, 170.
Ronald C. Doll, “Motives and Motivation,” Baker's Dictionary of Christian Ethics, ed. Carl F. H. Henry (Grand Rapids: Baker, 1973), 437–38. 41. Harold H. Hoehner, “Rewards,” NDBT, 740. 42. Cf. ibid.: 284 ...