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OOPS OF THE DAY ~

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Oops of the Day

The Jews were required to give a tithe to the temple every year.

Deuteronomy 14:22-28

Deuteronomy 26:12  –  Leviticus 1-5  –  Leviticus 27:2  –  Numbers 21:2  –  I Samul 1:11  –   II Samuel 15:7-8  –   Psalm 22:11, 25  –  Psalm 66:13  –  Psalm 76:11  –  Psalm 116:8,14,18-19  –   Job 22:27  –   Jonah 1:7-9

Fact of the Day  

Yes and No!   It was much more. A good Jew gave about one third of his income, not just one tenth. (1) The Jews had to give an extra tithe every three years for their welfare program. (2) They had to pay for their vows, which in many cases were really special prayer requests.  (3) They had to buy animals for sacrifices for intentional sins, unintentional sins and sins requiring restitution.  (4) If they wanted to thank God for anything special, they had to buy grain for a sacrifice  (5)  If they didn’t have mney to buy the animals or grain, they had to take them out of their own supply, thus depleting their own “pay check.” (6) And every time one of their flocks or herds had a first-born “first-fruits”, they had to sacrifice it ~ another depleting of the “pay check.”  

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OOPS OF THE DAY ~ October 3

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Things in the Bible not really in the Bible...and a few surprises

Oops of the Day

Poor crippled Mephibosheth, orphaned son of Crown Prince, Jonathan, grew up in desolate LoDebar, with no pastureland or communication with the outside world.  

II Samuel 9:4 

Fact of the Day 

No!  LoDebar was just off the King’s Highway which met a major trade route between China and Europe.  It was also just 10 miles from the Sea of Galilee.

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OOPS OF THE DAY ~ September 25

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Jonathan’s son, Mephibosheth’s, feet were crippled.  So he had to use crutches to help him walk. 

II Samuel 4:4  –  II Samuel 19:24

Fact of the Day 

No!   He wasn’t just a cripple. His feet were paralyzed. How do we know?  When King David was running from Absalom, Mephibosheth did not “care for his feet”.  The only reason he would have to take special care of his feet is that, if they were paralyzed, he would not be able to feel whether he had accidentally hit something and cut them, etc.  And, being paralyzed, he would not have been able to use normal crutches because his feet would not have been able to detect when they touched the floor.  However, he could have used 3-footed stand-alone crutches and swung his feet between them.

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OOPS OF THE DAY ~ September 23

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David was a little boy when he killed the giant Goliath.

I Samuel 16:18  –  I Samuel 17:34  –  I Samuel 17:38-39  –  I Samuel 17 all

Fact of the Day 

No!  And double no!   In the chapter before killing the giant, it says this about the “son of Jesse of Bethlehem” ~

  • NIV:  “… he is a brave man and a warrior…”
  • NLT:  “…he is a brave warrior, a man of war…”
  • ESV:  “…a man of valor, a man of war…
  • KJV:  “…a mighty valiant man, and a man of war…”
  • NAS:  “…a valiant mighty man, a warrior…”
  • ASV:  “… a mighty man of valor, and a man of war…”
  • ERV:  “…a mighty man of valour, and a man of war…”

Saul was probably around 7 feet tall.  Yet they put Saul’s tunic on David, then his armor, then his helmet, then his sword. 

  • It does not say he tripped over the bottom of Saul’s tunic.
  • It does not say Saul’s armor weigh him down so much he could not move.  
  • It does not say Saul’s helmit slipped over to one side and almost fell off because David’s head was so small.
  • It does not say that, with the additional weigh of the huge sword over the armor that David fell over to one side.

It says David walked around in it and said he was not used to it.  

Oh, and one other thing:  He sometimes killed a lion or a bear when they tried to carry off one of his father’s sheep for dinner.  Killed any lions or bears lately?

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OOPS OF THE DAY ~ September 22

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Saul of Israel was always a bad king.

I Samuel 13:1  –  I Samuel 14:47-52

Fact of the Day 

No!  For over 40 years, King Saul fought all of Israel’s enemies valiantly.  Look it up.  Check it out. At the end, it was jealousy – of his imagined enemy – that destroyed him.

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OOPS OF THE DAY ~ September 21

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Only men from the tribe of Levi and direct descendants of Aaron (Moses’ brother) were allowed to be priests and high priests. 

Numbers 18:1-24  – I Samuel 1:1-2  –   I Samuel 1:11  –  I Samuel 1:25-28  –  I Samuel 2:12 & 17  –  I Samuel 2: 22-26 & 35  –  I Samuel 3:10-11  –  I Samuel 3:19-21  –  I Samuel 7:9  –  I Samuel 13:8 – 13a  –  I Chronicles 6:1, 25-38

Fact of the Day 

Yes and No!  God made this law, he can change it, and  he did – once.  God made one exception to his Only-Levite and Only-Descendant-of-Aaron rule.  Once again, that exception was a little boy.   

When High Priest Eli, a descendant of Aaron, could not control his thieving and adulterous priestly sons, God decided to destroy Eli’s entire family and make Samuel the next High Priest.  But, how could that be?  Samuel’s father was from the tribe of Ephriam, not the tribe of Levi.  And he certainly was not a descendant of Aaron.

Apparently, when Samuel’s mother, Hannah, took little Samuel around age two to four to the tabernacle for Eli to raise, Eli adopted Samuel.  And the night that God spoke directly to boy Samuel from the angel-wings cover of the Ark of the Covenant, that was Samuel’s initiation directly by God.  

Samuel’s later descendants are listed in Chronicles as Levites.  God himself qualified Samuel to be high priest.  Oh, and that’s how Samuel’s grandson became that famous Levitical singer in the temple decades later we talked about a few days ago.

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OOPS OF THE DAY ~ September 19

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No one other than the high priest ever was allowed to enter the Holy of Holies of the Tabernacle or Temple.  Even then, he could only do so once a year.

Exodus 25:17-22  – Exodus 33:7-11  –  Leviticus 16  –  I Samuel 2:26  –  I Samuel 2:35  –  I Samuel 3:3-4 & 9  –  Hebrews 10:19-25

Fact of the Day 

No!  God made the law, he can change it, and I think he did – once.  God made one exception to his Only-the-High-Priest rule and the Once-a-Year rule.  And that exception was with a little boy. 

When the holy golden Ark of the Covenant between God and man was made some 450 years earlier,  they made a lid for it which God called the atonement cover.  It had two cherubim on it facing each other with their wings overshadowing the lid.  Before the holy Tabernacle of worship was erected, the ark was in a special tent for Moses and God told him, “There, above the cover between the two cherubim that are over the ark of the covenant law, I will meet with you and give you all my commands for the Israelites.”  And so, the Bible says,  “There the Lord would speak to Moses face to face, as one speaks to a friend…”  (Remember, the Holy Tabernacle of Worship had not been made yet and Aaron had not been made high priest yet).  Then, after listening to God,  “Moses would return to the camp, but his young aide Joshua son of Nun did not leave the tent.”

Now 400 years later we find little boy Samuel sleeping in the Holy of Holies (kind of like what Joshua had done.)  Really?  Are you sure?   “Samuel was lying down in the house of the Lord” (holy Taberncale of Worship), but not just anywhere in the house of the Lord.   He was lying “Where the ark of God was…. and the Lord came and stood there, calling as at the other times, “Samuel! Samuel!” and spoke to the little boy a message to pass on to the High Priest.

Why would God do that?  That is another surprise for tomorrow!

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OOPS OF THE DAY ~ September 13

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Samson, the strongest man in the world, was always making bad choices of women and showing off  his strength. 

Judges 14:5-9  –  Judges 16:3  –  Judges 15:8  –  Judges 16:31

Fact of the Day 

No!  Samson judged the Israelites for 20 years and there are only a few accounts of his strength.  Though smart, perhaps he realized he also had a temper problem.  So, he seems to have lived in the cleft of a rock (cave) in Etam in the hills above his home town of Zorah and judged from there until his final capture and ultimate death at the end of his 20 years.

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OOPS OF THE DAY ~ September 12

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The reason the Jews worshipped idols so much and were enslaved so often in the book of Judges is because they needed a king and didn’t have one.  It says so four times in Judges that there was no king.

Judges 17:6  –  Judges 18:1  –  Judges 19:1  –  Judges 21:25  –  Judges 8:22 & 33f  –  I Samuel 8:6-9

Fact of the Day 

No!  It does not say they had no king available to them, but that there was no king over them.  I think a lot of people  today interpret that as their needing  the stability of a king.  Well, once they did try to make Judge Gideon their king, but he refused because God was their true king.   (The Bible always interprets itself.)   He finally consented, but the point had been made.  They would not let God be their king.

And, after over 400 years of this type of thinking, to make matters worse, they  fired the last judge (Samuel) so they could have a king.  What?  Huh?  Say again?   They finally admitted it!  They wanted a human king, not the all-powerful king, Maker of the universe, and lover of their souls.  And God’s sad, sad reply to Samuel?  “They have not rejected you.  They have rejected me as their king.”

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OOPS OF THE DAY ~ September 10

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The Jews were slaves only in Egypt, Babylon, and Assyria.

Genesis 15:13 –  Judges 3:8 & 14  –  Judges 4:2-3  –  Judges 6:1  –  Judges 10:8  _  Judges 13:1

Fact of the Day 

No!  After they moved into their promised land as led by Joshua they kept worshiping the gods of the local pagans and ended up serving them a total of 59 years.

God told Abraham he would make a great nation of them, but first they will be slaves for 400 years. After they entered Abraham’s promised land….

  • 07 years  – Conquered evil Amorites
  • 08 years – Slaves to Mesopotamia
  • 40 years – Judge Othniel
  • 18 years – Slaves to Moab
  • 80 years – Judge Ehud
  • 01 year – Judge Shamgar
  • 20 years  – Slaves to Hazor
  • 40 years –  Judge Deborah
  • 07 years – Slaves to Midian
  • 40 years – Judge Gideon & King
  • 03 years – King  Abimelech
  • 23 years – Judge Tola
  • 22 years – Judge Jair
  • 18 years – Slaves to Philistine Ammonites
  • 06 year s– Judge Jephthah
  • 07 years – Judge Ibzan
  • 10 years – Judge Elon
  • 08 years – Judge Abdon
  • 40 years – Slaves to Philistines
  • 20 years – Judge Samson

418 YEARS 

It took the Jews 400 years to get out of Egypt.  It took another 400 years to get Egypt out of the Jews.  

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