Who Found it Out?
Is it not singular that the story of four leprous men should be inserted in the Book of the Kings of Israel? No; not for the Bible. If you were to take out of the Scriptures all the stories that...
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Open the Young Man’s Eyes
In 2 Kings 6, Israel's inveterate enemy, the king of Syria, had planned by wicked stealth to destroy them. But Elisha, God's prophet, forewarned Israel's king of the evil devices of his adversary so that the nation was delivered. Then...
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Elisha and the She-Bears
Few accounts in the Bible have been more misunderstood than this one (2 Ki. 2:23-25), due to the rendering "little children" in v. 23 (kjv). It should be translated "youths" or "young men," the word in the singular being used...
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The Pot of Oil
In 2 Kings 3 we have Elisha ministering to the necessities of kings; in chapter 4:1-7, he ministers to a widow and her sons, for there is room in the divine compassions for both the exalted and the lowly. Remarkably...
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Back of the Clouds
The day dawned wet and raw. I felt as limp as the gray flannel sky. I was leaving for meetings and didn't feel either willing to leave home or prepared to go. And I felt I deserved to feel miserable,...
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The Heavens in the Hebrews
The Epistle to the Hebrews may be read in various lights, yet no one ray interferes with another. In the first two chapters, it opens the heavens to you as they now are. How blessed is the introduction of such...
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The Character of the Book
The epistle to the Hebrews differs in some important respects from all the other epistles of Paul, so much so that many have questioned whether it be the writing of Paul, of Apollos, of Barnabas, or someone else. Of this...
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Enter In
The heart-cry of many well meaning, hard-working believers today might be expressed in the words of the hymn: Where is the blessedness I knew, When first I saw the Lord? Where is the soul-refreshing view, Of Jesus in His Word? What...
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Isaac and God’s Saviour
Have you ever noticed that the name of Isaac is mentioned or alluded to just five times in Hebrews 11? First, we find his name mentioned as one of those pilgrims who sojourned with Abraham "in the land of promise,...
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