Recently, because of the debate about homosexuality in our culture, the word “abomination” has resurfaced. In the context of this topic, we find the word in Leviticus 18:22 and Leviticus 20:13, as God’s description of homosexual activity. “You must not have sexual intercourse with a male as one has sexual intercourse with a woman; it […]
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Although he gives his family line in the very first verse, we really know nothing about the prophet Zephaniah. Because he mentioned “Hezekiah,” it is tempting to think of Zephaniah as the great-great-grandson of godly King Hezekiah, making him a prince as well as a prophet. Although commentators often come to this conclusion (with various
Continuing through the Old Testament Minor Prophets, we come to the short – but packed – story of Jonah. Outside of this little book, the prophet Jonah appears in the Bible only twice. The first is an obscure reference in 2 Kings 14:25 The only other reference to Jonah is in the New Testament (Matthew
