About the Author of the Blogsite, Not the Author of the Bible::

About the Author of the Blogsite, Not the Author of the Bible: I was uncertain of how to accomplish this, mindful of Revelation 22:18-19, which says that nobody is to add to, or to take away from what was written in the Bible. After lots of prayerful contemplation, the Lord had it on my heart that I’m not to change the meaning of what is written in the Bible. He has also shown ways to add to people’s understating of that meaning, without altering the meaning, by putting that info within [brackets]. This is primarily accomplished with the KJV Bible and lots of prayers, but at times, BibleGateway.com, Biblehub.com, NIV Bible, Webster Dictionary, and other internet resources, as needed. Debra Seiling

About Understanding the Bible:

Understanding the Bible: After reading Isaiah 28:10 many times over the years and not totally understanding it, it recently became apparent to me that the Lord God has this passage as the means for understanding the Bible. For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little. Isaiah 28:10 KJV. Being prayerful about this passage, and looking up 'precept' in the Webster's Dictionary, it gave this passage a whole new meaning, once 'commandment' is substituted for 'precept'. Within brackets are additional words the Lord had on my heart to aid in understanding the meaning. For commandment must be [built up] upon commandment; commandment upon commandment; line upon line, line upon line; [developing understanding] here a little, and there a little.

The Table Format:

The Table Format: I was overwhelmed with how to explain the process for determining if someone had leprosy in Leviticus 13, which seemed very complicated. After praying, "Lord, if this is difficult for me to understand after reading it many times, how can this be explained to others?" The thought the Lord God had on my heart was for me to put it into a vertical chart to visually see the process. This made it much easier for me to follow the progression. After doing so, I prayed, "Lord, how can this be conveyed to readers, so that they can understand this process?" The thought the Lord God had on my heart was to put it within the lines of a table. Being a stiff-necked, stubborn person, as it's often called in the Bible, I prayed, asking the Lord God if He's sure that's really what He wanted me to do? I reluctantly put Leviticus 13 into a table format. When I read this difficult leprosy process within a table format, it suddenly became easier for me to understand. That's because it builds line upon line, as explained in the Understanding the Bible section. Shortly after that, the Lord God had it on my heart, to put all of The Books of the Bible in Smaller Chunks within a table format, to aid in understanding, line upon line.

6/29/2023

Judges 15:1-20 Samson’s Wife Has Been Given to His Friend

 

Samson’s Wife Has Been Given to His Friend

Judges 15:1-20    The Book of Judges [in Smaller Chunks]

[After some time during] the wheat harvest, Samson visited his wife with a kid [goat] & said [to her father,] I [want to go be intimate] with my wife in the [room,] but her father wouldn’t [allow Samson] to go in.

Her father said, I [truly] thought you had [totally] hated her, [so] I gave her to your companion. Isn’t her younger sister [prettier] than she [is?] I pray [that] you take her instead. 

Samson said, Now, I shall be blameless, if I do [something to cause] the Philistines displeasure. Samson went [out] & caught 300 foxes & turned [the foxes] tail to tail & put [torches between each pair of] tails & set the [torches] on fire. 

[Samson] let the [foxes] go in the standing corn of the Philistines & burned up both the [corn stalks] & the standing corn [along] with the vineyards & olives. [Then,] the Philistines [asked,] Who has done this?

They answered, Samson, the son-in-law of the Timnite, because he [took Samson’s] wife & [gave] her to [Samson’s] companion. The Philistines came up & burned her & her father with fire. 

And Samson said to them, Though you have done this, I [will still] be avenged of you & after that, I will [stop.] [Samson struck them down] hip & thigh [deep] with a [large] slaughter. 

[Samson lived] in the top of Rock Etam. Then, the Philistines went up & [camped] in Judah & spread themselves in Lehi. The men of Judah [asked the Philistines,] Why have you come up against us? 

They answered, We have come up to [tie] Samson [up] & to do to [Samson] as he had done to us. Then, 3,000 men of Judah went to the top of the Rock of Etam & said to Samson, Don’t you know the Philistines are rulers over us?

[Why] have you done this to us? [Samson] said to them, I have done to them, [just] as they have done to me. And the [men of Judah] said to him, We have come to [tie you up] & deliver you into the hand of the Philistines.

Samson [asked] them, Swear to me that you won’t [kill me] yourselves. They [said to Samson], No; but we will [tie you up tightly] & deliver you into the [Philistine’s hands,] but we surely won’t kill you. 

And they [tied Samson up] with 2 new cords & brought him from the rock. When [Samson] came into Lehi, the Philistines shouted against him & the Spirit of the Lord came upon [Samson] mightily & the cords on his arms came loosened from off his hands, [like] flax that was burnt with fire.

[Samson] found a new jawbone of a [donkey] & took it [in] his hand & killed 1,000 men [there.] Samson said, With the jawbone of a [donkey,] I have slain 1,000 men, heaps upon heaps. 

When he [finished] speaking, [Samson threw] away the jawbone [from] his hand & called that place Ramath Lehi. He was [very thirsty] & called on the Lord & said, You have given this great deliverance into the hand of Your servant, [but] shall I now die [of] thirst & fall into the hands of the uncircumcised?

But God [opened up] a hollow place that was in the [jawbone] & water came out [of it] & [after Samson drank,] his spirit [returned] & he revived. [For this reason, Samson] called [its] name En Hakkore, which is in Lehi to this day. [Samson] judged Israel for 20 years, in the days of the Philistines.