Prophet Pearls #12 – Vayechi (1 Kings 2:1-12)

so y do hanukkah???

Do not understand the question, who walks with Christians?

On the question of Joab, he was the tool what murdered Uriah the Hittite. He knew he was committing murder at the direct behest of David.

I think clearly solomon may have startes out righteous but he broke almost every law for a king. He had multiple wives. He has too much gold. Too many horses and clearly he worshiped other Gods because of his foreign wives. He even sacrificed children to molech. I mean solomon was not just a bad man. He was evil. I dont think he was chosen at all.

I do pray for your ministry Nehemia. Correction – Dr. Gordon! I feel so blessed to be able to listen to your teachings. You are so brilliant, and tenacious!!

Nehemiah and Keith, the content and approach you take to illuminate the Hebrew meaning in Torah and all of the Bible is priceless. This is a limitless well from the true source not the imaginations of man. I thank Yehovah for bringing you two together and you passion to “get” every drop out of each word or passage. What convinced me that this is a work from Heaven is that you are both compelled to pray, seeking His hand of direction. Thank you

do not know why he walks with Christians?

Correct

Prayers and love! Thank you so much Keith and Nehemia,

— Exodus 21:24 (KJV) “Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,”

No! You must learn to listen to and respond to the voice of Yehovah and not look at some graven image!♥️♥️

Just to make a comment, Nehemia talked in the beginning of the podcast transcripts about mo’ed:

“And of course, there’s this great scene where David and Jonathan meet, and they decide they’re going to meet three days later, and they call it the mo’ed. They say we’re going to meet at the mo’ed, and mo’ed is “appointed time”. But they set the appointed time, meaning it’s a meeting time.”

Later, Nehemia talks about another word me’od:

“Just look in the Hebrew, for those who want, and I wish this had been the Word of the Week. The word there, where they translate “firmly,” it’s the last word of the verse, the last word the section, is the word “me’od.” ”

I like the symmetry of the combination mo’ed me’od.

Could it mean something like a firmly appointed time?

Thank you guys for what you do. Especially for those of us who haven’t learned Hebrew yet. I want to thank you Keith for everything you do on your website as well. Especially the Hebrew classes. I’ve only started. I’m on the third class now.

Where have you heard it said: Eye for an eye… “?
You certainly haven’t heard it said bye ?
You certainly haven’t heard it said byeYehovah ! Rather you’ve heard it said by men who were vengeful and full of the spirit of violence! Whereas music set it out playing as a principal judgement for the judges of Israel!
And who is a judge of Israel if not the king? So then what was his judgement and his mercy in this case? Nine please, understand the context in the history of these passages, and do not interpret it According to your loose thinking, idiosyncratically.
So in the context of an occupation, when you’re under the thumb on the rule of the rooms, all the Greeks, who are yours judges ? That is why Yeshua pointed his students to lamentations, and not to Leviticus, for they were not judges!

Godfather comparison:
Second chapter? Sequel?/another generation of a vengeful society.
…Christian alternative;
Jesus professed, “turn the other cheek”.

The prospect of forgiveness spreading as the civilized Tanakh, is exciting!

1 king 2:5-9  King David tutors Solomon in vengeance with a “go[d]vermental /indisputable tanahk, foundational support to mold a future cultural disposition. Eye for an eye/Perpetuating a vengeful society/Charge – Command-Kept

Another most excellent teaching! Please someday do that Psalms 119 line-by-line study you mentioned! and PLEASE delve further into those 4 words – “instructions,” “commands/ordinances,” “statutes,” and “testimonies/judgments”(Torot, mitzvot, chukkim, mishpot; forgive my spelling) as well. And thank you so much for mentioning the honorable Myles Munroe..

Looking now in gen26 I find the meshmerit to be YHWHs commandments statutes and judgements and Torah’s, and that Abraham protected them at the same level of intensity as he listened in the voice of YHWH. Kol is a voice which surrounds ones senses whereas Davar is a voice that converses by written word especially by the hand of Moshe . And because it is written Moshe had to add written judgements to the statutes because Israel did not want to hear YHWH s voice so they could not ask for judgement directly like Abraham or like Moshe. . In addition Moshe added Edat or exhortations that are rehearsed as witnesses called upon as reminders over and over which were then extended to the Talmud over time by The Rabbinate

As always, really enjoyed discussion. Would like to take an online course teaching Hebrew, starting with a beginner knowing nothing, not even the alphabet. Can you recommend any that have good reviews? Please forward to my personal email. Thanks

I have always thought that Yehovah gave His charge, commandments, laws, etc.. to Adam, and they were passed down through the generations to Noah. After the flood, Noah to his sons (as Noah was a preacher of righteousness,) through generations to Abraham. Then maybe moreso, through Abraham via personal contact with tehovah or angelic messengers. What I see interesting is that such a verse as Gen 26:5 PROVES beyond a shadow of a doubt that the Torah of God existed from times BEFORE Mt Sinai, likely from before the foundation of the earth, and will most probably will be the laws of Messiah’s coming Kingdom.

Ed is the root of edah the concept of rehearsed exhortations or sometimes witness statements rehearsing observed events . In the context of Moshe and Abraham, they had a lore that needed to be transmitted down the generations . It would seem reasonable to view the edatu as the basis of the basis of the Oral traditions and law. Thus the Mishnah and Gemsta etc have extended the edatu from Babylonian times and became referred to as the l-m-edah the rout notion of interactive teaching from which the term Talmud derived ♥️

History repeats in our lifespan Nehemia.
The charge of “being a man” to Shlomo repeats once again, back to the context when in David’s season. Yes,
We continue in our time to teach guarding and “keeping” the covenant commandments.
But, we are once again fighting the adversaries of our covenant, to possess all the lands provided to Israel. as long as we KEEP that COVENANT.
Today, We guard Both INSIDE of the borders of Israel, and from the surrounding boundaries of Israel. Reciting Shema is meaningless without KEEPING it! and the ACTION required to preserve our covenants sanctity.

Just to let you know that I pray for you daily.And I do not have much but I will send what I can each month.I believe in you!

Charge – mission, commands, decrees make up the mission

I got so excited because you both hit on a topic I have been trying to understand then just passed over it. How did Abraham have the Torah? What did he have and where did he get it? You guys came so close!

What a precious time this has been – like a FEAST. This is my out of the box comment I KEPT seeing clearer and clearer. Father our sovereign supreme Yehovah Elohim has opened his treasure heart through his Torah – his Father nature.

I began to understand “A Prayer to our Father” in your book Nehemia and Keith in a different context. I realized as you both unfolded “kept” that every time we walk in his ways, commandments, testimony…… we sanctify his name – we activate his light in a blaze of glory.

Just taking the Shabbat in the light of your book and this study including Ps119 causes me not only to understand but experience even deeper the beauty of how he cares for us as we activate his name, his ways. Amazing, awesome revelation comes far beyond the mind of man.

Thank you and may Yehovah extend his abundance as needed to meet your every need as he confirms his out of the box strategies to reach a world without Father’s love.

Hey don’t be such a snob with language, if you can add, then add, but you don’t have to chastise English. “Charge” The solider was charged to guard the fort.

Dear Janice,I really enjoy your reasoning. BUT,(and it’s a big but), is not the Creator’s /JeHoVaH’s initial or moral covenant ,that is by Creation ,does not stand with all His creation (meaning humans only), regardless of any written rules, provided by any means , any time afterwords ?
As we say ; animals “do not sin” ( be that the Mosaic or Noahdic laws), that is no carnovour kills unless hungry. Only wehumans, do exploit, abuse and destroy everything, even our own fellow human beings.
The saddest part is that we humans do it for pleasure and profit. Animals only for survival.

Do not, we humans,or at least most, without any knowledge and religious instruction sense, or even know, or subcunsciously realize without admitting that our wrong doing has consequances? Is that not what moved any and all religious believes to the so called ; forgivness,redemptions, remission, Olam Haba, Messiah, atonement, going to heaven, etc,etc.but , regardless of religion?Is it not likely in our human DNA? .

If you follow the so called Hebrew/Jewish calendar regularly for a number of years, likely did, or will notice it that “nature” seems to follow that time table. Or if you ever wondered when a season, like coming kind of late, or early, just look at the Hebrew calendar.
But the “natural cycle” is really the SZYZGY. That is when the planets Sun, Earth and Moon are aligned at the very same angle and in line. That is precisely 19 Solar, and 19 Lunar years. So, the modern Roman calendar is just a mathematical division of time in between. The Lunar,or Jehovah’s calendar times are by nature, or creation,that are the actual “appointed times”.
Ha alu Shalom

One definition of the verb “charge” is to impose a duty or responsibility upon. To give an injunction. Hence, “charge” is an appropriate translation of “tzav.”

Nehemia and Keith, if we go by the Creator’s Calender, and if there is an Adar Bet, we could conceivably have 13/14/15 (6015).

The story is like a detective story and I am no Sherlock Holmes.
For what I can gather…

Abner killed Joab’s brother–Joab perceived Abner as a spy. David believed Abner to be genuinely seeking him to be king.
The story continued that Joab received David’s contempt — Joab reacted in turn by encouragingly promoting against Solomon…

Hence ,
David understood, it was up to Solomon to deal with Joab.

Without Nehemiah asking the question, I would never have thought of seeking an answer. Thank you Nehemiah.

1Kgs 2:22

Interesting observations on the admonitions of David and the Philistine general to “be a man”. I see congruence in the prerequisite, namely being strong, and the need to “be a man”. Only in the application of the manhood is there divergence, the Philistines warring, while David advocates torah keeping.

A really interesting observation coincidentally is found in the KJV bible text 1Sam4:9, “quit yourself like men”. While not a very literal translation, it does give us insight into the 17th century English thoughts on manhood. It appears that self denial is a major component, perhaps well paraphrased as “What I want, or what my companion wants, even to knowledge, safety, and even life itself, is trivial. All that matters is what Yah wants.”

Fathers and sons; We need to rmember King David (not father David) Solomon yes from his loins; more so Soloman is a subject of the King; He commands, that’s a King’s directive; he’s speaking in legal terms not, (father/son talk) Solomon asked for wisdom, what kind did he ask for? and what kind did he get? wisdom and understanding can only be gained through the Covenant of MOses. If we read the laws of Kings; did Solomon observed the Commands of YeHovah? and how did that affect all Israel; broke in pieces.

Joseph, thought as dead, is realeased from Covenant of Yehova, why? to be free to be adopted as legal heir to Pharoah; why did Jacob bless Ephraim and Menashe? when Joepsh dies; Pharoh has no claim on Ephraim and Mesasse; are free to be adopted/engrafted back into the Covenant of Yeahova and be heirs; Joseph dies, is free from Pharoah; can be reclaimed by Jacob; oathed to bring back his bones to promised land and be buried there and not embalmed. Same for Jacob.Sons are not always of one loins; they can be adopted or engrafted into the Covenant.

The Biblical account of David putting out a (throat clearing) Contract: Joab basically committed insubordination and treason against David as God’s anointed authority. David was King not Joab. Joab acted for his own self wants and wishes against the pledge David had made related to the house of Benjamin/ Abner was a prince. 2 Sam 3:38 Joab also premeditated murder against Abner after David sent Abner away in peace. Insubordination and treason. Abner was in retreat and had given Joab’s brother at least two warnings to not pursue him. But,Joab’s brother took the risk and refused to listen. Whereas, Joab premeditated murder against Abner. Joab could have ignited an internal war. Just as Israel and Judah were uniting under David with Abner’s help. David’s concern of Joab. 2 Sam 39.And I am this day weak, though anointed king; and these men sons of Zeruiah too hard for me:

I enjoy your pearls so much — but sometimes the banter interferes. This one also brought tears to my eyes during the final prayer for Messiah’s kingdom. My prayers for you both continue.