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🗓️ 24 January 2020
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0:00.0 | Hey Bible Readers, I'm Tara Lee Cobble and I'm your host for The Bible Recap. |
0:07.0 | Yesterday we left off with Jacob's son Semyon and Levi |
0:16.2 | slaughtering all the men of Sheckham, the town they'd just moved to, |
0:19.7 | in order to avenge the rape of their sister Dinah. |
0:23.0 | Today we see Jacob and his family preparing to move out of Shekham. |
0:27.0 | Good call. |
0:28.0 | As he packs up, Jacob makes it known to all of his family that from here on out |
0:32.0 | they're only going to worship |
0:33.9 | yawe and he buries all their gods. As they passed through the nearby cities |
0:38.3 | God made all the locals afraid of them. We don't know how he did it, but God actually created terror |
0:45.0 | in the hearts of those who oppose him in order to protect his people. This is the |
0:49.6 | only place in the whole Bible where this Hebrew word for terror is used. |
0:54.7 | Most of the time when we refer to things like the Fear of God, it means something different |
0:58.8 | than this word being used here. |
1:00.6 | Usually it carries a connotation of reverence and awe, but here this word has only the |
1:06.3 | connotation of sheer terror. We'll talk about this more in a future episode but I |
1:11.2 | just wanted to plant that seed while we're here. |
1:14.9 | God called Jacob to settle in Bethel. |
1:17.4 | You may remember Bethel as the place where God appeared to Jacob in his famous latter |
1:21.0 | dream. |
1:22.2 | Back then in chapter 28, Jacob set up a pagan pillar on that spot, but he's a new man now with a new heart. |
1:28.6 | So God sends him back and he replaces the pillar with an altar, just like the altar he set up in yesterday's reading |
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