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🗓️ 24 January 2022
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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, Simian and Levi, slaughtering all the men of |
0:17.4 | Shechem, the town that just moved to, in order to avenge the rape of their sister Dina. |
0:22.6 | Today, we see Jacob and his family preparing to move out of Shechem. |
0:26.4 | Good call. |
0:27.9 | As he packs up, Jacob makes it known to all of his family that from here on out, they're |
0:32.5 | only going to worship Yahweh and he buries all their gods. |
0:36.9 | As they pass through the nearby cities, God made all the locals afraid of them. |
0:41.6 | We don't know how He did it, but God actually created terror in the hearts of those who |
0:46.1 | oppose Him in order to protect His people. |
0:49.2 | This is the only place in the whole Bible where this Hebrew word for terror is used. |
0:54.4 | Once at a time when we refer to things like the fear of God, it means something different |
0:58.5 | than this word being used here. |
1:00.3 | Usually, it carries a connotation of reverence and awe, but here, this word has only the |
1:05.9 | connotation of sheer terror. |
1:08.3 | We'll talk about this more in a future episode, but I just wanted to plant that seed while |
1:12.5 | we're here. |
1:14.6 | God called Jacob to settle in Bethel. |
1:17.0 | You may remember Bethel as the place where God appeared to Jacob in His famous ladder dream. |
1:21.9 | Back then in chapter 28, Jacob set up a pagan pillar on that spot. |
1:26.5 | But he's a new man now with a new heart, so God sends him back and he replaces the pillar |
1:31.9 | with an altar. |
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