“All these kings met together, then came and pitched camp together at the Merom Spring, to fight Isra’el.  Adonai said to Y’hoshua, ‘Don’t be afraid on their account; because at this time tomorrow I will hand them over, all of them dead, before Israel. You are to hamstring their horses and burn up their chariots.’”-Joshua […]

Wanna perfect example of how gross misinterpretations can arise when reading Scripture? In the Japanese language, there’s an expression that goes like this: SABA WO YOMU. “Saba” means mackerel (as in the fish) and “wo yomu” means “to read” (as in to “read a book”). So literally, this means “to read the mackerel”. But what in […]

“So they set out, they and all their armies, many people, in number like the sand at the seashore, with very many horses and chariots.”-Joshua 11:4 In verse 4, we’re told the number of Canaanites was so great they were “like the sand at the seashore”. It should be obvious that this is simply an […]

“When Yavin king of Hatzor heard of it, he informed Yovav king of Madon; the king of Shimron; the king of Akhshaf; the kings to the north, in the hills, in the ‘Aravah south of Kinn’rot, in the Sh’felah and in the regions of Dor on the west; the Kena‘ani to east and west; the […]

Yesterday, I talked about how when one ancient civilization conquered another, it would build its city on top of the rubble of the city it had just conquered. Because of this, sitting below each city were literally layers of rubble and artifacts that altogether formed something like a multi-layered birthday cake with different historical colors […]