Authors are reminded to avoid oft quoted cliché. Still we hear a family member, friend or co-worker use an old hat phrase on a daily basis. Ever wonder where they stem from?
Today when I searched for those little known tid-bits of the Bible, I ran smack dab into a phrase I use often. “…. by the skin of my teeth"; did you know Job is the first recorded person to say, “by the skin of my teeth?” Job 19:20 NIV.
How many other little tidbits of speech actually are derived from the ancient ones? Those who lived years before us?
Monday, March 9, 2009
Friday, March 6, 2009
The Lamb Crew
Our friends felt called to parenthood. After the birth of their third child they adopted a special needs child, then another and another. At the last count they were the proud parents of twenty-one children. A happy bunch, they call themselves the Lamb Crew.
Twenty-one children is a lot of mouths to feed, but what about our Bible character, Rehoboam. He fathered eighty-eight kids—now that, my friends, is one large family.
II Chron 11:21 niv Rehoboam loved Maachah the daughter of Absalom more than any of his other wives and concubines. In all, he had eighteen wives and sixty concubines, twenty-eight sons and sixty daughters.
Just a thought from Kat for today, chew on it for awhile.
Twenty-one children is a lot of mouths to feed, but what about our Bible character, Rehoboam. He fathered eighty-eight kids—now that, my friends, is one large family.
II Chron 11:21 niv Rehoboam loved Maachah the daughter of Absalom more than any of his other wives and concubines. In all, he had eighteen wives and sixty concubines, twenty-eight sons and sixty daughters.
Just a thought from Kat for today, chew on it for awhile.
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