Jeremiah 31 Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah:32 Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they brake, although I was an husband unto them, saith the LORD:33 But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people. The Israelites (or children of Israel) were the chosen people of the god Yahweh, according to the Hebrew bible. According to their religious scriptures they were a Hebrew-speaking people of the Ancient Near East who inhabited the Land of Canaan (the modern day Israel, western Jordan, southern Lebanon and Palestinian Territories) during the monarchic period (11th to 7th centuries BCE).“He is the Lord our God; His judgments are in all the earth. He remembers His covenant forever, the word He Commanded, for a thousand generations, the covenant He made with Abraham, the oath He swore to Isaac.He confirmed it to Jacob as a decree, to Israel as an everlasting covenant: “To you I will give the land of Canaan As the portion you will inherit” (Psalm 105:7-11).Again I repeat this as well: the importance as I had stated earlier. In early biblical history, descent was clearly patrilineal (Exodus 31:2). Abraham was the first Hebrew (Genesis 14:13). Abraham and Sarah would have a son, Isaac, which would establish the line. Isaac and Rebecca would then have a son, Jacob, which would further that line, and Jacob would then have twelve sons, establishing tribal authority. (Hebrew) In the Hebrew Bible, (or the Tanakh), called the Old Testament by Christians, the Treasured People is the exact phrase used in the text, referring to the Hebrews/Israelites. In the Book of Deuteronomy, YHWH proclaims the Nation of Israel, known originally as the Children of Israel, as his treasured people out of all the people on the face of the earth (Deuteronomy 7:6). As mentioned in the Book of Exodus, the Hebrew people are Gods chosen people, and from them shall come the Messiah, or redeemer of the world. The Israelites also possess the Word of God and/or the Law of God in the form of the Torah as communicated by God to Moses. This was another covenant with God, but was this coventant kept by Man? No more than the covenant with Noah was kept has this covenant been kept. Now therefore, if you will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then you shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people (Exodus 19:5), God promises that He will never exchange His people with any other. And I will establish My covenant between Me and you and your descendants after you in their generations, for an everlasting covenant, to be God to you and your descendants after you. (Genesis 17:7).Rachel (Hebrew: רחל, had been described in the Bible as a prophet. Rachel was lovely she was the favorite wife of Jacob, one of the three Biblical Patriarchs, and mother of Joseph and Benjamin. She was the daughter of Laban and the younger sister of Leah, Jacobs first wife. Jacob was her first cousin, and she was the youngest niece of Rebecca.Arriving in Haran, Jacob saw a well where the shepherds were gathering their flocks to water them, and met Labans younger daughter Rachel, Jacob married his patrilineal first cousin; she was working as a shepherdess. He loved her immediately, and after spending a month with his relatives, asked for her hand in marriage in return for working seven years for Laban. Laban agreed to the arrangement. These seven years seemed to Jacob but a few days, for the love he had for her; but when they were complete and he asked for his wife, Laban deceived Jacob by switching Rachels older sister, Leah, as the veiled bride.Genesis 29:27-29 27 Fulfil her week, and we will give thee this also for the service which thou shalt serve with me yet seven other years.28 And Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week: and he gave him Rachel his daughter to wife also.29 And Laban gave to Rachel his daughter Bilhah his handmaid to be her maid.Jacob loved Rachel more than Leah, and Leah felt hated. Leahs gave birth to four sons rapidly: Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah. Rachel, however, remained barren. Following the example of Sarah, who gave her handmaid to Abraham after years of infertility, Rachel gave Jacob her handmaid, Bilhah, in marriage, so that Rachel could raise children through her. Bilhah gave birth to Dan and Naphtali. Seeing that she had left off childbearing temporarily, Leah then gave her handmaid Zilpah to Jacob in marriage so that Leah could raise more children through her. Zilpah gave birth to Gad and Asher. (According to some commentators, Bilhah and Zilpah were younger daughters of Laban. Afterwards, Leah became fertile again and gave birth to Issachar, Zebulun, and Dinah. God remembered Rachel, who gave birth to Joseph. If pregnancies of different marriages overlapped, the twelve births could have occurred within seven years (the first eleven births occur within six years - Genesis 31:38).You serpents, you brood of vipers, how are you to escape being sentenced to hell?And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne, and books were opened. Then another book was opened, which is the book of life. And the dead were judged by what was written in the books, according to what they had done. And the sea gave up the dead who were in it, Death and Hades gave up the dead who were in them, and they were judged, each one of them, according to what they had done. Then Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire. And if anyones name was not found written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire.If by turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to ashes he condemned them to extinction, making them an example of what is going to happen to the ungodly;And the devil who had deceived them was thrown into the lake of fire and sulfur where the beast and the false prophet were, and they will be tormented day and night forever and ever.And the devil who had deceived them was thrown into the lake of fire and sulfur where the beast and the false prophet were, and they will be tormented day and night forever and ever.Behold, all souls are mine; the soul of the father as well as the soul of the son is mine: the soul who sins shall die.“And they shall go out and look on the dead bodies of the men who have rebelled against me. For their worm shall not die, their fire shall not be quenched, and they shall be an abhorrence to all flesh
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