Ten Tribes (23 September 2016, 20 Elul, 5776)
Contents:
1. Bible Read Through for Next Week
2. Proverbs 25: 18-20 Avoid Inappropriate Actions
3. New Article.
Ephraim as Merchant. Biblical Descriptions Are Still Pertinent!
L3 Letters
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Brit-Am Now no. 2667. Ten Tribes Studies
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#2. 2667 Letters. Messages and Comments accompanying Now no.2667
At 07:59 PM 9/20/2016, C wrote:
Section 2. is not found.
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Sorry, the URL was changed to:
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1. Bible Read Through for Next Week
Beginning on September 25, 2016
Day 1: 2-Chronicles ch. 5
Day 2: 2-Chronicles ch. 6
Day 3: 2-Chronicles ch. 7
Day 4: 2-Chronicles ch. 8
Day 5: 2-Chronicles ch. 9
Day 6: 2-Chronicles ch. 10
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2. Proverbs 25: 18-20 Avoid Inappropriate Actions
http://hebrewnations.com/articles/bible/proverbs/proverbs25.html
Proverbs 25 (NASB):
18 Like a club and a sword and a sharp arrow
Is a man who bears false witness against his neighbor.
19 Like a bad tooth and an unsteady foot
Is confidence in a faithless man in time of trouble.
20 Like one who takes off a garment on a cold day, or like vinegar on soda,
Is he who sings songs to a troubled heart.
Proverbs (Yair) 25:
18 A club, and a sword, and a sharp arrow
so is a man giving false witness against his neighbor.
19 a broken tooth and a stumbling foot
[so is] treacherous surety on a day of trouble.
Comment:
In the expression "a broken tooth" the word used for broken is "rah" from the root "RAAH."
This is consistent with other words in this passage.A similarly sounding word is "rah" usually meaning "bad" in the sense of evil though it can also connote "bad" as simply "not proper."
This may also be the root of the English word "rotten".
cf.
rotten (adj.)
http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=rotten
c. 1300, from a Scandinavian source akin to Old Norse rotinn "decayed," past participle of verb related to rotna "to decay," from Proto-Germanic stem *rut-(see rot (v.)). Sense of "corrupt" is from late 14c.; weakened sense of "bad" first recorded 1881. Rotten apple is from a saying traced back to at least 1528: "For one rotten apple lytell and lytell putrifieth an whole heape." The Rotten Row in London and elsewhere probably is from a different word, but of uncertain origin.
20 Like a vestment for decoration [and not warmth] on a cold day, or like vinegar on washing soda,
so is the singing of happy songs to a broken heart.
Comment:
The verses are comparing inappropriate actions to each other.
The expression translated here as 'broken heart" in Hebrew is "lev-ra" which could mean "bad (or "evil") heart" but here following the precedent in verse 25:19 the word "ra" is taken as meaning broken.
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3. New Article.
Ephraim as Merchant. Biblical Descriptions Are Still Pertinent!
http://hebrewnations.com/articles/tribes/merchant.html
Extract:
We identify the English-speaking nations with Joseph.
It could be that numerically the Tribe of Ephraim is the major party BUT concerning Tribal Identity Manasseh dominates the USA and Ephraim the UK and the other offshoots of Britain.
One of the identifying characteristics of Ephraim was that he would be a "Canaani" meaing in the context a "merchant".
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L3 Letters
Messages and Comments accompanying Now no. 2670
http://hebrewnations.com/features/now14/l3.html
Contents:
1. Thank You from Yair Davidiy
2. Birthday Greetings to Yair, a Selection
 3. Keith Weber: Pleased with Article about the Tribe of Dan