Israel in the Bible

Meaning: who prevails with God

Exact Match

Now the mediator or go-between [in a transaction] is not [needed] for just one party; whereas God is only one [and was the only One giving the promise to Abraham, but the Law was a contract between two, God and Israel; its validity depended on both].

Verse ConceptsGod, Unity OfUnity, God's Goal OfGod Is One

Now this woman, Hagar, is similar to Mount Sinai, in Arabia, and represents the present [earthly] Jerusalem [i.e., Israel], consisting of children in bondage [to the law of Moses].

Verse ConceptsSubject To Evilslaveryjerusalem

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When Jesus reached the district of Caesarea Philippi, He asked His disciples, "Who do people say that the Son of Man is?"

Then Jesus and His disciples left Galilee and went to the villages around Caesarea Philippi. On the way there He was asking His disciples, "Who do people say that I am?"

One day while He was praying in solitude, His disciples were nearby, and He asked them, "Who do people say that I am?"


And you are the descendants of the prophets and the heirs of the sacred compact which God made with your forefathers, when He said to Abraham: 'All the families of the earth are to be blessed through your posterity.'









































































Be quick to come to terms with your opponent while you are on the road to court with him, so that he may not turn you over to the judge and the judge turn you over to the officer, and you be put in prison.








"Once there was in a city a judge who had no reverence for God nor respect for men.


























the light of the lamp will never shine in you again; the voice of bride and bridegroom will never be heard in you again. For your businessmen were the great men of the earth; by your magic all the nations have been led astray;










the light of the lamp will never shine in you again; the voice of bride and bridegroom will never be heard in you again. For your businessmen were the great men of the earth; by your magic all the nations have been led astray;















so that all who have refused to believe the truth but have chosen unrighteousness instead might be condemned.









so that all who have refused to believe the truth but have chosen unrighteousness instead might be condemned.











These persons are grumblers, ever complaining about their lot. They live to satisfy their evil passions, their lips boast arrogant things, and they flatter others for personal gain.





















Now there were devout Jews from every part of the world living in Jerusalem.




The Jews then said to one another, "Where is He about to go that we shall not find Him? He is not going to our people scattered among the Greeks, and going to teach the Greeks, is He?







James, a slave of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, sends greetings to the twelve tribes that are scattered over the world.






The Jews then said to one another, "Where is He about to go that we shall not find Him? He is not going to our people scattered among the Greeks, and going to teach the Greeks, is He?




they will take snakes in their hands; even if they drink anything poisonous, it will not hurt them; they will lay their hands on the sick, and they will get well."









they will take snakes in their hands; even if they drink anything poisonous, it will not hurt them; they will lay their hands on the sick, and they will get well."














































And yet not a single hair on your head will perish.





































This is what God promised: 'His descendants will be strangers living in a foreign land, and its people will enslave and oppress them for four hundred years.'








This is what God promised: 'His descendants will be strangers living in a foreign land, and its people will enslave and oppress them for four hundred years.'









There he found a Jew named Aquila, a native of Pontus, who had recently come from Italy with his wife Priscilla, because Claudius had issued an edict for all Jews to leave Rome. So Paul paid them a visit,






and brought them to the chiefs of the police court. They said, "These men are Jews; they continue to make great disturbance in our town




They will fall by the edge of the sword and will be carried off as captives among all the nations, and Jerusalem will be trampled under the feet of the heathen, until the times of the heathen come to full measure.










"Do not injure the earth, the sea, or the trees, until we mark the slaves of our God with His seal on their foreheads."








He will come and put those tenants to death and give the vineyard to others." When they heard this, they said, "May it never be so!"

If some of the branches have been broken off, and yet you, although you were wild olive suckers, have been grafted in among the native branches, and been made to share the rich sap of the native olive's root,


For I tell you, not one of those people who were invited shall get a taste of my dinner!'"

"This, I tell you, is why the kingdom will be taken away from you, and given to a people who will pay a fair rent for it.


He will come and put those tenants to death and give the vineyard to others." When they heard this, they said, "May it never be so!"

If some of the branches have been broken off, and yet you, although you were wild olive suckers, have been grafted in among the native branches, and been made to share the rich sap of the native olive's root,


For I tell you, not one of those people who were invited shall get a taste of my dinner!'"

"This, I tell you, is why the kingdom will be taken away from you, and given to a people who will pay a fair rent for it.


"Listen to another story. There was once an owner of an estate who planted a vineyard and built a fence around it, and hewed out a wine-vat in it, and built a tower, and rented it to tenant farmers, and then went abroad.






Then Jesus again spoke to them in stories, and said:






As the time approached for realizing the promise which God had made to Abraham, the people multiplied and became more numerous in Egypt,






















This is what God promised: 'His descendants will be strangers living in a foreign land, and its people will enslave and oppress them for four hundred years.'

I mean this: The law which was given four hundred and thirty years later could not annul the contract which had already been ratified by God, so as to cancel the promise.
































Now while He was in Jerusalem at the Passover Feast, many people, because they saw the wonder-works which He was performing, trusted in Him as the Christ.

Thus many of the Jews, who came to see Mary and who saw what Jesus had done, believed in Him;

for on account of him many of the Jews were leaving them and believing in Jesus.

And so many of them at that place believed in Him.

They gave the glory to God, when they heard it, and said to him, "You see, brother, how many thousand believers there are among the Jews, all of them zealous champions of the law.





Then Joseph sent and invited his father Jacob and all his kinsmen, seventy-five in all;












circumcised when I was a week old; a descendant of Israel; a member of the tribe of Benjamin; a Hebrew, a son of Hebrews. Measured by the law, I was a Pharisee;





































































































































until another king, who knew nothing about Joseph, ascended the throne. By taking a cunning advantage of our race he oppressed our forefathers by forcing them to expose their infants so that they should not live. At this time Moses was born. He was a divinely beautiful child. For three months he was cared for in his father's house. read more.
When he was exposed, Pharaoh's daughter adopted him and brought him up as her own son. Thus





















This is what God promised: 'His descendants will be strangers living in a foreign land, and its people will enslave and oppress them for four hundred years.' But God further promised: 'I will pass sentence on the nation that enslaves them, and after that they will leave that country and worship me on this very spot.'








and gave them their land as an inheritance for about four hundred and fifty years. And after that He gave them judges until the time of Samuel the prophet.





























He will come and put those tenants to death and give the vineyard to others." When they heard this, they said, "May it never be so!"

"This, I tell you, is why the kingdom will be taken away from you, and given to a people who will pay a fair rent for it.

























































































































































































































































































































It had a great, high wall, with twelve huge gates, and twelve angels in charge of the gates, which had inscribed upon them the names of the twelve tribes of Israel.










After this I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth holding back the four winds of the earth, so that no wind should blow on the earth, the sea, or any tree. Then I saw another angel coming up from the east with the seal of the living God, and he cried out to the four angels who had the power to injure the earth and the sea: "Do not injure the earth, the sea, or the trees, until we mark the slaves of our God with His seal on their foreheads." read more.
And I heard the number of those who were marked with the seal, one hundred and forty-four thousand. Those that were marked with the seal were from every tribe of the children of Israel: twelve thousand from the tribe of Judah; twelve thousand from the tribe of Reuben; twelve thousand from the tribe of Gad; twelve thousand from the tribe of Asher; twelve thousand from the tribe of Naphtali; twelve thousand from the tribe of Manasseh; twelve thousand from the tribe of Simeon; twelve thousand from the tribe of Levi; twelve thousand from the tribe of Issachar; twelve thousand from the tribe of Zebulon; twelve thousand from the tribe of Joseph; twelve thousand from the tribe of Benjamin.


































Now while the people were on tiptoe in their expectations, and they were all arguing in their hearts about John whether he was himself the Christ,










































































For they were ignorant of God's way of right standing and were trying to set up one of their own, and so would not surrender to God's way of right standing.


For they were ignorant of God's way of right standing and were trying to set up one of their own, and so would not surrender to God's way of right standing.