Ancient Hebrew Research Center
Biblical Hebrew E-Magazine
July, 2008 Issue #044

Verse of the Month – Genesis 2:3
By: Jeff A. Benner

Atao vDeq;y>w: y[iybiV.h; ~Ay-ta, ~yhil{a/ %r,b'y>w:
ar'B'-rv,a] ATk.al;m.-lK'mi tb;v' Ab yKi
`tAf[]l; ~yhil{a/

And God blessed the seventh day, and hallowed it;
because that in it he rested from all his work which God had created and
made. (ASV)

The following is a literal rendering of this verse from its Hebraic meaning.

And Elohiym respected the seventh day and he set him apart because in him he ceased from all his business which Elohiym filled up to do.

Wake Up

 "Awake, awake, Deborah: awake, awake, utter a song: arise, Barak, and lead thy captivity captive, thou son of Abinoam." Judges 5:12

"Awake - Stir up thyself and all that is within thee, to admire and praise the Lord. This work needs and well deserves the utmost liveliness and vigour of soul."  -John Wesley

 "…..when the war was carried into the enemy’s country, many not found in arms were seized and made prisoners of war. These deborah would have led in chains after Barak, when he made his public entry into his own city, to grace his. II. She gives good reason for this praise and triumph, v. 13. This glorious victory had made the remnant of Israel, and Deborah in particular, look very great, a circumstance which they owed entirely to God. 1. The Israelites had become few and inconsiderable, and yet to them God gave dominion over nobles. …As long as any of God’s Israel remain (and a remnant God will have in the worst of times) there is hope, be it ever so small a remnant, for God can make him that remains, though it should be but one single person, triumph over the most proud and potent. 2. Deborah was herself of the ?weaker sex, and the sex that from the fall had been sentenced to subjection, and yet the Lord that is himself higher than the highest authorized her to rule over the mighty men of Israel, who willingly submitted to her direction, and enabled her to triumph over the mighty men of Canaan, who fell before the army she commanded; so wonderfully did he advance the low estate of his handmaid. "The Lord made me, a woman, to have dominion over mighty men.’’ A despised stone is made head of the corner. This is indeed the Lord’s doing, and marvellous in our eyes. III." 

 -Matthew Henry