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203) - Coming back to Daniel 2 thread 246 : - Ramses II’s fourth surviving son, Khaemwese, was famous as high priest of Ptah at Memphis. He restored many monuments in the Memphite area, including pyramids and pyramid temples of the Old Kingdom, and had buildings constructed near the Sarapeum...

203) Looking for Job Job 27 I will teach you about the power of God; I will not hide anything about the Almighty. Look! If you have all seen visions, Why are your speeches completely empty? - Job knows about God! - And God knows about Job! - And they have a mutual respect for one...

202) God and Samuel / Samuel and God “This is what God the God of Israel says: ‘It was I who brought Israel up out of Egypt and who rescued you from the hand of Egypt and from the hand of all the kingdoms that were oppressing you. But today you have rejected your God who was your Savior out...

202) - Coming back to Daniel 2 thread 247 : - Ramses III was succeeded by his son Ramses IV (ruled 1156–50 bce). In an act of piety that also reinforced his legitimacy, Ramses IV saw to the compilation of a long papyrus in which the deceased Ramses III confirmed the temple holdings throughout...

202) Looking for Job Job 27 For what hope does the godless man have when he is destroyed, When God takes away his life? Will God hear his outcry When distress comes upon him? Or will he find delight in the Almighty? Will he call on God at all times? - HOPE! - HOPE is essential to...

201) God and Samuel / Samuel and God The day before Saul came, God had told Samuel: “Tomorrow about this time, I will send to you a man from the land of Benjamin. You must anoint him as leader over my people Israel, and he will save my people from the hand of the Philistines. For I have seen...

201) - Coming back to Daniel 2 thread 248 : - The Ramesside growth of priestly power was matched by increasingly overt religiosity. - In its later periods, Egyptian society, the values of which had previously tended to be centralized, secular, and political, became more locally based and more...

201) Looking for Job Job 27 It is unthinkable for me to declare you men righteous! Until I die, I will not renounce my integrity! I will maintain my righteousness and never let it go My heart will not condemn me as long as I live. May my enemy become like the wicked, Those assaulting me...

200) God and Samuel / Samuel and God However, the people refused to listen to what Samuel told them, and they said: “No, we are determined to have a king over us. Then we will be like all the other nations, and our king will judge us and lead us and fight our battles.” After Samuel heard all...

200) - Coming back to Daniel 2 thread 249 : - Egypt was divided into two parts : The north was inherited by the Tanite 21st dynasty, the southern Nile River valley came under the control of the Theban priests ! - It has always been a tradition among priests to mix political power and...

200) Looking for Job Job 27 Job continued his discourse, saying: “As surely as God lives, who has deprived me of justice, As the Almighty lives, who has made me bitter, As long as my breath is within me And spirit from God is in my nostrils, My lips will not speak unrighteousness; Nor...

199) God and Samuel / Samuel and God - The day will come when you will cry out because of the king you have chosen for yourselves, but God will not answer you on that day.” - And you call that a chosen people ! - A people who never listens to his God and as a consequence God never answers...

199) - Coming back to Daniel 2 thread 250 : - He allowed its most powerful man, who was Montemhat, the mayor and the fourth prophet of Amon - Another example of the power of religion ! - Nebuchadrezzar destroyed the temple in Jerusalem in 586 bc

199) Looking for Job Job 26 Those who are powerless in death tremble; They are even lower than the waters and their inhabitants. The Grave is naked in front of God, And the place of destruction lies uncovered. He stretches out the northern sky over empty space, Suspending the earth upon...

199) Looking for Job Job 26 Those who are powerless in death tremble; They are even lower than the waters and their inhabitants. The Grave is naked in front of God, And the place of destruction lies uncovered. He stretches out the northern sky over empty space, Suspending the earth upon...

198) God and Samuel / Samuel and God In time all the elders of Israel gathered together and came to Samuel at Ramah. They said to him: “Look! You have grown old, but your sons are not walking in your ways. Now appoint for us a king to judge us like all the other nations.” But it displeased...

198) - Coming back to Daniel 2 thread 251 : - Temples and the priesthood were overtly dominant ! - In their inscriptions the elite displayed their priestly titles but did not mention the administrative roles that they probably also performed. Throughout the country, people of substance...

198) Looking for Job Job 26 Job says in reply: “How you have helped the one with no power! How you have saved the arm that has no strength! What great advice you have given to the one lacking wisdom! How freely you have revealed your practical wisdom! To whom are you trying to speak...

197) God and Samuel / Samuel and God When Samuel had grown old, he appointed his sons as judges for Israel. The name of his firstborn son was Joel, and the name of his second, Abijah; they were judges in Beer-sheba. But his sons did not walk in his ways; they were inclined to pursue dishonest...

197) - Coming back to Daniel 1 thread 81 : -When Alexander the Great took control of Babylon, he ordered the restoration of the temples ! - We can imagine he was looking for the favor of the priests and of the people ! - Another example of the power of religion !