Researching scriptures in medicine in the Bible and when/how it was used. Found this article with some good examples.
20 Important Bible Verses About Medicine (Powerful Verses)
20 Important Bible Verses About Medicine (Powerful Verses)
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Michiah-Imla
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It is interesting that one of the promises to Israel for obedience was this:
Exodus 23:25 KJVS
And ye shall serve the Lord your God, and he shall bless thy bread, and thy water; and I will take sickness away from the midst of thee.
Negating any need for physicians and medicine to begin with.
I don't know if that was a specific promise or it applies to us today too. If this is OT, how much greater is the promise of Healing for those in Christ Jesus after His sacrifice? Hard to walk in that kind of faith.
Like, is Jesus with us in the same way he was with this woman today:
Mark 5:24-29 ESV
And he went with him. And a great crowd followed him and thronged about him. And there was a woman who had had a discharge of blood for twelve years, and who had suffered much under many physicians, and had spent all that she had, and was no better but rather grew worse. She had heard the reports about Jesus and came up behind him in the crowd and touched his garment. For she said, “If I touch even his garments, I will be made well.” ...
And what would be His "garment" today.
Mark 5:24-29 ESV
And he went with him. And a great crowd followed him and thronged about him. And there was a woman who had had a discharge of blood for twelve years, and who had suffered much under many physicians, and had spent all that she had, and was no better but rather grew worse. She had heard the reports about Jesus and came up behind him in the crowd and touched his garment. For she said, “If I touch even his garments, I will be made well.” ...
And what would be His "garment" today.
Please be careful in your understanding of scripture. The sickness in Ex 23:25 is the sickness that results in turning away from God, and if the nation of Israel repents when God allows the sickness of correct to permeate the land and nation of Israel, then God will remove that sickness from off of the people of Israel. This Hebrew word is only found three time in scripture according to BibleHub internet site, and "ma·ḥă·lāh" is found only three times in the OT in these three verses: -
Two of the three occurrences are associated with Solomon's prayer.
In understanding God's word, it does require us to dig a little deeper than the English Translations that we can easily read, but lacks the same contextual accuracy as the source language's message.
Shalom
PS:- Bible Study requires more than a cursory running of the eye over what is contained in our English Translations to come to the original understanding of what was written in the Hebrew or Greek texts.
Two of the three occurrences are associated with Solomon's prayer.
In understanding God's word, it does require us to dig a little deeper than the English Translations that we can easily read, but lacks the same contextual accuracy as the source language's message.
Shalom
PS:- Bible Study requires more than a cursory running of the eye over what is contained in our English Translations to come to the original understanding of what was written in the Hebrew or Greek texts.
Michiah-Imla
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Funny how none of the New Testament writers (who knew the Hebrew language better than anyone in our time would) warned us of this; or even taught us how to unlock the “original understanding” of the Old Testament writings.
Because there is nothing to be unlocked or decoded in the Hebrew writings, that’s why.
This is why we have translations to begin with:
As is written in the preface to the beloved King James Bible:
“But how shall men meditate in that, which they cannot understand? How shall they understand that which is kept close in an unknown tongue?
Translation it is that openeth the window, to let in the light; that breaketh the shell, that we may eat the kernel; that putteth aside the curtain, that we may look into the most Holy place; that removeth the cover of the well, that we may come by the water”
Praise God that we have a translation by men with such an encouraging spirit as this!
Perhaps. But they, the disciples, knew the LXX much better than their Hebrew Scrolls and there were many errors in translation and scribal miss understands in the LXX.
Now your statement above: -
Does need to be verified as your blanket statement does not reflect the context and message of Ex 23:25 or the other two occurrences in the OT. I agree with you that repentance for the nation's sins on a global basis for the nation of Israel, would mean that God would not only heal the people of Israel, but also that He would also heal the land where they where living at that time. That is still the future promise of God's when Israel as a nation repent of their sins and God sprinkles water over them to heal them where ever they may be living scattered amongst the nations.
The passage, Ex 23:25, that you have quoted, is actually off the OP's topic with respect to the Bible and medicines as no medicines are needed in this respective case of healing the nation as a whole.
Shalom
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