Genesis 2: 8
And the Lord planted a garden eastward in Eden. . .
NOTE: Scholars have been trying for millennia to discover the location of mythical ‘Eden’ and perhaps a passage in the Old Testament holds a clue.
II Kings 19: 12b refers to the people of Eden who were in Telassar.
3: 23-24
The Lord God drove the man (‘Adam’) out of the Garden of Eden. . .
NOTE: The text doesn’t mention about ‘Eve’ being driven out of the Garden
5: 2
He created them male and female, and He blessed them and named them ‘Man’ (“ADAM”) in the day when they were created
9: 24-25
Noah knew what his youngest son (??) did to him and cursed his descendant (Canaan) with servitude to his brothers. . .
NOTE: Ham was not the ‘youngest’ son (Cp. 5: 32; 6: 10; 7: 13; 9: 18)
11: 2
And it came about as they journeyed east; they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there. NOTE: Who are they??
15: 18
On that day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying, “To your descendants I have given this land, from the river of Egypt [“Nile”] as far as the great river, the river Euphrates: NOTE: No explanation as to why at this time
17: 17
Abraham laughed in his heart when God told him about bearing a son in his old age.
18: 11
Sarah laughed in her heart when she overheard the Lord tell Abraham about having a son in an old advanced age, at which time she had to give an account for her inner thoughts, but Abraham didn’t (Cp. 18: 12-15??)
NOTE: It’s almost like 2 different versions of the same event woven together.
20: 2-3
Abimelech king of Gerar (land of Judah) took Sarah and God appeared to him in a dream and told him that he was a dead man for taking her because she was married.
NOTE: How feasible is it that a king would be attracted to a woman ninety years old (Cp. 17: 17); unless she really, really didn’t look her age?
20: 12
Sarah is Abraham’s sister; the daughter of his father but not from his birth mother, which would make Sarah his half-sister. NOTE: Why is this not mentioned before? (Cp. 11: 26-29)
22: 2, 19-20, 23
And He [God] said, “Take now your son, your only son, whom you love, Isaac, and go to the land of Moriah; and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains of which I will tell you.” So Abraham returned to his young men, and they arose and went together to Beersheba; and Abraham lived at Beersheba. NOTE: Guess who was living in the wilderness of Beersheba or is it Paran (Hagar; Cp. 21: 14-21??)
23: 2
And Sarah died in Kiriath-arba (that is Hebron) in the land of Canaan.
NOTE: Why did Abraham live in Beersheba and Sarah in Hebron; was it over Abraham taking Isaac to offer him as a burnt sacrifice on one of the mountains of Moriah??
24: 4, 10
Abraham’s country, and his relatives lived in Mesopotamia (‘Ur of the Chaldeans;’ Cp. 11: 28; 12: 1) NOTE: Interesting that the ancestor of the Jewish people is an Iraqi??
26: 7-33
NOTE: Isaac’s encounter with Abimelech almost identical to that of his father Abraham, and not only that, but it is forty years later at least (Cp. 20: 1-18??)
Exodus 4: 20, 24-26
Now it came about at the lodging place on the way that the Lord met him and sought to put him to death.Then Zipporah took a flint and cut off her son's foreskin (which one; Cp. 18: 3??) and threw it a Moses' feet, and she said, "You are indeed a bridegroom of blood to me". So He let him alone (??). At that time she said, “You are a bridegroom of blood” because of the circumcision. NOTE: This is a most unusual and difficult passage to understand why the Lord tried to kill Moses. Also, his wife knew about the rite of circumcision and he didn’t at this time? Lastly, they had two sons but only one was mentioned as circumcised.
14: 21-22
Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and the Lord swept the sea back by a strong east wind all night, and turned the sea into dry land, so that the waters were divided. And the sons of Israel went through the midst of the sea on the dry land, and the waters were like a wall to them on their right hand and on their left.
NOTE: This is quite a different version from Cecile B. DeMille’s movie “The Ten Commandments.”
19: 20-21, 24; 24: 9-11
Then the Lord came down on Mount Sinai, on top of the mountain, and the Lord called Moses to the top of the mountain, and Moses went up. And the Lord said to Moses, “Go down and warn the people, lest they break through to gaze at the Lord, and many of them perish. Then the Lord said to him, “Away! Get down and then come up, you and Aaron with you. But do not let the priests and the people break through to come up to the Lord, lest He break out against them.” Then Moses went up, also Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel, and they saw the God of Israel. And there was under His feet as it were a paved work of sapphire stone, and it was like the very heaven in its clarity. But on the nobles of the children of Israel He did not lay His hand. So they saw God, and they ate and drank.
22: 16-17
“If a man seduces a virgin who is not engaged, and lies with her, he must pay a dowry for her to be his wife. “If her father absolutely refuses to give her [in marriage] to him, he shall pay money equal to the dowry for virgins.”
NOTE: This is probably the nearest equivalent to modern-day ‘dating’ or pre-marital sex
Numbers 12: 1-3
Then Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses because of the Cushite woman he had married (for he had married a Cushite woman); and they said, “Has the Lord indeed spoken only through Moses? Has He not spoken through us as well?” And the Lord heard it. (Now the man Moses was very humble, more than any man who was on the face of the earth). NOTE: What was the real issue regarding Moses marrying a Cushite woman and where is Zipporah, his Midianite wife? Also, Moses is the unlikely author of this particular statement, let alone the rest of the book.
22: 9-10, 12
Then God came to Balaam and said, “Who are these men with you?” And Balaam said to God, “Balak the son of Nippor, king of Moab, has sent word to me. . . And God said to Balaam, “Do not go up with them; you shall not curse the people; for they are blessed.”
22: 20-22, 34-35
And God came to Balaam at night and said to him, “If the men have come to call you, rise up and go with them; but only the word which I speak to you shall you do. So Balaam arose in the morning, and saddled his donkey; and went with the leaders of Moab. But God was angry he was going (??), and the angel of the Lord took his stand in the way as an adversary against him. Now he was riding on his donkey and his two servants were with him. And Balaam said to the angel of the Lord, “I have sinned for I did not know that you were standing in the way against me. Now then, if it is displeasing to you, I will turn back.” But the angel of the Lord said to him, “Go with the men, but you speak the word which I shall tell you (??).” So Balaam went along with the leaders of Balak.
26: 11
The sons of Korah, however, did not die (Numbers 16: 24, 32-33??).
31:14-18
And Moses was angry with the officers of the army, the captains of thousands, and the captains of hundreds, who had come from service in the war. And Moses said to them, "Have you let all the women live?" “Behold, these caused the sons of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam to trespass against the Lord in the matter of Peor, so the plague was among the congregation of the Lord. “Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman who has known man intimately".
NOTE: Kill every woman who is not a virgin?? Moses commanded, "But all the girls who have not known man intimately, keep alive for yourselves". (interesting??)
Deuteronomy
10: 1-5
“At that time the Lord said to me, ‘Cut out for yourself two tablets of stone like the former ones, and come up to Me on the mountain, and make an ark of wood for yourself. ‘And I will write on the tablets the words that were on the former tablets which you shattered, and you shall put them in the ark.’ “So I made an ark of acacia wood (‘Bezalel’ made it; Cp. Exodus 35: 30, 31, 37: 1??) and cut out two tablets of stone like the former ones, and went up the mountain with the two tablets in my hand. “And he wrote on the tablets, like the former writing, the Ten Commandments which the Lord had spoken to you on the mountain from the midst of the fire on the day of the assembly; and the Lord gave them to me. “Then I turned and came down from the mountain, and put the tablets in the ark which I had made; and there they are, as the Lord had commanded me.”
10: 6-9
(Now the sons of Israel set out from Beeroth Bene-jaakan to Moserah. There Aaron died and there he was buried and Eleazar his son ministered as priest in his place. From there they set out to Gudgodah; and from Gudgodah to Jotbathah, a land of brooks of water. [NOTE: This account is a slightly abbreviated version and not entirely consistent with the passages in [Numbers 20: 20-28; 33: 30-39??] At that time the Lord set apart the tribe of Levi to carry the ark of the covenant of the Lord, to stand before the Lord to serve Him and to bless in His name until this day. Therefore, Levi does not have a portion or inheritance with his brothers; the Lord is his inheritance, just as the Lord your God spoke to him.)
29: 27
‘Therefore, the anger of the Lord burned against that land, to bring upon it every curse which is written in this book; and the Lord uprooted them from their land in anger and in fury and in great wrath, and cast them into another land, as it is this day.’ NOTE: Very significant because it seems to suggest a later period for the writing during either the Babylonian or Assyrian captivity.
Joshua 5: 13-15
Now it came about when Joshua was by Jericho, that he lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, a man was standing opposite him with a sword drawn in his hand, and Joshua went to him and said to him, “Are you for us or for our adversaries?” And he said, “No, rather I indeed come now as captain of the host of the Lord.” And Joshua fell on his face to the earth, and bowed down, and said to him, “What has my lord to say to his servant?” And the captain of the Lord’s host said to Joshua, “Remove your sandals from your feet, for the place where you are standing is holy (Cp. Genesis 3: 2-5).” And Joshua did so.
10:11-12
And it came about as they fled from before Israel, while they were at the descent of Beth-horon, that the Lord threw large stones from heaven on them as far as Azekah, and they died; there were more who died from the hailstones than those whom the sons of Israel killed with the sword. Then Joshua spoke to the Lord in the day when the Lord delivered up the Amorites before the sons of Israel, and he said in the sight of Israel, "O sun, stand still at Gibeon, And O moon in the valley of Aijalon".
10.13-14
So the sun stood still, and the moon stopped, until the nation avenged themselves of their enemies. "Is it not written in the book of Jashar?" And the sun
stopped in the middle of the sky, and did not hasten to go down for about a whole day. "And there was no day like that before it or after it, when the Lord listened to the voice of a man; for the Lord fought for Israel".
Judges 1: 16
The descendants of the Kenite, Moses’ father [‘brother’]-in-law (??).
NOTE: Moses’ father-in-law was Midianite (Cp. Exodus 2: 16, 18; 3: 1; Numbers 10: 29); the descendants of Hobab, Moses’ brother-in-law (Cp. Numbers 10: 29??) were undoubtedly Kenites (Cp. Judges 4: 11) NOTE: Reuel or Jethro was not previously mentioned as having a son, only 7 daughters (Cp. Exodus 2: 16, 20??)
13.17-18
Then Minoah said to the angel of the Lord, “what is your NAME, so that when your words come to pass, we may honor you?" But the angel of the Lord said to him, "Why do you ask my NAME, seeing it is incomprehensible". (very interesting??)
18: 1
In those days there was no king in Israel. And in those days the tribe of the Danites were seeking an inheritance for itself to dwell in; for until that day their inheritance among the tribes of Israel had not fallen to them. NOTE: This contradicts the account in Joshua 19: 40-48
I Samuel 3: 1
Word from the Lord was rare in those days and visions were infrequent.
NOTE: This is an interesting statement.
6: 18
Even as far as the large stone of Abel on which they sat the ark of the Lord, which stone remains to this day in the field of Joshua of Beth Shemesh.
NOTE: Another statement in which the event seems as contemporary. Also, is the large “stone of Abel” part of the famous ‘Kaaba’ stone revered by Muslims the world over and around which is built Islam’s holiest shrine?
6: 15, 19
The Levites took down the ark of the Lord. Some of the men of Beth-Shemesh (territory and tribe of Judah) looked into the ark of the Lord and He struck down
50, 070 men of the people. NOTE: This is like what happened to those Nazi soldiers and Professor of Antiquities from Germany in the “Indiana Jones” movie.
15: 35b
And the Lord repented creating man and that He had made Saul king over Israel Cp. Genesis 6: 6; I Samuel 15: 11).
NOTE: One of the few instances in all sacred Scripture where God regrets something.
Jeremiah 43.12
"He will shatter the obelisks of Heliopolis (Heb. Beth-shemesh, the house of the Sun-god), which is in the land of Egypt; and the temples of the gods of Egypt he will burn with fire". NOTE: Shemesh must have been a minor god because the Great Sun god of the Egyptians is RA; not to mention other gods and goddesses.
44.15-18
Then all the men who were aware that their wives were burning sacrifices to other gods, along with all the women who were standing by, as a large assembly, including all the people who were living in Pathros in the land of Egypt, responded to Jeremiah, saying, "As for the message that you have spoken to us in the name of the Lord, we are not going to listen to you". "We will certainly carry out every word that has proceeded from our mouths, by burning sacrifices to the queen of heaven and pouring libations to her, just as we ourselves, our forefathers, our princes and our kings did in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem; for then we had plenty of food, and we were well off, and saw no misfortune". "But since we stopped burning sacrifices to the queen of heaven and pouring libations to her, we have lacked everything and have met our end by the sword and by famine". NOTE: This is quite surprising as this seems to be a more powerful deity than the usual Ashtoreth or Asherim because neither is referred to in such a reverential manner.
Isaiah 20: 18-25
In that day five cities in the land of Egypt will speak the language of Canaan and swear by the Lord of Hosts (YHVH Sabaoth); one will be called the city of Destruction (Arab). In that day there will be an altar to the Lord in the middle of the land of Egypt, and a pillar to the Lord at its border. And it will be for a sign and a witness to the Lord of Hosts in the land of Egypt; for they will cry to the Lord because of the oppressors, and He will send them a Savior and a Mighty One, and He will deliver them. Then the Lord will be known to Egypt in that day, and will make sacrifice and offering; yes, they will make a vow to the Lord and perform it. And the Lord will strike Egypt, He will strike and heal it; they will return to the Lord, and He will be entreated by them and heal them. In that day there will be a highway from Egypt to Assyria, and the Assyrian will come into Egypt and the Egyptian into Assyria, and the Egyptians will serve with the Assyrians. In that day Israel will be one of three with Egypt and Assyria-A blessing in the middle of the land, whom the Lord shall bless, saying, "Blessed is Egypt My People, and Assyria the work of My hands, and Israel My inheritance."
Robert Randle
776 Commerce St. #B-11
Tacoma, WA 98402
April 19, 2008
