HCSB Study <strong>Bible</strong>sHCSB Study <strong>Bible</strong>.indb 412a 11:27 Gn 18:25;Jb 9:15; 23:7; Ps7:11; 50:6; 75:7;Is 33:22b 11:30 Gn 28:20;Nm 30:2; 1Sm1:11c 11:31 Ps 66:13d 11:32 Jdg 12:3;1Sm 14:10e 11:33 Lv 26:41;Jdg 3:30; 8:28;1Sm 7:13; 1Ch20:4; 2Ch 13:18;Ps 106:42f 11:34 Ex 15:20;32:19; Jdg 21:21;Sg 6:13ca 1300 b.c. – ca 600 b.c.c4ba21. Entrance2. Central Courtyarda. firepitb. cistern1bc3. Living Quarters (“long room”)644. Storage/Workshop/Kitchen4 a5. Rooftop (extra area for eating, workingand sleeping during warm weather)26c. roller - for recompacting clay roof followingrain. man shown is patching roof.6. Animal Pen1Israelite four-room house. Some interpreters believe Jephthah lived in a four-room house that was common inIsrael during the Iron Age. Many such houses had a room for the family’s animals. If Jephthah lived in such a house,his vow (11:30) may have been based on the assumption that one of his animals would be the first to greet him whenhe returned from victory over the Ammonites. For a different view, see the note at 11:29-33.356/23/10 5:28:12 PM1801a 1:1 Gn 1:1; Col1:18b Jn 1:14; 1Jn1:1; Rv 19:13c Jn 20:28; Php2:62 He was with God in the beginning. dd 1:2 Jn 8:38;3 All things were created e through Him, f 17:5; Ac 26:4e 1:3 Col 1:16;Heb 1:2f Rm 11:36g 1:4 1Jn 2:5h Ps 36:9; Jn12:46i 1:5 1Jn 2:8j Php 3:12k 1:6 Mk 1:4l 1:8 Jn 15:26m 1:9 Jn 12:46n Jn 18:37; 1Jn 13 who were born, w6 There was a man named John k2:8o 1:10 Jn 1:3p 1:12 2Jn 10q Jn 5:43r Mk 1:22; Ac9:14s Lk 1:7t Mt 5:9; Jn11:52; Rm 8:16;1Jn 3:1u Jn 3:16v Jn 10:25; 1Jn3:23w 1:13 1Pt 1:3 16:12; Eph 2:3; 2Tm 2:26; 2Pt 1:21 y Php 3:3 z 1Pt 1:3; 1Jn 2:29x1Co 7:37; aa 1:14 Jn 1:1 ab Php 2:7; 1Jn 4:2; 5:20 ac Mk 10:37; Jn 17:24A 1:1 The Word (Gk Logos) is a title for Jesus as the communication and the revealer of God the Father; Jn 1:14,18; Rv 19:13.B 1:3-4 Other punctuation is possible: . . . not one thing was created. What was created in Him was life C 1:5 Or grasp, orcomprehend, or overtake ; Jn 12:35 D 1:7 Or through it (the light) E 1:9 Or The true light who comes into the world gives lightto everyone, or The true light enlightens everyone coming into the world. F 1:11 The same Gk adjective is used twice in thisverse: the first refers to all that Jesus owned as Creator (to His own); the second refers to the Jews (His own people). G 1:12 Orbecome H 1:13 Lit bloods ; the pl form of blood occurs only here in the NT. It may refer either to lineal descent (that is, blood fromone’s father and mother) or to the OT sacrificial system (that is, the various blood sacrifices). Neither is the basis for birth into thefamily of God. I 1:13 Or not of human lineage, or of human capacity, or of human volition J 1:14 The eternally existent Word (v v. 1-2)took on full humanity but without sin; Heb 4:15. K 1:14 Or and dwelt in a tent ; lit and tabernacled ; this word occurs only here inJohn. A related word, referring to the Festival of Tabernacles, occurs only in 7:2; Ex 40:34-38.1:1-18 John’s prologue presents Jesus as the eternal, preexistentWord-become-flesh (v v. 1,14) and as the one-of-a-beginning God created the heavens and the earth.” John lo-1:1 In the beginning was the Word echoes Gn 1:1, “In thekind Son of the Father who is Himself God (v v. 1,18). Jesus cated Jesus’ existence in eternity past with God. “The Word”culminated God’s plan of salvation. Previous to Jesus this (Gk logos) conveys the notion of divine self-expression orplan included God giving the law through Moses (v. 17), His speech (Ps 19:1-4). God’s Word is effective. He speaks, anddwelling among His people in the tabernacle (v. 14), and the things come into being (Gn 1:3,9; Is 55:11-12).sending of John the Baptist (v v. 6-8,15). The prologue introducesseveral themes that are emphasized later in the1:4-5 The references to life . . . light, and darkness continue todraw on Genesis themes (cp. Gn 1:3-5,14-18,20-31; 2:7; 3:20).Gospel, including Jesus as life, light, and truth, believers asLight symbolism is also found in later OT messianic passagesGod’s children, and the world’s rejection of Jesus.(Is 9:2; 42:6-7; 49:6; 60:1-5; Mal 4:2; cp. Lk 1:78-79).1:7-8 On John as a witness to Jesus, see note at 5:31-47.Greek Pronunciation [LAH gahss]1:11 His own people did not receive Him refers to the Jewishpeople, the recipients of God’s covenants, the law, andHCSB Translation WordUses in John’s Gospel 40promises of a Messiah (Rm 9:4). Messiah’s rejection by theUses in the NT 330Jews despite convincing proofs of His messiahship (esp. theFocus Passage John 1:1,14“signs”) is a major subject in the first half of John’s Gospel(cp. 12:37).Like the related verb lego (to speak), the noun logos most oftenrefers to either oral or written communication. It means statementor report in some contexts, but most often in John’s Gospel acterization of Israel as God’s children (Dt 14:1; cp. Ex 4:22).1:12-13 <strong>Reference</strong> to children of God builds on the OT char-(and in the NT in general) logos refers to God’s Word (that is, the Born, not of blood . . . but of God makes clear that trueOld Testament) or to Jesus’ words. Thus, the primary use of logos children of God come into being through faith in Messiah,is to denote divine revelation in some form or another. John used not physical birth or ethnic descent (8:41-47; cp. 3:16). Thisthe term in its most exalted sense when he personified logos to opens the way for Gentiles to become God’s children (11:51-refer to Christ. The Logos eternally existed as God (the Son) and 52; cp. 10:16).with God (the Father)—He was in fact the Creator (Jn 1:1-3)—butHe became a human being (v. 14), Jesus of Nazareth, so that He1:14 The Word continues the theme of 1:1. Became fleshcould reveal the Father and His will for humanity (v. 18).does not mean the Word stopped being God; rather, theWord was made flesh. 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Elsewhere in the three towns that defined the traditional border between<strong>Bible</strong>, Chemosh is the god of Moab, while Molech is the god Israel and Ammon. In between empowerment and victory,of Ammon. Balak earlier had tried to curse Israel by means though, there was an intervening episode that underminedof the prophet Balaam, but he was unable to do so (Nm 22– Jephthah’s triumph. Jephthah sought to ensure the Lord’s24). The Lord would be the ultimate Judge of their dispute. favor by vowing to sacrifice as a whole burnt offering whatever(or whoever) came out of the doors of his house toAt this point diplomacy was over, and the war began.greet him after he had won his victory.11:29-33 The spirit of the Lord came on Jephthah, empoweringhim for action. He toured Gilead and Manasseh to mind, since animals do not normally come out to greet theIt seems probable that Jephthah had a human sacrifice inmuster his troops and headed out against the Ammonites. returning troops. Just as he confused Chemosh and MolechThe Lord in turn gave him victory over the Ammonites, from in the previous section, so now he confused the Lord withAroer all the way to . . . Minnith and to Abel-keramim— Chemosh and Molech. The gods of the Moabites and Am-Judges 11:26 412of Zippor, king of Moab? Did he ever contendwith Israel or fight against them? 26 WhileIsrael lived 300 years in Heshbon and its villages,in Aroer and its villages, and in all thecities that are on the banks of the Arnon, whydidn’t you take them back at that time? 27 Ihave not sinned against you, but you havewronged me by fighting against me. Let theLord who is the Judge a decide today betweenthe Israelites and the Ammonites.” 28 But theking of the Ammonites would not listen toJephthah’s message that he sent him.Jephthah’s Vow and Sacrifice29 The Spirit of the Lord came on Jephthah,who traveled through Gilead and Manasseh,and then through Mizpah of Gilead. Hecrossed over to the Ammonites from MizpahTypical Israelite Home of the Iron Ageof Gilead. 30 Jephthah made this vow b to theLord: “If You will hand over the Ammonitesto me, 31 whatever comes out of the doors ofmy house to greet me when I return in peacefrom the Ammonites will belong to the Lord,and I will offer it as a • burnt offering.” c32 Jephthah crossed over to the Ammonitesto fight against them, and the Lord handedthem over d to him. 33 He defeated 20 of theircities with a great slaughter from Aroer all theway to the entrance of Minnith and to Abelkeramim.So the Ammonites were subdued ebefore the Israelites.34 When Jephthah went to his home in Mizpah,there was his daughter, coming out tomeet him with tambourines and dancing! fShe was his only child; he had no other son5 (upper level)3 (lower level)Sample InteriorJohn 1:1410 PrologueHe was in the world,1 In the beginning a was the Word, A, band the world was created oand the Word was with God,through Him,and the Word was God. cyet the • world did notrecognize Him.11 He came to His own, Fand apart from Him not one thingand His own people Fwas createddid not receive Him.12that has been created.But to all who did receive p Him, q4 Life was in Him, B, gHe gave them the right r to be Gand that life was the light h of men.children s of God, t5 That light shines i in the darkness,to those who believe uyet the darkness did not overcome C it. jin His name, vnot of blood, Hwho was sent from God.or of the will x of the flesh, y7 He came as a witnessor of the will of man, Ito testify about the light,but of God. zso that all might believe through him. D148 The WordHe was not the light,aa J, abbecame fleshand took up residencebut he came to testify l about the light.K among us.9 We observed His glory,The true light, m who gives lightacto everyone,was coming into the world. E, nlogos161-800-251-3225
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