You are to make poles of acacia wood, overlay them with gold, and put the poles into the rings at the sides of the ark in order to carry the ark with them. The poles must remain in the rings of the ark; they must not be removed from it. Exodus 25.13-15 NET.
Is this too hard for people to understand? Let’s ask Uzzah … 2 Samuel 6.
I wish that they were wise and could understand this, and that they could comprehend what will happen to them. Deuteronomy 32.39 NET.
Things would be so different if they did!
Now the Lord energized Elijah with power; he tucked his robe into his belt and ran ahead of Ahab all the way to Jezreel. 1 Kings 18.46 NET.
God gives the power to do his bidding.
Neither gold nor crystal can be compared with it, nor can a vase of gold match its worth. Job 28.17 NET.
The worth of wisdom. Have you acquired it?
Sing to God! Sing! Sing to our king! Sing! Psalm 47.6 NET.
Messiah, anyone?
The person who gets wisdom loves himself. And, the one who possesses understanding will succeed. Proverbs 19.8 IEB.
Listen to this author when he tells what self-love is all about.
If you had only obeyed Me, then you would have had peace, like a gentle river. Good things would have flowed to you, like the waves of the ocean. Isaiah 48.18 IEB.
What was true for the Israelites hundreds of years before Christ is true today for us 2000 years after Christ.
The tempter came and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, command these stones to become bread.” Matthew 4.3 NET.
Temptation draws you an attractive picture.
If a man beats any person to death, he must be put to death. Leviticus 24.17 NET.
The principle in effect since Genesis 9.