Jul 9, 2024 | All Posts, On This Day |
According to tradition, it was on this day that Joshua commanded the sun to be still upon Gibeon. Then Joshua spoke to the Lord in the day when the Lord delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel, and he said in the sight of Israel: “Sun, stand still over...
Jul 8, 2024 | All Posts, On This Day |
It was on this day in 1948 that the first truce of many in the Israeli-Arab War was ended. Throughout Israel’s history, there have been many wars and cease-fires, and many starts and stops where peace agreements are concerned – too many to number, quite frankly....
Jul 7, 2024 | All Posts, On This Day |
It was on this day that Jacob and his family arrived in Goshen to begin their sojourn in Egypt. It’s recorded in Genesis 46: “Then Jacob arose from Beersheba; and the sons of Israel carried their father Jacob, their little ones, and their wives, in the carts which...
Jul 6, 2024 | All Posts, On This Day |
It was on this day in the year 1927 that, in a public letter written to Louis Marshall, Henry Ford of the Ford Motor Company retracted and apologized for the spurious, “Protocols of the Elders of Zion.” As you may know, this publication made fantastic...
Jul 5, 2024 | All Posts, On This Day |
According to tradition, it was on this day that Moses dispatched the twelve spies to go into the land of Canaan: “Then Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan, and said to them, ‘Go up this way into the South, and go up to the mountains, and see what the...
Jul 4, 2024 | All Posts, On This Day |
It was on this day that Moses led the children of Israel into the wilderness of Paran, as recorded in Numbers 12: “And afterward the people moved from Hazeroth and camped in the Wilderness of Paran.” (Numbers 12:16) There is a great deal of theological debate as to...
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