#gilgal

[granonine]

Gilgal

Joshua 4:19-20 And the people came up out of Jordan on the tenth day of the first month, and encamped in Gilgal, in the east border of Jericho. And those twelve stones, which they took out of Jordan, did Joshua pitch in Gilgal. I’m keeping it short today. I have an appointment at 10:30. There is no way to be certain if any of the pictures I’ve seen of the stones set up at Gilgal are indeed…

[tom4jc]

May 17, 2024 Memory Verse

[kdmiller55]

The Beginning of the End

1 Saul lived for one year and then became king, and when he had reigned for two years over Israel, 2 Saul chose three thousand men of Israel. Two thousand were with Saul in Michmash and the hill country of Bethel, and a thousand were with Jonathan in Gibeah of Benjamin. The rest of the people he sent home, every man to his tent. 3 Jonathan defeated the garrison of the Philistines that was at…

[scripture-pictures]

[graceintorah]

A Voice is Heard in Ramah Part II

For I heard a cry like one in labor, the anguish of one giving birth to her first child—the cry of the Daughter of Zion gasping for breath, stretching out her hands saying, “Oy, now to me! For my soul faints before murderers.” (Jeremiah 4:31, TLV) I was in Israel when war broke out on Simchat Torah. Our tour group was scheduled to fly home that night. Some of us were able to get out because we…

[godswordforyourweek]

Legacy.

Joshua 4:20-21.

“And there at Gilgal Joshua set up (standing) the twelve stones they had taken from the Jordan. And he said to the people of Israel, “When your children ask their fathers in times to come, ‘What do these stones mean?”

Standing Stones…Legacy.

Standing stones, set up to remember marks of significant events or moments.

Our legacy is not just about monetary transfer of wealth to children, biblical legacy is about setting up standing stones…miraculous moments along the way.   

This week, think about your legacy that reflects the same for your family.

Pastor Robin.

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[ligaligmikeortega]

Amos 5:5 Do no seek Bethel (NET)

Amos 5:5 Do no seek Bethel (NET)

Amos 5:5 New English Translation | Do not seek Bethel! Do not visit Gilgal! Do not journey down to Beer Sheba! For the people of Gilgal will certainly be carried into exile; and Bethel will become a place where disaster abounds.”

[brothermouse]

It's Pioneer Day so you know I gotta spend time with my boys, Joe Sphinx and The Captain

[sakasakiii]

Hi!

I love your work!! Your art is very pretty. Do you have a specific idea of how old everyone is ? Do you lean more towards canon or do you have your own dates in mind ? If don’t wanna a answer it’s ok!

Hope u have a nice day

(Remember to drink water!)

hiiii nonnie!!! thank you for checking in, and im happy u like the stuff i put out!! when it comes to ages, it's difficult to answer sometimes bc of the way professor tolkien's timeline is-- it makes gauging one singular place where most of the cast can be compared something that makes my tired brain go 😵🤧🤕 but i love the prompt youve given! and thus heres my attempt at it

with most of my tolkien stuff, i always try to stick to canon wherever possible emphasis is on try lmao and the topic of ages is one such place. i do make exceptions to the Professor's canon sometimes for a few reasons: 1) i like some of the scrapped ideas in his drafts, or 2) i just prefer other options. with ages, i think the only charas with canon-established ages i deviated from are fingolfin, finrod, turgon, and aredhel. i try to keep cases like these minimal tho, so i hope it doesn't bother anyone too much... 👉👈

anyways i figured just dropping a list of numbers would be kinda boring to look at so heres an illustrated guide to what the ~rough~ ages of the finweans are in my head whenever i write or draw. Y.T. 1495 (the year Finwe dies) is the controlled medium ive used to enable a fair comparison of the Finweans

note: "born Y.T. xxx" means this is the canon date of birth listed on Tolkien Gateway. "est. born [xxx]" means this is a noncanon estimate:

the First Age gets a lot more muddled from there due to the hullaballoo of everything going on, so ill only be including the doriathrim and a few other denizens of nargothrond:

it's mostly the older elves that are more undefined/vague with their ages (i.o.w. others like elwing, earendil, the peredhil twins, and most Men all have set dates of birth), so they're all i'll be doing for now. but it's that vagueness which makes hcing all the more enjoyable, isn't it! plus since we’re on this subject, under the cut are just a few headcanons and musings ive had that i wanted to put somewhere 😙

Finarfin and Earwen were born within months of each other! Finwe and Olwe made a Really Big Deal out of when they found out their wives were pregnant at the same time. As a result, the two were often sent on many playdates with each other to “bolster healthy relations” between the Noldor and the Teleri. It wasn’t an arranged marriage situation, but I like to think they were goofy for each other from the start… Resulting in the two eventually getting married as soon as they came of age, the fastest out of all of Finwe’s kids to do so. 

The reason the Ambarussa are significantly younger than the other Finweans (especially the Feanorians-- there’s a 100 Valian year gap between them and Curufin alone!) is because I imagine they were accidental babies that even Feanor didn’t expect to conceive. too bad morgoth said "its morgin time!" and started Messing Things Up shortly afterwards.....

Anaire was Lalwen's good friend long before she married Fingolfin; they met through Lalwen who wingmanned Fingolfin the whole time. i like think Anaire'd be the best out of all the wives at keeping good, healthy bonds with all the women of her family :DD

luthien's potential 姐姐/big sis dynamic with all the younger doriathrim elves is something i daydream about a lot 😌 but sometimes the fact that she's older than finarfin keeps me up at night

this has been really fun, so thanks again for asking-- annnd yessir, i am chugging water as i write this so you better be doing the same ❤️ have a great start to your week!

[nin-varisse]

Amazon seems to have made a decision towards Gil-Gadaddy's Daddy in ROP!

I was hoping for Gil Galad son of Russingon but I guess you can't always win.

[cyeayt]

me: so we're all aware of sexyman ammon flexing on top of his pile of 40 severed bandit arms, but what we need to be talking about is the joseph smith sphinx, which is not just a prop in cult classic movie "plan10 from outer space", but is a real piece in gilgal sculpture garden, carved with innovative oxyacetylene torch te- huh i wonder what my nonmormon followers think of this

my exmormon followers: honestly you kinda lost us too

[granonine]

Rolled Away

Joshua 5:8-9. And it came to pass, when they had done circumcising all the people, that they abode in their places in the camp, till they were whole. And the LORD said unto Joshua, This day have I rolled away the reproach of Egypt from off you. Wherefore the name of the place is called Gilgal unto this day. The name Gilgal means “a circle, a rolling away.” Verse 9, above, tells us that through…

[mybeautifulchristianjourney]

Seek the Lord and Live

4 The Lord says this to the family of Israel:

“Seek me so you can live! 5 Do not seek Bethel. Do not visit Gilgal. Do not journey down to Beer Sheba. For the people of Gilgal will certainly be carried into exile, and Bethel will become a place where disaster abounds.” — Amos 5:4-5 | New English Translation (NET Bible) NET Bible® copyright ©1996-2017 by Biblical Studies Press, L.L.C. All rights reserved Cross References: Genesis 21:31; 1 Samuel 7:16; 1 Samuel 8:2; 1 Kings 12:28; Deuteronomy 4:29; Deuteronomy 32:46-47; Isaiah 31:1; Jeremiah 29:13; Amos 3:14

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What does God mean when He says, “Seek me and live?”

[hydrajones]

So my mom looked up the whole "Joseph Smith Sphinx" thing b/c she HAD to know how where it was and how it got built

It is indeed inside Salt Lake City Utah, aka Mormen central, and is open to the public for visiting! The saga of how this happened is bellow for your reading pleasure!

So, it started as a passion project for one Mormon guy in his backyard. There are more statutes there as other random Bible/Mormonism references. It's called Gilgal Garden (after a memorial Joshua commanded the Isrealites to make in the Bible).

When the guy who built it passed away, another family took over and started opening it to the public on Sundays. However, they couldn't handle the upkeep, and there was a lot of vandalism. So the owners considered making it the centerpiece of an apartment complex. Or just removing it to put in a condominium.

Then, a group of citizens calling themselves The Friends of Gilgal Garden showed up to save the Garden from being destroyed by Turing it into a protected public site. They didn't have the funds so they spent a while campaigning, convincing the city to keep it, restoring the Garden from vandalism, etc.

Now, if you are ever in Salt Lake City Utah, instead of visiting the Morman temple that you can't even go inside of. You can instead visit the lovely public Gilgal Garden and the Timblr famous Joseph Smith Sphinx :)

[greater-than-the-sword]

There’s a common euphemism in the Old Testament in regards to “feet” being interposed for male genitalia. And when I read those passages I can’t help but laugh over the irony that there are many people today who actually have weird foot fetishes. (That’s not to say the ancients didn’t have foot fetishes themselves. Bare ankles in Medieval times were supposedly sexy.)

Am I alone in this? Are there any Biblical stories that you have a hard time taking seriously due to modern vs ancient cultural nuances?

Bonus: (completely fake)

“In the 18th year of, Azariah the son of Jeho, in the month of Tishri, they went through the village of Gilgal. And behold! There was a woman at the well whose ankles were bare; twin gazelles as pale as snow!”

No, there isn't such a euphamism, that's a wishful misinterpretation of the book of Ruth by people who wanted to say it's okay to have sex before marriage. That's the one place in the Bible where some people have suggested "uncover his feet" meant "have sex with him", this phrasing doesn't occur anywhere else in the Bible.