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7741 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. God, 2.26
… from Yahweh, was quite common in Israel. Necromancy was practiced early and late ( 1 Samuel 28:7 ff; Isaiah 8:19; Deuteronomy 18:10, 11 ). Sorcery and witchcraft were …
7742 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. God, 2.27
… of Yahweh maintained and developed its monotheistic principle only by overcoming several hostile tendencies. The Baal-worship of the Canaanites and …
7743 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. God, 2.28
… of Yahweh, as the national religion ( 1 Kings 18:19 ). Elijah's stand and Jehu's revolution gave its death blow to Baal-worship and vindicated the sole right of …
7744 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. God, 2.30
… of Yahweh Himself. The change from the nomad life of the desert to the agricultural conditions of Canaan involved some change in religion. Yahweh, the God …
7745 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. God, 2.32
… of Yahweh. The localization and naturalization of Yahweh, as well as His assimilation to the Baals, all went together, so that we read that even in Judah the …
7746 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. God, 2.33
… of Yahweh successfully resisted the influence of the heathen cults. At no time was Yahweh associated with a goddess. Although the corrupt sensual practices …
7747 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. God, 2.34
… by Yahweh's worship. They were survivals of savage customs connected with tribal unity, which the higher morality of Yahweh's religion had not yet abolished …
7748 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. God, 2.35
… of Yahweh: The nature and character of Yahweh are manifested in His activities. The Old Testament makes no statements about the essence of God; we are left …
7749 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. God, 2.36
… Egypt, "Yahweh is a man of war" ( Exodus 15:3 ). An ancient account of Israel's journey to Canaan is called "the book of the Wars of Yahweh" ( Numbers 21:14 ). By conquest in …
7750 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. God, 2.37
… of Yahweh follow as an inference from His ethical preeminence.
7751 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. God, 2.38
(3) The Most Distinctive Characteristic of Yahweh:
7752 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. God, 2.39
… of Yahweh, which finally rendered Him and His religion absolutely unique, was the moral factor. In saying that Yahweh was a moral God, it is meant that He acted …
7753 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. God, 2.40
… physical. Yahweh's jealousy ( Exodus 20:5; Deuteronomy 5:9; 6:15 ), His wrath and anger ( Exodus 32:10 - 12; Deuteronomy 7:4 ) and His inviolable holiness ( Exodus 19:21 - 22 …
7754 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. God, 2.41
… that Yahweh was God of Israel alone. "The consequence of this national conception of Yahweh was that there was no religious and moral bond regulating the …
7755 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. God, 2.42
… of Yahweh. So they removed at once the ethical and theological limitations of the earlier view. But they were conscious that they were only developing elements …
7756 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. God, 2.43
… of Yahweh's anger ( Isaiah 10:5 - 6 ).
7757 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. God, 2.44
… transcended. Yahweh's rule is no longer limited to Israel, nor concerned only with the nation as a collective whole, but He deals impartially with every individual …
7758 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. God, 2.45
… to Yahweh in the Old Testament to express his separateness from men and his sublimity above them. It was not always a moral quality in Yahweh; for He might be …
7759 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. God, 2.46
… in Yahweh through Israel ( Zechariah 8:23 ). The nations from the ends of the earth shall come to Yahweh and declare that their fathers' gods were "lies, even vanity …
7760 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. God, 2.47
… of Yahweh ( 2 Kings 23:4 - 8, 10 - 14 ). The semi-heathen worship of Yahweh in many local shrines, which tended to disintegrate His unity, was swept away ( 2 Kings 23:8 - 9 ). The …