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8041 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Israel, Religion Of, 1.72
… of Yahweh. A special priesthood, however, did not yet exist in this period, as the head of the family and of the tribe exercised the priestly functions and rights …
8042 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Israel, Religion Of, 1.73
… with Yahweh: (1) The Covenant-Idea. Israel claims that its existence as a nation and its special relation to Yahweh begins with its exodus from Egypt and with …
8043 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Israel, Religion Of, 1.74
… -God, Yahweh. The special revelation which Moses received is characterized by the word Yahweh (Yahweh) as a name for God. This name, according to the well-authenticated …
8044 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Israel, Religion Of, 1.75
… as Yahweh did in Israel (compare, e.g. 2 Chronicles 28:23 ). But the idea that the faithful worshippers of Yahweh after the days of Moses ever recognized as equal …
8045 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Israel, Religion Of, 1.76
(4) Impossibility of Representing Yahweh by an Image.
8046 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Israel, Religion Of, 1.77
… that Yahweh cannot be represented by any image. In this doctrine, too, there is a conscious contrast to the nations round about Israel (in addition to Exodus …
8047 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Israel, Religion Of, 1.79
… , but Yahweh alone, is to rule all things in Israel, and Yahweh had many other organs or agents besides the priests, especially the prophets, who not rarely, as …
8048 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Israel, Religion Of, 2.5
… Yahweh, whom in olden times they also unhesitatingly called their Baal, as their Lord and the master of the land and of the people. By the side of the Yahweh-altars …
8049 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Israel, Religion Of, 2.7
… of Yahweh were not lacking. The heroes who appeared on the arena as liberators from the yoke of the oppressors recalled the people to Yahweh, as was done likewise …
8050 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Israel, Religion Of, 2.8
… with Yahweh, and who, as the servant of Yahweh, was to realize entirely in his own person the mission of the people to become the servants of Yahweh, and was thus …
8051 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Israel, Religion Of, 2.10
… of Yahweh." In general, religion in Israel became more personal in character in the days of the earlier kings. Before this time the collective relation to God …
8052 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Israel, Religion Of, 2.11
… to Yahweh by a covenant of love ( Psalms 18:2 ), and his heart delights in this communion, more than it does in all earthly possessions ( Psalms 4:8 ); and this is even …
8053 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Israel, Religion Of, 2.16
… of Yahweh. David, from the beginning, was desirous of establishing here theocratical center of the people, as he had shown by transferring the Ark of the Covenant …
8054 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Israel, Religion Of, 2.18
… -God Yahweh. However, this representation in the form of images, an idea which the king no doubt had brought back with him from his sojourn in Egypt, was a concession …
8055 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Israel, Religion Of, 2.19
… to Yahweh. It now became a question of life and death, so far as the religion of Yahweh was concerned. The struggle involved not only certain old heathen customs …
8056 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Israel, Religion Of, 2.21
… chapter Yahweh and Baal are contrasted, the idea of Elijah is by no means that these gods have in their own territory the same rights as Yahweh in Canaan and …
8057 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Israel, Religion Of, 2.22
… of Yahweh in later times were compelled to experience often enough, served greatly to intensify and to spiritualize their religion. The unfortunate situation …
8058 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Israel, Religion Of, 2.25
… of Yahweh entertained by their contemporaries, these prophets make clear the true intentions of this covenant, and at the same time, through their new inspiration …
8059 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Israel, Religion Of, 2.27
… of Yahweh, but they declare also that the religion which is based solely on the offering of sacrifices is worthless, since God, who is in no way dependent on …
8060 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Israel, Religion Of, 2.29
… that Yahweh is not inseparably bound to His people. Rather He Himself calls the destroyer to come, since all the nations of the world are at His command.