Banah Torah

YHVH tells Ezekiel to prophecy against the false prophets and the sorceresses; Elders of Israel come and sit with Ezekiel but they had not removed the idols from before them. YHVH tells Ezekiel that not even if Noah, Daniel or Job lived among the nation would He save the entire country just their souls alone; YHVH asks Ezekiel what will become of the vine-tree as compared to other trees that branch out among the trees of the forest?

Ezekiel sees six men who were appointed to destroy the city with sledgehammers but 1 man was clothed in linen with a scribe’s slate at his loins. The man clothed in Linen was to put a mark on the forehead of all the men who sigh and groan for all the abominations done within the city; The man clothed in linen comes between the Galgal and and fills his hands with fiery coals from among the Cherubim and throws the coals on the city; The false prophets are dealt with and YHVH says the exiles will eventually return; Ezekiel makes implements of exile. He goes into e Ike by day, then he departs in the evening, he tunnels through a wall, bear the exile implements on his shoulder, brings them out in darkness and covers his face to not see the ground as a symbol for the House of Israel.

YHVH tells Ezekiel to burn his hair 1/3 in the fire that burns the city, 1/3 and strike it with the sword, 1/3 scatter to the wind take a few scattered ones and bind them to his hem and then throw them again into the fire. YHVH tells Ezekiel to face the mountains of Israel and prophesy to them. Next YHVH tells Ezekiel the end of Israel is upon them. YHVH shows Ezekiel the idolatry in His house causing him to distance Himself from His sanctuary. He showed Ezekiel the Image of Provocation stood, the disgusting creeping things, the women in front of a crying idol, and 25 men with their backs to the Sanctuary bowing to the east toward the sun

Ezekiel’s vision of the Chayos and the Ofanim; YHVH sends Ezekiel to the Children of Israel to speak to them from YHVH. Whether they will heed or refrain they will know a prophet was among them. YHVH commands Ezekiel to eat the scroll and it tasted like honey in his mouth. YHVH command Ezekiel to act out the siege against Jerusalem using a brick. He then commands him to lie on his left side for 390 days to represent the years of Israel’s iniquity and 40 days on his right side to represent the years of Judah’s iniquity. He tells him to prepare wheat, barley, beans, lentils, millet and spelt and the amount he should eat. He to drink 1/6 hin of water and he’s to bake the grains into a barley cake and include excrement. Ezekiel says he’s never defiled his body so YHVH allows him to prepare the barley cake upon cattle dung. YHVH is breaking the staff of bread in Jerusalem.

Jeremiah writes of the lamentations as the Children of Israel continually fail to follow YHVH until their destruction and exile to Babylonia.

Jeremiah writes of the lamentations as the Children of Israel continually fail to follow YHVH until their destruction and exile to Babylonia.

Moses is given three signs for the people, staff turns into a snake, his hands becomes leprous like snow, he turns water from the Nike into blood. He asks that someone be sent to speak for him; Zipporah circumcised Eliezer. Aaron meets Moses in the Wilderness and they show the sings to the people, the people believe. Moses and Aaron ask for the people to be released by Pharaoh and he makes the burden on the people more difficult and the people then stand against Moses and Aaron. YHVH reveals himself as Jehovah and not as El Shaddai. He expresses what he Shall do for the people, then the descendants of Reuben, Simeon, and Levi are recounted and shows how midwives were made into houses.

Name meanings of Reuben, Simeon and Levi descendants.

 

Prophet of Babylonia; Final prophecy of Jeremiah. Details of exiled Jews from Jerusalem and coronation of new Babylonian King Evil-Merodach.

Prophecies against Ammon, Edom, Damascus, Elam and fate of Babylonia.

Birth of Moses; Moses kills and Egyptian; Moses leaves Egypt and goes to Midian, marries Zipporah and has Gershom.  Moses sees the burning bush and is instructed by YHVH to bring the children of Israel from Egypt to Mt. Horeb.