Need to know
Still looking for the perfect name for that baby? Can't make up your mind? Too hard to decide whether he'll be named Ethan or Jacob or Michael? Why not go outside the box?
Well, there's a book that can help you pick a unique name that's truly unforgettable. Look no further than the Bible to supply you with names from your wildest dreams.
You want a name that sounds masculine, right?
Why not start with:
Pithon (1 Chronicles 8:35)
Uzzi (1 Chronicles 7:3)
Ram (1 Chronicles 2:10)
Heman (1 Chronicles 15:17)
Maybe you want your son to reach beyond himself and exceed everyone's expectations. Names like this abound in the Good Book:
Non (1 Chronicles 7:27)
Nimrod (Genesis 10: 8-9)
Og (Numbers 21:33)
Zaza (1 Chronicles 2:33)
Madmannah (1 Chronicles 2:49)
Merodach (Jeremiah 50:2)
Evil-merodach (2 Kings 25:27)
Having twins? Don't forget the delightful duo of:
Huppim and Shuppim (1 Chronicles 7:15)
On second thought, please forget all of these names. Don't do this to your kids. Heaven knows what all of these guys went through on the dusty playgrounds of the Old World.
Sunday, February 1, 2009
Sunday, January 25, 2009
Mighty? Really?
Had to be there
I just never realized it before. I always thought of Dodo as a flightless bird: easily chased, perturbed, bothered and eaten.
1 Chronicles 11:12
"And after him was Eleazar the son of Dodo, the Ahohite, who was one of the three mighties."
I just never realized it before. I always thought of Dodo as a flightless bird: easily chased, perturbed, bothered and eaten.
1 Chronicles 11:12
"And after him was Eleazar the son of Dodo, the Ahohite, who was one of the three mighties."
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
Presidents of the United States and the Bible
Need to know
Six Jameses, four Johns, two Andrews, one Abraham, one Thomas, one Benjamin: 15 men who served as president of the United States and happen to have names found in the Bible.
James, John, Andrew and Thomas were apostles. Abraham was a prophet. And Benjamin was one of Jacob's 12 famous sons.
If we stretch and count Zachary Taylor for Zachariah, a former king of Israel, we have 16.
During today's inauguration ceremony, President Barack Obama will become the 17th president with a name found in the Bible.
Rubbish, you say?
Judges 4-5
"Barak went down from mount Tabor, and ten thousand men after him. And the Lord discomfited Sisera, and all his chariots, and all his host, with the edge of the sword before Barak; so that Sisera lighted down off his chariot, and fled away on his feet."
Six Jameses, four Johns, two Andrews, one Abraham, one Thomas, one Benjamin: 15 men who served as president of the United States and happen to have names found in the Bible.
James, John, Andrew and Thomas were apostles. Abraham was a prophet. And Benjamin was one of Jacob's 12 famous sons.
If we stretch and count Zachary Taylor for Zachariah, a former king of Israel, we have 16.
During today's inauguration ceremony, President Barack Obama will become the 17th president with a name found in the Bible.
Rubbish, you say?
Judges 4-5
"Barak went down from mount Tabor, and ten thousand men after him. And the Lord discomfited Sisera, and all his chariots, and all his host, with the edge of the sword before Barak; so that Sisera lighted down off his chariot, and fled away on his feet."
Sunday, January 18, 2009
Hands off the ark
Old-school smackdown
Remember that scene in "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade" where Indy is confronted with dozens of goblets and has to choose the Holy Grail from among them? Walter Donovan, the Nazi sympathizer who has followed Indy to the cave, drinks out of a golden cup, which makes him immediately whither to dust.
The Grail Knight, who watches this happen with complete calm, makes the simple statement: "He chose poorly."
So did Uzza, poor Uzza.
King David had this plan to bring the ark of the covenant back to Jerusalem and because he ordered standard ground shipping, Uzza ended up as one of the oxcart drivers who hauled the ark.
1 Chronicles 13:9-10
"And when they came unto the threshingfloor of Chidon, Uzza put forth his hand to hold the ark; for the oxen stumbled. And the anger of the Lord was kindled against Uzza, and he smote him, because he put his hand to the ark: and there he died before God."
He chose poorly. The lesson here is that if the ark is gonna fall, let it fall!
Two chapters later, perhaps after having studied how the ark moved around in the olden days, David upgraded his carrier.
1 Chronicles 15:2
Remember that scene in "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade" where Indy is confronted with dozens of goblets and has to choose the Holy Grail from among them? Walter Donovan, the Nazi sympathizer who has followed Indy to the cave, drinks out of a golden cup, which makes him immediately whither to dust.
The Grail Knight, who watches this happen with complete calm, makes the simple statement: "He chose poorly."
So did Uzza, poor Uzza.
King David had this plan to bring the ark of the covenant back to Jerusalem and because he ordered standard ground shipping, Uzza ended up as one of the oxcart drivers who hauled the ark.
1 Chronicles 13:9-10
"And when they came unto the threshingfloor of Chidon, Uzza put forth his hand to hold the ark; for the oxen stumbled. And the anger of the Lord was kindled against Uzza, and he smote him, because he put his hand to the ark: and there he died before God."
He chose poorly. The lesson here is that if the ark is gonna fall, let it fall!
Two chapters later, perhaps after having studied how the ark moved around in the olden days, David upgraded his carrier.
1 Chronicles 15:2
Sunday, January 4, 2009
The first streak, a winning streak
Misconscriptured
Mark 14:51-52
"And there followed him a certain young man, having a linen cloth cast about his naked body; and the young men laid hold on him:
And he left the linen cloth, and fled from them naked."
Mark 14:51-52
"And there followed him a certain young man, having a linen cloth cast about his naked body; and the young men laid hold on him:
And he left the linen cloth, and fled from them naked."
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