10. The Romance of Grace in Deuteronomy

10. The Romance of Grace in Deuteronomy
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Episode 10

Discovering the hidden love of God in an unexpected passage. How romance and grace intertwine.
December 9, 2021
Terms to Know

GRACE

Old Testament

chen: favor, grace Original Word: חֵן

chanan: beseech Original Word: חָנַן

 

Deuteronomy teaches us about the faithful grace of God. 

Hosea 2

She shall pursue her lovers
    but not overtake them,
and she shall seek them
    but shall not find them.
Then she shall say,
    ‘I will go and return to my first husband,
    for it was better for me then than now.’
And she did not know
    that it was I who gave her
    the grain, the wine, and the oil,
and who lavished on her silver and gold,
    which they used for Baal….

“Therefore, behold, I will allure her,
    and bring her into the wilderness,
    and speak tenderly to her.
And there I will give her her vineyards
    and make the Valley of Achor a door of hope.
And there she shall answer as in the days of her youth,
    as at the time when she came out of the land of Egypt.

“And in that day, declares the Lord, you will call me ‘My Husband,’ and no longer will you call me ‘My Baal.’ For I will remove the names of the Baals from her mouth, and they shall be remembered by name no more. And I will make for them a covenant on that day with the beasts of the field, the birds of the heavens, and the creeping things of the ground. And I will abolish the bow, the sword, and war from the land, and I will make you lie down in safety. And I will betroth you to me forever. I will betroth you to me in righteousness and in justice, in steadfast love and in mercy. I will betroth you to me in faithfulness. And you shall know the Lord.

“And in that day I will answer, declares the Lord,
    I will answer the heavens,
    and they shall answer the earth,
and the earth shall answer the grain, the wine, and the oil,
    and they shall answer Jezreel,
    and I will sow her for myself in the land.
And I will have mercy on No Mercy,
    and I will say to Not My People, ‘You are my people’;
    and he shall say, ‘You are my God.’”

Deuteronomy verses

 

Chen

Deuteronomy 24:1
HEB: לֹ֧א תִמְצָא־ חֵ֣ן בְּעֵינָ֗יו כִּי־
NAS: no favor in his eyes
KJV: her, and it come to pass that she find no favour in his eyes,
INT: no finds favor his eyes because

“When a man takes a wife and marries her, if then she finds no favor in his eyes because he has found some indecency in her, and he writes her a certificate of divorce and puts it in her hand and sends her out of his house, and she departs out of his house…

Chanan

Deuteronomy 3:23
HEB: וָאֶתְחַנַּ֖ן אֶל־ יְהוָ֑ה
NAS: I also pleaded with the LORD
KJV: And I besought the LORD at that time,
INT: pleaded with the LORD

Deuteronomy 7:2
HEB: בְּרִ֖ית וְלֹ֥א תְחָנֵּֽם׃
NAS: covenant with them and show no
KJV: no covenant with them, nor shew mercy unto them:
INT: covenant no and show

Deuteronomy 28:50
HEB: וְנַ֖עַר לֹ֥א יָחֹֽן׃
NAS: nor show favor to the young.
KJV: of the old, nor shew favour to the young:
INT: to the young nor show

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Resources:

Bible Hub: use this resource site to discover the original Greek and Hebrew for the words in the Bible.

PrayerMate App: this is a fantastic app to keep yourself organized and faithful in prayer, and it also has free downloadable devotionals.

 

 

 

Question of the Week:

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Darlene Böcek

Author and pastor's wife, Darlene Bocek in on a search for grace. She has lived on the Aegean coast in Izmir, Turkey for twenty years. Darlene is the mother of four young adults. The family has six dogs and thirty-something farm cats.

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On Grace and Mercy Podcast we are working sequentially through the entire Bible, reading every verse where GRACE or one of its conjugates are found.

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