Saul had heard and also accepted Samuel’s prophecy with a composed mind and had decided to continue performing his duties faithfully till his ultimate day at office. Accordingly, Saul had now turned his focus at the Amalekite, Moabite, Edomite and other enemy tribes which had not only occupied the Canaanite territory but were also perpetually […]
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Washington: The United States, France and UK attacked Syria by firing more than hundred missiles on Saturday, at dawn. US President Donald Trump announced and claimed triumphantly that the attacks had been successfully executed. “These nuclear attacks were essential to teach Syria a lesson, as scores lives of its own innocent citizens and kids were being […]
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Moscow: “The joint attack on Syria by the United States, UK and France is an act of war. Such an attack breaks rules of the United Nations and the consequences of this will be devastating.”, said Vladimir Putin expressing his disapproval of the same. The chemical attack, which the United States used as a reason […]
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Moses realized his mistake. He accepted it and along with it also, the punishment that God pronounced. He had no complaints. The same punishment was meted out to Aaron as well for being part of the idol and animal worship. He was not going to set foot on the land of Canaan either. It was […]
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Thus, delegating the responsibilities of everyday chores as per Jethro’s advice had greatly reduced the workload on Moses. Moreover, it was also the first step for the common Jews to gradually progress towards developing their own decision making capacity. By successfully fending off their first manmade adversity after the Exodus, viz. the attack by the […]
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Moses had no more pretexts to put forward. Moreover, God put all his apprehensions and doubts to rest and very clearly affirmed that Moses indeed would be the one to free the Jews from the bondage and slavery in Egypt and lead them to God’s ‘Promised Land’. God also assured Moses that He would be […]
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Moses was now 40. His inborn virtue of righteousness added to his compassion for his Jewish brethren had already made Moses their leader, their torchbearer. He began to seriously contemplate over the atrocities they faced at the hands of the Egyptians then. With the thought of freeing his Jewish brethren from these atrocities always on […]
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Numbering a mere 70 (‘Seventy Souls’) when they moved to Egypt along with Jacob, the Jews grew in number rapidly over the following few generations and soon their population ran into millions. Though they had mingled well with the Egyptian society, their awareness of their religion, that of the divine vision that their patriarch Abraham […]
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Joseph was moved, he was pained to see his brothers fall at his feet. But maintaining his stern comportment, he had them put behind bars. However, when he listened in on their talks while they were in prison, Joseph was convinced that his brothers had changed. In fact, their talks revealed that they perceived the […]
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So Joseph, who was sold as a slave in Egypt, ended up in prison. But then here too, God did protect him. Impressed with his intelligence and temperament, the prison warden soon put him in charge of supervision of the prison inmates and thus Joseph was spared the hardships he otherwise might have had to […]
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