My Mysterious Bible

Melchizedeck in the Old Testament

Who is this mysterious Priest/King of Salem? Who does he worship? 
 
Resources used:
The IVP Bible Background Commentary: Old Testament
The Bible Knowledge Commentary: An Exposition of the Scriptures
Dictionary of Deities and Demons in the Bible (DDD)
Naked Bible 166: Melchizedek Part 1a

Why does Ezekiel spend hundreds of days on his side?

Ezekiel gives us an extreme example of a sign act.
 
Resources used:
Faithlife Study Bible
Cultural Backgrounds Study Bible
Victor Harold Matthews, Mark W. Chavalas, and John H. Walton, The IVP Bible Background Commentary: Old Testament, electronic ed. (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2000), Eze 4:1–3.
Sign Acts: The Weird, Wonderful World of Prophetic CommunicationVisual Aids for an Ancient Audienceby Whitney Woollard – Sep 12, 2018 bibleproject.com
Lamar Eugene Cooper, Ezekiel, vol. 17, The New American Commentary (Nashville: Broadman & Holman Publishers, 1994).
 

Balaam's Error

What exactly is Balaam's error, and what does the New Testament have to say about him?

Balaam and the talking Donkey

The significance of Balaam and the talking Donkey.
 
Resources used:
Victor Harold Matthews, Mark W. Chavalas, and John H. Walton, The IVP Bible Background Commentary: Old Testament, electronic ed. (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2000), Nu 22:22–30.
 
Dennis Cole, Numbers, vol. 3B, The New American Commentary (Nashville: Broadman & Holman Publishers, 2000), 389–391.
 
Gordon J. Wenham, Numbers: An Introduction and Commentary, vol. 4, Tyndale Old Testament Commentaries (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 1981), 191.
 
NET Bible notes on Numbers 22
 
BALAAM AND HIS TALKING DONKEY BY FRED BLUMENTHAL. JEWISH BIBLE QUARTERLY Vol. 34, No. 2,2006
 
Extra information:
 
What was Balaam's real error - Dr Michael Heiser
 
https://bibleproject.com/explore/video/numbers/?utm_source=web_social_share&medium=shared_video
 

Elohim, I don't think that means what you think it means part 2

We dive into what Elohim does and does not mean when not used to refer to the God of the Bible.

Elohim, I do not think that means what you think it means part 1.

Introduction to the term elohim.

Foreknowledge does not equal predestination.

God's foreknowledge does not equate to predestination.
 
Resources used: The Unseen Realm by Michael S. Heiser.

Are there really unicorns in the bible?

Why are there unicorns in the King James Version of the Bible?
 
Resources used:
Lexam Bible Dictionary. 
Bringing back the Aurochs
 

Elisha makes an Iron Axe head float on water.

It's a strange miracle when Elija makes an iron axe head float on a river.
 
Resources used: 
A Commentary, Critical, Experimental, and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments: Joshua–Esther, vol. II
Robert Jamieson, A Commentary, Critical, Experimental, and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments: Joshua–Esther, vol. II (London; Glasgow: William Collins, Sons, & Company, Limited, n.d.), 385.
Paul R. House, 1, 2 Kings, vol. 8, The New American Commentary (Nashville: Broadman & Holman Publishers, 1995), 275.
Victor Harold Matthews, Mark W. Chavalas, and John H. Walton, The IVP Bible Background Commentary: Old Testament, electronic ed. (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2000), 2 Ki 6:5–6.
MAGIC IN THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST WITHSPECIAL REFERENCE TO ANCIENT ISRAELBY GWENDOLENE CAREN LlEDEMAN

Episode 16 Why couldn’t the Israelites cook a baby goat in it’s mothers milk?

This perplexing commandment is given three times in the Torah, so it must be significant.
 
Resources used:
Faithlife Study bible,
The IVP Bible Background Commentary of the Old Testament,
Manners & Customs of the Bible,
You Shall Not Boil a Kid in Its Mother’s Milk: Beyond Exodus 23:19.” Jewish Bible Quarterly,
Biblical Interpretation. 2012, Vol. 20 Issue 1/2, p35-72.