INTRODUCTION:

(Deuteronomy 4:2 [KJV])
Ye shall not add unto the word which I command you, neither shall ye diminish ought from it, that ye may keep the commandments of the LORD your God which I command you.

(Proverbs 30:5, 6 [KJV])
Every word of God is pure: he is a shield unto them that put their trust in him. Add thou not unto his words, lest he reprove thee, and thou be found a liar.

(Isaiah 28:10 [KJV])
For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little:

(Isaiah 28:13 [KJV])
But the word of the LORD was unto them precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little; that they might go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken.

(2 Peter 1:20 [KJV])
Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation.

All of the studies found here, whether book studies or topical studies, are done with research with mainly two things: The KING JAMES BIBLE and a plain old, 1828 Webster's Dictionary. Why? Outside of actually studying secular and Jewish history, archaeology, one needs nothing more. You do not need foreign, dead languages that no one speaks, nor lexicons, nor concordances, nor commentaries, because they differ not only with one another and with the KING JAMES BIBLE, they create division, confusion, debate, and unbelief, apostasy, and a falling away from God Himself. We do not need them. That Word of God written and preserved for us in our own language is supposed to be enough, like the Old Testament was for the Jews, and as the New Testament was for the early Christians in Greek, Latin, Italian, Spanish, German, etc.

There are studies within as tangents on words, subjects found within the two testaments, as to broaden the scope of the study, to learn more, deeper truths. This is not an intellectual site with PhDs, theologians, and no worldly wisdom.. Check everything out, everything. Not just here, but with everything you read and see and hear. Be Bereans:

(Acts 17:11 [KJV])
These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so.

(1 Thessalonians 2:13 [KJV])
For this cause also thank we God without ceasing, because, when ye received the word of God which ye heard of us, ye received it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which effectually worketh also in you that believe.

Always research for yourself, use all of the context, and never privately interpret!

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HEBREWS CHAPTER 2: JESUS CHRIST, DEATH DESTROYER


One teachings in Hebrews chapter 2 and throughout the book and the rest of the Word of God are the Deity of Christ, the Supremacy of Christ, the coming to earth as the God-man to realize our state, our temptations, our sufferings (much more for Him than us), How he is the Creator God, His future reign over it all as King on His Throne, how this was all accomplished and due to His suffering on the Cross for our sins, how He nevertheless calls us his brethren and His children if we believe, as the Judge of all the earth, how consequences for sin can be swift, severe, eternal or temporal, lifelong or or earthlong, depending, so that we need to learn from the Scriptures in the Old Testament as well as the New Testament.


(Hebrews 2:1 [AKJV/PCE])
Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard, lest at any time we should let them slip. For if the word spoken by angels was stedfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompence of reward;

HEED, v.t. To mind; to regard with care; to take notice of; to attend to; to observe.
With pleasure Argus the musician heeds.

HEED, n. Care; attention. With wanton heed and giddy cunning.
  1. Caution; care; watch for danger; notice; circumspection; usually preceded by take.
    Take heed of evil company. Take heed to your ways. Amasa took no heed to the sword that was in Joab's hand. 2 Sam 20.
  2. Notice; observation; regard; attention; often preceded by give.
    The preacher gave good heed. Eccl 12.
    Neither give heed to fables. 1 Tim 1.
    Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed. Heb 2.
  3. Seriousness; a steady look.
    A heed.
    Was in his countenance. [Unusual.]

EARNEST, a. ern'est.
  1. Ardent in the pursuit of an object; eager to obtain; having a longing desire; warmly engaged or incited. They are never more earnest to disturb us, than when they see us most earnest in this duty .
  2. Ardent; warm; eager; zealous; animated; importunate; as earnest in love; earnest in prayer.
  3. Intent; fixed. On that prospect strange. Their earnest eyes were fixed.
  4. Serious; important; that is, really intent or engaged; whence the phrase, in earnest. To be in earnest, is to be really urging or stretching towards an object; intent on a pursuit. Hence, from fixed attention, comes the sense of seriousness in the pursuit, as opposed to trifling or jest. Are you in earnest or in jest?

EARNEST, n. ern'est. Seriousness; a reality; a real event; as opposed to jesting or feigned appearance. Take heed that this jest do not one day turn to earnest. And given in earnest what I begg'd in jest.
  1. First fruits; that which is in advance, and gives promise of something to come. Early fruit may be an earnest of fruit to follow. The first success in arms may be an earnest of future success. The christian's peace of mind in this life is an earnest of future peace and happiness. Hence earnest or earnest-money is a first payment or deposit giving promise or assurance of full payment. Hence the practice of giving an earnest to ratify a bargain. This sense of the word is primary, denoting that which goes before, or in advance. Thus the earnest of the spirit is given to saints, as a pledge or assurance of their future enjoyment of God's presence and favor.

SAUL: REBELLION, MURDER, WITCHCRAFT

(1 Samuel 9:17 [AKJV/PCE])
And when Samuel saw Saul, the LORD said unto him, Behold the man whom I spake to thee of! this same shall reign over my people.

(1 Samuel 28:7-8...19 [AKJV/PCE])
¶ Then said Saul unto his servants, Seek me a woman that hath a familiar spirit, that I may go to her, and inquire of her. And his servants said to him, Behold, there is a woman that hath a familiar spirit at En-dor. And Saul disguised himself, and put on other raiment, and he went, and two men with him, and they came to the woman by night: and he said, I pray thee, divine unto me by the familiar spirit, and bring me him up, whom I shall name unto thee.

(Isaiah 8:19-22 [AKJV/PCE])
¶ And when they shall say unto you, Seek unto them that have familiar spirits, and unto wizards that peep, and that mutter: should not a people seek unto their God? for the living to the dead? To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them. And they shall pass through it, hardly bestead and hungry: and it shall come to pass, that when they shall be hungry, they shall fret themselves, and curse their king and their God, and look upward. And they shall look unto the earth; and behold trouble and darkness, dimness of anguish; and they shall be driven to darkness.

Later...

(1 Samuel 28:19 [AKJV/PCE])
Moreover the LORD will also deliver Israel with thee into the hand of the Philistines: and to morrow shalt thou and thy sons be with me: the LORD also shall deliver the host of Israel into the hand of the Philistines.

(1 Samuel 15:1-3 [AKJV/PCE])
Samuel also said unto Saul, The LORD sent me to anoint thee to be king over his people, over Israel: now therefore hearken thou unto the voice of the words of the LORD. Thus saith the LORD of hosts, I remember that which Amalek did to Israel, how he laid wait for him in the way, when he came up from Egypt. Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass.

(1 Samuel 15:9 [AKJV/PCE])
But Saul and the people spared Agag, and the best of the sheep, and of the oxen, and of the fatlings, and the lambs, and all that was good, and would not utterly destroy them: but every thing that was vile and refuse, that they destroyed utterly.

SAUL BLAMED OTHERS...

(1 Samuel 15:21-23 [AKJV/PCE])
But the people took of the spoil, sheep and oxen, the chief of the things which should have been utterly destroyed, to sacrifice unto the LORD thy God in Gilgal. And Samuel said, Hath the LORD as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the LORD? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams. For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because thou hast rejected the word of the LORD, he hath also rejected thee from being king.

(1 Samuel 13:14 [AKJV/PCE])
But now thy kingdom shall not continue: the LORD hath sought him a man after his own heart, and the LORD hath commanded him to be captain over his people, because thou hast not kept that which the LORD commanded thee.

(1 Samuel 31:1-6 [AKJV/PCE])
Now the Philistines fought against Israel: and the men of Israel fled from before the Philistines, and fell down slain in mount Gilboa. And the Philistines followed hard upon Saul and upon his sons; and the Philistines slew Jonathan, and Abinadab, and Malchi-shua, Saul's sons. And the battle went sore against Saul, and the archers hit him; and he was sore wounded of the archers. Then said Saul unto his armourbearer, Draw thy sword, and thrust me through therewith; lest these uncircumcised come and thrust me through, and abuse me. But his armourbearer would not; for he was sore afraid. Therefore Saul took a sword, and fell upon it. And when his armourbearer saw that Saul was dead, he fell likewise upon his sword, and died with him. So Saul died, and his three sons, and his armourbearer, and all his men, that same day together.

DAVID

(1 Samuel 16:13 [AKJV/PCE])
Then Samuel took the horn of oil, and anointed him in the midst of his brethren: and the Spirit of the LORD came upon David from that day forward. So Samuel rose up, and went to Ramah.

SIN, ADULTERY AND MURDER, BATH-SHEBA AND URIAH

(2 Samuel 11:2-5 [AKJV/PCE])
¶ And it came to pass in an eveningtide, that David arose from off his bed, and walked upon the roof of the king's house: and from the roof he saw a woman washing herself; and the woman was very beautiful to look upon. And David sent and inquired after the woman. And one said, Is not this Bath-sheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite? And David sent messengers, and took her; and she came in unto him, and he lay with her; for she was purified from her uncleanness: and she returned unto her house. And the woman conceived, and sent and told David, and said, I am with child.

(2 Samuel 11:14-17 [AKJV/PCE])
¶ And it came to pass in the morning, that David wrote a letter to Joab, and sent it by the hand of Uriah. And he wrote in the letter, saying, Set ye Uriah in the forefront of the hottest battle, and retire ye from him, that he may be smitten, and die. And it came to pass, when Joab observed the city, that he assigned Uriah unto a place where he knew that valiant men were. And the men of the city went out, and fought with Joab: and there fell some of the people of the servants of David; and Uriah the Hittite died also.

(2 Samuel 11:21 [AKJV/PCE])
Who smote Abimelech the son of Jerubbesheth? did not a woman cast a piece of a millstone upon him from the wall, that he died in Thebez? why went ye nigh the wall? then say thou, Thy servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also.

(2 Samuel 11:26-27 [AKJV/PCE])
¶ And when the wife of Uriah heard that Uriah her husband was dead, she mourned for her husband. And when the mourning was past, David sent and fetched her to his house, and she became his wife, and bare him a son. But the thing that David had done displeased the LORD.

(2 Samuel 12:1-14 [AKJV/PCE])
And the LORD sent Nathan unto David. And he came unto him, and said unto him, There were two men in one city; the one rich, and the other poor. The rich man had exceeding many flocks and herds: ut the poor man had nothing, save one little ewe lamb, which he had bought and nourished up: and it grew up together with him, and with his children; it did eat of his own meat, and drank of his own cup, and lay in his bosom, and was unto him as a daughter.
And there came a traveller unto the rich man, and he spared to take of his own flock and of his own herd, to dress for the wayfaring man that was come unto him; but took the poor man's lamb, and dressed it for the man that was come to him.

And David's anger was greatly kindled against the man; and he said to Nathan, As the LORD liveth, the man that hath done this thing shall surely die: And he shall restore the lamb fourfold, because he did this thing, and because he had no pity. ¶ And Nathan said to David, Thou art the man. Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, I anointed thee king over Israel, and I delivered thee out of the hand of Saul; And I gave thee thy master's house, and thy master's wives into thy bosom, and gave thee the house of Israel and of Judah; and if that had been too little, I would moreover have given unto thee such and such things. Wherefore hast thou despised the commandment of the LORD, to do evil in his sight? Now therefore the sword shall never depart from thine house; because thou hast despised me, and hast taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be thy wife. Thus saith the LORD, thou hast killed Uriah the Hittite with the sword, and hast taken his wife to be thy wife, and hast slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon. Behold, I will raise up evil against thee out of thine own house, and I will take thy wives before thine eyes, and give them unto thy neighbour, and he shall lie with thy wives in the sight of this sun. For thou didst it secretly: but I will do this thing before all Israel, and before the sun. And David said unto Nathan, I have sinned against the LORD. And Nathan said unto David, The LORD also hath put away thy sin; thou shalt not die. Howbeit, because by this deed thou hast given great occasion to the enemies of the LORD to blaspheme, the child also that is born unto thee shall surely die.

THE RESULT:

(2 Samuel 12:15-19 [AKJV/PCE])
¶ And Nathan departed unto his house. And the LORD struck the child that Uriah's wife bare unto David, and it was very sick. David therefore besought God for the child; and David fasted, and went in, and lay all night upon the earth. And the elders of his house arose, and went to him, to raise him up from the earth: but he would not, neither did he eat bread with them. And it came to pass on the seventh day, that the child died. And the servants of David feared to tell him that the child was dead: for they said, Behold, while the child was yet alive, we spake unto him, and he would not hearken unto our voice: how will he then vex himself, if we tell him that the child is dead? But when David saw that his servants whispered, David perceived that the child was dead: therefore David said unto his servants, Is the child dead? And they said, He is dead.

Through David, we see many things:

(Hebrews 2:3 [AKJV/PCE])
How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation; which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by them that heard him;

(Hebrews 10:31 [AKJV/PCE])
It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.

(1 Thessalonians 5:3 [AKJV/PCE])
For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.

(Hebrews 2:4 [AKJV/PCE])
God also bearing them witness, both with signs and wonders, and with divers miracles, and gifts of the Holy Ghost, according to his own will?

(Hebrews 2:5 [AKJV/PCE])
For unto the angels hath he not put in subjection the world to come, whereof we speak.

(Hebrews 2:6 [AKJV/PCE])
But one in a certain place testified, saying, What is man, that thou art mindful of him? or the son of man, that thou visitest him?

(2 Peter 3:9 [AKJV/PCE])
The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

(Psalms 8:4-6 [AKJV/PCE])
What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him? For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour. Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet:

(Romans 5:7-8 [AKJV/PCE])
For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die. But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

(Hebrews 2:7 [AKJV/PCE])
Thou madest him a little lower than the angels; thou crownedst him with glory and honour, and didst set him over the works of thy hands:

(Romans 5:6 [AKJV/PCE])
For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly.

(Hebrews 4:15 [AKJV/PCE])
For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin.

(Hebrews 2:8 [AKJV/PCE])
Thou hast put all things in subjection under his feet. For in that he put all in subjection under him, he left nothing that is not put under him. But now we see not yet all things put under him.

(Luke 21:24 [AKJV/PCE])
And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive into all nations: and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled.

(Philippians 2:-5-10 [AKJV/PCE])
Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men: And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.
Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name: That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth; And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

(Colossians 2:18 [AKJV/PCE])
Let no man beguile you of your reward in a voluntary humility and worshipping of angels, intruding into those things which he hath not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,

(Acts 4:12 [AKJV/PCE])
Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.

(Hebrews 2:9 [AKJV/PCE])
But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honour; that he by the grace of God should taste death for every man.

(Hebrews 2:10 [AKJV/PCE])
For it became him, for whom are all things, and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons unto glory, to make the captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings.

(John 1:3 [AKJV/PCE])
All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.

(Ephesians 3:9 [AKJV/PCE])
And to make all men see what is the fellowship of the mystery, which from the beginning of the world hath been hid in God, who created all things by Jesus Christ:

(Hebrews 2:11 [AKJV/PCE])
For both he that sanctifieth and they who are sanctified are all of one: for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren,

(Psalms 22:22 [AKJV/PCE])
I will declare thy name unto my brethren: in the midst of the congregation will I praise thee.

ONE BODY, IN ONE BODY

(Romans 12:4-5 [AKJV/PCE])
For as we have many members in one body, and all members have not the same office: So we, being many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another.

(1 Corinthians 10:17 [AKJV/PCE])
For we being many are one bread, and one body: for we are all partakers of that one bread.

(1 Corinthians 12:12 [AKJV/PCE])
For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also is Christ.

(1 Corinthians 12:13 [AKJV/PCE])
For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit.

(1 Corinthians 12:20 [AKJV/PCE])
But now are they many members, yet but one body.

(Ephesians 4:4-5 [AKJV/PCE])
There is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling; One Lord, one faith, one baptism,

(Colossians 3:15 [AKJV/PCE])
And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called in one body; and be ye thankful.

(Hebrews 2:12 [AKJV/PCE])
Saying, I will declare thy name unto my brethren, in the midst of the church will I sing praise unto thee.

(Acts 7:38 [AKJV/PCE])
This is he, that was in the church in the wilderness with the angel which spake to him in the mount Sina, and with our fathers: who received the lively oracles to give unto us:

(Hebrews 2:13 [AKJV/PCE])
And again, I will put my trust in him. And again, Behold I and the children which God hath given me.

(Psalms 18:2 [AKJV/PCE])
The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower.

(Isaiah 8:18 [AKJV/PCE])
Behold, I and the children whom the LORD hath given me are for signs and for wonders in Israel from the LORD of hosts, which dwelleth in mount Zion.

(Isaiah 8:18 [AKJV/PCE])
Behold, I and the children whom the LORD hath given me are for signs and for wonders in Israel from the LORD of hosts, which dwelleth in mount Zion.

(Hebrews 2:14-15 [AKJV/PCE])
Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil; And deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.

(Philippians 1:21-24 [AKJV/PCE])
For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain. But if I live in the flesh, this is the fruit of my labour: yet what I shall choose I wot not. For I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ; which is far better: Nevertheless to abide in the flesh is more needful for you.

(2 Corinthians 5:1 [AKJV/PCE])
For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.

(2 Corinthians 5:4 [AKJV/PCE])
For we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened: not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up of life.

(2 Peter 1:13 [AKJV/PCE])
Yea, I think it meet, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up by putting you in remembrance;

(Hosea 13:14 [AKJV/PCE])
I will ransom them from the power of the grave; I will redeem them from death: O death, I will be thy plagues; O grave, I will be thy destruction: repentance shall be hid from mine eyes.

(Hebrews 2:16 [AKJV/PCE])
For verily he took not on him the nature of angels; but he took on him the seed of Abraham.

(Genesis 3:21 [AKJV/PCE])
Unto Adam also and to his wife did the LORD God make coats of skins, and clothed them.

(1 Peter 1:12 [AKJV/PCE])
Unto whom it was revealed, that not unto themselves, but unto us they did minister the things, which are now reported unto you by them that have preached the gospel unto you with the Holy Ghost sent down from heaven; which things the angels desire to look into.

(2 Corinthians 5:21 [AKJV/PCE])
For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.

(Hebrews 2:17 [AKJV/PCE])
Wherefore in all things it behoved him to be made like unto his brethren, that he might be a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make reconciliation for the sins of the people.

(Hebrews 4:15 [AKJV/PCE])
For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin.

BEHOOVE, v.t. behoof'. To be necessary for; to be fit for; to be meet for, with respect to necessity, duty, or convenience.
And thus it behooved Christ to suffer. Luke 24.
It may perhaps be used intransitively; as, let him behave as it behooveth; but I believe such use is rare.

(Hebrews 2:18 [AKJV/PCE])
For in that he himself hath suffered being tempted, he is able to succour them that are tempted.

(John 14:6 [AKJV/PCE])
Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.

(Hebrews 4:16 [AKJV/PCE])
Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.

SUC'COR, v.t. [L. succurro; sub and curro, to run.]
Literally, to run to, or run to support; hence, to help or relieve when in difficulty, want or distress; to assist and deliver from suffering; as, to succor a besieged city; to succor prisoners.
He is able to succor them that are tempted. Heb 2.

SUC'COR, n. Aid; help; assistance; particularly, assistance that relieves and delivers from difficulty, want or distress.
My father Flying for succor to his servant Banister--

1. The person or thing that brings relief.
The city when pressed received succors from an unexpected quarter.
The mighty succor which made glad the foe.

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