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Historical fiction Jacob woke early while it was yet dark. Light was just starting to stream through the one small open window of their two-room house built of stone and mud. Soon, he could hear his aging mother and father’s scurrying feet on the dirt floor as they prepared to ...

There is a mind-blowing verse in 2 Kings 17:33.  “They feared the LORD and served their own gods.”  The historical context indicates that Israel’s Northern Kingdom had departed from the Lord.  God judged them, using Assyria to conquer them and carry many of them captive to other lands.  Then, to ...