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Psalm 22 of the Book of Psalms (the hind of the dawn) or My God, my God, ... In verse 12, the "strong bulls of Bashan" represent "frightening power"; ...
In Psalm 22:12, the "strong bulls of Bashan" represent "frightening power", but here they represent luxury. [17] "Oppress the poor": Apparently the women urged their husbands to violence and fraud in order to obtain means to satisfy their extravagance, which is thoroughly unscrupulous act (see the case of Ahab and Naboth, 1 Kings 21:7, etc.). [18]
From this time, Bashan almost disappears from history, although there are biblical references to the wild cattle of its rich pastures (see Ezekiel 39:18, Psalm 22:12 and Amos 4:1), the oaks of its forests (Isaiah 2:13; Ezekiel 27:6; Zechariah 11:2), the beauty of its extensive plains (also in Amos 4:1), [6] Jeremiah 50:19), and the rugged ...
Bull (פַר par)— A symbol of fierce and relentless adversaries, Psalm 22:12. Bullock — The bullock (עֵגֶל ‘êḡel ), as yet unaccustomed to the yoke , is an image of Israel's insubordinate mind before he was subdued by the captivity ( Jeremiah 31:18).
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The oldest surviving manuscript of the psalm comes from the Dead Sea Scrolls, first discovered in 1947. Significantly, the 5/6 H. ev–Sev4Ps Fragment 11 of Psalm 22 contains the crucial word in the form of what some have suggested may be a third person plural verb, written כארו (“dug”).
The biblical Bashan/Basan was the whole area from Adra (Deraa) at its ancient capital to the Hauran mountains. Its highest peak may be the Hill of Basan referenced in Psalm 68:15 . In the 1st century AD, the land was acquired by Herod the Great , who established a community of Jews from Babylon who were brought to Batanaea for the purpose of ...
Several passages in the Book of Joshua, and also Deuteronomy 3:11, suggest that Og, the King of Bashan, was one of the last survivors of the Rephaim, and that his bed was 9 cubits long. (An ordinary cubit is the length of a man's forearm according to the New American Standard Bible, or approximately 18 in (460 mm). This makes the bed over 13 ...