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Fear [4172] Genesis 9:1-Malachi 2:8 WNIC CEB


The definition of fear in this verse means dread, that ought to be feared, terribleness, terror

The number 4172 means a fear, terror.

God's Covenant with All life

Genesis 9:1-7 God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, "Be fertile, multiply, and fill the earth.

All of the animals on the earth will fear you and dread you--all the birds in the skies, everything crawling on the ground, and all of the sea's fish. They are in your power.

Everything that lives and moves will be your food. Just as I gave you to green grasses, I now give you everything.

However, you must not eat meat with its life, its blood, in it.

I will surely demand your blood for a human life, from every living thing I will demand it. From humans, from a man for his brother, I will demand something for a human life.

Whoever sheds human blood, by a human his blood will be shed; for in the divine image God made human beings.

As for you, be fertile and multiply. Populate the earth and multiply in it."

Psalm 9:19-20 Get up, LORD! Don't let people prevail! Let the nations be judged before you.

Strike them with fear, LORD. Let the nations know they are only human.

Isaiah 8:11-15 The LORD spoke to me, taking hold of me and warning me not to walk in the way of this people.

Don't call conspiracy all that this people calls conspiracy. Don't fear what they fear, and don't be terrified.

It is the LORD of heavenly forces whom you should hold sacred, whom you should fear, and whom you should hold in awe.

God will become a sanctuary-- but he will be a stone to trip over and a rock to stumble on for the two houses of Israel; a trap and a snare for those living in Jerusalem.

Many of them will stumble and fall, and be broken, snared, and captured.

Honoring the LORD

Malachi 1:6-11 A son honors a father, and a servant honors his master. But if I'm a father, where is my honor? Or if I I'm a master, where is my respect? says the LORD of heavenly forces to you  priests who despise my name, So you say, "How have we despised your name?"

By approaching my altar with polluted food. But you say, "How have we polluted it?" When you say, "The table of the LORD can be despised."

If you bring a blind animal to sacrifice, isn't that evil? If you bring a lame or sick one, isn't that evil? Would you bring it to your governor? Would he be pleased with it or accept you? says the LORD of heavenly forces.

So now ask God to be gracious to us. After what you have done, will he accept you? says the LORD of heavenly forces.

Who among you will shut the doors of the temple so that you don't burn something on my altar in vain? I take no delight in you, says the LORD of heavenly forces, I won't accept a grain offing from your hand.

Nevertheless, from sunrise to sunset, my name will be great among all nations. Incense and a pure grain offering will be offered everywhere in my name, because my name is great among the nations, says the LORD of heavenly forces.

Malachi 2:3-8 I am about to denounce your offering; I will scatter feces on your faces, the feces of your festivals. Then I will lift you up to me,

and you will know that I have sent this command to you so that my covenant with Levi can continue to exist, says the LORD of heavenly forces.

My covenant with him involved life and peace, which I gave him, and also fear so that he honored me. He was in awe of my name.

True Instruction was in his mouth; injustice wasn't found on his lips. He walked with me in peace and did the right thing; he made many turn from iniquity.

The lips of the priest should guard knowledge; everyone should seek Instruction from his mouth, for he is the messenger from the LORD of heavenly forces.

But you have turned from the path. You have caused many to stumble by your instruction. You have corrupted the covenant of Levi, says the LORD of heavenly forces.