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position.? It is used to illustrate weakness (2 Kings 18:21; Ezekiel 29:6),
also fickleness or instability (Matthew 11:7; comp. Ephesians 4:14).
A ?bruised reed? (Isaiah 42:3; Matthew 12:20) is an emblem of a believer
weak in grace. A reed was put into our Lord?s hands in derision (Matthew
27:29); and ?they took the reed and smote him on the head? (30). The
?reed? on which they put the sponge filled with vinegar (Matthew 27:48)
was, according to John (19:29), a hyssop stalk, which must have been of
some length, or perhaps a bunch of hyssop twigs fastened to a rod with
the sponge. (See CANE.)
Another Bible Timeline fact –>REFINER The process of refining metals is referred to by way of
illustrations in Isaiah 1:25; Jeremiah 6:29; Zechariah 13:9; Malachi 3:2, 3.
Another Bible Timeline fact –>REFUGE, CITIES OF were six in number (Numbers 35). 1. On the west
of Jordan were (1) Kadesh, in Naphtali; (2) Shechem, in Mount Ephraim;
(3) Hebron, in Judah. 2. On the east of Jordan were, (1) Golan, in Bashan;
(2) Ramoth-Gilead, in Gad; and (3) Bezer, in Reuben. (See under each of
these names.)
Another Bible Timeline fact –>REGEM-MELECH friend of the king, one of the two messengers sent by
the exiled Jews to Jerusalem in the time of Darius (Zechariah 7:2) to make
inquiries at the temple.
Another Bible Timeline fact –>REGENERATION only found in Matthew 19:28 and Titus 3:5. This
word literally means a ?new birth.? The Greek word so rendered
(palingenesia) is used by classical writers with reference to the changes
produced by the return of spring. In Matthew 19:28 the word is equivalent
to the ?restitution of all things? (Acts 3:21). In Titus 3:5 it denotes that
change of heart elsewhere spoken of as a passing from death to life (1 John
3:14); becoming a new creature in Christ Jesus (2 Corinthians 5:17); being
born again (John 3:5); a renewal of the mind (Romans 12:2); a resurrection
from the dead (Ephesians 2:6); a being quickened (2
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