Genesis 35:16   From Beth-El {House-Of-El}, [Jacob's caravan packs up]. They journey on [south], 😇. Nearing Efrath {Fruitful} aka Bethlehem {Bread-House}, Rachel {Ewe} starts [screaming, trying to] give birth. [She suffers, 😇,] in torturous labor pains.
| A Dramatization of Rachel's Burial | Genesis 35:19  [Jacob turns back to sees his beloved] Rachel {Ewe}, cold, stony-white, 😇. [He falls beside her, kisses her, hugs her, cries over her. Jacob passes out from grief. Hours pass as Jacob's sons] dig a grave [in the side of the hill,] by the road to Ephrath {Fruitful} aka Bethlehem {Bread-House}. [Jacob's sons wake Jacob. They move to pick up Rachel. Jacob bats them away. He picks up Rachel. He carries her, staggering down into the grave. He] lays her there [with one last kiss. Jacob emerges from the grave. He drops a handful of dirt into the hole. Each man, woman and child of the gathered weeping, wailing tribe throw a handful of dirt, eventually covering Rachel.]
Genesis 35:20 There, [on the road to Bethlehem,] Jacob [and his sons] erect a pillar over Rachel's grave. That, 😇, is the standing-stone [marking] Rachel's grave to this day. Genesis 48:7 Now about me: when I migrated [south] from Padan-Aram {Syrian-Highland-Plateau}, [you remember that] on the way [your mother] Rachel {Ewe} died [in my arms] in the land of Canaan {LowLand}, just outside Ephrath {Fruitful}. I buried Rachel there on the road to Ephrath (aka Bethlehem {Bread-House})." Joshua 19:15  [So, 😇, the tribe of Zebulun gets] Kattath {Little}, Nahallal {Bush-Pasture}, Shimron {Guardian}, Idalah, and Bethlehem {Bread-House}: 12 cities, plus associated villages.Judges 12:8 After [Jephthah], Ibzan {Splendid} from Bethlehem {Bread-House} guides Israel.Judges 12:10 Then Ibzan {Splendid} dies. [His sons] bury him in Bethlehem {Bread-House}. | Samson Massacres The Philistines In Revenge | Judges 15:8  So SunRay tears into the [Palestinians]! He rips them limb from limb. He piles up their slaughtered bodies. Then he runs [~20 miles] downhill [south past Bethlehem]. He lives in a cave at Etam {Hawk} Rock.
| Micah Hires A Priest For His Temple Business | Judges 17:7  One day, up [to Micah's private temple] walks a young Levite [priest] from Bethlehem {Bread-House} in Judaea. The man lodges with [Micah].
Judges 17:8  (This [ex-priest] abandoned [consecrated ministry in] the city of Bethlehem {Bread-House} (in Judaea) to travel wherever he could find a place [of employment for private gain]. So, on his journey, he arrives in the Ephraim {Double-Fruit} Hills. He walks up to Micah's [occult] shrine.) Judges 17:9  So Micah asks the traveler, “Where are you coming from?” The traveler answers, “I'm a Levite from Bethlehem {Bread-House} (in Judaea). I'm planning to sleep wherever I can find [lodging].” | A Priest Shacks Up With A Cheating Whore | Judges 19:1  In those days, 😇, [like today,] neither [human nor divine] king [rules] in Israel. [The sanctuary-system lies in shambles.] So an [unemployed] Levite [priest] living on the [far north] side of the Double-Fruit Hills shacks up with a [slutty] concubine from Bethlehem {Bread-House} (in Judaea).
This is the time period of Ch 18, probably shortly after the death of Joshua.Judges 19:2  This concubine cheats on the [crooked priest. She sleeps with other people. Then] she runs away from [the priest]. She [moves back (20 miles south) to] her father's house in Bethlehem {Bread-House} (in Judaea). She stays there for 4 whole months. Judges 19:18  The priest answers, “We're traveling [north] from Bethlehem {Bread-House} (in Judaea). [Tomorrow we'll ride east] along-side the Ephraim {Double-Fruit} hills, where I'm from. I [lived in] Bethlehem. But I'm now going to [work at Micah's private] shrine of YHVH. But nobody [here has] invited me into their house [to eat and sleep tonight].”
The man replies, [“Pleased to meet ya'. I'm Joe. I'm also] from the Double-Fruit hills. [I'm] just staying here [in Gibeah {Flower-Hills} until the harvest ends. I can't wait to get away from these perverted] Benjamites.”
The priest is whoring himself out to the highest religious bidder, instead of going to work at the tabernacle of Moses in Shiloh. | Famine Wracks Israel, So EliMelech Migrates | Ruth 1:1  Look back, 😇, to the days when the judges rule [Israel]: A famine starves the land. A man (named EliMelech {El-Is-King}) leaves Bethlehem {Bread-House} (in Judaea) to stay with his wife and two sons in the [pagan] country of Moab.
King David's Great Grandmother Ruth, the ancestor of the Messiah, was a Moabite. True Hebrews are never racially discriminatory. All are welcome to come to YHVH, regardless of their background.
Dearer to God than all of the Israelites who stood at Mount Sinai is the convert. —Tanhuma, Lekh Lekha 6:32Ruth 1:2 Elimelech and his wife (Naomi {Pleasure}) and his two sons (Mahlon {Sickly} and Chilion {Failure}) [trudge east] from Judea's Bethlehem {Bread-House} in Ephratha {Fruitful}. [They hike 20 miles to the Jordan river; then 40 miles south following the Dead Sea. Finally] the [weary family] arrive in the [despised] country of Moab. They settle there.
Mahlon = ‘sick/sorry.’ Chilion = ‘pining, destruction, consumption, failing.’
4124 Mow'ab mo-awb = ‘her father made her a mother’, referring to Lot's child of incest. | Ruth Arrives In Moabite-Hating Israel | Ruth 1:19  So Naomi {Pleasure} & Ruth {Friend} trudge [across miles of desert]. Finally, [after weeks of hardship], they arrive at Bethlehem {Bread-House}. As they enter Bethlehem, the town starts clamoring [and crowding around] them, exclaiming, “Is this Naomi!?”
Ruth 1:22  So Naomi {Pleasure} returns [northwest] from the country of Moab [to Judaea] with her daughter-in-law Ruth, [a hated immigrant from the despised enemy territory of incestuous] Moab. The [two poor ladies courageously] enter Bethlehem {Bread-House} at the beginning of barley harvest season. Ruth 2:4  Suddenly, Boaz {Stabilizer} arrives from Bethlehem {Bread-House}. He [shouts] to [his] reaping-workers, “YHVH be with you!” The reapers answer Boaz, “YHVH bless you!” Ruth 2:18  Ruth {Friend} picks up her [heavy] barley sack. [Under cover of night,] she [lugs it back] into [Bethlehem] town. [She smiles in expectation of] her mother-in-law Naomi {Pleasure} seeing how [much] she's gleaned. Ruth brings the grain [into Naomi's shack]. She hands [the whole sack] to Naomi. [Ruth] keeps only the little bit [of grain] she ate.
Honoring parents means giving them the wealth you create by working.Ruth 3:15 Boaz {Stabilizer} adds, “Bring me the cloak you're wearing. Hold it out.” Ruth {Friend} holds-out the cloak. Boaz loads into it 6 measures [50 pounds] of barley. He helps [Ruth] pick it up. She lugs it [in the dark back] into [Bethlehem] town. | Boaz Negotiates With Townsmen To Marry Ruth | Ruth 4:1  Then Boaz {Stabilizer} journeys up to the [Bethlehem town] court-gate. He sits down there. Soon the kinsman (of whom Boaz spoke to [Ruth]) walks by. Boaz says to [the kinsman], “Whoa! What a man! Come on over here and sit with me, [brother].” So the kinsman turns aside. He sits down [by Boaz].
Boaz knows how to work people. You get more with sugar than with vinegar.Ruth 4:11 Then all the [common] people at the gate, and the elders, say, “We're [your] witnesses. [May] YHVH make this woman (who has come into your family) like Rachel {Ewe} and like Leah {Weary}, the two [women] who built the house of Israel. And [may] you do worthy [deeds that bring you even more wealth and power] in Ephratah {Fruitful}. [May you] become famous in Bethlehem {Bread-House}!
Rachel and Leah rented out their husband like a gigolo to slave girls. Let's hope Ruth wasn't like Rachel and Leah!Ruth 4:14 Then [Bethlehem's] women say to Naomi {Pleasure}, “Kneel [and adore] YHVH. He [paired] you today [with] a [redeeming] kinsman. May Boaz’ [name and your children's] name [s] become famous in Israel.
Ruth's descendants include Solomon, David and Jesus. | YHVH Chooses David To Replace King Saul | 1st Samuel 16:1  Then YHVH says to SamuEl {Heard-By-El}, “How long will you mourn for [evil king] Saul? [Get over it!] See that I've rejected Saul from reigning over Israel. Fill your horn with oil. [Ride out.] I'll send you to Yashai (Jesse) from Bethlehem {Bread-House}. I've provided myself a king from Yashai's sons.”
| The Prophet Samuel Goes To Anoint David King | 1st Samuel 16:4 So SamuEl {Heard-By-El} executes YHVH's commands. He [rides south] into Bethlehem {Bread-House}. The elders of the town tremble at SamuEl's arrival. [They] ask, “Do you come in peace?”
Real prophets of YHVH are scary. You can see fear in people's eyes, especially at church. They're afraid of you, because they sense power. But they don't know what the power is. They think you might be a terrorist.1st Samuel 16:18 Then some of Saul's [bodyguards] answer, “Look. I've seen a son of Yashai from Bethlehem {Bread-House}. [This young man, David, is] skilled in playing [music]. He's a mighty valiant man, a winner, a prudent speaker: a beautiful man. YHVH is with him.” | Shepherd Boy David Goes To The Battlefield | 1st Samuel 17:12 Meanwhile, [16-year-old] David {Lover} [works] in Bethlehem {Bread-House} (in Judaea). [On the farm, David helps] his Dad, a [hobbling] old man from Ephratha {Fruitful} named Yashai [Jesse]. By this time in Saul's [reign, Jesse] has [a total of] 8 sons.
1st Samuel 17:15  So [David balances his job of] feeding his father's sheep [with his urge to monitor the battle]. He runs back and forth between Saul's battlefield [camp] and Bethlehem {Bread-House}. 1st Samuel 17:58 [King] Saul asks [David], “Whose son are you, young man?” David {Love} answers, “I am the son of your servant Yashai {Standout} from Bethlehem {Bread-House}.”
Apparently when David had previously played the harp, king Saul was not of sound mind, or he would have remembered David's family history.1st Samuel 20:6  —If your father misses me at all, then [lie], ‘David begged my permission to run to Bethlehem {Bread-House}, his hometown, to participate in [the] annual [feast] there with all [his] family.’ 1st Samuel 20:28 JAHnathan [lies] to Saul, “David begged my permission to go to Bethlehem {Bread-House}:
Nice try, but Saul's too smart to fall for that white-lie.2nd Samuel 2:32  [Then General Joab's men] pick up [the carcass of] AsahEl {El-Made}. They bury him in the tomb of his father in Bethlehem {Bread-House}. Then Joab marches his men [homeward] all night. [Finally they straggle] into Hebron {Society} at break of day. 2nd Samuel 21:19 In yet another battle against the Philistines at Gob {Pit}, [a hulk named] Goliath {Exile} from Gath {WinePress-Town} [attacks Israel's army. Like his predecessor, this Goliath's] spear-shaft [runs as long and thick as] a weaver's beam! But ElHanan {El-is-Gracious} the son of Jaare-Oregim {Woods-Weaver} from Bethlehem, slays [the brute]!
KJV (probably incorrectly) inserts in italics ‘the brother of’ Goliath. This is a 2nd Goliath, resembling the one David killed (1 Sam 17).2nd Samuel 23:14 David was hiding, using the [cave as his] fortress, [because] a Philistine garrison preparing to attack Jerusalem [had] occupied Bethlehem {Bread-House}. 2nd Samuel 23:15  There David {Love} grew so thirsty he moaned, “Oh, I wish someone would give me a drink of the water from the well by the gate at Bethlehem {Bread-House}!” 2nd Samuel 23:16  So [David's top] 3 mighty [men] broke through the Philistine armies. [David's men] drew water out of the well by the gate at Bethlehem {Bread-House}. They took the [water]. They brought it to David. But David wouldn't drink one drop, 😇. Instead he poured it out [on the ground as an ‘offering’] to YHVH.2nd Samuel 23:24 [General] Joab's son AsahEl {El-Made} was one of the thirty [mightiest men in Israel], 😇. [The other 29 were]: ElHanan {El-is-Gracious} the son of Dodo {Loving} from Bethlehem {Bread-House},1st Chronicles 2:51 [Hur also fathers] Salma {Cloak}, the [founding] father of Bethlehem {Bread-House}, [and] Hareph {Ripper}, the father of Beth-Gader {Wall-House}.1st Chronicles 2:54 Salma {Clothing} [fathers] sons [who populate the clans of] Bethlehem {Bread-House}, plus the Netophathite {Distillers}, and [the people of] Ataroth {Crowns}, [and] the lineage of Joab {JAH-Dad}, and half of the people of Manahath {Center-Of-Rest}, [and] Zorah's clan;1st Chronicles 4:4 PenuEl {Face-Of-El} fathers Gedor {Corral} and Ezer {Aid}. [Ezer] fathers Hushah {Hasty}. All these [previously named men] descend from Hur {White}, the firstborn of Ephratah {Fruitful}, the fore-father of Bethlehem {Bread-House}.1st Chronicles 11:16 While David stays holed up [in the cave], Philistine [marauders] prepare for battle [~15km east] at Bethlehem {Bread-House}. 1st Chronicles 11:17 [King] David thirsts. He whispers, “Oh, I wish someone would give me a drink of the water from the well by the town-gate of Bethlehem {Bread-House}.” 1st Chronicles 11:18 So these 3 [mighty men] break through the Philistine armies. They draw water out of the well by Bethlehem's town gate. They haul [the jug] back [~15km west] to [king] David. But David refuses to drink a drop. Instead he pours it out [as an offering] to YHVH. | A List Of King David's Other Valiant Heroes | 1st Chronicles 11:26 Other valiant men [who lead David's] armies include: AsahEl {El-Made} the brother of [General] Joab {JAH-Dad}, and ElHanan {El-is-Gracious} the son of Dodo {Loving} of Bethlehem {Bread-House},
1st Chronicles 14:9 The Philistines invade [Israel]. They spread [out] their [battle-arrays] in the valley of Rephaim {Giants}, [thus shutting off Bethlehem from Jerusalem]. 2nd Chronicles 11:6  For instance, [king] Rehoboam {Nation-Builder} builds-up Bethlehem {Bread-House}, Etam {Hawk-Land}, and Tekoa {Trumpet-Town},Ezra 2:21  123 men from Bethlehem {Bread-House};NehemiYAH 7:26  188 men from Bethlehem {Bread-House} and Netophah {Distiller},Psalms 132:6  Our [hebrew ancestors heard reports] from Ephratah {Fruitful}, [near Bethlehem]. So we [searched and] found [the ark] in the fields of the Jaar Woods.
Kirjath Yearim.IsaiYAH 10:30  [Near Bethlehem, the women of] Bat-Gallim {Daughter-Of-The-Rolling-Springs} shriek so loud [that lions] prick up their ears [50 miles north] in Laish {Lion-Land}! [3 miles north-east of Jerusalem,] Anathoth {Answer-Town} [lies silent,] smashed. JeremiYAH 41:17 The [freed captives] stay at Chimham {Longing} Lodge, near Bethlehem {Bread-House}. [The refugees] plan to emigrate [south] to Egypt. | Amos Sees The Dark Future Of Israel | Amos 1:1  😇, during the reigns of Judea's king UzziYah {YAH's-Strength} and [North] Israel's [evil] king Jeroboam {Nation-Wrangler} (the son of JAHoash {JAH-Fired}), two years before the earthquake [of 687BC], Amos {Load}, a [young] sheep-herder from [5 miles south of Bethlehem, 10 miles from Jerusalem], in Tekoa {Trumpet-land}, SEES the following word-pictures concerning Israel:
YAH's Word is a 4D experience that you SEE (strongs#2372). Amos means ‘burdensome,’ meaning that the responsibility of telling people what their Creator says is a burden, since people (religious and non-religious) hate their Creator and everything He says. Amos was a farm boy, a manual laborer, a lifter of burdens: #6006 'aw-mas' or mamas: to load, bear or impose a burden (or infliction). | Micah Foresees The Messiah Leading You Home | MicaYah 5:2  “But you, Bethlehem-Ephrathah {Fruitful-House-Of-Bread}, you inferior [humble, ignoble runt] among the thousands [of towns] in Judea, out of you comes forth my [Messiah], Israel's One ruler, who springs from the ancient days of eternity.”
YHVH's most pitiful sentient creature [Jesus, a man], comes (from the most humble town on an insignificant tiny planet) to become ruler of the universe, subject only to YAH's over-arching dominion.
Meanwhile, YAH's most amazing, beautiful and talented creature, Satan, falls from heaven through pride, thrown down to the lowest fire-pit. YAH is dramatic. YAH favors the cosmic underdog.
Apparently upon Yahshua's ascension he became able to travel through time. Thus he appears throughout and beyond the history of the universe into which Mary birthed him 2000 years ago. | The Wise Men Leave Asia To Visit Baby Yahshua | Matthew 2:1 So, 😇, during the lifespan of [Judea's transvestite pretender] king Herod {Hero}, [Mary] births YahShua in Bethlehem {Bread-House}, [a town in] Judaea. [A few years pass] while wise men journey from the east [e.g. India, China] to Jerusalem.
The bible never says how many ‘wise men’ there were. Maybe 3, maybe 300+. The wise men take the same route that the Kings of the east will take to move their armies to the final battle at Armageddon.Matthew 2:5 The chief priests and lawyers answer Herod, “ [The Messiah will be born] in Bethlehem {Bread-House}, in Judaea: for the prophet [MicaYAH] writes the following [words of YHVH]: Matthew 2:6 ‘You Bethlehem {Bread-House}, in the land of Judea, are no [mere] runt among the principalities of Judea. For out of you comes [the] Governor who will rule my people with Me.’”
(Micah 5:2) Israel means ‘those who will rule with the Creator’.Matthew 2:8  [So snake-tongued] Herod sends the wise men to Bethlehem {Bread-House}. He [hisses], “Go. Investigate. Search diligently. Find the young child [Messiah]. Then bring me back word, so I too can come and ‘worship’ [him] with you.”
Murder him, that is. | Pervert ‘King’ Explodes in Murderous Rage | Matthew 2:16  Then [false-king] Herod realizes the wise men tricked him. Herod's fury explodes. [Herod] deploys soldiers [5km south] to [attack] Bethlehem {Bread-House}. They kill all male toddlers anywhere nearby. Herod assassinates all boys two years-old and younger (since about 2 years elapsed since the Magi [wise men] told Herod they'd seen the star signaling YahShua's birth).
Luke 2:4 Because Joseph {Increaser} descended from [King] David, Joseph leaves the city of Nazareth (in the Heathen-Circle). He [rides south] to David's hometown, (the House Of Dust) [aka Bethlehem] in Judaea. | The Town Refuses To Give Christ A Birth-Room | Luke 2:6 As Joseph {Increaser} & Mary [arrive] in Bethlehem {Bread-House}, the time comes for Mary to give birth to YahShua.
Luke 2:7 [Everyone in] Bethlehem {Bread-House} refuses to make room for [pregnant] Mary in their living-quarters, 😇. [So, in a cave used for sheltering animals,] Mary births [YahShua,] her firstborn son, from [her holy womb into an evil world]. Mary snugly wraps the baby YahShua in strips of cloth. [She breast-feeds him. She swoons, exhausted. So] she lays YahShua in a [cow's] feeding trough.
manger=trough.Luke 2:11 —The Savior— [yes,] the Messiah, the Adoni— is born tonight in [Bethlehem], the [home] town of [ancient king] David! Luke 2:15 The angels [fly back] to heaven, 😇. The shepherds' [jaws hang open. They stare up at the star.] They shout, “Let's [run] to Bethlehem {Bread-House}! Let's see this [wonderful new Baby King whom] the Adonai's [angel(s)] told us about.” John 7:42 - Didn't the scripture predict that Messiah would come from the ‘seed’ of David {Lover}, and from the town of Bethlehem {Bread-House}, where David {Lover} lived?”
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