Bible trivia-1) Which king of Judah's feet became diseased during his old age?

Question

2) What previous incident led the disciples to try to dissuade Jesus from returning to Judea to see ailing Lazarus?

3) In the origin of the expression, who was the apple of whose eye?

Vesta...my purpose is to kindle interest.

Answer 1

The first question is a really good one, and threw me for a minute. My first inclination was to say David, because I know when he was old, the virgins were used to warm him, but the answer is Asa. Jacob was the apple of God's eye. The Jews had attempted to stone Jesus when he was last there, and his disciples didn't want him to return to Judea. Biblical trivia is fun, but it doesn't build a strong Christian.

Answer 2

1. Asa, too bad he didn't turn to the Lord when he was older, because he served him when he was younger.

3. Israel is the apple of God's eye.

Answer 3

1and 3 have been answered so
2)they had problems with the Pharisees

Answer 4

(2 Chr 16:12) "And Asa in the thirty and ninth year of his reign was diseased in his feet, until his disease was exceeding great: yet in his disease he sought not to the LORD, but to the physicians."

Because the king who once relied upon the Lord, "And Asa did that which was good and right in the eyes of the LORD his God" (2 Chr 14:2);

and who, when faced with a stronger enemy "cried unto the LORD his God, and said, LORD, it is nothing with thee to help, whether with many, or with them that have no power: help us, O LORD our God; for we rest on thee, and in thy name we go against this multitude. O LORD, thou art our God; let not man prevail against thee" (2 Chr 14:11),

in similar situations later twice relied upon the arm of the flesh: "And at that time Hanani the seer came to Asa king of Judah, and said unto him, Because thou hast relied on the king of Syria, and not relied on the LORD thy God, therefore is the host of the king of Syria escaped out of thine hand. 8 Were not the Ethiopians and the Lubims a huge host, with very many chariots and horsemen? yet, because thou didst rely on the LORD, he delivered them into thine hand.9 For the eyes of the LORD run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to show himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect toward him. Herein thou hast done foolishly: therefore from henceforth thou shalt have wars" (1Chr. 16:7-9).

As for the second ?,

(John 11:6-8) "When he had heard therefore that he was sick, he abode two days still in the same place where he was. {7} Then after that saith he to his disciples, Let us go into Judaea again. {8} His disciples say unto him, Master, the Jews of late sought to stone thee; and goest thou thither again?"

As for the third,

(Deu 32:10) "He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye."

(Zec 2:8) "For thus saith the LORD of hosts; After the glory hath he sent me unto the nations which spoiled you: for he that toucheth you toucheth the apple of his eye."

However, in context this doe snot preclude chastisement, which the Jews as a whole suffered due their hardness of hearet in rejecting their Messiah

(1 Th 2:16) "Forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they might be saved, to fill up their sins alway: for the wrath is come upon them to the uttermost."

And even now are suffering, as their heart is yet stubborn (and has much company in that, even in America).Yet just as God promised a day in He "will make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people: all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it" (Zec 12:3), and to bring third part through the fire (Zec. 13:3), so He has also clearly promised to work and unblind their eyes in the latter days, and so all Israel shall be saved" (Romans 11). http://peacebyjesus.witnesstoday.org/israel-chosenorforgotten.html

To the glory of God, who need not bring any of us rebellious sinners to repentance, but

"Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation [perfect and final sacrifice for sin] for our sins." (1 John 4:10).

"That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved" (Rom 10:9).

Praise ye the Lord. .

Answer 5

agghh! i thought school was over