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The Circle Of The Earth
Long before Christopher Columbus set sail, Bible readers knew that the earth was round.
Strong^s Number 2329 chuwg { khoog}
AV - circle 1, circuit 1, compass 1; 3
1) circle, circuit, compass
2) (BDB) vault (of the heavens)
Do you not know?
Have you not heard?
Has it not been told you from the beginning?
Have you not understood since the earth was founded?
22 He sits enthroned above the circle of the earth,
and its people are like grasshoppers.
He stretches out the heavens like a canopy,
and spreads them out like a tent to live in.
Isaiah 40:21-22 (NIV)
When He established the heavens, I was there,
When He inscribed a circle on the face of the deep,
28 When He made firm the skies above
Proverb 8:27-28 (NASB)
He obscures the face of the full moon,
And spreads His cloud over it.
10 He has inscribed a circle on the surface of the waters,
At the boundary of light and darkness.
11 The pillars of heaven tremble,
And are amazed at His rebuke.
Job 26:9-11 (NASB)
When he prepared the heavens, I was there: when he set a compass upon the face of the depth: 28When he established the clouds above: when he strengthened the fountains of the deep: 29When he gave to the sea his decree, that the waters should not pass his commandment: when he appointed the foundations of the earth:
Proverbs 8:27-29 (KJV)
His going forth is from the end of the heaven, and his circuit unto the
ends of it
Psalm 19:6 (KJV)
And thou sayest, How doth God know? can he judge through the dark cloud? 14Thick clouds are a covering to him, that he seeth not; and he walketh in the circuit of heaven.
Job 22:13-14 (KJV)
and over the whole compass of the earth
2 Esdras 11:40 (KJV Apocrypha)
How long wilt thou go about, O thou backsliding daughter? for the LORD hath created a new thing in the earth, A woman shall compass a man.
Jeremiah 31:22 (KJV)
Is God all encompassing, creating the universe within His boundlessness? Or is God all there is in boundless space? Can He, at will, flip from one to the other? Or are they one and the same?
Perhaps what really matters is where your next meal is coming from.
2007 Jacques Gauvin
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