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  Give an example from the Bible, other than the ones used in this lesson, that demonstrates the biblical authors use of geography to convey biblical wisdom.

  Michael Nickerson replied 5 days, 9 hours ago 80 Members · 82 Replies

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  Timothy K.

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  04/15/2023 at 10:24

  Jesus was sleeping in the back of a boat with the disciples on board in the sea of Galilee. A terrible storm rose and terrified those who were in the boat with him. They woke Jesus up to see if he might be able to do something. He told them to stop living through fear, and then told the wind and the waves to be at peace. All was calm and quiet on the body of water now after Jesus had commanded the squall to stop. The disciples were amazed. The sea of Galilee was featured in the story. Human geography was featured in the story, showing the disciples and Jesus traveling via the sea of Galilee. Locations were labeled as they travel on the sea of Galilee: which is also part of human geography. The disciples interacted with, and responded to geography, As the wind whipped up a terrible storm on this body of water.

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  William

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  04/04/2023 at 12:20

  Psalm 22:12
  Many bulls have surrounded Me; Strong bulls of Bashan have encircled Me. This text is using geography as a reference to an attack of the pagan religions of Og king of Bashan from Numbers, which included Baal worship. Describing them as powerful forces, like strong bulls.

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  Susan Keeney

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  03/21/2023 at 05:26

  In the book of John’s first chapter, John the Baptist is preaching and baptizing in the wilderness and then in Bethany east of the Jordan River, baptizing people in the water there, when Jesus appears for baptism. Afterwards, God used a dove to rest the Holy Spirit upon His Son.

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  Tami Treder

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  01/22/2023 at 10:47

  I am reading through Genesis & Exodus now & it is filled with geography! The lands promised to Abraham & defendants. Travels to find brides for Issac and Jacob! Moses and his story with pharaoh and the Israelites leaving Egypt. So full of geography!

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  Candida Quinones

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  01/12/2023 at 01:31

  Psalm 139 depicts perfectly the three categories of Geography Such as Physical, Human and Natural History.
  O Lord, you have searched me and known me!
  2 You know when I sit down and when I rise up;
  you discern my thoughts from afar.
  3 You search out my path and my lying down
  and are acquainted with all my ways.
  4 Even before a word is on my tongue,
  behold, O Lord, you know it altogether.
  5 You hem me in, behind and before,
  and lay your hand upon me.
  6 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me;
  it is high; I cannot attain it.

  7 Where shall I go from your Spirit?
  Or where shall I flee from your presence?
  8 If I ascend to heaven, you are there!
  If I make my bed in Sheol, you are there!
  9 If I take the wings of the morning
  and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea,
  10 even there your hand shall lead me,
  and your right hand shall hold me.
  11 If I say, “Surely the darkness shall cover me,
  and the light about me be night,”
  12 even the darkness is not dark to you;
  the night is bright as the day,
  for darkness is as light with you.

  13 For you formed my inward parts;
  you knitted me together in my mother’s womb.
  14 I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.[a]
  Wonderful are your works;
  my soul knows it very well.
  15 My frame was not hidden from you,
  when I was being made in secret,
  intricately woven in the depths of the earth.
  16 Your eyes saw my unformed substance;
  in your book were written, every one of them,
  the days that were formed for me,
  when as yet there was none of them.

  17 How precious to me are your thoughts, O God!
  How vast is the sum of them!
  18 If I would count them, they are more than the sand.
  I awake, and I am still with you.

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