About the Author of the Blogsite, Not the Author of the Bible:

About the Author of the Blogsite, Not the Author of the Bible: I was uncertain of how to accomplish this, mindful of Revelation 22:18-19, which says that nobody is to add to, or to take away from what was written in the Bible. After lots of prayerful contemplation, the Lord had it on my heart that I’m not to change the meaning of what is written in the Bible. He has also shown ways to add to people’s understating of that meaning, without altering the meaning, by putting that info within [brackets]. This is primarily accomplished with the KJV Bible and lots of prayers, but at times, BibleGateway.com, Biblehub.com, NIV Bible, Webster Dictionary, and other internet resources, as needed. Debra Seiling

About Understanding the Bible:

Understanding the Bible: After reading Isaiah 28:10 many times over the years and not totally understanding it, it recently became apparent to me that the Lord God has this passage as the means for understanding the Bible. For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little. Isaiah 28:10 KJV. Being prayerful about this passage, and looking up 'precept' in the Webster's Dictionary, it gave this passage a whole new meaning, once 'commandment' is substituted for 'precept'. Within brackets are additional words the Lord had on my heart to aid in understanding the meaning. For commandment must be [built up] upon commandment; commandment upon commandment; line upon line, line upon line; [developing understanding] here a little, and there a little.

The Table Format:

The Table Format: I was overwhelmed with how to explain the process for determining if someone had leprosy in Leviticus 13, which seemed very complicated. After praying, "Lord, if this is difficult for me to understand after reading it many times, how can this be explained to others?" The thought the Lord God had on my heart was for me to put it into a vertical chart to visually see the process. This made it much easier for me to follow the progression. After doing so, I prayed, "Lord, how can this be conveyed to readers, so that they can understand this process?" The thought the Lord God had on my heart was to put it within the lines of a table. Being a stiff-necked, stubborn person, as it's often called in the Bible, I prayed, asking the Lord God if He's sure that's really what He wanted me to do? I reluctantly put Leviticus 13 into a table format. When I read this difficult leprosy process within a table format, it suddenly became easier for me to understand. That's because it builds line upon line, as explained in the Understanding the Bible section. Shortly after that, the Lord God had it on my heart, to put all of The Books of the Bible in Smaller Chunks within a table format, to aid in understanding, line upon line.

Psalm 78:1-72 Book# 3 of Psalms

 

Maschil, [a.k.a. Maskil] of Asaph.

Psalm 78:1-72            Book# 3 of Psalms [in Smaller Chunks]

O people, [lend your] ear [& listen] to My Law. [Lean] your ears to the words of My mouth. * I will open My mouth in a parable. I will utter dark sayings of old; which we have heard & known & our [forefathers] have told us.

[* Matthew 13:33-35 Another parable He [spoke] to them; The kingdom of heaven is [similar] to [yeast,] which a woman took & hid in 3 measures of [flour, until] the whole [dough] was leavened. All these things, Jesus [spoke] to the multitude in parables. 

He [didn't speak] without a parable to them: [so] that it might be fulfilled, [what] was spoken by the prophet, saying, I will open My mouth in parables. I will utter things which have been kept secret from the foundation of the world.]

We won't hide them from their children, [declaring] to the generation to come, the praises of the Lord, His strength & His wonderful works that He has done. [Exodus 13:14-15 And it shall be when your son asks you in [times] to come, saying, What is this? That you shall say to him, [The] strength of the hand of the Lord, brought us out from Egypt, from the house of bondage. 

And it [happened,] when Pharaoh would hardly let us go, that the Lord slew all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both the firstborn of man & [animals]. Therefore, I sacrifice to the Lord all [first born] males, but all the firstborn of My children, I redeem.]

For He established a Testimony in Jacob & appointed a Law in Israel, which He commanded our [forefathers, so] that they should make them known to their children. [So,] that the generation to come might know them, even the children [to] be born, who should arise & declare them to their children. 

[So,] that they might [put] their hope in God & not forget the works of God, but keep His commandments & might not be [like] their [forefathers,] a stubborn, rebellious generation. A generation that [doesn't correctly focus] their [hearts] & whose spirit wasn't [constantly] with God. 

The children [people] of Ephraim, armed & carrying bows, turned back [on] the day of battle. They [didn't.  keep] the covenant  [contract] of God & refused to [follow] in His Law. [2 Kings 17:16-18 And they left all the commandments of the Lord their God & made [themselves molded] images, even 2 calves, made a grove & worshiped all the [stars & constellations] of heaven & served Baal. 

And they caused their sons & daughters to pass through the fire & [they] used divination, enchantments & sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the Lord, to provoke Him to anger. Therefore, the Lord was very angry with Israel & removed them out of His sight. There [were] none left, [except] only the tribe of Judah.] 

And [they forgot] His works & wonders that He [showed] them. Marvelous things He did in the sight of their [forefathers,] in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan. He divided the [Red] Sea & caused them to pass through & He made the waters stand [like a] heap. 

Also, in the daytime, He led them with a cloud & all the night with a light of fire. He [split] the rocks in the wilderness & gave them [to] drink out of the great depths. He also brought streams out of the rock & caused waters to run down like rivers. 

And they [still] sinned more against Him by provoking the Most High in the wilderness. And they [tested] God in their heart by asking [for] meat [to fill their lusts.] [Yes,] they [spoke] against God. They said, Can God furnish a table [of food] in the wilderness? 

[Look,] He [struck] the rock, [so] that waters gushed out & the streams overflowed. Can He give bread also? Can He provide [meat] for His people? Therefore, the Lord heard this & was [angry:] so a fire [grew] against Jacob & anger also came up against Israel; because they [didn't] believe in His Salvation. 

[Although] He had commanded the clouds from above & opened the doors of heaven & it rained down manna upon them to eat. [God] had given them [bread] from heaven. Man did eat Angel's food & He sent them meat [until they were] full. 

He caused an east wind to blow in heaven & by His power He brought in the south wind. He also rained [meat] upon them [like] dust & feathered [quail] like the sand of the sea. And He let it fall in the [middle] of their camp, [around] their [dwellings.] 

So, they did eat & were [very full:] for He gave them their own desire. They were not [turned away] from their [lusts.] But while the meat was [still] in their mouths, the [anger] of God came upon them & [attacked the most husky] of them & [struck] down the chosen men of Israel. 

[After] all this, they still sinned & [didn't] believe His wondrous works. Therefore, He [consumed] their days in vanity & their years in trouble. [Numbers 14:35-38 I, the Lord, have said, I will surely do it to all this evil congregation, [who] are gathered together against Me in this wilderness. 

They shall be consumed & shall die there. And the men, [whom] Moses sent to [spy out] the land, who returned & made all the congregation [grumble] against him, by bringing up a [false report about] the land. 

Even those men [who] did bring up the [bad] report upon the land, died before the Lord. But [only] Joshua, [Nun's] son & Caleb, [Jephunneh's] son, still lived [of those] men [who searched] the land.]

When He [killed] them, then they sought Him & they returned & [inquired] early after God. And they remembered that God was their Rock & the High God, their Redeemer. [However,] they [flattered] Him with their [mouths] & they lied to Him with their tongues. 

For their heart was not [honest] with Him & neither were they [faithful] in His covenant. But He, being full of compassion, forgave their [sin & didn't] destroy them. [Yes,] many [times,] He turned His anger away & didn't stir up all His [fury.] 

[Isaiah 48:9-11 For My Name's sake, I will [hold off] My anger & for My praise, I will [withhold it] for you, [so] I [don't] cut you off. [Look,] I have refined you, but not with silver. I have chosen you in the furnace of affliction. For [My] Own sake, I will do it: for How [could] My Name be [defiled?] And I won't give My glory to another.] 

For He remembered that they were, [only] flesh [of humans: like] a wind that [blows] away & [doesn't] come again. How [often] did they provoke Him in the wilderness & grieve Him in the desert! [Yet,] turned back & [tested] God & [had] limited [faith in] the Holy One of Israel.

[Numbers 14:22-23 Because all those men [who] have seen My glory & My miracles, [that] I did in Egypt & in the wilderness, have [tested] Me now, these 10 times & haven't [paid attention] to My voice. Surely, they shall not see the land [that] I [swore] to their [forefathers] & neither shall any see it of [those who] provoked Me.] 

They [didn't] remember His hand, nor the day when He delivered them from the enemy. How He had [performed] His signs in Egypt & His wonders in the field of Zoan & had turned their rivers into blood & their [streams, so] they couldn't drink. [Psalm 105:29 He turned their waters into blood & [killed] their fish.]

He sent [various] sorts of flies among them, which devoured them. [Psalm 105:31 He [spoke] & there came [various] sorts of flies & lice [on] all their coasts.] And frogs, which destroyed them. [Psalm 105:30 Their land brought forth frogs in abundance, in the [rooms] of their kings.] 

He also gave the increase [of their produce] to the caterpillar & their labor to the locust. [Psalm 105:34-35 He [spoke] & the locusts came & the caterpillars, without number & they [ate] up all the [vegetation] in their land & devoured the fruit of their ground.] 

He destroyed their vines with hail & their sycamore trees with frost. [Psalm 105:32-33 He gave them hail for rain & flaming fire in their land. He [struck] their vines & also their fig trees & [broke] the trees of their coasts.] He also gave up their [livestock] to the hail & their flocks to hot thunderbolts. 

[Exodus 9:23-26 And Moses stretched [out] his rod toward heaven & the Lord sent thunder & hail. And the fire ran along upon the ground & the Lord rained hail upon the land of Egypt. So there was hail and [the] fire [was mixed] with the hail, very [grievously,] such as there [has been] none like it in all the land of Egypt since it became a nation. 

And the hail [struck] throughout all the land of Egypt, all that was in the field, both man & [animals.] The hail [struck down] every herb of the field & [broke] every tree of the field. Only in the land of Goshen, where the children [people] of Israel were, there was no hail.]

He cast on them, the fierceness of His anger, [fury,] indignation & trouble, by sending evil angels among them. [Revelation 12:9 And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil & Satan, [who] deceives the whole world. He was cast out into the earth & his angels were cast out with him.] 

He made a [pathway for] His anger & He [didn't] spare their soul from death, but gave their life over to the [plagues] & [struck] all [Egypt's] firstborn, the [1st] of their strength in the tabernacles of Ham. But made His Own people go [out] like sheep & guided them in the wilderness like a flock. 

And He led them on safely, so that they [weren't afraid:] but the [Red] Sea overwhelmed their enemies. And He brought them to the corner of His Sanctuary, even to this mountain, which His right hand had purchased.

[Exodus 15:17-18 You shall bring them in & plant them in the mountain of Your inheritance, in the place, O Lord, [that] You have made for You to dwell in. In the Sanctuary, O Lord, [that] Your hands have established. The Lord shall [rule] forever & ever.] 

Also, He cast out the heathen before them & divided them an inheritance by [lot] & made the tribes of Israel dwell in their tents. [Joshua 23:3-5 And you have seen all that the Lord your God has done to all these nations, because of you. For the Lord your God is He, [Who] has fought for you. 

[Look,] I have divided unto you, by lot these nations that remain, to be an inheritance for your tribes, from Jordan, with all the nations that I have cut off, even westward to the [Mediterranean] Sea. And the Lord your God, He shall [remove] them from [in front of] you & drive them out from your sight. And you shall possess their land, [like] the Lord your God has promised to you.] 

[Still,] they [tested] & provoked the Most High God & [didn't] keep His [covenant] [contract.] But [they] [returned] back & dealt unfaithfully like their [forefathers.] [Deuteronomy 12:2-3 You shall [totally] destroy all the places, [where] the nations [that] you shall possess served their gods, upon the high mountains & upon the hills & under every green tree. 

And you shall overthrow their altars & break their pillars & burn their groves with fire. And you shall [cut] down the [carved] images of their gods & destroy the names of them out of that place.] 

They [went astray] like [an arrow from] a deceitful bow. For they provoked Him to anger with their high places & moved Him to jealousy with their [carved] images. When God heard this, He was [furious] & greatly [loathed] Israel. So, that He [abandoned] the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent [that] He placed among men.

[1 Samuel 4:11 And the Ark of God was taken & the 2 sons of Eli, Hophni & Phinehas, were killed.] 

And delivered His strength & His glory into the enemy's hand, into captivity. [Judges 18:30-31 And the children [people] of Dan, [put] up a [carved] image. And Jonathan, [Gershom's] son, the son of Manasseh, he & his sons were priests to the tribe of Dan until the day of the captivity of the land. And they [put] up Micah's [carved] image, [that] he made, all the time that the house of God was in Shiloh.] 

He also gave His people over to the sword & was [furious] with His inheritance. 

[1 Samuel 4:10 And the Philistines fought & Israel was [defeated] & every man fled into his tent. And there was a very [large] slaughter of 30,000 footmen of Israel [who] fell.] 

The fire consumed their young men & their maidens weren't given [in] marriage. Their priests fell by the sword & their widows [didn't mourn.] Then, the Lord [arose like someone] out of sleep & like a mighty man [who] shouts, [because] of wine. And He [struck] His enemies in the [hidden] parts & He put them in perpetual [disgrace.] 

[1 Samuel 5:6-7 But the hand of the Lord was heavy upon [those] of Ashdod & He destroyed them & [struck them with tumors,] even Ashdod & [its] coasts. And when the men of Ashdod saw that it was so, they said, The Ark of the God of Israel shall not [stay] with us: for His hand is [excruciating] upon us & upon Dagon, our god.] 

[Additionally,] He refused the tabernacle of Joseph & [didn't choose] the tribe of Ephraim; but chose Mount Zion & the tribe of Judah, which He loved. And He built His sanctuary like high palaces, like the earth which He has established forever. 

[1 Kings 6:1 And it [happened,] in the 480th year after the children [people] of Israel [had] come out of the land of Egypt, in the 4th year Solomon [ruled] over Israel, in the month Zif, which is the 2nd month, that [Solomon] began to build the house of the Lord.] 

Also, [prior to that:] He chose David, His servant & took him from the [sheep pens.] From following the [pregnant sheep] with [the] young & He brought him to feed Jacob, His people & Israel, His inheritance. 

[2 Samuel 7:8 There you shall now say to My servant, David, the Lord of Hosts says [this,] I took you from the [sheep pens,] from following the sheep, to be ruler over My people, over Israel.] So, [David] fed them according to the integrity of his heart & guided them by the [skill] of his hands.