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Monday, August 31 2009
Bozrah, from the Hebrew word pronounced bots-raw, meaning an enclosure, or a fortress, was a very ancient city, located in the mountainous area of Petra, about 20 miles southeast of the Dead Sea (see The Salt Sea). Bozrah is first mentioned in Genesis as the home city of Jobab, an Edomite king.
"36:1 Now these are the generations of Esau [see also Why Did Esau Lose The Blessing? and Cain and Esau], who is Edom." (Genesis 36:1 KJV)"36:31 And these are the kings that reigned in the land of Edom, before there reigned any king over the children of Israel [see also The Origin Of 'Israel' and Israelite Monarchy - The Origin]. 36:32 And Bela the son of Beor reigned in Edom: and the name of his city was Dinhabah. 36:33 And Bela died, and Jobab the son of Zerah of Bozrah reigned in his stead." (Genesis 36:31-33 KJV)
"Let the earth hear, and all that is therein; the world, and all things that come forth of it"
Later references about Bozrah are found in the prophecies of Isaiah, Jeremiah, Amos and Micah - all with the same account of the coming wrath of the LORD upon Bozrah. It is important to note the context of those prophecies however i.e. "34:1 Come near, ye nations, to hear; and hearken, ye people: let the earth hear, and all that is therein; the world, and all things that come forth of it. 34:2 For the indignation of the LORD is upon all nations, and his fury upon all their armies" as quoted below in the prophecy by Isaiah. It refers to the time when Jesus Christ will return to defeat all of the God-rejecting kingdoms of this world (see The Coming World Dictator) and thereafter establish the Kingdom of God over the entire earth.
"34:1 Come near, ye nations, to hear; and hearken, ye people: let the earth hear, and all that is therein; the world, and all things that come forth of it. 34:2 For the indignation of the LORD [see 'Before Abraham Was, I AM' and 'The God Of The Old Testament'; also Christ The Creator] is upon all nations, and his fury upon all their armies: he hath utterly destroyed them, he hath delivered them to the slaughter. 34:3 Their slain also shall be cast out, and their stink shall come up out of their carcases, and the mountains shall be melted with their blood. 34:4 And all the host of heaven shall be dissolved, and the heavens shall be rolled together as a scroll: and all their host shall fall down, as the leaf falleth off from the vine, and as a falling fig from the fig tree.34:5 For my sword shall be bathed in heaven: behold, it shall come down upon Idumea, and upon the people of my curse, to judgment. 34:6 The sword of the LORD is filled with blood, it is made fat with fatness, and with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams: for the LORD hath a sacrifice in Bozrah, and a great slaughter in the land of Idumea. 34:7 And the Unicorns shall come down with them, and the bullocks with the bulls; and their land shall be soaked with blood, and their dust made fat with fatness.
34:8 For it is the day of the Lord's vengeance, and the year of recompenses for the controversy of Zion [see Zionism]. 34:9 And the streams thereof shall be turned into pitch, and the dust thereof into brimstone, and the land thereof shall become burning pitch. 34:10 It shall not be quenched night nor day; the smoke thereof shall go up for ever: from generation to generation it shall lie waste; none shall pass through it for ever and ever. 34:11 But the cormorant and the bittern shall possess it; the owl also and the raven shall dwell in it: and he shall stretch out upon it the line of confusion, and the stones of emptiness. 34:12 They shall call the nobles thereof to the kingdom, but none shall be there, and all her princes shall be nothing. 34:13 And thorns shall come up in her palaces, nettles and brambles in the fortresses thereof: and it shall be an habitation of Dragons, and a court for owls. 34:14 The wild beasts of the desert shall also meet with the wild beasts of the island, and the satyr shall cry to his fellow; the screech owl also shall rest there, and find for herself a place of rest. 34:15 There shall the great owl make her nest, and lay, and hatch, and gather under her shadow: there shall the vultures also be gathered, every one with her mate.
34:16 Seek ye out of the book of the LORD, and read: no one of these shall fail, none shall want her mate: for my mouth it hath commanded, and his spirit it hath gathered them. 34:17 And he hath cast the lot for them, and his hand hath divided it unto them by line: they shall possess it for ever, from generation to generation shall they dwell therein." (Isaiah 34:1-17 KJV)
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This Day In History, August 31
1303: The War of Vespers in Sicily ended with an agreement between Charles of Valois, who invaded the country, and Frederick, the ruler of Sicily.
1422: King Henry V of England died of an illness while in France. He was succeeded by his nine-month-old son as Henry VI.
1521: Cortes captured the city of Tenochtitlan, Mexico.
1535: Pope Paul II deposed and excommunicated King Henry VIII of England.
1668: John Bunyan, English author of The Pilgrim's Progress, died in London at age 69.
1864: During the U.S. Civil War, Union general W.T. Sherman forced the Confederate evacuation of Atlanta, considered by some to thereby present Abraham Lincoln with the key to re-election in the fall of 1864.
1886: An earthquake in Charleston, South Carolina, toppled most of the city's chimneys.
1907: An Anglo-Russian Convention between Britain and Russia settled outstanding disputes between them regarding Tibet, Afghanistan and Persia (Iran); it was one of the bases of the Allied coalition in the First World War.
1942: The British army under General Bernard Montgomery defeated Field Marshal Erwin Rommel's Afrika Korps in the Battle of Alam Halfa in Egypt.
1951: The U.S. 1st Marine Division began its attack on Bloody Ridge in Korea. The four-day battle resulted in 2,700 Marine casualties.
1980: After two months of strikes, the Polish communist government gave in to demanded reforms, including recognition of the Solidarity trade union under the leadership of Lech Walesa.
1990: West and East Germany signed a treaty to harmonize their legal and political systems.
1994: Soviet troops ended 50 years of military presence on German territory.
1997: Princess Diana, 36, former wife of Prince Charles, was killed in an auto crash in Paris with her friend, Dodi Fayed, 42. The driver of the car, Henri Paul, 41, was also killed in the collision into a concrete road tunnel during an apparent attempt to outrun photographers. A bodyguard, Trevor Rees-Jones, 29, was the sole survivor of the crash, reportedly the only one who was wearing a seat belt.
