Escape and an escaped remnant name the outcome or surviving portion of a particular danger. Jacob arranges two camps because he fears an attack, and David calls for flight when Absalom threatens Jerusalem.
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Escape and an escaped remnant name the outcome or surviving portion of a particular danger. Jacob arranges two camps because he fears an attack, and David calls for flight when Absalom threatens Jerusalem.
The BSB source-word alignment has 28 aligned rows for this entry. Common renderings include deliverance (4), escape (3), and survivors (2), remnant (2), [such] a remnant (1).
The source-word alignment first shows this entry at Genesis 32:8. Its strongest book concentrations include Isaiah (5), Ezra (4), 2 Chronicles (3), 2 Kings (2).
Escape and an escaped remnant name the outcome or surviving portion of a particular danger. Jacob arranges two camps because he fears an attack, and David calls for flight when Absalom threatens Jerusalem. These accounts show practical decisions made under real pressure. Joseph describes the preservation of family life through his position in Egypt, without making his brothers' earlier betrayal righteous.
Exodus warns that locusts will consume what escaped the hail: one escape does not establish permanent immunity. Hezekiah addresses people left after Assyria's attacks and invites their return to the Lord. Joel places escape within the Lord's announced restoration and the call upon His name. Read the threat, the people affected and the stated source of rescue.
A teacher can encourage appropriate shelter, help and prayer without judging every survivor as morally superior or every person harmed as faithless.
The selected accounts move from anticipated escape and urgent flight to preserved family life, a vulnerable remainder and prophetic rescue. Each setting supplies its own agents and horizon.
He thought, “If Esau comes and attacks one camp, then the other camp can escape.”
Jacob plans separate camps so that one may escape if Esau attacks the other.
God sent me before you to preserve you as a remnant on the earth and to save your lives by a great deliverance.
Joseph explains his role in preserving family life after the brothers' grave wrong against him.
They will cover the face of the land so that no one can see it. They will devour whatever is left after the hail and eat every tree that grows in your fields.
Locusts will consume the escaped remainder left by hail, so surviving one disaster does not promise immunity.
And David said to all the servants with him in Jerusalem, “Arise and let us flee, or we will not escape from Absalom! We must leave quickly, or he will soon overtake us, heap disaster on us, and put the city to the sword.”
David orders flight because Absalom's takeover poses immediate danger to the city and those with him.
At the command of the king, the couriers went throughout Israel and Judah with letters from the king and his officials, which read: “Children of Israel, return to the Lord, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, so that He may return to those of you who remain, who have escaped the grasp of the kings of Assyria.
Hezekiah addresses survivors of Assyria and calls them to return, while the chapter records varied responses.
And everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved; for on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there will be deliverance, as the Lord has promised, among the remnant called by the Lord.
Joel joins escape, calling on the Lord and the survivors whom the Lord calls within his announced restoration.
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Hebrew word. Deliverance realized concretely as a surviving remnant; escape made tangible in those who remain alive.
Deliverance realized concretely as a surviving remnant; escape made tangible in those who remain alive.
deliverance; concretely, an escaped portion BDB: escape Usage: deliverance, (that is) escape(-d), remnant.
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The selected witnesses prevent escape from becoming a single, easy story about deserving people. Jacob anticipates danger and divides his camp; David recognizes a threat and orders movement. Joseph looks back on preserved life while his brothers' betrayal remains part of the account. Exodus then shows an escaped remainder exposed to another disaster. Hezekiah's invitation and Joel's promise address their own communities, responses and announced acts of the Lord.
Teach these differences openly. A practical route to shelter can be an appropriate response to danger, and gratitude for survival need not accuse those who were injured or killed. Joel's call can be proclaimed with its prophetic and later apostolic setting, while no teacher can guarantee that a present person will escape every illness, attack or loss.
Joel.2.32
The licensed noun range includes escape and an escaped portion or remnant. The local witnesses supply twenty-eight tagged tokens in twenty-eight verses; the canonical occurrence count is separately retained without making every remnant word this lexeme.
Acts 2:14-41 explicitly quotes Joel's call on the Lord's name within Peter's proclamation of Jesus crucified and raised. Follow that apostolic argument, including repentance and the promise to those the Lord calls, without redefining escape as guaranteed freedom from every present danger.