The Covenant Handbook

A Biblical A-Z of Love, Marriage, and the Snares of the Heart

von Anointed Fire, Tiffany Buckner

396 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Before the ring. Before the vow. Before the wound.Israel did not drift into idolatry the way a person drifts into error. She fell the way a wife falls into another man's arms - and the Prophets said so in exactly those words. Zanah. Na'aph. Harlotry. Adultery. The vocabulary God chose for His people's unfaithfulness was borrowed, deliberately, from the marriage bed.That is not a metaphor laid over Scripture. It is the architecture underneath it.Love, Covenant & Idolatry walks the Hebrew courtyard and the Greek marketplace to recover what modern readers have lost - the customs, the laws, and the words that make Scripture's love language legible again. What a bride-price actually protected. Why a betrothed virgin was already called a wife. What Boaz was really doing at the threshing floor when Ruth asked him to spread his skirt over her. Why the God who names Himself Jealous asked, in Hosea, to be called husband instead of master.Inside this guide: - 188 studies tracing love, marriage, intimacy, divorce, and idolatry from Genesis to Revelation- A complete A-Z dictionary of 155 Hebrew and Greek terms, customs, and concepts - with Strong's numbers, pronunciation, and Scripture for every entry- More than forty biblical marriages examined, and the women whose stories carry them- Ancient Near Eastern legal parallels, rabbinic sources, and the full shape of a Jewish wedding- Scripture indexes, timelines, reading plans, and discussion questions for group studyFor the believer sorting out a relationship. For the counselor sitting across from a marriage. For the teacher who needs the word behind the word.Every counterfeit in these pages - harlotry, idolatry, treacherous divorce, unforgiveness - is a distortion of one genuine longing: covenant love that will not let go."I will betroth thee unto me for ever." - Hosea 2:19That promise still stands open.

• Reihe: Anointed Fire
• ISBN: 9781955557658
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 09.09.2026
• Größe: 254 x 178 mm
• Verlag: Independently published