Plans for Migrating this Blog to My Personal Website

 All: I'm planning to migrate the material on this blog to my new website, davidjared.org, in 2026 and close out this blog thereafter. It's probably too soon to subscribe to my new site, but feel free to check back as the year progresses and do so whenever you wish. I hope to complete the migration NLT mid-year 2026, hopefully much sooner. 

I'm excited about my new site, which is truly my own and supported by WordPress. I think that I'll have many more capabilities in the new platform, though this one has certainly served its purpose, thank the Lord. Since 2012, when I entered the first of 144 posts to-date, the site has been visited over 40,000 times from the U.S. and several other countries. I hope that it has been and continues to be a blessing in people's lives. 

The material on the new site won't be limited to Bible studies, but will also include personal reflections, book/movie reviews, resource recommendations, etc. The emphasis, of course, will remain the word of God as given to us in the Authorized Version (KJB).  

Thanks for reading this, and all God's best to you and yours in the new year. 

Dave Jared

Psalm 65:11, "Thou crownest the year with thy goodness; and thy paths drop fatness."

The Strange Marriages of Amram’s Family

 Ex. 2:1, 21; 6:20-25; Num. 12:1

This family was greatly used to God, though they did make some strange marriage choices.

1. Amram his aunt, Jochebed the daughter of Kohath (Ex. 6:20). If she was considerably younger than Kohath, she and Amram may have been close in age.

2. Miriam, the eldest of Amram’s children (Aaron is only three when Moses is born and could not have followed him to the river; cf. Ex. 7:7, 2:4-8) apparently never marries. 

3. Aaron, Amram’s older son, marries someone outside his tribe: Elisheba, a Judean (Ex. 6:23, Num. 1:7). Elizabeth, mother of John the Baptist, takes her name from this lady.

4. Moses, the youngest of Amram’s children, marries a Midianite (Ex. 2:21) and, after putting her away (Ex. 18:2), an Ethiopian woman (Num. 12:1).

The marriage of Eleazar, who succeeds his father, Aaron, as high priest, is also mentioned (Ex. 6:25), but we don’t know who Putiel was, only that Phinehas was his heir, which is far more important (Num. 25:10-13). 

So even though this family makes some unusual marital choices, a few of which lead to difficulties, they’re still greatly used of God, magnifying his mercy and grace!