THE SCAPEGOAT

    ‘And the goat shall bear upon him all their iniquities
    unto a land not inhabited….’-LEV. xvi. 22.
The import of the remarkable treatment of this goat does not depend on
the interpretation of the obscure phrase rendered in the Authorised
Version ‘for the scapegoat.’ Leaving that out of sight for the moment,
we observe that the two animals were one sacrifice, and that the
transaction with the living one was the completion of that with the
slain. The sins of the congregation, which had been already expiated by
the sacrifice, were laid by the high priest on the head of the goat,
which was then sent away into the wilderness that he might ‘bear upon
him all their iniquities unto a land not inhabited’ (v. 22). Nothing
depends on the fate of the goat, though, in after times, it was forced
over a precipice and so killed. The carrying away of expiated sin, and
not the destruction of unexpiated sinners, is the meaning of the
impressive rite, and, had it been possible, the same goat that was
sacrificed would have been sent into the desert. As that could not be
done, an ideal unity was established between the two: the one
sacrificed represented the fact of expiation, the one driven away
represented the consequences of expiation in the complete removal of
sin. The expiation was made ‘within the veil’; but a visible token of
its completeness was given to help feeble faith, in the blessed mystery
of the unseen propitiation. What was divided in the symbol between the
twin goats is all done by the one Sacrifice, who has entered into the
holiest of all, at once Priest and Sacrifice, and with His own blood
made expiation for sin, and has likewise carried away the sin of the
world into a land of forgetfulness, whence it never can return.
The clear meaning of the rite is thus obtained, whatever be the force
of the difficult phrase already referred to. ‘Scapegoat’ is certainly
wrong. But it may be questioned whether the Revised Version is right in
retaining the Hebrew word untranslated, and, by putting a capital
letter to it, marking it as a proper name (‘for Azazel’). The word
occurs only here, so that we have no help from other passages. It seems
to come from a root meaning ‘to drive away,’ and those who take it to
be a proper name, generally suppose it to refer to some malignant
spirit, or to Satan, and interpret it as meaning ‘a fiend whom one
drives away,’ or, sometimes, ‘who drives away.’ The vindication of such
an interpretation is supposed to lie in the necessity of finding a
complete antithesis in the phrase to the ‘for Jehovah’ of the previous
clause in verse 8. But it is surely sacrificing a good deal to
rhetorical propriety to drag in an idea so foreign to the Pentateuch,
and so opposed to the plain fact, that both goats were one sin offering
(v. 5), in order to get a pedantically correct antithesis. In the
absence of any guidance from usage, certainty as to the meaning of the
word is unattainable. But there seems no reason, other than that of the
said antithesis, against taking it to mean removal or dismissal, rather
than ‘a remover.’ The Septuagint translates it in both ways: as a
person in verse 8, and as ‘sending away’ in verse 10. If the latter
meaning be adopted, then the word just defines the same purpose as is
given more at length in verse 22, namely, the carrying away of the sins
of the congregation. The logical imperfection of the opposition in
verse 8 would then be simply enough solved by the fact that while both
goats were ‘for the Lord,’ one was destined to be actually offered in
sacrifice, and the other to be ‘for dismissal.’ The incomplete contrast
testifies to the substantial unity of the two, and needs no
introduction, into the most sacred rite of the old covenant, of a
ceremony which looks liker demon-worship than a parable of the great
expiation for a world’s sins.
The question for us is, What spiritual ideas are contained in this
Levitical symbolism? There is signified, surely, the condition of
approach to God. Remember how the Israelites had impressed on their
minds the awful sanctity of ‘within the veil.’ The inmost shrine was
trodden once a year only by the high priest, and only after anxious
lustrations and when clothed in pure garments, he entered ‘with
sacrifice and incense lest he die.’ This ritual was for a gross and
untutored age, but the men of that age were essentially like ourselves,
and we have the same sins and spiritual necessities as they had.
The two goats are regarded as _one_ sacrifice. They are a ‘sin
offering.’ Hence, to show how unimportant and non-essential is the
distinction between them, the ‘lot’ is employed; also, while the one is
being slain, the other stands before the ‘door of the Tabernacle.’ This
shows that both are parts of one whole, and it is only from the
impossibility of presenting both halves of the truth to be symbolised
in one that two are taken. The one which is slain represents the
sacrifice for sin. The other represents the effects of that sacrifice.
It is never heard of more. ‘The Lamb of God taketh away the sins of the
world.’ ‘As far as the east is from the west, so far hath He removed
our transgressions from us.’
I. The perfect removal of all sin is thus symbolised.
Notice (1) the vivid consciousness of sin which marked Judaism.
Was it exaggerated or right?
The same consciousness is part of all of us, but how overlaid! how
stifled!
That consciousness once awakened has in it these elements–a bitter
sense of sin as mine, involving guilt; despair as to whether I can ever
overcome it; and fearful thoughts of my relation to God which
conscience itself brings.
(2) The futility of all attempts to remove these fears.
False religions have next to nothing to say about forgiveness.
Sacrifices and lustrations they have, but no assurance of absolution.
Systems of philosophy and morals have nothing to say but that the
universe goes crashing on, and if you have broken its laws you must
suffer. That is all, or only the poor cheer of ‘Well! you have fallen,
get up and go on again!’ So men often drug themselves into
forgetfulness. They turn away from the unwelcome subject, and forget it
at the price of all moral earnestness and often of all happiness; a
lethargic sleep or a gaiety, as little real as that of the Girondins
singing in their prison the night before being led out to the
guillotine.
It is only God’s authoritative revelation that can ensure the cure,
only He can assure us of pardon, and of the removal of all barriers
between ourselves and His love. Only His word can ensure, and His power
can effect, the removal of the consequences of our sins. Only His word
can ensure, and His power effect, the removal of the power of evil on
our characters.
(3) Still the question, Can guilt ever be cancelled? often assumes a
fearful significance. Doubtless much seems to say that it cannot be.
_(a)_ The irrevocableness of the past.
_(b)_ The rigid law of consequences in this world.
_(c)_ The indissoluble unity of an individual life and moral nature,
confirmed by the experience of failure in all attempts at reformation
of self.
_(d)_ The consciousness of disturbed relations with God, and the
prophecy of judgment. All this that ancient symbol suggested. The
picture of the goat going away, and away, and away, a lessening speck
on the horizon, and never heard of more is the divine symbol of the
great fact that there is full, free, everlasting forgiveness, and on
God’s part, utter forgetfulness. ‘Though your sins be as scarlet, they
shall be white as snow.’ ‘I will remember them no more at all for ever.’
II. The bearing away of sin is indissolubly connected with sacrifice.
Two goats were provided, of which one was offered for a sin offering,
indicating that sacrifice came first; then the removal of sin was
symbolised by the sending away of the second goat. There is an evident
reference to this sequence in the words ‘without shedding of blood
there is no remission.’ The two goats represent Christ’s work; the one
in its essence, the other in its effect.
The one teaches that sacrifice is a necessary condition of pardon.
Forgiveness was not given because the offerer confessed his guilt or
because ‘God was merciful,’ but because the goat had been slain as a
sin offering. There is deep spiritual truth for us in this symbolism.
We do not need to enter on the philosophy of atonement, but simply to
rest on the fact–that the only authority on which we can be sure of
forgiveness at all indissolubly associates the two things, sacrifice
and pardon. We have no reason to believe in forgiveness except from the
Bible record and assurance.
Was the Mosaic ritual a divinely appointed thing? If so, its testimony
is conclusive. But even if it were only the embodiment of human
aspirations and wants, it would be a strong evidence of the necessity
of some such thing as forgiveness.
The shallow dream that God’s forgiveness can be extended without a
sacrifice having been offered does not exalt but detracts from the
divine character. It invariably leads to an emasculated abhorrence of
evil, and detracts from the holiness of God, as well as introduces low
thoughts of the greatness of forgiveness and of the infinite love of
God.
III. The bearing away of sin is associated with man’s laying of his
sins on the sacrifice appointed by God.
We have seen that the two goats must be regarded as together making one
whole. The one which was slain made ‘atonement … because of the
uncleannesses of the children of Israel, and because of their
transgressions, even all their sins,’ but that expiation was not
actually effective till Aaron had ‘laid his hands on the head of the
live goat, and confessed over him all the iniquities of the children of
Israel, … and put them on the head of the live goat, and sent him
away into the wilderness.’ The sacrifice of the slain goat did not
accomplish the pardon or removal of the people’s sins, but made it
possible that their sins should be pardoned and removed.
Then the method by which that possibility is realised is the laying
hands on the scapegoat and confessing the sins upon it. The sins which
are actually forgiven, by virtue of the atonement made for all sins,
are those which it bears away to the wilderness.
This answers, point for point, to repentance and faith. By these the
possibility is turned into an actuality for as many as believe on
Christ.
Christ has died for sin. Christ has made atonement by which all sin may
be forgiven; whether any shall actually be forgiven depends on
something else. It is conceivable that though Christ died, no sin might
be pardoned, if no man believed. His blood would not, even then, have
been shed in vain, for the purpose of it would have been fully effected
in providing a way by which any and all sin could be forgiven. So that
the whole question whether any man’s sin is pardoned turns on this, Has
he laid his hand on Christ? Faith is only a condition of forgiveness,
not a cause, or in itself a power. There was no healing in the mere
laying of the hand on the head of the goat.
It was not faith which was the reason for forgiveness, but God’s love
which had provided the sacrifice.
God’s will is not a bare will to pardon, nor a bare will to pardon for
Christ’s sake, but for Christ’s sake to pardon them who believe.
‘Behold the Lamb of God which taketh away the sins of the world.’ ‘Dost
thou believe on the Son of God?’ ‘Through this Man is preached the
remission of sins.’

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Bible Verses About love – Psalms 119:47
And so that I may take delight in your teachings, to which I have given my love.

Bible Verses About love – Isaiah 5:1
Let me make a song about my loved one, a song of love for his vine-garden. My loved one had a vine-garden on a fertile hill:

Bible Verses About seating – 2-Chronicles 28:15
And those men who have been named went up and took the prisoners, clothing those among them who were uncovered, with things from the goods which had been taken in the war, and putting robes on them and shoes on their feet; and they gave them food and drink and oil for their bodies, and seating all the feeble among them on asses, they took them to Jericho, the town of palm-trees, to their people, and then went back to Samaria.

Bible Verses About pharisee – Matthew 22:41
Now while the Pharisees were together, Jesus put a question to them, saying,

Bible Verses About birthright – Genesis 27:36
And he said, Is it because he is named Jacob that he has twice taken my place? for he took away my birthright, and now he has taken away my blessing. And he said, Have you not kept a blessing for me?

Bible Verses About undertaken – Luke 24:49
And now I will send to you what my father has undertaken to give you, but do not go from the town, till the power from heaven comes to you.

Bible Verses About paul – Acts 14:9
This man was giving ear to the preaching of Paul, who, looking at him, and seeing that he had faith to be made well,

Bible Verses About slopes – Psalms 65:10
You make the ploughed lands full of water; you make smooth the slopes: you make the earth soft with showers, sending your blessing on its growth.

Bible Verses About bride – Hosea 4:14
I will not give punishment to your daughters or your brides for their evil behaviour; for they make themselves separate with loose women, and make offerings with those who are used for sex purposes in the worship of the gods: the people who have no wisdom will be sent away.

Bible Verses About helped – 2-Chronicles 26:15
And in Jerusalem he made machines, the invention of expert men, to be placed on the towers and angles of the walls for sending arrows and great stones. And his name was honoured far and wide; for he was greatly helped till he was strong.

Bible Verses About light – 2-Kings 8:21
Then Joram went over to Zair, with all his war-carriages; … made an attack by night on the Edomites, whose forces were all round him, … the captains of the war-carriages; and the people went in flight to their tents.

Bible Verses About gad – Numbers 32:29
And Moses said to them, If the children of Gad and the children of Reuben go with you over Jordan, every man armed for the fight before the Lord, and all the land is given into your hands, then let them have the land of Gilead for a heritage:

Bible Verses About playing – Proverbs 8:31
Playing in his earth; and my delight was with the sons of men.

Bible Verses About belshazzar – Daniel 5:30
That very night Belshazzar, the king of the Chaldaeans, was put to death.

Bible Verses About barley – 2-Chronicles 27:5
He went to war with the king of the children of Ammon and overcame them. That year, the children of Ammon gave him a hundred talents of silver, and ten thousand measures of grain and ten thousand measures of barley. And the children of Ammon gave him the same amount the second year and the third.

Bible Verses About fate – Isaiah 17:14
In the evening there is fear, and in the morning they are gone. This is the fate of those who take our goods, and the reward of those who violently take our property for themselves.

Bible Verses About countrymen – Nehemiah 5:5
But our flesh is the same as the flesh of our countrymen, and our children as their children: and now we are giving our sons and daughters into the hands of others, to be their servants, and some of our daughters are servants even now: and we have no power to put a stop to it; for other men have our fields and our vine-gardens.

Bible Verses About magdalene – Mark 16:1
And when the Sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene and Mary, the mother of James, and Salome, got spices, so that they might come and put them on him.

Bible Verses About blows – Proverbs 17:14
The start of fighting is like the letting out of water: so give up before it comes to blows.

Bible Verses About agag – 1-Samuel 15:32
Then Samuel said, Make Agag, the king of the Amalekites, come here to me. And Agag came to him shaking with fear. And Agag said, Truly the pain of death is past.

Bible Verses About unni – Isaiah 55:5
See, you will send for a nation of which you had no knowledge, and those who had no knowledge of you will come running to you, because of the Lord your God, and because of the Holy One of Israel, for he has given you glory.

Bible Verses About kite – Leviticus 11:14
And the kite and the falcon, and birds of that sort;

Bible Verses About life – 1-Samuel 7:15
And Samuel was judge of Israel all the days of his life.

Bible Verses About fathers – Jeremiah 16:3
For this is what the Lord has said about the sons and daughters who come to birth in this place, and about their mothers who have given them birth, and about their fathers who have given life to them in this land:

Bible Verses About birth – Genesis 38:28
And while she was in the act of giving birth, one of them put out his hand; and the woman who was with her put a red thread round his hand, saying, This one came out first.

Bible Verses About anger – 2-Kings 14:10
It is true that you have overcome Edom and your heart is uplifted; let that glory be enough for you, and keep in your country; why do you make causes of trouble, putting yourself, and Judah with you, in danger of downfall?

Bible Verses About joy – Luke 1:44
For, truly, when the sound of your voice came to my ears, the baby in my body made a sudden move for joy.

Bible Verses About baptism – John 4:2
(Though, in fact, it was his disciples who gave baptism, not Jesus himself),

Bible Verses About fear – Isaiah 8:9
Have knowledge, O peoples, and be in fear; give ear, all you far-off parts of the earth:

Bible Verses About hope – Hebrews 12:5
And you have not kept in mind the word which says to you as to sons, My son, do not make little of the Lord's punishment, and do not give up hope when you are judged by him;

Bible Verses About tongue – Romans 3:13
Their throat is like an open place of death; with their tongues they have said what is not true: the poison of snakes is under their lips:

Bible Verses About caring – Deuteronomy 12:19
See that you do not give up caring for the Levite as long as you are living in your land.

Bible Verses About water – Leviticus 14:50
And put one of the birds to death in a vessel of earth over flowing water;

Bible Verses About wisdom – Revelation 7:12
So be it. Let blessing and glory and wisdom and praise and honour and power and strength be given to our God for ever and ever. So be it.

Bible Verses About women – Isaiah 3:12
As for my people, their ruler is acting like a child, and those who have authority over them are women. O my people, your guides are the cause of your wandering, turning your footsteps out of the right way.

Bible Verses About mothers – Mark 13:12
And brother will give up brother to death, and the father his child; and children will go against their fathers and mothers, and put them to death.

Bible Verses About money – Proverbs 20:14
A poor thing, a poor thing, says he who is giving money for goods: but when he has gone on his way, then he makes clear his pride in what he has got.

Bible Verses About dreams – Zechariah 10:2
For the images have said what is not true, and the readers of signs have seen deceit; they have given accounts of false dreams, they give comfort to no purpose: so they go out of the way like sheep, they are troubled because they have no keeper.

Bible Verses About faith – 1-Thessalonians 2:10
You are witnesses, with God, how holy and upright and free from all evil was our way of life among you who have faith;

Bible Verses About wife – Genesis 4:17
And Cain had connection with his wife and she became with child and gave birth to Enoch: and he made a town, and gave the town the name of Enoch after his son.

Bible Verses About poor – Zechariah 7:10
Do not be hard on the widow, or the child without a father, on the man from a strange country, or on the poor; let there be no evil thought in your heart against your brother.

Bible Verses About heaven – 2-Kings 7:19
And that captain said to the man of God, Even if the Lord made windows in heaven, would such a thing be possible? And he said to him, Your eyes will see it, but you will not have a taste of the food.

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Bible Verses About trust – Jeremiah 12:5
If thou hast run with the footmen, and they have wearied thee, then how canst thou contend with horses? and [if] in the land of peace, [wherein] thou trustedst, [they wearied thee], then how wilt thou do in the swelling of Jordan?

Bible Verses About dreams – Samuel-1 28:6
And when Saul inquired of the LORD, the LORD answered him not, neither by dreams, nor by Urim, nor by prophets.

Bible Verses About peace – Ephesians 2:14
For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition [between us];

Bible Verses About poor – Judges 6:15
And he said unto him, Oh my Lord, wherewith shall I save Israel? behold, my family [is] poor in Manasseh, and I [am] the least in my father's house.

Bible Verses About bless – Genesis 27:38
And Esau said unto his father, Hast thou but one blessing, my father? bless me, [even] me also, O my father. And Esau lifted up his voice, and wept.

Bible Verses About hope – Romans 8:25
But if we hope for that we see not, [then] do we with patience wait for [it].

Bible Verses About joy – Job 29:13
The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me: and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.

Bible Verses About heaven – Revelations 12:12
Therefore rejoice, [ye] heavens, and ye that dwell in them. Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time.

Bible Verses About patience – Romans 5:3
And not only [so], but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience;

Bible Verses About youth – Samuel-1 17:33
And Saul said to David, Thou art not able to go against this Philistine to fight with him: for thou [art but] a youth, and he a man of war from his youth.

Bible Verses About ariel – Isaiah 29:7
And the multitude of all the nations that fight against Ariel, even all that fight against her and her munition, and that distress her, shall be as a dream of a night vision.

Bible Verses About jonah – Jonah 3:4
And Jonah began to enter into the city a day's journey, and he cried, and said, Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown.

Bible Verses About perfume – Exodus 30:35
And thou shalt make it a perfume, a confection after the art of the apothecary, tempered together, pure [and] holy:

Bible Verses About aunt – Judges 7:2
And the LORD said unto Gideon, The people that [are] with thee [are] too many for me to give the Midianites into their hands, lest Israel vaunt themselves against me, saying, Mine own hand hath saved me.

Bible Verses About hide – Job 20:12
Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, [though] he hide it under his tongue;

Bible Verses About mocked – Acts 17:32
And when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked: and others said, We will hear thee again of this [matter].

Bible Verses About chaldeans – Jeremiah 50:35
A sword [is] upon the Chaldeans, saith the LORD, and upon the inhabitants of Babylon, and upon her princes, and upon her wise [men].

Bible Verses About spoon – Numbers 7:68
One golden spoon of ten [shekels], full of incense:

Bible Verses About eliakim – Isaiah 36:3
Then came forth unto him Eliakim, Hilkiah's son, which was over the house, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, Asaph's son, the recorder.

Bible Verses About siege – Ezekiel 4:2
And lay siege against it, and build a fort against it, and cast a mount against it; set the camp also against it, and set [battering] rams against it round about.

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Bible Scriptures About dwelt – Joshua 19:50
According to the word of the LORD they gave him the city which he asked, [even] Timnathserah in mount Ephraim: and he built the city, and dwelt therein.

Bible Scriptures About slain – Isaiah 14:20
Thou shalt not be joined with them in burial, because thou hast destroyed thy land, [and] slain thy people: the seed of evildoers shall never be renowned.

Bible Scriptures About man – Esther 5:5
Then the king said, Cause Haman to make haste, that he may do as Esther hath said. So the king and Haman came to the banquet that Esther had prepared.

Bible Scriptures About laid – Exodus 24:11
And upon the nobles of the children of Israel he laid not his hand: also they saw God, and did eat and drink.

Bible Scriptures About princes – Isaiah 34:12
They shall call the nobles thereof to the kingdom, but none [shall be] there, and all her princes shall be nothing.

Bible Scriptures About sing – Psalms 100:2
Serve the LORD with gladness: come before his presence with singing.

Bible Scriptures About lay – Hosea 2:3
Lest I strip her naked, and set her as in the day that she was born, and make her as a wilderness, and set her like a dry land, and slay her with thirst.

Bible Scriptures About eyes – Kings-1 15:5
Because David did [that which was] right in the eyes of the LORD, and turned not aside from any [thing] that he commanded him all the days of his life, save only in the matter of Uriah the Hittite.

Bible Scriptures About names – Exodus 28:29
And Aaron shall bear the names of the children of Israel in the breastplate of judgment upon his heart, when he goeth in unto the holy [place], for a memorial before the LORD continually.

Bible Scriptures About war – Corinthians-2 8:10
And herein I give [my] advice: for this is expedient for you, who have begun before, not only to do, but also to be forward a year ago.

Bible Scriptures About earth – Numbers 22:11
Behold, [there is] a people come out of Egypt, which covereth the face of the earth: come now, curse me them; peradventure I shall be able to overcome them, and drive them out.

Bible Scriptures About sun – Ecclesiastes 1:9
The thing that hath been, it [is that] which shall be; and that which is done [is] that which shall be done: and [there is] no new [thing] under the sun.

Bible Scriptures About neighbour – Exodus 3:22
But every woman shall borrow of her neighbour, and of her that sojourneth in her house, jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and raiment: and ye shall put [them] upon your sons, and upon your daughters; and ye shall spoil the Egyptians.

Bible Scriptures About understand – Proverbs 15:32
He that refuseth instruction despiseth his own soul: but he that heareth reproof getteth understanding.

Bible Scriptures About perfect – Isaiah 38:3
And said, Remember now, O LORD, I beseech thee, how I have walked before thee in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done [that which is] good in thy sight. And Hezekiah wept sore.

Bible Scriptures About trouble – Psalms 83:17
Let them be confounded and troubled for ever; yea, let them be put to shame, and perish:

Bible Scriptures About houses – Ezekiel 45:4
The holy [portion] of the land shall be for the priests the ministers of the sanctuary, which shall come near to minister unto the LORD: and it shall be a place for their houses, and an holy place for the sanctuary.

Bible Scriptures About sinned – Psalms 78:17
And they sinned yet more against him by provoking the most High in the wilderness.

Bible Scriptures About far – Genesis 43:27
And he asked them of [their] welfare, and said, [Is] your father well, the old man of whom ye spake? [Is] he yet alive?

Bible Scriptures About daughter – Chronicles-2 27:1
Jotham [was] twenty and five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. His mother's name also [was] Jerushah, the daughter of Zadok.

Bible Verses About despise – Psalms 69:33
For the LORD heareth the poor, and despiseth not his prisoners.

Bible Verses About simple – Ezekiel 45:20
And so thou shalt do the seventh [day] of the month for every one that erreth, and for [him that is] simple: so shall ye reconcile the house.

Bible Verses About valour – Kings-2 24:14
And he carried away all Jerusalem, and all the princes, and all the mighty men of valour, [even] ten thousand captives, and all the craftsmen and smiths: none remained, save the poorest sort of the people of the land.

Bible Verses About bosom – Luke 16:22
And it came to pass, that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels into Abraham's bosom: the rich man also died, and was buried;

Bible Verses About happy – Acts 26:2
I think myself happy, king Agrippa, because I shall answer for myself this day before thee touching all the things whereof I am accused of the Jews:

Bible Verses About watchmen – Samuel-1 14:16
And the watchmen of Saul in Gibeah of Benjamin looked; and, behold, the multitude melted away, and they went on beating down [one another].

Bible Verses About interpretation – Daniel 5:12
Forasmuch as an excellent spirit, and knowledge, and understanding, interpreting of dreams, and showing of hard sentences, and dissolving of doubts, were found in the same Daniel, whom the king named Belteshazzar: now let Daniel be called, and he will show the interpretation.

Bible Verses About excellent – Daniel 5:12
Forasmuch as an excellent spirit, and knowledge, and understanding, interpreting of dreams, and showing of hard sentences, and dissolving of doubts, were found in the same Daniel, whom the king named Belteshazzar: now let Daniel be called, and he will show the interpretation.

Bible Verses About crying – Malachi 2:13
And this have ye done again, covering the altar of the LORD with tears, with weeping, and with crying out, insomuch that he regardeth not the offering any more, or receiveth [it] with good will at your hand.

Bible Verses About almighty – Job 24:1
Why, seeing times are not hidden from the Almighty, do they that know him not see his days?