Sentences with phrase «shalom auslander»

Shalom is the order established by God in the act of creation.

For an excellent introduction to the breadth of the meaning of shalom, see Donald E. Gowan, Shalom A Study of the Biblical Concept of Peace (1984), available from the Kerygma Program, 300 Mt. Lebanon Boulevard, Suite 205, Pittsburgh, PA 15234.

By a skillful parable Nathan enables David to see what he has done and predicts that this breach of shalom will haunt David's house for generations to come (2 Samuel 11 - 12).

Shalom simply means the absence of war in the statements that «there was shalom between King Jabin of Hazor and the clan of Heber the Kenite» (Judg.

My people will abide in a habitation of shalom, in secure dwellings, and in quiet resting places.

Yahweh is pledged, covenanted to bestow shalom on the people of Yahweh.

I have suggested elsewhere that value - free technology, the military - industrial complex, and narrow nationalism might be modern examples of such principalities and powers.9 Hendrikus Berkhof suggests that human traditions, astrology, fixed religious rules, clans, public opinion, race, class, state, and Volk are among the powers.10 Walter Wink sees the powers as the inner aspects of institutions, their «spirituality,» the inner spirit or driving force that animates, legitimates, and regulates their outward manifestations.11 They are «the invisible forces that determine human existence «12 When such things dehumanize human life, thwart and distort the human spirit, block God's gift of shalom, the followers of Jesus are rallied for a new kind of holy war.

Very quickly the society can be polarized into haves and have - nots and shalom can be lost.

The expression «man of my shalom» is translated «bosom friend» (Ps.

See also Ezekiel 13:10, 16, where the prophet says that to say shalom when there is no shalom is like attempting to strengthen a wall by merely whitewashing it!

He offers to trade land for it, or to pay cash, but Naboth refuses, because he understands that shalom depends on each family's keeping its own inheritance.

We have already seen Joseph inquiring about the «welfare» (shalom) of his brothers in Gen. 43:27.

Paul hoped to extend the shalom of the church by action, even though words failed.

To which Samuel replies, «Peaceably,» literally, «Shalom» (1 Sam.

Here in the midst of a warlike story is the astounding affirmation: «Yahweh is shalom.»

In the Persian period, Zechariah reviews how Israel lost shalom by not heeding the words of the prophets who preceded him:

4:17), or that «there was shalom also between Israel and the Amorites» (1 Sam.

Here «the return of the LORD to Zion,» which the context makes clear is the return of the exiles from Babylon, is simply called shalom.

Then your prosperity (shalom) would have been like a river, and your success like the waves of the sea.

Steadfast love and faithfulness will meet; righteousness and shalom will kiss each other.

In this story of sorrow and joy we see the face of shalom.15

The majority of the occurrences of shalom are translated «peace,» as one would expect.

Then your shalom would have been like a river, and your success like the waves of the sea.

In the great poetic debate in Job, Eliphaz includes safety from wild animals as part of shalom.

The author focuses upon further promises of shalom in the earlier writings.

So the NRSV sometimes translates «to ask after the shalom of» as simply «to greet» (Judg.

The language of shalom is not used in connection with the liberation of the slaves from Egypt, but it is clearly used in connection with the liberation of the exiles from Babylon.

Shalom involves not only safety in the face of danger, health in the face of sickness or death, but material prosperity in the face of possible famine and deprivation.

«4 To the have - nots, the slaves in Egypt, or the poor of the land when the kings ruled, or the exiles in Babylon, shalom means «freedom, liberation.»

They place a high value on shalom and rush to the defense of the Torah principles on which it rests.

Rough justice, to be sure, but essentially people reaping what they sow, like breakers of the Law in the Old Testament, endangering the life and shalom with God of their whole community.

Yahweh makes shalom, Yahweh alone makes us lie down in safety, Yahweh keeps us in shalom, Yahweh grants shalom.

One of the concerns of that authority was to defend shalom against the efforts of the kings and the nobles and the wealthy to undermine it.

You shall know that your tent is safe (shalom).

Then the village shows its nature as a shalom community.

In passage after passage it is emphasized that Yahweh is the creator, the source, the giver of this marvelous thing called shalom.

For you shall go out in joy, and be led back in shalom; the mountains and the hills before you shall burst into song, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.

They can receive it and obediently maintain it, but shalom is created and given by Yahweh.

When they repudiate the covenant of shalom, the whole world falls into chaos.

In the familiar and difficult word of the LORD in Isaiah 45:7, «I make weal and create woe,» the word «weal» translates shalom.

In being «all right» (shalom) there is surely an underlying concept of wholeness, of «having it all together.»

Micah speaks of prophets who lead the people astray, crying «Shalom» when they have something to eat and declaring war against those who put nothing into their mouths (Micah 3:5; cf. v. 11).

This is to live in a shalom that corresponds to the divinely established order.

To have shalom is to be all right.

The author describes those many meanings of shalom in this chapter.

Here are the prophets saying to them «You shall not see the sword, nor shall you have famine, but I will give you true shalom in this place.»»

Shalom is valued, desired, longed for.

See Deuteronomy 23:6; Esther 10:3; Proverbs 3:2; Isaiah 38:17; Jeremiah 15:5; 29:11; 38:4 for other places where shalom is translated «welfare.»

Thus when Joseph says «Shalom to you» to his brothers, the NRSV translates «Rest assured» (Gen. 43:23), Similarly, «Go in shalom» or «Go to or for shalom» is a traditional parting formula (Gen. 44:17; Ex.

There are times when the true prophetic word is not «shalom, shalom,» but «no shalom.»