I have been sharing with you on the 12 Tribes of Israel. If you are just joining me be sure to look into the archives for the last weeks of this series. I also taught on these at my local church on Wednesday nights through the month of October 2020. The teachings can be found on You Tube at RCI Media.
The tribes were named Asher, Dan, Levi, Gad, Issachar, Judah, Naphtali, Reuben, Simeon, and Zebulun, Benjamin and Joseph—all sons of Jacob. Naphtali name means to break through or "Wrestling" and represents our tongue or speech. In 930 bc the 10 tribes formed the independent Kingdom of Israel in the north and the two other tribes, Judah and Benjamin, set up the Kingdom of Judah in the south.
Naphtali, in biblical times constituted the people of Israel that later became the Jewish people. The tribe was named after the younger of two sons born to Jacob and Bilhah, a maidservant of Jacob’s second wife, Rachel. After Joshua led the people of Israel into the Promised Land, he divided the new territory among the 12 tribes, assigning a region northwest of the Sea of Galilee to the tribe of Naphtali.
The tribes were named Asher, Dan, Levi, Gad, Issachar, Judah, Naphtali, Reuben, Simeon, and Zebulun, Benjamin and Joseph—all sons of Jacob. Naphtali name means to break through or "Wrestling" and represents our tongue or speech. In 930 bc the 10 tribes formed the independent Kingdom of Israel in the north and the two other tribes, Judah and Benjamin, set up the Kingdom of Judah in the south.
Naphtali, in biblical times constituted the people of Israel that later became the Jewish people. The tribe was named after the younger of two sons born to Jacob and Bilhah, a maidservant of Jacob’s second wife, Rachel. After Joshua led the people of Israel into the Promised Land, he divided the new territory among the 12 tribes, assigning a region northwest of the Sea of Galilee to the tribe of Naphtali.
After the death of King Solomon (922 BC), the 10 northern tribes established an independent Kingdom of Israel. In 734 BC the Naphtalites were conquered by the Assyrian king Tiglath-pileser III, whose armies in 721 BC gained control over the entire northern kingdom. Israelites who were deported into slavery and those who remained behind were gradually assimilated by other peoples. The tribe of Naphtali thus lost its identity and became known in Jewish legend as one of the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel. Watch the You Tube video below at this link or view in your Browser: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtLWhfAW2GQ
ACTION STEP: Don't loose your identity by the way you speak. Wrestle with your tongue until it says what God says about your life and your identity. Speak what you want not what others say. Speak what God says. Refuse to let the devil use your tongue. You will believe what you say, so speak the truth in love.
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