Where is agape found in the Hebrew Scriptures?

[Daniel Marsh]

Where is agape found in the Hebrew Scriptures?

for starters the book of Hosea comes to mind. He is told to marry a lady who has loose sexual morals and has a problem with faithfulness. But, Hosea is to love her and forgive her each time she messes up.

Where do you see God's love in the Hebrew Scriptures?

 

[Jeshu]

Isaiah 53
Who has believed our message
and to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?
He grew up before him like a tender shoot,
and like a root out of dry ground.
He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him,
nothing in his appearance that we should desire him.
He was despised and rejected by mankind,
a man of suffering, and familiar with pain.
Like one from whom people hide their faces
he was despised, and we held him in low esteem.


Surely he took up our pain
and bore our suffering,
yet we considered him punished by God,
stricken by him, and afflicted.
But he was pierced for our transgressions,
he was crushed for our iniquities;
the punishment that brought us peace was on him,
and by his wounds we are healed.
We all, like sheep, have gone astray,
each of us has turned to our own way;
and the Lord has laid on him
the iniquity of us all.


He was oppressed and afflicted,
yet he did not open his mouth;
he was led like a lamb to the slaughter,
and as a sheep before its shearers is silent,
so he did not open his mouth.
By oppression and judgment he was taken away.
Yet who of his generation protested?
For he was cut off from the land of the living;
for the transgression of my people he was punished.
He was assigned a grave with the wicked,
and with the rich in his death,
though he had done no violence,
nor was any deceit in his mouth.


Yet it was the Lord’s will to crush him and cause him to suffer,
and though the Lord makes his life an offering for sin,
he will see his offspring and prolong his days,
and the will of the Lord will prosper in his hand.
After he has suffered,
he will see the light of life and be satisfied;
by his knowledge my righteous servant will justify many,
and he will bear their iniquities.
Therefore I will give him a portion among the great,
and he will divide the spoils with the strong,
because he poured out his life unto death,
and was numbered with the transgressors.
For he bore the sin of many,
and made intercession for the transgressors.

 

[smithed64]

אַהֲבָה Pronounced Ahavah - showing the affection or care to someone.

Deut 7:7-8
Deuteronomy 7:7-8 (KJVSL) The LORD יְהֹוָה did not set his love חָשַׁק upon you, nor choose בָּחַר you, because ye were more רֹב in number than any people עַם; for ye were the fewest מְעַט of all people עַם: But because the LORD יְהֹוָה loved אַהֲבָה you, and because he would keep שָׁמַר the oath שְׁבוּעָה which he had sworn שָׁבַע unto your fathers אָב, hath the LORD יְהֹוָה brought you out יָצָא with a mighty חָזָק hand יָד, and redeemed פָּדָה you out of the house בַּיִת of bondmen עֶבֶד, from the hand יָד of Pharaoh פַּרְעֹה king מֶלֶךְ of Egypt מִצְרַיִם.

חָשַׁק châshaq, khaw-shak'

a primitive root; also interchangeable for H2820 to cling, i.e. join, (figuratively) to love, delight in; elliptically; to deliver:—have a delight, (have a) desire, fillet, long, set (in) love.

Jeremiah 31:3 (KJVSL) The LORD יְהֹוָה hath appeared רָאָה of old רָחוֹק unto me, saying, Yea, I have loved אָהַב thee with an everlasting עוֹלָם love אַהֲבָה: therefore with lovingkindness חֶסֶד have I drawn מָשַׁךְ thee.

Check this out. It will help.

 

[FreeinChrist]

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