Honor Mom

Honoring mama, has as much to do with you as it does with her!

Honor:

1a: to regard or treat (someone) with admiration and respect : to regard or treat with honor b: to give special recognition to : to confer honor on

2a: to live up to or fulfill the terms of: honor a commitment b: to accept as payment: honor a credit card

3: to salute with a bow in square dancing

I Right- In a related usage, the position of honor is regularly at the host’s right hand. To be at Yahweh’s right hand is to be in the position of highest honor (Ps 110:1). Often in the NT (as well as in the well-known formula of the Apostles’ Creed), that position is reserved for the resurrected Jesus (Col 3:1, cf. Heb 8:1; 12:2).

The name Benjamin, literally “son of the right hand,” may well indicate the special importance or blessing of this child—the second son of the favored wife, and youngest child of Jacob. The name may indicate something like “specially favored.”

Joel F. Jr. Drinkard, “Right, Right Hand,” ed. David Noel Freedman, The Anchor Yale Bible Dictionary (New York: Doubleday, 1992), 724.

II Commandment- Deuteronomy and the Deuteronomic literature (including Psalm 119) are the best sources for understanding the biblical notion of commandment. Indeed, the terminology appears but rarely in the prophetic literature (e.g., Isa 48:18; Exod 18:21; Dan 3:29). Commandment, miṣwâ-entolē, suggests a “double personal reference” (O’Connell 1960: 361), i.e., the loving God who commands and the one to whom the commandment is addressed. The proper response to a commandment is not merely external compliance, but a total personal response (“from the heart,” leb). The virtual interchangeability between miṣwâ-entolē and dābār-logos/rhēma, i.e. “word,” (e.g., Deut 5:22; 30:14; Esth 9:32) highlights the personal quality of the commandment. The ultimate significance of the commandments is to relate people to God. Accordingly the commandments are best understood within the covenant context.

Raymond F. Collins, “Commandment,” ed. David Noel Freedman, The Anchor Yale Bible Dictionary (New York: Doubleday, 1992), 1098.

III Promise- Declaration by one person to another that something will or will not be done, giving the person to whom it is made the right to expect the performance of whatever has been specified.

Walter A. Elwell and Barry J. Beitzel, “Promise,” Baker Encyclopedia of the Bible (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Book House, 1988), 1766.