diff --git a/content/hermeneutic_lenses/chapters/num10.json b/content/hermeneutic_lenses/chapters/num10.json new file mode 100644 index 00000000..be7444ab --- /dev/null +++ b/content/hermeneutic_lenses/chapters/num10.json @@ -0,0 +1,66 @@ +{ + "lenses": [ + { + "lens_id": "literary", + "guidance": "vv 1-10's trumpet instructions and vv 11-36's departure narrative form a hinge — instruction precedes movement. The cloud lifts at v 11; the chapter pivots from preparation to journey. vv 35-36's 'rise up... return' bookends the new phase.", + "panel_filter": [ + "lit", + "milgrom", + "ashley", + "themes" + ], + "panel_order": [ + "lit", + "milgrom", + "ashley", + "themes" + ] + }, + { + "lens_id": "christocentric", + "guidance": "vv 33-34's 'the ark of the covenant of the LORD went before them... to find them a place to rest' is the chapter's center. Christ as the greater ark leading his people to rest at Heb 4:9-11; Jesus goes ahead 'to prepare a place' at Jn 14:2-3.", + "panel_filter": [ + "cross", + "mac", + "thread", + "themes" + ], + "panel_order": [ + "mac", + "cross", + "thread", + "themes" + ] + }, + { + "lens_id": "canonical", + "guidance": "vv 1-10's trumpets serve assembly, war, festival, alarm. The image threads across Scripture from Joshua 6's Jericho to Joel 2:1's day-of-the-LORD trumpet to 1 Cor 15:52 and Rev 11:15. Same instrument, escalating call.", + "panel_filter": [ + "cross", + "thread", + "themes" + ], + "panel_order": [ + "thread", + "cross", + "themes" + ] + }, + { + "lens_id": "devotional", + "guidance": "vv 33-36's prayers ('Rise up... Return') frame the wilderness journey with petition. The worshipper today walks the same pattern: when the cloud moves, pray for the LORD's leading; when it rests, pray for his return. Discipleship by petition.", + "panel_filter": [ + "mac", + "calvin", + "rec", + "themes" + ], + "panel_order": [ + "mac", + "rec", + "calvin", + "themes" + ] + } + ] +} diff --git a/content/hermeneutic_lenses/chapters/num11.json b/content/hermeneutic_lenses/chapters/num11.json new file mode 100644 index 00000000..b5099d3d --- /dev/null +++ b/content/hermeneutic_lenses/chapters/num11.json @@ -0,0 +1,82 @@ +{ + "lenses": [ + { + "lens_id": "literary", + "guidance": "The chapter's five-movement structure — Taberah fire (vv 1-3), manna grumbling (vv 4-9), Moses's plea (vv 10-15), Spirit on the seventy (vv 16-30), quail-and-plague (vv 31-35) — is rebellion answered by both provision and judgment.", + "panel_filter": [ + "lit", + "milgrom", + "ashley", + "themes" + ], + "panel_order": [ + "lit", + "milgrom", + "ashley", + "themes" + ] + }, + { + "lens_id": "canonical", + "guidance": "vv 25-29's seventy elders prophesying is the chapter's seed for Joel 2:28-29's 'I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh' and Acts 2:17-18's Pentecost. Moses's wish 'would that all the LORD's people were prophets' threads forward across Scripture.", + "panel_filter": [ + "cross", + "thread", + "themes" + ], + "panel_order": [ + "thread", + "cross", + "themes" + ] + }, + { + "lens_id": "typological", + "guidance": "vv 7-9's manna and vv 31-32's quail form a paired type — bread and meat, daily provision. Jn 6:48-51 takes the manna pattern forward: 'Your ancestors ate the manna in the wilderness, yet they died... I am the living bread.' Shadow gives way.", + "panel_filter": [ + "cross", + "mac", + "calvin", + "thread" + ], + "panel_order": [ + "mac", + "cross", + "thread", + "calvin" + ] + }, + { + "lens_id": "devotional", + "guidance": "vv 4-9's craving — 'remember the fish... cucumbers, melons, leeks' — names what the heart turns to in dissatisfaction. To trust today's provision is to refuse Egypt's menu. The graves at Kibroth-hattaavah warn against praying for what kills.", + "panel_filter": [ + "mac", + "calvin", + "rec", + "themes" + ], + "panel_order": [ + "mac", + "rec", + "calvin", + "themes" + ] + }, + { + "lens_id": "redemptive", + "guidance": "vv 16-17's promise — 'I will take of the Spirit that is on you and put the Spirit on them' — anchors the redemptive arc of Spirit-distribution. From Moses to seventy elders to Pentecost (Acts 2), the same promise unfolds across covenant.", + "panel_filter": [ + "cross", + "thread", + "themes", + "calvin" + ], + "panel_order": [ + "thread", + "cross", + "calvin", + "themes" + ] + } + ] +} diff --git a/content/hermeneutic_lenses/chapters/num12.json b/content/hermeneutic_lenses/chapters/num12.json new file mode 100644 index 00000000..1ade80c0 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/hermeneutic_lenses/chapters/num12.json @@ -0,0 +1,66 @@ +{ + "lenses": [ + { + "lens_id": "grammatical", + "guidance": "v 3's 'Now Moses was very humble (anav)' is a parenthetical aside in third person. The Hebrew anav means pressed down, dependent — not modest in the modern sense. The literal force: a man crushed by his burden, leaning on the LORD.", + "panel_filter": [ + "heb", + "milgrom", + "ashley", + "hebtext" + ], + "panel_order": [ + "heb", + "hebtext", + "milgrom", + "ashley" + ] + }, + { + "lens_id": "typological", + "guidance": "vv 6-8's 'with Moses I speak face to face... clearly, not in riddles' establishes Moses as the prophet-type. Heb 3:1-6 reads this passage explicitly, contrasting Moses (faithful as a servant) with Christ (faithful as a son). Pattern fulfilled.", + "panel_filter": [ + "cross", + "mac", + "calvin", + "thread" + ], + "panel_order": [ + "mac", + "cross", + "thread", + "calvin" + ] + }, + { + "lens_id": "christocentric", + "guidance": "vv 6-8's 'face to face' speech with Moses is what 2 Cor 4:6 brings to fulfillment in 'the face of Jesus Christ.' What Moses had as singular grant becomes general gospel — 'we all, with unveiled face, behold the glory' (2 Cor 3:18).", + "panel_filter": [ + "cross", + "mac", + "thread", + "themes" + ], + "panel_order": [ + "mac", + "cross", + "thread", + "themes" + ] + }, + { + "lens_id": "canonical", + "guidance": "vv 10-15's Miriam stricken with leprosy threads across Scripture as the prophet-judgment pattern. 2 Chr 26:16-21's Uzziah and 2 Kgs 5:27's Gehazi each carry the canonical motif — opposing God's order leaves a visible mark.", + "panel_filter": [ + "cross", + "thread", + "themes" + ], + "panel_order": [ + "thread", + "cross", + "themes" + ] + } + ] +} diff --git a/content/hermeneutic_lenses/chapters/num13.json b/content/hermeneutic_lenses/chapters/num13.json new file mode 100644 index 00000000..e628d00a --- /dev/null +++ b/content/hermeneutic_lenses/chapters/num13.json @@ -0,0 +1,66 @@ +{ + "lenses": [ + { + "lens_id": "literary", + "guidance": "vv 26-33's two reports — ten spies' negative, Joshua and Caleb's positive — build a contrast on the same evidence. Same fruit, same fortifications, opposite conclusions. The chapter's structure makes faith and unbelief turn on interpretation.", + "panel_filter": [ + "lit", + "milgrom", + "ashley", + "themes" + ], + "panel_order": [ + "lit", + "milgrom", + "ashley", + "themes" + ] + }, + { + "lens_id": "typological", + "guidance": "vv 23-24's single cluster of grapes carried on a pole between two men — fruit from Eshcol — was read by Theodoret and Origen as foreshadowing Christ on the cross between two criminals. The pattern carries the promised land's fruit.", + "panel_filter": [ + "cross", + "mac", + "calvin", + "thread" + ], + "panel_order": [ + "mac", + "cross", + "thread", + "calvin" + ] + }, + { + "lens_id": "canonical", + "guidance": "vv 17-29's spy mission threads across Scripture. Josh 2's two spies plus Rahab succeed where these twelve fail; Heb 3:7-19 reads this passage as the canonical warning for those who hear God's voice. Same mission, opposite outcomes.", + "panel_filter": [ + "cross", + "thread", + "themes" + ], + "panel_order": [ + "thread", + "cross", + "themes" + ] + }, + { + "lens_id": "devotional", + "guidance": "v 33's 'we became like grasshoppers in our own eyes, and we were the same in their eyes' is the chapter's psychological key. The heart distorts size when faith fails. To trust today is to recover the right scale: God large, giants small.", + "panel_filter": [ + "mac", + "calvin", + "rec", + "themes" + ], + "panel_order": [ + "mac", + "rec", + "calvin", + "themes" + ] + } + ] +} diff --git a/content/hermeneutic_lenses/chapters/num14.json b/content/hermeneutic_lenses/chapters/num14.json new file mode 100644 index 00000000..6fd13a7c --- /dev/null +++ b/content/hermeneutic_lenses/chapters/num14.json @@ -0,0 +1,82 @@ +{ + "lenses": [ + { + "lens_id": "literary", + "guidance": "The chapter's five-movement form — rebellion (vv 1-12), Moses's intercession (vv 13-19), verdict (vv 20-25), forty years decreed (vv 26-35), Hormah defeat (vv 36-45) — is the wilderness generation's defining narrative.", + "panel_filter": [ + "lit", + "milgrom", + "ashley", + "themes" + ], + "panel_order": [ + "lit", + "milgrom", + "ashley", + "themes" + ] + }, + { + "lens_id": "christocentric", + "guidance": "vv 13-19's intercession — Moses pleading the divine name — partially turns judgment but cannot prevent the forty-year sentence. Christ is the greater intercessor (Heb 7:25, 'always lives to intercede') who secures full deliverance, not delay.", + "panel_filter": [ + "cross", + "mac", + "thread", + "themes" + ], + "panel_order": [ + "mac", + "cross", + "thread", + "themes" + ] + }, + { + "lens_id": "canonical", + "guidance": "vv 22-23's 'they have tested me ten times' is the verse Ps 95:8-11 distills into 'Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts.' Heb 3:7-19 then quotes Ps 95 in full and reads Num 14 as the canonical warning to the church.", + "panel_filter": [ + "cross", + "thread", + "themes" + ], + "panel_order": [ + "thread", + "cross", + "themes" + ] + }, + { + "lens_id": "devotional", + "guidance": "vv 1-4's weeping and wishing for Egypt — 'wouldn't it be better for us to go back?' — names the heart's regression in trial. To live by faith today is to refuse the rear-view; the wilderness is the path, not the abandonment.", + "panel_filter": [ + "mac", + "calvin", + "rec", + "themes" + ], + "panel_order": [ + "mac", + "rec", + "calvin", + "themes" + ] + }, + { + "lens_id": "redemptive", + "guidance": "vv 26-35's forty-year sentence, harsh as it is, is also covenant mercy. The next generation enters; the promise to the patriarchs is not revoked. The redemptive arc bends through wilderness without breaking — judgment is purgative.", + "panel_filter": [ + "cross", + "thread", + "themes", + "calvin" + ], + "panel_order": [ + "thread", + "cross", + "calvin", + "themes" + ] + } + ] +} diff --git a/content/hermeneutic_lenses/chapters/num15.json b/content/hermeneutic_lenses/chapters/num15.json new file mode 100644 index 00000000..bcad0266 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/hermeneutic_lenses/chapters/num15.json @@ -0,0 +1,34 @@ +{ + "lenses": [ + { + "lens_id": "canonical", + "guidance": "vv 38-41's tassels (tzitzit) command — fringes on garment corners as visual reminder of the LORD's commands — threads across Scripture into Mt 9:20 and 14:36, where sufferers reach for the kraspedon (tassel/hem) of Jesus's garment.", + "panel_filter": [ + "cross", + "thread", + "themes" + ], + "panel_order": [ + "thread", + "cross", + "themes" + ] + }, + { + "lens_id": "devotional", + "guidance": "v 39's purpose — 'you will look at it and remember all the commands of the LORD' — embeds the law in clothing. To live by sight as well as memory, to wear what one is meant to obey, trains worship into the everyday seam.", + "panel_filter": [ + "mac", + "calvin", + "rec", + "themes" + ], + "panel_order": [ + "mac", + "rec", + "calvin", + "themes" + ] + } + ] +} diff --git a/content/hermeneutic_lenses/chapters/num16.json b/content/hermeneutic_lenses/chapters/num16.json new file mode 100644 index 00000000..7b63afb9 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/hermeneutic_lenses/chapters/num16.json @@ -0,0 +1,66 @@ +{ + "lenses": [ + { + "lens_id": "literary", + "guidance": "vv 1-15's challenge, vv 16-35's confrontation and judgment, vv 36-50's plague and Aaron's intercession form the chapter's three-act structure. Each act ends with God's holiness asserted — by speech, by ground, by atonement.", + "panel_filter": [ + "lit", + "milgrom", + "ashley", + "themes" + ], + "panel_order": [ + "lit", + "milgrom", + "ashley", + "themes" + ] + }, + { + "lens_id": "typological", + "guidance": "vv 47-48's Aaron 'stood between the living and the dead, and the plague stopped' is a priestly type. The censer that judges (vv 35-40) becomes the censer that saves (v 47). Christ stands at the same threshold, the pattern fulfilled in his cross.", + "panel_filter": [ + "cross", + "mac", + "calvin", + "thread" + ], + "panel_order": [ + "mac", + "cross", + "thread", + "calvin" + ] + }, + { + "lens_id": "canonical", + "guidance": "v 5's 'the LORD will show who is his' is what 2 Tim 2:19 cites: 'The Lord knows those who are his.' Jude 11 names 'the rebellion of Korah' as the canonical warning. The chapter's verses thread directly into NT writings.", + "panel_filter": [ + "cross", + "thread", + "themes" + ], + "panel_order": [ + "thread", + "cross", + "themes" + ] + }, + { + "lens_id": "devotional", + "guidance": "vv 31-33's 'the ground opened... and they went down alive into the realm of the dead' is the chapter's soberest moment. To worship today is to walk humbly before the One who delineates priest from layman. Pride before holiness is judged.", + "panel_filter": [ + "mac", + "calvin", + "rec", + "themes" + ], + "panel_order": [ + "mac", + "rec", + "calvin", + "themes" + ] + } + ] +} diff --git a/content/hermeneutic_lenses/chapters/num17.json b/content/hermeneutic_lenses/chapters/num17.json new file mode 100644 index 00000000..62917c13 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/hermeneutic_lenses/chapters/num17.json @@ -0,0 +1,50 @@ +{ + "lenses": [ + { + "lens_id": "typological", + "guidance": "v 8's dead rod that 'sprouted, budded, blossomed, produced almonds' overnight is a type of resurrection. Almonds (shaqed) flower first in spring — the imagery is awakening, the pattern foreshadows life from death by divine vindication.", + "panel_filter": [ + "cross", + "mac", + "calvin", + "thread" + ], + "panel_order": [ + "mac", + "cross", + "thread", + "calvin" + ] + }, + { + "lens_id": "christocentric", + "guidance": "v 8's high priest's rod alone bears fruit overnight — vindication from heaven. Christ, the true high priest, is vindicated by the same pattern: 'the resurrection from the dead' (Rom 1:4) declares him Son of God. Aaron's almond-flowering anticipates.", + "panel_filter": [ + "cross", + "mac", + "thread", + "themes" + ], + "panel_order": [ + "mac", + "cross", + "thread", + "themes" + ] + }, + { + "lens_id": "canonical", + "guidance": "vv 8-10's preserved rod — 'kept before the testimony as a sign' — is what Heb 9:4 names inside the ark across the canon: 'the gold jar of manna, Aaron's staff that had budded, and the stone tablets.' Three relics, one threaded promise.", + "panel_filter": [ + "cross", + "thread", + "themes" + ], + "panel_order": [ + "thread", + "cross", + "themes" + ] + } + ] +} diff --git a/content/hermeneutic_lenses/chapters/num18.json b/content/hermeneutic_lenses/chapters/num18.json new file mode 100644 index 00000000..2b3f9541 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/hermeneutic_lenses/chapters/num18.json @@ -0,0 +1,34 @@ +{ + "lenses": [ + { + "lens_id": "canonical", + "guidance": "vv 21-24's tithe to the Levites — the firstfruits and offerings as their inheritance — threads across Scripture into Heb 7:8-10's argument that Levi himself paid tithes through Abraham to Melchizedek. The chapter's economy is canonical scaffold.", + "panel_filter": [ + "cross", + "thread", + "themes" + ], + "panel_order": [ + "thread", + "cross", + "themes" + ] + }, + { + "lens_id": "redemptive", + "guidance": "vv 8-20's priestly portion — 'I myself have given you charge of my offerings' — frames priestly provision as covenant gift, not transactional wage. The priest receives because the LORD gives; the redemptive logic is recognition, not earning.", + "panel_filter": [ + "cross", + "thread", + "themes", + "calvin" + ], + "panel_order": [ + "thread", + "cross", + "calvin", + "themes" + ] + } + ] +}