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Freedom in God's Divine Order for Women

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Appendix III

Grudem[123] identifies the following passages as sixteen instances of kephale meaning “authority over” in the Septuagint:

 

  1. Deut 28:12-13 – The LORD will open to you His good treasure, the heavens, to give the rain to your land in its season, and to bless all the work of your hand. You shall lend to many nations, but you shall not borrow. And the LORD will make you the head and not the tail; you shall be above only, and not be beneath, if you heed the commandments of the LORD your God, which I command you today, and are careful to observe them.

  2. Deut 28:42-44 – The alien who is among you shall rise higher and higher above you, and you shall come down lower and lower. He shall lend to you, but you shall not lend to him; he shall be the head, and you shall be the tail.

  3. Judg 10:17-18 – Then the people of Ammon gathered together and encamped in Gilead. And the children of Israel assembled together and encamped in Mizpah. And the people, the leaders of Gilead, said to one another, “Who is the man who will begin the fight against the people of Ammon? He shall be head over all the inhabitants of Gilead.”

  4. Judg 11:7-9 – And the elders of Gilead said to Jephthah, “That is why we have turned again to you now, that you may go with us and fight against the people of Ammon, and be our head over all the inhabitants of Gilead.”

  5. Judg 11:9 – So Jephthah said to the elders of Gilead, “If you take me back home to fight against the people of Ammon, and the LORD delivers them to me, shall I be your head?”

  6. Judg 11:11 – Then Jephthah went with the elders of Gilead, and the people made him head and commander over them; and Jephthah spoke all his words before the LORD in Mizpah.

  7. 2 Sam 22:44 – “You have also delivered me from the strivings of my people; You have kept me as the head of the nations. A people I have not known shall serve me.

  8. 1 Kings 8:1 – Now Solomon assembled the elders of Israel and all the heads of the tribes, the chief fathers of the children of Israel, to King Solomon in Jerusalem, that they might bring up the ark of the covenant of the LORD from the City of David, which is Zion.<page 138>

  9. Ps 18:43 – You have delivered me from the strivings of the people; You have made me the head of the nations; A people I have not known shall serve me.

  10. Lam 1:5 – Her adversaries have become the master, Her enemies prosper; for the LORD has afflicted her because of the multitude of her transgressions. Her children have gone into captivity before the enemy.

  11. Isa 7:8 – For the head of Syria is Damascus, And the head of Damascus is Rezin. Within sixty-five years Ephraim will be broken, so that it will not be a people.

  12. Isa 7:8 – For the head of Syria is Damascus, And the head of Damascus is Rezin. Within sixty-five years Ephraim will be broken, so that it will not be a people.

  13. Isa 7:9 – The head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is Remaliah’s son. If you will not believe, surely you shall not be established.

  14. Isa 7:9 – The head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is Remaliah’s son. If you will not believe, surely you shall not be established.

  15. Isa 9:14-15 – Therefore the LORD will cut off head and tail from Israel, palm branch and bulrush in one day. The elder and honorable, he is the head; the prophet who teaches lies, he is the tail.

  16. Jer 31:7 – For thus says the LORD: “Sing with gladness for Jacob, and shout among the chief of the nations; proclaim, give praise, and say.

The above Scriptures are quoted from the NKJV.

 

 

 

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