The Feet
Do birds have feet? Yet the description of the dove is world famous:
Genesis 8:9 But the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot. And she returned unto him into the ark, for the waters were on the face of the whole earth. Then he put forth his hand, and took her, and pulled her in unto him into the ark.
Yehovah told the Israelis,
Deuteronomy 11:24 Every place whereon the soles of your feet shall tread shall be yours from the wilderness and Lebanon, from the river—the river Euphrates—even unto the uttermost sea shall your coast be.
Children do a great deal of walking, once they are able. They understand their territory by where they can go (tread) with their feet.
They also understand what sliding with their feet involves:
Deuteronomy 32:35 To me is vengeance and recompense. Their foot shall slide in time. For the day of their calamity is at hand, and the things that shall come upon them make haste.
If their feet are guarded, they won’t slide:
1 Samuel 2:9 He will keep the feet of his saints, and the wicked shall be silent in darkness; for by strength shall no man prevail.
2 Samuel 22:37 Thou hast enlarged my steps under me so that my feet did not slip.
Children sit at the feet of adults, just as in the following text:
Deuteronomy 33:2 “Yehovah came from Sinai, and rose up from Seir unto them. He shined forth from mount Paran, and He came with myriads of saints. From His right hand went a fiery law for them. 3Indeed, He loved the people. All His saints are in Thy hand. And they sat down at Thy feet. Every one shall receive of Thy words.”
Children will sometimes take hold of an adult’s feet in order to make a request:
2 Kings 4:27 And when she came to the man of God to the hill, she caught him by the feet. But Gehazi came near to thrust her away. And the man of God said, “Let her alone, for her soul is vexed within her; and Yehovah hath hid it from me, and hath not told me.
Young Children observe feet much more closely than adults, especially in societies where the feet are exposed (as in sandals):
Isaiah 52:7 How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace; that bringeth good tidings of good, that publisheth salvation; that saith unto Zion, Thy God reigneth!
They understand what stepping on bugs can do, so they would understand such texts as the following:
Lamentations 1:15 The Lord hath trodden under foot all my mighty-ones in the midst of me.
Children would more easily understand texts like the following:
Psalms 110:1 Yehovah said unto my Lord, “Sit thou at my right hand until I make thine enemies thy footstool.”
Because children sit at the feet of adults, and sometimes even place their legs around the legs of an adult, they know that they can become a stool for feet, and that it is good. This text describes Jewish enemies of Messiah turning to Him, and becoming a place for the resting of His feet upon His arrival.
One word for spies is a ‘childism’:
Genesis 42:9 And Joseph remembered the dreams that he dreamed of them. And he said unto them, “Ye are spies!” [This is literally, ‘feet’.] “Ye are come to see the nakedness of the land!”
Children who can walk and explore territories are ‘footing it’! On the other hand, some running children have evil destinations:
Proverbs 1:16 For their feet run to evil.
Many Bible texts that appear difficult to understand become clear if they are considered from the aspect of a child.
I will consider walking in another chapter.
The following texts have some interesting readings when translated literally:
Genesis 33:14 “My lords will cross-over, pray, to the faces of his servant. And I, I will conduct myself at my gentleness to the foot of the errand that is to my faces and to the foot of the children until I will come unto my lord to Seir.”
Exodus 11:8 “And all these thy servants shall descend unto me. And they shall prostrate themselves to me, saying, ‘Exit!—thou and all the people that is with thy feet!’ And afterward I will exit!” And he exited from with Pharaoh heats of nose!
2 Kings 21:8 “And I will not again make the foot of Israel move from the soil that I gave their fathers only if they will guard to do according to all that I commanded them and to all the Teaching that my servant Moshe commanded them.”
The next text can also refer to the feet of soldiers, as in the case of Nazis, whose high-stepping feet were a sign of their arrogance:
Psalms 36:11 Do not bring me the foot of arrogance.
Psalms 66:6 “He turned-over the sea to dry. They crossed on foot in the river. There we rejoiced in Him!”
I propose that the above text refers to walking on water.
Proverbs 6:13 He winketh with his eye. He uttereth with his foot. He teacheth with his fingers.
A child can quickly learn to read the foot of another, especially when it causes terror.
The next text shows how the feet can be used to express joy (that is evil, in this case):
Ezekiel 25:6 For thus saith the Lord Yehovah, “Because thou hast clapped thine hands and stamped with the foot and rejoiced with all thy contempt in the being unto the soil of Israel…”
For what are your feet known (whether you can walk or not)? Would your feet take you to the aid of Jews, should the choice be forced on you to aid Israel and suffer great loss, or to ignore Israel and be in less danger? Would Jewish children love your feet, or would they fear your feet as potential enemies?