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The Loyal Love of God

Bible Project podcast — https://bibleproject.com/podcasts/loyal-love-god/

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What this book knows

Khesed — Hebrew's untranslatable word — reveals that God's defining character is loyal love: commitment fused with generous, affectionate faithfulness across generations.

Sex: Absent
Work: Absent
Learning: Present
Religion: Primary

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faith-and-doubt

Khesed is the kind of love someone demonstrates when keeping a promise, and desire to be loyal motivates them to go above and beyond, more than expected.
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In 75% of its 245 uses, khesed is about God — a major feature of the Old Testament portrait of God's character.
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You need love, generosity, and loyalty — take one out and it's no longer khesed.
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belonging

Ruth's khesed: an Israelite family loses all its men, yet Ruth commits herself to Naomi across every boundary of nation and duty.
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Jonathan says to David: 'Will you show me khesed so that I may not die?' — covenant loyalty between friends across a murderous divide.
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So many flawed ancestors, yet God continues committed — God's khesed persists across the whole history of a people's failure.
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