While Yahweh had shown his superiority to other gods before, in Second Isaiah he becomes the sole God of the world.

While scholars suggest the marriage metaphor presented in Hosea describes the relationship between Israel and Yahweh, the metaphor itself remains controversial in its meaning and interpretation in modernity.

While the book is relatively short it includes lament ( 1. 8-16 ; 7. 8-10 ), theophany ( 1. 3-4 ), hymnic prayer of petition and confidence ( 7. 14-20 ), and the " covenant lawsuit " ( 6. 1-8 ), a distinct genre in which Yahweh ( God ) sues Israel for breach of contract, that is, for violation of the Sinai covenant.

While traditionally these words have been understood to be either Jewish words whose meaning has been derived from characteristics of these Canaanite deities or references to demons, some interpret these as evidence of Israelite recognition of these gods as part of the military retinue of Yahweh.

While serving in Potiphar's household, Yahweh was with Joseph so that he prospered in everything he did.

While Hilkiah was clearing the treasure room of the Temple he found a scroll described as " the book of the Law " or as " the book of the law of Yahweh by the hand of Moses ".

He cites Exodus 32: 4 – 5 as evidence: He took the gold from them, formed it in a mold, and cast an image of a calf ; and they said, “ These are your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt !” When Aaron saw this, he built an altar before it ; and Aaron made proclamation and said, “ Tomorrow shall be a festival to the Lord .” Importantly, there is a single calf in this narrative, though the people refer to it as representative of the “ gods .” While a reference to singular god does not necessarily imply Yahweh worship, it does not rule out the possibility that it is Yahweh that the people are worshiping, as the reference to a plurality of “ gods ” would.

While the 320 pixel modes theoretically enable the 7800 to create games at higher resolution than the 256 pixel wide graphics found in the Nintendo Entertainment System and Sega Master System, the intense processing demands of MARIA typically meant that programmers created their games using the lower 160 pixel modes.

While usually harmless, Mike is not above using underhanded tactics to get his way — in A Hole in the Heart ( series 3 ), he steals a story from Marty because viewers are responding positively to it, while in Addicted to Fame, he demands that Geoffrey's television show be cancelled because he is jealous of the attention his friend is getting.

While police control barriers are a common sight on African highways, and while illicit demands for bribes at such stops are common in many countries, the main Malian highway heading south from Bamako to the Burkina Faso border was singled out in late 2008 as the worst in West Africa.

While he was prepared to become head of state he made it known that it would not necessarily be as monarch: " I will accept the responsibility of head of state if that is what the Loya Jirga demands of me, but I have no intention to restore the monarchy.

While the right to strike is legally guaranteed, strikes based solely on political demands are prohibited.

While this places high demands on the materials used, the simplicity of the Wankel makes it easier to use alternative materials like exotic alloys and ceramics.

While increasing demands on selection selectively changes activation in the rostral superior frontal sulcus and posterior cingulate / precuneus.

While having survived relatively intact throughout the years of war 1939-1945, the city faced increasing changes in the 1950's and 1960's due to rising demands for apartments, the eagerness to rebuild and most of all the new developement of infrastructure ( especially increased automobile traffic ).

While this " work kitchen " and variants derived from it were a great success for tenement buildings, home owners had different demands and did not want to be constrained by a 6. 4 m² kitchen.

While both the Labour and Liberal parties of the early 20th century had accommodated demands for Welsh home rule, no political party existed for the purpose of establishing a Welsh government.

While Kennett acceded to their demands, his perceived poor treatment of Savage and Davies in the previous parliament meant that they held a position that they would never agree to support a Liberal Party minority government while Kennett remained leader.

While Binet was developing his mental scale, the business, civic, and educational leaders in the U. S. were facing issues of how to accommodate the needs of a diversifying population, while continuing to meet the demands of society.

While eating a slice at Sal's, Buggin ' Out ( Esposito ) questions Sal about the " Wall of Fame " and demands he put up some pictures of Black celebrities on the wall, since, he explains, Sal's pizzeria is in a Black neighborhood and sells pizza to Black people.

While the fighting occurs on the beachhead, Om attempts to physically intervene, but Brutha demands he does not interfere with the actions of humans.

While initially allied with the Swedish Social Democratic Party in the struggle for democracy ( achieved in 1921 ) and social reform, the People's Party came to be part of the opposition from the thirties and onwards, opposing Social Democrat demands for nationalization of private businesses.

While the convention did not adopt the list at the time, once the list of rights was generally known, the majority of anglophones accepted most of the demands as reasonable.

While some clans remained neutral, others led by Montrose supported the Royalist cause, projecting their feudal obligations to clan chiefs onto the Royal House of Stuart, resisting the demands of the Covenanters for commitment and reacting to the ambitions of the larger clans.

While Brissenden notes that IWW coal miners in Australia successfully used direct action to free imprisoned strike leaders and to win other demands, Wobbly opposition to conscription during World War I " became so obnoxious " to the Australian government that laws were passed which " practically made it a criminal offense to be a member of the I. W. W.

While in Baden conditions for the provisional government were ideal — the public, including the army, strongly in support of constitutional change and democratic reform in the government, there was a ready army, which also strongly supported the demands for a constitution, amply supplied arsenals and a full exchequer — conditions in the Palatinate were somewhat less ideal.

While most of his compositions during this period were geared to the demands of the medium and the directors, there were many moments when he was able to infuse his work with echoes of his jazz heritage.

While Drew is affiliated with the United Methodist Church, it makes no religious demands of its students.

While Reuther set out a number of conditions for merger with the AFL, such as constitutional provisions supporting industrial unionism, guarantees against racial discrimination, and internal procedures to clean up corrupt unions, his weak bargaining position forced him to compromise most of these demands.

While satisfying tourists ' interests and demands may be a top priority, it is also imperative to ruminate the subsystems of the destination's ( residents ).

While Marxists argue that entryism flows from the " demands of the class struggle ", others allege it is more akin to infiltration.

While they can synthesize arginine and histidine, they cannot produce it in sufficient amounts for young, growing animals, and so these are often considered essential amino acids.

While there, they went to the Hayden Planetarium and walked around the museum's exhibits of space objects, such as meteorites, and displays of dinosaurs and animals in natural settings.

While " animation " designates any style of illustrated images seen in rapid succession to give the impression of movement, the word " cartoon " is most often used in reference to TV programs and short films for children featuring anthropomorphized animals, superheroes, the adventures of child protagonists and related genres.

While sugar cane dramatically increased Spain's earnings on the island, large numbers of the newly imported slaves fled into the nearly impassable mountain ranges in the island's interior, joining the growing communities of cimarrónes — literally, ' wild animals '.

While first aid can also be performed on all animals, the term generally refers to care of human patients.

While the jaguar closely resembles the leopard, it is sturdier and heavier, and the two animals can be distinguished by their rosettes: the rosettes on a jaguar's coat are larger, fewer in number, usually darker, and have thicker lines and small spots in the middle that the leopard lacks.

While data from in vitro experiments suggest many dissimilar roles, studies on PrP knockout mice have provided only limited information because these animals exhibit only minor abnormalities.

While most shoes have historically been worn by humans, there are simple shoes that are designed to be worn by other domesticated animals, such as dogs and horses.

While Shoghi Effendi, the Guardian of the Bahá ' í Faith stated that a purely vegetarian diet would be preferable since it avoided killing animals, both he and the Universal House of Justice, the governing body of the Bahá ' ís have stated that these teachings do not constitute a Bahá ' í practice and that Bahá ' ís can choose to eat whatever they wish but should be respectful of others ' beliefs.

While it is neither required nor prohibited for Jews to eat meat, a number of medieval scholars of Jewish religion ( e. g., Joseph Albo and Isaac Arama ) regard vegetarianism as a moral ideal, not just because of a concern for the welfare of animals, but because the slaughter of animals might cause the individual who performs such acts to develop negative character traits.

While having the appearance of a frenzy, recent research has shown a herd of wildebeest possesses what is known as a " swarm intelligence ", whereby the animals systematically explore and overcome the obstacle as one.

While our earliest Hominid ancestors were probably frugivores or omnivores, there is evidence that earlier Homo species, and possibly also australopithecine species utilised larger animals for subsistence.

While the probability of encountering food, potential sexual partners, or predators is the same in all directions for animals floating freely in the water, there is a clear difference on the seafloor between the sides facing toward and away from the substrate, and between their orientation and the vertical direction perpendicular to the substrate.

While most of these animals did not reach adulthood, one of these was purchased in 1898 by the Berlin Zoo.

While luxury establishments may boast the fact that wild animals can be seen at close range on a daily basis, the leopard's camouflage and propensity to hide and stalk prey typically make leopard sightings rare.

While running, in addition to having good traction due to its semi-retractable claws, the cheetah uses its tail as a rudder-like means of steering to allow it to make sharp turns, necessary to outflank prey animals that often make such turns to escape.

While plants do utilise many of the same epigenetic mechanisms as animals, such as chromatin remodeling, it has been hypothesised that plant cells do not have " memories ", resetting their gene expression patterns at each cell division using positional information from the environment and surrounding cells to determine their fate.

While many groups of burrowing animals ( pink fairy armadillos, tuco-tucos, mole rats, mole crickets and mole crabs ) have developed close physical similarities with moles due to convergent evolution, two of these are so similar to true moles, they are commonly called and thought of as " moles " in common English, although they are completely unrelated to true moles or to each other.

While it has been difficult to establish specific health effects in humans due to the lack of controlled dose experiments, studies in animals have shown that dioxin causes a wide variety of toxic effects.

While these compounds have desirable effects in humans, they cannot be efficiently metabolized in many animals and can lead to cardiac and nervous system problems, and if consumed in high quantities, even lead to death.

While studies show that such activity would be feasible, if unlike that of present-day horned animals, there is disagreement about whether they actually did so.

While the innovations of the fast food industry gave Americans more and cheaper dining options, it has come at the price of destroying the environment, economy, and small-town communities of rural America while shielding consumers from the real costs of their convenient meal, both in terms of health and the broader impact of large-scale food production and processing on workers, animals, and land.