
What Were the Urim and Thummim? (Messages from God?)
Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World
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Saul Says, O Lord, God of Israel, Give Urim and Thumim
There was not a man among all the people that answered him. Nobody was ratting anybody out. So saul decides to find out who the person was that committed the sin. And he starts splitting people up into groups. In one group is all of the army, except saul and jonathan themselves. Then he said to all israel, you shall be on one side, and i and jon Nathan my son will be on the other side. Here we come to what may be the first time the urim and thumim are explicitly said to be used. But there is a problem, because what it says in the hebrew text and what it say in the g
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 Transcript 

The Bible tells us that the Jewish high priest had two mysterious objects known as the Urim and Thummin to help him receive messages from God. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli explore what they were, how they worked, and what we know about them.
