2022-02-26 12:06 Jeremiah 20:13-18. Part of Jeremiah's lament over the way he is being treated for doing what God is asking him to do. Here Jeremiah says cursed be the day that he was born and the man who brought ...

2022-02-25 10:42 2 Kings 10:15-17. As Jehu is in the middle of getting rid of the house of Ahab and every person loyal to it, he meets Jehonadab, son of Rachab. Jehu asks Jehonadab if his heart is true to Jehu's h...

2022-02-24 10:16 Wisdom 9:14-18. Our reasoning is worthless and our designs are likely to fail because our perishable body weighs down our soul. "We can hardly guess at what is on earth, and what is at hand we find wi...

2022-02-23 09:26 1 Kings 9:15-22. An account of the people Solomon has used as forced labor and the things that he has had them build. Solomon built the Temple, his own house, the walls of Jerusalem, many cities, incl...

2022-02-22 10:34 Esther 8:5-6. After praying and fasting, Esther asks her husband the king to revoke the letters written by Haman calling for the destruction of the Jews, "For how can I endure to see the calamity that...

2022-02-21 09:02 Revelation 2:19-29. Jesus' message to the church in Thyatria is that he knows of their works, their love, faith, service, and patient endurance, and that their latter works exceed their first. His...

2022-02-20 10:25 Hosea 2:6-9. While comparing his people to a wanton woman, God says he shall hem her in with thorn bushes so she cannot find her paths to her lovers. She will still seek them and pursue them but she w...

2022-02-19 13:04 Acts 24:24-27. Paul has been sent by the Jewish leaders to the governor of Caesarea, Felix, for trial. Felix has given him a hearing and is trying to put off the Jews by keeping Paul in prison and del...

2022-02-18 09:04 2 Chronicles 22:1-4. An introduction to Ahaziah, the youngest and only surviving son of the evil King Jehoram. God turned against Jehoram because of his evil ways and his leading the people into idola...

2022-02-17 11:12 1 Maccabees 15:25-36. Simon, the high priest in Jerusalem, has an uneasy peace with King Antiochus. Simon had been established as high priest by Antiochus' father, Demetrius, and in recognition of...