2021-12-26 11:20 Ezra 10:16-17. The returned exiles have been told by Ezra to separate themselves from any foreign wives. To this end they have proposed making a list of those who married foreign women while in exile....

2021-12-24 10:40 2 Corinthians 2:5-11. Paul says if anyone causes him pain, that person really causes pain to all people. So that person suffers immensely for it - "For such a one this punishment by the majority is en...

2021-12-23 10:41 Galatians 4:15-16. Paul is writing to the Galatians who have turned away from the Gospel after his departure. He asks what has become of the satisfaction they felt when he was with them? While he was ...

2021-12-22 07:58 2 Chronicles 23:1-7. Jehoiada, the high priest, "took courage" and began planning how to get the rightful, six-year-old king, Joash, on the throne in place of Athaliah, the evil queen mother of the te...

2021-12-21 20:34 Ezekiel 33:10-16. God tells Ezekiel that if the wicked man turns from his sin, makes reparation, and walks "in the statutes of life committing no iniquity" then "none of the sins he has committed shal...

2021-12-20 08:58 Hosea 7:14-16. God says he will chasten Ephraim because "they do not cry to me from the heart." They wail, yes, and gash themselves for food and wine, but they do not recognize their God. He trained a...

2021-12-18 11:19 Haggai 2:2-9. God tells Haggai to go and speak to the remnant of the people, including the king and governor and high priest, and tell them that though none of them may remember or have seen "this hou...

2021-12-17 09:53 Psalm 89:30-37. God promises that David's line shall endure forever. If his children violate God's statutes their transgressions will be punished, "but I will not remove from him my steadfast ...

2021-12-16 11:41 1 Samuel 9:1-4. The beginning of Saul's story. We are introduced to his father, Kish, of the tribe of Benjamin, a man of wealth. Kish has a son, Saul, who is very tall and handsome. Kish sends Sau...

2021-12-15 08:05 Jeremiah 22:24-30. God is telling Jeremiah to write down his proclamation against Coniah, the king of Judah. God is going to banish him and his mother to another land. He is going to deliver him into ...