2025-01-23 11:03 1 Maccabees 6:19 "So Judas decided to destroy them, and assembled all the people to besiege them." The enemy had taken control of a citadel and was using that strategic position to attack and harm Isr...

2025-01-22 10:02 Luke 2:23 "([A]s it is written in the law of the Lord, "'Every male that opens the womb shall be called holy to the Lord.)'" This is in parentheses because Luke is explaining to his readers wh...

2025-01-21 07:33 Jeremiah 31:20 "Is Ephraim my dear son? Is he my darling child? For as often as I speak against him, I do remember him still. Therefore my heart yearns for him; I will surely have mercy on him, says t...

2025-01-19 10:38 Amos 9:10. "All the sinners of my people shall die by the sword, who say, 'Evil shall not overtake or meet us.'" Note that it is not every sinner who will die by the sword, but those who say "...

2025-01-16 06:55 Luke 2:15 "When the angels went away from them into heaven, the shepherds said to one another, 'Let us go over to Bethlehem and see this thing that has happened, which the Lord has made known to u...

2025-01-15 09:29 2 Chronicles 1:15 "And [King Solomon] made silver and gold as common in Jerusalem as stone, and he made cedar as plentiful the sycamore of the Shephelah."   Solomon did indeed make the kingdom of Is...

2025-01-13 06:35 2 Samuel 18:18. "Now Absalom in his lifetime had taken and set up for himself the pillar which is in the King's Valley, for he said, 'I have no son to keep my name and remembrance'; he cal...

2025-01-11 11:54 Job 24:8, 12. "They are wet with the rain of the mountains, and cling to the rock for want of shelter. ... From out of the city the dying groan, and the soul of the wounded cries for help; yet God pay...

2025-01-09 09:30 Jeremiah 11:9 "Again the Lord said to me, 'There is revolt among the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.'"   Because of this revolt, because the people's "gods have become as ...

2025-01-06 08:58 Deuteronomy 19:18-19 "[T]he judges shall inquire diligently, and if the witness is a false witness and has accused his brother falsely, then you shall do to him as he had meant to do to his brother; s...