2023-08-28 09:37 Amos 1:9-10. God says he will send fire upon the walls of Tyre and it shall devour her strongholds. God is doing this to Tyre because of her transgressions. They have "delivered up a whole people to E...

2023-08-25 08:08 1 Samuel 17:22. "And David left the things in charge of the keeper of the baggage, and ran to the ranks, and went and greeted his brothers."   We should always leave our "things" in order to priorit...

2023-08-24 06:34 Ezekiel 45:1. God tells Ezekiel "When you allot the land as a possession, you shall set aside a holy district, twenty-five thousand cubits long and twenty cubits broad; It shall be holy throughout its...

2023-08-23 07:12 1 Samuel 11:10. The men of Jabesh say to Saul "Tomorrow, we will give ourselves up to you, and you may do to us whatever seems good to you."   The men of Jabesh are in a very difficult position. The...

2023-08-21 09:54 1 Kings 15:29-30. Baasha killed Nadab in Nadab's second year as king of Israel and took the throne. As soon as he killed Nadab, Baasha killed the entire house of Jeroboam (Nabad's kin). Not on...

2023-08-20 12:25 Sirach 34:4-5. "From an unclean thing, what will be made clean? And from something false, what will be true?"   This comes amid a warning from Sirach against believing in dreams, "Unless they are se...

2023-08-19 13:39 2 Timothy 1:1-2. This is the salutation from Paul's second letter to Timothy. Paul introduces himself as "an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God according to the promise of the life which i...

2023-08-18 08:29 1 Maccabees 6:31-32. The enemy came and camped against Bethzur, and for many days fought and built engines of war, but the Jews kept going forth to burn the war machines and fight valiantly. Then Juda...

2023-08-16 09:12 Joshua 1:7. "Only be strong and very courageous, being careful to do according to all the law which Moses my servant commanded you; turn not from it to the right hand or to the left, that you may have...

2023-08-15 12:32 2 Chronicles 1:4. At the beginning of Solomon's reign, we are reminded that David had brought the Ark of the Covenant to Jerusalem and had it placed in the tent he had pitched for it.   Just a w...