2022-10-12 06:51 2 John 1:1-2 This is the salutation of John's second letter. John refers to himself as the "elder" and he's writing to the "elect lady" and her children. He says he loves them in the truth, an...

2022-10-10 08:41 Hosea 4:4-19. Things have gotten pretty bad in Israel! God blames the priests in large part: "My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge," but He also faults the people: "they have left their God t...

2022-10-09 12:42 2 Chronicles 1:16-17. At the beginning of Solomon's reign, right after he has asked for and been granted wisdom from God, he is building his military. Here we learn that he has imported horses fro...

2022-10-08 12:47 Daniel 3:26-30. Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego are in the fiery furnace into which Nebuchadnezzar has thrown them for refusing to bow down to Nebuchadnezzar's golden idol. God has sent an angel t...

2022-10-07 08:46 Joshua 6:12-14. At God's instruction, Joshua has begun a strange siege of Jericho. He rises early in the morning and has the priests take up the ark of the covenant. Then, with seven priests conti...

2022-10-06 12:41 Samuel 22:7-16. This is part of a song of praise of David to God after God has delivered David from Saul and all his enemies. David says that in his distress he called upon God and God heard him. "The...

2022-10-04 12:51 Ezekiel 41:1-4. An angel is leading Ezekiel through a vision of the new temple, measuring everything as he goes. In this passage they get to the nave, which is 40 cubits long by 20 cubits wide. From t...

2022-10-02 10:35 Lamentations 3:43-45. On seeing the destruction all around him, Jeremiah cries out to God "Thou hast wrapped thyself with anger and pursued us, slaying without pity; thou has wrapped thyself with a cl...

2022-10-01 11:28 Jeremiah 34:13-17. Through Jeremiah God reminds his people that he made a covenant with them when he brought them out of Egypt and they were supposed to release their slaves after 6 years of bondage. ...

2022-09-30 14:10 Baruch 4:17-20. Baruch is comparing Jerusalem and God's law that dwells there to a mother mourning her children in exile. "But I, how can I help you? " She asks. The only one who can deliver them ...