2025-01-31 09:23 Isaiah 26:16-17. "O Lord, in distress they sought thee, they poured out a prayer when thy chastening was upon them. Like a woman with child, who writhes and cries out in her pangs, when she is near he...

2025-01-29 10:30 Mark 16:11 "But when [His disciples] heard that he was alive and had been seen by [Mary Magdalene], they would not believe it."   Mark does not say that the disciples "did not" believe, but that the...

2025-01-28 10:33 1 Kings 8:65 "So Solomon held the feast at that time, and all Israel with him, a great assembly, from the entrance of Hamath to the Brook of Egypt, before the Lord our God, seven days."    This seve...

2025-01-26 09:04 Joshua 23:12-13 "For if you turn back, and join the remnant of these nations left here among you, and make marriages with them, so that you marry their women and they yours, know assuredly that the Lo...

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...