2022-07-31 09:16 1 Maccabees 9:23-27. After the death of Judas Maccabeus, lawless men emerged in all parts of Israel. There was also a great famine at that time, and the people of the country deserted with the lawless...

2022-07-29 09:08 Isaiah 41:14-20. Again, God tells Jacob to "Fear not," just like yesterday! I have had verses 14 to 16 before, in which God promises to make a threshing sledge of Israel and they will go thresh the mo...

2022-07-28 07:44 Jeremiah 46:27-28. God tells Israel, his people, to fear not, He will save them from their captivity. They shall return to their land and have quiet and ease, and none shall make them afraid. "Fear no...

2022-07-27 09:10 1 Timothy 6:11-16. Paul advises Timothy to shun worldly things and to "aim at righteousness, godliness, faith, love, steadfastness, gentleness." He says to fight the good fight of the faith and take h...

2022-07-26 06:53 2 Chronicles 2:1-4. I have had these verses before in the context of a longer reading. In just these four verses we learn that Solomon, the new King of Israel, "purposed to build a temple for the name...

2022-07-24 15:26 Hosea 9:10-14. When God came to Israel they were like grapes in the wilderness, like the first fruit on a fig tree in its first season. But they turned away and consecrated themselves to false gods, t...

2022-07-23 18:37 Psalm 76:1-6. God is known in Judah, his abode is established in Salem, his dwelling place in Zion. There He broke all the arrows and weapons of war and stripped the stout-hearted of their spoil, as t...

2022-07-21 05:21 Matthew 20:29-32. As Jesus is leaving Jericho with a large crowd following him, two blind men by the side of the road call out to him: "Have mercy on us, Son of David." The crowd rebukes them, but Jes...

2022-07-20 05:25 Esther 2:15-18. When Esther is presented to the king, bringing nothing with her but what the eunuch in charge of the women advises, the king immediately loves her more than all the other women availab...

2022-07-19 06:51 Isaiah 65:13-16. God promises that his servants shall eat, but those who have forsaken him shall be hungry; his servants shall drink, but the forsakers shall be thirsty; his servants will sing and rej...