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...

2022-07-18 08:18 Jeremiah 46:13-17. God tells Jeremiah that he is about to let Nebuchadrezzar, King of Babylon, smite the land of Egypt. Jeremiah is to proclaim to Egypt to standby and be ready, for the sword shall de...

2022-07-17 12:05 Isaiah 34-35. This is a long reading for me today! I actually initially read just Isaiah 34:5-7, which says that God's sword has drunk its fill in the heavens and now descends for judgment upon Ed...

2022-07-16 10:33 Deuteronomy 14:9-20. Some rules about what the Israelites could and could not eat. Here, God covers things of the sea, birds, and winged insects. Of the sea, the Jews may eat anything with fins and sc...

2022-07-15 14:52 Isaiah 7:21-25. God is describing to Isaiah the the suffering that is about to befall Judah and Israel due to their sinfullness. In the midst of describing it, however, He says "In that day a man will...