2021-09-24 19:51 Judges 11:22-28. Part of Jephthah's speech to the king of the Ammonites who was making war against Israel because Israel occupied what the Ammonites saw as their land. Jephthah reminds the king th...

2021-09-23 17:08 2 Maccabees 15:17-19. Judas Maccabeus has just aroused his fighting men with inspirational words and the description of a dream that he had in which the prophet Jeremiah gave him a golden sword as a g...

2021-09-22 06:12 1 Samuel 16:14-23. King Saul was often tormented by an evil spirit. His servants suggest that he find someone to play music for him when this happens, and one of the servants says he had seen a son of...

2021-09-21 16:41 John 6:1-14. John's telling of the miracle of the loaves and fishes. A great crowd follows Jesus to the Sea of Tiberias. When Jesus sees them, he asks Philip "How are we to buy bread, so that thes...

2021-09-20 13:57 Ezekiel 39:17-20. God is telling Ezekiel to go out to the birds and beasts and tell them to get ready to eat like they never have before at "the sacrificial feast which I am preparing for you." They s...

2021-09-19 10:39 Habakkuk 3:1-10. "A prayer of Habakkuk the prophet." In his prayer, Habakkuk says that he has heard of the Lord's works and power, and he fears them, but he also asks the Lord to make them known. ...

2021-09-18 15:54 Isaiah 34:15-17. This passage immediately follows a description of the destruction and death that will come upon God's people on the day of his vengeance. Isaiah talks about the land being filled ...

2021-09-17 19:49 Ezra 7:21-24  Part of the letter from Artaxerxes, the king of Persia, authorizing Ezra to go to Jerusalem and take anyone who wishes to go with him, in order to return to worship and to sacrifice to t...

2021-09-16 15:56 Proverbs 10:25-28. When the storm passes, the wicked is no more, but the righteous remains, established forever. Sluggarts are like vinegar to the teeth and smoke to the eyes of the ones who send them...

2021-09-14 16:01 Song of Solomon 5:10-16. The Song of Solomon (or Song of Songs) is a love poem. Here the bride describes her love - he is radiant, distinguished among the ten thousand; his head is finest gold; his ey...