2022-05-14 11:16 Isaiah 14:15-20. Part of what God promises his people will say to the king of Babylon, Nebuchadnezzar, once their exile is over. The king thought of himself as invincible, but he will be brought down ...

2022-05-12 06:56 1 Kings 6:11-13. God tells Solomon "Concerning this house which you are building [i.e., the Temple], if you will walk in my statutes and obey my ordinances and keep all my commandments and walk in the...

2022-05-10 06:52 Sirach 10:27-31. It is better to work hard and have abundance than to boast even while lacking bread. Work and live in humility, only thinking of yourself with the worth that your honor truly deserves...

2022-05-09 08:04 2 Chronicles 23:1-3. The kingdom of Judah is under the rule of Athaliah, the evil queen mother of the Dead King Ahaziah. The people are subdued and scared but then, in the seventh year, the high pries...

2022-05-08 09:38 Jeremiah 22:29-30. God tells Jeremiah to write down Coniah, the current king of Judah, as "childless, a man who shall not succeed in his days; for none of his offspring shall succeed in sitting on the...

2022-05-07 12:47 Psalm 69:1-5. "Save me, O God! For the waters have come up to my neck." I am sinking with no foothold in the mire. "I have come into deep waters, and the flood sweeps over me." I am weary with crying ...

2022-05-06 09:40 Psalm 49:5-9. "Why should I fear in times of trouble, when the iniquity of my persecutor's surrounds me, men who trust in their wealth and boast of the abundance of their riches?" No man can ranso...

2022-05-05 07:45 Esther 16:15-16. Part of King Artaxerxes letter to his people to stop the planned slaughter of the Jews. He writes that he finds the Jews, whose annihilation has been plotted three times by his former...

2022-05-04 10:03 Judith 16:1-7. The beginning of the song of Judith after she was successful in driving away the Assyrians. She calls for music and for all of Israel to join in raising a new psalm to the Lord, the God...

2022-05-02 08:47 Zechariah 12:2-13:6. God is going to use Jerusalem as a "cup of reeling to all the peoples round about," and all the nations of the world will come together against it. Judah will even be against Jeru...