2022-03-05 10:50 Ezekiel 39:25-29. God will restore the fortunes of Jacob now and have mercy upon all of Israel. He will be jealous for his holy name and will allow them to regret their shame and treachery. He has all...

2022-03-04 08:07 1 Maccabees 7:21-25. The evil Alcimus is striving for power in the form of the high priesthood, "and all who were troubling their people joined him. They gained control of the land of Judah and did gr...

2022-03-03 06:59 Tobit 10:12. As newlyweds Tobias and Sarah are getting ready to leave Sarah's parents' home and return to Tobias' parents, Sarah's parents offer their parting words. Raguel, Sarah'...

2022-03-02 09:07 Psalm 22:1-5. This is the psalm from which Jesus cried out as He hung on the cross. "My God, my God why has thou forsaken me? " I cry out to you all day and all night long but you do not answer. I can...

2022-02-28 08:56 Malachi 1:1-5. "I have loved you" says the Lord. But the people ask for proof of his love "How has thou loved us?" So God says look at the land of Edom, the land established by Esau. Was not Esau Jaco...

2022-02-26 12:06 Jeremiah 20:13-18. Part of Jeremiah's lament over the way he is being treated for doing what God is asking him to do. Here Jeremiah says cursed be the day that he was born and the man who brought ...

2022-02-25 10:42 2 Kings 10:15-17. As Jehu is in the middle of getting rid of the house of Ahab and every person loyal to it, he meets Jehonadab, son of Rachab. Jehu asks Jehonadab if his heart is true to Jehu's h...

2022-02-24 10:16 Wisdom 9:14-18. Our reasoning is worthless and our designs are likely to fail because our perishable body weighs down our soul. "We can hardly guess at what is on earth, and what is at hand we find wi...

2022-02-23 09:26 1 Kings 9:15-22. An account of the people Solomon has used as forced labor and the things that he has had them build. Solomon built the Temple, his own house, the walls of Jerusalem, many cities, incl...

2022-02-22 10:34 Esther 8:5-6. After praying and fasting, Esther asks her husband the king to revoke the letters written by Haman calling for the destruction of the Jews, "For how can I endure to see the calamity that...