Bible Readings for December 5th 2 Chronicles 5 | 1 John 4 | Nahum 3 | Luke 19 Bringing the ark into the temple is the final step before consecrating the temple for the worship of Yahweh, and the account we read here in 2 Chronicles 5 is largely the same as what we...
Bible Readings for December 4th 2 Chronicles 3–4 | 1 John 3 | Nahum 2 | Luke 18 In a previous meditation, we looked at the only story in 1 Chronicles that recorded David’s sin: the story of the census that he took.1 As we discussed, one of the reasons that story was...
Bible Readings for December 3rd 2 Chronicles 2 | 1 John 2 | Nahum 1 | Luke 17 Although the narratives of Solomon in the books of Chronicles undercut any idea that Solomon represents the pinnacle of Yahweh’s kingdom on earth, we still read that Solomon does important...
Bible Readings for December 2nd 2 Chronicles 1 | 1 John 1 | Micah 7 | Luke 16 As we studied 1 Chronicles, we noticed all the ways that the Chronicler put David front and center in the story of Israel. We might think, then, that we will find a similar expansion of...
Bible Readings for December 1st 1 Chronicles 29 | 2 Peter 3 | Micah 6 | Luke 15 We looked yesterday at ways these final chapters in 1 Chronicles portray David as a new Moses, and here in 1 Chronicles 29:6–9, we find yet one more story along those lines in the freewill...
