Bible Readings for December 20th 2 Chronicles 24 | Revelation 11 | Zechariah 7 | John 10 The reign of Joash is a tragedy that begins on the best note possible but that eventually takes a sinister turn away from faithful obedience to Yahweh and toward the false worship...
Bible Readings for December 19th 2 Chronicles 22–23 | Revelation 10 | Zechariah 6 | John 9 The stories in 2 Chronicles 22–23 narrate the bloody history by which Judah emerges from chaos, wickedness, and violence in the aftermath of Jehoram’s reign. Ahaziah, the son of...
Bible Readings for December 18th 2 Chronicles 21 | Revelation 9 | Zechariah 5 | John 8 Jehoshaphat, as we discovered over the last three days, reigned with a mixture of good and evil. Tragically, Jehoshaphat’s son Jehoram follows only in the evil footsteps of his...
Bible Readings for December 17th 2 Chronicles 19–20 | Revelation 8 | Zechariah 4 | John 7 As we have discussed over the previous two meditations, the reign of Jehoshaphat was a mixed bag. Sometimes he obeyed Yahweh, and sometimes he did not. So, while he had appointed...
Bible Readings for December 16th 2 Chronicles 18 | Revelation 7 | Zechariah 3 | John 6 When we read the story of the alliance between King Jehoshaphat of Judah and King Ahab of Israel back in 1 Kings 22, we didn’t learn much about Jehoshaphat. There, King Ahab was the...
Bible Readings for December 15th 2 Chronicles 17 | Revelation 6 | Zechariah 2 | John 5 Chronologically, when we read about the reign of King Jehoshaphat in 2 Chronicles 17, we have reached the point in history where the book of 1 Kings began to spend a significant...