Bible Readings for December 7th 2 Chronicles 7 | 2 John 1 | Habakkuk 2 | Luke 21 Once again, it is instructive to compare the account of Yahweh’s appearance to Solomon as recorded in 1 Kings 9 with the account we find in our reading from today in 2 Chronicles 7. In 1...
Bible Readings for December 6th 2 Chronicles 6 | 1 John 5 | Habakkuk 1 | Luke 20 In 2 Chronicles 6, the narrator preserves for us the prayer of Solomon, and it is recorded nearly identically to the dedication prayer that we read in 1 Kings 8. Up to the end, we find...
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...
