Bible Readings for October 8th 1 Kings 11 | Philippians 2 | Ezekiel 41 | Psalms 92–93 As Israel’s king, Solomon reaches extraordinary heights during Israel’s golden age. Lavish wealth, rich cultural achievements, and wide-ranging justice characterize this era to a...
Bible Readings for October 7th 1 Kings 10 | Philippians 1 | Ezekiel 40 | Psalm 91 Solomon’s glory as king of Israel reaches its pinnacle in 1 Kings 10. We read an initial report of Solomon’s great wisdom, wealth, and fame in 1 Kings 4, but we find a fuller inventory...
Bible Readings for October 4th 1 Kings 7 | Ephesians 4 | Ezekiel 37 | Psalms 87–88 As we began to review yesterday, the construction of Solomon’s temple is not a brand new idea at this stage in the story of God’s people. It is not as though Yahweh has been working on...
Bible Readings for June 12th Deuteronomy 17 | Psalm 104 | Isaiah 44 | Revelation 14 Deuteronomy 17 serves as the standard against which we should judge the kings of Israel and Judah as we read about them in the books of Samuel, Kings, and Chronicles. In this passage,...
Bible Readings for December 10th 2 Chronicles 10 | Revelation 1 | Zephaniah 2 | Luke 24 The narrative in 2 Chronicles 10 tells how the ten tribes of Israel rebel from the house of David. The version we find in 2 Chronicles for the most part retells the same story of...