Bible Readings for April 26th Numbers 3 | Psalm 37 | Song of Songs 1 | Hebrews 1 Not all Levites were priests. A priest had to be a male descendent of Aaron, who was a Kohathite. The lineage of the priests looks like this (Ex. 6:16–25): Levi —> Kohath —> Amram...
Bible Readings for March 15th Exodus 26 | John 5 | Proverbs 2 | Galatians 1 In Exodus 26, Yahweh describes the two different places in the tabernacle where his holiness would dwell most fully on earth: the Holy Place and the Most Holy Place. Those two places would be...
Bible Readings for November 27th 1 Chronicles 23 | 1 Peter 4 | Micah 2 | Luke 11 In 1 Chronicles 23, David actively reshapes the worship of Israel by redefining the roles of the Levites in temple service. The rationale for all of what David does is found in 1...
Bible Readings for November 21st 1 Chronicles 16 | James 3 | Obadiah 1 | Luke 5 As the festivities in worship grow during the settling of the ark of the covenant in the city of Jerusalem, we learn more about Heman, Asaph, and Ethan, three men whose names we find...
Bible Readings for April 30th Numbers 7 | Psalms 42–43 | Song of Songs 5 | Hebrews 5 Yesterday, we looked at the non-priestly class of holy people in Israel: the Nazirites. Today’s reading in Numbers 7 addresses two other issues regarding holiness within Israel’s...