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Whole Bible in 2 Years – Intro
Our church is reading through the Bible together over the next 2 years. I’m going to journal my thoughts (for your reading enjoyment). If you’d like a schedule to read along you can download it for free here: This is not my first trip through the Bible. Far from it. But it is the first…
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2 Kings 4
Two Women and Two Food Miracles… 👩🏽👩🏻🦱 🍉🥖 The next few chapters cover a series of miracles performed by Elisha. Three of the four in this chapter involve that group we’ve encountered a few times, “The Sons of the Prophets.” And they will figure into a few more in coming chapters. So the first pair…
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2 Kings 2-3
Elijah sings “Swing Low Sweet Chariot” and Elisha does 2 water miracles… One of the things I find fascinating about the narrative of Elijah being taken to heaven is that all the “sons of the prophets” seem to know it. The Spirit of the LORD has informed everyone. This story also has some significant parallels…
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2 Kings 1
We’re shifting our attention from the southern kingdom of Judah back up to the northern kingdom of Israel. We’re also backtracking in time just a little. There are some details and side-quests we need to pick up that weren’t mentioned in Chronicles. First… 2 Family Trees… 🌴 Omri > Ahab > Ahaziah, Athaliah & Joram…
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2 Chronicles 23
Praise the Lord for this godly couple – Jehoiada (Jehovah-known) and Jehoshabeath (Jehovah-sworn). They raise the one remaining seed of David in secret in the Temple; their nephew, King Joash. He is barely a year old when they hide him from the murderous Athaliah. And when Joash is seven years old – the age of…
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2 Chronicles 21-22
Ohhhh the drama! We were going along so nicely with good King Jehoshaphat. He gives gifts 🎁 to his sons and assigns them to lesser governmental roles before he names his eldest son Jehoram as his successor and dies. Then WHAM! 💥 “When Jehoram had ascended the throne of his father and was established, he…
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2 Chronicles 20, Psalm 83
I find this to be one of the most inspiring narratives in all of the stories of the kings. Jehoshaphat really took the correction of the prophet Jehu to heart. He personally went all over Judah and Benjamin appointing impartial Levites to teach the people the Word of God and to settle legal disputes. He’s…
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Psalm 82, 2 Chronicles 18-19
Let me give credit right up front to the late Dr. Michael S. Heiser for basically all of the concepts and content in this post. If you’ve never encountered this material before, it can be quite unsettling. So let me start by assuring you of some things from both myself and Dr. Heiser’s material. I…
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1 Kings 22
Remember how Ben-Hadad was defeated and said he would give back all the cities he captured? Well, he didn’t give back Ramoth-Gilead. Ramoth-Gilead was a city of refuge and right on the border with the kingdom of Aram/Syria. King Jehoshophat of Judah has come on a diplomatic visit to King Ahab of Israel. Ahab suggests…
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1 Kings 21
I have no idea who drew this picture (that I found online) but it perfectly captures the petulant King Ahab pouting over the fact that he can’t have Naboth’s vineyard for a kitchen garden. It’s like the artist’s model was a 2-year-old throwing a tantrum. I’m a musician and my brain picks up patterns. And…
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1 Kings 19
When you have a Queen (who always gets her way) trying to kill you, you get outa Dodge. Elijah walks more than 100 miles down to Beersheba. Then goes another day’s journey into the wilderness (probably without any provisions), sits down under a broom tree and waits for the end. We’ve seen this picture of…
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1 Kings 17-18
And just like that, we meet Elijah. We get no description of him until much later. Some messengers describe Elijah to the king like this: “And they said to him, “He was a hairy man with a leather belt worn around his waist.” And he said, “It is Elijah the Tishbite.””2 Kings 1:8 NASB2020 😐…
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