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Obadiah
(Two posts today! I’m also doing a separate post on Jeremiah 48) NOW it’s finally time for the little, 1-chapter book of Obadiah. It’s a short book with a simple message so I’m gonna keep this blog post short and simple too. HISTORICAL BACKGROUND It’s a bit of a challenge to date because there is…
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Jeremiah 48
Two posts today. If you didn’t see the one on Obadiah, it also dropped today. Have you ever heard of “poetic justice?” Professor Google explains it like this: “Poetic justice occurs when characters receive a fate directly tied to their actions, often through irony, such as villains being undone by their own methods.” Perhaps you…
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Jeremiah 46-47
Egyptian wins and losses… I put some links in today’s post to a couple articles about the history in these chapters. They’re pretty interesting if you have a couple extra minutes to read them. Remember how King Josiah went out to battle Pharaoh Necho II and lost? That wasn’t the only battle Necho fought. The…
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Jeremiah 44-45
Did you ever hear the story about the city slicker who helped the farmer pull a calf? The farmer was out in the field with a cow that was struggling to birth a calf. The back legs were out but the rest was stuck. A guy from the city was driving by on the country…
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Jeremiah 42-43
The camels are packed. 🐪🐪🐪 Everyone is ready to go. Oh- maybe we should pray before we leave… The little band of misfits… 🤓 And princesses! Can’t forget them! Yes. And the princesses. 👸🏼 They tell Jeremiah to pray and ask God where to go. They certainly don’t think they can’t stay in Judah because-…
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Jeremiah 40-41
We continue the saga… Jerusalem has fallen… We last left our friend Jeremiah in Judah in the home of Governor Gedaliah. King Nebuchadnezzar himself gave instructions to Captain Nabuzaradan to find Jeremiah, keep him safe, and give him whatever he needed. The Captain found Jeremiah chained up among the others who had been captured and…
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Habbakuk
His name sounds kinda like: Have-a-book 📕or Have-a-Coke. 🥤 But the Hebrew is most accurately pronounced like: Cob-a-kook. 😐 Cob-a-kook? Are you serious? That sounds like a roasted corn stand 🌽 at a circus 🎪 . Ok. That’s enough. Let’s try to be more scholarly. 🤓 Yeah, knucklehead. Scholars act professional. They don’t laugh at…
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Psalms 74 & 79
(April 11) Both of these psalms are attributed to “Asaph.” But this is definitely not the Levite Asaph who was one of the chief musicians and singers appointed by King David to worship before the Ark at the Tabernacle of David and who was at the dedication of the Temple of Solomon. The name Asaph…
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Jeremiah 52, 2 Chron. 36
These 2 chapters – the ends of their respective books – cover mostly the same material. We find that the total number of captives taken to Babylon over the various waves of deportations was 4,600. That’s not actually very many considering the entire population of Judah which is estimated to have been around 100,000 during…
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2 Kings 24-25
Chapter 24 is a recap of all the history we’ve been reading in Jeremiah. I feel like chapter 25 should come with a spoiler warning. Jeremiah is about to live the events and record them in much greater detail. Perhaps consider 2 Kings 25 a “movie trailer” for the next several chapters we will read…
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Jeremiah 39 & Psalm 137
(I told you I was mixing things up from the reading schedule. Before we get to the events of chapter 40 and following – which are “post-capture-of-Jerusalem” – we’re going to hit all the texts that describe the end.) THE CITY FALLS… It’s been roughly 350 years since David established Jerusalem as his capital. The…
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Jeremiah 37-38
Jeremiah In Prison Chapters 37-38 happen about 8 years after the scroll-burning incident with Jehoiakim. 😐 Who is now very dead and UNburied.💀 Right. Zedekiah, (the 4th of Josiah’s sons to sit on the throne), has been appointed king by Nebuchadnezzar – which is an indication that Judah’s standing as a nation is already in…
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