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2 Chron. 34, 2 Kings 22
JOSIAH BECOMES KING If you know an 8-year-old boy, imagine him suddenly becoming king. Scary isn’t it? I think most 8-year-old boys today would make it their first official duty to decree… I would imagine that there were officials and advisors to assist leading the government because the king probably couldn’t even read yet. But…
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Nahum
Not a book we read very often… The Assyrian Empire (as a dominating force in the ancient Middle East), had been in existence since the the reign of Solomon. About halfway through, Yahweh sent the prophet Jonah to them with a warning: repent or in 40 days, I will destroy you. They repented. But, like…
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2 Chronicles 32-33
Manasseh’s Reign… the rest of the story Chapter 32 is a review of what we already knew of Hezekiah’s reign- how God rescued them from Assyria, how he was healed from a deadly sickness, how he became proud and then repented of that pride. This text also describes how Hezekiah enclosed the Gihon Spring, which…
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2 Kings 21
MANASSEH’S REIGN We covered 2 Kings 20 back on Feb. 12 along with Isaiah 38 so today I’m looking at chapter 21- the reign of Manasseh. I’m also going to combine portions differently than the original reading schedule so that I’m covering the narrative perspectives from 2 Kings and 2 Chronicles together. Feel free to…
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Isaiah 65-66
Congratulations on making it to the end of Isaiah. 🎉 It has 66 chapters. There are 66 books in the Bible. Just as the final 2 chapters of the Bible describe the New Heaven and the New Earth, so do the last 2 chapters of Isaiah. (Some have proposed that each chapter of Isaiah corresponds…
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Isaiah 62-64
There were a couple of special verses that stood out to me in these chapters. “Behold, the Lord has proclaimed to the end of the earth: Say to the daughter of Zion, ‘Behold, your salvation comes; behold, his reward is with him, and his recompense before him.’ And they shall be called The Holy People,…
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Isaiah 60-61
“Arise, shine, for your light has come, and the glory of the Lord has risen upon you.”Isaiah 60:1 ESV We might ask, “Who is the ‘you’ in this chapter? It would seem that the obvious answer would be the people of Israel, the descendants of Jacob. And in its immediate, historic context, that’s absolutely true.…
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Isaiah 58-59
YOU’RE A DISASTER…BUT That’s how I would summarize these 2 chapters. I don’t know if you’ve ever read Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, or watched the 1995 film adaptation by the BBC (the ONLY adaptation that really counts. Come at me.) If you haven’t, you should remedy that ASAP. Elizabeth Bennet (the heroine) is…
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Isaiah 55-57
“Come, everyone who thirsts, come to the waters; and he who has no money, come, buy and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without price.”Isaiah 55:1 ESV Jesus quoted Isaiah 55… with a twist… Jesus had gone to Jerusalem to celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles or Sukkot, (Jn. 7:1-10). This is the…
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Isaiah 52-54
Get comfy. I’ll try to keep this succinct, but these are 3 glorious chapters and we’re only gonna cover them once. So get your hot beverage ☕️ and settle in… In the last post we saw that Israel had gotten itself back into bondage; just like in Egypt. Isaiah is writing prophetically. Judah and Jerusalem…
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Isaiah 50-51
The pronouns in these chapters are important to watch. In fact, I’m tempted to copy and paste most of chapter 50 here and put parts of it in red letters. Verse 1 begins (very helpfully) with “Thus saith the LORD.” So it’s obvious Who is talking. And Yahweh compares Himself to a man who has…
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Isaiah 49
The Servant of the LORD. Which one? This chapter begins with the words of one who has been “called from the womb” by Yahweh to be His servant. And verse 3 seems to identify this servant as Israel: “And he said to me, “You are my servant, Israel, in whom I will be glorified.”Isaiah 49:3…
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