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Jeremiah 5
“Run to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, look and take note! Search her squares to see if you can find a man, one who does justice and seeks truth, that I may pardon her.”Jeremiah 5:1 ESV “Then he said, ‘Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak again but this…
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Jeremiah 3-4
If I had to summarize these two chapters in 5 words… “Baby, won’t you come back?” Judah (and Israel) is compared to a woman who left her husband to become a prostitute. The language is uncomfortable, but then again, so is sin. Judah SAW what happened to the northern kingdom of Israel: And the astonishing…
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Jeremiah 2
This chapter contains a cornerstone text for me. And instead of commenting on the whole of the chapter, I’m going to go straight for those cornerstone verses. I used to teach Theology of Worship, a freshman level course at the Bible College where I graduated. I would get to Jeremiah chapter 2 very early on…
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Jeremiah 1
Welcome to the longest book in the Bible. 😐 I thought that was Psalms. In English, Psalms is the longest. But in Hebrew, it’s Jeremiah, followed by Genesis, then Psalms. As far as individual men through whom God spoke the most, Jeremiah is up there with Moses, Paul, Isaiah, Ezekiel and David. It’s interesting that…
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Zephaniah
Today we read the prophet Zephaniah. We’re covering the WHOLE book in one sitting so top off your drink and grab a snack. And maybe a tent. ⛺️ WHO WAS HE? “The Lord gave this message to Zephaniah when Josiah son of Amon was king of Judah. Zephaniah was the son of Cushi, son of…
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2 Kings 23, 2 Chron. 35
JOSIAH’S REFORMS & PASSOVER Young King Josiah has already made a LOT of changes in Judah and Jerusalem. They restored the centrality of Yahweh and removed the idols from the Temple and the city. But in 2 Kings 23 we get more details on that reformation than we did in 2 Chronicles 34. Let’s look…
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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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