In the story of Nehemiah we see a wonderful example of how the Kingdom of God should work. In Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday’s devotionals we are going to explore the 11 lessons learned from Nehemiah that will teach us how we should approach the task of building the...
In this book we jump over the 70-year chasm called the Exile and land in the period of Israel’s history called The Restoration. After the Babylonians were defeated by the Persian Empire, the tides changed for the Jewish people living in Exile. Under the permission of...
In 2 Chronicles we leave the era of the united monarchy, when Israel was one united kingdom, and enter the tumultuous time of the divided kingdom when brother fought brother. Read more... Enter the Bible The Bible Project - 1 & 2 Chronicles
In order to understand 1 & 2 Chronicles it is important to know when it was written and why it was written. On first read through you will notice that it covers the same period of history that Samuel and Kings covers, but with a very different flavor. That is...
2 Kings is a jumbled mess. It is the story of two nations who slowly ran themselves into the ground and ultimately were destroyed by their enemies because of their lack of obedience to God. That being said, notice that there are some key players and key events in 2...
Solomon succeeded David on the throne of Israel. Solomon began well and ended in tragedy. The downfall of Solomon’s reign was that he externalized the gold. He forgot that the gold that God desires for His people is the golden shine of a surrendered heart, not the...
2 Samuel is the story of David. David was considered to be a man after God’s own heart. (1 Samuel 13:14; Acts 13:22) Yet, it is easy to observe that David was far from perfect. He made some huge mistakes in his life. A valid question could be asked when reading 1 and...
Samuel was the last of his kind. He was the final Judge and served as a prophet of God. He was the baton-passer who helped to transition the nation of Israel from the era of theocracy in which the Law of God ruled the people, into the era of the monarchy in which a...
The true story line of the nation of Israel actually flows right from Judges into the book of 1 Samuel. Had we followed that continuous story line we may have found ourselves overwhelmed by the maelstrom of one blast of sinfulness to the next. If the story of the...
The book of Judges is the story of how the nation of Israel burst through the guard rails of God’s Law and went careening down into the valley of curses. Notice how, with each judge, there is a momentary upward cycle of repentance, but the inertia of this downward...
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