“The Son of man must suffer many things, and be rejected of the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be slain, and be raised the third day.” Luke 9:22 Jesus spoke these words to His chosen disciples in private, giving them a...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
“And when the servants of David were come to Abigail to Carmel, they spake unto her, saying, David sent us unto thee, to take thee to him to wife. And she arose, and bowed herself on her face to the earth, and said, Behold, let thine...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
“And the king said, Thou shalt surely die, Ahimelech, thou, and all thy father's house.” I Samuel 22:16 The king here was Saul. Ahimelech was a priest of God. The background is that Ahimelech had given food to a hungry David and his...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
“For this child I prayed; and the Lord hath given me my petition which I asked of him: therefore also I have lent him to the Lord; as long as he liveth he shall be lent to the Lord. And he worshiped the Lord there.” I Samuel 1:28...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
A Thought From the Word “And Gideon made an ephod thereof, and put it in his city, even in Ophrah: and all Israel when thither a whoring after it: which thing became a snare unto Gideon, and to his house.” Judges 8:27 This verse...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
“And ye went over Jordan, and came unto Jericho: and the men of Jericho fought against you, the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Girghashites, the Hivites, and Jebusites; and I delivered them into...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
“And Joshua said unto the children of Israel, How long are ye slack to go to possess the land, which the LORD God of your fathers hath given you?” Joshua 18:3 God had mightily driven out the enemy nations from Canaan in order to give...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
“And they commanded the people, saying, When ye see the ark of the covenant of the Lord your God, and the priests the Levites bearing it, then ye shall remove from your place and go after it. Yet there shall be a space between you and it,...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
“Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.” I John 4:11 Short, powerful, convincing statement! John had spoken in detail in chapters 3 and 4 of the great love of God for His people. It is a love that sacrificed...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
“He is the Rock, His work is perfect: for all His ways are judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is He.” Deuteronomy 32:4 He is the Rock. This is a frequently repeated description of God throughout the...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
