Daily Thoughts From God's Word

Jehoram:  “And he did what was evil in the sight of the Lord.  Yet the Lord was not willing to destroy the house of David, because of the...

The story begins to move farther and farther removed from the unified kingdom under Saul, David, and Solomon.  And, even as it does, and...

And so begins the years of a divided kingdom, Judah in the south and Israel in the north.  While the books of Kings more broadly tell the...

At the end of Solomon’s reign, things were not good in Israel.  Oh, it had all started out well enough with Solomon’s completion of the...

At the end of twenty years, in which Solomon had built the house of the Lord and his own house, Solomon rebuilt the cities that Hiram had...

Solomon finished building the temple, and “the priests brought the ark of the covenant of the Lord to its place, in the inner sanctuary...

Solomon asked for wisdom and got it.  He was given much wealth.  He built the temple and furnished it.  It might be said that Israel,...

Not only did David need to prepare building materials for the temple, he appointed the numerous persons who would serve at the temple: ...

David did not get to build the temple, that work fell to his son, Solomon.  However, David was able to look ahead and prepare for the...

“Then Satan stood against Israel and incited David to number Israel.  So David said to Joab and the commanders of the army, ‘Go, number...

David wanted to build a house, a building, a temple, to house the ark of the covenant.  The Lord said to him, “It is not you who will...

“David consulted with the commanders of thousands and of hundreds, with every leader.  And David said to all the assembly of Israel, ‘If...

Paul can rightly conclude that, for the Christian, to be absent from the body (i.e., to die) is to be present with the Lord (2...

Let me begin by saying “Thank you!” to Daniel and Seth, two faithful brothers who have handled “Daily Word” for the two weeks I have been...

"Before him there was no king like him, who turned to the Lord with all his heart and with all his soul and with all his might, according...