Daily Thoughts From God's Word

When Nehemiah first heard about the sad plight of his people in Jerusalem, he reports, “I sat down and wept and mourned for days, and I...

Opposition:  “Now when Sanballat heard that we were building the wall, he was angry and greatly enraged, and he jeered at the Jews”...

It is reported that Nehemiah was concerned about the Jews who had returned to Jerusalem, and he asked, of some who had returned, about...

The temple and altar had been rebuilt.  Sacrifices again were offered.  And, now, after the first group of returnees, Ezra came to...

“When the seventh month came, and the children of Israel were in the towns, the people gathered as one man to Jerusalem.  Then arose...

“In the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremiah might be fulfilled, the Lord stirred up...

The story of the southern kingdom of Judah is nearing its end.  And it does not end well.  However, as before, there is a good story here...

Far far from perfect, yet, Hezekiah was a good king and faithful in so many ways.  Yet . . . “After these things and these acts of...

A blip (very good blip) in the road:  Hezekiah becomes king.  And though he was far from a perfect king, he was a good king.  He...

Amaziah, then Uzziah, who was the king mentioned in Isaiah 6:  “In the year of King Uzziah’s death I saw the Lord sitting on a throne,...

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...