Daily Thoughts From God's Word

The plot was hatched by Haman to destroy the Jews but the Lord used Esther to save his people.  The details of the story are here, and...

The story of Esther is familiar to us.  “King Ahasuerus sat on his royal throne in Susa, the citadel, in the third year of his reign he...

Ezra had called the people to confession of sin and obedience to God.  And the people made “a firm covenant in writing; on the sealed...

Success!  The wall was completed even with all the opposition Nehemiah and the workers faced.  The enemies of God’s people, though, just...

“Eliashib the high priest rose up with his brothers the priests, and they built the Sheep Gate . . . The sons of Hassenaah built the Fish...

“While Ezra prayed and made confession, weeping and casting himself down before the house of God, a very great assembly of men, women,...

After the completion of the temple, “Ezra came up from Babylon.  He was a teacher well versed in the Law of Moses, which the Lord, the...

Opposition to the building of the second temple continued, and God sent his prophets to encourage the people:  “Now Haggai the prophet...

The prophet Jeremiah had spoken to the people from the Lord:  “Because you have not listened to my words . . . This whole country will...

The last years of the southern kingdom of Judah saw one unfaithful king after another, beginning with Manasseh, who reigned for 55 years,...

So much turmoil.  So much idolatry.  So much unfaithfulness.  Then . . . “Hezekiah was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he...

“Amaziah was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem twenty-nine years. His mother's name was Jehoaddan;...

Jehoram reigned in Jerusalem, and such a sad report on his reign:  “He followed the ways of the kings of Israel, as the house of Ahab had...

Jehoshaphat ruled in Judah, and “the Lord was with Jehoshaphat because he followed the ways of his father David before him.  He did not...

King Abijah “built up the fortified cities of Judah, since the land was at peace. No one was at war with him during those years, for the...