Daily Thoughts From God's Word

The story of the Queen of Sheba’s visit to Solomon.  The gist of it all?  “When the queen of Sheba heard of Solomon's fame, she came to...

When the temple was completed, Solomon and the people “brought up the ark, the tent of meeting, and all the holy vessels that were in the...

“Solomon the son of David established himself in his kingdom, and the Lord his God was with him and made him exceedingly great” (1:1) and...

“When David was old and full of days, he made Solomon his son king over Israel” (23:1).  As the days transitioned to a new ruler, there...

A really interesting story, here:  “Then Satan stood against Israel and incited David to number Israel.  So David said to Joab and the...

We don’t always get to do what we want to do even when we think an action will be good and moral.  Consider David:  “Now when David lived...

David brought the ark into Jerusalem and built a house for himself.  And though David was now settled in Jerusalem, the times were...

The first king of Israel, Saul, and his sons were killed in a battle with the Philistines.  Saul had disobeyed God, he died, and now, in...

I think that most people, after finishing Kings, find Chronicles to be merely redundant.  Of course, the history is the same but the...

These are the last kings of Judah – Josiah, Jehoahaz, Jehoiakim, Jehoiachin, and Zedekiah – and what a sad story as their reigns brought...

Hezekiah died, and “Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem. . . . he did what...

The end (in 722 B.C.) has come for the northern Kingdom of Israel.  In the south, Hezekiah reigned, and it is written of him that he did...

“Azariah the son of Amaziah, king of Judah, began to reign . . . and he reigned fifty-two years in Jerusalem.  And he did what was right...

Elisha anointed Jehu as king of Israel with these words:  “Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, ‘I anoint you king over the people of...

The story of “Naaman, commander of the army of the king of Syria” (5:1).  Now, “he was a mighty man of valor, but he was a leper” (5:1). ...