Today I have just a couple of quick comments. You may have wondered why David put his ten concubines aside and never saw them again. Remember when Absalom ran David out? What did he do with his father’s concubines? Right. He had sex with them in such a way that everyone knew about it. They…
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The author of the book of James is not the James, the son of Zebedee, one of the 12 disciples. We know this because Herod had that James killed, as recorded in Acts 12. It is thought by some that this James was actually the half-brother of Jesus. His mother was Mary and his father…
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A lot happened in this chapter, but we have limited time, so I’m going to focus on verses 15-23. Here, King David is on his way back to Jerusalem and comes to the Jordan River, when he is met by both Simei and Ziba. Remember them? Shimei was the man who threw rocks at David…
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Alexander Maclaren wrote in his “Expositions of Holy Scripture” “The close of the book of Job must be taken in connection with its prologue in order to get the full view of its solution of the mystery of pain and suffering. Indeed the prologue is more completely the solution than the endings; for it shows…
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Remember the last chapter, where the author of this book talked about that Hall of Fame of people of great faith? Moses, Abraham, Rahab, etc? These are those who have gone before us. Those who ran the race and finished. When the author, here in the opening verse of chapter 12 refers to a large…
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As David’s army was to go out to battle Absalom and his men, he planned to go with them. Why do you suppose that is? Do you think it’s because the last time they went out and he stayed home, that’s when all the trouble began? Yeah, me too. I think he figured he’d rather…
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It’s easy to think of this scene with God’s awesome, booming voice rumbling and shaking everything around for miles as He speaks out of the storm. And maybe it did happen that way. He can be a fearsome God. But I like what the commentator F. B. Meyer wrote: “Divine power and human ignorance. When…
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This chapter talks about faith and what it is. And it gives several examples of people who exhibited it, and how it changed not just their lives, but people after them, as well. It is a sort of mini Hall of Fame for OT people of great faith. Why do you suppose the author of…
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Well, we’ve seen that King David does not always get things right, and that point is underlined as chapter 16 begins. Ziba, the servant of Mephibosheth (who was Jonathan’s son), and who David had made manager of Mephibosheth’s estate, was not satisfied being the manager. He wanted to own it. So he met David while…
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Elihu had several good things to say to Job. I especially liked this from chapter 35, verse 10. Elihu said: He is the One who gives us songs to sing in the night. In our darkest hour, when all seems lost, when we turn to Him and are reminded of who it is that we…
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