Closer Day By Day

In our final instalment of 1 Chronicles, we read the closing chapters from 25 to 29. We’ll read the chapters today. Bible Passage:  1 Chronicles 25-29 What started off as a chronicling of the lineage of David, tracing itself to Adam, has gone a full circle and we end up with a chronicling of the [...]

We briefly mentioned some weeks ago that 1 Chronicles should be seen as a parallel documentation of 1st and 2nd Samuel. This speaks for itself when we read of similar incidents concerning one of the pivotal characters of both books – David. What was David like as a warrior, leader, and king? What was David [...]

Dear Bro/Sis GST CREDITS – HAPPY NEWS FOR ALL 1. History has taught us that when a country is doing well in all aspects, the ruling government will usually transfer some of that goodness over to its citizens. It seems most natural and the only right thing to do since the common-folk form the basis [...]

Today’s reading is from… Bible Passage:  1 Chronicles 10-14 Here’s a story adapted from 1 Chronicles 11:15-19 They went through the entire strategic plan once again. It was going to be a hit and run event. This incursion into the enemy territory was fraught with danger, as it would always have been. Yet, this was [...]

It’s the Sabbath day today. Let’s not waste another moment. We’ll jump straight into our reading today! We’ll do 1 Chronicles 5 – 8. Bible Passage:  1 Chronicles 5-8 Picking off from where we left off, we continue to see the family trees of the different tribes of Israel. The tribes of Reuben, Gad, Issachar, [...]

Today we come into the start of the Chronicles. This book concerns the chronological recordings of history to do with the kings of a united Israel first, and then a fractious Southern Judah later on. Accordingly, the Chronicles are parallel books that should be referred to alongside the recordings of Samuel and Kings as the [...]