Closer Day By Day

By today’s reading, we would have completed reading 2 different accounts of the kings of Israel and Judah.  What are your thoughts after reading about the kings the second time? It’s easy to get jaded with familiar stories but I am sure we can find something that strikes a chord with us today again. Bible [...]

The main king we are reading about today is Hezekiah.  While we have read about him already in our readings of Isaiah and Kings, I feel that his life serves as a great example and warning in our life of faith.  What do I mean? Let’s read first and find out together… Bible Passage:  2 [...]

I was a lousy history student.  Somehow the idea of dates, past events, drama etc never excited me. But history was written for a purpose… so that we might learn from the past… and hopefully not commit the mistakes of the past but repeat the successes – although history (pun fully intended) has shown us [...]

I think no one has mentioned this before – Chronicles emphasises more on the religious and spiritual aspects of Israel’s history, as opposed to the political, prophetic and moral emphasis of 1 & 2 Samuel, and 1 & 2 Kings. Most believed that the Chronicles was written after the Jews returned to Jerusalem after the [...]

Some of the kings in Old Testament times had very interesting lives … and very instructive lives too! The Lord had peculiar dealings with some of them, and they have become memorials of the Lord’s grace. In today’s passage, we continue reading about the final days of Asa (continued from last week).  We also read [...]

After the breakaway of the northern tribes, Rehoboam was faced with a period of consolidation.  Interestingly, despite comprising of only 2 out of the 12 tribes of Israel, Judah remained the stronger kingdom – definitely because God was with them. Not only that, we also see the Levites coming from all over the land to [...]

Glory one moment… and the next moment – the despair over the division of a nation. In just 5 short chapters, we experience the extreme swing of emotions.   The stories may be familiar but let us see what we can learn together today… Bible Passage: 2 Chronicles 6-10 A Building, More or Less I [...]

How do you feel when you are reading the Chronicles?  After all, you have just read the Kings and the stories of the kings are still fresh in mind.  And now we have to read about them again?  What else can we learn about them that we have not known before? There’s always something new [...]