Today's Reading:2 Kings 92 Kings 102 Kings 112 Chronicles 22:10-122 Chronicles 23 Jehonadab was the leader of the Rechabites, a nomadic group in Israel. They were descendants of the Kenites related to Moses’ father-in-law, Jethro. The community had their own strict rules (see...
Today's Reading:2 Kings 8:1-152 Chronicles 212 Chronicles 22:1-9 In 2 Chronicles 21:12-15, Elijah wrote a letter rebuking King Jehoram for following the ways of Israel and Ahab, for murdering his own brothers, and for leading Judah into idolatry. We had just been reading about Elisha’s...
Today's Reading:2 Kings 52 Kings 62 Kings 72 Kings 8:1-15 There is importance in community and expansion. Even from the beginning of time, God commanded us to grow and multiply so that His truth would be known to the ends of the earth. The prophets wanted to build a larger meeting place for...
Today's Reading: There is no reading today, but you can use this time to catch up on any days that you may have missed this week. Click here to access prior days. After the earthquake came a fire, but the Lord was not in the fire. And after the fire came a gentle whisper. When Elijah...
Today's Reading:2 Kings 12 Kings 22 Kings 32 Kings 4 Elijah was passing the torch to Elisha as the next prophet in Israel (north). By allowing Elisha to witness Elijah’s ascension into heaven, God had granted his wish of a double portion of the Spirit that Elijah had. This is a look...
Today's Reading:1 Kings 222 Chronicles 182 Chronicles 192 Chronicles 20 King Ahab accepts or rejects God’s word depending on whether it suits him or not. God gives us answers when we sit and listen. He will always answer; it just may not be the answer you want to hear. His answers can be...
Today's Reading:1 Kings 201 Kings 21 In the ancient Near East, dogs were not cute pets, but wild scavengers that roamed the streets and ate garbage and corpses. To have your body eaten by a dog was the ultimate humiliation and disgrace. It symbolized total defeat. Ahab and Jezebel, who had...
Today's Reading:1 Kings 171 Kings 181 Kings 19 In the middle of a severe famine, a pagan widow lived in the land of Sidon, where people worshipped Baal. She was not an Israelite. With only a handful of flour and a little oil left, she used it all to make bread for the prophet Elijah, knowing it...
Today's Reading:1 Kings 15:25-341 Kings 162 Chronicles 17 God warned the Israelites that it would not go well to have a human king as He was their one and only true King (1 Samuel 8:19). While the Northern Kingdom (Israel) was falling deeper into idolatry under Ahab, the Southern Kingdom (Judah)...
Today's Reading:1 Kings 15:1-242 Chronicles 132 Chronicles 142 Chronicles 152 Chronicles 16 When Asa became king over Judah (south), he removed his own grandmother, Maacah, from her position as Queen Mother! This was quite a bold move. Maacah, possibly the daughter of Absalom, had married King...
