2024-02-05 09:48 Deuteronomy 32:21. "They have stirred me to jealousy with what is no god, they have provoked me with their idols. So I will stir them to jealousy with those who are no people; I will provoke them with...

2024-02-04 11:07 2 Maccabees 4:21. "When ... Antiochus learned that Philometor had become hostile to his government, .. he took measures for his own security.  Therefore upon arriving at Joppa he proceeded to Jerusale...

2024-02-02 09:26 Sirach 31:11. "His prosperity will be established and the assembly will relate his acts of charity." Sirach is speaking of a "rich man who is found blameless, and who does not go after gold." (Sirach ...

2024-02-01 06:15 Nehemiah 12:23. "The sons of Levi, heads of father's houses, were written in the book of Chronicles until the days of Johanan the son of Eliashib." The book of Nehemiah takes place during the retu...

2024-01-31 10:02 2 Chronicles 11:22. "[A]nd Rehoboam appointed Abijah the son of Maacah as chief prince among his brothers, for he intended to make him king." Rehoboam was the son of Solomon and became king after Solo...

2024-01-30 05:48 Luke 22:19 "And he took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it and gave it to them saying 'This is my body which is given for you. Do this in remembrance of me.'"   These are words...

2024-01-28 05:30 Lamentations 3:64. "Thou wilt requite them, O Lord, according to the work of their hands." In this chapter, Jeremiah is lamenting not only the destruction of Jerusalem and the suffering of God's p...

2024-01-27 06:35 Sirach 45:20. "He added glory to Aaron and gave him a heritage; he allotted to him the first of the first fruits, he prepared bread of first fruits in abundance". Sirach is extolling the blessings of ...

2024-01-25 06:53 Ezekiel 14:21. "For thus says the Lord God: How much more when I send upon Jerusalem my four sore acts of judgment, sword, famine, evil beasts, and pestilence, to cut off from it man and beast!" "How ...

2024-01-24 06:22 1 Maccabees 9:36. "But the sons of Jambri from Medeba came out and seized John and all that he had, and departed with it." John is Jonathan Maccabeus' brother who has been sent to seek permission ...