A David Psalm 1-7 Your strength,God, is the king’s strength. Helped, he’s hollering Hosannas. You gave him exactly what he wanted; you didn’t hold back. You filled his arms with gifts; you gave him a right royal welcome. He wanted a good life; you gave it to him, and then made it alonglife as a […]
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2 Chronicles 34
King Josiah 1-2 Josiah was eight years old when he became king. He ruled for thirty-one years in Jerusalem. He behaved well beforeGod. He kept straight on the path blazed by his ancestor David, not one step to the left or right. 3-7 When he had been king for eight years—he was still only a […]
2 Kings 4
1 One day the wife of a man from the guild of prophets called out to Elisha, “Your servant my husband is dead. You well know what a good man he was, devoted toGod. And now the man to whom he was in debt is on his way to collect by taking my two children […]
Genesis 50
1 Joseph threw himself on his father, wept over him, and kissed him. 2-3 Joseph then instructed the physicians in his employ to embalm his father. The physicians embalmed Israel. The embalming took forty days, the period required for embalming. There was public mourning by the Egyptians for seventy days. 4-5 When the period of […]