Thoughts from my personal time with God.
When I heard all this, I sat down and wept. For several days I mourned and did not eat. I prayed to God…
I never experience this depth of emotion. Is there something that isn’t quite right with me, Father?
The emperor asked, “What is it that you want?”
What those in authority have to ask all day long. Perhaps it better to remain in obscurity.…
Nememiah 1:1 – 3:38 Read More »
I assembled the entire group by the canal that runs to the town of Ahava…
Spoken in the first person and from Babylone, so before Ezra 7:1.
…I gave orders for us all to fast and humble ourselves before our God and to ask him to…
I don’t fast and pray little. Please help me, Father.
…When we reached Jerusalem, we rested three days.
Work on the Temple had been stopped and had remained at a standstill until the second year of the reign of Emperor Darius of Persia.
Everything takes time and you have to expect (and accept) interruptions.
…Emperor Darius issued orders for a search to be made in the royal records that were kept in Babylon. But it was in the city of Ecbatana in the province of Media that a scroll was found…
May the relevant authorities find the scroll that I am trying to obtain, Father!…
In the first year that Cyrus of Persia was emperor…
This is like a continuation of Chronicles. To note that the kings of Judah and Israel are no longer the point of reference.
……everyone …whose heart God had moved got ready to go and rebuild the Lord’s Temple in Jerusalem. All their neighbors helped them by giving them many things: silver utensils, gold, supplies, pack animals, other valuables, and offerings for the Temple.
After King Josiah had done all this for the Temple, King Neco of Egypt led an army to fight at Carchemish on the Euphrates River. Josiah tried to stop him…
Doing what is good and right doesn’t necessarily lead to good circumstances. Josiah clearly based his actions on the promise to die in peace (2 Chronicles 34:28), but this was putting God to the test (Matthew 4:5-7).…
2 Chronicles 35:20 – 36:23 Read More »
At the king’s command, Hilkiah and the others went to consult a woman named Huldah, a prophet… They described to her what had happened, and she told them to go back to the king and give him the following message from the Lord:
Did she receive this revelation before (1 Kings 14:4-5), after (2 Kings 3:14-19) or did she reason it out on her own (2 Samuel 16:23)?…
2 Chronicles 34:22 – 35:19 Read More »
The king’s prayer and God’s answer to it, and an account of the sins he committed before he repented—the evil he did, the pagan places of worship and the symbols of the goddess Asherah that he made and the idols that he worshiped—are all recorded in The History of the Prophets.
Everything will be recorded. Everything – and everyone – will be judged.…
2 Chronicles 33:18 – 34:21 Read More »
Manasseh was twelve years old when he became king of Judah, and he ruled in Jerusalem for fifty-five years…. Manasseh led the people of Judah to commit even greater sins than those committed by the nations whom the Lord had driven out of the land as his people advanced.
Justice requires a price to be paid (2 Chronicles 36:17-21).…
2 Chronicles 33:1 – 17 Read More »
…When Hezekiah saw that Sennacherib intended to attack Jerusalem also, he and his officials decided to cut off the supply of water outside the city in order to keep the Assyrians from having any water when they got near Jerusalem. The king strengthened the city’s defenses by repairing the wall, building towers on it, and building an outer wall. In addition, he repaired the defenses built on the land that was filled in on the east side of the old part of Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles 32:2 – 33 Read More »
After the seven days during which they offered sacrifices in praise of the Lord, the God of their ancestors, they all decided to celebrate for another seven days. So they celebrated with joy.
The best of times. 😊 I so look forward to our great reunion and celebration, Father (Hebrews 12:22-24).
…The priests and the Levites asked the Lord’s blessing on the people.
2 Chronicles 30:21 – 32:1 Read More »