Then Job arose and tore his robe and shaved his head and fell on the ground and worshiped. And he said, “Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked shall I return. Yahweh gave, and Yahweh has taken away; blessed be the name of Yahweh.” In all this Job did not sin or charge God with wrong. - Job 1:20-22 This Episode’s Links and Timestamps: 00:00 …

For Mordecai the Jew was second in rank to King Ahasuerus, and he was great among the Jews and popular with the multitude of his brothers, for he sought the welfare of his people and spoke peace to all his people. - Esther 10:3 This Episode’s Links and Timestamps: 00:00 – Scripture Reading 05:23 – My Commentary on Esther 10 22:52 - Harris, Walz Sit…

The Jews gathered in their cities throughout all the provinces of King Ahasuerus to lay hands on those who sought their harm. And no one could stand against them, for the fear of them had fallen on all peoples. - Esther 9:2 This Episode’s Links and Timestamps: 00:00 – Scripture Reading 14:34 – My Commentary on Esther 9 53:07 - Hamas Official: 10/7 …

A copy of what was written was to be issued as a decree in every province, being publicly displayed to all peoples, and the Jews were to be ready on that day to take vengeance on their enemies. - Esther 8:13 This Episode’s Links and Timestamps: 00:00 – Scripture Reading 08:04 – Thoughts on the Reading 41:45 – What does the Bible say about self-defe…

Then King Ahasuerus said to Queen Esther, “Who is he, and where is he, who has dared to do this?” And Esther said, “A foe and enemy! This wicked Haman!” Then Haman was terrified before the king and the queen. - Esther 7:5-6 This Episode’s Links and Timestamps: 00:00 – Scripture Reading 05:44 – Thoughts on the Reading 35:19 - RFK Jr. Suspends Presid…

So Haman took the robes and the horse, and he dressed Mordecai and led him through the square of the city, proclaiming before him, “Thus shall it be done to the man whom the king delights to honor.” - Esther 6:11 This Episode’s Links and Timestamps: 00:00 – Scripture Reading 04:25 – Thoughts on the Reading 31:38 - HONOR | Definition – Cambridge Dic…

Then Esther answered, “My wish and my request is: If I have found favor in the sight of the king, and if it please the king to grant my wish and fulfill my request, let the king and Haman come to the feast that I will prepare for them, and tomorrow I will do as the king has said.” - Esther 5:7-8 This Episode’s Links and Timestamps: 00:00 – Scriptur…

When Esther’s young women and her eunuchs came and told her, the queen was deeply distressed. She sent garments to clothe Mordecai, so that he might take off his sackcloth, but he would not accept them. - Esther 4:4 This Episode’s Links and Timestamps: 00:00 – Scripture Reading 03:35 – Thoughts on the Reading 37:22 - Anxiety disorders – Mayo Clinic…

Then Haman said to King Ahasuerus, “There is a certain people scattered abroad and dispersed among the peoples in all the provinces of your kingdom. Their laws are different from those of every other people, and they do not keep the king’s laws, so that it is not to the king’s profit to tolerate them. If it please the king, let it be decreed that t…

When the affair was investigated and found to be so, the men were both hanged on the gallows. And it was recorded in the book of the chronicles in the presence of the king. - Esther 2:23 This Episode’s Links and Timestamps: 00:00 – Scripture Reading 05:13 – Thoughts on the Reading 1:01:14 - ‘Shepherds for Sale: How Evangelical Leaders Traded the Tr…

Then Memucan said in the presence of the king and the officials, “Not only against the king has Queen Vashti done wrong, but also against all the officials and all the peoples who are in all the provinces of King Ahasuerus.” - Esther 1:16 This Episode’s Links and Timestamps: 00:00 – Scripture Reading 04:59 – Thoughts on the Reading 32:26 - Secretar…

Then the merchants and sellers of all kinds of wares lodged outside Jerusalem once or twice. But I warned them and said to them, “Why do you lodge outside the wall? If you do so again, I will lay hands on you.” From that time on they did not come on the Sabbath. - Nehemiah 13:20-21 This Episode’s Links and Timestamps: 00:00 – Scripture Reading 06:0…

For long ago in the days of David and Asaph there were directors of the singers, and there were songs of praise and thanksgiving to God. - Nehemiah 12:46 This Episode’s Links and Timestamps: 00:00 – Scripture Reading 07:03 – Thoughts on the Reading 31:14 – ‘Slaying Leviathan: Limited Government and Resistance in the Christian Tradition’ by Glenn S.…

Now the leaders of the people lived in Jerusalem. And the rest of the people cast lots to bring one out of ten to live in Jerusalem the holy city, while nine out of ten remained in the other towns. And the people blessed all the men who willingly offered to live in Jerusalem. - Nehemiah 11:1-2 This Episode’s Links and Timestamps: 00:00 – Scripture …

“The rest of the people, the priests, the Levites, the gatekeepers, the singers, the temple servants, and all who have separated themselves from the peoples of the lands to the Law of God, their wives, their sons, their daughters, all who have knowledge and understanding, join with their brothers, their nobles, and enter into a curse and an oath to…

And the Israelites separated themselves from all foreigners and stood and confessed their sins and the iniquities of their fathers. - Nehemiah 9:2 This Episode’s Links and Timestamps: 00:00 – Scripture Reading 08:02 – Thoughts on the Reading 42:02 - Genesis 9 – Biblia.com 1:10:30 - I have three crucial observations for Christians from that debacle …

They read from the book, from the Law of God, clearly, and they gave the sense, so that the people understood the reading. - Nehemiah 8:8 This Episode’s Links and Timestamps: 00:00 – Scripture Reading 06:31 – Thoughts on the Reading 31:45 - The fake news has started their Kamala spin machine, but their lies don't fly on X. Check out these epic comm…

And I said to them, “Let not the gates of Jerusalem be opened until the sun is hot. And while they are still standing guard, let them shut and bar the doors. Appoint guards from among the inhabitants of Jerusalem, some at their guard posts and some in front of their own homes.” - Nehemiah 7:3 This Episode’s Links and Timestamps: 00:00 – Scripture R…

Then I sent to him, saying, “No such things as you say have been done, for you are inventing them out of your own mind.” For they all wanted to frighten us, thinking, “Their hands will drop from the work, and it will not be done.” But now, O God, strengthen my hands. - Nehemiah 6:8-9 This Episode’s Links and Timestamps: 00:00 – Scripture Reading 04…

Now there arose a great outcry of the people and of their wives against their Jewish brothers.- https://biblia.com/bible/esv/nehemiah/5/1-19 This Episode’s Links and Timestamps:00:24 – Scripture Reading04:11 – https://www.blueletterbible.org/Comm/mhc/Neh/Neh_005.cfm35:19 - https://www.biblegateway.com/quicksearch/?quicksearch=oppression&resultspp=2…

But when Sanballat and Tobiah and the Arabs and the Ammonites and the Ashdodites heard that the repairing of the walls of Jerusalem was going forward and that the breaches were beginning to be closed, they were very angry. And they all plotted together to come and fight against Jerusalem and to cause confusion in it. And we prayed to our God and se…

Then Eliashib the high priest rose up with his brothers the priests, and they built the Sheep Gate. They consecrated it and set its doors. They consecrated it as far as the Tower of the Hundred, as far as the Tower of Hananel. - Nehemiah 3:1 This Episode’s Links and Timestamps: 00:24 – Scripture Reading 07:13 – Thoughts on the Reading 36:38 – A Phi…

Then I came to the governors of the province Beyond the River and gave them the king’s letters. Now the king had sent with me officers of the army and horsemen. But when Sanballat the Horonite and Tobiah the Ammonite servant heard this, it displeased them greatly that someone had come to seek the welfare of the people of Israel. - Nehemiah 2:9-10 T…

“Arise, for it is your task, and we are with you; be strongand do it.” - Ezra 10:4 This Episode’s Links and Timestamps: 00:24 – Scripture Reading 06:36 – Thoughts on the Reading 31:42 - Trump Survives Assassination Attempt at Pennsylvania Rally – Several Contributing, The Epoch Times 48:16 - Trump Apparently Grazed by Bullet at Rally in Pennsylvani…

“For they have taken some of their daughters to be wives for themselves and for their sons, so that the holy race has mixed itself with the peoples of the lands. And in this faithlessness the hand of the officials and chief men has been foremost.” - Ezra 9:2 This Episode’s Links and Timestamps: 00:24 – Scripture Reading 3:58 – Thoughts on the Readi…

Then I sent for Eliezer, Ariel, Shemaiah, Elnathan, Jarib, Elnathan, Nathan, Zechariah, and Meshullam, leading men, and for Joiarib and Elnathan, who were men of insight, and sent them to Iddo, the leading man at the place Casiphia, telling them what to say to Iddo and his brothers and the temple servants at the place Casiphia, namely, to send us m…

He was a scribe skilled in the Law of Moses that Yahweh, the God of Israel, had given, and the king granted him all that he asked, for the hand of Yahweh his God was on him. - Ezra 7:6b This Episode’s Links and Timestamps: 00:24 – Scripture Reading 05:09 – Thoughts on the Reading 28:59 - Teachers' Union President Gives Best Homeschooling Advertisem…

Also I make a decree that if anyone alters this edict, a beam shall be pulled out of his house, and he shall be impaled on it, and his house shall be made a dunghill. May the God who has caused his name to dwell there overthrow any king or people who shall put out a hand to alter this, or to destroy this house of God that is in Jerusalem. I Darius …

But the eye of their God was on the elders of the Jews, and they did not stop them until the report should reach Darius and then an answer be returned by letter concerning it. - Ezra 5:5 This Episode’s Links and Timestamps: 00:24 – Scripture Reading 03:42 – Thoughts on the Reading 21:17 – Problems with the Chronology of Ezra 4, Consulting ChatGPT 4…

Now when the adversaries of Judah and Benjamin heard that the returned exiles were building a temple to Yahweh, the God of Israel, they approached Zerubbabel and the heads of fathers’ houses and said to them, “Let us build with you, for we worship your God as you do, and we have been sacrificing to him ever since the days of Esarhaddon king of Assy…

They set the altar in its place, for fear was on them because of the peoples of the lands, and they offered burnt offerings on it to Yahweh, burnt offerings morning and evening. - Ezra 3:3 This Episode’s Links and Timestamps: 00:24 – Scripture Reading 05:20 – Thoughts on the Reading 26:08 - Why In-the-Know Men Are Dressing Like Cary Grant in 2024 –…

Now these were the people of the province who came up out of the captivity of those exiles whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried captive to Babylonia. They returned to Jerusalem and Judah, each to his own town. - Ezra 2:1 This Episode’s Links and Timestamps: 00:24 – Scripture Reading 06:50 – Thoughts on the Reading 40:03 - Let's check…

In the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of Yahweh by the mouth of Jeremiah might be fulfilled, Yahweh stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, so that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom and also put it in writing. - Ezra 1:1 This Episode’s Links and Timestamps: 00:24 – Scripture Reading 02:33 – Thoughts on the …

Yahweh, the God of their fathers, sent persistently to them by his messengers, because he had compassion on his people and on his dwelling place. But they kept mocking the messengers of God, despising his words and scoffing at his prophets, until the wrath of Yahweh rose against his people, until there was no remedy. - 2 Chronicles 36:15-16 This Ep…

After all this, when Josiah had prepared the temple, Neco king of Egypt went up to fight at Carchemish on the Euphrates, and Josiah went out to meet him. - 2 Chronicles 35:20 This Episode’s Links and Timestamps: 00:24 – Scripture Reading 05:59 – Thoughts on the Reading 29:21 - Trump Tells Voters The Real Question They Should Be Asking About Biden A…

Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned thirty-one years in Jerusalem. And he did what was right in the eyes of Yahweh, and walked in the ways of David his father; and he did not turn aside to the right hand or to the left. - 2 Chronicles 34:1-2 This Episode’s Links and Timestamps: 00:24 – Scripture Reading 07:04 – Thought…

Yahweh spoke to Manasseh and to his people, but they paid no attention. - 2 Chronicles 33:10 This Episode’s Links and Timestamps: 00:24 – Scripture Reading 04:47 – Thoughts on the Reading 25:10 - 2020 PRRI Census of American Religion: County-Level Data on Religious Identity and Diversity – PRRI.org 1:14:44 - ‘The Revolt of the Public and the Crisis…

But Hezekiah humbled himself for the pride of his heart, both he and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that the wrath of Yahweh did not come upon them in the days of Hezekiah. – 2 Chronicles 32:26 This Episode’s Links and Timestamps: 00:24 – Scripture Reading 8:26 – Thoughts on the Reading 32:11 - Watch — Scott Presler: If Every Christian Voted, ‘We…

Now when all this was finished, all Israel who were present went out to the cities of Judah and broke in pieces the pillars and cut down the Asherim and broke down the high places and the altars throughout all Judah and Benjamin, and in Ephraim and Manasseh, until they had destroyed them all. Then all the people of Israel returned to their cities, …

So the couriers went from city to city through the country of Ephraim and Manasseh, and as far as Zebulun, but they laughed them to scorn and mocked them. However, some men of Asher, of Manasseh, and of Zebulun humbled themselves and came to Jerusalem. The hand of God was also on Judah to give them one heart to do what the king and the princes comm…

Ahaz was twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. And he did not do what was right in the eyes of Yahweh, as his father David had done, but he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel. - 2 Chronicles 28:1-2a Hezekiah began to reign when he was twenty-five years old, and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jer…

In the time of his distress he became yet more faithless to Yahweh—this same King Ahaz. - 2 Chronicles 28:22 “For from the least to the greatest of them, everyone is greedy for unjust gain; and from prophet to priest, everyone deals falsely. They have healed the wound of my people lightly, saying, ‘Peace, peace,’ when there is no peace." - Jeremiah…

So Jotham became mighty, because he ordered his ways before Yahweh his God. - 2 Chronicles 27:6 In my vain life I have seen everything. There is a righteous man who perishes in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man who prolongs his life in his evildoing. - Ecclesiastes 7:15 This Episode’s Links and Timestamps: 00:24 – Scripture Reading 01:47…

But when he was strong, he grew proud, to his destruction. For he was unfaithful to Yahweh his God and entered the temple of Yahweh to burn incense on the altar of incense. - 2 Chronicles 26:16 This Episode’s Links and Timestamps: 00:24 – Scripture Reading 06:20 – Thoughts on the Reading 30:42 - ‘Pride Is Not A Virtue’: Jordan Peterson Says He Is ‘…

Therefore Yahweh was angry with Amaziah and sent to him a prophet, who said to him, “Why have you sought the gods of a people who did not deliver their own people from your hand?” But as he was speaking, the king said to him, “Have we made you a royal counselor? Stop! Why should you be struck down?” So the prophet stopped, but said, “I know that Go…

And Joash did what was right in the eyes of Yahweh all the days of Jehoiada the priest. 2 Chronicles 24:2 But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable,gentle, open to reason, full of mercy and good fruits, impartial and sincere. James 3:17 So put away all malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander. Like newborn infants,…

Then Jehoiada the priest brought out the captains who were set over the army, saying to them, “Bring her out between the ranks, and anyone who follows her is to be put to death with the sword.” For the priest said, “Do not put her to death in the house of Yahweh.” - 2 Chronicles 23:14 This Episode’s Links and Timestamps: 00:24 – Scripture Reading 0…

He was thirty-two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem. And he departed with no one’s regret. They buried him in the city of David, but not in the tombs of the kings. - 2 Chronicles 21:20 There are six things that Yahweh hates, seven that are an abomination to him: haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that sh…

He appointed judges in the land in all the fortified cities of Judah, city by city, and said to the judges, “Consider what you do, for you judge not for man but for Yahweh. He is with you in giving judgment. Now then, let the fear of Yahweh be upon you. Be careful what you do, for there is no injustice with Yahweh our God, or partiality or taking b…

But a certain man drew his bow at random and struck the king of Israel between the scale armor and the breastplate. Therefore he said to the driver of his chariot, “Turn around and carry me out of the battle, for I am wounded.” And the battle continued that day, and the king of Israel was propped up in his chariot facing the Syrians until evening. …