Tag: Old Testament
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Day 129: Living in Lo-Debar (2 Samuel 9)
“Lo-Debar” either means “No Word” or “No thing.” Thats where Mephibosheth lived. And sometimes, we feel like that’s where we are living too.
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Day 128: “Our Soul Waits” in Psalm 33:20
“Our soul waits for the Lord.” Shouldn’t it say “our souls wait?” But the Psalmist’s strange wording is intentional: a picture of God’s people united with one soul and one heart before the Lord.
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Day 127: Gimme Six Steps (2 Samuel 6)
Why did David stop after six steps when bringing the ark to Jerusalem? Fear? Reverence? Or something else entirely?
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Day 124: Wazzup With Uzzah? (1 Chronicles 13-16)
When we forget the holiness of God, we start to believe our instincts are safer than His commands. That’s a deadly mistake.
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Day 123: My Favorite Hebrew Word (Psalm 107:43)
The Bible has a word for a love that doesn’t quit because it’s been promised—a covenant love God swore by Himself, and will never break.
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Day 117: On Yom Ha’Shoah (1 Chronicles 6)
What looks like a list of names to us was a lifeline to the Jews returning from exile. For them, 1 Chronicles 6 was a refusal to let a people disappear.