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Thoughts on Judges 2

March 3, 2010

We’re reading through Judges at Oak Tree Church, and I’m posting some observations from my daily readings here. Everyone is welcome to join in the discussion.
Thoughts on Judges 2
The LORD’s angelic messenger went up from Gilgal to Bokim. He said, “I brought you up from Egypt and led you into the land I had solemnly promised to give to your ancestors. I [...]

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Jonah 3

April 16, 2009

Chapter 3 is a really powerful part of Jonah’s story, maybe even the most powerful. People tend to focus on the fish and the plant, but those are really secondary to the story of God’s never-ending search to deliver humans. This is the main course of the little book, and in it I find three [...]

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An excellent wife

March 23, 2009

Probably the most well-known long section of Proverbs is the very last part in Proverbs 31:10-31. It goes by various titles: “Virtuous Woman”, “Excellent Wife”, etc. The first verse sets the tone for the poem:
Who can find a wife of noble character? For her value is far more than rubies.
In this ode to the [...]

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Proverbs 31

March 19, 2009

The last chapter of Proverbs is best-known for it’s section on the “virtuous wife” – that ideal woman of dreams. But she is actually the third of three sections in chapter 31.
Like in chapter 30, we know nothing of Lemuel or his mother, except that he was a king and that God’s people recognized him/them [...]

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Proverbs 30

March 17, 2009

The last two chapters of Proverbs are sort of appendices to the rest of the book. Solomon seems to have compiled the first 24 chapters personally. Hezekiah had his guys put together 5 more chapters that Solomon didn’t include. But these last two are completely different.
First, we don’t know anything about the writers (Agur, Lemuel’s [...]

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