Third Bible Read Thread

[SarahsKnight]

DAY 228

2 Chronicles 26 through 28
Psalms 2

 

[SarahsKnight]

DAY 229

2 Chronicles 29 and 30
Psalms 95

 

[SarahsKnight]

DAY 230

2 Chronicles 31 and 32
Psalms 112

 

[sampa]

Glad to see you are still keeping the discipline of quiet times. It's one of my 2 new year resolutions. Quiet time at least 1 x a week for a year.

 

[SarahsKnight]

DAY 231

2 Chronicles 33 and 34
Psalms 16

 

[SarahsKnight]

DAY 232

Psalms 117 and 118
2 Chronicles 35 and 26

 

[SarahsKnight]

DAY 233

Psalms 78

 

[SarahsKnight]

DAY 234

Ezra 1 and 2
Psalms 84

Looks like we're finally getting into the prophecy parts of the Bible!

 

[SarahsKnight]

DAY 235

Ezra 3 through 5
Haggai 1 and 2

Hmm ... I seem to fail to remember anything at all that happens in Haggai, or what it was generally about, so this should be an interesting read.

 

[DragonFox91]

Haggai's a book in the Bible?

I shouldn't say that. But I've never read it. There's a few of the smaller prophet books I've never read & forget are canon! Bad!
Looking at the OT list, Zephaniah & Zechariah are a couple more.
The prophet books can be confusing what they are prophesying about, did the prophecy happen yet, etc.

 

[SarahsKnight]

Ezra 3 through 5
Haggai 1 and 2

Hmm ... I seem to fail to remember anything at all that happens in Haggai, or what it was generally about, so this should be an interesting read.

Oh, I was mistaken a few days ago. it wasn't Ezra that was a prophecy book, but Haggai, although they are both concerned with the same point in Israel's history, the rebuilding of the temple after the Lord return them from exile in Babylon, and the people of some rival nations' attempt to thwart the rebuilding. Haggai the prophet was sent by the Lord to rebuke and encourage the Israelites when they were at first giving in to these adversaries' attempts to threaten them into ceasing rebuilding by decree of, if I remember correctly offhand, Artaxerxes the then king of Persia, as seen just now in Ezra 4 and 5.

Here is the MEV Bible's summary of what the book of Haggai is about ->

Written in approximately 520 BC by the prophet Haggai, the theme of the book is the first rebuilding of the temple. Haggai, a contemporary of Zechariah, was one of the first post-captivity prophets. His ministry was to rebuke the returned exiles for their delay in rebuilding the temple as well as to encourage them to begin working to consecrate the sacrificial system. The five messages that make up the book are unique in that they are precisely dated - the year, month, and day are specified based on the reign of the Persian king, Darius. The small book can be divided according to the five messages - two of rebuke and three of encouragement. Haggai prophesied that the glory of the restored temple would prosper the land and provide for the final overthrow of the surrounding nations.

 

[SarahsKnight]

DAY 236

Psalms 126
Ezra 6 through 8

 

[SarahsKnight]

DAY 237

Ezra 9 and 10
Psalms 32

 

[SarahsKnight]

Verses of note today with me are the first two of Psalms 32, no doubt tied to the theme of forgiveness for the inequities some Israelites were guilty of at the time of their returning from the exile, in Ezra 9 and 10 (surrounding nations in Old Testament history seemed notorious for practicing some really devilish rituals and customs, thus roping the Israelites who married from their families into those customs) ->

1 Blessed is the one
whose transgressions are forgiven,
whose sins are covered.
2 Blessed is the one
whose sin the Lord does not count against them
and in whose spirit is no deceit.

 

[SarahsKnight]

DAY 238

Psalms 15
Job 1 through 3

 

[SarahsKnight]

DAY 239

Job 4 through 6
Psalms 6

 

[SarahsKnight]

DAY 240

Job 7 through 9
Psalms 38

 

[SarahsKnight]

Concerning the first few chapters of Job, consider this insight that others have posted about it in a previous Bible reading thread that I once made
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I had just finished my psalm reading 5 psalms a day when you started this! Good timing. Psalm 1 is a good reminder not to walk amongst the ungodly as following them will lead you away from the Lord. Its like how Jesus said, the blind leading the blind, both will fall into a ditch. Psalm 2...

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I did also wonder about something new that I noticed in Job 4, where Eliphaz spoke of this ->
“A word was secretly brought to me,
my ears caught a whisper of it.
13 Amid disquieting dreams in the night,
when deep sleep falls on people,
14 fear and trembling seized me
and made all my bones shake.
15 A spirit glided past my face,
and the hair on my body stood on end.
16 It stopped,
but I could not tell what it was.
A form stood before my eyes,
and I heard a hushed voice:
17 ‘Can a mortal be more righteous than God?
Can even a strong man be more pure than his Maker?

Did some kind of spirit really appear before him to tell him all of this?
Or, was it all just a part of the picture that Eliphaz wanted to paint in his poetic response to Job's laments from chapter 3, all leading up to what Eliphaz seems to want to ultimately say to Job, that he believes the entirely innocent are not subject to calamity or misfortune, thus Job despite his being "blameless and upright" before God, must have done something bad to deserve chastisement from Him?
Of course, Eliphaz turns out to be wrong in this assessment.

 

[SarahsKnight]

DAY 241

Psalms 39
Job 10 through 12

 

[SarahsKnight]

The prevailing theme in today's reading definitely seems to be our mortality - and also imperfection (perhaps that sin and imperfection is precisely what made us mortal in the first place, if I am understanding the story of Adam and Eve's fall in the Garden of Eden correctly in the first place) - before God.

Job, his friend Zophar, and Psalms 39 all seem to be musing on this, anyway.