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1. The Style of Biblical Poetry: Part 2, Imagery & Genre
(OT Writings Commentary/Psalms Commentary)

... is a poetic device that you will find throughout the Scriptures but they are found with great frequency in its poetry.  Putnam gives the following reasons for using images rather than plain language: ...

2. The End of Israel and Judah (2 Kings 17-end)
(OT Prophets Commentary/Kings Commentary)

...  2 Kings 18:13, 17-37 is found also as Isaiah 36.  Remember that Isaiah is the next book of the Hebrew Scriptures.  Isaiah is the first great prophet in Judah since the division of the kingdoms.  ...

3. The Style of Biblical Poetry
(OT Writings Commentary/Psalms Commentary)

... in other areas of the Scriptures too (including the parts that are not poetry).  This is the first post on the style of Biblical Poetry and we will talk about the cultural disadvantages we face when ...

4. The Heidelberg Catechism
(teaching/general teachings)

... seen as following the example and command of Scripture. This was particularly the case for confirmands.  The introduction reads: “Just as the children of Israel, after circumcision and as soon as ...

5. An Introduction to Kings and the Death of David
(OT Prophets Commentary/Kings Commentary)

... chapters of Kings.  I also hope to make explicit the methodology that I have been employing with the Prophetic books (as with all books among the Scriptures) in the process. My approach to Scripture ...

6. How to Read Zechariah (especially Zechariah 1-6)
(OT Prophets Commentary/Book of 12 Commentary)

Zechariah is the longest book among The Twelve.  In some ways it also is the most fascinating.  It also has been called the “most obscure” book of the Hebrew Scriptures.  It also is a very ...

7. What It Really Means to Be Open Minded (Luke 24:36-53)
(sermons/2013 Sermons)

Luke 24:36-53 shows us what it really means to be open minded.  Some accuse Christians of being "closed-minded," and actually the first disciples of Jesus had closed minds.  We too have had our ...

8. Kings as the Climax of the Former Prophets
(OT Prophets Commentary/Kings Commentary)

... Scripture, Kings relates to us the climax of the prophetic history.  ...

9. 2 Samuel 21-24 and the Poems of Samuel
(OT Prophets Commentary/Samuel Commentary)

... because YHWH promised to save those who keep covenant.  Scripture calls those who keep covenant “blameless” ... they were not sinless but forgiven.  In the context of the covenant there is forgiveness ...

10. The Bible Miniseries: Episode Five
(teaching/general teachings)

...  When they get to Acts, they call Saul by the name Paul too early, probably because we all know of him as Paul, but where they really get creative (add details that are not found in Scripture but rather ...

11. Innocent Blood by John Ensor
(reading report/Reformed Reading Report)

... is not the same as sinless before God.  Instead he defines it, using Scripture like Exodus 23:6-7, as being "harmless, pure, or free from guilt before our fellow man or the laws of man" (p.20).  ...

12. The Bible Miniseries: Episode Four
(teaching/general teachings)

... of with Jesus? And then there is the woman caught in adultery.  The Bible miniseries on The History Channel is by nature selective in retelling the story of Scripture because of the limitations ...

13. Haggai and the Davidic Covenant Renewal
(OT Prophets Commentary/Book of 12 Commentary)

... given on the three month anniversary of the start of work on the Temple.  In Scripture it is common to find third day references pointing to Jesus' resurrection, this does the same but with months. ...

14. Zephaniah and The Twelve
(OT Prophets Commentary/Book of 12 Commentary)

... heavens”) (cf. 2 Kings 23:5, 12).  And the third is the worship of Milcom.  Milcolm was the national false god of the Ammonites.  The name is spelled various ways in Scripture, the root ...

15. The Bible Miniseries: Episode Three
(teaching/general teachings)

... King Zedekiah.  The main thing that Scripture stresses, which the miniseries did not, was that the LORD considered the alliances with these foreign nations as being unfaithful to Him.  Yet the ...

16. The Bible Miniseries: Episode Two
(teaching/general teachings)

Episode two gets a mixed review according to Scripture.  The story of Joshua and Judges were not done particularly well, but the story of David (for the most part) is done quite well. The recapitulation ...

17. David and the Death of Saul (1 Sam 21-2 Sam 1)
(OT Prophets Commentary/Samuel Commentary)

One of the most unfortunate divisions of text in Scripture into chapters and verses has to be the division between First and Second Samuel.  Chapter and verse numbers are a much later invention that ...

18. The Bible Miniseries: Episode One
(teaching/general teachings)

... comparing the presentation to the Scriptures it is adapting to screen. Nevertheless, for the faithful Christian who has only ever seen heresy proclaimed on the History network, it was refreshing to see ...

19. The Fall of Saul (1 Sam 13:1-15:33)
(OT Prophets Commentary/Samuel Commentary)

... that the imagery is even more clear when you realize that the canyon between the two armies was very steep and described as teeth.  Sheol is pictured as a hungry monster in Scripture and so Jonathan ...

20. Not Any Fish Story: Jonah
(OT Prophets Commentary/Book of 12 Commentary)

Perhaps the best known book among The Twelve is the story of Jonah.  It is the most unique of The Twelve (and of the whole of Scripture).  It is also perhaps the most difficult book of The Twelve ...