Song of Songs

Song of Songs is an ode about a guy and a gal who are madly in love with each other. Solomon is who scribed the Song of Songs sonnet.

Ecclesiastes

Ecclesiastes is the recorded words that were spoken by an old guy in front of an assembly – as the meaning of Ecclesiastes is ‘the speaker to the assembly’.

Proverbs

Proverbs is a collated collection of contrasting couplets. The majority of Proverbs Book’s axioms are quotes from Solomon’s notes on living a pragmatic life.

Psalms

Psalms is an assemblage of five books of 150 poems, songs and chants.

Job

Job is an example of what may happen when God allows a person to be caught in Satan’s crosshairs.

Esther

The book of Esther’s 10 chapters are specific for Jews. Before someone put it into a written narrative, it was orally passed on from one generation of Jews to the next generation of Jews.

Nehemiah

Nehemiah is composed of memoir exerts. Nehemiah Book began circulation around 430 B.C.

Ezra

The book of Ezra recounts what took place after Cyrus – who was a Persian king, gave Zerubbabel permission in 538 B.C. to lead a group of 42,360 of God’s specially chosen people from the land of Babylonia where they have been living as exiles back to their homes in the city of Jerusalem.

2 Chronicles

2 Chronicles is the second half of Ezra’s daily affairs and annuals tome. Ezra scribed his historical chronicles somewhere around 450 B.C.

1 Chronicles

1 Chronicles is the first half of an historical chronicle. Chronicles in Hebrew means ‘the affairs of the days or of the years’. The Chronicles Book’s theological theme is that absolute obedience to God’s life mandates will lead to divine blessings.

Short Stories and Devotional Letters to Grandchildren on Every Book and Chapter of the Bible

Recent Devotionals

Psalm 12

Psalm 12

“Because of the oppression of the weak and the groaning of the needy, I will now arise” says the LORD. “I will protect them from those who malign them.”
~ Psalm 12:5

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Jeremiah 1

Jeremiah 1

“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart; I appointed you as a prophet to the nations.”
~ Jeremiah 1:5

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1 Samuel 13

1 Samuel 13

“You acted foolishly,” Samuel said. “You have not kept the command the LORD your God gave you, if you had, he would have established your kingdom over Israel for all time.”
~ 1 Samuel 13:13

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2 Chronicles 18

2 Chronicles 18

“I will go and be a lying spirit in the mouths of his prophets,’ he said. “ ‘You will succeed in enticing him,’ said the LORD. ‘Go and do it.”
~ 2 Chronicles 18:21

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Psalm 72

Psalm 72

“Praise be to his glorious name forever: may the whole earth be filled with his glory. Amen and Amen.”
~ Psalm 72:19

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Psalm 14

Psalm 14

“The fool says in his heart; “‘There is no God.”’ They are corrupt, their deeds are vile; there is no one who does good.”
~ Psalm 14:1

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1 Peter 5

1 Peter 5

“not lording it over those entrusted to you, but being examples to the flock.”
~ 1 Peter 5:3

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Hebrews 9

Hebrews 9

“For this reason Christ is the mediator of a new covenant, that those who are called may receive the promised eternal inheritance—now that he has died as a ransom to set free from sins committed under the first covenant.”
~ Hebrews 9:15

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Psalm 79

Psalm 79

“Do not hold against us the sins of the fathers, may your mercy come quickly to meet us, for we are in desperate need.”
~ Psalm 79:8

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Acts 16

Acts 16

“When she and the members of her household were baptized, she invited us to her home. “‘If you consider me a believer in the Lord,”’ she said, “‘come and stay at my house.”
~ Acts 16:15

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Titus 1

Titus 1

“He must hold firmly to the trustworthy message as it has been taught, so that he can encourage others by sound doctrine and refute those who oppose it.”
~ Titus 1:9

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Revelation 5

Revelation 5

“And they sang a new song: “‘You are worthy to take the scroll and to open its seals, because you were slain, and with your blood you purchased men for God from every tribe and language and people and nation.”
~ Revelation 5:9

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Judges 3

Judges 3

“They were left to test the Israelites to see whether they would obey the LORD’s commands, which he had given their forefathers through Moses.”
~ Judges 3:4

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Exodus 30

Exodus 30

“The rich are not to give more than a half shekel and the poor are not to give less when you make the offering to the LORD to atone for your lives.”
~ Exodus 30:15

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1 Kings 2

1 Kings 2

“I am about to go the way of the earth,” he said. “So be strong, show yourself a man,”
~ 1 Kings 2:2

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Genesis 21

Genesis 21

“I will make the son of the maidservant into a nation also, because he is your offspring.”
~ Genesis 21:13

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Deuteronomy 8

Deuteronomy 8

“Know then in your heart that as a man disciplines his son, so the LORD your God disciplines you.”
~ Deuteronomy 8:5

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Ezra 8

Ezra 8

“There, by the Ahava Canal, I proclaimed a fast, so that we might humble ourselves before our God and ask him for a safe journey for us and our children, with all our possessions.”
~ Ezra 8:21

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