top of page
Daily Thoughts From God's Word
Search
George Martin
Apr 9
April 9, 2024 - 1 Chronicles 14-16
David brought the ark into Jerusalem and built a house for himself. And though David was now settled in Jerusalem, the times were...
George Martin
Apr 8
April 8, 2024 - 1 Chronicles 10-13
The first king of Israel, Saul, and his sons were killed in a battle with the Philistines. Saul had disobeyed God, he died, and now, in...
George Martin
Apr 8
April 7, 2024 - 1 Chronicles 1-9
I think that most people, after finishing Kings, find Chronicles to be merely redundant. Of course, the history is the same but the...
George Martin
Apr 6
April 6, 2024 - 2 Kings 22-25
These are the last kings of Judah – Josiah, Jehoahaz, Jehoiakim, Jehoiachin, and Zedekiah – and what a sad story as their reigns brought...
George Martin
Apr 5
April 5, 2024 - 2 Kings 21
Hezekiah died, and “Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem. . . . he did what...
George Martin
Apr 4
April 4, 2024 - 2 Kings 18-20
The end (in 722 B.C.) has come for the northern Kingdom of Israel. In the south, Hezekiah reigned, and it is written of him that he did...
George Martin
Apr 4
April 3, 2024 - 2 Kings 15-17
“Azariah the son of Amaziah, king of Judah, began to reign . . . and he reigned fifty-two years in Jerusalem. And he did what was right...
George Martin
Apr 2
April 2, 2024 - 2 Kings 9-14
Elisha anointed Jehu as king of Israel with these words: “Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, ‘I anoint you king over the people of...
George Martin
Apr 2
April 1, 2024 - 2 Kings 5-8
The story of “Naaman, commander of the army of the king of Syria” (5:1). Now, “he was a mighty man of valor, but he was a leper” (5:1). ...
George Martin
Mar 31
March 31, 2024 - 2 Kings 1-4
With 2 Kings, and after the death of Ahab, Elijah is still around, though he has already anointed Elisha as his successor. The prophet...
George Martin
Mar 30
March 30, 2024 - 1 Kings 20-22
More Elijah stories and more lessons. Elijah went to Elisha and anointed him prophet. Elijah’s ministry is only for a while longer, but...
George Martin
Mar 29
March 29, 2024 - 1 Kings 17-19
These are the Elijah stories from which several very specific lessons can be gleaned. I once noted, “It’s neither here nor there, but I...
George Martin
Mar 28
March 28, 2024 - 1 Kings 16
The narrative of less than faithful rulers continues. In the north, the Lord said to Jehu, “Since I exalted you out of the dust and made...
George Martin
Mar 27
March 27, 2024 - 1 Kings 13-15
From the northern kingdom, the story of Jeroboam’s golden calves has just been told and, now, a man of God cried out against those altars...
George Martin
Mar 26
March 26, 2024 - 1 Kings 10-12
The Queen of Sheba to Solomon: “The report was true that I heard in my own land of your words and of your wisdom, but I did not believe...
bottom of page