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Alrighty, following on the heels of yesterday’s post, we’ve got ourselves a timing issue. Why in the world was there an 11-month delay from the official day of completion of the Temple to the official day of its dedication? Some academic homies like to surmise that the dedication didn’t happen for several years until after […]

Today, we begin 1st Kings Chapter 8. For the Complete Jewish Bible, click HERE. For the King James Version, click HERE. Okay, so there’s a ton of theology crammed into this meaty, long chapter. It can be divided into 3 parts as follows: PART ONE:  The Ark of the Covenant, along with the remaining furnishings […]

I wanna share a couple more quick thoughts before I close out 1st Kings Chapter 7. So here’s what you gotta get hip to, homie. Solomon’s creative vision of what a Temple was supposed to look like in 960 B.C. differed radically from what the Israelites envisioned in 800 B.C. And the vision in 700 […]

Alrighty, things are coming down to the wire in our little study of the history of Solomon’s temple and the kings who ruled Judah. So, picking up where we left off, Jehoiakim was succeeded by his son, Jehoiachin.  But the royal homie didn’t last long. After only three months on the throne, Nebuchadnezzar marched in, […]

So we were discussing Josiah when we last left off. Unfortunately, his reign came to a tragic end in 609 B.C. when he attempted to block Pharaoh Necho of Egypt, who was simply marching through Judah on his way north to confront Assyria. Josiah’s intervention proved disastrous. After defeating him, Necho brought Judah under Egyptian […]