Originally posted: 5/10/2020

There was nothing in the ark except the two tablets which Moses put there at Horeb, where the Lord made a covenant with the sons of Israel, when they came out of Egypt, (5:10). Continue reading →

Originally posted: 5/09/2020

Then he made the ten golden lampstands in the way prescribed for them and he set them in the temple, five on the right side and five on the left… ²⁰ the lampstands with their lamps of pure gold, to burn in front of the inner sanctuary in the way prescribed, (4:7, 20).

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Originally posted: 5/08/2020

He also overlaid the house with gold—the beams, the thresholds and its walls and its doors; and he carved cherubim on the walls. ⁸ Now he made the room of the holy of holies: its length across the width of the house was twenty cubits, and its width was twenty cubits; and he overlaid it with fine gold, amounting to 600 talents. ⁹ The weight of the nails was fifty shekels of gold. He also overlaid the upper rooms with gold, (3:7-9). Continue reading →

Originally posted: 5/07/2020

“The house which I am about to build will be great, for greater is our God than all the gods. ⁶ But who is able to build a house for Him, for the heavens and the highest heavens cannot contain Him?… for the house which I am about to build will be great and wonderful,” (2:5-6, 9). Continue reading →

Originally posted: 5/06/2020

In that night God appeared to Solomon and said to him, “Ask what I shall give you,” (1:7). Continue reading →

Originally posted: 5/05/2020

Yours, O Lord, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the victory and the majesty, indeed everything that is in the heavens and the earth; Yours is the dominion, O Lord, and You exalt Yourself as head over all… ¹³ Now therefore, our God, we thank You, and praise Your glorious name, (29:11, 13). Continue reading →

Originally posted: 5/04/2020

“Yet, the Lord, the God of Israel, chose me from all the house of my father to be king over Israel forever. For He has chosen Judah to be a leader; and in the house of Judah, my father’s house, and among the sons of my father He took pleasure in me to make me king over all Israel,” (28:4). Continue reading →

Originally posted: 5/03/2020

Now this is the enumeration of the sons of Israel, the heads of fathers’ households, the commanders of thousands and of hundreds, and their officers… (27:1). Continue reading →

Originally posted: 5/02/2020

They cast lots for their duties, all alike, the small as well as the great, the teacher as well as the pupil… They cast lots, the small and the great alike, according to their fathers’ households, for every gate, (26:8, 13). Continue reading →

Originally posted: 5/01/2020

For David said, “The Lord God of Israel has given rest to His people, and He dwells in Jerusalem forever,” (23:25). Continue reading →