Five hundred years after King David got another man’s wife pregnant, a Jewish historian skipped that story when he wrote about David in the book of 1 Chronicles. Chronicles also skips Solomon’s senior years when the king, instead of wising up, is worshiping idols. This writer omitted other nasty, juicy stories we can read in …
Pick a headline Here’s a perfectly accurate headline from 2 Kings, according to the anonymous historian or historians who wrote it: God wipes Israel and Judah off the map. But the shocking subhead could fill in as a headline, too. Jews skipped Passover for 400 years. What? “The people hadn’t bothered with Passover for centuries—since …
Israel’s most revered king, David grows old. On cold nights he sleeps with a young woman for nothing but her body heat. Deathly sick, he declares Solomon king instead of the oldest son—Adonijah—the one everyone expected to be king. One of Solomon’s first-reported acts as king was to secure his position by executing the competition. …
David the giant-killer might have been a genius on the battlefield, but he was a stinker of a dad and a cheating husband at home. It’s all in 2 Samuel. Second Samuel tells of David doing what King Saul before him could only dream about: defeating all his neighboring enemies and securing his borders finally …
With a word, God begins his Creation “God said, ‘Lights.’ Lights came on” (Genesis 1:3). “God liked the light…The first day was over” (1:4, 5). As it turns out, God likes everything he creates over a stretch of six days, whether the days are literal, or figurative references to eons. God doesn’t just like what …
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