The reading for Monday, September 25, 2023, is Joel 3 - Amos 2
Where does Joel come from all of the sudden?
In Amos, it seems to me that the Lord has seen what all countries have done and will treat them accordingly.
The reading for Sunday, March 26, 2023 , is 2 Samuel 10 - 14
2 Samuel 10 - 14 10:5 How were David's men able to stay at Jericho? It had been destroyed by Joshua. David doesn't go out to battle when kings do so. He sees Bathsheba bathing which lead to David getting her pregnant. David then tries, twice, to get Bathsheba's husband, Uriah, to have sex with her so that David's philandering wouldn't be found out. (How often we try to wiggle our way out of things!)When this doesn't work, David sends Uriah back to the front with a note to Joab that says to be sure to get Uriah killed. Why does Joab do it? Yet, David is a man after God's own heart. Tamar tries to talk Ammon out of raping her by telling him to ask their father's permission to marry each other. I really think back in maybe Leviticus or Numbers, somewhere that we have already read, it said that a man should not marry his sister or his half-sister. Why would David have permitted this? Was Tamar just trying to get away perhaps? Ammon's friend didn...
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