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Kings and Prophets

Submitted by tcblack on Sat, 06/14/2008 - 8:55am
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Kings and Prophets

This simple chart will help clear up a ton of Old Testament confusion.
From the top to bottom it is a time line starting with the kingship of Saul, David and Solomon. Then the kingdom splits. Judah's kingdom is represented on the left while Israel's 10 tribes are represented on the right.
Next to each king is the length of his reign. The darkened squares indicate kings who for good or evil greatly influenced the course of the nation.
Next to many of the kings you will see the names of the prophets - this is to indicate when and to which kingdom the prophet primarily served.
Finally on the right you see a continuum of the four historical books of the kings indicating in a very rough manner where the kings in question are discussed.

The genesis of this chart came from Paul Benware's Old Testament Survey class at Moody Bible Institute way back in 1992. Thanks Dr. Benware for clearing up the OT!

Day 8-12 With the Literary ESV

Submitted by tcblack on Thu, 06/12/2008 - 9:00am
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ESV Literary Study Bible

Well it's not because I didn't read but because I couldn't read. It's Thursday morning and till now I've had no internet since last Friday. Our local service provider's antenna got hit by lighting the second week in a row out here. I guess when you put an antenna on top of the co-op's tallest bin you're just begging for a lighting strike.

The end result, on top of missing the fact that I was linked on the ESV blog is that I'm unintentionally three days behind. Well enough of that, Tallyho!

Let's do Judges and 1 Samuel today and Psalms 60-75.
Plus, to mix things up a bit, I'm going to start with the Psalms Today. From a cry for deliverance to cries of victory the Psalms resound with faith in the midst of struggle. Surely as on preacher said, there is no life situation which the Psalms fail to encounter and encourage us. Perhaps the crown of today's reading in the Psalms comes from PS 64:10.

Let the Righteous one rejoice in the Lord and take refuge in him! Let all the upright in heart exult!
-Psalm 64:10

All in all these fifteen Psalms, while they encompass a variety of literary types they center around the theme of salvation as echoed most strongly in the 68th Psalm.

Our God is a God of salvation,
oand to God, the Lord, belong deliverances from death.
-Ps 68:20 ESV

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