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Biblical Principle #319: Israel’s Rules for Siege
Biblical Principles List Principle In the Law of Moses, God gave Israel rules of engagement for sieging cities—one set for distant cities and another for the Canaanite cities. Explanation Israel’s mission was to conquer the land of Canaan and eliminate the Canaanites due to their wickedness, which GOD had first announced to Abraham in Genesis…
Biblical Principle #318: Israel’s Army to Be Only Single-Minded Selected
Biblical Principles List Principle Before going to war, Israel’s officers were to select only the single-minded to fight. Explanation A distracted soldier is a liability, if not a danger to themselves and their comrades. GOD wanted Israel to only take the focused—the single-minded—into war. 5 Then the scribes shall speak to the people, saying, ‘What…
Biblical Principle #125: Israel Crossed the Red Sea on Dry Land
Biblical Principles List Principle God parted the Red Sea and Israel walked across on dry land. Explanation GOD had one more miracle to show Pharaoh. 1 Now the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 2 “Speak to the children of Israel that they turn and camp at the village between Migdol and the sea, opposite Baal…
September 2 – Ezekiel’s Vision of Dry Bones
Reading Eze. 37:1-28; 38:1-39:29 Devotional GOD showed Ezekiel more visions and gave him more prophecy to speak to Israel: 1 The hand of the LORD came upon me and brought me out in the Spirit of the LORD, and set me down in the midst of the valley; and it was full of bones. 2…
July 3 – Isaiah Prophesies about Babylon’s Fall
Reading Isa. 14:28-32; 13:1-22; 14:1-23; 21:1-10 Devotional The Babylonians were a fierce and ruthless nation. In the year that king Ahaz of Judah died, Isaiah received a prophecy from GOD about the coming fall of Babylon. 4 Listen, a noise on the mountains, like that of a great multitude! Listen, an uproar among the kingdoms,…
June 30 – Judah Defeated by Israel and Aram
Reading Isa. 10:1-34; 11:1-16; 12:1-6 2 Chron. 28:5-21 Devotional Continuing with Isaiah’s prophecy, GOD explained that, although He would use Assyria to punish Israel, afterward He would also punish Assyria because of the king’s prideful heart and haughty eye (both of which the LORD hates) and his desire to utterly destroy. GOD reminds the reader…
June 11 – GOD Purges Judah and Israel
Reading 2 Kings 8:23-24a; 2 Chron. 21:19, 20b 2 Kings 8:24b-26; 9:29; 2 Chron. 22:1-4 2 Kings 8:7-15, 28; 9:14b, 15a; 8:29b 2 Kings 9:1-14a, 15b-27; 2 Chron. 22:7 2 Kings 9:30-37; 10:1-14; 2 Chron. 22:8 2 Kings 9:28; 2 Chron. 22:9 2 Kings 10:15-17 Devotional Today’s reading is filled with terrible bloodshed, people killing people.…
June 3 – Asa and Jehoshaphat
Reading 2 Chron. 14:1b-8 1 Kings 14:19-20; 15:25-26, 31, 27-30, 33-34 2 Chron. 14:9-15; 15:1-8, 17-19, 9-16 1 Kings 15:16-22 2 Chron. 16:7-10 1 Kings 16:7, 1-6, 8, 14, 9-10, 15a, 11-13, 20, 15b-19, 21, 31a, 22-29; 21:25-26; 16:34 2 Chron. 16:12, 11, 13-14 1 Kings 15:24b; 22:41-43, 46-47 2 Chron. 20:32-33; 17:2-13a; 18:1a; 17:13b-19…