Ezekiel 23 essentially takes up where Ezekiel 16 left off. The latter chapter is perhaps the most sexual explicit in the entire Bible, as its theme is to present Jerusalem and Judah as a whore to telegraph her spiritual betrayal of Yahweh. In this chapter both the...
1–2 Chronicles
Yahweh and Satan in Samuel and Chronicles
What follows is the pre-edited version of an article I wrote for Bible Study Magazine a couple years ago.[1. For a scholarly journal article that argues for the angel connection / explanation in the piece, see Paul Evans, "Divine intermediaries in 1 Chronicles 21 an...
ZIBBC Volume 3
In this, my fourth post on the Zondervan Illustrated Bible Backgrounds Commentary (ZIBBC), I'll say a few things about Volume 3, which covers 1-2 Kings, 1-2 Chronicles, Ezra, Nehemiah, and Esther. I know. You're thinking, "What could anyone possible put into a...