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01/09/2025 – Day 200 – Psalm – Chapters 84 thru 86 / Commentary to: “Turn to me and be gracious to me. Give Your strength to Your servant; save the son of Your female servant.” Psalm 86:16

Commentary from “The Apologetics Study Bible”:

“86:16. In this Davidic psalm, the worshiper speaks of himself as ‘the son of Your female servant,’ traditionally ‘handmaid’ (see also 116:16). Since the …

01/07/2024 – Day 198 – Leviticus – Chapters 16 – 18

On a search of “Day 198” , I point you to prior cycles, two posts: 1). 09/13/22 – Halley’s Bible Handbook for each of these chapters. And, take …

01/06/2025 – Day 196 – Colossians – Chapters 1 – 2 / Introduction to the Book of Colossians

The summary excerpt comes from “The Apologetics Study Bible”:

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“Some modern critical scholars have expressed doubt about Paul’s authorship of Colossians despite the fact it contains autobiographical statements from …

01/04/2025 – Day 195 – Ezekiel – Chapters 25 thru 30 // The LORD judges all nations as evidenced by today’s reading.

If, you search on “Day 195”, last cycle’s post give a summarized excerpt by way of “Halley’s Bible Handbook”

For this cycle, I am sharing select verse commentaries in our reading …

01/02/2025 – Day 193 – Psalm – Chapters 81 – 83 / Psalm 83 categorization (3) explained: “LNM” , or Lament; National; Imprecatory.

The “Apologetics Study Bible” comments on Psalm 83:

“This is the last psalm in the 42-psalms. “Eulogistic Psalter” (Pss 42 – 83) in which the title ‘God’ often appears where one …

12/29/2024 – Day 189 – Philippians – Chapters 3 & 4 / Chapter 3 – “Knowing Christ”

Two previous cycle posts for today’s reading: 11/20/2020 and 09/04/22.

“My goal is to know Him and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed …

12/28/2024 – Day 188 – Ezekiel – Chapters 19 thru 24 / Commentary : Chapter 20 – “Israel’s Rebellion”, with the resulting five ‘oath-lessons’ from the LORD.

I would like to share the five “oath-lessons” that the LORD communicated to the evil contingent of leaders through Ezekiel:

“20:1, 5-6,8 A contingent of leaders came to ‘consult the …

12/26/2024 – Day 186 – Psalm – Chapters 78 – 80 / Commentary – Ch. 78 – “God’s Kindness to Rebellious Israel”

Halley’s Bible Handbook summarizes Psalms 77,78. Historical Psalms, thusly:

“Review of God’s Marvelous Works, in His dealings with Israel. Contrasting God’s Mighty Works, and Israel’s Habitual Unfaithfulness and Disobedience.”

The …

12/22/2024 – Day 182 – Philippians – Chapters 1 & 2 / Background of Philippians and Chapter 1 excerpt commentary from “Halley’s Bible Handbook” / Post 3 of 3

Our reading this day, in our first cycle dated 11/15/2020 has a timeline for all of Paul gospels. Paul’s 1st missionary up until is martyrdom at the hands of …