by Audun | Last updated Mar 8, 2024 | Poetry
INTRODUCTION This book is often called “Proverbs of Solomon”, and 1 Kgs 4:30-32 says that Solomon’s wisdom surpassed all the wisdom of the East and Egypt and that he wrote 3000 proverbs. He has written most of the proverbs in this collection, but the...
by Audun | Last updated Mar 8, 2024 | Poetry
INTRODUCTION The psalms are people’s words to God that have become part of God’s words to us so that they shape how we relate to God. The book of Psalms is important because: It sweeps over the entire narrative of the Bible and functions as a...
by Audun | Last updated Mar 8, 2024 | Poetry
INTRODUCTION There are different opinions about how historical the person Job is and whether the book should be taken as history or not. This impacts the interpretation. It is a book of wisdom and is not among the historical books, and the places named at the...
by Audun | Last updated Mar 8, 2024 | History
Introduction Chronologically, the book of Esther comes between Ezra chapters 6 and 7, as Xerxes I was king of Persia from 486-465 BC. Many of the Jews in Babylon never returned to Judea, and this book provides insight into what happens in Susa, the Persian capital. At...
by Audun | Last updated Mar 8, 2024 | History
INTRODUCTION The book of Nehemiah is about the complete rebuilding of Jerusalem and the people after their exile in Babylon. We learn about leadership, lessons from history, prayer, and God’s leadership in a way we can relate to. The people began to repair the...
