Jeremy Ewing The Bible has a great deal to say about trusting God. This study gathers passages from across Scripture and sets them out for reading and reflection. What Scripture Says Trusting God is not a vague feeling but a settled confidence in who God is and what He has said. Scripture roots that confidence in God’s … Read more
Bosor is a name found in the King James Bible, appearing 1 time in the text. Who This Was Bosor is the Greek form of Beor, the father of Balaam, the prophet who was hired by Balak to curse Israel. Though Bosor himself never speaks or acts in the biblical record, he is named in … Read more
Tuesday, October 21, 2025 Scripture Readings Primary Reading: Ecclesiastes 3-4 Key Verse Ecclesiastes 3:20 — “All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.” Devotional Thought The Preacher of Ecclesiastes has been everywhere and seen everything, and here in chapter three he lays out his great poem of … Read more
Jephthae is a name found in the King James Bible, appearing 1 time in the text. Who This Was Jephthae, better known by the spelling Jephthah, was a judge of Israel who led the Israelites in battle against the Ammonites. His story belongs to the period of the judges, when Israel was governed not by … Read more
Monday, October 20, 2025 Scripture Readings Primary Reading: Ecclesiastes 1-2 Secondary Reading: Psalms 121 Key Verse Ecclesiastes 2:5 — “I made me gardens and orchards, and I planted trees in them of all kind of fruits:” Devotional Thought The Preacher of Ecclesiastes is Solomon, the son of David, king in Jerusalem—the man who asked God … Read more
Sunday, October 19, 2025 Scripture Readings Primary Reading: Proverbs 31 Key Verse Proverbs 31:16 — “She considereth a field, and buyeth it: with the fruit of her hands she planteth a vineyard.” Devotional Thought Proverbs 31 opens in the palace of a king named Lemuel, though his name means “belonging to God” and he is … Read more
Saturday, October 18, 2025 Scripture Readings Primary Reading: Proverbs 29-30 Key Verse Proverbs 30:4 — “Who hath ascended up into heaven, or descended? who hath gathered the wind in his fists? who hath bound the waters in a garment? who hath established all the ends of the earth? what is his name, and what is … Read more
Ismaiah is a name found in the King James Bible, appearing 1 time in the text. Who This Was Ismaiah was a warrior of the tribe of Benjamin who came to David at Ziklag during the period when David was fleeing from King Saul. At that time David was an outlaw and a fugitive, not … Read more
Friday, October 17, 2025 Scripture Readings Primary Reading: Proverbs 27-28 Secondary Reading: Psalms 120 Key Verse Proverbs 28:1 — “The wicked flee when no man pursueth: but the righteous are bold as a lion.” Devotional Thought Solomon’s proverbs in these chapters are not a random collection of wise sayings but a father’s earnest counsel to … Read more
Sisamai is a name found in the King James Bible, appearing 1 time in the text. Who This Was Sisamai was a man of the tribe of Judah, descended from Caleb through the line of Jerahmeel. He appears only once in the King James Bible, in the genealogical record of 1 Chronicles 2:40: “And Eleasah … Read more
Thursday, October 16, 2025 Scripture Readings Primary Reading: Proverbs 26 Key Verse Proverbs 26:15 — “The slothful hideth his hand in his bosom; it grieveth him to bring it again to his mouth.” Devotional Thought Solomon paints a gallery of fools in Proverbs 26, and the portraits are uncomfortably familiar. There is the fool who … Read more
Agur is a name found in the King James Bible, appearing 1 time in the text. Who This Was Agur is identified in the superscription of Proverbs 30 as “the son of Jakeh.” He is the author of the sayings that make up that chapter, which the text calls “the prophecy” or oracle that he … Read more