In the last few chapters of of I Samuel, and the first few of II Samuel, the transition […]
by Joshua Kielsmeier-Cook [Note: We welcome Joshua Kielsmeier-Cook as a contributor to Emmanuel Mennonite Church’s weblog. The following […]
The chief story of this section is David’s ascendancy and Saul’s descent, with important lessons as to why […]
The trajectory of ancient Israelite history turns now toward the centralization of power, toward a monarchy. This is […]
In the last chapter of Judges, Israel’s civil war turns against the one non-Benjamite community that did not […]
The spiral of decadence, defeat and oppression, repentance and deliverance continues its downward trajectory through the judgeships of […]