"You may think I am nothing, but those girls will think highly of me!" - King David defends his dancing to one of his wives ( Read more... )

I'm back to reading the Bible, with quite a few thoughts on the first book of Samuel. Previous installments of the exciting Biblical saga can be found here1 Samuel is a slightly frustrating book. It tells the story of Samuel, Saul and David. The overall story is fairly clear, as are the characters, but the details are frustratingly unclear. ( Read more... )

Jesus sets a timescale for his return.
29 “Immediately after the distress of those days ( Read more... )

The start of judges is a little fractured. It recaps and revises some of the events from Joshua, with a different chronology to that suggested in the previous book, so that various things happen after Joshua's death. There is one interesting tidbit in there, the mention that the people of Judah did not capture Gaza, Ashkelon or Ekron. Not ( Read more... )

"[The LORD] is a holy God and will not forgive your sins." - Joshua ( Read more... )

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"I can't be responsible for all these people!" - Moses ( Read more... )

Sensibly, the Council of Nicea decided to put the most famous book in the Bible at the front. If they had started off with something like Joel, people could well have been put off ( Read more... )