Contemplative Bible Reading

1 Kings 21:7 (New Living Translation) 7 “Are you the king of Israel or not?” Jezebel demanded. “Get up and eat something, and don’t worry about it. I’ll get you Naboth’s vineyard!” Queen Jezebel is talking to her husband, King Ahab. King Ahab wanted a vineyard from a neighbor named Naboth. Naboth wouldn’t sell, so […]

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Numbers 27:12-13 (New Living Translation) 12 One day the Lord said to Moses, “Climb one of the mountains east of the river, and look out over the land I have given the people of Israel. 13 After you have seen it, you will die like your brother, Aaron, God is talking to Moses. Go do […]

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Judges 21:25 (New Living Translation) 25 In those days Israel had no king; all the people did whatever seemed right in their own eyes. This sentence appears four times in the book of Judges. There are many explanations and interpretations of it. Some reflect good on the people while others reflect bad. There are times […]

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Numbers 14:17 (New Living Translation) 17 Please, Lord, prove that your power is as great as you have claimed… This is probably one of the stupidest things every said by any person at any time. It is part of the (hi)story of the people traveling the desert after escaping Egypt and entering the land promised […]

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Numbers 13:31 (New Living Translation) 31 But the other men who had explored the land with him disagreed. “We can’t go up against them! They are stronger than we are!” This is part of the (hi)story of the people entering the land God promised them. Scouts surveyed the land and reported back to Moses and […]

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Ruth 4:9-10 (New Living Translation) 9 Then Boaz said to the elders and to the crowd standing around, “You are witnesses that today I have bought from Naomi all the property of Elimelech, Kilion, and Mahlon. 10 And with the land I have acquired Ruth, the Moabite widow of Mahlon, to be my wife. This […]

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Numbers 13:30 (New Living Translation) 30 But Caleb tried to quiet the people as they stood before Moses. “Let’s go at once to take the land,” he said. “We can certainly conquer it!” This is part of the (hi)story of the people leaving slavery in Egypt and going to the land that God promised them. […]

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Deuteronomy 6:25 (New Living Translation) 25 For we will be counted as righteous when we obey all the commands the Lord our God has given us. This is from Deuteronomy or the second telling of the law to the people. Their ancestors died in the wilderness due to disobeying the commands of Jehovah their God. […]

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Deuteronomy 20:5-7 (New Living Translation) 5 “Then the officers of the army must address the troops and say, ‘Has anyone here just built a new house but not yet dedicated it? If so, you may go home! You might be killed in the battle, and someone else would dedicate your house. 6 Has anyone here […]

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Leviticus 26:6 (New Living Translation) 6 “I will give you peace in the land, and you will be able to sleep with no cause for fear. I will rid the land of wild animals and keep your enemies out of your land. This is a promise from God to the people if they “follow my […]

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