And the lamp of God had not yet gone out, and Samuel was lying down in the temple of Yahweh where the ark of God was, that Yahweh called Samuel; and he said, “Here I am.” Then he ran to Eli and said, “Here I am, for you called me.” But he said, “I did not call; go back,…
The divinely appointed delay, from 622 BC to 586 BC, between King Josiah learning of Jerusalem’s coming judgment and the actual destruction of the temple was nearly 40 years. God’s advance warning system was activated in 605 BC when King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon took some of the temple treasures and carted them off to the…
The Hebrew word selah occurs in the Bible only in the Psalms, and we don’t know exactly what it means. By inference, we’ve come to see it as a pause, a musical interlude, perhaps a time to reflect. God gave Josiah a selah. The last blog post explored the time in Josiah’s reign when the high priest…