Thursday

29-August

Isaiah 36; Ps 105; Philemon

Isaiah 36: This passage probably sounds familiar.  We read a very similar account in  2 Kings 18:13-27 and 2 Chronicles 32:1-19!  What was the mission of the envoy of the king of Assyria to the Hebrews?  How did the people respond?

Philemon: What is the purpose of the letter to Philemon?

Journal Prompt: The believers were to be ready for every good deed.  How are you ready for every good deed?

Answers:

Isaiah 36: The king of Assyria sent his field commander to try to get King Hezekiah to give up –to not ally with Egypt, but to “Make peace with me by a present and come out to me; and every one of you eat from his own vine and every one from his own fig tree, and every one of you drink the waters of his own cistern; until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards. “ (v. 16-17)  He also told them that it was God who sent him.

The people didn’t answer him, because King Hezekiah told them not to.

Philemon:  Paul writes to Philemon to receive and welcome Onesimum, his former slave.