Bible Read Thread

[Swan7]

Huh, really? I'll have to read it again then because that is not how I read it.

 

[Goodbook]

Yea maybe read it again.
She wasnt raped. She went out and found herself a boyfriend, and this boy did love her, as it says. She wasnt supoosed to though.

 

[SarahsKnight]

Week Nine, Tuesday: History

Judges 12 through 16

 

[Goodbook]

I recall reading this last week or did i get to far ahead?

 

[SarahsKnight]

I recall reading this last week or did i get to far ahead?

No, Miss Book, that was my mistake. It should have been Judges 17 through 21. My bad.


Also, I will go ahead and put up Wednesday's reading from Psalms.
Which is Psalms 24 through 26.

 

[Swan7]

I really liked Psalms 25 sounds like a prayer to me.

 

[SarahsKnight]

Referring to yesterday's reading, I kept the story at the end of Judges of the concubine and the Levite who went after her and seemingly wooed her back to him with kind words (perhaps much like the story of Hosea and Gomer) after she had an affair and fled from him, at the edge of my memory the last several years. It's a disappointing story to me how it turned out for the concubine in the end. She seemed to respond favorably to the Levite she left when he chased her down and would have been faithful to him after that and live happily ever after and all (did he ever actually marry her? I know at some point she referred to the Levite as her husband, I believe when she was introducing him to her father), but met with a cruel end in which she appeared to have been so violently raped by the men in town for an entire night that when she was let go to return home she fell dead at her father's doorstep.

I am not a man who easily tries to justify war, but here I can see why the other tribes of Israel were so incensed at this great injustice allowed by the tribe of Benjamin that they marched against their own brothers to take them out and destroy them. They seemed grieved to do so, but believed it right to take such evil out of their midst.

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EDIT: Sorry, my mistake. That was the home of someone in Gibeah that the Levite and his concubine were staying with at the time that the Benjamites in town demanded the Levite and his group be released for the Benjamites to do with as they pleased, sexually. This was after the unfortunate concubine had left her father's house, reunited with her husband. Either way, a story with a sad ending.

 

[SarahsKnight]

Week Nine, Thursday: Poetry

Job 17 and 18

 

[Swan7]

Man.... painful to read those two chapters. Just gets darker and darker with despair and suffering...

 

[Goodbook]

Job was full of self pity and Bildad was trying to encourage him. Seems they talking at cross purposes.

 

[SarahsKnight]

Today we will be reading from Isaiah with chapters 45 through 50.

 

[elown]

good idea thanks

 

[Goodbook]

Chapter 47 talking about witchcraft...sorcery etc. God doesnt like it.

 

[SarahsKnight]

Oh, I'm sorry, Miss Book, thanks for reminding me to post today's reading. I might have forgotten all day if it weren't for you posting just now.

For today, we'll be going from the gospels again with Matthew 23 through 25.

 

[SarahsKnight]

We have the pleasure of beginning a new book in the Epistles today with 1 Corinthians 1 and 2.

 

[Goodbook]

Oh, I'm sorry, Miss Book, thanks for reminding me to post today's reading. I might have forgotten all day if it weren't for you posting just now.

For today, we'll be going from the gospels again with Matthew 23 through 25.

Just one thing about this reading..what does it mean when Jesus says the Pharisees devour widows houses?

 

[Goodbook]

Good passage. Should post it in General theology.
Let no man glory in himself. i know several who were saying a certain theolgian was a better christian than anyone else. And boasting about him and that they followed him and all his sayings. Still happens today...contentions and divisions.

 

[SarahsKnight]

Just one thing about this reading..what does it mean when Jesus says the Pharisees devour widows houses?

Well, my guess would be that since Jesus proclaims to the Pharisees how they go on an on about appearances of piousness yet neglect "weightier matters of the law" like justice and mercy, I wouldn't put it past the Pharisees to be the kind of people who brow-beat and guilt-trip even the poor widows of the day to continue the act of tithing (rather than out of the widows' own willingness to give cheerfully) even at their own expense when such women without the financial care of their husbands would be struggling to live off of little money as it is, yet the Pharisees are the kind of people who would do nothing to provide for the poor (such as widowed women) themselves. They just care about the appearance of righteousness in themselves and others rather than matters of the heart like Jesus is concerned with. Perhaps some of the rich televangelists today who promise blessings from God for constant donations from the people who listen to them could be considered as such who "devour widows' homes".

 

[Goodbook]

Im reminded of the widows mite story in the gospels, putting in all she had and the pharisee saying he was glad he wasnt a tax collector..and making a big show of tithing.

Yea Ive wondered about that in some mega churches that practice this kind of giving like really pushy and I thought, well good if you can afford to and actually have a steady income, but not if you dont!

 

[Goodbook]

Correction...not giving but taking. Really its kind of extortion if you think about it.