Oct 9, 2022
2CHRONICLES 35:
It
is simply amazing that we have books like Deuteronomy, since we see
that it (or perhaps Leviticus) was almost lost. And it shows how
far Judah had slipped that they didn’t know of any copies. Josiah
sincerely repented after hearing God’s Word.
ECCLESIASTES 11:
Yesterday’s chapter of Ecclesiastes was mainly
separate proverbs. As an example I quote verse 3, which I like in
the NLT:
Ecc. 10:3 NLT You can identify fools just by the way they walk down the street!
MATTHEW 22b:
Jesus told a pointed parable yesterday in the
one about the King’s wedding feast for his son. And the people sent
by the Pharisees with friends of King Herod failed miserably to
trap Jesus. And why did the man at the wedding feast get thrown out
for not wearing wedding clothes? If you don’t know the answer,
there’s a golden treasure there waiting for you to find
it.
GNT Translation
notes:
2Chr.
35:15 [NET The musicians, the descendants of Asaph, manned their
posts, as prescribed by [King] David, Asaph, Heman, and Jeduthun
the king’s prophet.// GNT The following musicians of the Levite
clan of Asaph were in the places assigned to them by King David's
instructions: Asaph, Heman, and Jeduthun, the king's prophet.] The
guards at the Temple gates did not need to leave their posts,
because the other Levites prepared the Passover for
them.
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Ecc.
11:3 GNT Their stupidity
will be evident even to strangers they meet along the way; they let
everyone know that they are fools.
[One can be sure that ESV is overly literal
with the last phrase, “he says to everyone that he is a fool.” I’ve
met plenty of fools, and such a person doesn’t actually “let
everyone know” (GNT) that he/she is a fool. CEV is also correct
that ‘walking’ might best be taken in its other more general
meaning of ‘live’.]
3 CEV
Fools show their stupidity by the way they live; it’s easy to see
they have no sense.
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Mat.
22:1 NLT That same day Jesus was approached by some Sadducees— [who
are] religious leaders who say there is no resurrection from the
dead. They posed this question:// GNT That same day some Sadducees
came to Jesus and claimed that people will not rise from
death.]
45
If, then, David called him ‘[my] Lord,’ how can the Messiah [just]
be David's descendant?”