Naboth’s refusal honors God’s design for inheritance. Jezebel’s sham fast exposes weaponized piety, and Elijah’s word brings judgment with a surprising delay for humbled Ahab.
Bible Themes and Doctrines
Naboth’s refusal honors God’s design for inheritance. Jezebel’s sham fast exposes weaponized piety, and Elijah’s word brings judgment with a surprising delay for humbled Ahab.
Solomon begins with an alliance and an altar, then asks for a listening heart. God grants wisdom, and the king’s first famous ruling protects life and reveals truth.
This study of 1 Kings 2 follows David’s parting charge and Solomon’s early acts of justice that secure the throne. It explores obedience, promise, mercy with boundaries, and the establishment of a kingdom meant to flourish under God’s written word.
This study of 2 Samuel 20 follows Sheba’s revolt from trumpet to siege and shows how God preserves the kingdom through surprising agents. It offers theological insight and practical guidance on leadership, peacemaking, and caring for lingering wounds.
Tamar pleads for righteousness and is violated; Absalom answers with revenge as David fails to act. Second Samuel 13 exposes abuse and delayed justice while deepening our need for the righteous Son of David.
David’s idleness becomes adultery and murder, but God’s verdict breaks through the palace’s secrecy. Second Samuel 11 warns with clarity and opens a path toward repentance that God Himself supplies.
Judges 21 closes the book with grief and improvisation. Rash vows and flawed remedies preserve Benjamin but wound many, pushing readers to repent of overreach and to long for righteous rule that guards both justice and the vulnerable.
Judges 20 traces Israel’s response to Gibeah’s outrage: national assembly, repeated inquiry, fasting and offerings, and a final ambush that God prospers. The chapter teaches justice with humility and warns how zeal can overreach even when a cause is right.
Joshua 20 turns mercy into infrastructure by appointing cities of refuge where due process protects life. The chapter points beyond its gates to the greater High Priest, inviting communities to become reachable places of justice and shelter.
Deuteronomy 22 weaves love of neighbor, creation distinctions, household safety, and sexual faithfulness into daily life. In Christ, the Spirit writes these concerns on our hearts as we practice ordinary holiness with truth and mercy.
Deuteronomy 21 brings holiness to hard places: a body in a field, a wounded home, and a body on a tree. It trains Israel in responsibility and mercy and points to Christ, who bore the curse to cleanse a people and bless the nations.
Deuteronomy 19 orders mercy and truth: refuge for the unintentional killer, firm judgment for murder, protection of property, and safeguards for courts. In Christ we find the greater refuge and a summons to practice measured justice by the Spirit.
Deuteronomy 17 links altar, courtroom, and throne under the Lord’s holiness. It calls for sincere worship, careful justice, and leaders who live under Scripture, pointing to Christ’s kingdom and the Spirit’s work among his people.
Deuteronomy 16 gathers Israel for three pilgrim feasts, binds joy to justice, and guards worship from idols. In Christ the pattern deepens—memory at the Table, Spirit-given joy, and public righteousness under the King.
After the golden calf, God rewrites the tablets and restores the path. Deuteronomy 10 calls Israel to fear, love, and serve—and to love the outsider as God does.