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Welcome to Livin’ Light’s Bible-In-A-Year challenge of discovering God’s love for us and His purpose for our lives. Here is the format for this great adventure: The daily reading assignment is posted at 5 a.m. After each day’s reading, Leigh An Coplin, the blog host, shares observations and poses questions about difficult passages to Rob Fields, who studied Christian Education at Asbury Seminary and currently teaches Biology in the Orlando area. To start from the beginning, click on 365 Bible Readings and scroll down to Day 1. The reading schedule is taken from The One Year Chronological Bible NLT.
Today’s Reading
— 1 Chronicles 26-28
(979-970 BC) Click here for a timeline of the entire Bible.
Questions & Observations
Q. (1 Chronicles 27:25-31): Why does the king have so many possessions? I just thought kings were there to rule and have a fancy place to live with fancy things in it and nice clothes. Why olive oil, sheep, goats, donkeys, etc.?
A. Well, it is clear from this text that he had a lot of people in his “employment,” so that is probably part of your answer. From what I understand, being a king involved regular work as the ambassador of your nation to those around you. We will see more of this type of activity under Solomon than we did with David. In order to make an impact, I suspect part of what a king would do would be to share the goods that they had stockpiled in order to make a good impression. It would be a great way to “grease the wheels” of diplomacy. The other thing I could see is the king’s court could serve as a kind of storehouse for the nation, so that since the king controlled these things like food, he could distribute them to those who had need. I have no idea if David actually did this or not, but it sounds like something God would desire out of a king.
For curiosity’s sake: Proof that King David existed, https://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/biblical-artifacts/the-tel-dan-inscription-the-first-historical-evidence-of-the-king-david-bible-story/
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Tomorrow’s reading
— 1 Chronicles 29:1-22
— 1 Kings 1
