{"id":53,"date":"2007-01-09T01:35:00","date_gmt":"2007-01-09T05:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tmbmt.MyCustomData.com\/blog\/?p=53"},"modified":"2011-03-25T23:39:13","modified_gmt":"2011-03-26T03:39:13","slug":"lets-see-where-was-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tmbmt.MyCustomData.com\/blog\/index.php\/lets-see-where-was-i\/","title":{"rendered":"Let&#8217;s see&#8230; where was I?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So the holidays are over, and it&#8217;s high time I got back on track with the whole posting thing.  I&#8217;ve been reading semi-regularly and am currently about halfway through Nehemiah.  <\/p>\n<p>Since I didn&#8217;t get around to posting much over the past few months, I covered a lot of reading without saying much.&nbsp; I&#8217;ll do a quick recap from what I can remember&#8230; I think my last mention was of First Kings&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Chronicles and Kings complement each other and basically cover the same (very long) chunk of history.&nbsp; Kings is insanely hard to follow because it keeps jumping back and forth with each generation between the royal lineage of Judah and Isreal.&nbsp; Chronicles only follows Judah, so it&#8217;s a little easier to follow.&nbsp; When I get the chance, I would love to go back and actually do a timeline to lay out the rules, cuz I think it&#8217;d be interesting to see.<\/li>\n<li>Comically enough, this read through is the first time it actually DAWNED on me that <b>Israel and Judah were two separate kingdoms <\/b>and had two separate lines of kings&#8230; how on EARTH did I miss that the first two times I read the old testament??&nbsp; I&#8217;m aghast, but it really does make the rest of the Bible make a LOT more sense! lol.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Let&#8217;s see, what else&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Some REALLY cool stuff happened in the stories of different prophets &#8212; peppered here and there through the four books &#8212; a lot more than just the few things we hear taught about.&nbsp; I&#8217;ll have to go back and make a list of them at some point.&nbsp; <\/li>\n<li>I developed a much greater respect for Solomon &#8211; I always had a kind of mild disdain for him, not quite sure why.<\/li>\n<li>There&#8217;s a very beautiful prayer for the dedication of the Temple in 1 Kings 8 &#8212; very much worth the read, it made me cry &#8211; I think it&#8217;s repeated somewhere in Chronicles too.<\/li>\n<li>Reading about Elisha and Elijah this time around gave me the distinct impression that Elisha was like a puppy dog following Elijah around &#8230; :)<\/li>\n<li>not much I can think to mention about Ezra right now<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m about halfway through Nehemiah, and all I have to say right now is that the wall of Jerusalem was one ENORMOUS wall lol.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;m trying to get back on a daily or bi-daily posting schedule from here on out, here&#8217;s hoping I manage :)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So the holidays are over, and it&#8217;s high time I got back on track with the whole posting thing. I&#8217;ve been reading semi-regularly and am currently about halfway through Nehemiah. 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