Old Testament & Apocrypha

Genesis

Genesis 1:1–2 In the Beginning

Genesis 1:3–5 Let There be Light

Genesis 1:24–31 The Sixth Day of Creation

Genesis 2:18–20 Adam Naming the Animals

Genesis 3:1–13 The Fall

Genesis 3:14–15 Crushing the Serpent

Genesis 3:16 Eve’s Punishment

Genesis 3:20 Eve’s Punishment

Genesis 3:22–24 Expulsion and Exile

Genesis 4:1–2 Eve’s Punishment

Genesis 4:3–16 Cain and Abel

Genesis 8:1–19 Out of the Ark

Genesis 8:20-32 The First Rainbow

Genesis 9:1-17 The First Rainbow

Genesis 9:18–29 The Drunkenness of Noah

Genesis 10:1–32 The Drunkenness of Noah

Genesis 14:1–17 Abram the Warlord

Genesis 18 The Hospitality of Abraham

Genesis 19:1–29 Lot’s Wife

Genesis 21:8–21 Get Out

Genesis 22:1–5 The Journey to Moriah

Genesis 28:10–22 Jacob’s Ladder

Genesis 32:22–32 Jacob Wrestling the Angel

Genesis 37:13–36 Joseph Is Sold

Genesis 38 Tamar

Genesis 39 Joseph and Potiphar’s Wife

Exodus

Exodus 2:5–10 The Finding of Moses

Exodus 4:19–29 A Bridegroom of Blood

Exodus 15:20–21 The Song of Miriam

Exodus 16 Manna in the Desert

Exodus 17:1–7 Striking the Rock

Exodus 19 Sinai Calling

Exodus 20:4–6 The Second Commandment

Exodus 30 The Altar of Incense

Exodus 32:1–20 The Golden Calf

Leviticus

Leviticus 15–18 Scaping Sin

Numbers

Numbers 11 Graves of Craving

Numbers 17 Aaron’s Rod

Numbers 20:1–13 Striking the Rock

Numbers 35 Cities of Refuge

Deuteronomy

Deuteronomy 4:41–43 Cities of Refuge

Deuteronomy 4 Love Commandments

Deuteronomy 5 Love Commandments

Deuteronomy 8 Remember, Do Not Forget

Deuteronomy 10 The Law and Love

Deuteronomy 17 Solomon in the Shadows

Joshua

Joshua 10 The Longest Day

Joshua 20 Cities of Refuge

Judges

Judges 4 Jael and Sisera

Judges 13 Samson’s Annunciation

Judges 16:1–22 Samson and Delilah

Ruth

Ruth 3 New Life from Outside

Ruth 4 New Life from Outside

1 Samuel

1 Samuel 16:1–13 The Anointing of David

1 Samuel 16:14–23 David Plays the Harp for Saul

1 Samuel 17 David and Goliath

1 Samuel 28:3–25 The Witch of Endor

1 Samuel 31 Decisions, Decisions

2 Samuel

2 Samuel 6 David Dances before the Ark

2 Samuel 13 Tamar and Amnon

2 Samuel 23:8–39 David and the Three Warriors

1 Kings

1 Kings 3 The Wisdom of Solomon

1 Kings 4 The Wisdom of Solomon

1 Kings 8:14–61 The Dedication of the Temple

1 Kings 8:62–66 Construction and Consecration of the Temple

1 Kings 9:1–9 Construction and Consecration of the Temple

1 Kings 10:1–13 The Arrival of the Queen of Sheba

1 Kings 11 Solomon’s Idolatry

1 Kings 17:1–7 The Prophet Elijah in the Wilderness

1 Kings 19:4–14 The Prophet Elijah in the Wilderness

2 Kings

2 Kings 2:1–12 Elijah’s Ascent

2 Kings 2:12–25 Elisha Begins

2 Kings 4:8–37 Making Room for Care and Creativity

2 Kings 5 The Healing of Naaman

2 Kings 6:1–23 Logics of Reversal

1 Chronicles

1 Chronicles 10 Decisions, Decisions

1 Chronicles 11:10–47 David and the Three Warriors

1 Chronicles 13 David Dances before the Ark

1 Chronicles 15 David Dances before the Ark

2 Chronicles

2 Chronicles 2 The Matter of the Temple

2 Chronicles 6:3–7:3 The Dedication of the Temple

2 Chronicles 7:4–22 Construction and Consecration of the Temple

2 Chronicles 9:1–12 The Arrival of the Queen of Sheba

Ezra

Ezra 7 Ezra’s Exiles

Nehemiah

Nehemiah 7:73 To Meet with Joy in Sweet Jerusalem

Nehemiah 8:1–18 To Meet with Joy in Sweet Jerusalem

Esther

Esther 1 Banished Vashti

Esther 8 Esther Pleads for Her People

Job

Job 1 A Man in the Land of Uz

Job 2 A Man in the Land of Uz

Job 3 A Man in the Land of Uz

Job 28 Where Shall Wisdom Be Found?

Job 38 Out of the Whirlwind

Job 40–41 Behemoth and Leviathan

Job 42 Opening the Doors of Perception

Psalms

Psalm 1 The Blessed and the Wicked

Psalm 19 The Heavens Are Telling

Psalm 22 A Great Cry

Psalm 23 The Lord is My Shepherd

Psalms 42–43 Thirsting for God

Psalm 69 A Cry for Deliverance

Psalm 88 The Psalter’s Darkest Hour

Psalm 90 Handwork

Psalm 93 Over Troubled Water

Psalm 110 Forever and Ever

Psalm 130 Out of the Depths

Psalm 133 As One

Psalm 137 By the Rivers of Babylon

Psalm 139 Darkness Illuminated

Psalm 145 All Creatures Great and Small

Proverbs

Proverbs 4 Get Wisdom

Proverbs 8 Whoever Finds Me Finds Life

Proverbs 11 Straight and Crooked Paths to Wisdom

Proverbs 31:10–31 The Wife of Noble Character

Ecclesiastes

Ecclesiastes 1:1–12 Vanity of Vanities

Ecclesiastes 1:12–2:26 Philosophy, Pleasure, and Folly

Ecclesiastes 3 For Everything a Season

Song of Solomon

Song of Solomon 3 Soul Desire

Song of Solomon 4:8–16 The Garden of Earthly and Heavenly Delights

Song of Solomon 5:1 The Garden of Earthly and Heavenly Delights

Song of Solomon 5:2–16 Seek and You Shall Find

Song of Solomon 6:1–3 Seek and You Shall Find

Isaiah

Isaiah 5 A Song of a Vineyard

Isaiah 6 Holy, Holy, Holy

Isaiah 11:1–10 War and Peace

Isaiah 28 Grounds for Hope

Isaiah 44:21–45:8 ‘Drop Down Ye Heavens’

Isaiah 53 Stricken, Smitten, Bruised, and Afflicted

Isaiah 55 Return Again

Isaiah 63:1–14 The Winepress

Jeremiah

Jeremiah 1 An Infinite Calling

Jeremiah 4 Raising Standards

Jeremiah 20 Fire in the Bones

Lamentations

Lamentations 1 Surviving Weeping

Ezekiel

Ezekiel 10 Great Wheels of Fire

Ezekiel 37:1–14 Dry Bones

Daniel

Daniel 3 The Fiery Furnace

Daniel 4 Back from the Brink

Daniel 5 The Writing on the Wall

Daniel 7:1–8 Daniel’s Four Beasts

Daniel 7:15–28 Daniel’s Four Beasts

Hosea

Hosea 2 Gomer and Hosea

Hosea 4 Time for a Change

Hosea 11:12 Prophecy in the Raw

Hosea 12:1–14 Prophecy in the Raw

Hosea 14 Gardened By God

Joel

Joel 1 Landscapes of Devastation

Amos

Amos 5 Dark Days

Obadiah

Obadiah 1:1–9 Pride Comes before a Fall

Jonah

Jonah 2 Jonah and the Whale

Habakkuk

Habakkuk 1 From Protest to Faith

Habakkuk 2 From Protest to Faith

Habakkuk 3 Brushes with Infinity

Zechariah

Zechariah 1 The Exalted Return to Jerusalem

Zechariah 9 An Oracle to a Worried People

Tobit

Tobit 6–7 Tobias and the Angel

Tobit 8 One Wedding and No Funeral

Additions to the Book of Daniel: The Prayer of Azariah and the Song of the Three Jews

Additions to the Book of Daniel: The Prayer of Azariah and the Song of the Three Jews 1 The Fiery Furnace

Additions to the Book of Daniel: Susanna

Additions to the Book of Daniel: Susanna . Susanna and the Elders

1 Maccabees

1 Maccabees 2 Reclaiming the Maccabees