Bible Speaks Today Old Testament

The book of Isaiah is outstanding in its brilliance of style, its poetic power, and its foretaste of the hope of the gospel. It tells us how God hi...

The land was awash with false gods and groaning under all kinds of social evil. The inevitable happened; God's horrific judgement on his people sta...

Nehemiah tells, first hand, the powerful story of the rebuilding of ancient Jerusalem's walls after the exile. This rebuilding, in the face of grea...

God had allowed the unthinkable to happen. His people were in exile in Babylon; his promises seemed shattered. Was he really in control? Was he fai...

The Prophet Jeremiah addressed the people of Judah and Jerusalem over a forty-year period leading up to the destruction of Jerusalem in 587 BC. The...

'Vanity of vanities', says the Preacher, 'Vanity of vanities! All is vanity'.Is that what life is? A wisp of vapour, a puff of wind, a mere breath ...

This inspiring exposition goes back to the beginning. The early chapters of Genesis proclaim the origin of the world, and of human life on earth. D...

The book of Numbers, Raymond Brown reveals, offers a portraiture of a better life. Its message is eminently suited to our contemporary world, a wo...

The whole story of the Old Testament book of Exodus is a covenant narrative. The God who pledged himself to Abraham and his descendants remained th...

Joel, Micah and Habakkuk - these ancient prophets have urgent relevance for a church and a world living at the beginning of a new millennium. They ...

Despite the centuries which separate us from the authors of these proverbs, the everyday realities of human existence remain: making friends, copin...

Wright shows that as Christian readers we must not, and cannot, isolate Lamentations from the rest of the Bible; and equally, that we should not re...

At the beginning of 1 & 2 Kings, Solomon?s reign brought peace, prosperity, dynamic international trade and a magnificent centre of worship. By...

In Deuteronomy Moses looks to the future, forecasting the challenges that the coming generation of Israel will face, and applying God's covenant wo...

In Persia in the fifth century BC, the Jews were threatened with genocide. The book of Esther describes how this crisis was averted through the bra...

In the small province of Yehud in the sixth century BC, Zechariah the prophet was thoroughly engaged with the realities of his own day, but never c...

Genesis sets the scene for the whole of the Bible, and indeed the entire human drama. It is a book both of beginnings and of a new beginning - the ...

'Go and marry a prostitute.' These are the first words God spoke to his prophet Hosea. Why would he ask this of one of his special spokesmen? Becau...

The fact of suffering in the world challenges us with its questions. The book of Job is all about human suffering. We meet a man who is afflicted p...

The book of Joshua recounts the events of Israel's entry into Canaan, the promised land: Joshua's commission and reassurance, crossing the Jordan r...

The book of Judges contains some of the most famous of the Bible's stories, as well as some of the least known. In them we find much that is attrac...

For many Christians, the Old Testament book of Leviticus tends to be largely unknown and unread. However, the Christian gospel - which presumes a k...

The book of Malachi sits aptly in Christian Bibles as the last book of the Old Testament, which it assumes, summarizes and applies, as it also look...

'Affluence, exploitation and the profit motive were the most notable features of the society which Amos observed and in which he worked ... Standar...