Through Psalms 21 (page 720)

Job 24
:1 - Why, seeing times are not hidden from the Almighty, do they that know him not see his days? ~Good question! 
:2 - landmarks = borders, boundaries http://www.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?Strongs=H1367&t=KJV


Job 25
Bildad speaks for only 6 verses!


Job 26
Job rises up and questions his friends.

http://www.ordination.org

Job 27
:6 - My righteousness I hold fast, and will not let it go: my heart shall not reproach [me] so long as I live. ~So many of Job's expressions of words are very potent considering the condition of his life and physical body.  What a role model he is for glorifying God in the middle of no-matter-what!!!


Job 28
:3 - He setteth an end to darkness, and searcheth out all perfection: the stones of darkness, [=spiritual unreceptivity, calamity (fig.)]  and the shadow of death. ~If we are the lively stones building up the house of God, then what are these stones of darkness? 
:11 - He bindeth the floods from overflowing; and [the thing that is] hid bringeth he forth to light.
Job speaks of the preciousness of wisdom.
:28 - And unto man he said, Behold, the fear of the Lord, that [is] wisdom; and to depart from evil [is] understanding.


Job 29
Job remembers the good ol' days...As I was in the days of my youth, when the secret of God [was] upon my tabernacle (:4)
:6 - When I washed my steps with butter ~This is either very spiritual, or one of those expressions lost in translation...

Job 30
:17 - sinews = to gnaw, chew ~ perhaps like the gnashing of teeth Jesus often spoke of http://www.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?Strongs=H6207&t=KJV
:23 - the house appointed for all living. ~ The Father's House?  Back then it was Father Abraham's bosom everyone looked forward to going after death...


Job 31
:22 - Instead of May lightning strike me [if I'm lying], Job says, Let mine arm fall from my shoulder blade, and be broken from the bone


Job 32
Elihu - not one of the three friends - speaks up.
[I said], I will answer also my part, I also will shew mine opinion.
For I am full of matter, the spirit within me constraineth me.
Behold, my belly [is] as wine [which] hath no vent; it is ready to burst like new bottles.
I will speak, that I may be refreshed: I will open my lips and answer. (:17 - :20)

~I really appreciate this young guy stepping up and finally delivering the message that God was the one putting all this on Job.  :13 - God thrusteth him down, not man.

Job 33
:15 - :16 - 
In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falleth upon men, in slumberings upon the bed;  Then he openeth the ears of men, and sealeth their instruction, ~God teaches us when we sleep.  That gives a whole new perspective on dreams.

:23-25 - If there be a messenger with him, an interpreter, one among a thousand, to shew unto man his uprightness: Then he is gracious unto him, and saith, Deliver him from going down to the pit: I have found a ransom. His flesh shall be fresher than a child's: he shall return to the days of his youth:

~God's fountain of youth-being a messenger to show man his uprightness:30 - To bring back his soul from the pit, to be enlightened with the light of the living.


Job 34 
:31-32 - Surely it is meet to be said unto God, I have borne [chastisement], I will not offend [any more]: [That which] I see not teach thou me: if I have done iniquity, I will do no more.
~Chastisement brings deliverance from offense.  Ask to be taught what we can't see.


Job 35 
Not sure whose side Elihu is on.


Job 36
:2 - Elihu thinks he speaks on God's behalf


Job 37
:13 - Rain is for 3 things:  correction, for land, or for mercy


Job 38
GOD FINALLY SPEAKS...AND ANSWERS JOB!!!!  But not with any sympathy...(:3)
:7 - all the sons of God shouted for joy ~We're still shouting!
:32 - God acknowledges the zodiac Mazzaroth http://www.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?Strongs=H4216&t=KJV
Every time I think of the book and story of Job, I am amazed at the same 3 things:  1) Job had terrible friends 2)God waited 37 chapters to speak to Job 3)When God finally speaks, he acts as though he is disciplining Job, when He is the one that started all the torment in the first place as he was bragging on Job to Satan [ok, 5 things - 4)that God started it & 5)Satan gathered with the sons of God]


Job 39
God has a lot to say, finally, and uses many examples from nature.

www.ordination.org

Job 40
:15 - behemoth = a dinosaur? http://www.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?Strongs=H930&t=KJV
Most of this chapter God speaks of this creature and the ox.


Job 41
Leviathan=dragon? http://www.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?Strongs=H3882&t=KJV
God seems to be speaking of the largest creatures of nature to make a point that Job, nor any human, can control them as He can.  God is God, and that is it.  Maybe this is to take Job's mind off his own problems?  Think big?  Think God?

Job 42
God demands from Job previously, so now Job demands answers from God.
Then God rebukes the three "friends," but not Elihu.
:10 - And the LORD turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his friends: also the LORD gave Job twice as much as he had before.
Talk about praying for your enemies!  And winning the lotto with God!  Wow, that is a great reward.  Double his millionaire status.  And then (:14) names the 3 daughters, but not the sons.
Jemima = day by day http://www.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?Strongs=H3224&t=KJV
Kezia = cassia (one of the spices used in anointing oil) http://www.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?Strongs=H7103&t=KJV
Kerenhappuch = horn of antimony/paint http://www.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?Strongs=H7163&t=KJV

Job's Theme Song

Psalm 1
:3 - whatsoever he doeth shall prosper = no walking in ungodly counsel + no standing in sinners way + no sitting in scornful seat


Psalm 2
:4 - He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh
derision = to mock, deride, ridicule
:7 - Same quote as when the dove descended onto Jesus
:8 - heathen = inheritance
      possession = parts of the earth
*This is a good prayer to claim when it comes to the 10/40 window, which is said to be the part of the world having the least exposure to the Gospel.
:12 - Kiss the Son = could also be translated to Be equipped with the heir http://www.blogger.com/goog_1219162560 &
http://www.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?Strongs=H1248&t=KJV
 Psalm 3

"Youre my Glory" by Terry MacAlmon contains the words of this Psalm.  Anointed song.

Psalms 4
:3 - The LORD sets apart the godly for Himself
:4 - Commune with your own heart upon your bed and be still
~This Psalm seems to contain instruction about why and how to lead a solitary life in the LORD, which is often what it feels like in this world--solitary.




Psalms 5
:3 - David commits to praying in the morning.
Is Nehiloth the chief musician? Or the instrument with which the Psalm should be played? 
:6 - leasing = a lie, untruth, falsehood, deceptive thing http://www.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?Strongs=H3577&t=KJV
:9 - comparing the throat of the wicked to an open sepulchre/grave/tomb

Psalms 6
Sheminith = a) perhaps an eight-stringed musical instrument

b) perhaps a musical notation, i.e. an octave

http://www.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?Strongs=H8067&t=KJV


Psalms 7
Shiggaion
Cush the Benjamite
:8 - David asks God to judge him
:16 - pate = 1) head, crown of head, top of head, hairy crown, scalp - This word only appears this one time in the whole Bible!

http://www.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?Strongs=H6936&t=KJV

Psalms 8
Gittith = 1) a musical instrument? from Gath? and used in three Psalm titles - 8, 81, 84; a song title used for the Feast of Booths

http://www.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?Strongs=H1665&t=KJV

Psalms 9
:13 - gates of death
:14 - gates of the daughters of Zion

Psalms 10
I wonder how this Psalm sounded?  Wickedness and enemies...probably minor key.

Psalms 11
:4 - God has eyelids.

Psalms 12
:6 - The words of the LORD are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times.

Psalms 13
Good Psalm for the lost and lonely.

Psalms 14
:1 - Atheists are idiots.
:7 - Salvation comes from Zion.

Psalms 15
How to never be moved and abide in God.

Psalms 16
:10 - 11 - For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption. Thou wilt shew me the path of life: in thy presence is fulness of joy; at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore.The soul can be in hell even when it is in a live person.

Psalms 17
:15 -  I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy likeness.
YES!!!

Psalms 18




:11 - 12 - He made darkness his secret place; his pavilion round about him were dark waters and thick clouds of the skies.  At the brightness that was before him his thick clouds passed, hail stones and coals of fire.God lives in darkness.


Psalms 19
I was actually looking for another song, but found this one!  Even better!  So many wonderful modern praise songs are based on David's Psalms!  





Psalms 20
:6 - Now know I that the LORD saveth his anointed; he will hear him from his holy heaven with the saving strength of his right hand.




Psalms 21 
David talks to God king to King

Through Job 23 (page 690)

Esther 3 Hello Haman.
:13 - An unholy mailout commanding the destruction of all Jews.

Esther 4 Uncle Mordecai would not accept Esthers food and clothes she sent him.
Esther must have really trusted Hatach, the eunuch she communicated through to her uncle.

Esther 5 Wonder why Esther asked the king and Haman to 2 dinners before asking what she really wanted when the king already offered her half the kingdom when she first walked in.

Esther 6 Wow, I bet that really chapped Haman's hide to have to honor the one he wanted to kill.

Esther 7 Hung by his (Haman) own creation

Esther 8 :4 - golden sceptre
Yet again, one beautiful woman saves her whole household and nation....like Rahab.
:17 - many of the people of the land became Jews; for the fear of the Jews fell upon them You could become Jewish, even if you weren't born into it.  That also means they must have been multi-racial, and explains how Esther could have hidden her identity so easily.

Esther 9 :21 - Establishing a new holiday- when the Jews had rest from their enemies - "Purim" (:26)

Esther 10 The chapter is 3 verses long!

Job 1 :1 - There goes the expression "No one is perfect."  According to this verse, Job was.
:5 - Just in case offerings
:8 - I am constantly baffled that God is the one that initiated the stirring up of Job's life and torment.
:15 - Sabeans = seven or an oath = the same word as Sheba, as in the Queen of Sheba who came and visited Solomon. http://www.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?Strongs=H7614&t=KJV


Job 2 :3 - God brings Satan's attention again to Job
:10 - Shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil?  Maybe evil can be received more easily as an opportunity and possibility for good later
:11 - Job's 3 friends:  Eliphaz - Temanite
Bildad - Shuhite
Zophar - Naamathite
:13 - 7 days and 7 nights Job and the 3 friends sat silently with ripped clothes and dust on their head


Job 3 Job curses his own birthday instead of God or anything else.


Job 4 Eliphaz speaks first...and at first it seems like he has encouraging words, and then the famous ...but...


Job 5 Eliphaz still talking.  Making up for those silent 7, I suppose.
:17 - Behold, happy [is] the man whom God correcteth: therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty:
I don't think I would want anyone saying this to me after all my kids died and my whole body having boils all over...even if it's true...and I know it is.


Job 6 :8 - Job wishes he could die and calls the calamity arrows of the Almighty (:4)

Job 7 :14 - Bad dreams come with physical disease
Why? Why? Why?

Job 8

Bilad speaks next.


Job 9 It must be hard to listen to friends that you believe mean well, but have no idea what you've been through...experience wise.  They can't relate at all, but they sure can judge...or they think they can.
If...If....Ifffffff........
Many analogies to nature
:33 - daysman = to prove, decide, judge, rebuke, reprove, correct, be right http://www.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?Strongs=H3198&t=KJV


Job 10 Job speaks to God now instead of trying to answer his friends.  Sanity returns.
:18 - give up the ghost is in Scripture!


Job 11 Zophar speaks.
I see this thought often.  It is as if there is a limited amount of goodness, and for a person to try to claim some for themself, it would need to be taken away from someone else...or from God, for those religious minds.

Job 12 Job defends himself and speaks of God's power.

Job 13
Job continues to defend himself, questioning his friends' judgment and authority.

Job 14
A bit of hope perhaps?
:14 - If a man die, shall he live [again]? all the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come.

Job 15
Eliphaz speaks again.

Job 16
Job answers again.  He seems to be stronger in self-defense.
:20 - My friends scorn me: [but] mine eye poureth out [tears] unto God. ~Time for some new friends.

Job 17
:14 - I have said to corruption, Thou [art] my father: to the worm, [Thou art] my mother, and my sister. ~Despair sets in.

Job 18
Bildad speaks again. Is he putting all this wickedness on Job?  Saying he will be son-less and nephew-less?
:15 - brimstone

Job 19
Poor Job.  What kind of friends are these?  It is interesting that he talks of God doing all this to him.  He gives tribute to God even in the enemies' work.  Is this like giving credit to the boss or the corporation when it is the individual employees actually doing the work?  It's weird to think of Satan as God's employee.
:26 - And [though] after my skin [worms] destroy this [body], yet in my flesh shall I see God:
Job 20
Zophar speaks of the hypocrite and wicked man.

Job 21
Job's turn.  
:27 - Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices [which] ye wrongfully imagine against me.
Job 22
Eliphaz again.  He accuses him of not sharing his wealth when he had it.  I guess it makes sense to assume someone has done wrong if they are suffering so much, but if that is normal, maybe a new mind is required to download a different perspective of "normal."
Finally one of these "friends" says something nice:
:29 - When [men] are cast down, then thou shalt say, [There is] lifting up; and he shall save the humble person.
:30 - He shall deliver the island of the innocent: and it is delivered by the pureness of thine hands.

Job 23
Job's answer to Eliphaz.
:10 - :12 -   

Esther 3 Hello Haman.
:13 - An unholy mailout commanding the destruction of all Jews.

Esther 4 Uncle Mordecai would not accept Esthers food and clothes she sent him.
Esther must have really trusted Hatach, the eunuch she communicated through to her uncle.

Esther 5 Wonder why Esther asked the king and Haman to 2 dinners before asking what she really wanted when the king already offered her half the kingdom when she first walked in.

Esther 6 Wow, I bet that really chapped Haman's hide to have to honor the one he wanted to kill.

Esther 7 Hung by his (Haman) own creation

Esther 8 :4 - golden sceptre
Yet again, one beautiful woman saves her whole household and nation....like Rahab.
:17 - many of the people of the land became Jews; for the fear of the Jews fell upon them You could become Jewish, even if you weren't born into it.  That also means they must have been multi-racial, and explains how Esther could have hidden her identity so easily.

Esther 9 :21 - Establishing a new holiday- when the Jews had rest from their enemies - "Purim" (:26)

Esther 10 The chapter is 3 verses long!

Job 1 :1 - There goes the expression "No one is perfect."  According to this verse, Job was.
:5 - Just in case offerings
:8 - I am constantly baffled that God is the one that initiated the stirring up of Job's life and torment.
:15 - Sabeans = seven or an oath = the same word as Sheba, as in the Queen of Sheba who came and visited Solomon. http://www.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?Strongs=H7614&t=KJV


Job 2 :3 - God brings Satan's attention again to Job
:10 - Shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil?  Maybe evil can be received more easily as an opportunity and possibility for good later
:11 - Job's 3 friends:  Eliphaz - Temanite
Bildad - Shuhite
Zophar - Naamathite
:13 - 7 days and 7 nights Job and the 3 friends sat silently with ripped clothes and dust on their head


Job 3 Job curses his own birthday instead of God or anything else.


Job 4 Eliphaz speaks first...and at first it seems like he has encouraging words, and then the famous ...but...


Job 5 Eliphaz still talking.  Making up for those silent 7, I suppose.
:17 - Behold, happy [is] the man whom God correcteth: therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty:
I don't think I would want anyone saying this to me after all my kids died and my whole body having boils all over...even if it's true...and I know it is.


Job 6 :8 - Job wishes he could die and calls the calamity arrows of the Almighty (:4)

Job 7 :14 - Bad dreams come with physical disease
Why? Why? Why?

Job 8

Bilad speaks next.


Job 9 It must be hard to listen to friends that you believe mean well, but have no idea what you've been through...experience wise.  They can't relate at all, but they sure can judge...or they think they can.
If...If....Ifffffff........
Many analogies to nature
:33 - daysman = to prove, decide, judge, rebuke, reprove, correct, be right http://www.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?Strongs=H3198&t=KJV


Job 10 

Job speaks to God now instead of trying to answer his friends.  Sanity returns.
:18 - give up the ghost is in Scripture!


Job 11

 Zophar speaks.
I see this thought often.  It is as if there is a limited amount of goodness, and for a person to try to claim some for themself, it would need to be taken away from someone else...or from God, for those religious minds.

Job 12 

Job defends himself and speaks of God's power.

Job 13
Job continues to defend himself, questioning his friends' judgment and authority.

Job 14
A bit of hope perhaps?
:14 - If a man die, shall he live [again]? all the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come.

Job 15
Eliphaz speaks again.

Job 16
Job answers again.  He seems to be stronger in self-defense.
:20 - My friends scorn me: [but] mine eye poureth out [tears] unto God. ~Time for some new friends.

Job 17
:14 - I have said to corruption, Thou [art] my father: to the worm, [Thou art] my mother, and my sister. ~Despair sets in.

Job 18
Bildad speaks again. Is he putting all this wickedness on Job?  Saying he will be son-less and nephew-less?
:15 - brimstone

Job 19
Poor Job.  What kind of friends are these?  It is interesting that he talks of God doing all this to him.  He gives tribute to God even in the enemies' work.  Is this like giving credit to the boss or the corporation when it is the individual employees actually doing the work?  It's weird to think of Satan as God's employee.

:26 - And [though] after my skin [worms] destroy this [body], yet in my flesh shall I see God:
Job 20
Zophar speaks of the hypocrite and wicked man.

Job 21
Job's turn.  

:27 - Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices [which] ye wrongfully imagine against me.
Job 22
Eliphaz again.  He accuses him of not sharing his wealth when he had it.  I guess it makes sense to assume someone has done wrong if they are suffering so much, but if that is normal, maybe a new mind is required to download a different perspective of "normal."

Finally one of these "friends" says something nice:

:29 - When [men] are cast down, then thou shalt say, [There is] lifting up; and he shall save the humble person.
:30 - He shall deliver the island of the innocent: and it is delivered by the pureness of thine hands.

Job 23
Job's answer to Eliphaz.:10 - :12 - 

But he knoweth the way that I take: [when] he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.

My foot hath held his steps, his way have I kept, and not declined.

Neither have I gone back from the commandment of his lips; I have esteemed the words of his mouth more than my necessary [food].

Through Esther 2 (page 660)

Ezra 6
:1 - King Darius had to look up the old decree liberating the temple to be rebuilt in Jerusalem
:19 - 14th day of the 1st month = Passover


Ezra 7
:6 - Ezra was a ready scribe
:11 - also a priest
The king of kings of the land, Antarxerxes, commands a blessing and no taxes upon Israel


Ezra 8
of the sons of...of the sons of...the son of...and with him...
:21 - 1)proclaim a fast 2) afflict yourself 3)seek of God a right way for: a-me, b-children, c-stuff
*Instead of asking for bodyguards to protect them from their enemies along the journey back to Jerusalem, they fasted and gave a LARGE offering to the priests


Ezra 9
:9 - give us a reviving


Ezra 10
:3 - put away the strange wives and such as are born of them 
:13- the people are many, and it is a time of much rain...well, I can relate to part B of this statement


Nehemiah 1
Nehemiah = Jehovah comforts http://www.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?Strongs=H5166&t=KJV
:9 - to be cast into the uttermost part of heaven doesn't sound so bad


Nehemiah 2
Nehemiah is King Artaxerxes' cupbearer.  The king notices he is sad, but not sick, and Nehemaiah after fasting tells the king he is upset because of the state of Jerusalem.


Nehemiah 3
:1 - sheep gate
:3 - fish gate
:8 - goldsmiths and apothecaries mentioned
:13 - valley gate
:15 - gate of the fountain
:26 - water gate
:28 - horse gate
:29 - east gate
Interesting article on these gates: http://www.jesusplusnothing.com/studies/online/nehem3.htm

http://www.jesusplusnothing.com/studies/images/nehem3.gif

Nehemiah 4
:6 - people had a mind to work
:17 - working with one hand, holding a weapon in the other

http://lavistachurchofchrist.org/Pictures/Treasures%20of%20the%20Bible%20(Captivity%20and%20Return)/images/scan0003.jpg

Nehemiah 5
:3 - the word mortgaged is in the Bible
Ezra rebukes the Jews for charging interest to each other.


Nehemiah 6
:14 - prophetess Noadiah


Nehemiah 7
:3 - Nehemiah doesn't want the city to be opened until the sun is hot- summertime
the children of...the children of...the men of...
:65 - Urim and Thumim - they could not proceed without hearing from God.  This is how He spoke.

Nehemiah 8
Nehemiah = Tirshatha = governor
Making booths of branches for the Feast of Tabernacles
:16 - gate of Ephraim


Nehemiah 9
Children of Israel fasted with sackcloth and earth upon them...recalling the works of God in the time of Moses, as we recall the works of God in the time of Jesus 


Nehemiah 10
Sealed in covenant
:35-:37 - Firstfruits


Nehemiah 11
:1- Rulers lived in Jerusalem.  Everyone else cast lots.  1/10 stayed and 9/10 lived elsewhere.
:21 - Nethinims=temple servants -dwelt in Ophel
:22-23 - the singers were the temple business people and got paid daily


Nehemiah 12
:31 - dung gate
:39 - the old gate

http://www.gods-word-first.org/Images/nehemiah-jerusalem-map.gif

Nehemiah 13
:1 - Ammonites and Moabites were permanently restricted from joining the congregation for sending Baalim to curse Israel 
:31 - Remember me, O my God, for good.  Likewise.


Esther 1
:7 - Drinking glasses did not match
I have to wonder, if Beautiful Queen Vashti knew what the outcome would be of her refusal to appear, would she have changed her mind?  It makes me so thankful not to live in that kind of a day with strict rules even regarding husband and wife's behavior towards each other...and thankful not to be famous, for that matter...as it seems a lot of problems are created by people stirring up drama before the king of the day to manipulate him into their little traps and personal desires.


Esther 2
Enter fair young virgins...
:7 - Hadassah = myrtle = Jewish name of Esther
:10 - Esther had to keep her heritage a secret
Esther becomes the next queen and inspires the king to release gifts to the provinces.

Another map for your education...it shows locations of different OT events.

I LOVE MAPS!!!