Daily Archives: February 24, 2013

oil and butter

Psalm 55 David used oil and butter as similes to describe the smoothness and softness of the speech of his former friend. Those soft words were swords.  The former friend betrayed him, and sought his destruction.  He now casts that … Continue reading

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yet more faithless

2 Chronicles 28 Ahaz was so determined to reject the LORD that when things got worse for him and his kingdom, he became yet more faithless.  He had reasoned that the victors in the battles of the day must have … Continue reading

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