The book of Proverbs is crowded with women — but almost none of them are real people. That is the...

Scripture’s verdict on Ahab is the harshest delivered on any king of Israel: “Ahab son of Omri did more evil...

Every human story begins with his. Before there were nations, laws, or cities — before there was sin, suffering, or...

He came in from the field empty-handed and desperate, smelling of sweat and game trails, and traded his future for...

His name means “God strengthens” — and he would need every ounce of it. Ezekiel was a priest who never...

Ask a longtime Bible reader which Old Testament book feels most like the New Testament, and you will hear one...

The elders of Gilead had thrown him out years earlier. Now they were standing at his door, begging. The Ammonites...

Few names in the Bible carry the charge that “Jezebel” does. Say it in a sermon and the room tightens....

He preached for forty years and, as far as the record shows, won almost no one. He was beaten, mocked,...

Scripture gives King Hezekiah of Judah an epitaph that no other king of his era received: “He trusted in the...