Shan Ruby

2 Samuel 5:4 David was thirty years old when he became king, and he reigned forty years: in Hebron he was king over Judah seven years and...

**Reflection** The Israelites asked for a king, Samuel did not want to give them a king but he did as they requested. Samuel wanted them...

**Reflection** We all face challenges throughout our lives, no one is perfect only God is perfect. It's interesting how hardship humbles...

41 With his shield-bearer marching before him, the Philistine also advanced closer and closer to David. 42 When he had sized David up, and seen that he was youthful, and ruddy, and handsome in appearance, he held him in contempt. 43 The Philistine said to David, “Am I a dog that you come against me with a staff?” Then the Philistine cursed David by his gods 44 and said to him, “Come here to me, and I will leave your flesh for the birds of the of the air and the beasts of the

In Babylon there lived a man named Joakim, who married a very beautiful and God-fearing woman, Susanna, the daughter of Hilkiah; her pious parents had trained their daughter, according to the law of Moses. Joakim was very rich; he had a garden near his house, and the Jews had recourse to him often because he was the most respected of them all. That year, two elders of the people were appointed judges, of whom the Lord said “Wickedness has come out of Babylon: from the elders

1. There is an appointed time for everything, and a time for every affair under the heavens. 2. A time to be born, and a time to die; a...

16 And still under the sun in the judgment place, I saw wickedness, and in the seat of justice, inequity. 17 And I said to myself, both...

1 Once in the time of the judges there was a famine in the land; so a man from Bethlehem of Judah departed with his wife and two sons to...