Josh’s Blog

Haggai 2:8 (CSB)"'The silver and gold belong to me' — this is the declaration of the LORD of Armies." When the builders' testimony reached King Darius, he ordered a search of the royal archives (Ezra 6:1). If Cyrus had truly issued a decree, it had to be written down...

Ezra 5:12 (CSB)"But since our ancestors angered the God of the heavens, he handed them over to King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon, the Chaldean, who destroyed this temple and deported the people to Babylon." Tattenai's report to King Darius carried the builders' own...

Proverbs 21:1 (CSB)"A king's heart is like channeled water in the LORD's hand: He directs it wherever he chooses." Tattenai, governor of the region west of the Euphrates, arrived in Jerusalem with a fair question in a nervous empire. Who gave you the order to rebuild...

1 Peter 3:12 (CSB)"because the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous and his ears are open to their prayer. But the face of the Lord is against those who do what is evil." The Persian empire ran on eyes. King Darius ruled from India to Ethiopia and held it together...