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Every expositional study arranged in the order of the text — book by book, passage by passage.

25 books · 165 studies
GenesisExodusLeviticusDeuteronomyJudges1 KingsPsalmsIsaiahJeremiahEzekielDanielObadiahMatthewLukeJohnActsRomans1 Corinthians2 CorinthiansEphesians1 Timothy2 TimothyHebrewsRevelation1 Enoch

Old Testament

Genesis

66 studiesRead in order→
1After Their Kind — What Genesis 1 Refuses to Say About Humans, Angels, and the Image1:1–31The Creation Week1:27-3:16Male and Female He Created Them2:1–3The Seventh Day2:4–25The Garden3:1–24The Fall4:1–26Cain and Abel5, 11Did Abraham Know Noah?5:1-32From Adam to Noah5:21–24; 17:12; Lev 23:36; 1 Chr 2:15; Luk 2:21The Seventh and the Eighth6:1-4The Nephilim: What Genesis 6:1-4 Actually Says6:9-22Noah Found Favor: The Ark Commissioned7:1-8:14The Flood: Uncreation, Remembrance, Re-creation8:15-9:7The Noahic Charter: Altar, Aroma, Image9:8-29Rainbow and Curse: Bow, Vineyard, Oracle10:1-32The Table of Nations: The Divine Census Before the Rescue11:1-9The Name They Could Not Make: Babel, the Descent, and the City That Comes Down11:10-32From Shem to Terah: The Genealogy That Bridges Babel to Abram12:1-9The Call of Abram12:10-13:18Abram, Sarai, and Lot14:1-24Melchizedek and the Kings15:1-21The Covenant Cut16:1-16Hagar and Ishmael17:1-14El Shaddai and Circumcision17:15-27Sarah and Isaac18:1-15The Three at Mamre18:16-33The Judge of All the Earth19:1-29Fire from Heaven19:30-38Moab and Ammon — The Cave Coda of Sodom20:1–18Abimelech and Sarah21:1–34Isaac and Ishmael22:1-24The Akedah: The Lexical Seedbed of Substitutionary Atonement23:1-20The Cave of Machpelah24:1-28Rebekah at the Well: The Lexical Engine of Covenant Loyalty24:29-67Isaac and Rebekah: The Akedah Blessing on Aramean Lips and the First Husband-Loves-Wife25:1-18The Death of Abraham: Five Promises Kept in Eighteen Verses25:19-34Jacob and Esau: The Womb-Oracle, the Birthright, and the Verb of Contempt26:1-33Isaac in Gerar: The Sinai Vocabulary Before Sinai and the Triad Seeded at Beersheba27:1-46The Stolen Blessing: The Densest Blessing Chapter in the Canon28:1-22The Bethel Ladder: Jesus Is the Ladder29:1-35Leah and Rachel: The Hated Wife and the Line of Messiah30:1-24God Remembered Rachel: The Verse Mary Inherits30:25-43Jacob's Flocks: The Bethel Promise Begins to Burst Forth31:1-21The Angel of Bethel: I Am the God Who Met You31:22-55The Mizpah Covenant: One Cairn, Two Tongues32:1-32The Wrestling at Peniel: The Grasper Becomes Israel33:1–20The Brothers Reconciled34:1-31Dinah and Shechem: When the Text Withholds Its Verdict35:1-29The Return to Bethel36:1–37:1The Line of Esau37:2–36Joseph's Dreams: The Architecture of a Betrayal38:1-30Judah and Tamar: The Recognition That Reversed a Brother39:1-23The LORD Was with Joseph40:1-23The Cupbearer and the Baker41:1-57Pharaoh's Dreams42:1-38Joseph Recognizes His Brothers43:1-34Judah's Surety for Benjamin44:1-34Judah Offers Himself45:1-28God Sent Me Before You46:1-34I Will Go Down With You47:1-31Jacob Blessed Pharaoh48:1-22The Angel Who Redeemed Me48:13–20; Psa 89:27; Col 1:15–18The Firstborn49:1-33Until Shiloh Comes49:5–12; 1 Chr 5:1–2; Heb 7:11–17Priesthood and Scepter50:1-26God Meant It for Good

Exodus

55 studiesRead in order→
1:1-22The Midwives Feared God2:1-25Drawn from the Water3:1-22I AM That I AM4:1-31Israel My Firstborn5:1-23Who Is YHWH6:1-30I Will Redeem You7:1-25Who Hardened Pharaoh's Heart8:1-32A Division Between the Peoples9:1-35Those Who Feared the Word10:1-29Darkness That Can Be Felt11:1-10Not a Dog Shall Growl12:1-20When I See the Blood12:21-51A Night of Watching13:1-22The Pillar of Cloud and Fire14:1-14Stand Still and See the Salvation14:15-31They Feared and Believed15:1-21The Song of the Sea15:22-27I Am YHWH Your Healer16Bread from Heaven17:1-7Water from the Rock17:8-16The LORD Is My Banner18Jethro, the Priest of Midian19A Kingdom of Priests20:1-21The Ten Words20:22-22:17An Eye for an Eye22:18-23:13You Were Strangers in Egypt23:14-33My Name Is in Him24:1-18The Blood of the Covenant25:1-22That I May Dwell Among Them25:23-40The Bread and the Light26:1-37The Veil27:1-8The Bronze Altar27:9-21The Courtyard28:1-30The Ephod and the Breastpiece28:31-43The Robe and the Golden Plate29:1-37The Ordination of the Priests29:38-46That I Might Dwell Among Them30:1-16The Altar of Incense and the Ransom of Souls30:17-21The Bronze Laver30:22-38Make No Other Like It31:1-11Filled with the Spirit31:12-18The Sign of the Sabbath32:1-14These Are Your Gods32:15-35Blot Me Out of Your Book33:1-11Face to Face33:12-23Show Me Your Glory34:1-9Merciful and Gracious34:10-28Whose Name Is Jealous34:29-35The Skin of His Face Shone35:1-29A Willing Heart35:30-36:38More Than Enough37:1-29The Mercy Seat38:1-31The Bronze Altar and the Court39:1-43As the LORD Commanded Moses40:1-38The Glory Filled the Tabernacle

Leviticus

7 studiesRead in order→
1:1-17The Burnt Offering2:1-16The Grain Offering3:1-17The Peace Offering4:1-35The Sin Offering5:1-13The Graduated Offering12:1-8The Harder Cases23:15–22Count Fifty Days

Deuteronomy

1 study
31:12Men and Women Under Torah

Judges

2 studies
4:4Deborah, Huldah, and the Women Who LedJdg 6:11–16; 1 Sam 16:1–13; Mat 20:16The Youngest Chosen

1 Kings

1 study
19:4The Bible and the Burden

Psalms

1 study
2:9The Rod of Iron

Isaiah

2 studies
45:5-7I Form Light and Create Darkness53:4–6The Wounded Healer

Jeremiah

1 study
31:31–34"One Plan, One People" — The Covenants from Abraham to Christ

Ezekiel

6 studies
36:22For His Name's Sake38–39Who is Gog?38:1-6Names on a Map, Not Codes in a Bloodline: Reading Ezekiel's Coalition (Ezekiel 38:1–6)38:7-23Hooks in His Jaws: Yahweh as the Agent of Gog's Defeat (Ezekiel 38:7-23)39:9-16Cleansing the Land: Why the Aftermath of Gog's Defeat Is Not a Memorial (Ezekiel 39:9-16)39:17-21The Great Sacrifice: Yahweh's Feast and the Inverted Cult (Ezekiel 39:17-21 + Revelation 19:17-21)

Daniel

4 studies
2; 7; 8Cut Without Hands — Daniel 2, 7, and 8 on the Final Kingdom and Its Last King8:1–27Yavan and the Time of the End (Part 2)8:1–27What is Yavan? (Part 1)12:7–121,260, 1,290, 1,335 — What Daniel's Numbers Actually Say

Obadiah

1 study
1:1–21The Day That Swallows a Day

New Testament

Matthew

4 studies
3:2The Kingdom of Heaven12:40Three Days and Three Nights13:1-50"The Keys He Gave Us" — The Parables Jesus Explained13:31-46"Reading With the Keys" — The Kingdom Parables Jesus Did NOT Explain

Luke

1 study
3:23The Fullness of Time: Why Thirty?

John

1 study
20:18Neither Male Nor Female: What Jesus Did with Women

Acts

1 study
3:19–21"The Restitution of All Things" — apokatastasis pantōn (Acts 3:21)

Romans

1 study
16:1-7Phoebe, Priscilla, Junia: What the Greek Calls the Women

1 Corinthians

1 study
6:9-11Who Will Not Inherit the Kingdom

2 Corinthians

1 study
5:8Where Do Christians Go When They Die?

Ephesians

1 study
5:21-33Wives Submit, Husbands Love: The Household Codes

1 Timothy

1 study
2:11-15I Do Not Permit a Woman to Teach: Three Commands, Three Problems

2 Timothy

1 study
2:15"Rightly Dividing" — What Dispensationalism Claims and What the Text Says

Hebrews

1 study
1:1-3Upheld by His Word

Revelation

2 studies
17:1-18:24Mystery Babylon21:23Light Sources in Revelation

Outside the Canon

1 Enoch

2 studies
1-108"Testing the Seams" — Is 1 Enoch One Book or Five?37-71"The Son of Man Who Wasn't There" — The Parables of Enoch and the NT