The Bible by David Alley

In this video listen to 1 Chronicles Chapter 13, read by David Alley, followed by comments and prayer. In 1 Chronicles 13 we observe that there are different types of people - those that want to improve things their own way apart from God, those that want to do things for God, but make assumptions, as David did in this chapter, and those who seek the Lord. In this chapter David tries to bring the...

In this video listen to 1 Chronicles Chapter 12, read by David Alley, followed by comments and prayer. In 1 Chronicles 12 even before David is king of Judah, men are leaving the tribe of Benjamin, even while David is hiding from Saul. When we are persecuted for our faith, it is a witness to the Lord, and just as David drew people to his way during his persecution, so can we. In fact this is often...

In this video listen to 1 Chronicles Chapter 11, read by David Alley, followed by comments and prayer. In 1 Chronicles 11 we discuss why the Chronicles account skips so much history that was included in Samuel and Kings. And in this chapter we go back over David's mighty men, and ask - why are there extra people listed here that were not in the Samuel list? Then we talk about Bethlehem, which was...

In this video listen to 1 Chronicles Chapter 10, read by David Alley, followed by comments and prayer. In 1 Chronicles 10 we cover for the second time, the death of King Saul. He is one of just a handful of people who commit suicide in scripture. He was afraid of capture because tThe things that happened when the enemy leader was captured were often terrible. There was often the risk of torture, h...

In this video listen to 1 Chronicles Chapter 9, read by David Alley, followed by comments and prayer. In 1 Chronicles 9 is the last of 9 entire chapters of genealogies of the people of God and Israel right through to the exile. After this the book proceeds to narrative. The last of nine chapters which present as incredibly dull, and yet are somehow quite remarkable. Burt Coffmans wrote that “These...

In this video listen to 1 Chronicles Chapter 8, read by David Alley, followed by comments and prayer. In 1 Chronicles 8 is the eighth of 9 entire chapters of genealogies of the people of God and Israel right through to the exile. Weirdly this is the second time we have a genealogy of Benjamin - the one in 7:7-12 above is conjectured to be possibly Zebulun because it was a missing tribe an the gene...

In this video listen to 1 Chronicles Chapter 7, read by David Alley, followed by comments and prayer. In 1 Chronicles 7 is the seventh of 9 entire chapters of genealogies of the people of God and Israel right through to the exile. We are now going through the remainder of the tribes, one by one. Sadly, poor Naphtali gets just one verse. More than one commentator thinks these genealogies are reflec...

In this video listen to 1 Chronicles Chapter 6, read by David Alley, followed by comments and prayer. In 1 Chronicles 6 is the sixth of 9 entire chapters of genealogies of the people of God and Israel right through to the exile. This chapter has 81 verses, the chapter with the third most in the Bible, but not the third longest as some of the verses here are quite short. And we are now up to the 6t...

In this video listen to 1 Chronicles Chapter 5, read by David Alley, followed by comments and prayer. In 1 Chronicles 5 is the fifth of 9 entire chapters of genealogies of the people of God and Israel right through to the exile. Here the genealogy of Reuben is the third of the tribes to be listed, despite him being firstborn, Instead Joseph takes the double portion, and because he had two sons, bo...

In this video listen to 1 Chronicles Chapter 4, read by David Alley, followed by comments and prayer. In 1 Chronicles 4 is the fourth of 9 entire chapters of genealogies of the people of God and Israel right through to the exile. The genealogies start going through the tribes one by one. They begin with Judah, and then next is Simeon, an interesting order, given that these were sons, number 4 and...

In this video listen to 1 Chronicles Chapter 3, read by David Alley, followed by comments and prayer. In 1 Chronicles 3 is the third of 9 entire chapters of genealogies of the people of God and Israel right through to the exile. We find in Chronicles that while much is repeated - it is done in a different light, but in addition there is other material that wasn’t in Kings. The Chronicler has other...

In this video listen to 1 Chronicles Chapter 2, read by David Alley, followed by comments and prayer. In 1 Chronicles 2 is the second of 9 entire chapters of genealogies of the people of God and Israel right through to the exile. The book of Chronicles is going to cover a lot of material already covered in Genesis, the Judges, the Kings and more. Why is there a recovering? Because this is written...

In this video listen to 1 Chronicles Chapter 1, read by David Alley, followed by comments and prayer. In 1 Chronicles 1 is the first of 9 entire chapters of genealogies of the people of God and Israel right through to the exile. So with the book, A new scroll is opened - the scroll of Chronicles, which at the time of the translation into Greek doubled in size because of the addition of vowels and...

In this video listen to 2 Kings Chapter 25, read by David Alley, followed by comments and prayer. In 2 Kings Chapter 25 Nebuchadnezzar comes a third time to Jerusalem without patience and the city is utterly destroyed according to the words of Jeremiah and other prophets. Why did it take 20 years for Nebuchadnazzer to destroy Jerusalem - why didn't he do it properly ten years earlier? Could it hav...

In this video listen to 2 Kings Chapter 24, read by David Alley, followed by comments and prayer. In 2 Kings Chapter 24 is the first time Nebuchadnazzer came against Judah was here in 605 BC and he took away key people. This was the beginning of the 70 years prophesied by Jeremiah, which Daniel who was in the first round of exiles counted from. Jeremiah 25:11 “This whole country will become a deso...

In this video listen to 2 Kings Chapter 23, read by David Alley, followed by comments and prayer.

In this video listen to 2 Kings Chapter 21, read by David Alley, followed by comments and prayer. In 2 Kings Chapter 21 Manasseh is the 14th monarch and the 13th king of Judah. Despite having a wonderful name - one of the twelve tribes of Israel - he is a terrible king. Manasseh was worse than the Amorites… worse than “all the nations’ before. He filled Jerusalem with blood… one phrase that speaks...

In this video listen to 2 Kings Chapter 20, read by David Alley, followed by comments and prayer. In 2 Kings Chapter 20 Hezekiah knows he is dying and goes to prayer. As we have learned from other places in the Bible, you can challenge the Lord, and he even likes it. Not challenged by disobedience as some do, but a challenge by taking him on with fasting and prayer and surrender - the things he lo...

In this video listen to 2 Kings Chapter 19, read by David Alley, followed by comments and prayer. In 2 Kings Chapter 19 Hezekiah goes to the Lord concerned about the Assyrian siege. His father Ahaz, and later his son Manasseh go toward the Assyrian gods. It was a common misconception that the gods of the strongest nations were the strongest gods, but there was plenty of Israelite history to demons...

In this video listen to 2 Kings Chapter 18, read by David Alley, followed by comments and prayer. In 2 Kings Chapter 18 we meet Hezekiah, the 13th monarch and 12th king of Judah. He doesn’t just follow the Lord, he trusts the Lord. This is why he breaks with paying tribute to Assyria. The Assyrians seem to have been forcing Ahaz (his Dad) to pay tribute and along with that worship their gods. So t...

In this video listen to 2 Kings Chapter 17, read by David Alley, followed by comments and prayer. In 2 Kings Chapter 17 we meet Hoshea, the 19th and the last king of Israel. He is also from a new dynasty or family line, representing a ninth “dynasty.” Technically these “one king lines” are not dynasties, but what else can you call them? The “promises” of Deuteronomy 28 are now in full swing. The L...

In this video listen to 2 Kings Chapter 16, read by David Alley, followed by comments and prayer. In 2 Kings Chapter 16 we have the chapter about King Ahaz. Ahaz was the 12th monarch and 11th king of Judah. Ahaz is also the king that Isaiah gives his famous sign to in Isaiah 7:1-10. Ahaz refuses to believe that God wants to deliver Judah, and he instead turns to other gods to trust them. The sign...

In this video listen to 2 Kings Chapter 15, read by David Alley, followed by comments and prayer. In 2 Kings Chapter 15 we have the chapter of seven kings. Here they are: Uzziah, also known as Azariah, 10th Monarch of Judah Zechariah, 14th king of Israel Shallum, 15th king of Israel Menahem, 16th king of Israel Pekahiah, 17th king of Israel Pekah, 18th king of Israel Jothan, 11th monarch of Judah...

In this video listen to 2 Kings Chapter 14, read by David Alley, followed by comments and prayer. In 2 Kings Chapter 14 Amaziah becomes the ninth monarch, and the eighth king of Judah, and weirdly becomeos antagonistic towards the northern nation of Israel. The two nations have gotten along for so long, all through the reigns of the last 5 or 6 kings from the time of Jehosaphat, so why this sudden...

In this video listen to 2 Kings Chapter 13, read by David Alley, followed by comments and prayer. In 2 Kings Chapter 13 we discuss Jehoahaz, and Jehoash and the first of the Assyrian incursions into Israel - the nations are beginning to invade as prophesied. We discuss what Asaph wrote in Psalm 79…. And the post death resurrection miracle of Elisha… his second resurrection.