About the Author of the Blogsite, Not the Author of the Bible:

About the Author of the Blogsite, Not the Author of the Bible: I was uncertain of how to accomplish this, mindful of Revelation 22:18-19, which says that nobody is to add to, or to take away from what was written in the Bible. After lots of prayerful contemplation, the Lord had it on my heart that I’m not to change the meaning of what is written in the Bible. He has also shown ways to add to people’s understating of that meaning, without altering the meaning, by putting that info within [brackets]. This is primarily accomplished with the KJV Bible and lots of prayers, but at times, BibleGateway.com, Biblehub.com, NIV Bible, Webster Dictionary, and other internet resources, as needed. Debra Seiling

About Understanding the Bible:

Understanding the Bible: After reading Isaiah 28:10 many times over the years and not totally understanding it, it recently became apparent to me that the Lord God has this passage as the means for understanding the Bible. For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little. Isaiah 28:10 KJV. Being prayerful about this passage, and looking up 'precept' in the Webster's Dictionary, it gave this passage a whole new meaning, once 'commandment' is substituted for 'precept'. Within brackets are additional words the Lord had on my heart to aid in understanding the meaning. For commandment must be [built up] upon commandment; commandment upon commandment; line upon line, line upon line; [developing understanding] here a little, and there a little.

The Table Format:

The Table Format: I was overwhelmed with how to explain the process for determining if someone had leprosy in Leviticus 13, which seemed very complicated. After praying, "Lord, if this is difficult for me to understand after reading it many times, how can this be explained to others?" The thought the Lord God had on my heart was for me to put it into a vertical chart to visually see the process. This made it much easier for me to follow the progression. After doing so, I prayed, "Lord, how can this be conveyed to readers, so that they can understand this process?" The thought the Lord God had on my heart was to put it within the lines of a table. Being a stiff-necked, stubborn person, as it's often called in the Bible, I prayed, asking the Lord God if He's sure that's really what He wanted me to do? I reluctantly put Leviticus 13 into a table format. When I read this difficult leprosy process within a table format, it suddenly became easier for me to understand. That's because it builds line upon line, as explained in the Understanding the Bible section. Shortly after that, the Lord God had it on my heart, to put all of The Books of the Bible in Smaller Chunks within a table format, to aid in understanding, line upon line.

1 Kings 15:1-34 Asa Rules Over Judah

 

Asa Rules Over Judah

1 Kings 15:1-34                               1 Kings [in Smaller Chunks]


In the 18th year king Jeroboam, [Nebat’s] son [ruled,] Abijam [a.k.a. Abijah] [ruled] over Judah. [Abijam ruled for] 3 years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Maachah, [Abishalom’s] daughter.

He walked in all the sins of his father had done before him & [Abiajam’s] heart wasn’t perfect with the Lord his God, [like] the heart of David his [forefather]. [But] for David’s sake, the Lord his God [gave] him a lamp in Jerusalem, to set up his son after him & to establish Jerusalem.

Because David did [what] was right in the eyes of the Lord & didn’t turn [away] from anything the [Lord God] commanded him all his life, [except] only in the matter of Uriah, the Hittite [when David was intimate with Bathsheba, Uriah’s wife]. 

There was war between Rehoboam [Solomon’s son] & Jeroboam [Nebat’s son] all [their lives]. [Aren’t] the rest of [Abijam’s actions] & all he did written in the Book of Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?

There was war between Abijam & Jeroboam. Abijam [died] & slept with his [forefathers] & they buried him in the city of David. Asa [Abijam’s] son [ruled] in his [place]. 

In the 20th year Jeroboam [ruled as Israel’s] king, Asa [ruled] over Judah. [Asa ruled] 41 years in Jerusalem. His [grandmother’s] name was Maacha, the daughter of Abishalom. 

Asa did [what] was right in the eyes of the Lord, as did David his [forefather]. He took away the sodomites [from] the land & removed all the idols [false gods] his father had made. He even removed his [grandmother,] Maachan, from being queen, because she had made an idol [false god] in a grove [place of worshiping the false gods].

Asa destroyed her idol [false god] & burnt it by the Brook [of] Kidron. But the high places [where they worshiped false gods] weren’t removed. [But] Asa’s heart was perfect with the Lord all his [life].

He brought the things his father had dedicated & the things that [he] dedicated, into the [Lord’s] house: [of] silver, gold & [various dedicated articles]. There was war between Asa [king of Judah] & Baasha, [Israel’s] king, all their [lives]. 

Baasha, [Israel’s] king, went up against Judah & built [up] Ramah, [so he wouldn’t allow anyone] to go out or come into Asa, [Judah’s] king. 

Then, Asa took all the silver & gold that were left in the treasures of the [Lord’s] house & the treasures [from] the king’s house & [put] them into the hands of his servants.

King Asa sent them to BenHadad, [Tabrimon’s] son, [who was] the son of Hezion, [Syria’s] king, [who lived] in Damascus, saying, there is a [alliance] between me & you & between my father & your father.

[Look,] I have sent you a present of silver & gold. Come & break your [alliance] with Baasha, [Israel’s] king, [so] he may depart from me. 

Ben Hadad [listened] to king Asa & sent [army] captains against the cities of Israel & [attacked] Ijon, Dan, AbelBethMaacha, all [of] Cinneroth, with all the land of Naphtali. 

When Baasha heard [of this,] he [stopped] building Ramah & [stayed] in Tirzah. Then, king Asa made a proclamation throughout all Judah.

[No one] was exempted & they took away the stones & timber of Ramah, Baasha [had used to build & king Asa built Geba & Mizpah with them, [in the land of the tribes of] Benjamin.

[Aren’t] the rest of all [Asa’s actions,] all his might, all he did & all the cities he built written in the Book of Chronicles of the Kings of Judah? [But] in the time of his old age, he was diseased in his feet.

Asa [died] & slept with his [forefathers]. He was buried with his [forefathers] in the city of David, his [forefather]. Jehoshaphat, his son, [ruled] in his [place]. Nadab, [Jeroboam’s] son, began to [rule] over Israel in the 2nd year Asa [ruled as] king of Judah. 

[Nadab ruled] over Israel [for] 2 years. He did [wickedly] in the sight of the Lord [God] & walked in the [ways] of his father [by worshiping false gods] & making Israel sin [by worshiping false gods, instead of the Lord God].

Baasha, [Ahijah’s] son, [from] the house of Issachar, conspired against [Nadab] & Baasha [killed Nadab while he] & all [of] Israel [attacked] Gibbethon, [that] belonged to the Philistines. 

Even [during Asa’s] 3rd year [as Israel’s] king, Baasha [killed] him & [ruled] in his [place]. When [Baasha ruled,] it [happened] that he [killed] all the house of Jeroboam.

[Baasha] left [none alive,] until he destroyed them, according to what the Lord [God] had [said] by His servant, Ahijah, the Shilonite, because of the sins of Jeroboam

[when Jeroboam made 2 false gods, gold calves, for the Israelites to worship, instead of going to Jerusalem to offer sacrifices to the Lord God, plus Jeroboam made places for the Israelites to worship the false gods];

And [Jeroboam] made Israel sin & he provoked the Lord God of Israel to anger [by these sins]. [Aren’t] the rest of [Nadab’s actions] & all he did, written in the Book of the Chronicles of the kings of Israel? 

There was a war between Asa & Baasha, [Israel’s] king, all their [lives]. [During] Asa’s 3rd year [as Judah’s] king, Baasha, [Ahijah’s] son, began to [rule] over all [of] Israel in Tirzah, [for] 24 years.

[Baasha did wickedly] in the sight of the Lord [God,] & walked in the [ways] of Jeroboam & [making] Israel sin [by worshiping the false gods Jeroboam made].