Digging Deeper Daily: By Daily Bible Reading PodcastSample

GENESIS 17-18:
In chapter 15 we heard of God's covenant with Abram and Abram's fully believing God's promises. Then in chapter 16 we read of Abram and Sarai trying to help God fulfill his promises.

Chapter 15 verse 6 is a famous verse that is quoted three times in the NT: “Abram put his trust in the Lord, and because of this the Lord was pleased with him and accepted him.” (GNT) The NT translates this verse a bit differently because it is quoted from the Septuagint. The Septuagint (often referred to as the LXX) is the ancient translation of the Old Testament into Koine Greek, made in the third and second centuries BC.

JOB 9:
In chapter 8, Bildad defended God as always acting with justice and insisted that this meant that there had to be some sin committed by Job or his children.

MARK 6a:
In the second half of Mark5, Jesus did two amazing miracles— the second one causing a dead girl to live again.

In our translations in Indonesia, it was found to help understanding to give Herodias a more feminine sounding name. In Indonesian Herod is Herodes, and Herodias was too close in sound and the two names became confused. Even though English does not have that problem, I think it helps a little to give Herodias a name that people will recognize as a girl-name, Herodiana.