1. שׁלישׁי - "Thus says the Lord, the God of David your father: I have heard your prayer; I have seen your tears. Behold, I will heal you. On the third day you shall go up to the house of the Lord." 2 KINGS 20:5
  2. שׂק - As soon as King Hezekiah heard it, he tore his clothes and covered himself with sackcloth and went into the house of the Lord. 2 KINGS 19:1
  3. Today on the Almanac, we go to the mailbag to answer a question about Scandinavian Pietism.
  4. מחראה - They demolished the pillar of Baal, and demolished the house of Baal, and made it a latrine to this day. 2 KINGS 10:27
  5. Today on the Almanac, we talk about the first of the “Big A’s”: St. Augustine.
  6. It has been 1 year since Katie and Gretchen started the Freely Given podcast.
  7. . . . or are we an evil and adulterous generation? The difference is whether the Holy Spirit will cause us to hear the Word, or not
  8. Today on the Almanac, we remember another “father of modern church music,” Josquin Deprez.
  9. נער קטן - So [Naaman] went down and dipped himself seven times in the Jordan, according to the word of the man of God, and his flesh was restored like the flesh of a little child, and he was clean. 2 KINGS 5:14
  10. Everyone must enter heaven like a child.
  11. קרח - [Elisha] went up from there to Bethel, and while he was going up on the way, some small boys came out of the city and jeered at him, saying, “Go up, you baldhead! Go up, you baldhead!” And he turned around, and when he saw them, he cursed them in the name of the Lord. And two she-bears came out of the woods and tore forty-two of the boys. 2 KINGS 2:23–24