June 17, Day 168

Today's Reading

Proverbs. These are more proverbs of Solomon, collected by the advisers of King Hezekiah of Judah. (Proverbs 25:1 NLT) Hezekiah lived many generations after Solomon. He is introduced in 2 Chronicles 25:1 (NLT) with these words: Hezekiah was twenty-five years old when he became the king of Judah, and he reigned in Jerusalem twenty-nine years. His mother was Abijah, the daughter of Zechariah. A good king, Hezekiah organized the people who cared for the temple (among many righteous acts); no doubt some of them found scrolls of writings from Solomon as they dug through the dusty old storage places. These were collected and recorded us for in these latter chapters of Proverbs.