April 30, 2020
2020 is now one-third finished so I know I should’ve read 33.33333% of the bible by today (in my bible one-third is 571 pages).
I add up the numbers for Genesis – I Chronicles + Proverbs + Song of Solomon + the Psalms that I’ve read so far. 726 pages. I run that number and see that 726 pages is 41.96% of the bible. So that’s a relief.
There were a couple of things in play for me this month. For one, I decided on March 31 to try reading one book per calendar week so that forced me over the 100 chapters / month mark. Being quarantined might have helped a bit, too.
I’m looking ahead now, doing a quick count. The II-Chronicles-Ezra-Nehemiah-Esther-Job block is 111 chapters. Close enough to 100 chapters for the month. I think I’ll aim for that.
Note: in my April 27 post I wondered why two tribes – Levi and Judah – dominated the tribal verse-count in I Chronicles 1-9. The inequity was pretty surprising and I wondered: is the chronicler intentionally highlighting the David-Judah-kingly tribe and the Levi-priestly-religious line? And I wondered: what will the rest of the book show? What I found was that the last nineteen chapters of the book are the life of David, and sandwiched into that section dagwood-style there are about eleven chapters on the ark, the temple, and the work of the Levites. So…the mhj Unscientific Conclusion is: the chronicler was interested most of all in Judah and Levi.