{"id":4566,"date":"2024-05-07T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-07T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/handstotheplow.org\/reading-plan\/may-7\/"},"modified":"2025-09-18T16:33:41","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T21:33:41","slug":"may-7","status":"publish","type":"reading-plan","link":"https:\/\/handstotheplow.org\/am\/reading-plan\/may-7\/","title":{"rendered":"May 7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Insight from 2 Kings 13<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Perhaps the clearest and most significant Old Testament statement of Yahweh\u2019s character and action is Exodus 34:6: \u201cThe Lord, the Lord, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness.\u201d The Old Testament then reasserts this truth numerous times to clarify why it is that God continued to pardon and preserve a wayward people: \u201cBut the Lord was gracious to them and had compassion on them, and he turned toward them, because of his cove\u00ad nant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and would not destroy them, nor has he cast them from his presence until now\u201d (2 Kings 13:23). \u201cFor if you return to the Lord, your brothers and your children will find compassion with their captors and return to this land. For the Lord your God is gracious and merciful and will not turn away his face from you, if you return to him\u201d (2 Chron. 30:9). \u201cMany years you bore with them and warned them by your Spirit through your prophets. Yet they would not give ear. Therefore you gave them into the hand of the peoples of the lands. Nevertheless, in your great mercies you did not make an end of them or forsake them, for you are a gracious and merciful God\u201d (Neh. 9:30\u201331). Thus, God\u2019s grace fills the Old Testament.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"give_campaign_id":0,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_crdt_document":""},"class_list":["post-4566","reading-plan","type-reading-plan","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/handstotheplow.org\/am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/reading-plan\/4566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/handstotheplow.org\/am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/reading-plan"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/handstotheplow.org\/am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/reading-plan"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/handstotheplow.org\/am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}