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My Premium Calfskin English Standard Version Study Bible was waiting for me on the front porch yesterday. I opened the box, took off the shrink wrap, and opened it upon the table…and it laid there without closing up. It was almost like it was already broken in from months of use.
The bindery is much better [...]

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Susan received her ESV-SB hardcover yesterday. Scott got his ESV-SB Trutone too. Scott said, “That Study Bible is like having Jesus right there with you.” From down the hall, we heard Brad say, “He is, Scott.”
My calfskin ESV-SB won’t ship until next week. Besides using it in my devotional reading with Susan, I look forward [...]

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A Character Study of Abigail
After the death of Samuel, the story of Abigail is related in scripture. Abigail was the wife a badly behaved, harsh man named Nabal, a Calebite (1Sa 25:13). David and his men were in the wilderness and hearing of Nabal shearing his sheep (perhaps an idiom not then used but [...]

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A Character Study of Eli
Eli was the great-grandson of Aaron (Exo 6:23-24 shows Eli’s father, Elkanah, in the Aaronic line) and so, being in that priestly lineage, we find him as both Judge and Priest at Shiloh when he is first mentioned in Scripture (1Sa 1:3). This introduction is one of an old priest, since [...]

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I pre-ordered ESV Study Bibles for my wife and me on May 19th and have been looking forward to their arrival ever since. We both got the Literary Study Bible and read through it in the first 90 days of this year. I since got the ESV Reformation Study Bible and have been using it [...]

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A Character Study of Joab
Joab was the brother of Abishai and Asahel, and the son of Zeruiah. More distinctively, he was King David’s nephew. Joab’s name means “the Lord is Father.” But that was where the divine family connection ended; the rest was loyalty to David’s family. Early in 2 Samuel a competition arose between [...]

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