Welcome to a year in the Bible with daily grace. The Bible tells one big story of

redemption and we want to spend five minutes every day journeying through the Bible from start to finish, and exploring how all of it points to Jesus.

What's up everybody? Welcome back to another episode of a year in the Bible podcast with the Daily Grace Company. My name is Kyra and I'm a writer on staff. I'm so happy to be here with you all.

Let's get into discussing Proverbs Chapter 28 through 31. The first two chapters of today's section continue with the grouping we discussed yesterday, which

included Solomon's proverbial sayings copied by King Hezekiah. These verses relay wisdom for performing

kingly duties. The Israelite king was to follow the law and pursue divine

wisdom in order to maintain the nation's righteousness and lead the people in

obedience. The king was to meditate on this knowledge day and night.

Proverbs 28 verses 4 and 5

explain the biblical truth on this subject.

It says,

Those who reject the law praise the wicked, but those who keep the law pit themselves against them.

The evil do not understand justice, but those who seek the Lord understand everything.

Here we see a relationship between the law and wisdom, that fearing the Lord and obeying his command would lead to deep understanding.

As we discussed yesterday, the biblical King would seek the Spirit of the Lord for help in this area.

At the beginning of chapter 31, we read the voice of another king.

King Lemuel is the author of this section.

Scholars aren't able to identify who exactly this king was,

but his mother's instruction highlights a general principle for proper kingly rule.

He writes the insight his mother informed him

that a king should not give himself over to drinking or idleness, but the king should work diligently for justice.

He should speak up for those without a voice and defend the poor and oppressed. The next part of our reading reveals the inability of human

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