Description

The books of Chronicles begin with a long list of names and end with a door swung open. In between: a man named for sorrow who asked not to pass it on, gatekeepers opening the house morning by morning, singers who never stopped, the ark coming home with cymbals and harps, a loaf and a raisin cake for everyone, an old king saying all things come from you, trumpets and voices becoming one sound, a nation told to humble itself and pray, singers walking ahead of an army, a chest by the gate filling with gifts, a proud king humbled in chains and brought home, and a land left quiet to keep its Sabbaths.

This book walks through it in thirty-six short poems, in five parts: the names, the ark and the song, David’s charge and offering, Solomon to Jehoshaphat, and the last kings to Cyrus’s decree. Each poem sits beside a picture and under a single line of Scripture. The pictures stay with the things the story touches—a potter’s jar, a bronze cymbal, a cake of raisins, an empty pair of fetters—and leave the faces to your imagination.

What’s inside

• 36 original poems by Timothy Holt, in five parts
• 36 full-color, full-page illustrations in soft pastel
• A line of Scripture with every poem (World English Bible)
• 90 pages, 8.5 × 8.5 in square format

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