Between text and Sermon: 2 Kings 22:1-23:3

Interpretation | October 1, 2000| | Copyright

IN THE DALLAS MUSEUM of FINE ARTS hangs a painting by Thomas Hart Benton, the twentieth-century Missouri artist. The late afternoon sun casts harsh shadows across a twisted landscape. At the side of an empty road stands a man with a suitcase tied together with pieces of rope. He stares across the road to an abandoned farmhouse, wooden walls weathered gray, roof falling in. A bleached skeleton of a steer rests in one corner of the painting. As the man looks across the rutted road, he scratches his greying beard as if pondering something. The painting seems poised to tell a story, but we're not ...

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