Bible Reading
July 10, 11, 12
The World English Bible
July
10
2
Kings 16-18
2Ki
16:1 In the seventeenth year of Pekah the son of Remaliah Ahaz the
son of Jotham king of Judah began to reign.
2Ki
16:2 Twenty years old was Ahaz when he began to reign; and he
reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem: and he didn't do that which was
right in the eyes of Yahweh his God, like David his father.
2Ki
16:3 But he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, yes, and made
his son to pass through the fire, according to the abominations of
the nations, whom Yahweh cast out from before the children of Israel.
2Ki
16:4 He sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places, and on the
hills, and under every green tree.
2Ki
16:5 Then Rezin king of Syria and Pekah son of Remaliah king of
Israel came up to Jerusalem to war: and they besieged Ahaz, but could
not overcome him.
2Ki
16:6 At that time Rezin king of Syria recovered Elath to Syria, and
drove the Jews from Elath; and the Syrians came to Elath, and lived
there, to this day.
2Ki
16:7 So Ahaz sent messengers to Tiglath Pileser king of Assyria,
saying, I am your servant and your son: come up, and save me out of
the hand of the king of Syria, and out of the hand of the king of
Israel, who rise up against me.
2Ki
16:8 Ahaz took the silver and gold that was found in the house of
Yahweh, and in the treasures of the king's house, and sent it for a
present to the king of Assyria.
2Ki
16:9 The king of Assyria listened to him; and the king of Assyria
went up against Damascus, and took it, and carried the
people of it captive to Kir, and killed
Rezin.
2Ki
16:10 King Ahaz went to Damascus to meet Tiglath Pileser king of
Assyria, and saw the altar that was at Damascus; and king Ahaz sent
to Urijah the priest the fashion of the altar, and its pattern,
according to all its workmanship.
2Ki
16:11 Urijah the priest built an altar: according to all that king
Ahaz had sent from Damascus, so did Urijah the priest make it against
the coming of king Ahaz from Damascus.
2Ki
16:12 When the king was come from Damascus, the king saw the altar:
and the king drew near to the altar, and offered thereon.
2Ki
16:13 He burnt his burnt offering and his meal offering, and poured
his drink offering, and sprinkled the blood of his peace offerings,
on the altar.
2Ki
16:14 The bronze altar, which was before Yahweh, he brought from the
forefront of the house, from between his altar and the house of
Yahweh, and put it on the north side of his altar.
2Ki
16:15 King Ahaz commanded Urijah the priest, saying, On the great
altar burn the morning burnt offering, and the evening meal offering,
and the king's burnt offering, and his meal offering, with the burnt
offering of all the people of the land, and their meal offering, and
their drink offerings; and sprinkle on it all the blood of the burnt
offering, and all the blood of the sacrifice: but the bronze altar
shall be for me to inquire by.
2Ki
16:16 Urijah the priest did so, according to all that king Ahaz
commanded.
2Ki
16:17 King Ahaz cut off the panels of the bases, and removed the
basin from off them, and took down the sea from off the bronze oxen
that were under it, and put it on a pavement of stone.
2Ki
16:18 The covered way for the Sabbath that they had built in the
house, and the king's entry outside, turned he to the house of
Yahweh, because of the king of Assyria.
2Ki
16:19 Now the rest of the acts of Ahaz which he did, aren't they
written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
2Ki
16:20 Ahaz slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers
in the city of David: and Hezekiah his son reigned in his place.
2Ki
17:1 In the twelfth year of Ahaz king of Judah began Hoshea the son
of Elah to reign in Samaria over Israel, and
reigned nine years.
2Ki
17:2 He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, yet not as
the kings of Israel who were before him.
2Ki
17:3 Against him came up Shalmaneser king of Assyria; and Hoshea
became his servant, and brought him tribute.
2Ki
17:4 The king of Assyria found conspiracy in Hoshea; for he had sent
messengers to So king of Egypt, and offered no tribute to the king of
Assyria, as he had done year by year: therefore the king of Assyria
shut him up, and bound him in prison.
2Ki
17:5 Then the king of Assyria came up throughout all the land, and
went up to Samaria, and besieged it three years.
2Ki
17:6 In the ninth year of Hoshea the king of Assyria took Samaria,
and carried Israel away to Assyria, and placed them in Halah, and on
the Habor, the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.
2Ki
17:7 It was so, because the children of Israel had sinned against
Yahweh their God, who brought them up out of the land of Egypt from
under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and had feared other gods,
2Ki
17:8 and walked in the statutes of the nations, whom Yahweh cast out
from before the children of Israel, and of the kings of Israel, which
they made.
2Ki
17:9 The children of Israel did secretly things that were not right
against Yahweh their God: and they built them high places in all
their cities, from the tower of the watchmen to the fortified city;
2Ki
17:10 and they set them up pillars and Asherim on every high hill,
and under every green tree;
2Ki
17:11 and there they burnt incense in all the high places, as did
the nations whom Yahweh carried away before them; and they worked
wicked things to provoke Yahweh to anger;
2Ki
17:12 and they served idols, of which Yahweh had said to them, You
shall not do this thing.
2Ki
17:13 Yet Yahweh testified to Israel, and to Judah, by every
prophet, and every seer, saying, Turn from your evil ways, and keep
my commandments and my statutes, according to all the law which I
commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you by my servants the
prophets.
2Ki
17:14 Notwithstanding, they would not hear, but hardened their neck,
like the neck of their fathers, who didn't believe in Yahweh their
God.
2Ki
17:15 They rejected his statutes, and his covenant that he made with
their fathers, and his testimonies which he testified to them; and
they followed vanity, and became vain, and went
after the nations that were around them, concerning whom Yahweh had
commanded them that they should not do like them.
2Ki
17:16 They forsook all the commandments of Yahweh their God, and
made them molten images, even two calves, and made an Asherah, and
worshiped all the army of the sky, and served Baal.
2Ki
17:17 They caused their sons and their daughters to pass through the
fire, and used divination and enchantments, and sold themselves to do
that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, to provoke him to anger.
2Ki
17:18 Therefore Yahweh was very angry with Israel, and removed them
out of his sight: there was none left but the tribe of Judah only.
2Ki
17:19 Also Judah didn't keep the commandments of Yahweh their God,
but walked in the statutes of Israel which they made.
2Ki
17:20 Yahweh rejected all the seed of Israel, and afflicted them,
and delivered them into the hand of spoilers, until he had cast them
out of his sight.
2Ki
17:21 For he tore Israel from the house of David; and they made
Jeroboam the son of Nebat king: and Jeroboam drove Israel from
following Yahweh, and made them sin a great sin.
2Ki
17:22 The children of Israel walked in all the sins of Jeroboam
which he did; they didn't depart from them;
2Ki
17:23 until Yahweh removed Israel out of his sight, as he spoke by
all his servants the prophets. So Israel was carried away out of
their own land to Assyria to this day.
2Ki
17:24 The king of Assyria brought men from Babylon, and from Cuthah,
and from Avva, and from Hamath and Sepharvaim, and placed them in the
cities of Samaria instead of the children of Israel; and they
possessed Samaria, and lived in the cities of it.
2Ki
17:25 So it was, at the beginning of their dwelling there, that they
didn't fear Yahweh: therefore Yahweh sent lions among them, which
killed some of them.
2Ki
17:26 Therefore they spoke to the king of Assyria, saying, The
nations which you have carried away, and placed in the cities of
Samaria, don't know the law of the god of the land: therefore he has
sent lions among them, and behold, they kill them, because they don't
know the law of the god of the land.
2Ki
17:27 Then the king of Assyria commanded, saying, Carry there one of
the priests whom you brought from there; and let them go and dwell
there, and let him teach them the law of the god of the land.
2Ki
17:28 So one of the priests whom they had carried away from Samaria
came and lived in Bethel, and taught them how they should fear
Yahweh.
2Ki
17:29 However every nation made gods of their own, and put them in
the houses of the high places which the Samaritans had made, every
nation in their cities in which they lived.
2Ki
17:30 The men of Babylon made Succoth Benoth, and the men of Cuth
made Nergal, and the men of Hamath made Ashima,
2Ki
17:31 and the Avvites made Nibhaz and Tartak; and the Sepharvites
burnt their children in the fire to Adrammelech and Anammelech, the
gods of Sepharvaim.
2Ki
17:32 So they feared Yahweh, and made to them from among themselves
priests of the high places, who sacrificed for them in the houses of
the high places.
2Ki
17:33 They feared Yahweh, and served their own gods, after the
manner of the nations from among whom they had been carried away.
2Ki
17:34 To this day they do after the former manner: they don't fear
Yahweh, neither do they after their statutes, or after their
ordinances, or after the law or after the commandment which Yahweh
commanded the children of Jacob, whom he named Israel;
2Ki
17:35 with whom Yahweh had made a covenant, and commanded them,
saying, You shall not fear other gods, nor bow yourselves to them,
nor serve them, nor sacrifice to them:
2Ki
17:36 but Yahweh, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt with
great power and with an outstretched arm, him you shall fear, and to
him you shall bow yourselves, and to him you shall sacrifice:
2Ki
17:37 and the statutes and the ordinances, and the law and the
commandment, which he wrote for you, you shall observe to do
forevermore; and you shall not fear other gods:
2Ki
17:38 and you shall not forget the covenant that I have made with
you; neither shall you fear other gods:
2Ki
17:39 but you shall fear Yahweh your God; and he will deliver you
out of the hand of all your enemies.
2Ki
17:40 However they did not listen, but they did after their former
manner.
2Ki
17:41 So these nations feared Yahweh, and served their engraved
images; their children likewise, and their children's children, as
did their fathers, so do they to this day.
2Ki
18:1 Now it happened in the third year of Hoshea son of Elah king of
Israel, that Hezekiah the son of Ahaz king of Judah began to reign.
2Ki
18:2 He was twenty-five years old when he began to reign; and he
reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was Abi
the daughter of Zechariah.
2Ki
18:3 He did that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh, according to
all that David his father had done.
2Ki
18:4 He removed the high places, and broke the pillars, and cut down
the Asherah: and he broke in pieces the bronze serpent that Moses had
made; for to those days the children of Israel did burn incense to
it; and he called it Nehushtan.
2Ki
18:5 He trusted in Yahweh, the God of Israel; so that after him was
none like him among all the kings of Judah, nor among
them that were before him.
2Ki
18:6 For he joined with Yahweh; he didn't depart from following him,
but kept his commandments, which Yahweh commanded Moses.
2Ki
18:7 Yahweh was with him; wherever he went forth he prospered: and
he rebelled against the king of Assyria, and didn't serve him.
2Ki
18:8 He struck the Philistines to Gaza and its borders, from the
tower of the watchmen to the fortified city.
2Ki
18:9 It happened in the fourth year of king Hezekiah, which was the
seventh year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel, that Shalmaneser
king of Assyria came up against Samaria, and besieged it.
2Ki
18:10 At the end of three years they took it: in the sixth year of
Hezekiah, which was the ninth year of Hoshea king of Israel, Samaria
was taken.
2Ki
18:11 The king of Assyria carried Israel away to Assyria, and put
them in Halah, and on the Habor, the river of Gozan, and in the
cities of the Medes,
2Ki
18:12 because they didn't obey the voice of Yahweh their God, but
transgressed his covenant, even all that Moses the servant of Yahweh
commanded, and would not hear it, nor do it.
2Ki
18:13 Now in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah did Sennacherib
king of Assyria come up against all the fortified cities of Judah,
and took them.
2Ki
18:14 Hezekiah king of Judah sent to the king of Assyria to Lachish,
saying, I have offended; return from me: that which you put on me
will I bear. The king of Assyria appointed to Hezekiah king of Judah
three hundred talents of silver and thirty talents of gold.
2Ki
18:15 Hezekiah gave him
all the silver that was found in the house of Yahweh, and in the
treasures of the king's house.
2Ki
18:16 At that time did Hezekiah cut off the
gold from the doors of the temple of
Yahweh, and from
the pillars which Hezekiah king of Judah had overlaid, and gave it to
the king of Assyria.
2Ki
18:17 The king of Assyria sent Tartan and Rabsaris and Rabshakeh
from Lachish to king Hezekiah with a great army to Jerusalem. They
went up and came to Jerusalem. When they were come up, they came and
stood by the conduit of the upper pool, which is in the highway of
the fuller's field.
2Ki
18:18 When they had called to the king, there came out to them
Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, and Shebnah
the scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph the recorder.
2Ki
18:19 Rabshakeh said to them, Say now to Hezekiah, Thus says the
great king, the king of Assyria, What confidence is this in which you
trust?
2Ki
18:20 You say (but they are but vain words), There
is counsel and strength for the war. Now
on whom do you trust, that you have rebelled against me?
2Ki
18:21 Now, behold, you trust in the staff of this bruised reed, even
in Egypt; whereon if a man lean, it will go into his hand, and pierce
it: so is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who trust on him.
2Ki
18:22 But if you tell me, We trust in Yahweh our God; isn't that he
whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah has taken away, and has
said to Judah and to Jerusalem, You shall worship before this altar
in Jerusalem?
2Ki
18:23 Now therefore, Please give pledges to my master the king of
Assyria, and I will give you two thousand horses, if you are able on
your part to set riders on them.
2Ki
18:24 How then can you turn away the face of one captain of the
least of my master's servants, and put your trust on Egypt for
chariots and for horsemen?
2Ki
18:25 Am I now come up without Yahweh against this place to destroy
it? Yahweh said to me, Go up against this land, and destroy it.
2Ki
18:26 Then said Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, and Shebnah, and Joah,
to Rabshakeh, Please speak to your servants in the Syrian language;
for we understand it: and don't speak with us in the Jews' language,
in the ears of the people who are on the wall.
2Ki
18:27 But Rabshakeh said to them, Has my master sent me to your
master, and to you, to speak these words? Hasn't he sent me to the
men who sit on the wall, to eat their own dung, and to drink their
own water with you?
2Ki
18:28 Then Rabshakeh stood, and cried with a loud voice in the Jews'
language, and spoke, saying, Hear the word of the great king, the
king of Assyria.
2Ki
18:29 Thus says the king, Don't let Hezekiah deceive you; for he
will not be able to deliver you out of his hand:
2Ki
18:30 neither let Hezekiah make you trust in Yahweh, saying, Yahweh
will surely deliver us, and this city shall not be given into the
hand of the king of Assyria.
2Ki
18:31 Don't listen to Hezekiah: for thus says the king of Assyria,
Make your peace with me, and come out to me; and everyone of you eat
of his vine, and everyone of his fig tree, and everyone drink the
waters of his own cistern;
2Ki
18:32 Until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a
land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of
olive trees and of honey, that you may live, and not die: and don't
listen to Hezekiah, when he persuades you, saying, Yahweh will
deliver us.
2Ki
18:33 Has any of the gods of the nations ever delivered his land out
of the hand of the king of Assyria?
2Ki
18:34 Where are the gods of Hamath, and of Arpad? where are the gods
of Sepharvaim, of Hena, and Ivvah? have they delivered Samaria out of
my hand?
2Ki
18:35 Who are they among all the gods of the countries, that have
delivered their country out of my hand, that Yahweh should deliver
Jerusalem out of my hand?
2Ki
18:36 But the people held their peace, and answered him not a word;
for the king's commandment was, saying, Don't answer him.
2Ki
18:37 Then came Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the
household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph the
recorder, to Hezekiah with their clothes torn, and told him the words
of Rabshakeh.
July
11
2
Kings 19-21
2Ki
19:1 It happened, when king Hezekiah heard it, that he tore his
clothes, and covered himself with sackcloth, and went into the house
of Yahweh.
2Ki
19:2 He sent Eliakim, who was over the household, and Shebna the
scribe, and the elders of the priests, covered with sackcloth, to
Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz.
2Ki
19:3 They said to him, Thus says Hezekiah, This day is a day of
trouble, and of rebuke, and of rejection; for the children are come
to the birth, and there is not strength to bring forth.
2Ki
19:4 It may be Yahweh your God will hear all the words of Rabshakeh,
whom the king of Assyria his master has sent to defy the living God,
and will rebuke the words which Yahweh your God has heard. Therefore
lift up your prayer for the remnant that is left.
2Ki
19:5 So the servants of king Hezekiah came to Isaiah.
2Ki
19:6 Isaiah said to them, Thus you shall tell your master, Thus says
Yahweh, Don't be afraid of the words that you have heard, with which
the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed me.
2Ki
19:7 Behold, I will put a spirit in him, and he shall hear news, and
shall return to his own land; and I will cause him to fall by the
sword in his own land.
2Ki
19:8 So Rabshakeh returned, and found the king of Assyria warring
against Libnah; for he had heard that he was departed from Lachish.
2Ki
19:9 When he heard say of Tirhakah king of Ethiopia, Behold, he is
come out to fight against you, he sent messengers again to Hezekiah,
saying,
2Ki
19:10 Thus you shall speak to Hezekiah king of Judah, saying, Don't
let your God in whom you trust deceive you, saying, Jerusalem shall
not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.
2Ki
19:11 Behold, you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to
all lands, by destroying them utterly: and shall you be delivered?
2Ki
19:12 Have the gods of the nations delivered them, which my fathers
have destroyed, Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the children of
Eden that were in Telassar?
2Ki
19:13 Where is the king of Hamath, and the king of Arpad, and the
king of the city of Sepharvaim, of Hena, and Ivvah?
2Ki
19:14 Hezekiah received the letter from the hand of the messengers,
and read it; and Hezekiah went up to the house of Yahweh, and spread
it before Yahweh.
2Ki
19:15 Hezekiah prayed before Yahweh, and said, Yahweh, the God of
Israel, who sit above
the cherubim, you are the God, even you alone, of all the kingdoms of
the earth; you have made heaven and earth.
2Ki
19:16 Incline your ear, Yahweh, and hear; open your eyes, Yahweh,
and see; and hear the words of Sennacherib, with which he has sent
him to defy the living God.
2Ki
19:17 Of a truth, Yahweh, the kings of Assyria have laid waste the
nations and their lands,
2Ki
19:18 and have cast their gods into the fire; for they were no gods,
but the work of men's hands, wood and stone; therefore they have
destroyed them.
2Ki
19:19 Now therefore, Yahweh our God, save us, I beg you, out of his
hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that you Yahweh are
God alone.
2Ki
19:20 Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying, Thus
says Yahweh, the God of Israel, Whereas you have prayed to me against
Sennacherib king of Assyria, I have heard you.
2Ki
19:21 This is the word that Yahweh has spoken concerning him: The
virgin daughter of Zion has despised you and ridiculed you; the
daughter of Jerusalem has shaken her head at you.
2Ki
19:22 Whom have you defied and blasphemed? and against whom have you
exalted your voice and lifted up your eyes on high? even
against the Holy One of Israel.
2Ki
19:23 By your messengers you have defied the Lord, and have said,
With the multitude of my chariots am I come up to the height of the
mountains, to the innermost parts of Lebanon; and I will cut down the
tall cedars of it, and the choice fir trees of it; and I will enter
into his farthest lodging place, the forest of his fruitful field.
2Ki
19:24 I have dug and drunk strange waters, and with the sole of my
feet will I dry up all the rivers of Egypt.
2Ki
19:25 Haven't you heard how I have done it long ago, and formed it
of ancient times? now have I brought it to pass, that it should be
yours to lay waste fortified cities into ruinous heaps.
2Ki
19:26 Therefore their inhabitants were of small power, they were
dismayed and confounded; they were as the grass of the field, and as
the green herb, as the grass on the housetops, and as grain blasted
before it is grown up.
2Ki
19:27 But I know your sitting down, and your going out, and your
coming in, and your raging against me.
2Ki
19:28 Because of your raging against me, and because your arrogance
is come up into my ears, therefore will I put my hook in your nose,
and my bridle in your lips, and I will turn you back by the way by
which you came.
2Ki
19:29 This shall be the sign to you: You shall eat this year that
which grows of itself, and in the second year that which springs of
the same; and in the third year sow, and reap, and plant vineyards,
and eat its fruit.
2Ki
19:30 The remnant that has escaped of the house of Judah shall again
take root downward, and bear fruit upward.
2Ki
19:31 For out of Jerusalem shall go forth a remnant, and out of
Mount Zion those who shall escape: the zeal of Yahweh shall perform
this.
2Ki
19:32 Therefore thus says Yahweh concerning the king of Assyria, He
shall not come to this city, nor shoot an arrow there, neither shall
he come before it with shield, nor cast up a mound against it.
2Ki
19:33 By the way that he came, by the same shall he return, and he
shall not come to this city, says Yahweh.
2Ki
19:34 For I will defend this city to save it, for my own sake, and
for my servant David's sake.
2Ki
19:35 It happened that night, that the angel of Yahweh went forth,
and struck in the camp of the Assyrians one hundred eighty-five
thousand: and when men arose early in the morning, behold, these were
all dead bodies.
2Ki
19:36 So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and
returned, and lived at Nineveh.
2Ki
19:37 It happened, as he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch his
god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer struck him with the sword: and
they escaped into the land of Ararat. Esar Haddon his son reigned in
his place.
2Ki
20:1 In those days was Hezekiah sick to death. Isaiah the prophet
the son of Amoz came to him, and said to him, Thus says Yahweh, Set
your house in order: for you shall die, and not live.
2Ki
20:2 Then he turned his face to the wall, and prayed to Yahweh,
saying,
2Ki
20:3 Remember now, Yahweh, I beg you, how I have walked before you
in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good
in your sight. Hezekiah wept sore.
2Ki
20:4 It happened, before Isaiah was gone out into the middle part of
the city, that the word of Yahweh came to him, saying,
2Ki
20:5 Turn back, and tell Hezekiah the prince of my people, Thus says
Yahweh, the God of David your father, I have heard your prayer, I
have seen your tears: behold, I will heal you; on the third day you
shall go up to the house of Yahweh.
2Ki
20:6 I will add to your days fifteen years; and I will deliver you
and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria; and I will
defend this city for my own sake, and for my servant David's sake.
2Ki
20:7 Isaiah said, Take a cake of figs. They took and laid it on the
boil, and he recovered.
2Ki
20:8 Hezekiah said to Isaiah, What shall be the sign that Yahweh
will heal me, and that I shall go up to the house of Yahweh the third
day?
2Ki
20:9 Isaiah said, This shall be the sign to you from Yahweh, that
Yahweh will do the thing that he has spoken: shall the shadow go
forward ten steps, or go back ten steps?
2Ki
20:10 Hezekiah answered, It is a light thing for the shadow to
decline ten steps: nay, but let the shadow return backward ten steps.
2Ki
20:11 Isaiah the prophet cried to Yahweh; and he brought the shadow
ten steps backward, by which it had gone down on the dial of Ahaz.
2Ki
20:12 At that time Berodach Baladan the son of Baladan, king of
Babylon, sent letters and a present to Hezekiah; for he had heard
that Hezekiah had been sick.
2Ki
20:13 Hezekiah listened to them, and showed them all the house of
his precious things, the silver, and the gold, and the spices, and
the precious oil, and the house of his armor, and all that was found
in his treasures: there was nothing in his house, nor in all his
dominion, that Hezekiah didn't show them.
2Ki
20:14 Then came Isaiah the prophet to king Hezekiah, and said to
him, What did these men say? and from where did they come to you?
Hezekiah said, They are come from a far country, even from Babylon.
2Ki
20:15 He said, What have they seen in your house? Hezekiah answered,
All that is in my house have they seen: there is nothing among my
treasures that I have not shown them.
2Ki
20:16 Isaiah said to Hezekiah, Hear the word of Yahweh.
2Ki
20:17 Behold, the days come, that all that is in your house, and
that which your fathers have laid up in store to this day, shall be
carried to Babylon: nothing shall be left, says Yahweh.
2Ki
20:18 Of your sons who shall issue from you, whom you shall father,
shall they take away; and they shall be eunuchs in the palace of the
king of Babylon.
2Ki
20:19 Then said Hezekiah to Isaiah, Good is the word of Yahweh which
you have spoken. He said moreover, Isn't it so, if peace and truth
shall be in my days?
2Ki
20:20 Now the rest of the acts of Hezekiah, and all his might, and
how he made the pool, and the conduit, and brought water into the
city, aren't they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings
of Judah?
2Ki
20:21 Hezekiah slept with his fathers; and Manasseh his son reigned
in his place.
2Ki
21:1 Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign; and he
reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was
Hephzibah.
2Ki
21:2 He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, after the
abominations of the nations whom Yahweh cast out before the children
of Israel.
2Ki
21:3 For he built again the high places which Hezekiah his father
had destroyed; and he reared up altars for Baal, and made an Asherah,
as did Ahab king of Israel, and worshiped all the army of the sky,
and served them.
2Ki
21:4 He built altars in the house of Yahweh, of which Yahweh said,
In Jerusalem will I put my name.
2Ki
21:5 He built altars for all the army of the sky in the two courts
of the house of Yahweh.
2Ki
21:6 He made his son to pass through the fire, and practiced
sorcery, and used enchantments, and dealt with those who had familiar
spirits, and with wizards: he worked much evil in the sight of
Yahweh, to provoke him to anger.
2Ki
21:7 He set the engraved image of Asherah, that he had made, in the
house of which Yahweh said to David and to Solomon his son, In this
house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of
Israel, will I put my name forever;
2Ki
21:8 neither will I cause the feet of Israel to wander any more out
of the land which I gave their fathers, if only they will observe to
do according to all that I have commanded them, and according to all
the law that my servant Moses commanded them.
2Ki
21:9 But they didn't listen: and Manasseh seduced them to do that
which is evil more than did the nations whom Yahweh destroyed before
the children of Israel.
2Ki
21:10 Yahweh spoke by his servants the prophets, saying,
2Ki
21:11 Because Manasseh king of Judah has done these abominations,
and has done wickedly above all that the Amorites did, who were
before him, and has made Judah also to sin with his idols;
2Ki
21:12 therefore thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, Behold, I bring
such evil on Jerusalem and Judah, that whoever hears of it, both his
ears shall tingle.
2Ki
21:13 I will stretch over Jerusalem the line of Samaria, and the
plummet of the house of Ahab; and I will wipe Jerusalem as a man
wipes a dish, wiping it and turning it upside down.
2Ki
21:14 I will cast off the remnant of my inheritance, and deliver
them into the hand of their enemies; and they shall become a prey and
a spoil to all their enemies;
2Ki
21:15 because they have done that which is evil in my sight, and
have provoked me to anger, since the day their fathers came forth out
of Egypt, even to this day.
2Ki
21:16 Moreover Manasseh shed innocent blood very much, until he had
filled Jerusalem from one end to another; besides his sin with which
he made Judah to sin, in doing that which was evil in the sight of
Yahweh.
2Ki
21:17 Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh, and all that he did, and
his sin that he sinned, aren't they written in the book of the
chronicles of the kings of Judah?
2Ki
21:18 Manasseh slept with his fathers, and was buried in the garden
of his own house, in the garden of Uzza: and Amon his son reigned in
his place.
2Ki
21:19 Amon was twenty-two years old when he began to reign; and he
reigned two years in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was
Meshullemeth the daughter of Haruz of Jotbah.
2Ki
21:20 He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, as did
Manasseh his father.
2Ki
21:21 He walked in all the way that his father walked in, and served
the idols that his father served, and worshiped them:
2Ki
21:22 and he forsook Yahweh, the God of his fathers, and didn't walk
in the way of Yahweh.
2Ki
21:23 The servants of Amon conspired against him, and put the king
to death in his own house.
2Ki
21:24 But the people of the land killed all those who had conspired
against king Amon; and the people of the land made Josiah his son
king in his place.
2Ki
21:25 Now the rest of the acts of Amon which he did, aren't they
written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
2Ki
21:26 He was buried in his tomb in the garden of Uzza: and Josiah
his son reigned in his place.
July
12
2
Kings 22-25
2Ki
22:1 Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign; and he
reigned thirty-one years in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was
Jedidah the daughter of Adaiah of Bozkath.
2Ki
22:2 He did that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh, and walked
in all the way of David his father, and didn't turn aside to the
right hand or to the left.
2Ki
22:3 It happened in the eighteenth year of king Josiah, that the
king sent Shaphan, the son of Azaliah the son of Meshullam, the
scribe, to the house of Yahweh, saying,
2Ki
22:4 Go up to Hilkiah the high priest, that he may sum the money
which is brought into the house of Yahweh, which the keepers of the
threshold have gathered of the people:
2Ki
22:5 and let them deliver it into the hand of the workmen who have
the oversight of the house of Yahweh; and let them give it to the
workmen who are in the house of Yahweh, to repair the breaches of the
house,
2Ki
22:6 to the carpenters, and to the builders, and to the masons, and
for buying timber and cut stone to repair the house.
2Ki
22:7 However there was no reckoning made with them of the money that
was delivered into their hand; for they dealt faithfully.
2Ki
22:8 Hilkiah the high priest said to Shaphan the scribe, I have
found the book of the law in the house of Yahweh. Hilkiah delivered
the book to Shaphan, and he read it.
2Ki
22:9 Shaphan the scribe came to the king, and brought the king word
again, and said, Your servants have emptied out the money that was
found in the house, and have delivered it into the hand of the
workmen who have the oversight of the house of Yahweh.
2Ki
22:10 Shaphan the scribe told the king, saying, Hilkiah the priest
has delivered me a book. Shaphan read it before the king.
2Ki
22:11 It happened, when the king had heard the words of the book of
the law, that he tore his clothes.
2Ki
22:12 The king commanded Hilkiah the priest, and Ahikam the son of
Shaphan, and Achbor the son of Micaiah, and Shaphan the scribe, and
Asaiah the king's servant, saying,
2Ki
22:13 Go inquire of Yahweh for me, and for the people, and for all
Judah, concerning the words of this book that is found; for great is
the wrath of Yahweh that is kindled against us, because our fathers
have not listened to the words of this book, to do according to all
that which is written concerning us.
2Ki
22:14 So Hilkiah the priest, and Ahikam, and Achbor, and Shaphan,
and Asaiah, went to Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the
son of Tikvah, the son of Harhas, keeper of the wardrobe (now she
lived in Jerusalem in the second quarter); and they talked with her.
2Ki
22:15 She said to them, Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel: Tell
the man who sent you to me,
2Ki
22:16 Thus says Yahweh, Behold, I will bring evil on this place, and
on its inhabitants, even all the words of the book which the king of
Judah has read.
2Ki
22:17 Because they have forsaken me, and have burned incense to
other gods, that they might provoke me to anger with all the work of
their hands, therefore my wrath shall be kindled against this place,
and it shall not be quenched.
2Ki
22:18 But to the king of Judah, who sent you to inquire of Yahweh,
thus you shall tell him, Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel: As
touching the words which you have heard,
2Ki
22:19 because your heart was tender, and you humbled yourself before
Yahweh, when you heard what I spoke against this place, and against
its inhabitants, that they should become a desolation and a curse,
and have torn your clothes, and wept before me; I also have heard
you, says Yahweh.
2Ki
22:20 Therefore, behold, I will gather you to your fathers, and you
shall be gathered to your grave in peace, neither shall your eyes see
all the evil which I will bring on this place. They brought the king
word again.
2Ki
23:1 The king sent, and they gathered to him all the elders of Judah
and of Jerusalem.
2Ki
23:2 The king went up to the house of Yahweh, and all the men of
Judah and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem with him, and the priests,
and the prophets, and all the people, both small and great: and he
read in their ears all the words of the book of the covenant which
was found in the house of Yahweh.
2Ki
23:3 The king stood by the pillar, and made a covenant before
Yahweh, to walk after Yahweh, and to keep his commandments, and his
testimonies, and his statutes, with all his
heart, and all his
soul, to confirm the words of this covenant that were written in this
book: and all the people stood to the covenant.
2Ki
23:4 The king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, and the priests of
the second order, and the keepers of the threshold, to bring forth
out of the temple of Yahweh all the vessels that were made for Baal,
and for the Asherah, and for all the army of the sky, and he burned
them outside of Jerusalem in the fields of the Kidron, and carried
the ashes of them to Bethel.
2Ki
23:5 He put down the idolatrous priests, whom the kings of Judah had
ordained to burn incense in the high places in the cities of Judah,
and in the places around Jerusalem; those also who burned incense to
Baal, to the sun, and to the moon, and to the planets, and to all the
army of the sky.
2Ki
23:6 He brought out the Asherah from the house of Yahweh, outside of
Jerusalem, to the brook Kidron, and burned it at the brook Kidron,
and beat it to dust, and cast its dust on the graves of the common
people.
2Ki
23:7 He broke down the houses of the sodomites, that were in the
house of Yahweh, where the women wove hangings for the Asherah.
2Ki
23:8 He brought all the priests out of the cities of Judah, and
defiled the high places where the priests had burned incense, from
Geba to Beersheba; and he broke down the high places of the gates
that were at the entrance of the gate of Joshua the governor of the
city, which were on a man's left hand at the gate of the city.
2Ki
23:9 Nevertheless the priests of the high places didn't come up to
the altar of Yahweh in Jerusalem, but they ate unleavened bread among
their brothers.
2Ki
23:10 He defiled Topheth, which is in the valley of the children of
Hinnom, that no man might make his son or his daughter to pass
through the fire to Molech.
2Ki
23:11 He took away the horses that the kings of Judah had given to
the sun, at the entrance of the house of Yahweh, by the chamber of
Nathan Melech the officer, who was in the court; and he burned the
chariots of the sun with fire.
2Ki
23:12 The altars that were on the roof of the upper chamber of Ahaz,
which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars which Manasseh had
made in the two courts of the house of Yahweh, did the king break
down, and beat them
down from there, and cast the dust of them into the brook Kidron.
2Ki
23:13 The high places that were before Jerusalem, which were on the
right hand of the mountain of corruption, which Solomon the king of
Israel had built for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Sidonians, and
for Chemosh the abomination of Moab, and for Milcom the abomination
of the children of Ammon, did the king defile.
2Ki
23:14 He broke in pieces the pillars, and cut down the Asherim, and
filled their places with the bones of men.
2Ki
23:15 Moreover the altar that was at Bethel, and the high place
which Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin, had made,
even that altar and the high place he broke down; and he burned the
high place and beat it to dust, and burned the Asherah.
2Ki
23:16 As Josiah turned himself, he spied the tombs that were there
in the mountain; and he sent, and took the bones out of the tombs,
and burned them on the altar, and defiled it, according to the word
of Yahweh which the man of God proclaimed, who proclaimed these
things.
2Ki
23:17 Then he said, What monument is that which I see? The men of
the city told him, It is the tomb of the man of God, who came from
Judah, and proclaimed these things that you have done against the
altar of Bethel.
2Ki
23:18 He said, Let him be; let no man move his bones. So they let
his bones alone, with the bones of the prophet who came out of
Samaria.
2Ki
23:19 All the houses also of the high places that were in the cities
of Samaria, which the kings of Israel had made to provoke Yahweh
to anger, Josiah took away, and did to them according to all the acts
that he had done in Bethel.
2Ki
23:20 He killed all the priests of the high places that were there,
on the altars, and burned men's bones on them; and he returned to
Jerusalem.
2Ki
23:21 The king commanded all the people, saying, Keep the Passover
to Yahweh your God, as it is written in this book of the covenant.
2Ki
23:22 Surely there was not kept such a Passover from the days of the
judges who judged Israel, nor in all the days of the kings of Israel,
nor of the kings of Judah;
2Ki
23:23 but in the eighteenth year of king Josiah was this Passover
kept to Yahweh in Jerusalem.
2Ki
23:24 Moreover those who had familiar spirits, and the wizards, and
the teraphim, and the idols, and all the abominations that were seen
in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, did Josiah put away, that he
might confirm the words of the law which were written in the book
that Hilkiah the priest found in the house of Yahweh.
2Ki
23:25 Like him was there no king before him, who turned to Yahweh
with all his heart, and with all his soul, and with all his might,
according to all the law of Moses; neither after him arose there any
like him.
2Ki
23:26 Notwithstanding, Yahweh didn't turn from the fierceness of his
great wrath, with which his anger was kindled against Judah, because
of all the provocation with which Manasseh had provoked him.
2Ki
23:27 Yahweh said, I will remove Judah also out of my sight, as I
have removed Israel, and I will cast off this city which I have
chosen, even Jerusalem, and the house of which I said, My name shall
be there.
2Ki
23:28 Now the rest of the acts of Josiah, and all that he did,
aren't they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of
Judah?
2Ki
23:29 In his days Pharaoh Necoh king of Egypt went up against the
king of Assyria to the river Euphrates: and king Josiah went against
him; and Pharaoh Necoh
killed him at Megiddo, when he had seen him.
2Ki
23:30 His servants carried him in a chariot dead from Megiddo, and
brought him to Jerusalem, and buried him in his own tomb. The people
of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, and anointed him, and
made him king in his father's place.
2Ki
23:31 Jehoahaz was twenty-three years old when he began to reign;
and he reigned three months in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was
Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.
2Ki
23:32 He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, according
to all that his fathers had done.
2Ki
23:33 Pharaoh Necoh put him in bonds at Riblah in the land of
Hamath, that he might not reign in Jerusalem; and put the land to a
tribute of one hundred talents of silver, and a talent of gold.
2Ki
23:34 Pharaoh Necoh made Eliakim the son of Josiah king in the room
of Josiah his father, and changed his name to Jehoiakim: but he took
Jehoahaz away; and he came to Egypt, and died there.
2Ki
23:35 Jehoiakim gave the silver and the gold to Pharaoh; but he
taxed the land to give the money according to the commandment of
Pharaoh: he exacted the silver and the gold of the people of the
land, of everyone according to his taxation, to give it to Pharaoh
Necoh.
2Ki
23:36 Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he began to reign;
and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was
Zebidah the daughter of Pedaiah of Rumah.
2Ki
23:37 He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, according
to all that his fathers had done.
2Ki
24:1 In his days Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up, and
Jehoiakim became his servant three years: then he turned and rebelled
against him.
2Ki
24:2 Yahweh sent against him bands of the Chaldeans, and bands of
the Syrians, and bands of the Moabites, and bands of the children of
Ammon, and sent them against Judah to destroy it, according to the
word of Yahweh, which he spoke by his servants the prophets.
2Ki
24:3 Surely at the commandment of Yahweh came this on Judah, to
remove them out of his sight, for the sins of Manasseh, according to
all that he did,
2Ki
24:4 and also for the innocent blood that he shed; for he filled
Jerusalem with innocent blood: and Yahweh would not pardon.
2Ki
24:5 Now the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim, and all that he did,
aren't they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of
Judah?
2Ki
24:6 So Jehoiakim slept with his fathers; and Jehoiachin his son
reigned in his place.
2Ki
24:7 The king of Egypt didn't come again out of his land any more;
for the king of Babylon had taken, from the brook of Egypt to the
river Euphrates, all that pertained to the king of Egypt.
2Ki
24:8 Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he began to reign; and
he reigned in Jerusalem three months: and his mother's name was
Nehushta the daughter of Elnathan of Jerusalem.
2Ki
24:9 He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, according to
all that his father had done.
2Ki
24:10 At that time the servants of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon
came up to Jerusalem, and the city was besieged.
2Ki
24:11 Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came to the city, while his
servants were besieging it;
2Ki
24:12 and Jehoiachin the king of Judah went out to the king of
Babylon, he, and his mother, and his servants, and his princes, and
his officers: and the king of Babylon took him in the eighth year of
his reign.
2Ki
24:13 He carried out there all the treasures of the house of Yahweh,
and the treasures of the king's house, and cut in pieces all the
vessels of gold, which Solomon king of Israel had made in the temple
of Yahweh, as Yahweh had said.
2Ki
24:14 He carried away all Jerusalem, and all the princes, and all
the mighty men of valor, even ten thousand captives, and all the
craftsmen and the smiths; none remained, save the poorest sort of the
people of the land.
2Ki
24:15 He carried away Jehoiachin to Babylon; and the king's mother,
and the king's wives, and his officers, and the chief men of the
land, carried he into captivity from Jerusalem to Babylon.
2Ki
24:16 All the men of might, even seven thousand, and the craftsmen
and the smiths one thousand, all of them strong and apt for war, even
them the king of Babylon brought captive to Babylon.
2Ki
24:17 The king of Babylon made Mattaniah, Jehoiachin's
father's brother, king is his place, and changed his name to
Zedekiah.
2Ki
24:18 Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he began to reign; and
he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was
Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.
2Ki
24:19 He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, according
to all that Jehoiakim had done.
2Ki
24:20 For through the anger of Yahweh did it happen in Jerusalem and
Judah, until he had cast them out from his presence. Zedekiah
rebelled against the king of Babylon.
2Ki
25:1 It happened in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month,
in the tenth day of the month, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon
came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem, and encamped against
it; and they built forts against it around it.
2Ki
25:2 So the city was besieged to the eleventh year of king Zedekiah.
2Ki
25:3 On the ninth day of the fourth
month the famine was sore in the city, so that there was no bread for
the people of the land.
2Ki
25:4 Then a breach was made in the city, and all the men of war fled
by night by the way of the gate between the two walls, which was by
the king's garden (now the Chaldeans were against the city around
it); and the king
went by the way of the Arabah.
2Ki
25:5 But the army of the Chaldeans pursued after the king, and
overtook him in the plains of Jericho; and all his army was scattered
from him.
2Ki
25:6 Then they took the king, and carried him up to the king of
Babylon to Riblah; and they gave judgment on him.
2Ki
25:7 They killed the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and put out
the eyes of Zedekiah, and bound him in fetters, and carried him to
Babylon.
2Ki
25:8 Now in the fifth month, on the seventh day of the month, which
was the nineteenth year of king Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, came
Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard, a servant of the king of
Babylon, to Jerusalem.
2Ki
25:9 He burnt the house of Yahweh, and the king's house; and all the
houses of Jerusalem, even every great house, burnt he with fire.
2Ki
25:10 All the army of the Chaldeans, who were with
the captain of the guard, broke down the walls around Jerusalem.
2Ki
25:11 The residue of the people who were left in the city, and those
who fell away, who fell to the king of Babylon, and the residue of
the multitude, did Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carry away
captive.
2Ki
25:12 But the captain of the guard left of the poorest of the land
to work the vineyards and fields.
2Ki
25:13 The pillars of brass that were in the house of Yahweh, and the
bases and the bronze sea that were in the house of Yahweh, did the
Chaldeans break in pieces, and carried the brass of them to Babylon.
2Ki
25:14 The pots, and the shovels, and the snuffers, and the spoons,
and all the vessels of brass with which they ministered, took they
away.
2Ki
25:15 The fire pans, and the basins, that which was of gold, in
gold, and that which was of silver, in silver, the captain of the
guard took away.
2Ki
25:16 The two pillars, the one sea, and the bases, which Solomon had
made for the house of Yahweh, the brass of all these vessels was
without weight.
2Ki
25:17 The height of the one pillar was eighteen cubits, and a
capital of brass was on it; and the height of the capital was three
cubits, with network and pomegranates on the capital around it, all
of brass: and like to these had the second pillar with network.
2Ki
25:18 The captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest, and
Zephaniah the second priest, and the three keepers of the threshold:
2Ki
25:19 and out of the city he took an officer who was set over the
men of war; and five men of those who saw the king's face, who were
found in the city; and the scribe, the captain of the army, who
mustered the people of the land; and sixty men of the people of the
land, who were found in the city.
2Ki
25:20 Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard took them, and brought
them to the king of Babylon to Riblah.
2Ki
25:21 The king of Babylon struck them, and put them to death at
Riblah in the land of Hamath. So Judah was carried away captive out
of his land.
2Ki
25:22 As for the people who were left in the land of Judah, whom
Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had left, even over them he made
Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, governor.
2Ki
25:23 Now when all the captains of the forces, they and their men,
heard that the king of Babylon had made Gedaliah governor, they came
to Gedaliah to Mizpah, even Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and Johanan
the son of Kareah, and Seraiah the son of Tanhumeth the Netophathite,
and Jaazaniah the son of the Maacathite, they and their men.
2Ki
25:24 Gedaliah swore to them and to their men, and said to them,
Don't be afraid because of the servants of the Chaldeans: dwell in
the land, and serve the king of Babylon, and it shall be well with
you.
2Ki
25:25 But it happened in the seventh month, that Ishmael the son of
Nethaniah, the son of Elishama, of the royal seed came, and ten men
with him, and struck Gedaliah, so that he died, and the Jews and the
Chaldeans that were with him at Mizpah.
2Ki
25:26 All the people, both small and great, and the captains of the
forces, arose, and came to Egypt; for they were afraid of the
Chaldeans.
2Ki
25:27 It happened in the seven and thirtieth year of the captivity
of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, on the seven and
twentieth day of the month, that Evilmerodach king of Babylon, in the
year that he began to reign, did lift up the head of Jehoiachin king
of Judah out of prison;
2Ki
25:28 and he spoke kindly to him, and set his throne above the
throne of the kings who were with him in Babylon,
2Ki
25:29 and changed his prison garments. Jehoiachin
ate bread before him continually all the days of his life:
2Ki
25:30 and for his allowance, there was a continual allowance given
him of the king, every day a portion, all the days of his life.
Jul.
10, 11
Acts
8
Act
8:1 Saul was consenting to his death. A great persecution arose
against the assembly which was in Jerusalem in that day. They were
all scattered abroad throughout the regions of Judea and Samaria,
except for the apostles.
Act
8:2 Devout men buried Stephen, and lamented greatly over him.
Act
8:3 But Saul ravaged the assembly, entering into every house, and
dragged both men and women off to prison.
Act
8:4 Therefore those who were scattered abroad went around preaching
the word.
Act
8:5 Philip went down to the city of Samaria, and proclaimed to them
the Christ.
Act
8:6 The multitudes listened with one accord to the things that were
spoken by Philip, when they heard and saw the signs which he did.
Act
8:7 For unclean spirits came out of many of those who had them. They
came out, crying with a loud voice. Many who had been paralyzed and
lame were healed.
Act
8:8 There was great joy in that city.
Act
8:9 But there was a certain man, Simon by name, who used to practice
sorcery in the city, and amazed the people of Samaria, making himself
out to be some great one,
Act
8:10 to whom they all listened, from the least to the greatest,
saying, "This man is that great power of God."
Act
8:11 They listened to him, because for a long time he had amazed
them with his sorceries.
Act
8:12 But when they believed Philip preaching good news concerning
the Kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ, they were baptized,
both men and women.
Act
8:13 Simon himself also believed. Being baptized, he continued with
Philip. Seeing signs and great miracles occurring, he was amazed.
Act
8:14 Now when the apostles who were at Jerusalem heard that Samaria
had received the word of God, they sent Peter and John to them,
Act
8:15 who, when they had come down, prayed for them, that they might
receive the Holy Spirit;
Act
8:16 for as yet he had fallen on none of them. They had only been
baptized in the name of Christ Jesus.
Act
8:17 Then they laid their hands on them, and they received the Holy
Spirit.
Act
8:18 Now when Simon saw that the Holy Spirit was given through the
laying on of the apostles' hands, he offered them money,
Act
8:19 saying, "Give me also this power, that whoever I lay my
hands on may receive the Holy Spirit."
Act
8:20 But Peter said to him, "May your silver perish with you,
because you thought you could obtain the gift of God with money!
Act
8:21 You have neither part nor lot in this matter, for your heart
isn't right before God.
Act
8:22 Repent therefore of this, your wickedness, and ask God if
perhaps the thought of your heart may be forgiven you.
Act
8:23 For I see that you are in the gall of bitterness and in the
bondage of iniquity."
Act
8:24 Simon answered, "Pray for me to the Lord, that none of the
things which you have spoken happen to me."
Act
8:25 They therefore, when they had testified and spoken the word of
the Lord, returned to Jerusalem, and preached the Good News to many
villages of the Samaritans.
Act
8:26 But an angel of the Lord spoke to Philip, saying, "Arise,
and go toward the south to the way that goes down from Jerusalem to
Gaza. This is a desert."
Act
8:27 He arose and went; and behold, there was a man of Ethiopia, a
eunuch of great authority under Candace, queen of the Ethiopians, who
was over all her treasure, who had come to Jerusalem to worship.
Act
8:28 He was returning and sitting in his chariot, and was reading
the prophet Isaiah.
Act
8:29 The Spirit said to Philip, "Go near, and join yourself to
this chariot."
Act
8:30 Philip ran to him, and heard him reading Isaiah the prophet,
and said, "Do you understand what you are reading?"
Act
8:31 He said, "How can I, unless someone explains it to me?"
He begged Philip to come up and sit with him.
Act
8:32 Now the passage of the Scripture which he was reading was this,
"He was led as a sheep to the slaughter. As a lamb before his
shearer is silent, so he doesn't open his mouth.
Act
8:33 In his humiliation, his judgment was taken away. Who will
declare His generation? For his life is taken from the earth."
Act
8:34 The eunuch answered Philip, "Who is the prophet talking
about? About himself, or about someone else?"
Act
8:35 Philip opened his mouth, and beginning from this Scripture,
preached to him Jesus.
Act
8:36 As they went on the way, they came to some water, and the
eunuch said, "Behold, here is water. What is keeping me from
being baptized?"
Act
8:37 "Philip said, 'If you believe with all your heart, you
may.' He answered, 'I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God.' "
Act
8:38 He commanded the chariot to stand still, and they both went
down into the water, both Philip and the eunuch, and he baptized him.
Act
8:39 When they came up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord
caught Philip away, and the eunuch didn't see him any more, for he
went on his way rejoicing.
Act
8:40 But Philip was found at Azotus. Passing through, he preached
the Good News to all the cities, until he came to Caesarea.
Jul.
12, 13
Acts
9
Act
9:1 But Saul, still breathing threats and slaughter against the
disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest,
Act
9:2 and asked for letters from him to the synagogues of Damascus,
that if he found any who were of the Way, whether men or women, he
might bring them bound to Jerusalem.
Act
9:3 As he traveled, it happened that he got close to Damascus, and
suddenly a light from the sky shone around him.
Act
9:4 He fell on the earth, and heard a voice saying to him, "Saul,
Saul, why do you persecute me?"
Act
9:5 He said, "Who are you, Lord?" The Lord said, "I
am Jesus, whom you are persecuting.
Act
9:6 But rise up, and enter into the city, and you will be told what
you must do."
Act
9:7 The men who traveled with him stood speechless, hearing the
sound, but seeing no one.
Act
9:8 Saul arose from the ground, and when his eyes were opened, he
saw no one. They led him by the hand, and brought him into Damascus.
Act
9:9 He was without sight for three days, and neither ate nor drank.
Act
9:10 Now there was a certain disciple at Damascus named Ananias. The
Lord said to him in a vision, "Ananias!" He said, "Behold,
it's me, Lord."
Act
9:11 The Lord said to him, "Arise, and go to the street which
is called Straight, and inquire in the house of Judah for one named
Saul, a man of Tarsus. For behold, he is praying,
Act
9:12 and in a vision he has seen a man named Ananias coming in, and
laying his hands on him, that he might receive his sight."
Act
9:13 But Ananias answered, "Lord, I have heard from many about
this man, how much evil he did to your saints at Jerusalem.
Act
9:14 Here he has authority from the chief priests to bind all who
call on your name."
Act
9:15 But the Lord said to him, "Go your way, for he is my
chosen vessel to bear my name before the nations and kings, and the
children of Israel.
Act
9:16 For I will show him how many things he must suffer for my
name's sake."
Act
9:17 Ananias departed, and entered into the house. Laying his hands
on him, he said, "Brother Saul, the Lord, who appeared to you on
the road by which you came, has sent me, that you may receive your
sight, and be filled with the Holy Spirit."
Act
9:18 Immediately something like scales fell from his eyes, and he
received his sight. He arose and was baptized.
Act
9:19 He took food and was strengthened. Saul stayed several days
with the disciples who were at Damascus.
Act
9:20 Immediately in the synagogues he proclaimed the Christ, that he
is the Son of God.
Act
9:21 All who heard him were amazed, and said, "Isn't this he
who in Jerusalem made havoc of those who called on this name? And he
had come here intending to bring them bound before the chief
priests!"
Act
9:22 But Saul increased more in strength, and confounded the Jews
who lived at Damascus, proving that this is the Christ.
Act
9:23 When many days were fulfilled, the Jews conspired together to
kill him,
Act
9:24 but their plot became known to Saul. They watched the gates
both day and night that they might kill him,
Act
9:25 but his disciples took him by night, and let him down through
the wall, lowering him in a basket.
Act
9:26 When Saul had come to Jerusalem, he tried to join himself to
the disciples; but they were all afraid of him, not believing that he
was a disciple.
Act
9:27 But Barnabas took him, and brought him to the apostles, and
declared to them how he had seen the Lord in the way, and that he had
spoken to him, and how at Damascus he had preached boldly in the name
of Jesus.
Act
9:28 He was with them entering into Jerusalem,
Act
9:29 preaching boldly in the name of the Lord Jesus. He spoke and
disputed against the Hellenists, but they were seeking to kill him.
Act
9:30 When the brothers knew it, they brought him down to Caesarea,
and sent him off to Tarsus.
Act
9:31 So the assemblies throughout all Judea and Galilee and Samaria
had peace, and were built up. They were multiplied, walking in the
fear of the Lord and in the comfort of the Holy Spirit.
Act
9:32 It happened, as Peter went throughout all those parts, he came
down also to the saints who lived at Lydda.
Act
9:33 There he found a certain man named Aeneas, who had been
bedridden for eight years, because he was paralyzed.
Act
9:34 Peter said to him, "Aeneas, Jesus Christ heals you. Get up
and make your bed!" Immediately he arose.
Act
9:35 All who lived at Lydda and in Sharon saw him, and they turned
to the Lord.
Act
9:36 Now there was at Joppa a certain disciple named Tabitha, which
when translated, means Dorcas. This woman was full of good works and
acts of mercy which she did.
Act
9:37 It happened in those days that she fell sick, and died. When
they had washed her, they laid her in an upper chamber.
Act
9:38 As Lydda was near Joppa, the disciples, hearing that Peter was
there, sent two men to him, imploring him not to delay in coming to
them.
Act
9:39 Peter got up and went with them. When he had come, they brought
him into the upper chamber. All the widows stood by him weeping, and
showing the coats and garments which Dorcas had made while she was
with them.
Act
9:40 Peter put them all out, and kneeled down and prayed. Turning to
the body, he said, "Tabitha, get up!" She opened her eyes,
and when she saw Peter, she sat up.
Act
9:41 He gave her his hand, and raised her up. Calling the saints and
widows, he presented her alive.
Act
9:42 And it became known throughout all Joppa, and many believed in
the Lord.
Act
9:43 It happened, that he stayed many days in Joppa with one Simon,
a tanner.
