Bible Reading
July 24-26
The World English Bible
July
24
2
Chronicles 4-6
2Ch
4:1 Then he made an altar of brass, twenty cubits its length, and
twenty cubits its breadth, and ten cubits its height.
2Ch
4:2 Also he made the molten sea of ten cubits from brim to brim,
round in compass; and its height was five cubits; and a line of
thirty cubits encircled it.
2Ch
4:3 Under it was the likeness of oxen, which encircled it, for ten
cubits, encircling the sea. The oxen were in two rows, cast when it
was cast.
2Ch
4:4 It stood on twelve oxen, three looking toward the north, and
three looking toward the west, and three looking toward the south,
and three looking toward the east: and the sea was set on them above,
and all their hinder parts were inward.
2Ch
4:5 It was a handbreadth thick; and its brim was worked like the
brim of a cup, like the flower of a lily: it received and held three
thousand baths.
2Ch
4:6 He made also ten basins, and put five on the right hand, and
five on the left, to wash in them; such things as belonged to the
burnt offering they washed in them; but the sea was for the priests
to wash in.
2Ch
4:7 He made the ten lampstands of gold according to the ordinance
concerning them; and he set them in the temple, five on the right
hand, and five on the left.
2Ch
4:8 He made also ten tables, and placed them in the temple, five on
the right side, and five on the left. He made one hundred basins of
gold.
2Ch
4:9 Furthermore he made the court of the priests, and the great
court, and doors for the court, and overlaid the doors of them with
brass.
2Ch
4:10 He set the sea on the right side of
the house eastward, toward the south.
2Ch
4:11 Huram made the pots, and the shovels, and the basins. So Huram
made an end of doing the work that he did for king Solomon in the
house of God:
2Ch
4:12 the two pillars, and the bowls, and the two capitals which were
on the top of the pillars, and the two networks to cover the two
bowls of the capitals that were on the top of the pillars,
2Ch
4:13 and the four hundred pomegranates for the two networks; two
rows of pomegranates for each network, to cover the two bowls of the
capitals that were on the pillars.
2Ch
4:14 He made also the bases, and the basins made he on the bases;
2Ch
4:15 one sea, and the twelve oxen under it.
2Ch
4:16 The pots also, and the shovels, and the forks, and all its
vessels, did Huram his father make for king Solomon for the house of
Yahweh of bright brass.
2Ch
4:17 In the plain of the Jordan did the king cast them, in the clay
ground between Succoth and Zeredah.
2Ch
4:18 Thus Solomon made all these vessels in great abundance: for the
weight of the brass could not be found out.
2Ch
4:19 Solomon made all the vessels that were in the house of God, the
golden altar also, and the tables with the show bread on them;
2Ch
4:20 and the lampstands with their lamps, to burn according to the
ordinance before the oracle, of pure gold;
2Ch
4:21 and the flowers, and the lamps, and the tongs, of gold, and
that perfect gold;
2Ch
4:22 and the snuffers, and the basins, and the spoons, and the fire
pans, of pure gold: and as for the entry of the house, the inner
doors of it for the most holy place, and the doors of the main hall
of the temple were of gold.
2Ch
5:1 Thus all the work that Solomon did for the house of Yahweh was
finished. Solomon brought in the things that David his father had
dedicated, even the silver, and the gold, and all the vessels, and
put them in the treasuries of the house of God.
2Ch
5:2 Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, and all the heads
of the tribes, the princes of the fathers' houses
of the children of Israel, to Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of the
covenant of Yahweh out of the city of David, which is Zion.
2Ch
5:3 And all the men of Israel assembled themselves to the king at
the feast, which was in
the seventh month.
2Ch
5:4 All the elders of Israel came: and the Levites took up the ark;
2Ch
5:5 and they brought up the ark, and the Tent of Meeting, and all
the holy vessels that were in the Tent; these did the priests the
Levites bring up.
2Ch
5:6 King Solomon and all the congregation of Israel, that were
assembled to him, were before the ark, sacrificing sheep and cattle,
that could not be counted nor numbered for multitude.
2Ch
5:7 The priests brought in the ark of the covenant of Yahweh to its
place, into the oracle of the house, to the most holy place, even
under the wings of the cherubim.
2Ch
5:8 For the cherubim spread forth their wings over the place of the
ark, and the cherubim covered the ark and its poles above.
2Ch
5:9 The poles were so long that the ends of the poles were seen from
the ark before the oracle; but they were not seen outside: and there
it is to this day.
2Ch
5:10 There was nothing in the ark save the two tables which Moses
put there
at Horeb, when Yahweh made a covenant with the children of Israel,
when they came out of Egypt.
2Ch
5:11 It happened, when the priests were come out of the holy place,
(for all the priests who were present had sanctified themselves, and
did not keep their divisions;
2Ch
5:12 also the Levites who were the singers, all of them, even Asaph,
Heman, Jeduthun, and their sons and their brothers, arrayed in fine
linen, with cymbals and stringed instruments and harps, stood at the
east end of the altar, and with them one hundred twenty priests
sounding with trumpets;)
2Ch
5:13 it happened, when the trumpeters and singers were as one, to
make one sound to be heard in praising and thanking Yahweh; and when
they lifted up their voice with the trumpets and cymbals and
instruments of music, and praised Yahweh, saying,
For he is good; for his loving kindness endures forever; that then
the house was filled with a cloud, even the house of Yahweh,
2Ch
5:14 so that the priests could not stand to minister by reason of
the cloud: for the glory of Yahweh filled the house of God.
2Ch
6:1 Then spoke Solomon, Yahweh has said that he would dwell in the
thick darkness.
2Ch
6:2 But I have built you a house of habitation, and a place for you
to dwell in forever.
2Ch
6:3 The king turned his face, and blessed all the assembly of
Israel: and all the assembly of Israel stood.
2Ch
6:4 He said, Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Israel, who spoke with
his mouth to David my father, and has with his hands fulfilled it,
saying,
2Ch
6:5 Since the day that I brought forth my people out of the land of
Egypt, I chose no city out of all the tribes of Israel to build a
house in, that my name might be there; neither chose I any man to be
prince over my people Israel:
2Ch
6:6 but I have chosen Jerusalem, that my name might be there; and
have chosen David to be over my people Israel.
2Ch
6:7 Now it was in the heart of David my father to build a house for
the name of Yahweh, the God of Israel.
2Ch
6:8 But Yahweh said to David my father, Whereas it was in your heart
to build a house for my name, you did well that it was in your heart:
2Ch
6:9 nevertheless you shall not build the house; but your son who
shall come forth out of your body, he shall build the house for my
name.
2Ch
6:10 Yahweh has performed his word that he spoke; for I am risen up
in the room of David my father, and sit on the throne of Israel, as
Yahweh promised, and have built the house for the name of Yahweh, the
God of Israel.
2Ch
6:11 There have I set the ark, in which is the covenant of Yahweh,
which he made with the children of Israel.
2Ch
6:12 He stood before the altar of Yahweh in the presence of all the
assembly of Israel, and spread forth his hands
2Ch
6:13 (for Solomon had made a bronze scaffold, five cubits long, and
five cubits broad, and three cubits high, and had set it in the midst
of the court; and on it he stood, and kneeled down on his knees
before all the assembly of Israel, and spread forth his hands toward
heaven;)
2Ch
6:14 and he said, Yahweh, the God of Israel, there is no God like
you, in heaven, or on earth; who keep covenant and loving kindness
with your servants, who walk before you with all their heart;
2Ch
6:15 who have kept with your servant David my father that which you
promised him: yes, you spoke with your mouth, and have fulfilled it
with your hand, as it is this day.
2Ch
6:16 Now therefore, Yahweh, the God of Israel, keep with your
servant David my father that which you have promised him, saying,
There shall not fail you a man in my sight to sit on the throne of
Israel, if only your children take heed to their way, to walk in my
law as you have walked before me.
2Ch
6:17 Now therefore, Yahweh, the God of Israel, let your word be
verified, which you spoke to your servant David.
2Ch
6:18 But will God indeed dwell with men on the earth? Behold, heaven
and the heaven of heavens can't contain you; how much less this house
which I have built!
2Ch
6:19 Yet have respect for the prayer of your servant, and to his
supplication, Yahweh my God, to listen to the cry and to the prayer
which your servant prays before you;
2Ch
6:20 that your eyes may be open toward this house day and night,
even toward the place where you have said that you would put your
name; to listen to the prayer which your servant shall pray toward
this place.
2Ch
6:21 Listen to the petitions of your servant, and of your people
Israel, when they shall pray toward this place: yes, hear from your
dwelling place, even from heaven; and when you hear, forgive.
2Ch
6:22 If a man sin against his neighbor, and an oath is laid on him
to cause him to swear, and he comes and swears before your altar in
this house;
2Ch
6:23 then hear from heaven, and do, and judge your servants,
bringing retribution to the wicked, to bring his way on his own head;
and justifying the righteous, to give him according to his
righteousness.
2Ch
6:24 If your people Israel be struck down before the enemy, because
they have sinned against you, and shall turn again and confess your
name, and pray and make supplication before you in this house;
2Ch
6:25 then hear from heaven, and forgive the sin of your people
Israel, and bring them again to the land which you gave to them and
to their fathers.
2Ch
6:26 When the sky is shut up, and there is no rain, because they
have sinned against you; if they pray toward this place, and confess
your name, and turn from their sin, when you afflict them:
2Ch
6:27 then hear in heaven, and forgive the sin of your servants, and
of your people Israel, when you teach them the good way in which they
should walk; and send rain on your land, which you have given to your
people for an inheritance.
2Ch
6:28 If there be in the land famine, if there be pestilence, if
there is blight or mildew, locust or caterpillar; if their enemies
besiege them in the land of their cities; whatever plague or whatever
sickness there be;
2Ch
6:29 whatever prayer and supplication be made by any man, or by all
your people Israel, who shall know every man his own plague and his
own sorrow, and shall spread forth his hands toward this house:
2Ch
6:30 then hear from heaven, your dwelling place and forgive, and
render to every man according to all his ways, whose heart you know;
(for you, even you only, know the hearts of the children of men;)
2Ch
6:31 that they may fear you, to walk in your ways, so long as they
live in the land which you gave to our fathers.
2Ch
6:32 Moreover concerning the foreigner, who is not of your people
Israel, when he shall come from a far country for your great name's
sake, and your mighty hand, and your outstretched arm; when they
shall come and pray toward this house:
2Ch
6:33 then hear from heaven, even from your dwelling place, and do
according to all that the foreigner calls to you for; that all the
peoples of the earth may know your name, and fear you, as does your
people Israel, and that they may know that this house which I have
built is called by your name.
2Ch
6:34 If your people go out to battle against their enemies, by
whatever way you shall send them, and they pray to you toward this
city which you have chosen, and the house which I have built for your
name;
2Ch
6:35 then hear from heaven their prayer and their supplication, and
maintain their cause.
2Ch
6:36 If they sin against you (for there is no man who doesn't sin),
and you are angry with them, and deliver them to the enemy, so that
they carry them away captive to a land far off or near;
2Ch
6:37 yet if they shall repent themselves in the land where they are
carried captive, and turn again, and make supplication to you in the
land of their captivity, saying, We have sinned, we have done
perversely, and have dealt wickedly;
2Ch
6:38 if they return to you with all their heart and with all their
soul in the land of their captivity, where they have carried them
captive, and pray toward their land, which you gave to their fathers,
and the city which you have chosen, and toward the house which I have
built for your name:
2Ch
6:39 then hear from heaven, even from your dwelling place, their
prayer and their petitions, and maintain their cause, and forgive
your people who have sinned against you.
2Ch
6:40 Now, my God, let, I beg you, your eyes be open, and let your
ears be attentive, to the prayer that is made in this place.
2Ch
6:41 Now therefore arise, Yahweh God, into your resting place, you,
and the ark of your strength: let your priests, Yahweh God, be
clothed with salvation, and let your saints rejoice in goodness.
2Ch
6:42 Yahweh God, don't turn away the face of your anointed: remember
your loving
kindnesses to David your servant.
July
25
2
Chronicles 7-9
2Ch
7:1 Now when Solomon had made an end of praying, the fire came down
from heaven, and consumed the burnt offering and the sacrifices; and
the glory of Yahweh filled the house.
2Ch
7:2 The priests could not enter into the house of Yahweh, because
the glory of Yahweh filled Yahweh's house.
2Ch
7:3 All the children of Israel looked on, when the fire came down,
and the glory of Yahweh was on the house; and they bowed themselves
with their faces to the ground on the pavement, and worshiped, and
gave thanks to Yahweh, saying,
For he is good; for his loving kindness endures for ever.
2Ch
7:4 Then the king and all the people offered sacrifice before
Yahweh.
2Ch
7:5 King Solomon offered a sacrifice of twenty-two thousand head of
cattle, and a hundred and twenty thousand sheep. So the king and all
the people dedicated the house of God.
2Ch
7:6 The priests stood, according to their offices; the Levites also
with instruments of music of Yahweh, which David the king had made to
give thanks to Yahweh, (for his loving kindness endures for ever),
when David praised by their ministry: and the priests sounded
trumpets before them; and all Israel stood.
2Ch
7:7 Moreover Solomon made the middle of the court holy that was
before the house of Yahweh; for there he offered the burnt offerings,
and the fat of the peace offerings, because the bronze altar which
Solomon had made was not able to receive the burnt offering, and the
meal offering, and the fat.
2Ch
7:8 So Solomon held the feast at that time seven days, and all
Israel with him, a very great assembly, from the entrance of Hamath
to the brook of Egypt.
2Ch
7:9 On the eighth day they held a solemn assembly: for they kept the
dedication of the altar seven days, and the feast seven days.
2Ch
7:10 On the three and twentieth day of the seventh month he sent the
people away to their tents, joyful and glad of heart for the goodness
that Yahweh had shown to David, and to Solomon, and to Israel his
people.
2Ch
7:11 Thus Solomon finished the house of Yahweh, and the king's
house: and he successfully completed all that came into Solomon's
heart to make in the house of Yahweh, and in his own house.
2Ch
7:12 Yahweh appeared to Solomon by night, and said to him, I have
heard your prayer, and have chosen this place to myself for a house
of sacrifice.
2Ch
7:13 If I shut up the sky so that there is no rain, or if I command
the locust to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among my
people;
2Ch
7:14 if my people, who are called by my name, shall humble
themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked
ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and
will heal their land.
2Ch
7:15 Now my eyes shall be open, and my ears attentive, to the prayer
that is made in this place.
2Ch
7:16 For now have I chosen and made this house holy, that my name
may be there forever; and my eyes and my heart shall be there
perpetually.
2Ch
7:17 As for you, if you will walk before me as David your father
walked, and do according to all that I have commanded you, and will
keep my statutes and my ordinances;
2Ch
7:18 then I will establish the throne of your kingdom, according as
I covenanted with David your father, saying, There shall not fail you
a man to be ruler in Israel.
2Ch
7:19 But if you turn away, and forsake my statutes and my
commandments which I have set before you, and shall go and serve
other gods, and worship them;
2Ch
7:20 then will I pluck them up by the roots out of my land which I
have given them; and this house, which I have made holy for my name,
will I cast out of my sight, and I will make it a proverb and a
byword among all peoples.
2Ch
7:21 This house, which is so high, everyone who passes by it shall
be astonished, and shall say, Why has Yahweh done thus to this land,
and to this house?
2Ch
7:22 They shall answer, Because they abandoned Yahweh, the God of
their fathers, who brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, and
laid hold on other gods, and worshiped them, and served them:
therefore has he brought all this evil on them.
2Ch
8:1 It happened at the end of twenty years, in which Solomon had
built the house of Yahweh, and his own house,
2Ch
8:2 that the cities which Huram had given to Solomon, Solomon built
them, and caused the children of Israel to dwell there.
2Ch
8:3 Solomon went to Hamath Zobah, and prevailed against it.
2Ch
8:4 He built Tadmor in the wilderness, and all the storage cities,
which he built in Hamath.
2Ch
8:5 Also he built Beth Horon the upper, and Beth Horon the lower,
fortified cities, with walls, gates, and bars;
2Ch
8:6 and Baalath, and all the storage cities that Solomon had, and
all the cities for his chariots, and the cities for his horsemen, and
all that Solomon desired to build for his pleasure in Jerusalem, and
in Lebanon, and in all the land of his dominion.
2Ch
8:7 As for all the people who were left of the Hittites, and the
Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, who
were not of Israel;
2Ch
8:8 of their children who were left after them in the land, whom the
children of Israel didn't consume, of them did Solomon conscripted
forced labor to this day.
2Ch
8:9 But of the children of Israel did Solomon make no servants for
his work; but they were men of war, and chief of his captains, and
rulers of his chariots and of his horsemen.
2Ch
8:10 These were the chief officers of king Solomon, even two-hundred
fifty, who ruled over the people.
2Ch
8:11 Solomon brought up the daughter of Pharaoh out of the city of
David to the house that he had built for her; for he said, My wife
shall not dwell in the house of David king of Israel, because the
places where the ark of Yahweh has come are holy.
2Ch
8:12 Then Solomon offered burnt offerings to Yahweh on the altar of
Yahweh, which he had built before the porch,
2Ch
8:13 even as the duty of every day required, offering according to
the commandment of Moses, on the Sabbaths, and on the new moons, and
on the set feasts, three times in the year, even
in the feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in
the feast of tents.
2Ch
8:14 He appointed, according to the ordinance of David his father,
the divisions of the priests to their service, and the Levites to
their offices, to praise, and to minister before the priests, as the
duty of every day required; the doorkeepers also by their divisions
at every gate: for so had David the man of God commanded.
2Ch
8:15 They didn't depart from the commandment of the king to the
priests and Levites concerning any matter, or concerning the
treasures.
2Ch
8:16 Now all the work of Solomon was prepared to the day of the
foundation of the house of Yahweh, and until it was finished. So
the house of Yahweh was completed.
2Ch
8:17 Then went Solomon to Ezion Geber, and to Eloth, on the seashore
in the land of Edom.
2Ch
8:18 Huram sent him ships and servants who had knowledge of the sea
by the hands of his servants; and they came with the servants of
Solomon to Ophir, and fetched from there four hundred fifty talents
of gold, and brought them to king Solomon.
2Ch
9:1 When the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon, she came
to prove Solomon with hard questions at Jerusalem, with a very great
train, and camels that bore spices, and gold in abundance, and
precious stones: and when she was come to Solomon, she talked with
him of all that was in her heart.
2Ch
9:2 Solomon told her all her questions; and there was not anything
hid from Solomon which he didn't tell her.
2Ch
9:3 When the queen of Sheba had seen the wisdom of Solomon, and the
house that he had built,
2Ch
9:4 and the food of his table, and the sitting of his servants, and
the attendance of his ministers, and their clothing, his cup bearers
also, and their clothing, and his ascent by which he went up to the
house of Yahweh; there was no more spirit in her.
2Ch
9:5 She said to the king, It was a true report that I heard in my
own land of your acts, and of your wisdom.
2Ch
9:6 However I didn't believe their words, until I came, and my eyes
had seen it; and behold, the half of the greatness of your wisdom was
not told me: you exceed the fame that I heard.
2Ch
9:7 Happy are your men, and happy are these your servants, who stand
continually before you, and hear your wisdom.
2Ch
9:8 Blessed be Yahweh your God, who delighted in you, to set you on
his throne, to be king for Yahweh your God: because your God loved
Israel, to establish them forever, therefore made he you king over
them, to do justice and righteousness.
2Ch
9:9 She gave the king one hundred and twenty talents of gold, and
spices in great abundance, and precious stones: neither was there any
such spice as the queen of Sheba gave to king Solomon.
2Ch
9:10 The servants also of Huram, and the servants of Solomon, who
brought gold from Ophir, brought algum trees and precious stones.
2Ch
9:11 The king made of the algum trees terraces for the house of
Yahweh, and for the king's house, and harps and stringed instruments
for the singers: and there were none like these seen before in the
land of Judah.
2Ch
9:12 King Solomon gave to the queen of Sheba all her desire,
whatever she asked, besides that which she had brought to the king.
So she turned, and went to her own land, she and her servants.
2Ch
9:13 Now the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one year was six
hundred and sixty-six talents of gold,
2Ch
9:14 besides that which the traders and merchants brought: and all
the kings of Arabia and the governors of the country brought gold and
silver to Solomon.
2Ch
9:15 King Solomon made two hundred bucklers of beaten gold; six
hundred shekels
of beaten gold went to one buckler.
2Ch
9:16 he made
three hundred shields of beaten gold; three hundred shekels
of gold went to one shield: and the king put them in the house of the
forest of Lebanon.
2Ch
9:17 Moreover the king made a great throne of ivory, and overlaid it
with pure gold.
2Ch
9:18 And there were six steps to the throne, with a footstool of
gold, which were fastened to the throne, and stays on either side by
the place of the seat, and two lions standing beside the stays.
2Ch
9:19 Twelve lions stood there on the one side and on the other on
the six steps: there was nothing like it made in any kingdom.
2Ch
9:20 All king Solomon's drinking vessels were of gold, and all the
vessels of the house of the forest of Lebanon were of pure gold:
silver was nothing accounted of in the days of Solomon.
2Ch
9:21 For the king had ships that went to Tarshish with the servants
of Huram; once every three years came the ships of Tarshish, bringing
gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks.
2Ch
9:22 So king Solomon exceeded all the kings of the earth in riches
and wisdom.
2Ch
9:23 All the kings of the earth sought the presence of Solomon, to
hear his wisdom, which God had put in his heart.
2Ch
9:24 They brought every man his tribute, vessels of silver, and
vessels of gold, and clothing, armor, and spices, horses, and mules,
a rate year by year.
2Ch
9:25 Solomon had four thousand stalls for horses and chariots, and
twelve thousand horsemen, that he stationed in the chariot cities,
and with the king at Jerusalem.
2Ch
9:26 He ruled over all the kings from the River even to the land of
the Philistines, and to the border of Egypt.
2Ch
9:27 The king made silver to be in Jerusalem as stones, and he made
cedars to be as the sycamore trees that are in the lowland, for
abundance.
2Ch
9:28 They brought horses for Solomon out of Egypt, and out of all
lands.
2Ch
9:29 Now the rest of the acts of Solomon, first and last, aren't
they written in the history of Nathan the prophet, and in the
prophecy of Ahijah the Shilonite, and in the visions of Iddo the seer
concerning Jeroboam the son of Nebat?
2Ch
9:30 Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel forty years.
2Ch
9:31 Solomon slept with his fathers, and he was buried in the city
of David his father: and Rehoboam his son reigned in his place.
July
26
2
Chronicles 10-12
2Ch
10:1 Rehoboam went to Shechem; for all Israel were come to Shechem
to make him king.
2Ch
10:2 It happened, when Jeroboam the son of Nebat heard of it, (for
he was in Egypt, where he had fled from the presence of king
Solomon), that Jeroboam returned out of Egypt.
2Ch
10:3 They sent and called him; and Jeroboam and all Israel came, and
they spoke to Rehoboam, saying,
2Ch
10:4 Your father made our yoke grievous: now therefore make you the
grievous service of your father, and his heavy yoke which he put on
us, lighter, and we will serve you.
2Ch
10:5 He said to them, Come again to me after three days. The people
departed.
2Ch
10:6 King Rehoboam took counsel with the old men, who had stood
before Solomon his father while he yet lived, saying, What counsel do
you give me to return answer to this people?
2Ch
10:7 They spoke to him, saying, If you are kind to this people, and
please them, and speak good words to them, then they will be your
servants forever.
2Ch
10:8 But he forsook the counsel of the old men which they had given
him, and took counsel with the young men who had grown up with him,
who stood before him.
2Ch
10:9 He said to them, What counsel do you give, that we may return
answer to this people, who have spoken to me, saying, Make the yoke
that your father did put on us lighter?
2Ch
10:10 The young men who had grown up with him spoke to him, saying,
Thus you shall tell the people who spoke to you, saying, Your father
made our yoke heavy, but make it lighter on us; thus you shall say to
them, My little finger is thicker than my father's waist.
2Ch
10:11 Now whereas my father burdened you with a heavy yoke, I will
add to your yoke: my father chastised you with whips, but I will
chastise you with scorpions.
2Ch
10:12 So Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam the third day,
as the king bade, saying, Come to me again the third day.
2Ch
10:13 The king answered them roughly; and king Rehoboam forsook the
counsel of the old men,
2Ch
10:14 and spoke to them after the counsel of the young men, saying,
My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add thereto: my father
chastised you with whips, but I will
chastise you with scorpions.
2Ch
10:15 So the king didn't listen to the people; for it was brought
about of God, that Yahweh might establish his word, which he spoke by
Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam the son of Nebat.
2Ch
10:16 When all Israel saw that the king didn't listen to them, the
people answered the king, saying, What portion have we in David?
neither have we inheritance in the son of Jesse: every man to your
tents, Israel: now see to your own house, David. So all Israel
departed to their tents.
2Ch
10:17 But as for the children of Israel who lived in the cities of
Judah, Rehoboam reigned over them.
2Ch
10:18 Then king Rehoboam sent Hadoram, who was over the men subject
to forced labor; and the children of Israel stoned him to death with
stones. King Rehoboam made speed to get him up to his chariot, to
flee to Jerusalem.
2Ch
10:19 So Israel rebelled against the house of David to this day.
2Ch
11:1 When Rehoboam was come to Jerusalem, he assembled the house of
Judah and Benjamin, one hundred eighty thousand chosen men, who were
warriors, to fight against Israel, to bring the kingdom again to
Rehoboam.
2Ch
11:2 But the word of Yahweh came to Shemaiah the man of God, saying,
2Ch
11:3 Speak to Rehoboam the son of Solomon, king of Judah, and to all
Israel in Judah and Benjamin, saying,
2Ch
11:4 Thus says Yahweh, You shall not go up, nor fight against your
brothers: return every man to his house; for this thing is of me. So
they listened to the words of Yahweh, and returned from going against
Jeroboam.
2Ch
11:5 Rehoboam lived in Jerusalem, and built cities for defense in
Judah.
2Ch
11:6 He built Bethlehem, and Etam, and Tekoa,
2Ch
11:7 Beth Zur, and Soco, and Adullam,
2Ch
11:8 and Gath, and Mareshah, and Ziph,
2Ch
11:9 and Adoraim, and Lachish, and Azekah,
2Ch
11:10 and Zorah, and Aijalon, and Hebron, which are in Judah and in
Benjamin, fortified cities.
2Ch
11:11 He fortified the strongholds, and put captains in them, and
stores of food, and oil and wine.
2Ch
11:12 In every city he put
shields and spears, and made them exceeding strong. Judah and
Benjamin belonged to him.
2Ch
11:13 The priests and the Levites who were in all Israel resorted to
him out of all their border.
2Ch
11:14 For the Levites left their suburbs and their possession, and
came to Judah and Jerusalem: for Jeroboam and his sons cast them off,
that they should not execute the priest's office to Yahweh;
2Ch
11:15 and he appointed him priests for the high places, and for the
male goats, and for the calves which he had made.
2Ch
11:16 After them, out of all the tribes of Israel, such as set their
hearts to seek Yahweh, the God of Israel, came to Jerusalem to
sacrifice to Yahweh, the God of their fathers.
2Ch
11:17 So they strengthened the kingdom of Judah, and made Rehoboam
the son of Solomon strong, three years; for they walked three years
in the way of David and Solomon.
2Ch
11:18 Rehoboam took him a wife, Mahalath the daughter of Jerimoth
the son of David, and of
Abihail the daughter of Eliab the son of Jesse;
2Ch
11:19 and she bore him sons: Jeush, and Shemariah, and Zaham.
2Ch
11:20 After her he took Maacah the daughter of Absalom; and she bore
him Abijah, and Attai, and Ziza, and Shelomith.
2Ch
11:21 Rehoboam loved Maacah the daughter of Absalom above all his
wives and his concubines: (for he took eighteen wives, and sixty
concubines, and became the father of twenty-eight sons and sixty
daughters.)
2Ch
11:22 Rehoboam appointed Abijah the son of Maacah to be chief, even
the prince among his brothers; for he
was minded to make him king.
2Ch
11:23 He dealt wisely, and dispersed of all his sons throughout all
the lands of Judah and Benjamin, to every fortified city: and he gave
them food in abundance. He sought for
them many wives.
2Ch
12:1 It happened, when the kingdom of Rehoboam was established, and
he was strong, that he forsook the law of Yahweh, and all Israel with
him.
2Ch
12:2 It happened in the fifth year of king Rehoboam, that Shishak
king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem, because they had trespassed
against Yahweh,
2Ch
12:3 with twelve hundred chariots, and sixty thousand horsemen. The
people were without number who came with him out of Egypt: the Lubim,
the Sukkiim, and the Ethiopians.
2Ch
12:4 He took the fortified cities which pertained to Judah, and came
to Jerusalem.
2Ch
12:5 Now Shemaiah the prophet came to Rehoboam, and to the princes
of Judah, who were gathered together to Jerusalem because of Shishak,
and said to them, Thus says Yahweh, You have forsaken me, therefore
have I also left you in the hand of Shishak.
2Ch
12:6 Then the princes of Israel and the king humbled themselves; and
they said, Yahweh is righteous.
2Ch
12:7 When Yahweh saw that they humbled themselves, the word of
Yahweh came to Shemaiah, saying, They have humbled themselves: I will
not destroy them; but I will grant them some deliverance, and my
wrath shall not be poured out on Jerusalem by the hand of Shishak.
2Ch
12:8 Nevertheless they shall be his servants, that they may know my
service, and the service of the kingdoms of the countries.
2Ch
12:9 So Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem, and took
away the treasures of the house of Yahweh, and the treasures of the
king's house: he took all away: he took away also the shields of gold
which Solomon had made.
2Ch
12:10 King Rehoboam made in their place shields of brass, and
committed them to the hands of the captains of the guard, who kept
the door of the king's house.
2Ch
12:11 It was so, that as often as the king entered into the house of
Yahweh, the guard came and bore them, and brought them back into the
guard chamber.
2Ch
12:12 When he humbled himself, the wrath of Yahweh turned from him,
so as not to destroy him altogether: and moreover in Judah there were
good things found.
2Ch
12:13 So king Rehoboam strengthened himself in Jerusalem, and
reigned: for Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he began to reign,
and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which Yahweh
had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there:
and his mother's name was Naamah the Ammonitess.
2Ch
12:14 He did that which was evil, because he didn't set his heart to
seek Yahweh.
2Ch
12:15 Now the acts of Rehoboam, first and last, aren't they written
in the histories of Shemaiah the prophet and of Iddo the seer, after
the manner of genealogies? There were wars between Rehoboam and
Jeroboam continually.
2Ch
12:16 Rehoboam slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of
David: and Abijah his son reigned in his place.
Jul.
24, 25
Acts
15
Act
15:1 Some men came down from Judea and taught the brothers, "Unless
you are circumcised after the custom of Moses, you can't be saved."
Act
15:2 Therefore when Paul and Barnabas had no small discord and
discussion with them, they appointed Paul and Barnabas, and some
others of them, to go up to Jerusalem to the apostles and elders
about this question.
Act
15:3 They, being sent on their way by the assembly, passed through
both Phoenicia and Samaria, declaring the conversion of the Gentiles.
They caused great joy to all the brothers.
Act
15:4 When they had come to Jerusalem, they were received by the
assembly and the apostles and the elders, and they reported all
things that God had done with them.
Act
15:5 But some of the sect of the Pharisees who believed rose up,
saying, "It is necessary to circumcise them, and to command them
to keep the law of Moses."
Act
15:6 The apostles and the elders were gathered together to see about
this matter.
Act
15:7 When there had been much discussion, Peter rose up and said to
them, "Brothers, you know that a good while ago God made a
choice among you, that by my mouth the nations should hear the word
of the Good News, and believe.
Act
15:8 God, who knows the heart, testified about them, giving them the
Holy Spirit, just like he did to us.
Act
15:9 He made no distinction between us and them, cleansing their
hearts by faith.
Act
15:10 Now therefore why do you tempt God, that you should put a yoke
on the neck of the disciples which neither our fathers nor we were
able to bear?
Act
15:11 But we believe that we are saved through the grace of the Lord
Jesus, just as they are."
Act
15:12 All the multitude kept silence, and they listened to Barnabas
and Paul reporting what signs and wonders God had done among the
nations through them.
Act
15:13 After they were silent, James answered, "Brothers, listen
to me.
Act
15:14 Simeon has reported how God first visited the nations, to take
out of them a people for his name.
Act
15:15 This agrees with the words of the prophets. As it is written,
Act
15:16 'After these things I will return. I will again build the
tabernacle of David, which has fallen. I will again build its ruins.
I will set it up,
Act
15:17 That the rest of men may seek after the Lord; All the Gentiles
who are called by my name, Says the Lord, who does all these things.
Act
15:18 All his works are known to God from eternity.'
Act
15:19 "Therefore my judgment is that we don't trouble those
from among the Gentiles who turn to God,
Act
15:20 but that we write to them that they abstain from the pollution
of idols, from sexual immorality, from what is strangled, and from
blood.
Act
15:21 For Moses from generations of old has in every city those who
preach him, being read in the synagogues every Sabbath."
Act
15:22 Then it seemed good to the apostles and the elders, with the
whole assembly, to choose men out of their company, and send them to
Antioch with Paul and Barnabas: Judas called Barsabbas, and Silas,
chief men among the brothers.
Act
15:23 They wrote these things by their hand: "The apostles, the
elders, and the brothers, to the brothers who are of the Gentiles in
Antioch, Syria, and Cilicia: greetings.
Act
15:24 Because we have heard that some who went out from us have
troubled you with words, unsettling your souls, saying, 'You must be
circumcised and keep the law,' to whom we gave no commandment;
Act
15:25 it seemed good to us, having come to one accord, to choose out
men and send them to you with our beloved Barnabas and Paul,
Act
15:26 men who have risked their lives for the name of our Lord Jesus
Christ.
Act
15:27 We have sent therefore Judas and Silas, who themselves will
also tell you the same things by word of mouth.
Act
15:28 For it seemed good to the Holy Spirit, and to us, to lay no
greater burden on you than these necessary things:
Act
15:29 that you abstain from things sacrificed to idols, from blood,
from things strangled, and from sexual immorality, from which if you
keep yourselves, it will be well with you. Farewell."
Act
15:30 So, when they were sent off, they came to Antioch. Having
gathered the multitude together, they delivered the letter.
Act
15:31 When they had read it, they rejoiced over the encouragement.
Act
15:32 Judas and Silas, also being prophets themselves, encouraged
the brothers with many words, and strengthened them.
Act
15:33 After they had spent some time there, they were sent back with
greetings from the brothers to the apostles.
Act
15:34 But it seemed good to Silas to stay there.
Act
15:35 But Paul and Barnabas stayed in Antioch, teaching and
preaching the word of the Lord, with many others also.
Act
15:36 After some days Paul said to Barnabas, "Let's return now
and visit our brothers in every city in which we proclaimed the word
of the Lord, to see how they are doing."
Act
15:37 Barnabas planned to take John, who was called Mark, with them
also.
Act
15:38 But Paul didn't think that it was a good idea to take with
them someone who had withdrawn from them in Pamphylia, and didn't go
with them to do the work.
Act
15:39 Then the contention grew so sharp that they separated from
each other. Barnabas took Mark with him, and sailed away to Cyprus,
Act
15:40 but Paul chose Silas, and went out, being commended by the
brothers to the grace of God.
Act
15:41 He went through Syria and Cilicia, strengthening the
assemblies.
Jul.
26, 27
Acts
16
Act
16:1 He came to Derbe and Lystra: and behold, a certain disciple was
there, named Timothy, the son of a Jewess who believed; but his
father was a Greek.
Act
16:2 The brothers who were at Lystra and Iconium gave a good
testimony about him.
Act
16:3 Paul wanted to have him go out with him, and he took and
circumcised him because of the Jews who were in those parts; for they
all knew that his father was a Greek.
Act
16:4 As they went on their way through the cities, they delivered
the decrees to them to keep which had been ordained by the apostles
and elders who were at Jerusalem.
Act
16:5 So the assemblies were strengthened in the faith, and increased
in number daily.
Act
16:6 When they had gone through the region of Phrygia and Galatia,
they were forbidden by the Holy Spirit to speak the word in Asia.
Act
16:7 When they had come opposite Mysia, they tried to go into
Bithynia, but the Spirit didn't allow them.
Act
16:8 Passing by Mysia, they came down to Troas.
Act
16:9 A vision appeared to Paul in the night. There was a man of
Macedonia standing, begging him, and saying, "Come over into
Macedonia and help us."
Act
16:10 When he had seen the vision, immediately we sought to go out
to Macedonia, concluding that the Lord had called us to preach the
Good News to them.
Act
16:11 Setting sail therefore from Troas, we made a straight course
to Samothrace, and the day following to Neapolis;
Act
16:12 and from there to Philippi, which is a city of Macedonia, the
foremost of the district, a Roman colony. We were staying some days
in this city.
Act
16:13 On the Sabbath day we went forth outside of the city by a
riverside, where we supposed there was a place of prayer, and we sat
down, and spoke to the women who had come together.
Act
16:14 A certain woman named Lydia, a seller of purple, of the city
of Thyatira, one who worshiped God, heard us; whose heart the Lord
opened to listen to the things which were spoken by Paul.
Act
16:15 When she and her household were baptized, she begged us,
saying, "If you have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come
into my house, and stay." So she persuaded us.
Act
16:16 It happened, as we were going to prayer, that a certain girl
having a spirit of divination met us, who brought her masters much
gain by fortune telling.
Act
16:17 Following Paul and us, she cried out, "These men are
servants of the Most High God, who proclaim to us a way of
salvation!"
Act
16:18 She was doing this for many days. But Paul, becoming greatly
annoyed, turned and said to the spirit, "I command you in the
name of Jesus Christ to come out of her!" It came out that very
hour.
Act
16:19 But when her masters saw that the hope of their gain was gone,
they seized Paul and Silas, and dragged them into the marketplace
before the rulers.
Act
16:20 When they had brought them to the magistrates, they said,
"These men, being Jews, are agitating our city,
Act
16:21 and set forth customs which it is not lawful for us to accept
or to observe, being Romans."
Act
16:22 The multitude rose up together against them, and the
magistrates tore their clothes off of them, and commanded them to be
beaten with rods.
Act
16:23 When they had laid many stripes on them, they threw them into
prison, charging the jailer to keep them safely,
Act
16:24 who, having received such a command, threw them into the inner
prison, and secured their feet in the stocks.
Act
16:25 But about midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing
hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to them.
Act
16:26 Suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations
of the prison were shaken; and immediately all the doors were opened,
and everyone's bonds were loosened.
Act
16:27 The jailer, being roused out of sleep and seeing the prison
doors open, drew his sword and was about to kill himself, supposing
that the prisoners had escaped.
Act
16:28 But Paul cried with a loud voice, saying, "Don't harm
yourself, for we are all here!"
Act
16:29 He called for lights and sprang in, and, fell down trembling
before Paul and Silas,
Act
16:30 and brought them out and said, "Sirs, what must I do to
be saved?"
Act
16:31 They said, "Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, and you
will be saved, you and your household."
Act
16:32 They spoke the word of the Lord to him, and to all who were in
his house.
Act
16:33 He took them the same hour of the night, and washed their
stripes, and was immediately baptized, he and all his household.
Act
16:34 He brought them up into his house, and set food before them,
and rejoiced greatly, with all his household, having believed in God.
Act
16:35 But when it was day, the magistrates sent the sergeants,
saying, "Let those men go."
Act
16:36 The jailer reported these words to Paul, saying, "The
magistrates have sent to let you go; now therefore come out, and go
in peace."
Act
16:37 But Paul said to them, "They have beaten us publicly,
without a trial, men who are Romans, and have cast us into prison! Do
they now release us secretly? No, most certainly, but let them come
themselves and bring us out!"
Act
16:38 The sergeants reported these words to the magistrates, and
they were afraid when they heard that they were Romans,
Act
16:39 and they came and begged them. When they had brought them out,
they asked them to depart from the city.
Act
16:40 They went out of the prison, and entered into Lydia's house.
When they had seen the brothers, they encouraged them, and departed.
