Bible Reading July 9 - 11
World English Bible
July
9
2
Kings 13-15
2Ki
13:1 In the three and twentieth year of Joash the son of Ahaziah,
king of Judah, Jehoahaz the son of Jehu began to reign over Israel in
Samaria, and reigned
seventeen years.
2Ki
13:2 He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, and followed
the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, with which he made Israel to
sin; he didn't depart from it.
2Ki
13:3 The anger of Yahweh was kindled against Israel, and he
delivered them into the hand of Hazael king of Syria, and into the
hand of Benhadad the son of Hazael, continually.
2Ki
13:4 Jehoahaz begged Yahweh, and Yahweh listened to him; for he saw
the oppression of Israel, how that the king of Syria oppressed them.
2Ki
13:5 (Yahweh gave Israel a savior, so that they went out from under
the hand of the Syrians; and the children of Israel lived in their
tents as before.
2Ki
13:6 Nevertheless they didn't depart from the sins of the house of
Jeroboam, with which he made Israel to sin, but walked therein: and
there remained the Asherah also in Samaria.)
2Ki
13:7 For he didn't leave to Jehoahaz of the people save fifty
horsemen, and ten chariots, and ten thousand footmen; for the king of
Syria destroyed them, and made them like the dust in threshing.
2Ki
13:8 Now the rest of the acts of Jehoahaz, and all that he did, and
his might, aren't they written in the book of the chronicles of the
kings of Israel?
2Ki
13:9 Jehoahaz slept with his fathers; and they buried him in
Samaria: and Joash his son reigned in his place.
2Ki
13:10 In the thirty-seventh year of Joash king of Judah began
Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz to reign over Israel in Samaria, and
reigned sixteen years.
2Ki
13:11 He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh; he didn't
depart from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, with which he
made Israel to sin; but he walked therein.
2Ki
13:12 Now the rest of the acts of Joash, and all that he did, and
his might with which he fought against Amaziah king of Judah, aren't
they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
2Ki
13:13 Joash slept with his fathers; and Jeroboam sat on his throne:
and Joash was buried in Samaria with the kings of Israel.
2Ki
13:14 Now Elisha was fallen sick of his sickness of which he died:
and Joash the king of Israel came down to him, and wept over him, and
said, My father, my father, the chariots of Israel and its horsemen!
2Ki
13:15 Elisha said to him, Take bow and arrows; and he took to him
bow and arrows.
2Ki
13:16 He said to the king of Israel, Put your hand on the bow; and
he put his hand on it.
Elisha laid his hands on the king's hands.
2Ki
13:17 He said, Open the window eastward; and he opened it. Then
Elisha said, Shoot; and he shot. He said, Yahweh's arrow of victory,
even the arrow of victory over Syria; for you shall strike the
Syrians in Aphek, until you have consumed them.
2Ki
13:18 He said, Take the arrows; and he took them. He said to the
king of Israel, Smite on the ground; and he struck thrice, and
stayed.
2Ki
13:19 The man of God was angry with him, and said, You should have
struck five or six times: then you would have struck Syria until you
had consumed it, whereas now you shall strike Syria just three times.
2Ki
13:20 Elisha died, and they buried him. Now the bands of the
Moabites invaded the land at the coming in of the year.
2Ki
13:21 It happened, as they were burying a man, that behold, they
spied a band; and they cast the man into the tomb of Elisha: and as
soon as the man touched the bones of Elisha, he revived, and stood up
on his feet.
2Ki
13:22 Hazael king of Syria oppressed Israel all the days of
Jehoahaz.
2Ki
13:23 But Yahweh was gracious to them, and had compassion on them,
and had respect to them, because of his covenant with Abraham, Isaac,
and Jacob, and would not destroy them, neither cast he them from his
presence as yet.
2Ki
13:24 Hazael king of Syria died; and Benhadad his son reigned in his
place.
2Ki
13:25 Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz took again out of the hand of
Benhadad the son of Hazael the cities which he had taken out of the
hand of Jehoahaz his father by war. Three times did Joash strike him,
and recovered the cities of Israel.
2Ki
14:1 In the second year of Joash son of Joahaz king of Israel began
Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah to reign.
2Ki
14:2 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
Jehoaddin of Jerusalem.
2Ki
14:3 He did that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh, yet not like
David his father: he did according to all that Joash his father had
done.
2Ki
14:4 However the high places were not taken away: the people still
sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.
2Ki
14:5 It happened, as soon as the kingdom was established in his
hand, that he killed his servants who had slain the king his father:
2Ki
14:6 but the children of the murderers he didn't put to death;
according to that which is written in the book of the law of Moses,
as Yahweh commanded, saying, The fathers shall not be put to death
for the children, nor the children be put to death for the fathers;
but every man shall die for his own sin.
2Ki
14:7 He killed of Edom in the Valley of Salt ten thousand, and took
Sela by war, and called its name Joktheel, to this day.
2Ki
14:8 Then Amaziah sent messengers to Jehoash, the son of Jehoahaz
son of Jehu, king of Israel, saying, Come, let us look one another in
the face.
2Ki
14:9 Jehoash the king of Israel sent to Amaziah king of Judah,
saying, The thistle that was in Lebanon sent to the cedar that was in
Lebanon, saying, Give your daughter to my son as wife: and there
passed by a wild animal that was in Lebanon, and trod down the
thistle.
2Ki
14:10 You have indeed struck Edom, and your heart has lifted you up:
glory of it, and abide at home; for why should you meddle to your
hurt, that you should fall, even you, and Judah with you?
2Ki
14:11 But Amaziah would not hear. So Jehoash king of Israel went up;
and he and Amaziah king of Judah looked one another in the face at
Beth Shemesh, which belongs to Judah.
2Ki
14:12 Judah was defeated by Israel; and they fled every man to his
tent.
2Ki
14:13 Jehoash king of Israel took Amaziah king of Judah, the son of
Jehoash the son of Ahaziah, at Beth Shemesh, and came to Jerusalem,
and broke down the wall of Jerusalem from the gate of Ephraim to the
corner gate, four hundred cubits.
2Ki
14:14 He took all the gold and silver, and all the vessels that were
found in the house of Yahweh, and in the treasures of the king's
house, the hostages also, and returned to Samaria.
2Ki
14:15 Now the rest of the acts of Jehoash which he did, and his
might, and how he fought with Amaziah king of Judah, aren't they
written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
2Ki
14:16 Jehoash slept with his fathers, and was buried in Samaria with
the kings of Israel; and Jeroboam his son reigned in his place.
2Ki
14:17 Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah lived after the death
of Jehoash son of Jehoahaz king of Israel fifteen years.
2Ki
14:18 Now the rest of the acts of Amaziah, aren't they written in
the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
2Ki
14:19 They made a conspiracy against him in Jerusalem; and he fled
to Lachish: but they sent after him to Lachish, and killed him there.
2Ki
14:20 They brought him on horses; and he was buried at Jerusalem
with his fathers in the city of David.
2Ki
14:21 All the people of Judah took Azariah, who was sixteen years
old, and made him king in the room of his father Amaziah.
2Ki
14:22 He built Elath, and restored it to Judah, after that the king
slept with his fathers.
2Ki
14:23 In the fifteenth year of Amaziah the son of Joash king of
Judah Jeroboam the son of Joash king of Israel began to reign in
Samaria, and reigned
forty-one years.
2Ki
14:24 He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh: he didn't
depart from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, with which he
made Israel to sin.
2Ki
14:25 He restored the border of Israel from the entrance of Hamath
to the sea of the Arabah, according to the word of Yahweh, the God of
Israel, which he spoke by his servant Jonah the son of Amittai, the
prophet, who was of Gath Hepher.
2Ki
14:26 For Yahweh saw the affliction of Israel, that it was very
bitter; for there was none shut up nor left at large, neither was
there any helper for Israel.
2Ki
14:27 Yahweh didn't say that he would blot out the name of Israel
from under the sky; but he saved them by the hand of Jeroboam the son
of Joash.
2Ki
14:28 Now the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, and all that he did, and
his might, how he warred, and how he recovered Damascus, and Hamath,
which had belonged
to Judah, for Israel, aren't they written in the book of the
chronicles of the kings of Israel?
2Ki
14:29 Jeroboam slept with his fathers, even with the kings of
Israel; and Zechariah his son reigned in his place.
2Ki
15:1 In the twenty-seventh year of Jeroboam king of Israel began
Azariah son of Amaziah king of Judah to reign.
2Ki
15:2 Sixteen years old was he when he began to reign; and he reigned
fifty-two years in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was Jecoliah of
Jerusalem.
2Ki
15:3 He did that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh, according to
all that his father Amaziah had done.
2Ki
15:4 However the high places were not taken away: the people still
sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.
2Ki
15:5 Yahweh struck the king, so that he was a leper to the day of
his death, and lived in a separate house. Jotham the king's son was
over the household, judging the people of the land.
2Ki
15:6 Now the rest of the acts of Azariah, and all that he did,
aren't they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of
Judah?
2Ki
15:7 Azariah slept with his fathers; and they buried him with his
fathers in the city of David: and Jotham his son reigned in his
place.
2Ki
15:8 In the thirty-eighth year of Azariah king of Judah did
Zechariah the son of Jeroboam reign over Israel in Samaria six
months.
2Ki
15:9 He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, as his
fathers had done: he didn't depart from the sins of Jeroboam the son
of Nebat, with which he made Israel to sin.
2Ki
15:10 Shallum the son of Jabesh conspired against him, and struck
him before the people, and killed him, and reigned in his place.
2Ki
15:11 Now the rest of the acts of Zechariah, behold, they are
written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.
2Ki
15:12 This was the word of Yahweh which he spoke to Jehu, saying,
Your sons to the fourth generation shall sit on the throne of Israel.
So it came to pass.
2Ki
15:13 Shallum the son of Jabesh began to reign in the nine and
thirtieth year of Uzziah king of Judah; and he reigned the space of a
month in Samaria.
2Ki
15:14 Menahem the son of Gadi went up from Tirzah, and came to
Samaria, and struck Shallum the son of Jabesh in Samaria, and killed
him, and reigned in his place.
2Ki
15:15 Now the rest of the acts of Shallum, and his conspiracy which
he made, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of
the kings of Israel.
2Ki
15:16 Then Menahem struck Tiphsah, and all who were therein, and its
borders, from Tirzah: because they didn't open to him, therefore he
struck it; and all the women therein who were with child he ripped
up.
2Ki
15:17 In the nine and thirtieth year of Azariah king of Judah began
Menahem the son of Gadi to reign over Israel, and
reigned ten years in Samaria.
2Ki
15:18 He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh: he didn't
depart all his days from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, with
which he made Israel to sin.
2Ki
15:19 There came against the land Pul the king of Assyria; and
Menahem gave Pul one thousand talents of silver, that his hand might
be with him to confirm the kingdom in his hand.
2Ki
15:20 Menahem exacted the money of Israel, even of all the mighty
men of wealth, of each man fifty shekels of silver, to give to the
king of Assyria. So the king of Assyria turned back, and didn't stay
there in the land.
2Ki
15:21 Now the rest of the acts of Menahem, and all that he did,
aren't they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of
Israel?
2Ki
15:22 Menahem slept with his fathers; and Pekahiah his son reigned
in his place.
2Ki
15:23 In the fiftieth year of Azariah king of Judah Pekahiah the son
of Menahem began to reign over Israel in Samaria, and
reigned two years.
2Ki
15:24 He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh: he didn't
depart from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, with which he made
Israel to sin.
2Ki
15:25 Pekah the son of Remaliah, his captain, conspired against him,
and struck him in Samaria, in the castle of the king's house, with
Argob and Arieh; and with him were fifty men of the Gileadites: and
he killed him, and reigned in his place.
2Ki
15:26 Now the rest of the acts of Pekahiah, and all that he did,
behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings
of Israel.
2Ki
15:27 In the two and fiftieth year of Azariah king of Judah Pekah
the son of Remaliah began to reign over Israel in Samaria, and
reigned twenty years.
2Ki
15:28 He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh: he didn't
depart from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, with which he made
Israel to sin.
2Ki
15:29 In the days of Pekah king of Israel came Tiglath Pileser king
of Assyria, and took Ijon, and Abel Beth Maacah, and Janoah, and
Kedesh, and Hazor, and Gilead, and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali;
and he carried them captive to Assyria.
2Ki
15:30 Hoshea the son of Elah made a conspiracy against Pekah the son
of Remaliah, and struck him, and killed him, and reigned in his
place, in the twentieth year of Jotham the son of Uzziah.
2Ki
15:31 Now the rest of the acts of Pekah, and all that he did,
behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings
of Israel.
2Ki
15:32 In the second year of Pekah the son of Remaliah king of Israel
began Jotham the son of Uzziah king of Judah to reign.
2Ki
15:33 He was twenty-five years old when he began to reign; and he
reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was Jerusha
the daughter of Zadok.
2Ki
15:34 He did that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh; he did
according to all that his father Uzziah had done.
2Ki
15:35 However the high places were not taken away: the people still
sacrificed and burned incense in the high places. He built the upper
gate of the house of Yahweh.
2Ki
15:36 Now the rest of the acts of Jotham, and all that he did,
aren't they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of
Judah?
2Ki
15:37 In those days Yahweh began to send against Judah Rezin the
king of Syria, and Pekah the son of Remaliah.
2Ki
15:38 Jotham slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers
in the city of David his father: and Ahaz his son reigned in his
place.
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.
Jul.
9
Acts 7
Act 7:1
The high priest said, "Are these things so?"
Act 7:2
He said, "Brothers and fathers, listen. The God of glory
appeared to our father Abraham, when he was in Mesopotamia, before he
lived in Haran,
Act 7:3
and said to him, 'Get out of your land, and from your relatives, and
come into a land which I will show you.'
Act 7:4
Then he came out of the land of the Chaldaeans, and lived in Haran.
From there, when his father was dead, God moved him into this land,
where you are now living.
Act 7:5
He gave him no inheritance in it, no, not so much as to set his foot
on. He promised that he would give it to him for a possession, and to
his seed after him, when he still had no child.
Act 7:6
God spoke in this way: that his seed would live as aliens in a
strange land, and that they would be enslaved and mistreated for four
hundred years.
Act 7:7
'I will judge the nation to which they will be in bondage,' said
God, 'and after that will they come out, and serve me in this place.'
Act 7:8
He gave him the covenant of circumcision. So Abraham became the
father of Isaac, and circumcised him the eighth day. Isaac became the
father of Jacob, and Jacob became the father of the twelve
patriarchs.
Act 7:9
"The patriarchs, moved with jealousy against Joseph, sold him
into Egypt. God was with him,
Act
7:10 and delivered him out of all his afflictions, and gave him
favor and wisdom before Pharaoh, king of Egypt. He made him governor
over Egypt and all his house.
Act
7:11 Now a famine came over all the land of Egypt and Canaan, and
great affliction. Our fathers found no food.
Act
7:12 But when Jacob heard that there was grain in Egypt, he sent out
our fathers the first time.
Act
7:13 On the second time Joseph was made known to his brothers, and
Joseph's race was revealed to Pharaoh.
Act
7:14 Joseph sent, and summoned Jacob, his father, and all his
relatives, seventy-five souls.
Act
7:15 Jacob went down into Egypt, and he died, himself and our
fathers,
Act
7:16 and they were brought back to Shechem, and laid in the tomb
that Abraham bought for a price in silver from the children of Hamor
of Shechem.
Act
7:17 "But as the time of the promise came close which God had
sworn to Abraham, the people grew and multiplied in Egypt,
Act
7:18 until there arose a different king, who didn't know Joseph.
Act
7:19 The same took advantage of our race, and mistreated our
fathers, and forced them to throw out their babies, so that they
wouldn't stay alive.
Act
7:20 At that time Moses was born, and was exceedingly handsome. He
was nourished three months in his father's house.
Act
7:21 When he was thrown out, Pharaoh's daughter took him up, and
reared him as her own son.
Act
7:22 Moses was instructed in all the wisdom of the Egyptians. He was
mighty in his words and works.
Act
7:23 But when he was forty years old, it came into his heart to
visit his brothers, the children of Israel.
Act
7:24 Seeing one of them suffer wrong, he defended him, and avenged
him who was oppressed, striking the Egyptian.
Act
7:25 He supposed that his brothers understood that God, by his hand,
was giving them deliverance; but they didn't understand.
Act
7:26 "The day following, he appeared to them as they fought,
and urged them to be at peace again, saying, 'Sirs, you are brothers.
Why do you wrong one another?'
Act
7:27 But he who did his neighbor wrong pushed him away, saying, 'Who
made you a ruler and a judge over us?
Act
7:28 Do you want to kill me, as you killed the Egyptian yesterday?'
Act
7:29 Moses fled at this saying, and became a stranger in the land of
Midian, where he became the father of two sons.
Act
7:30 "When forty years were fulfilled, an angel of the Lord
appeared to him in the wilderness of Mount Sinai, in a flame of fire
in a bush.
Act
7:31 When Moses saw it, he wondered at the sight. As he came close
to see, a voice of the Lord came to him,
Act
7:32 'I am the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of
Isaac, and the God of Jacob.' Moses trembled, and dared not look.
Act
7:33 The Lord said to him, 'Take your sandals off of your feet, for
the place where you stand is holy ground.
Act
7:34 I have surely seen the affliction of my people that is in
Egypt, and have heard their groaning. I have come down to deliver
them. Now come, I will send you into Egypt.'
Act
7:35 "This Moses, whom they refused, saying, 'Who made you a
ruler and a judge?'-God has sent him as both a ruler and a deliverer
by the hand of the angel who appeared to him in the bush.
Act
7:36 This man led them out, having worked wonders and signs in
Egypt, in the Red Sea, and in the wilderness for forty years.
Act
7:37 This is that Moses, who said to the children of Israel, 'The
Lord our God will raise up a prophet for you from among your
brothers, like me.'
Act
7:38 This is he who was in the assembly in the wilderness with the
angel that spoke to him on Mount Sinai, and with our fathers, who
received living oracles to give to us,
Act
7:39 to whom our fathers wouldn't be obedient, but rejected him, and
turned back in their hearts to Egypt,
Act
7:40 saying to Aaron, 'Make us gods that will go before us, for as
for this Moses, who led us out of the land of Egypt, we don't know
what has become of him.'
Act
7:41 They made a calf in those days, and brought a sacrifice to the
idol, and rejoiced in the works of their hands.
Act
7:42 But God turned, and gave them up to serve the army of the sky,
as it is written in the book of the prophets, 'Did you offer to me
slain animals and sacrifices forty years in the wilderness, O house
of Israel?
Act
7:43 You took up the tabernacle of Moloch, the star of your god
Rephan, the figures which you made to worship. I will carry you away
beyond Babylon.'
Act
7:44 "Our fathers had the tabernacle of the testimony in the
wilderness, even as he who spoke to Moses commanded him to make it
according to the pattern that he had seen;
Act
7:45 which also our fathers, in their turn, brought in with Joshua
when they entered into the possession of the nations, whom God drove
out before the face of our fathers, to the days of David,
Act
7:46 who found favor in the sight of God, and asked to find a
habitation for the God of Jacob.
Act
7:47 But Solomon built him a house.
Act
7:48 However, the Most High doesn't dwell in temples made with
hands, as the prophet says,
Act
7:49 'heaven is my throne, and the earth a footstool for my feet.
What kind of house will you build me?' says the Lord; 'or what is the
place of my rest?
Act
7:50 Didn't my hand make all these things?'
Act
7:51 "You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you
always resist the Holy Spirit! As your fathers did, so you do.
Act
7:52 Which of the prophets didn't your fathers persecute? They
killed those who foretold the coming of the Righteous One, of whom
you have now become betrayers and murderers.
Act
7:53 You received the law as it was ordained by angels, and didn't
keep it!"
Act
7:54 Now when they heard these things, they were cut to the heart,
and they gnashed at him with their teeth.
Act
7:55 But he, being full of the Holy Spirit, looked up steadfastly
into heaven, and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing on the
right hand of God,
Act
7:56 and said, "Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son
of Man standing at the right hand of God!"
Act
7:57 But they cried out with a loud voice, and stopped their ears,
and rushed at him with one accord.
Act
7:58 They threw him out of the city, and stoned him. The witnesses
placed their garments at the feet of a young man named Saul.
Act
7:59 They stoned Stephen as he called out, saying, "Lord Jesus,
receive my spirit!"
Act
7:60 He kneeled down, and cried with a loud voice, "Lord, don't
hold this sin against them!" When he had said this, he fell
asleep.
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.
