Bible Reading for July 23 - 25
World English Bible
July
23
2
Chronicles 1-3
2Ch
1:1 Solomon the son of David was strengthened in his kingdom, and
Yahweh his God was with him, and magnified him exceedingly.
2Ch
1:2 Solomon spoke to all Israel, to the captains of thousands and of
hundreds, and to the judges, and to every prince in all Israel, the
heads of the fathers' houses.
2Ch
1:3 So Solomon, and all the assembly with him, went to the high
place that was at Gibeon; for there was the Tent of Meeting of God,
which Moses the servant of Yahweh had made in the wilderness.
2Ch
1:4 But David had brought the ark of God up from Kiriath Jearim to
the place that David had prepared for it; for he had pitched a tent
for it at Jerusalem.
2Ch
1:5 Moreover the bronze altar, that Bezalel the son of Uri, the son
of Hur, had made, was there before the tabernacle of Yahweh: and
Solomon and the assembly were seeking counsel there.
2Ch
1:6 Solomon went up there to the bronze altar before Yahweh, which
was at the Tent of Meeting, and offered one thousand burnt offerings
on it.
2Ch
1:7 In that night God appeared to Solomon, and said to him, "Ask
what I shall give you."
2Ch
1:8 Solomon said to God, You have shown great loving kindness to
David my father, and have made me king in his place.
2Ch
1:9 Now, Yahweh God, let your promise to David my father be
established; for you have made me king over a people like the dust of
the earth in multitude.
2Ch
1:10 Give me now wisdom and knowledge, that I may go out and come in
before this people; for who can judge this your people, that is so
great?
2Ch
1:11 God said to Solomon, Because this was in your heart, and you
have not asked riches, wealth, or honor, nor the life of those who
hate you, neither yet have asked long life; but have asked wisdom and
knowledge for yourself, that you may judge my people, over whom I
have made you king:
2Ch
1:12 wisdom and knowledge is granted to you; and I will give you
riches, and wealth, and honor, such as none of the kings have had who
have been before you; neither shall there any after you have the
like.
2Ch
1:13 So Solomon came from the high place that was at Gibeon, from
before the Tent of Meeting, to Jerusalem; and he reigned over Israel.
2Ch
1:14 Solomon gathered chariots and horsemen: and he had one thousand
four hundred chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen, that he placed
in the chariot cities, and with the king at Jerusalem.
2Ch
1:15 The king made silver and gold to be in Jerusalem as stones, and
cedars made he to be as the sycamore trees that are in the lowland,
for abundance.
2Ch
1:16 The horses which Solomon had were brought out of Egypt and from
Kue; the king's merchants purchased them from Kue.
2Ch
1:17 They brought up and brought out of Egypt a chariot for six
hundred pieces of silver, and a horse for one hundred fifty: and so
for all the kings of the Hittites, and the kings of Syria, did they
bring them out by their means.
2Ch
2:1 Now Solomon purposed to build a house for the name of Yahweh,
and a house for his kingdom.
2Ch
2:2 Solomon counted out seventy thousand men to bear burdens, and
eighty thousand men who were stone cutters in the mountains, and
three thousand and six hundred to oversee them.
2Ch
2:3 Solomon sent to Huram the king of Tyre, saying, As you dealt
with David my father, and sent him cedars to build him a house in
which to dwell, even so deal with me.
2Ch
2:4 Behold, I am about to build a house for the name of Yahweh my
God, to dedicate it to him, and to burn before him incense of sweet
spices, and for the continual show bread, and for the burnt offerings
morning and evening, on the Sabbaths, and on the new moons, and on
the set feasts of Yahweh our God. This is an
ordinance forever to Israel.
2Ch
2:5 The house which I build is great; for great is our God above all
gods.
2Ch
2:6 But who is able to build him a house, seeing heaven and the
heaven of heavens can't contain him? who am I then, that I should
build him a house, save only to burn incense before him?
2Ch
2:7 Now therefore send me a man skillful to work in gold, and in
silver, and in brass, and in iron, and in purple, and crimson, and
blue, and who knows how to engrave all
manner of engravings, to
be with the skillful men who are with me
in Judah and in Jerusalem, whom David my father did provide.
2Ch
2:8 Send me also cedar trees, fir trees, and algum trees, out of
Lebanon; for I know that your servants know how to cut timber in
Lebanon: and behold, my servants shall be with your servants,
2Ch
2:9 even to prepare me timber in abundance; for the house which I am
about to build shall be great and wonderful.
2Ch
2:10 Behold, I will give to your servants, the cutters who cut
timber, twenty thousand measures of beaten wheat, and twenty thousand
measures of barley, and twenty thousand baths of wine, and twenty
thousand baths of oil.
2Ch
2:11 Then Huram the king of Tyre answered in writing, which he sent
to Solomon, "Because Yahweh loves his people, he has made you
king over them."
2Ch
2:12 Huram continued, "Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Israel,
that made heaven and earth, who has given to David the king a wise
son, endowed with discretion and understanding, that should build a
house for Yahweh, and a house for his kingdom.
2Ch
2:13 Now I have sent a skillful man, endowed with understanding, of
Huram my father's,
2Ch
2:14 the son of a woman of the daughters of Dan; and his father was
a man of Tyre, skillful to work in gold, and in silver, in brass, in
iron, in stone, and in timber, in purple, in blue, and in fine linen,
and in crimson, also to engrave any manner of engraving, and to
devise any device; that there may be a place appointed to him with
your skillful men, and with the skillful men of my lord David your
father.
2Ch
2:15 Now therefore the wheat and the barley, the oil and the wine,
which my lord has spoken of, let him send to his servants:
2Ch
2:16 and we will cut wood out of Lebanon, as much as you shall need;
and we will bring it to you in floats by sea to Joppa; and you shall
carry it up to Jerusalem."
2Ch
2:17 Solomon numbered all the foreigners who were in the land of
Israel, after the numbering with which David his father had numbered
them; and they were found one hundred fifty-three thousand six
hundred.
2Ch
2:18 He set seventy thousand of them to bear burdens, and eighty
thousand who were stone cutters in the mountains, and three thousand
six hundred overseers to set the people at work.
2Ch
3:1 Then Solomon began to build the house of Yahweh at Jerusalem on
Mount Moriah, where Yahweh
appeared to David his father, which he made ready in the place that
David had appointed, in the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
2Ch
3:2 He began to build in the second day
of the second month, in the fourth year of his reign.
2Ch
3:3 Now these are the foundations which Solomon laid for the
building of the house of God. The length by cubits after the first
measure was sixty cubits, and the breadth twenty cubits.
2Ch
3:4 The porch that was before the
house, its length, according to the
breadth of the house, was twenty cubits, and the height one hundred
twenty; and he overlaid it within with pure gold.
2Ch
3:5 The greater house he made a ceiling with fir wood, which he
overlaid with fine gold, and ornamented it with palm trees and
chains.
2Ch
3:6 He garnished the house with precious stones for beauty: and the
gold was gold of Parvaim.
2Ch
3:7 He overlaid also the house, the beams, the thresholds, and its
walls, and its doors, with gold; and engraved cherubim on the walls.
2Ch
3:8 He made the most holy house: its length, according to the
breadth of the house, was twenty cubits, and its breadth twenty
cubits; and he overlaid it with fine gold, amounting to six hundred
talents.
2Ch
3:9 The weight of the nails was fifty shekels of gold. He overlaid
the upper chambers with gold.
2Ch
3:10 In the most holy house he made two cherubim of image work; and
they overlaid them with gold.
2Ch
3:11 The wings of the cherubim were twenty cubits long: the wing of
the one cherub
was five cubits, reaching to the wall of the house; and the other
wing was likewise
five cubits, reaching to the wing of the other cherub.
2Ch
3:12 The wing of the other cherub was five cubits, reaching to the
wall of the house; and the other wing was five cubits also,
joining to the wing of the other cherub.
2Ch
3:13 The wings of these cherubim spread themselves forth twenty
cubits: and they stood on their feet, and their faces were toward the
house.
2Ch
3:14 He made the veil of blue, and purple, and crimson, and fine
linen, and ornamented it with cherubim.
2Ch
3:15 Also he made before the house two pillars of thirty-five cubits
high, and the capital that was on the top of each of them was five
cubits.
2Ch
3:16 He made chains in the oracle, and put them
on the tops of the pillars; and he made one hundred pomegranates, and
put them on the chains.
2Ch
3:17 He set up the pillars before the temple, one on the right hand,
and the other on the left; and called the name of that on the right
hand Jachin, and the name of that on the left Boaz.
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.
Jul. 23
Acts 14
Act
14:1 It happened in Iconium that they entered together into the
synagogue of the Jews, and so spoke that a great multitude both of
Jews and of Greeks believed.
Act
14:2 But the disbelieving Jews stirred up and embittered the souls
of the Gentiles against the brothers.
Act
14:3 Therefore they stayed there a long time, speaking boldly in the
Lord, who testified to the word of his grace, granting signs and
wonders to be done by their hands.
Act
14:4 But the multitude of the city was divided. Part sided with the
Jews, and part with the apostles.
Act
14:5 When some of both the Gentiles and the Jews, with their rulers,
made a violent attempt to mistreat and stone them,
Act
14:6 they became aware of it, and fled to the cities of Lycaonia,
Lystra, Derbe, and the surrounding region.
Act
14:7 There they preached the Good News.
Act
14:8 At Lystra a certain man sat, impotent in his feet, a cripple
from his mother's womb, who never had walked.
Act
14:9 He was listening to Paul speaking, who, fastening eyes on him,
and seeing that he had faith to be made whole,
Act
14:10 said with a loud voice, "Stand upright on your feet!"
He leaped up and walked.
Act
14:11 When the multitude saw what Paul had done, they lifted up
their voice, saying in the language of Lycaonia, "The gods have
come down to us in the likeness of men!"
Act
14:12 They called Barnabas "Jupiter," and Paul "Mercury,"
because he was the chief speaker.
Act
14:13 The priest of Jupiter, whose temple was in front of their
city, brought oxen and garlands to the gates, and would have made a
sacrifice along with the multitudes.
Act
14:14 But when the apostles, Barnabas and Paul, heard of it, they
tore their clothes, and sprang into the multitude, crying out,
Act
14:15 "Men, why are you doing these things? We also are men of
like passions with you, and bring you good news, that you should turn
from these vain things to the living God, who made the sky and the
earth and the sea, and all that is in them;
Act
14:16 who in the generations gone by allowed all the nations to walk
in their own ways.
Act
14:17 Yet he didn't leave himself without witness, in that he did
good and gave you rains from the sky and fruitful seasons, filling
our hearts with food and gladness."
Act
14:18 Even saying these things, they hardly stopped the multitudes
from making a sacrifice to them.
Act
14:19 But some Jews from Antioch and Iconium came there, and having
persuaded the multitudes, they stoned Paul, and dragged him out of
the city, supposing that he was dead.
Act
14:20 But as the disciples stood around him, he rose up, and entered
into the city. On the next day he went out with Barnabas to Derbe.
Act
14:21 When they had preached the Good News to that city, and had
made many disciples, they returned to Lystra, Iconium, and Antioch,
Act
14:22 confirming the souls of the disciples, exhorting them to
continue in the faith, and that through many afflictions we must
enter into the Kingdom of God.
Act
14:23 When they had appointed elders for them in every assembly, and
had prayed with fasting, they commended them to the Lord, on whom
they had believed.
Act
14:24 They passed through Pisidia, and came to Pamphylia.
Act
14:25 When they had spoken the word in Perga, they went down to
Attalia.
Act
14:26 From there they sailed to Antioch, from where they had been
committed to the grace of God for the work which they had fulfilled.
Act
14:27 When they had arrived, and had gathered the assembly together,
they reported all the things that God had done with them, and that he
had opened a door of faith to the nations.
Act
14:28 They stayed there with the disciples for a long time.
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.
