Bible Reading
July 30
The World English Bible
July
30
2
Chronicles 22-24
2Ch
22:1 The inhabitants of Jerusalem made Ahaziah his youngest son king
in his place; for the band of men who came with the Arabians to the
camp had slain all the eldest. So Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of
Judah reigned.
2Ch
22:2 Forty-two years old was Ahaziah when he began to reign; and he
reigned one year in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was Athaliah the
daughter of Omri.
2Ch
22:3 He also walked in the ways of the house of Ahab; for his mother
was his counselor to do wickedly.
2Ch
22:4 He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, as did the
house of Ahab; for they were his counselors after the death of his
father, to his destruction.
2Ch
22:5 He walked also after their counsel, and went with Jehoram the
son of Ahab king of Israel to war against Hazael king of Syria at
Ramoth Gilead: and the Syrians wounded Joram.
2Ch
22:6 He returned to be healed in Jezreel of the wounds which they
had given him at Ramah, when he fought against Hazael king of Syria.
Azariah the son of Jehoram king of Judah went down to see Jehoram the
son of Ahab in Jezreel, because he was sick.
2Ch
22:7 Now the destruction of Ahaziah was of God, in that he went to
Joram: for when he was come, he went out with Jehoram against Jehu
the son of Nimshi, whom Yahweh had anointed to cut off the house of
Ahab.
2Ch
22:8 It happened, when Jehu was executing judgment on the house of
Ahab, that he found the princes of Judah, and the sons of the
brothers of Ahaziah, ministering to Ahaziah, and killed them.
2Ch
22:9 He sought Ahaziah, and they caught him (now he was hiding in
Samaria), and they brought him to Jehu, and killed him; and they
buried him, for they said, He is the son of Jehoshaphat, who sought
Yahweh with all his heart. The house of Ahaziah had no power to hold
the kingdom.
2Ch
22:10 Now when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was
dead, she arose and destroyed all the royal seed of the house of
Judah.
2Ch
22:11 But Jehoshabeath, the daughter of the king, took Joash the son
of Ahaziah, and stole him away from among the king's sons who were
slain, and put him and his nurse in the bedchamber. So Jehoshabeath,
the daughter of king Jehoram, the wife of Jehoiada the priest (for
she was the sister of Ahaziah), hid him from Athaliah, so that she
didn't kill him.
2Ch
22:12 He was with them hid in the house of God six years: and
Athaliah reigned over the land.
2Ch
23:1 In the seventh year Jehoiada strengthened himself, and took the
captains of hundreds, Azariah the son of Jeroham, and Ishmael the son
of Jehohanan, and Azariah the son of Obed, and Maaseiah the son of
Adaiah, and Elishaphat the son of Zichri, into covenant with him.
2Ch
23:2 They went about in Judah, and gathered the Levites out of all
the cities of Judah, and the heads of fathers' houses
of Israel, and they came to Jerusalem.
2Ch
23:3 All the assembly made a covenant with the king in the house of
God. He said to them, Behold, the king's son shall reign, as Yahweh
has spoken concerning the sons of David.
2Ch
23:4 This is the thing that you shall do: a third part of you, who
come in on the Sabbath, of the priests and of the Levites, shall be
porters of the thresholds;
2Ch
23:5 and a third part shall be at the king's house; and a third part
at the gate of the foundation: and all the people shall be in the
courts of the house of Yahweh.
2Ch
23:6 But let none come into the house of Yahweh, save the priests,
and those who minister of the Levites; they shall come in, for they
are holy: but all the people shall keep the instruction of Yahweh.
2Ch
23:7 The Levites shall surround the king, every man with his weapons
in his hand; and whoever comes into the house, let him be slain: and
be with the king when he comes in, and when he goes out.
2Ch
23:8 So the Levites and all Judah did according to all that Jehoiada
the priest commanded: and they took every man his men, those who were
to come in on the Sabbath; with those who were to go out on the
Sabbath; for Jehoiada the priest didn't dismiss the shift.
2Ch
23:9 Jehoiada the priest delivered to the captains of hundreds the
spears, and bucklers, and shields, that had been king David's, which
were in the house of God.
2Ch
23:10 He set all the people, every man with his weapon in his hand,
from the right side of the house to the left side of the house, along
by the altar and the house, around the king.
2Ch
23:11 Then they brought out the king's son, and put the crown on
him, and gave him
the testimony, and made him king: and Jehoiada and his sons anointed
him; and they said, Long
live the king.
2Ch
23:12 When Athaliah heard the noise of the people running and
praising the king, she came to the people into the house of Yahweh:
2Ch
23:13 and she looked, and, behold, the king stood by his pillar at
the entrance, and the captains and the trumpets by the king; and all
the people of the land rejoiced, and blew trumpets; the singers also
played on
instruments of music, and led the singing of praise. Then Athaliah
tore her clothes, and said, Treason! treason!
2Ch
23:14 Jehoiada the priest brought out the captains of hundreds who
were set over the army, and said to them, Have her forth between the
ranks; and whoever follows her, let him be slain with the sword: for
the priest said, Don't kill her in the house of Yahweh.
2Ch
23:15 So they made way for her; and she went to the entrance of the
horse gate to the king's house: and they killed her there.
2Ch
23:16 Jehoiada made a covenant between himself, and all the people,
and the king, that they should be Yahweh's people.
2Ch
23:17 All the people went to the house of Baal, and broke it down,
and broke his altars and his images in pieces, and killed Mattan the
priest of Baal before the altars.
2Ch
23:18 Jehoiada appointed the officers of the house of Yahweh under
the hand of the priests the Levites, whom David had distributed in
the house of Yahweh, to offer the burnt offerings of Yahweh, as it is
written in the law of Moses, with rejoicing and with singing,
according to the order of David.
2Ch
23:19 He set the porters at the gates of the house of Yahweh, that
no one who was unclean in anything should enter in.
2Ch
23:20 He took the captains of hundreds, and the nobles, and the
governors of the people, and all the people of the land, and brought
down the king from the house of Yahweh: and they came through the
upper gate to the king's house, and set the king on the throne of the
kingdom.
2Ch
23:21 So all the people of the land rejoiced, and the city was
quiet. Athaliah they had slain with the sword.
2Ch
24:1 Joash was seven years old when he began to reign; and he
reigned forty years in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was Zibiah,
of Beersheba.
2Ch
24:2 Joash did that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh all the
days of Jehoiada the priest.
2Ch
24:3 Jehoiada took for him two wives; and he became the father of
sons and daughters.
2Ch
24:4 It happened after this, that Joash was minded to restore the
house of Yahweh.
2Ch
24:5 He gathered together the priests and the Levites, and said to
them, Go out to the cities of Judah, and gather of all Israel money
to repair the house of your God from year to year; and see that you
hasten the matter. However the Levites didn't hurry.
2Ch
24:6 The king called for Jehoiada the chief, and said to him, Why
haven't you required of the Levites to bring in out of Judah and out
of Jerusalem the tax of Moses the servant of Yahweh, and of the
assembly of Israel, for the tent of the testimony?
2Ch
24:7 For the sons of Athaliah, that wicked woman, had broken up the
house of God; and also all the dedicated things of the house of
Yahweh did they bestow on the Baals.
2Ch
24:8 So the king commanded, and they made a chest, and set it
outside at the gate of the house of Yahweh.
2Ch
24:9 They made a proclamation through Judah and Jerusalem, to bring
in for Yahweh the tax that Moses the servant of God laid on Israel in
the wilderness.
2Ch
24:10 All the princes and all the people rejoiced, and brought in,
and cast into the chest, until they had made an end.
2Ch
24:11 It was so, that whenever the chest was brought to the king's
officers by the hand of the Levites, and when they saw that there was
much money, the king's scribe and the chief priest's officer came and
emptied the chest, and took it, and carried it to its place again.
Thus they did day by day, and gathered money in abundance.
2Ch
24:12 The king and Jehoiada gave it to such as did the work of the
service of the house of Yahweh; and they hired masons and carpenters
to restore the house of Yahweh, and also such as worked iron and
brass to repair the house of Yahweh.
2Ch
24:13 So the workmen worked, and the work of repairing went forward
in their hands, and they set up the house of God in its state, and
strengthened it.
2Ch
24:14 When they had made an end, they brought the rest of the money
before the king and Jehoiada, of which were made vessels for the
house of Yahweh, even vessels with which to minister and to offer,
and spoons, and vessels of gold and silver. They offered burnt
offerings in the house of Yahweh continually all the days of
Jehoiada.
2Ch
24:15 But Jehoiada grew old and was full of days, and he died; one
hundred thirty years old was he when he died.
2Ch
24:16 They buried him in the city of David among the kings, because
he had done good in Israel, and toward God and his house.
2Ch
24:17 Now after the death of Jehoiada came the princes of Judah, and
made obeisance to the king. Then the king listened to them.
2Ch
24:18 They forsook the house of Yahweh, the God of their fathers,
and served the Asherim and the idols: and wrath came on Judah and
Jerusalem for this their guiltiness.
2Ch
24:19 Yet he sent prophets to them, to bring them again to Yahweh;
and they testified against them: but they would not give ear.
2Ch
24:20 The Spirit of God came on Zechariah the son of Jehoiada the
priest; and he stood above the people, and said to them, Thus says
God, Why do you disobey the commandments of Yahweh, so that you can't
prosper? because you have forsaken Yahweh, he has also forsaken you.
2Ch
24:21 They conspired against him, and stoned him with stones at the
commandment of the king in the court of the house of Yahweh.
2Ch
24:22 Thus Joash the king didn't remember the kindness which
Jehoiada his father had done to him, but killed his son. When he
died, he said, Yahweh look on it, and require it.
2Ch
24:23 It happened at the end of the year, that the army of the
Syrians came up against him: and they came to Judah and Jerusalem,
and destroyed all the princes of the people from among the people,
and sent all the spoil of them to the king of Damascus.
2Ch
24:24 For the army of the Syrians came with a small company of men;
and Yahweh delivered a very great army into their hand, because they
had forsaken Yahweh, the God of their fathers. So they executed
judgment on Joash.
2Ch
24:25 When they were departed for him (for they left him very
sick), his own servants conspired against him for the blood of the
sons of Jehoiada the priest, and killed him on his bed, and he died;
and they buried him in the city of David, but they didn't bury him in
the tombs of the kings.
2Ch
24:26 These are those who conspired against him: Zabad the son of
Shimeath the Ammonitess, and Jehozabad the son of Shimrith the
Moabitess.
2Ch
24:27 Now concerning his sons, and the greatness of the burdens laid
on him, and the rebuilding of the house of God, behold, they are
written in the commentary of the book of the kings. Amaziah his son
reigned in his place.
Jul.
30, 31
Acts
18
Act
18:1 After these things Paul departed from Athens, and came to
Corinth.
Act
18:2 He found a certain Jew named Aquila, a man of Pontus by race,
who had recently come from Italy, with his wife Priscilla, because
Claudius had commanded all the Jews to depart from Rome. He came to
them,
Act
18:3 and because he practiced the same trade, he lived with them and
worked, for by trade they were tent makers.
Act
18:4 He reasoned in the synagogue every Sabbath, and persuaded Jews
and Greeks.
Act
18:5 But when Silas and Timothy came down from Macedonia, Paul was
compelled by the Spirit, testifying to the Jews that Jesus was the
Christ.
Act
18:6 When they opposed him and blasphemed, he shook out his clothing
and said to them, "Your blood be on your own heads! I am clean.
From now on, I will go to the Gentiles!"
Act
18:7 He departed there, and went into the house of a certain man
named Justus, one who worshiped God, whose house was next door to the
synagogue.
Act
18:8 Crispus, the ruler of the synagogue, believed in the Lord with
all his house. Many of the Corinthians, when they heard, believed and
were baptized.
Act
18:9 The Lord said to Paul in the night by a vision, "Don't be
afraid, but speak and don't be silent;
Act
18:10 for I am with you, and no one will attack you to harm you, for
I have many people in this city."
Act
18:11 He lived there a year and six months, teaching the word of God
among them.
Act
18:12 But when Gallio was proconsul of Achaia, the Jews with one
accord rose up against Paul and brought him before the judgment seat,
Act
18:13 saying, "This man persuades men to worship God contrary
to the law."
Act
18:14 But when Paul was about to open his mouth, Gallio said to the
Jews, "If indeed it were a matter of wrong or of wicked crime,
you Jews, it would be reasonable that I should bear with you;
Act
18:15 but if they are questions about words and names and your own
law, look to it yourselves. For I don't want to be a judge of these
matters."
Act
18:16 He drove them from the judgment seat.
Act
18:17 Then all the Greeks laid hold on Sosthenes, the ruler of the
synagogue, and beat him before the judgment seat. Gallio didn't care
about any of these things.
Act
18:18 Paul, having stayed after this many more days, took his leave
of the brothers, and sailed from there for Syria, together with
Priscilla and Aquila. He shaved his head in Cenchreae, for he had a
vow.
Act
18:19 He came to Ephesus, and he left them there; but he himself
entered into the synagogue, and reasoned with the Jews.
Act
18:20 When they asked him to stay with them a longer time, he
declined;
Act
18:21 but taking his leave of them, and saying, "I must by all
means keep this coming feast in Jerusalem, but I will return again to
you if God wills," he set sail from Ephesus.
Act
18:22 When he had landed at Caesarea, he went up and greeted the
assembly, and went down to Antioch.
Act
18:23 Having spent some time there, he departed, and went through
the region of Galatia, and Phrygia, in order, establishing all the
disciples.
Act
18:24 Now a certain Jew named Apollos, an Alexandrian by race, an
eloquent man, came to Ephesus. He was mighty in the Scriptures.
Act
18:25 This man had been instructed in the way of the Lord; and being
fervent in spirit, he spoke and taught accurately the things
concerning Jesus, although he knew only the baptism of John.
Act
18:26 He began to speak boldly in the synagogue. But when Priscilla
and Aquila heard him, they took him aside, and explained to him the
way of God more accurately.
Act
18:27 When he had determined to pass over into Achaia, the brothers
encouraged him, and wrote to the disciples to receive him. When he
had come, he greatly helped those who had believed through grace;
Act
18:28 for he powerfully refuted the Jews, publicly showing by the
Scriptures that Jesus was the Christ.
