Bible Reading
July 9
The 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.
Jul.
8, 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 wStudy Questionsith a loud voice,
"Lord, don't hold this sin against them!" When he had said
this, he fell asleep.
