Bible Reading for August 10 and 11
World English Bible
Aug.
10
Nehemiah
7-9
Neh
7:1 Now it happened, when the wall was built, and I had set up the
doors, and the porters and the singers and the Levites were
appointed,
Neh
7:2 that I put my brother Hanani, and Hananiah the governor of the
castle, in charge of Jerusalem; for he was a faithful man, and feared
God above many.
Neh
7:3 I said to them, Don't let the gates of Jerusalem be opened until
the sun be hot; and while they stand on
guard, let them shut the doors, and you
bar them: and appoint watches of the inhabitants of Jerusalem,
everyone in his watch, and everyone to
be over against his house.
Neh
7:4 Now the city was wide and large; but the people were few
therein, and the houses were not built.
Neh
7:5 My God put into my heart to gather together the nobles, and the
rulers, and the people, that they might be reckoned by genealogy. I
found the book of the genealogy of those who came up at the first,
and I found written therein:
Neh
7:6 These are the children of the province, who went up out of the
captivity of those who had been carried away, whom Nebuchadnezzar the
king of Babylon had carried away, and who returned to Jerusalem and
to Judah, everyone to his city;
Neh
7:7 who came with Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, Azariah, Raamiah,
Nahamani, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispereth, Bigvai, Nehum, Baanah. The
number of the men of the people of Israel:
Neh
7:8 The children of Parosh, two thousand one hundred seventy-two.
Neh
7:9 The children of Shephatiah, three hundred seventy-two.
Neh
7:10 The children of Arah, six hundred fifty-two.
Neh
7:11 The children of Pahathmoab, of the children of Jeshua and Joab,
two thousand eight hundred and
eighteen.
Neh
7:12 The children of Elam, one thousand two hundred fifty-four.
Neh
7:13 The children of Zattu, eight hundred forty-five.
Neh
7:14 The children of Zaccai, seven hundred sixty.
Neh
7:15 The children of Binnui, six hundred forty-eight.
Neh
7:16 The children of Bebai, six hundred twenty-eight.
Neh
7:17 The children of Azgad, two thousand three hundred twenty-two.
Neh
7:18 The children of Adonikam, six hundred sixty-seven.
Neh
7:19 The children of Bigvai, two thousand sixty-seven.
Neh
7:20 The children of Adin, six hundred fifty-five.
Neh
7:21 The children of Ater, of Hezekiah, ninety-eight.
Neh
7:22 The children of Hashum, three hundred Twenty-eight.
Neh
7:23 The children of Bezai, three hundred twenty-four.
Neh
7:24 The children of Hariph, one hundred twelve.
Neh
7:25 The children of Gibeon, ninety-five.
Neh
7:26 The men of Bethlehem and Netophah, one hundred eighty-eight.
Neh
7:27 The men of Anathoth, one hundred twenty-eight.
Neh
7:28 The men of Beth Azmaveth, forty-two.
Neh
7:29 The men of Kiriath Jearim, Chephirah, and Beeroth, seven
hundred forty-three.
Neh
7:30 The men of Ramah and Geba, six hundred twenty-one.
Neh
7:31 The men of Michmas, one hundred and twenty-two.
Neh
7:32 The men of Bethel and Ai, a hundred twenty-three.
Neh
7:33 The men of the other Nebo, fifty-two.
Neh
7:34 The children of the other Elam, one thousand two hundred
fifty-four.
Neh
7:35 The children of Harim, three hundred twenty.
Neh
7:36 The children of Jericho, three hundred forty-five.
Neh
7:37 The children of Lod, Hadid, and Ono, seven hundred twenty-one.
Neh
7:38 The children of Senaah, three thousand nine hundred thirty.
Neh
7:39 The priests: The children of Jedaiah, of the house of Jeshua,
nine hundred seventy-three.
Neh
7:40 The children of Immer, one thousand fifty-two.
Neh
7:41 The children of Pashhur, one thousand two hundred forty-seven.
Neh
7:42 The children of Harim, one thousand and
seventeen.
Neh
7:43 The Levites: the children of Jeshua, of Kadmiel, of the
children of Hodevah, seventy-four.
Neh
7:44 The singers: the children of Asaph, one hundred forty-eight.
Neh
7:45 The porters: the children of Shallum, the children of Ater, the
children of Talmon, the children of Akkub, the children of Hatita,
the children of Shobai, one hundred thirty-eight.
Neh
7:46 The Nethinim: the children of Ziha, the children of Hasupha,
the children of Tabbaoth,
Neh
7:47 the children of Keros, the children of Sia, the children of
Padon,
Neh
7:48 the children of Lebana, the children of Hagaba, the children of
Salmai,
Neh
7:49 the children of Hanan, the children of Giddel, the children of
Gahar,
Neh
7:50 the children of Reaiah, the children of Rezin, the children of
Nekoda,
Neh
7:51 the children of Gazzam, the children of Uzza, the children of
Paseah.
Neh
7:52 The children of Besai, the children of Meunim, the children of
Nephushesim,
Neh
7:53 the children of Bakbuk, the children of Hakupha, the children
of Harhur,
Neh
7:54 the children of Bazlith, the children of Mehida, the children
of Harsha,
Neh
7:55 the children of Barkos, the children of Sisera, the children of
Temah,
Neh
7:56 the children of Neziah, the children of Hatipha.
Neh
7:57 The children of Solomon's servants: the children of Sotai, the
children of Sophereth, the children of Perida,
Neh
7:58 the children of Jaala, the children of Darkon, the children of
Giddel,
Neh
7:59 the children of Shephatiah, the children of Hattil, the
children of Pochereth Hazzebaim, the children of Amon.
Neh
7:60 All the Nethinim, and the children of Solomon's servants, were
three hundred ninety-two.
Neh
7:61 These were those who went up from Tel Melah, Tel Harsha,
Cherub, Addon, and Immer; but they could not show their fathers'
houses, nor their seed, whether they were of Israel:
Neh
7:62 The children of Delaiah, the children of Tobiah, the children
of Nekoda, six hundred forty-two.
Neh
7:63 Of the priests: the children of Hobaiah, the children of
Hakkoz, the children of Barzillai, who took a wife of the daughters
of Barzillai the Gileadite, and was called after their name.
Neh
7:64 These sought their register among
those who were reckoned by genealogy, but it was not found: therefore
were they deemed polluted and put from the priesthood.
Neh
7:65 The governor said to them, that they should not eat of the most
holy things, until there stood up a priest with Urim and Thummim.
Neh
7:66 The whole assembly together was forty-two thousand three
hundred sixty,
Neh
7:67 besides their male servants and their female servants, of whom
there were seven thousand three hundred thirty-seven: and they had
two hundred forty-five singing men and singing women.
Neh
7:68 Their horses were seven hundred thirty-six; their mules, two
hundred forty-five;
Neh
7:69 their
camels, four hundred thirty-five; their
donkeys, six thousand seven hundred twenty.
Neh
7:70 Some from among the heads of fathers' houses
gave to the work. The governor gave to the treasury one thousand
darics of gold, fifty basins, and five hundred thirty priests'
garments.
Neh
7:71 Some of the heads of fathers' houses
gave into the treasury of the work twenty thousand darics of gold,
and two thousand two hundred minas of silver.
Neh
7:72 That which the rest of the people gave was twenty thousand
darics of gold, and two thousand minas of silver, and sixty-seven
priests' garments.
Neh
7:73 So the priests, and the Levites, and the porters, and the
singers, and some of the people, and the Nethinim, and all Israel,
lived in their cities. When the seventh month was come, the children
of Israel were in their cities.
Neh
8:1 All the people gathered themselves together as one man into the
broad place that was before the water gate; and they spoke to Ezra
the scribe to bring the book of the law of Moses, which Yahweh had
commanded to Israel.
Neh
8:2 Ezra the priest brought the law before the assembly, both men
and women, and all who could hear with understanding, on the first
day of the seventh month.
Neh
8:3 He read therein before the broad place that was before the water
gate from early morning until midday, in the presence of the men and
the women, and of those who could understand; and the ears of all the
people were attentive
to the book of the law.
Neh
8:4 Ezra the scribe stood on a pulpit of wood, which they had made
for the purpose; and beside him stood Mattithiah, and Shema, and
Anaiah, and Uriah, and Hilkiah, and Maaseiah, on his right hand; and
on his left hand, Pedaiah, and Mishael, and Malchijah, and Hashum,
and Hashbaddanah, Zechariah, and
Meshullam.
Neh
8:5 Ezra opened the book in the sight of all the people; (for he
was above all the people;) and when he opened it, all the people
stood up:
Neh
8:6 and Ezra blessed Yahweh, the great God. All the people answered,
Amen, Amen, with the lifting up of their hands: and they bowed their
heads, and worshiped Yahweh with their faces to the ground.
Neh
8:7 Also Jeshua, and Bani, and Sherebiah, Jamin, Akkub, Shabbethai,
Hodiah, Maaseiah, Kelita, Azariah, Jozabad, Hanan, Pelaiah, and the
Levites, caused the people to understand the law: and the people
stood in
their place.
Neh
8:8 They read in the book, in the law of God, distinctly; and they
gave the sense, so that they understood the reading.
Neh
8:9 Nehemiah, who was the governor, and Ezra the priest the scribe,
and the Levites who taught the people, said to all the people, This
day is holy to Yahweh your God; don't mourn, nor weep. For all the
people wept, when they heard the words of the law.
Neh
8:10 Then he said to them, Go your way, eat the fat, and drink the
sweet, and send portions to him for whom nothing is prepared; for
this day is holy to our Lord. Don't be grieved; for the joy of Yahweh
is your strength.
Neh
8:11 So the Levites stilled all the people, saying, Hold your peace,
for the day is holy; neither be grieved.
Neh
8:12 All the people went their way to eat, and to drink, and to send
portions, and to make great mirth, because they had understood the
words that were declared to them.
Neh
8:13 On the second day were gathered together the heads of fathers'
houses of
all the people, the priests, and the Levites, to Ezra the scribe,
even to give attention to the words of the law.
Neh
8:14 They found written in the law, how that Yahweh had commanded by
Moses, that the children of Israel should dwell in booths in the
feast of the seventh month;
Neh
8:15 and that they should publish and proclaim in all their cities,
and in Jerusalem, saying, Go forth to the mountain, and get olive
branches, and branches of wild olive, and myrtle branches, and palm
branches, and branches of thick trees, to make booths, as it is
written.
Neh
8:16 So the people went forth, and brought them, and made themselves
booths, everyone on the roof of his house, and in their courts, and
in the courts of the house of God, and in the broad place of the
water gate, and in the broad place of the gate of Ephraim.
Neh
8:17 All the assembly of those who were come again out of the
captivity made booths, and lived in the booths; for since the days of
Jeshua the son of Nun to that day the children of Israel had not done
so. There was very great gladness.
Neh
8:18 Also day by day, from the first day to the last day, he read in
the book of the law of God. They kept the feast seven days; and on
the eighth day was a solemn assembly, according to the ordinance.
Neh
9:1 Now in the twenty-fourth day of this month the children of
Israel were assembled with fasting, and with sackcloth, and earth on
them.
Neh
9:2 The seed of Israel separated themselves from all foreigners, and
stood and confessed their sins, and the iniquities of their fathers.
Neh
9:3 They stood up in their place, and read in the book of the law of
Yahweh their God a fourth part of the day; and another
fourth part they confessed, and worshiped Yahweh their God.
Neh
9:4 Then stood up on the stairs of the Levites, Jeshua, and Bani,
Kadmiel, Shebaniah, Bunni, Sherebiah, Bani, and
Chenani, and cried with a loud voice to Yahweh their God.
Neh
9:5 Then the Levites, Jeshua, and Kadmiel, Bani, Hashabneiah,
Sherebiah, Hodiah, Shebaniah, and
Pethahiah, said, Stand up and bless Yahweh your God from everlasting
to everlasting; and blessed be your glorious name, which is exalted
above all blessing and praise.
Neh
9:6 You are Yahweh, even you alone; you have made heaven, the heaven
of heavens, with all their army, the earth and all things that are
thereon, the seas and all that is in them, and you preserve them all;
and the army of heaven worships you.
Neh
9:7 You are Yahweh the God, who did choose Abram, and brought him
forth out of Ur of the Chaldees, and gave him the name of Abraham,
Neh
9:8 and found his heart faithful before you, and made a covenant
with him to give the land of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite,
and the Perizzite, and the Jebusite, and the Girgashite, to give it
to his seed, and have performed your words; for you are righteous.
Neh
9:9 You saw the affliction of our fathers in Egypt, and heard their
cry by the Red Sea,
Neh
9:10 and showed signs and wonders on Pharaoh, and on all his
servants, and on all the people of his land; for you knew that they
dealt proudly against them, and made a name for you, as it is this
day.
Neh
9:11 You divided the sea before them, so that they went through the
midst of the sea on the dry land; and their pursuers you did cast
into the depths, as a stone into the mighty waters.
Neh
9:12 Moreover in a pillar of cloud you led them by day; and in a
pillar of fire by night, to give them light in the way in which they
should go.
Neh
9:13 You came down also on Mount Sinai, and spoke with them from
heaven, and gave them right ordinances and true laws, good statutes
and commandments,
Neh
9:14 and made known to them your holy Sabbath, and commanded them
commandments, and statutes, and a law, by Moses your servant,
Neh
9:15 and gave them bread from the sky for their hunger, and brought
forth water for them out of the rock for their thirst, and commanded
those who they should go in to possess the land which you had sworn
to give them.
Neh
9:16 But they and our fathers dealt proudly and hardened their neck,
and didn't listen to your commandments,
Neh
9:17 and refused to obey, neither were mindful of your wonders that
you did among them, but hardened their neck, and in their rebellion
appointed a captain to return to their bondage. But you are a God
ready to pardon, gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant
in loving kindness, and didn't forsake them.
Neh
9:18 Yes, when they had made them a molten calf, and said, This is
your God who brought you up out of Egypt, and had committed awful
blasphemies;
Neh
9:19 yet you in your manifold mercies didn't forsake them in the
wilderness: the pillar of cloud didn't depart from over them by day,
to lead them in the way; neither the pillar of fire by night, to show
them light, and the way in which they should go.
Neh
9:20 You gave also your good Spirit to instruct them, and didn't
withhold your manna from their mouth, and gave them water for their
thirst.
Neh
9:21 Yes, forty years you sustained them in the wilderness, and
they lacked nothing; their clothes didn't grow old, and their feet
didn't swell.
Neh
9:22 Moreover you gave them kingdoms and peoples, which you allotted
after their portions: so they possessed the land of Sihon, even the
land of the king of Heshbon, and the land of Og king of Bashan.
Neh
9:23 Their children also multiplied you as the stars of the sky, and
brought them into the land concerning which you did say to their
fathers, that they should go in to possess it.
Neh
9:24 So the children went in and possessed the land, and you subdued
before them the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, and gave
them into their hands, with their kings, and the peoples of the land,
that they might do with them as they would.
Neh
9:25 They took fortified cities, and a fat land, and possessed
houses full of all good things, cisterns dug out, vineyards, and
olive groves, and fruit trees in abundance: so they ate, and were
filled, and became fat, and delighted themselves in your great
goodness.
Neh
9:26 Nevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled against you,
and cast your law behind their back, and killed your prophets that
testified against them to turn them again to you, and they committed
awful blasphemies.
Neh
9:27 Therefore you delivered them into the hand of their
adversaries, who distressed them: and in the time of their trouble,
when they cried to you, you heard from heaven; and according to your
manifold mercies you gave them saviors who saved them out of the hand
of their adversaries.
Neh
9:28 But after they had rest, they did evil again before you;
therefore left you them in the hand of their enemies, so that they
had the dominion over them: yet when they returned, and cried to you,
you heard from heaven; and many times you delivered them according to
your mercies,
Neh
9:29 and testified against them, that you might bring them again to
your law. Yet they dealt proudly, and didn't listen to your
commandments, but sinned against your ordinances, (which if a man
do, he shall live in them), and withdrew the shoulder, and hardened
their neck, and would not hear.
Neh
9:30 Yet many years you put up with them, and testified against them
by your Spirit through your prophets: yet would they not give ear:
therefore you gave them into the hand of the peoples of the lands.
Neh
9:31 Nevertheless in your manifold mercies you did not make a full
end of them, nor forsake them; for you are a gracious and merciful
God.
Neh
9:32 Now therefore, our God, the great, the mighty, and the awesome
God, who keep covenant and loving kindness, don't let all the travail
seem little before you, that has come on us, on our kings, on our
princes, and on our priests, and on our prophets, and on our fathers,
and on all your people, since the time of the kings of Assyria to
this day.
Neh
9:33 However you are just in all that is come on us; for you have
dealt truly, but we have done wickedly;
Neh
9:34 neither have our kings, our princes, our priests, nor our
fathers, kept your law, nor listened to your commandments and your
testimonies with which you testified against them.
Neh
9:35 For they have not served you in their kingdom, and in your
great goodness that you gave them, and in the large and fat land
which you gave before them, neither turned they from their wicked
works.
Neh
9:36 Behold, we are servants this day, and as for the land that you
gave to our fathers to eat its fruit and its good, behold, we are
servants in it.
Neh
9:37 It yields much increase to the kings whom you have set over us
because of our sins: also they have power over our bodies, and over
our livestock, at their pleasure, and we are in great distress.
Neh
9:38 Yet for all this we make a sure covenant, and write it; and our
princes, our Levites, and
our priests, seal to it.
Aug.
11
Nehemiah
10, 11
Neh
10:1 Now those who sealed were: Nehemiah the governor, the son of
Hacaliah, and Zedekiah,
Neh
10:2 Seraiah, Azariah, Jeremiah,
Neh
10:3 Pashhur, Amariah, Malchijah,
Neh
10:4 Hattush, Shebaniah, Malluch,
Neh
10:5 Harim, Meremoth, Obadiah,
Neh
10:6 Daniel, Ginnethon, Baruch,
Neh
10:7 Meshullam, Abijah, Mijamin,
Neh
10:8 Maaziah, Bilgai, Shemaiah; these were the priests.
Neh
10:9 The Levites: namely, Jeshua the son of Azaniah, Binnui of the
sons of Henadad, Kadmiel;
Neh
10:10 and their brothers, Shebaniah, Hodiah, Kelita, Pelaiah, Hanan,
Neh
10:11 Mica, Rehob, Hashabiah,
Neh
10:12 Zaccur, Sherebiah, Shebaniah,
Neh
10:13 Hodiah, Bani, Beninu.
Neh
10:14 The chiefs of the people: Parosh, Pahathmoab, Elam, Zattu,
Bani,
Neh
10:15 Bunni, Azgad, Bebai,
Neh
10:16 Adonijah, Bigvai, Adin,
Neh
10:17 Ater, Hezekiah, Azzur,
Neh
10:18 Hodiah, Hashum, Bezai,
Neh
10:19 Hariph, Anathoth, Nobai,
Neh
10:20 Magpiash, Meshullam, Hezir,
Neh
10:21 Meshezabel, Zadok, Jaddua,
Neh
10:22 Pelatiah, Hanan, Anaiah,
Neh
10:23 Hoshea, Hananiah, Hasshub,
Neh
10:24 Hallohesh, Pilha, Shobek,
Neh
10:25 Rehum, Hashabnah, Maaseiah,
Neh
10:26 and Ahiah, Hanan, Anan,
Neh
10:27 Malluch, Harim, Baanah.
Neh
10:28 The rest of the people, the priests, the Levites, the porters,
the singers, the Nethinim, and all those who had separated themselves
from the peoples of the lands to the law of God, their wives, their
sons, and their daughters, everyone who had knowledge, and
understanding;
Neh
10:29 They joined with their brothers, their nobles, and entered
into a curse, and into an oath, to walk in God's law, which was given
by Moses the servant of God, and to observe and do all the
commandments of Yahweh our Lord, and his ordinances and his statutes;
Neh
10:30 and that we would not give our daughters to the peoples of the
land, nor take their daughters for our sons;
Neh
10:31 and if the peoples of the land bring wares or any grain on the
Sabbath day to sell, that we would not buy of them on the Sabbath, or
on a holy day; and that we would forego the seventh year, and the
exaction of every debt.
Neh
10:32 Also we made ordinances for us, to charge ourselves yearly
with the third part of a shekel for the service of the house of our
God;
Neh
10:33 for the show bread, and for the continual meal offering, and
for the continual burnt offering, for the Sabbaths, for the new
moons, for the set feasts, and for the holy things, and for the sin
offerings to make atonement for Israel, and for all the work of the
house of our God.
Neh
10:34 We cast lots, the priests, the Levites, and the people, for
the wood offering, to bring it into the house of our God, according
to our fathers' houses, at times appointed, year by year, to burn on
the altar of Yahweh our God, as it is written in the law;
Neh
10:35 and to bring the first fruits of our ground, and the first
fruits of all fruit of all manner of trees, year by year, to the
house of Yahweh;
Neh
10:36 also the firstborn of our sons, and of our livestock, as it is
written in the law, and the firstborn of our herds and of our flocks,
to bring to the house of our God, to the priests who minister in the
house of our God;
Neh
10:37 and that we should bring the first fruits of our dough, and
our wave offerings, and the fruit of all manner of trees, the new
wine and the oil, to the priests, to the chambers of the house of our
God; and the tithes of our ground to the Levites; for they, the
Levites, take the tithes in all the cities of our tillage.
Neh
10:38 The priest the son of Aaron shall be with the Levites, when
the Levites take tithes: and the Levites shall bring up the tithe of
the tithes to the house of our God, to the chambers, into the
treasure house.
Neh
10:39 For the children of Israel and the children of Levi shall
bring the wave offering of the grain, of the new wine, and of the
oil, to the chambers, where are the vessels of the sanctuary, and the
priests who minister, and the porters, and the singers: and we will
not forsake the house of our God.
Neh
11:1 The princes of the people lived in Jerusalem: the rest of the
people also cast lots, to bring one of ten to dwell in Jerusalem the
holy city, and nine parts in the other
cities.
Neh
11:2 The people blessed all the men who willingly offered themselves
to dwell in Jerusalem.
Neh
11:3 Now these are the chiefs of the province who lived in
Jerusalem: but in the cities of Judah lived everyone in his
possession in their cities, to wit,
Israel, the priests, and the Levites, and the Nethinim, and the
children of Solomon's servants.
Neh
11:4 In Jerusalem lived certain of the children of Judah, and of the
children of Benjamin. Of the children of Judah: Athaiah the son of
Uzziah, the son of Zechariah, the son of Amariah, the son of
Shephatiah, the son of Mahalalel, of the children of Perez;
Neh
11:5 and Maaseiah the son of Baruch, the son of Colhozeh, the son of
Hazaiah, the son of Adaiah, the son of Joiarib, the son of Zechariah,
the son of the Shilonite.
Neh
11:6 All the sons of Perez who lived in Jerusalem were four hundred
sixty-eight valiant men.
Neh
11:7 These are the sons of Benjamin: Sallu the son of Meshullam, the
son of Joed, the son of Pedaiah, the son of Kolaiah, the son of
Maaseiah, the son of Ithiel, the son of Jeshaiah.
Neh
11:8 After him Gabbai, Sallai, nine hundred twenty-eight.
Neh
11:9 Joel the son of Zichri was their overseer; and Judah the son of
Hassenuah was second over the city.
Neh
11:10 Of the priests: Jedaiah the son of Joiarib, Jachin,
Neh
11:11 Seraiah the son of Hilkiah, the son of Meshullam, the son of
Zadok, the son of Meraioth, the son of Ahitub, the ruler of the house
of God,
Neh
11:12 and their brothers who did the work of the house, eight
hundred twenty-two; and Adaiah the son of Jeroham, the son of
Pelaliah, the son of Amzi, the son of Zechariah, the son of Pashhur,
the son of Malchijah,
Neh
11:13 and his brothers, chiefs of fathers' houses,
two hundred forty-two; and Amashsai the son of Azarel, the son of
Ahzai, the son of Meshillemoth, the son of Immer,
Neh
11:14 and their brothers, mighty men of valor, one hundred
twenty-eight; and their overseer was Zabdiel, the son of Haggedolim.
Neh
11:15 Of the Levites: Shemaiah the son of Hasshub, the son of
Azrikam, the son of Hashabiah, the son of Bunni;
Neh
11:16 and Shabbethai and Jozabad, of the chiefs of the Levites, who
had the oversight of the outward business of the house of God;
Neh
11:17 and Mattaniah the son of Mica, the son of Zabdi, the son of
Asaph, who was the chief to begin the thanksgiving in prayer, and
Bakbukiah, the second among his brothers; and Abda the son of
Shammua, the son of Galal, the son of Jeduthun.
Neh
11:18 All the Levites in the holy city were two hundred eighty-four.
Neh
11:19 Moreover the porters, Akkub, Talmon, and their brothers, who
kept watch at the gates, were one hundred seventy-two.
Neh
11:20 The residue of Israel, of the priests, the Levites, were in
all the cities of Judah, everyone in his inheritance.
Neh
11:21 But the Nethinim lived in Ophel: and Ziha and Gishpa were over
the Nethinim.
Neh
11:22 The overseer also of the Levites at Jerusalem was Uzzi the son
of Bani, the son of Hashabiah, the son of Mattaniah, the son of Mica,
of the sons of Asaph, the singers, over the business of the house of
God.
Neh
11:23 For there was a commandment from the king concerning them, and
a settled provision for the singers, as every day required.
Neh
11:24 Pethahiah the son of Meshezabel, of the children of Zerah the
son of Judah, was at the king's hand in all matters concerning the
people.
Neh
11:25 As for the villages, with their fields, some of the children
of Judah lived in Kiriath Arba and its towns, and in Dibon and its
towns, and in Jekabzeel and its villages,
Neh
11:26 and in Jeshua, and in Moladah, and Beth Pelet,
Neh
11:27 and in Hazar Shual, and in Beersheba and its towns,
Neh
11:28 and in Ziklag, and in Meconah and in its towns,
Neh
11:29 and in En Rimmon, and in Zorah, and in Jarmuth,
Neh
11:30 Zanoah, Adullam, and their villages, Lachish and its fields,
Azekah and its towns. So they encamped from Beersheba to the valley
of Hinnom.
Neh
11:31 The children of Benjamin also lived
from Geba onward,
at Michmash and Aija, and at Bethel and its towns,
Neh
11:32 at Anathoth, Nob, Ananiah,
Neh
11:33 Hazor, Ramah, Gittaim,
Neh
11:34 Hadid, Zeboim, Neballat,
Neh
11:35 Lod, and Ono, the valley of craftsmen.
Neh
11:36 Of the Levites, certain divisions in Judah were
joined to Benjamin.
Aug. 10
Acts 23
Act
23:1 Paul, looking steadfastly at the council, said, "Brothers,
I have lived before God in all good conscience until this day."
Act
23:2 The high priest, Ananias, commanded those who stood by him to
strike him on the mouth.
Act
23:3 Then Paul said to him, "God will strike you, you
whitewashed wall! Do you sit to judge me according to the law, and
command me to be struck contrary to the law?"
Act
23:4 Those who stood by said, "Do you malign God's high
priest?"
Act
23:5 Paul said, "I didn't know, brothers, that he was high
priest. For it is written, 'You shall not speak evil of a ruler of
your people.' "
Act
23:6 But when Paul perceived that the one part were Sadducees and
the other Pharisees, he cried out in the council, "Men and
brothers, I am a Pharisee, a son of Pharisees. Concerning the hope
and resurrection of the dead I am being judged!"
Act
23:7 When he had said this, an argument arose between the Pharisees
and Sadducees, and the assembly was divided.
Act
23:8 For the Sadducees say that there is no resurrection, nor angel,
nor spirit; but the Pharisees confess all of these.
Act
23:9 A great clamor arose, and some of the scribes of the Pharisees
part stood up, and contended, saying, "We find no evil in this
man. But if a spirit or angel has spoken to him, let's not fight
against God!"
Act
23:10 When a great argument arose, the commanding officer, fearing
that Paul would be torn in pieces by them, commanded the soldiers to
go down and take him by force from among them, and bring him into the
barracks.
Act
23:11 The following night, the Lord stood by him, and said, "Cheer
up, Paul, for as you have testified about me at Jerusalem, so you
must testify also at Rome."
Act
23:12 When it was day, some of the Jews banded together, and bound
themselves under a curse, saying that they would neither eat nor
drink until they had killed Paul.
Act
23:13 There were more than forty people who had made this
conspiracy.
Act
23:14 They came to the chief priests and the elders, and said, "We
have bound ourselves under a great curse, to taste nothing until we
have killed Paul.
Act
23:15 Now therefore, you with the council inform the commanding
officer that he should bring him down to you tomorrow, as though you
were going to judge his case more exactly. We are ready to kill him
before he comes near."
Act
23:16 But Paul's sister's son heard of their lying in wait, and he
came and entered into the barracks and told Paul.
Act
23:17 Paul summoned one of the centurions, and said, "Bring
this young man to the commanding officer, for he has something to
tell him."
Act
23:18 So he took him, and brought him to the commanding officer, and
said, "Paul, the prisoner, summoned me and asked me to bring
this young man to you, who has something to tell you."
Act
23:19 The commanding officer took him by the hand, and going aside,
asked him privately, "What is it that you have to tell me?"
Act
23:20 He said, "The Jews have agreed to ask you to bring Paul
down to the council tomorrow, as though intending to inquire somewhat
more accurately concerning him.
Act
23:21 Therefore don't yield to them, for more than forty men lie in
wait for him, who have bound themselves under a curse neither to eat
nor to drink until they have killed him. Now they are ready, looking
for the promise from you."
Act
23:22 So the commanding officer let the young man go, charging him,
"Tell no one that you have revealed these things to me."
Act
23:23 He called to himself two of the centurions, and said, "Prepare
two hundred soldiers to go as far as Caesarea, with seventy horsemen,
and two hundred men armed with spears, at the third hour of the
night."
Act
23:24 He asked them to provide animals, that they might set Paul on
one, and bring him safely to Felix the governor.
Act
23:25 He wrote a letter like this:
Act
23:26 "Claudius Lysias to the most excellent governor Felix:
Greetings.
Act
23:27 "This man was seized by the Jews, and was about to be
killed by them, when I came with the soldiers and rescued him, having
learned that he was a Roman.
Act
23:28 Desiring to know the cause why they accused him, I brought him
down to their council.
Act
23:29 I found him to be accused about questions of their law, but
not to be charged with anything worthy of death or of imprisonment.
Act
23:30 When I was told that the Jews lay in wait for the man, I sent
him to you immediately, charging his accusers also to bring their
accusations against him before you. Farewell."
Act
23:31 So the soldiers, carrying out their orders, took Paul and
brought him by night to Antipatris.
Act
23:32 But on the next day they left the horsemen to go with him, and
returned to the barracks.
Act
23:33 When they came to Caesarea and delivered the letter to the
governor, they also presented Paul to him.
Act
23:34 When the governor had read it, he asked what province he was
from. When he understood that he was from Cilicia, he said,
Act
23:35 "I will hear you fully when your accusers also arrive."
He commanded that he be kept in Herod's palace.
Aug.
11
Acts 24
Act
24:1 After five days, the high priest, Ananias, came down with
certain elders and an orator, one Tertullus. They informed the
governor against Paul.
Act
24:2 When he was called, Tertullus began to accuse him, saying,
"Seeing that by you we enjoy much peace, and that excellent
measures are coming to this nation,
Act
24:3 we accept it in all ways and in all places, most excellent
Felix, with all thankfulness.
Act
24:4 But, that I don't delay you, I entreat you to bear with us and
hear a few words.
Act
24:5 For we have found this man to be a plague, an instigator of
insurrections among all the Jews throughout the world, and a
ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes.
Act
24:6 He even tried to profane the temple, and we arrested him.
Act
24:7 but the commanding officer, Lysias, came by and with great
violence took him out of our hands,
Act
24:8 commanding his accusers to come to you. By examining him
yourself you may ascertain all these things of which we accuse him."
Act
24:9 The Jews also joined in the attack, affirming that these things
were so.
Act
24:10 When the governor had beckoned to him to speak, Paul answered,
"Because I know that you have been a judge of this nation for
many years, I cheerfully make my defense,
Act
24:11 seeing that you can recognize that it is not more than twelve
days since I went up to worship at Jerusalem.
Act
24:12 In the temple they didn't find me disputing with anyone or
stirring up a crowd, either in the synagogues, or in the city.
Act
24:13 Nor can they prove to you the things of which they now accuse
me.
Act
24:14 But this I confess to you, that after the Way, which they call
a sect, so I serve the God of our fathers, believing all things which
are according to the law, and which are written in the prophets;
Act
24:15 having hope toward God, which these also themselves look for,
that there will be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and
unjust.
Act
24:16 Herein I also practice always having a conscience void of
offense toward God and men.
Act
24:17 Now after some years, I came to bring gifts for the needy to
my nation, and offerings;
Act
24:18 amid which certain Jews from Asia found me purified in the
temple, not with a mob, nor with turmoil.
Act
24:19 They ought to have been here before you, and to make
accusation, if they had anything against me.
Act
24:20 Or else let these men themselves say what injustice they found
in me when I stood before the council,
Act
24:21 unless it is for this one thing that I cried standing among
them, 'Concerning the resurrection of the dead I am being judged
before you today!' "
Act
24:22 But Felix, having more exact knowledge concerning the Way,
deferred them, saying, "When Lysias, the commanding officer,
comes down, I will decide your case."
Act
24:23 He ordered the centurion that Paul should be kept in custody,
and should have some privileges, and not to forbid any of his friends
to serve him or to visit him.
Act
24:24 But after some days, Felix came with Drusilla, his wife, who
was a Jewess, and sent for Paul, and heard him concerning the faith
in Christ Jesus.
Act
24:25 As he reasoned about righteousness, self-control, and the
judgment to come, Felix was terrified, and answered, "Go your
way for this time, and when it is convenient for me, I will summon
you."
Act
24:26 Meanwhile, he also hoped that money would be given to him by
Paul, that he might release him. Therefore also he sent for him more
often, and talked with him.
Act
24:27 But when two years were fulfilled, Felix was succeeded by
Porcius Festus, and desiring to gain favor with the Jews, Felix left
Paul in bonds.
