Bible Reading for July 7 and 8
World English Bible
July
7
2
Kings 7-9
2Ki
7:1 Elisha said, Hear the word of Yahweh. Thus says Yahweh, Tomorrow
about this time a measure of fine flour shall be sold for a shekel,
and two measures of barley for a shekel, in the gate of Samaria.
2Ki
7:2 Then the captain on whose hand the king leaned answered the man
of God, and said, Behold, if Yahweh should make windows in heaven,
might this thing be? He said, Behold, you shall see it with your
eyes, but shall not eat of it.
2Ki
7:3 Now there were four leprous men at the entrance of the gate: and
they said one to another, Why sit we here until we die?
2Ki
7:4 If we say, We will enter into the city, then the famine is in
the city, and we shall die there; and if we sit still here, we die
also. Now therefore come, and let us fall to the army of the Syrians:
if they save us alive, we shall live; and if they kill us, we shall
but die.
2Ki
7:5 They rose up in the twilight, to go to the camp of the Syrians;
and when they were come to the outermost part of the camp of the
Syrians, behold, there was no man there.
2Ki
7:6 For the Lord had made the army of the Syrians to hear a noise of
chariots, and a noise of horses, even the noise of a great army: and
they said one to another, Behold, the king of Israel has hired
against us the kings of the Hittites, and the kings of the Egyptians,
to come on us.
2Ki
7:7 Therefore they arose and fled in the twilight, and left their
tents, and their horses, and their donkeys, even the camp as it was,
and fled for their life.
2Ki
7:8 When these lepers came to the outermost part of the camp, they
went into one tent, and ate and drink, and carried there silver, and
gold, and clothing, and went and hid it; and they came back, and
entered into another tent, and carried there also, and went and hid
it.
2Ki
7:9 Then they said one to another, We aren't doing right. This day
is a day of good news, and we hold our peace: if we wait until the
morning light, punishment will overtake us; now therefore come, let
us go and tell the king's household.
2Ki
7:10 So they came and called to the porter of the city; and they
told them, saying, We came to the camp of the Syrians, and, behold,
there was no man there, neither voice of man, but the horses tied,
and the donkeys tied, and the tents as they were.
2Ki
7:11 He called the porters; and they told it to the king's household
within.
2Ki
7:12 The king arose in the night, and said to his servants, I will
now show you what the Syrians have done to us. They know that we are
hungry; therefore are they gone out of the camp to hide themselves in
the field, saying, When they come out of the city, we shall take them
alive, and get into the city.
2Ki
7:13 One of his servants answered, Please let some take five of the
horses that remain, which are left in the city (behold, they are as
all the multitude of Israel who are left in it; behold, they are as
all the multitude of Israel who are consumed); and let us send and
see.
2Ki
7:14 They took therefore two chariots with horses; and the king sent
after the army of the Syrians, saying, Go and see.
2Ki
7:15 They went after them to the Jordan: and behold, all the way was
full of garments and vessels, which the Syrians had cast away in
their haste. The messengers returned, and told the king.
2Ki
7:16 The people went out, and plundered the camp of the Syrians. So
a measure of fine flour was sold
for a shekel, and two measures of barley for a shekel, according to
the word of Yahweh.
2Ki
7:17 The king appointed the captain on whose hand he leaned to be in
charge of the gate: and the people trod on him in the gate, and he
died as the man of God had said, who spoke when the king came down to
him.
2Ki
7:18 It happened, as the man of God had spoken to the king, saying,
Two measures of barley for a shekel, and a measure of fine flour for
a shekel, shall be tomorrow about this time in the gate of Samaria;
2Ki
7:19 and that captain answered the man of God, and said, Now,
behold, if Yahweh should make windows in heaven, might such a thing
be? and he said, Behold, you shall see it with your eyes, but shall
not eat of it:
2Ki
7:20 it happened even so to him; for the people trod on him in the
gate, and he died.
2Ki
8:1 Now Elisha had spoken to the woman, whose son he had restored to
life, saying, Arise, and go, you and your household, and sojourn
wherever you can sojourn: for Yahweh has called for a famine; and it
shall also come on the land seven years.
2Ki
8:2 The woman arose, and did according to the word of the man of
God; and she went with her household, and sojourned in the land of
the Philistines seven years.
2Ki
8:3 It happened at the seven years' end, that the woman returned out
of the land of the Philistines: and she went forth to cry to the king
for her house and for her land.
2Ki
8:4 Now the king was talking with Gehazi the servant of the man of
God, saying, Please tell me all the great things that Elisha has
done.
2Ki
8:5 It happened, as he was telling the king how he had restored to
life him who was dead, that behold, the woman, whose son he had
restored to life, cried to the king for her house and for her land.
Gehazi said, My lord, O king, this is the woman, and this is her son,
whom Elisha restored to life.
2Ki
8:6 When the king asked the woman, she told him. So the king
appointed to her a certain officer, saying, Restore all that was
hers, and all the fruits of the field since the day that she left the
land, even until now.
2Ki
8:7 Elisha came to Damascus; and Benhadad the king of Syria was
sick; and it was told him, saying, The man of God is come here.
2Ki
8:8 The king said to Hazael, Take a present in your hand, and go,
meet the man of God, and inquire of Yahweh by him, saying, Shall I
recover of this sickness?
2Ki
8:9 So Hazael went to meet him, and took a present with him, even of
every good thing of Damascus, forty camels' burden, and came and
stood before him, and said, Your son Benhadad king of Syria has sent
me to you, saying, Shall I recover of this sickness?
2Ki
8:10 Elisha said to him, Go, tell him, You shall surely recover;
however Yahweh has shown me that he shall surely die.
2Ki
8:11 He settled his gaze steadfastly on
him, until he was ashamed: and the man
of God wept.
2Ki
8:12 Hazael said, Why weeps my lord? He answered, Because I know the
evil that you will do to the children of Israel: you will set their
strongholds on fire, and you will their young men with the sword, and
will dash in pieces their little ones, and rip up their women with
child.
2Ki
8:13 Hazael said, But what is your servant, who is but a dog, that
he should do this great thing? Elisha answered, Yahweh has shown me
that you shall be king over Syria.
2Ki
8:14 Then he departed from Elisha, and came to his master; who said
to him, What did Elisha say to you? He answered, He told me that you
would surely recover.
2Ki
8:15 It happened on the next day, that he took the coverlet, and
dipped it in water, and spread it on his face, so that he died: and
Hazael reigned in his place.
2Ki
8:16 In the fifth year of Joram the son of Ahab king of Israel,
Jehoshaphat being then king of Judah, Jehoram the son of Jehoshaphat
king of Judah began to reign.
2Ki
8:17 Thirty-two years old was he when he began to reign; and he
reigned eight years in Jerusalem.
2Ki
8:18 He walked in the way of the kings of Israel, as did the house
of Ahab: for he had the daughter of Ahab as wife; and he did that
which was evil in the sight of Yahweh.
2Ki
8:19 However Yahweh would not destroy Judah, for David his servant's
sake, as he promised him to give to him a lamp for his children
always.
2Ki
8:20 In his days Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah, and
made a king over themselves.
2Ki
8:21 Then Joram passed over to Zair, and all his chariots with him:
and he rose up by night, and struck the Edomites who surrounded him,
and the captains of the chariots; and the people fled to their tents.
2Ki
8:22 So Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah to this day. Then
did Libnah revolt at the same time.
2Ki
8:23 The rest of the acts of Joram, and all that he did, aren't they
written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
2Ki
8:24 Joram slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers
in the city of David; and Ahaziah his son reigned in his place.
2Ki
8:25 In the twelfth year of Joram the son of Ahab king of Israel did
Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah begin to reign.
2Ki
8:26 Twenty-two years old was Ahaziah when he began to reign; and he
reigned one year in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Athaliah the
daughter of Omri king of Israel.
2Ki
8:27 He walked in the way of the house of Ahab, and did that which
was evil in the sight of Yahweh, as did the house of Ahab; for he was
the son-in-law of the house of Ahab.
2Ki
8:28 He went with Joram the son of Ahab to war against Hazael king
of Syria at Ramoth Gilead: and the Syrians wounded Joram.
2Ki
8:29 King Joram returned to be healed in Jezreel of the wounds which
the Syrians had given him at Ramah, when he fought against Hazael
king of Syria. Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah went down to
see Joram the son of Ahab in Jezreel, because he was sick.
2Ki
9:1 Elisha the prophet called one of the sons of the prophets, and
said to him, Gird up your waist, and take this vial of oil in your
hand, and go to Ramoth Gilead.
2Ki
9:2 When you come there, look out there Jehu the son of Jehoshaphat
the son of Nimshi, and go in, and make him arise up from among his
brothers, and carry him to an inner chamber.
2Ki
9:3 Then take the vial of oil, and pour it on his head, and say,
Thus says Yahweh, I have anointed you king over Israel. Then open the
door, and flee, and don't wait.
2Ki
9:4 So the young man, even the young man the prophet, went to Ramoth
Gilead.
2Ki
9:5 When he came, behold, the captains of the army were sitting; and
he said, I have a message for you, captain. Jehu said, To which of us
all? He said, To you, O captain.
2Ki
9:6 He arose, and went into the house; and he poured the oil on his
head, and said to him, Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, I have
anointed you king over the people of Yahweh, even over Israel.
2Ki
9:7 You shall strike the house of Ahab your master, that I may
avenge the blood of my servants the prophets, and the blood of all
the servants of Yahweh, at the hand of Jezebel.
2Ki
9:8 For the whole house of Ahab shall perish; and I will cut off
from Ahab everyone who urinates against a wall, and him who is shut
up and him who is left at large in Israel.
2Ki
9:9 I will make the house of Ahab like the house of Jeroboam the son
of Nebat, and like the house of Baasha the son of Ahijah.
2Ki
9:10 The dogs shall eat Jezebel in the portion of Jezreel, and there
shall be none to bury her. He opened the door, and fled.
2Ki
9:11 Then Jehu came forth to the servants of his lord: and one said
to him, "Is all well? Why did this mad fellow come to you?"
He said to them, "You know the man and what his talk was."
2Ki
9:12 They said, "That is a lie. Tell us now." He said,
Thus and thus spoke he to me, saying, Thus says Yahweh, I have
anointed you king over Israel.
2Ki
9:13 Then they hurried, and took every man his garment, and put it
under him on the top of the stairs, and blew the trumpet, saying,
Jehu is king.
2Ki
9:14 So Jehu the son of Jehoshaphat the son of Nimshi conspired
against Joram. (Now Joram was keeping Ramoth Gilead, he and all
Israel, because of Hazael king of Syria;
2Ki
9:15 but king Joram was returned to be healed in Jezreel of the
wounds which the Syrians had given him, when he fought with Hazael
king of Syria.) Jehu said, If this is your thinking, then let no one
escape and go out of the city, to go to tell it in Jezreel.
2Ki
9:16 So Jehu rode in a chariot, and went to Jezreel; for Joram lay
there. Ahaziah king of Judah was come down to see Joram.
2Ki
9:17 Now the watchman was standing on the tower in Jezreel, and he
spied the company of Jehu as he came, and said, I see a company.
Joram said, Take a horseman, and send to meet them, and let him say,
Is it peace?
2Ki
9:18 So there went one on horseback to meet him, and said, Thus says
the king, Is it peace? Jehu said, What have you to do with peace?
Fall in behind me! The watchman told, saying, The messenger came to
them, but he isn't coming back.
2Ki
9:19 Then he sent out a second on horseback, who came to them, and
said, Thus says the king, Is it peace? Jehu answered, What have you
to do with peace? Fall in behind me!
2Ki
9:20 The watchman told, saying, He came even to them, and isn't
coming back: and the driving is like the driving of Jehu the son of
Nimshi; for he drives furiously.
2Ki
9:21 Joram said, Make ready. They made ready his chariot. Joram king
of Israel and Ahaziah king of Judah went out, each in his chariot,
and they went out to meet Jehu, and found him in the portion of
Naboth the Jezreelite.
2Ki
9:22 It happened, when Joram saw Jehu, that he said, Is it peace,
Jehu? He answered, What peace, so long as the prostitution of your
mother Jezebel and her witchcraft abound?
2Ki
9:23 Joram turned his hands, and fled, and said to Ahaziah, There is
treachery, Ahaziah.
2Ki
9:24 Jehu drew his bow with his full strength, and struck Joram
between his arms; and the arrow went out at his heart, and he sunk
down in his chariot.
2Ki
9:25 Then said Jehu
to Bidkar his captain, Take up, and cast him in the portion of the
field of Naboth the Jezreelite; for remember how that, when you and I
rode together after Ahab his father, Yahweh laid this burden on him:
2Ki
9:26 Surely I have seen yesterday the blood of Naboth, and the blood
of his sons, says Yahweh; and I will repay you in this plot of
ground, says Yahweh. Now therefore take and cast him onto the plot of
ground, according to the word of Yahweh.
2Ki
9:27 But when Ahaziah the king of Judah saw this, he fled by the way
of the garden house. Jehu followed after him, and said, Smite him
also in the chariot: and they struck him
at the ascent of Gur, which is by Ibleam. He fled to Megiddo, and
died there.
2Ki
9:28 His servants carried him in a chariot to Jerusalem, and buried
him in his tomb with his fathers in the city of David.
2Ki
9:29 In the eleventh year of Joram the son of Ahab began Ahaziah to
reign over Judah.
2Ki
9:30 When Jehu was come to Jezreel, Jezebel heard of it; and she
painted her eyes, and attired her head, and looked out at the window.
2Ki
9:31 As Jehu entered in at the gate, she said, Do you come in peace,
Zimri, you murderer of your master?
2Ki
9:32 He lifted up his face to the window, and said, Who is on my
side? who? There looked out to him two or three eunuchs.
2Ki
9:33 He said, Throw her down. So they threw her down; and some of
her blood was sprinkled on the wall, and on the horses: and he trod
her under foot.
2Ki
9:34 When he was come in, he ate and drink; and he said, See now to
this cursed woman, and bury her; for she is a king's daughter.
2Ki
9:35 They went to bury her; but they found no more of her than the
skull, and the feet, and the palms of her hands.
2Ki
9:36 Therefore they came back, and told him. He said, This is the
word of Yahweh, which he spoke by his servant Elijah the Tishbite,
saying, In the portion of Jezreel shall the dogs eat the flesh of
Jezebel;
2Ki
9:37 and the body of Jezebel shall be as dung on the face of the
field in the portion of Jezreel, so that they shall not say, This is
Jezebel.
July
8
2
Kings 10-12
2Ki
10:1 Now Ahab had seventy sons in Samaria. Jehu wrote letters, and
sent to Samaria, to the rulers of Jezreel, even the elders, and to
those who brought up the sons of
Ahab, saying,
2Ki
10:2 Now as soon as this letter comes to you, seeing your master's
sons are with you, and there are with you chariots and horses, a
fortified city also, and armor.
2Ki
10:3 Select the best and fittest of your master's sons, set him on
his father's throne, and fight for your master's house.
2Ki
10:4 But they were exceedingly afraid, and said, Behold, the two
kings didn't stand before him: how then shall we stand?
2Ki
10:5 He who was over the household, and he who was over the city,
the elders also, and those who brought up the
children, sent to Jehu, saying, We are
your servants, and will do all that you shall bid us; we will not
make any man king: you do that which is good in your eyes.
2Ki
10:6 Then he wrote a letter the second time to them, saying, If you
be on my side, and if you will listen to my voice, take the heads of
the men your master's sons, and come to me to Jezreel by tomorrow
this time. Now the king's sons, being seventy persons, were with the
great men of the city, who brought them up.
2Ki
10:7 It happened, when the letter came to them, that they took the
king's sons, and killed them, even seventy persons, and put their
heads in baskets, and sent them to him to Jezreel.
2Ki
10:8 There came a messenger, and told him, saying, They have brought
the heads of the king's sons. He said, Lay them in two heaps at the
entrance of the gate until the morning.
2Ki
10:9 It happened in the morning, that he went out, and stood, and
said to all the people, You are righteous: behold, I conspired
against my master, and killed him; but who struck all these?
2Ki
10:10 Know now that there shall fall to the earth nothing of the
word of Yahweh, which Yahweh spoke concerning the house of Ahab: for
Yahweh has done that which he spoke by his servant Elijah.
2Ki
10:11 So Jehu struck all that remained of the house of Ahab in
Jezreel, and all his great men, and his familiar friends, and his
priests, until he left him none remaining.
2Ki
10:12 He arose and departed, and went to Samaria. As he was at the
shearing house of the shepherds in the way,
2Ki
10:13 Jehu met with the brothers of Ahaziah king of Judah, and said,
Who are you? They answered, We are the brothers of Ahaziah: and we go
down to Greet the children of the king and the children of the queen.
2Ki
10:14 He said, Take them alive. They took them alive, and killed
them at the pit of the shearing house, even two and forty men;
neither left he any of them.
2Ki
10:15 When he was departed there, he lighted on Jehonadab the son of
Rechab coming to meet him; and he greeted him, and said to him, Is
your heart right, as my heart is with your heart? Jehonadab answered,
It is. If it be, give me your hand. He gave him his hand; and he took
him up to him into the chariot.
2Ki
10:16 He said, Come with me, and see my zeal for Yahweh. So they
made him ride in his chariot.
2Ki
10:17 When he came to Samaria, he struck all who remained to Ahab in
Samaria, until he had destroyed him, according to the word of Yahweh,
which he spoke to Elijah.
2Ki
10:18 Jehu gathered all the people together, and said to them, Ahab
served Baal a little; but Jehu will serve him much.
2Ki
10:19 Now therefore call to me all the prophets of Baal, all his
worshippers, and all his priests; let none be wanting: for I have a
great sacrifice to do
to Baal; whoever shall be wanting, he shall not live. But Jehu did it
in subtlety, to the intent that he might destroy the worshippers of
Baal.
2Ki
10:20 Jehu said, Sanctify a solemn assembly for Baal. They
proclaimed it.
2Ki
10:21 Jehu sent through all Israel: and all the worshippers of Baal
came, so that there was not a man left that didn't come. They came
into the house of Baal; and the house of Baal was filled from one end
to another.
2Ki
10:22 He said to him who was over the vestry, Bring forth vestments
for all the worshippers of Baal. He brought them forth vestments.
2Ki
10:23 Jehu went, and Jehonadab the son of Rechab, into the house of
Baal; and he said to the worshippers of Baal, Search, and look that
there are here with you none of the servants of Yahweh, but the
worshippers of Baal only.
2Ki
10:24 They went in to offer sacrifices and burnt offerings. Now Jehu
had appointed him eighty men outside, and said, If any of the men
whom I bring into your hands escape, he
who lets him go, his life shall be for
the life of him.
2Ki
10:25 It happened, as soon as he had made an end of offering the
burnt offering, that Jehu said to the guard and to the captains, Go
in, and kill them; let none come forth. They struck them with the
edge of the sword; and the guard and the captains cast them out, and
went to the city of the house of Baal.
2Ki
10:26 They brought forth the pillars that were in the house of Baal,
and burned them.
2Ki
10:27 They broke down the pillar of Baal, and broke down the house
of Baal, and made it a latrine, to this day.
2Ki
10:28 Thus Jehu destroyed Baal out of Israel.
2Ki
10:29 However from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, with which
he made Israel to sin, Jehu didn't depart from after them, to
wit, the golden calves that were in
Bethel, and that were in Dan.
2Ki
10:30 Yahweh said to Jehu, Because you have done well in executing
that which is right in my eyes, and
have done to the house of Ahab according to all that was in my heart,
your sons of the fourth generation shall sit on the throne of Israel.
2Ki
10:31 But Jehu took no heed to walk in the law of Yahweh, the God of
Israel, with all his heart: he didn't depart from the sins of
Jeroboam, with which he made Israel to sin.
2Ki
10:32 In those days Yahweh began to cut off from Israel: and Hazael
struck them in all the borders of Israel;
2Ki
10:33 from the Jordan eastward, all the land of Gilead, the Gadites,
and the Reubenites, and the Manassites, from Aroer, which is by the
valley of the Arnon, even Gilead and Bashan.
2Ki
10:34 Now the rest of the acts of Jehu, and all that he did, and all
his might, aren't they written in the book of the chronicles of the
kings of Israel?
2Ki
10:35 Jehu slept with his fathers; and they buried him in Samaria.
Jehoahaz his son reigned in his place.
2Ki
10:36 The time that Jehu reigned over Israel in Samaria was
twenty-eight years.
2Ki
11:1 Now when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was
dead, she arose and destroyed all the seed royal.
2Ki
11:2 But Jehosheba, the daughter of king Joram, sister of Ahaziah,
took Joash the son of Ahaziah, and stole him away from among the
king's sons who were slain, even him and his nurse, and
put them in the bedchamber; and they hid
him from Athaliah, so that he was not slain;
2Ki
11:3 He was with her hid in the house of Yahweh six years. Athaliah
reigned over the land.
2Ki
11:4 In the seventh year Jehoiada sent and fetched the captains over
hundreds of the Carites and of the guard, and brought them to him
into the house of Yahweh; and he made a covenant with them, and took
an oath of them in the house of Yahweh, and showed them the king's
son.
2Ki
11:5 He commanded them, saying, This is the thing that you shall do:
a third part of you, who come in on the Sabbath, shall be keepers of
the watch of the king's house;
2Ki
11:6 A third part shall be at the gate Sur; and a third part at the
gate behind the guard: so you shall keep the watch of the house, and
be a barrier.
2Ki
11:7 The two companies of you, even all who go forth on the Sabbath,
shall keep the watch of the house of Yahweh about the king.
2Ki
11:8 You shall surround the king, every man with his weapons in his
hand; and he who comes within the ranks, let him be slain: and be
with the king when he goes out, and when he comes in.
2Ki
11:9 The captains over hundreds 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, and came to Jehoiada the priest.
2Ki
11:10 The priest delivered to the captains over hundreds the spears
and shields that had been king David's, which were in the house of
Yahweh.
2Ki
11:11 The guard stood, every man with his weapons 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.
2Ki
11:12 Then he brought out the king's son, and put the crown on him,
and gave him
the testimony; and they made him king, and anointed him; and they
clapped their hands, and said, Long
live the king.
2Ki
11:13 When Athaliah heard the noise of the guard and
of the people, she came to the people
into the house of Yahweh:
2Ki
11:14 and she looked, and behold, the king stood by the pillar, as
the manner was, and the captains and the trumpets by the king; and
all the people of the land rejoiced, and blew trumpets. Then Athaliah
tore her clothes, and cried, Treason! treason!
2Ki
11:15 Jehoiada the priest commanded the captains of hundreds who
were set over the army, and said to them, Have her forth between the
ranks; and him who follows her kill with the sword. For the priest
said, Don't let her be slain in the house of Yahweh.
2Ki
11:16 So they made way for her; and she went by the way of the
horses' entry to the king's house: and there was she slain.
2Ki
11:17 Jehoiada made a covenant between Yahweh and the king and the
people, that they should be Yahweh's people; between the king also
and the people.
2Ki
11:18 All the people of the land went to the house of Baal, and
broke it down; his altars and his images broke they in pieces
thoroughly, and killed Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars.
The priest appointed officers over the house of Yahweh.
2Ki
11:19 He took the captains over hundreds, and the Carites, and the
guard, and all the people of the land; and they brought down the king
from the house of Yahweh, and came by the way of the gate of the
guard to the king's house. He sat on the throne of the kings.
2Ki
11:20 So all the people of the land rejoiced, and the city was
quiet. Athaliah they had slain with the sword at the king's house.
2Ki
11:21 Jehoash was seven years old when he began to reign.
2Ki
12:1 In the seventh year of Jehu began Jehoash to reign; and he
reigned forty years in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was Zibiah of
Beersheba.
2Ki
12:2 Jehoash did that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh all his
days in which Jehoiada the priest instructed him.
2Ki
12:3 However the high places were not taken away; the people still
sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.
2Ki
12:4 Jehoash said to the priests, All the money of the holy things
that is brought into the house of Yahweh, in current money, the money
of the persons for whom each man is rated, and all the money that it
comes into any man's heart to bring into the house of Yahweh,
2Ki
12:5 let the priests take it to them, every man from his
acquaintance; and they shall repair the breaches of the house,
wherever any breach shall be found.
2Ki
12:6 But it was so, that in the three and twentieth year of king
Jehoash the priests had not repaired the breaches of the house.
2Ki
12:7 Then king Jehoash called for Jehoiada the priest, and for the
other
priests, and said to them, Why don't you repair the breaches of the
house? now therefore take no more
money from your acquaintance, but deliver it for the breaches of the
house.
2Ki
12:8 The priests consented that they should take no more
money from the people, neither repair the breaches of the house.
2Ki
12:9 But Jehoiada the priest took a chest, and bored a hole in its
lid, and set it beside the altar, on the right side as one comes into
the house of Yahweh: and the priests who kept the threshold put
therein all the money that was brought into the house of Yahweh.
2Ki
12:10 It was so, when they saw that there was much money in the
chest, that the king's scribe and the high priest came up, and they
put up in bags and counted the money that was found in the house of
Yahweh.
2Ki
12:11 They gave the money that was weighed out into the hands of
those who did the work, who had the oversight of the house of Yahweh:
and they paid it out to the carpenters and the builders, who worked
on the house of Yahweh,
2Ki
12:12 and to the masons and the stone cutters, and for buying timber
and cut stone to repair the breaches of the house of Yahweh, and for
all that was laid out for the house to repair it.
2Ki
12:13 But there were not made for the house of Yahweh cups of
silver, snuffers, basins, trumpets, any vessels of gold, or vessels
of silver, of the money that was brought into the house of Yahweh;
2Ki
12:14 for they gave that to those who did the work, and repaired
therewith the house of Yahweh.
2Ki
12:15 Moreover they didn't demand an accounting from the men into
whose hand they delivered the money to give to those who did the
work; for they dealt faithfully.
2Ki
12:16 The money for the trespass offerings, and the money for the
sin offerings, was not brought into the house of Yahweh: it was the
priests'.
2Ki
12:17 Then Hazael king of Syria went up, and fought against Gath,
and took it; and Hazael set his face to go up to Jerusalem.
2Ki
12:18 Jehoash king of Judah took all the holy things that
Jehoshaphat and Jehoram and Ahaziah, his fathers, kings of Judah, had
dedicated, and his own holy things, and all the gold that was found
in the treasures of the house of Yahweh, and of the king's house, and
sent it to Hazael king of Syria: and he went away from Jerusalem.
2Ki
12:19 Now the rest of the acts of Joash, and all that he did, aren't
they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
2Ki
12:20 His servants arose, and made a conspiracy, and struck Joash at
the house of Millo, on the way
that goes down to Silla.
2Ki
12:21 For Jozacar the son of Shimeath, and Jehozabad the son of
Shomer, his servants, struck him, and he died; and they buried him
with his fathers in the city of David: and Amaziah his son reigned in
his place.
Jul. 7
Acts 6
Act 6:1
Now in those days, when the number of the disciples was multiplying,
a complaint arose from the Hellenists against the Hebrews, because
their widows were neglected in the daily service.
Act 6:2
The twelve summoned the multitude of the disciples and said, "It
is not appropriate for us to forsake the word of God and serve
tables.
Act 6:3
Therefore select from among you, brothers, seven men of good report,
full of the Holy Spirit and of wisdom, whom we may appoint over this
business.
Act 6:4
But we will continue steadfastly in prayer and in the ministry of
the word."
Act 6:5
These words pleased the whole multitude. They chose Stephen, a man
full of faith and of the Holy Spirit, Philip, Prochorus, Nicanor,
Timon, Parmenas, and Nicolaus, a proselyte of Antioch;
Act 6:6
whom they set before the apostles. When they had prayed, they laid
their hands on them.
Act 6:7
The word of God increased and the number of the disciples multiplied
in Jerusalem exceedingly. A great company of the priests were
obedient to the faith.
Act 6:8
Stephen, full of faith and power, performed great wonders and signs
among the people.
Act 6:9
But some of those who were of the synagogue called "The
Libertines," and of the Cyrenians, of the Alexandrians, and of
those of Cilicia and Asia arose, disputing with Stephen.
Act
6:10 They weren't able to withstand the wisdom and the Spirit by
which he spoke.
Act
6:11 Then they secretly induced men to say, "We have heard him
speak blasphemous words against Moses and God."
Act
6:12 They stirred up the people, the elders, and the scribes, and
came against him and seized him, and brought him in to the council,
Act
6:13 and set up false witnesses who said, "This man never stops
speaking blasphemous words against this holy place and the law.
Act
6:14 For we have heard him say that this Jesus of Nazareth will
destroy this place, and will change the customs which Moses delivered
to us."
Act
6:15 All who sat in the council, fastening their eyes on him, saw
his face like it was the face of an angel.
Jul. 8
Acts 7
Act 7:1
The high priest said, "Are these things so?"
Act 7:2
He said, "Brothers and fathers, listen. The God of glory
appeared to our father Abraham, when he was in Mesopotamia, before he
lived in Haran,
Act 7:3
and said to him, 'Get out of your land, and from your relatives, and
come into a land which I will show you.'
Act 7:4
Then he came out of the land of the Chaldaeans, and lived in Haran.
From there, when his father was dead, God moved him into this land,
where you are now living.
Act 7:5
He gave him no inheritance in it, no, not so much as to set his foot
on. He promised that he would give it to him for a possession, and to
his seed after him, when he still had no child.
Act 7:6
God spoke in this way: that his seed would live as aliens in a
strange land, and that they would be enslaved and mistreated for four
hundred years.
Act 7:7
'I will judge the nation to which they will be in bondage,' said
God, 'and after that will they come out, and serve me in this place.'
Act 7:8
He gave him the covenant of circumcision. So Abraham became the
father of Isaac, and circumcised him the eighth day. Isaac became the
father of Jacob, and Jacob became the father of the twelve
patriarchs.
Act 7:9
"The patriarchs, moved with jealousy against Joseph, sold him
into Egypt. God was with him,
Act
7:10 and delivered him out of all his afflictions, and gave him
favor and wisdom before Pharaoh, king of Egypt. He made him governor
over Egypt and all his house.
Act
7:11 Now a famine came over all the land of Egypt and Canaan, and
great affliction. Our fathers found no food.
Act
7:12 But when Jacob heard that there was grain in Egypt, he sent out
our fathers the first time.
Act
7:13 On the second time Joseph was made known to his brothers, and
Joseph's race was revealed to Pharaoh.
Act
7:14 Joseph sent, and summoned Jacob, his father, and all his
relatives, seventy-five souls.
Act
7:15 Jacob went down into Egypt, and he died, himself and our
fathers,
Act
7:16 and they were brought back to Shechem, and laid in the tomb
that Abraham bought for a price in silver from the children of Hamor
of Shechem.
Act
7:17 "But as the time of the promise came close which God had
sworn to Abraham, the people grew and multiplied in Egypt,
Act
7:18 until there arose a different king, who didn't know Joseph.
Act
7:19 The same took advantage of our race, and mistreated our
fathers, and forced them to throw out their babies, so that they
wouldn't stay alive.
Act
7:20 At that time Moses was born, and was exceedingly handsome. He
was nourished three months in his father's house.
Act
7:21 When he was thrown out, Pharaoh's daughter took him up, and
reared him as her own son.
Act
7:22 Moses was instructed in all the wisdom of the Egyptians. He was
mighty in his words and works.
Act
7:23 But when he was forty years old, it came into his heart to
visit his brothers, the children of Israel.
Act
7:24 Seeing one of them suffer wrong, he defended him, and avenged
him who was oppressed, striking the Egyptian.
Act
7:25 He supposed that his brothers understood that God, by his hand,
was giving them deliverance; but they didn't understand.
Act
7:26 "The day following, he appeared to them as they fought,
and urged them to be at peace again, saying, 'Sirs, you are brothers.
Why do you wrong one another?'
Act
7:27 But he who did his neighbor wrong pushed him away, saying, 'Who
made you a ruler and a judge over us?
Act
7:28 Do you want to kill me, as you killed the Egyptian yesterday?'
Act
7:29 Moses fled at this saying, and became a stranger in the land of
Midian, where he became the father of two sons.
Act
7:30 "When forty years were fulfilled, an angel of the Lord
appeared to him in the wilderness of Mount Sinai, in a flame of fire
in a bush.
Act
7:31 When Moses saw it, he wondered at the sight. As he came close
to see, a voice of the Lord came to him,
Act
7:32 'I am the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of
Isaac, and the God of Jacob.' Moses trembled, and dared not look.
Act
7:33 The Lord said to him, 'Take your sandals off of your feet, for
the place where you stand is holy ground.
Act
7:34 I have surely seen the affliction of my people that is in
Egypt, and have heard their groaning. I have come down to deliver
them. Now come, I will send you into Egypt.'
Act
7:35 "This Moses, whom they refused, saying, 'Who made you a
ruler and a judge?'-God has sent him as both a ruler and a deliverer
by the hand of the angel who appeared to him in the bush.
Act
7:36 This man led them out, having worked wonders and signs in
Egypt, in the Red Sea, and in the wilderness for forty years.
Act
7:37 This is that Moses, who said to the children of Israel, 'The
Lord our God will raise up a prophet for you from among your
brothers, like me.'
Act
7:38 This is he who was in the assembly in the wilderness with the
angel that spoke to him on Mount Sinai, and with our fathers, who
received living oracles to give to us,
Act
7:39 to whom our fathers wouldn't be obedient, but rejected him, and
turned back in their hearts to Egypt,
Act
7:40 saying to Aaron, 'Make us gods that will go before us, for as
for this Moses, who led us out of the land of Egypt, we don't know
what has become of him.'
Act
7:41 They made a calf in those days, and brought a sacrifice to the
idol, and rejoiced in the works of their hands.
Act
7:42 But God turned, and gave them up to serve the army of the sky,
as it is written in the book of the prophets, 'Did you offer to me
slain animals and sacrifices forty years in the wilderness, O house
of Israel?
Act
7:43 You took up the tabernacle of Moloch, the star of your god
Rephan, the figures which you made to worship. I will carry you away
beyond Babylon.'
Act
7:44 "Our fathers had the tabernacle of the testimony in the
wilderness, even as he who spoke to Moses commanded him to make it
according to the pattern that he had seen;
Act
7:45 which also our fathers, in their turn, brought in with Joshua
when they entered into the possession of the nations, whom God drove
out before the face of our fathers, to the days of David,
Act
7:46 who found favor in the sight of God, and asked to find a
habitation for the God of Jacob.
Act
7:47 But Solomon built him a house.
Act
7:48 However, the Most High doesn't dwell in temples made with
hands, as the prophet says,
Act
7:49 'heaven is my throne, and the earth a footstool for my feet.
What kind of house will you build me?' says the Lord; 'or what is the
place of my rest?
Act
7:50 Didn't my hand make all these things?'
Act
7:51 "You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you
always resist the Holy Spirit! As your fathers did, so you do.
Act
7:52 Which of the prophets didn't your fathers persecute? They
killed those who foretold the coming of the Righteous One, of whom
you have now become betrayers and murderers.
Act
7:53 You received the law as it was ordained by angels, and didn't
keep it!"
Act
7:54 Now when they heard these things, they were cut to the heart,
and they gnashed at him with their teeth.
Act
7:55 But he, being full of the Holy Spirit, looked up steadfastly
into heaven, and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing on the
right hand of God,
Act
7:56 and said, "Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son
of Man standing at the right hand of God!"
Act
7:57 But they cried out with a loud voice, and stopped their ears,
and rushed at him with one accord.
Act
7:58 They threw him out of the city, and stoned him. The witnesses
placed their garments at the feet of a young man named Saul.
Act
7:59 They stoned Stephen as he called out, saying, "Lord Jesus,
receive my spirit!"
Act
7:60 He kneeled down, and cried with a loud voice, "Lord, don't
hold this sin against them!" When he had said this, he fell
asleep.
