Bible Reading for August 6 - 8
World English Bible
Aug.
6
Ezra
7-8
Ezr
7:1 Now after these things, in the reign of Artaxerxes king of
Persia, Ezra the son of Seraiah, the son of Azariah, the son of
Hilkiah,
Ezr
7:2 the son of Shallum, the son of Zadok, the son of Ahitub,
Ezr
7:3 the son of Amariah, the son of Azariah, the son of Meraioth,
Ezr
7:4 the son of Zerahiah, the son of Uzzi, the son of Bukki,
Ezr
7:5 the son of Abishua, the son of Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the
son of Aaron the chief priest;
Ezr
7:6 this Ezra went up from Babylon: and he was a ready scribe in the
law of Moses, which Yahweh, the God of Israel, had given; and the
king granted him all his request, according to the hand of Yahweh his
God on him.
Ezr
7:7 There went up some of the children of Israel, and of the
priests, and the Levites, and the singers, and the porters, and the
Nethinim, to Jerusalem, in the seventh year of Artaxerxes the king.
Ezr
7:8 He came to Jerusalem in the fifth month, which was in the
seventh year of the king.
Ezr
7:9 For on the first day
of the first month began he to go up from Babylon; and on the first
day of the
fifth month came he to Jerusalem, according to the good hand of his
God on him.
Ezr
7:10 For Ezra had set his heart to seek the law of Yahweh, and to do
it, and to teach in Israel statutes and ordinances.
Ezr
7:11 Now this is the copy of the letter that the king Artaxerxes
gave to Ezra the priest, the scribe, even the scribe of the words of
the commandments of Yahweh, and of his statutes to Israel:
Ezr
7:12 Artaxerxes, king of kings, to Ezra the priest, the scribe of
the law of the God of heaven, perfect and so forth.
Ezr
7:13 I make a decree, that all those of the people of Israel, and
their priests and the Levites, in my realm, who are minded of their
own free will to go to Jerusalem, go with you.
Ezr
7:14 Because you are sent of the king and his seven counselors, to
inquire concerning Judah and Jerusalem, according to the law of your
God which is in your hand,
Ezr
7:15 and to carry the silver and gold, which the king and his
counselors have freely offered to the God of Israel, whose habitation
is in Jerusalem,
Ezr
7:16 and all the silver and gold that you shall find in all the
province of Babylon, with the freewill offering of the people, and of
the priests, offering willingly for the house of their God which is
in Jerusalem;
Ezr
7:17 therefore you shall with all diligence buy with this money
bulls, rams, lambs, with their meal offerings and their drink
offerings, and shall offer them on the altar of the house of your God
which is in Jerusalem.
Ezr
7:18 Whatever shall seem good to you and to your brothers to do with
the rest of the silver and the gold, do that after the will of your
God.
Ezr
7:19 The vessels that are given to you for the service of the house
of your God, deliver before the God of Jerusalem.
Ezr
7:20 Whatever more shall be needful for the house of your God, which
you shall have occasion to bestow, bestow it out of the king's
treasure house.
Ezr
7:21 I, even I Artaxerxes the king, do make a decree to all the
treasurers who are beyond the River, that whatever Ezra the priest,
the scribe of the law of the God of heaven, shall require of you, it
be done with all diligence,
Ezr
7:22 to one hundred talents of silver, and to one hundred measures
of wheat, and to one hundred baths of wine, and to one hundred baths
of oil, and salt without prescribing how much.
Ezr
7:23 Whatever is commanded by the God of heaven, let it be done
exactly for the house of the God of heaven; for why should there be
wrath against the realm of the king and his sons?
Ezr
7:24 Also we inform you, that touching any of the priests and
Levites, the singers, porters, Nethinim, or servants of this house of
God, it shall not be lawful to impose tribute, custom, or toll, on
them.
Ezr
7:25 You, Ezra, after the wisdom of your God who is in your hand,
appoint magistrates and judges, who may judge all the people who are
beyond the River, all such as know the laws of your God; and teach
him who doesn't know them.
Ezr
7:26 Whoever will not do the law of your God, and the law of the
king, let judgment be executed on him with all diligence, whether it
be to death, or to banishment, or to confiscation of goods, or to
imprisonment.
Ezr
7:27 Blessed be Yahweh, the God of our fathers, who has put such a
thing as this in the king's heart, to beautify the house of Yahweh
which is in Jerusalem;
Ezr
7:28 and has extended loving kindness to me before the king, and his
counselors, and before all the king's mighty princes. I was
strengthened according to the hand of Yahweh my God on me, and I
gathered together out of Israel chief men to go up with me.
Ezr
8:1 Now these are the heads of their fathers' houses,
and this is the genealogy of those who went up with me from Babylon,
in the reign of Artaxerxes the king:
Ezr
8:2 Of the sons of Phinehas, Gershom. Of the sons of Ithamar,
Daniel. Of the sons of David, Hattush.
Ezr
8:3 Of the sons of Shecaniah, of the sons of Parosh, Zechariah; and
with him were reckoned by genealogy of the males one hundred fifty.
Ezr
8:4 Of the sons of Pahathmoab, Eliehoenai the son of Zerahiah; and
with him two hundred males.
Ezr
8:5 Of the sons of Shecaniah, the son of Jahaziel; and with him
three hundred males.
Ezr
8:6 Of the sons of Adin, Ebed the son of Jonathan; and with him
fifty males.
Ezr
8:7 Of the sons of Elam, Jeshaiah the son of Athaliah; and with him
seventy males.
Ezr
8:8 Of the sons of Shephatiah, Zebadiah the son of Michael; and with
him eighty males.
Ezr
8:9 Of the sons of Joab, Obadiah the son of Jehiel; and with him two
hundred and eighteen males.
Ezr
8:10 Of the sons of Shelomith, the son of Josiphiah; and with him
one hundred sixty males.
Ezr
8:11 Of the sons of Bebai, Zechariah the son of Bebai; and with him
twenty-eight males.
Ezr
8:12 Of the sons of Azgad, Johanan the son of Hakkatan; and with him
one hundred ten males.
Ezr
8:13 Of the sons of Adonikam, who were
the last; and these are their names: Eliphelet, Jeuel, and Shemaiah;
and with them sixty males.
Ezr
8:14 Of the sons of Bigvai, Uthai and Zabbud; and with them seventy
males.
Ezr
8:15 I gathered them together to the river that runs to Ahava; and
there we encamped three days: and I viewed the people, and the
priests, and found there none of the sons of Levi.
Ezr
8:16 Then sent I for Eliezer, for Ariel, for Shemaiah, and for
Elnathan, and for Jarib, and for Elnathan, and for Nathan, and for
Zechariah, and for Meshullam, chief men; also for Joiarib, and for
Elnathan, who were teachers.
Ezr
8:17 I sent them forth to Iddo the chief at the place Casiphia; and
I told them what they should tell Iddo, and
his brothers the Nethinim, at the place Casiphia, that they should
bring to us ministers for the house of our God.
Ezr
8:18 According to the good hand of our God on us they brought us a
man of discretion, of the sons of Mahli, the son of Levi, the son of
Israel; and Sherebiah, with his sons and his brothers, eighteen;
Ezr
8:19 and Hashabiah, and with him Jeshaiah of the sons of Merari, his
brothers and their sons, twenty;
Ezr
8:20 and of the Nethinim, whom David and the princes had given for
the service of the Levites, two hundred and twenty Nethinim: all of
them were mentioned by name.
Ezr
8:21 Then I proclaimed a fast there, at the river Ahava, that we
might humble ourselves before our God, to seek of him a straight way
for us, and for our little ones, and for all our substance.
Ezr
8:22 For I was ashamed to ask of the king a band of soldiers and
horsemen to help us against the enemy in the way, because we had
spoken to the king, saying, The hand of our God is on all those who
seek him, for good; but his power and his wrath is against all those
who forsake him.
Ezr
8:23 So we fasted and begged our God for this: and he was entreated
of us.
Ezr
8:24 Then I set apart twelve of the chiefs of the priests, even
Sherebiah, Hashabiah, and ten of their brothers with them,
Ezr
8:25 and weighed to them the silver, and the gold, and the vessels,
even the offering for the house of our God, which the king, and his
counselors, and his princes, and all Israel there present, had
offered:
Ezr
8:26 I weighed into their hand six hundred fifty talents of silver,
and silver vessels one hundred talents; of gold one hundred talents;
Ezr
8:27 and twenty bowls of gold, of one thousand darics; and two
vessels of fine bright brass, precious as gold.
Ezr
8:28 I said to them, You are holy to Yahweh, and the vessels are
holy; and the silver and the gold are a freewill offering to Yahweh,
the God of your fathers.
Ezr
8:29 Watch, and keep them, until you weigh them before the chiefs of
the priests and the Levites, and the princes of the fathers' houses
of Israel, at Jerusalem, in the chambers of the house of Yahweh.
Ezr
8:30 So the priests and the Levites received the weight of the
silver and the gold, and the vessels, to bring them to Jerusalem to
the house of our God.
Ezr
8:31 Then we departed from the river Ahava on the twelfth day
of the first month, to go to Jerusalem: and the hand of our God was
on us, and he delivered us from the hand of the enemy and the bandit
by the way.
Ezr
8:32 We came to Jerusalem, and abode there three days.
Ezr
8:33 On the fourth day the silver and the gold and the vessels were
weighed in the house of our God into the hand of Meremoth the son of
Uriah the priest; and with him was Eleazar the son of Phinehas; and
with them was Jozabad the son of Jeshua, and Noadiah the son of
Binnui, the Levite;
Ezr
8:34 the whole by number and by weight: and all the weight was
written at that time.
Ezr
8:35 The children of the captivity, who had come out of exile,
offered burnt offerings to the God of Israel, twelve bulls for all
Israel, ninety-six rams, seventy-seven lambs, and twelve male goats
for a sin offering: all this was a burnt offering to Yahweh.
Ezr
8:36 They delivered the king's commissions to the king's satraps,
and to the governors beyond the River: and they furthered the people
and the house of God.
Aug.
7
Ezra
9, 10
Ezr
9:1 Now when these things were done, the princes drew near to me,
saying, The people of Israel, and the priests and the Levites, have
not separated themselves from the peoples of the lands, doing
according to their abominations, even of the Canaanites, the
Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites,
the Egyptians, and the Amorites.
Ezr
9:2 For they have taken of their daughters for themselves and for
their sons, so that the holy seed have mixed themselves with the
peoples of the lands: yes, the hand of the princes and rulers has
been chief in this trespass.
Ezr
9:3 When I heard this thing, I tore my garment and my robe, and
plucked off the hair of my head and of my beard, and sat down
confounded.
Ezr
9:4 Then were assembled to me everyone who trembled at the words of
the God of Israel, because of the trespass of them of the captivity;
and I sat confounded until the evening offering.
Ezr
9:5 At the evening offering I arose up from my humiliation, even
with my garment and my robe torn; and I fell on my knees, and spread
out my hands to Yahweh my God;
Ezr
9:6 and I said, my God, I am ashamed and blush to lift up my face to
you, my God; for our iniquities are increased over our head, and our
guiltiness is grown up to the heavens.
Ezr
9:7 Since the days of our fathers we have been exceeding guilty to
this day; and for our iniquities have we, our kings, and our priests,
been delivered into the hand of the kings of the lands, to the sword,
to captivity, and to plunder, and to confusion of face, as it is this
day.
Ezr
9:8 Now for a little moment grace has been shown from Yahweh our
God, to leave us a remnant to escape, and to give us a nail in his
holy place, that our God may lighten our eyes, and give us a little
reviving in our bondage.
Ezr
9:9 For we are bondservants; yet our God has not forsaken us in our
bondage, but has extended loving kindness to us in the sight of the
kings of Persia, to give us a reviving, to set up the house of our
God, and to repair its ruins, and to give us a wall in Judah and in
Jerusalem.
Ezr
9:10 Now, our God, what shall we say after this? for we have
forsaken your commandments,
Ezr
9:11 which you have commanded by your servants the prophets, saying,
The land, to which you go to possess it, is an unclean land through
the uncleanness of the peoples of the lands, through their
abominations, which have filled it from one end to another with their
filthiness:
Ezr
9:12 now therefore don't give your daughters to their sons, neither
take their daughters to your sons, nor seek their peace or their
prosperity forever; that you may be strong, and eat the good of the
land, and leave it for an inheritance to your children forever.
Ezr
9:13 After all that is come on us for our evil deeds, and for our
great guilt, seeing that you our God have punished us less than our
iniquities deserve, and have given us such a remnant,
Ezr
9:14 shall we again break your commandments, and join in affinity
with the peoples that do these abominations? wouldn't you be angry
with us until you had consumed us, so that there should be no
remnant, nor any to escape?
Ezr
9:15 Yahweh, the God of Israel, you are righteous; for we are left a
remnant that is escaped, as it is this day: behold, we are before you
in our guiltiness; for none can stand before you because of this.
Ezr
10:1 Now while Ezra prayed and made confession, weeping and casting
himself down before the house of God, there was gathered together to
him out of Israel a very great assembly of men and women and
children; for the people wept very sore.
Ezr
10:2 Shecaniah the son of Jehiel, one of the sons of Elam, answered
Ezra, We have trespassed against our God, and have married foreign
women of the peoples of the land: yet now there is hope for Israel
concerning this thing.
Ezr
10:3 Now therefore let us make a covenant with our God to put away
all the wives, and such as are born of them, according to the counsel
of my lord, and of those who tremble at the commandment of our God;
and let it be done according to the law.
Ezr
10:4 Arise; for the matter belongs to you, and we are with you: be
of good courage, and do it.
Ezr
10:5 Then arose Ezra, and made the chiefs of the priests, the
Levites, and all Israel, to swear that they would do according to
this word. So they swore.
Ezr
10:6 Then Ezra rose up from before the house of God, and went into
the chamber of Jehohanan the son of Eliashib: and when
he came there, he ate no bread, nor drank water; for he mourned
because of the trespass of them of the captivity.
Ezr
10:7 They made proclamation throughout Judah and Jerusalem to all
the children of the captivity, that they should gather themselves
together to Jerusalem;
Ezr
10:8 and that whoever didn't come within three days, according to
the counsel of the princes and the elders, all his substance should
be forfeited, and himself separated from the assembly of the
captivity.
Ezr
10:9 Then all the men of Judah and Benjamin gathered themselves
together to Jerusalem within the three days; it was the ninth month,
on the twentieth day
of the month: and all the people sat in the broad place before the
house of God, trembling because of this matter, and for the great
rain.
Ezr
10:10 Ezra the priest stood up, and said to them, You have
trespassed, and have married foreign women, to increase the guilt of
Israel.
Ezr
10:11 Now therefore make confession to Yahweh, the God of your
fathers, and do his pleasure; and separate yourselves from the
peoples of the land, and from the foreign women.
Ezr
10:12 Then all the assembly answered with a loud voice, As you have
said concerning us, so must we do.
Ezr
10:13 But the people are many, and it is a time of much rain, and we
are not able to stand outside: neither is this a work of one day or
two; for we have greatly transgressed in this matter.
Ezr
10:14 Let now our princes be appointed for all the assembly, and let
all those who are in our cities who have married foreign women come
at appointed times, and with them the elders of every city, and its
judges, until the fierce wrath of our God be turned from us, until
this matter be dispatched.
Ezr
10:15 Only Jonathan the son of Asahel and Jahzeiah the son of Tikvah
stood up against this matter:
and Meshullam and Shabbethai the Levite helped them.
Ezr
10:16 The children of the captivity did so. Ezra the priest, with
certain heads of fathers' houses,
after their fathers' houses, and all of them by their names, were set
apart; and they sat down in the first day of the tenth month to
examine the matter.
Ezr
10:17 They made an end with all the men who had married foreign
women by the first day of the first month.
Ezr
10:18 Among the sons of the priests there were found who had married
foreign women: namely,
of the sons of Jeshua, the son of Jozadak, and his brothers,
Maaseiah, and Eliezer, and Jarib, and Gedaliah.
Ezr
10:19 They gave their hand that they would put away their wives; and
being guilty, they offered
a ram of the flock for their guilt.
Ezr
10:20 Of the sons of Immer: Hanani and Zebadiah.
Ezr
10:21 Of the sons of Harim: Maaseiah, and Elijah, and Shemaiah, and
Jehiel, and Uzziah.
Ezr
10:22 Of the sons of Pashhur: Elioenai, Maaseiah, Ishmael, Nethanel,
Jozabad, and Elasah.
Ezr
10:23 Of the Levites: Jozabad, and Shimei, and Kelaiah (the same is
Kelita), Pethahiah, Judah, and Eliezer.
Ezr
10:24 Of the singers: Eliashib. Of the porters: Shallum, and Telem,
and Uri.
Ezr
10:25 Of Israel: Of the sons of Parosh: Ramiah, and Izziah, and
Malchijah, and Mijamin, and Eleazar, and Malchijah, and Benaiah.
Ezr
10:26 Of the sons of Elam: Mattaniah, Zechariah, and Jehiel, and
Abdi, and Jeremoth, and Elijah.
Ezr
10:27 Of the sons of Zattu: Elioenai, Eliashib, Mattaniah, and
Jeremoth, and Zabad, and Aziza.
Ezr
10:28 Of the sons of Bebai: Jehohanan, Hananiah, Zabbai, Athlai.
Ezr
10:29 Of the sons of Bani: Meshullam, Malluch, and Adaiah, Jashub,
and Sheal, Jeremoth.
Ezr
10:30 Of the sons of Pahathmoab: Adna, and Chelal, Benaiah,
Maaseiah, Mattaniah, Bezalel, and Binnui, and Manasseh.
Ezr
10:31 of
the sons of Harim: Eliezer, Isshijah, Malchijah, Shemaiah, Shimeon,
Ezr
10:32 Benjamin, Malluch, Shemariah.
Ezr
10:33 Of the sons of Hashum: Mattenai, Mattattah, Zabad, Eliphelet,
Jeremai, Manasseh, Shimei.
Ezr
10:34 Of the sons of Bani: Maadai, Amram, and Uel,
Ezr
10:35 Benaiah, Bedeiah, Cheluhi,
Ezr
10:36 Vaniah, Meremoth, Eliashib,
Ezr
10:37 Mattaniah, Mattenai, and Jaasu,
Ezr
10:38 and Bani, and Binnui, Shimei,
Ezr
10:39 and Shelemiah, and Nathan, and Adaiah,
Ezr
10:40 Machnadebai, Shashai, Sharai,
Ezr
10:41 Azarel, and Shelemiah, Shemariah,
Ezr
10:42 Shallum, Amariah, Joseph.
Ezr
10:43 Of the sons of Nebo: Jeiel, Mattithiah, Zabad, Zebina, Iddo,
and Joel, Benaiah.
Ezr
10:44 All these had taken foreign wives; and some of them had wives
by whom they had children.
Aug.
8
Nehemiah
1-3
Neh
1:1 The words of Nehemiah the son of Hacaliah. Now it happened in
the month Chislev, in the twentieth year, as I was in Shushan the
palace,
Neh
1:2 that Hanani, one of my brothers, came, he and certain men out of
Judah; and I asked them concerning the Jews who had escaped, who were
left of the captivity, and concerning Jerusalem.
Neh
1:3 They said to me, The remnant who are left of the captivity there
in the province are in great affliction and reproach: the wall of
Jerusalem also is broken down, and its gates are burned with fire.
Neh
1:4 It happened, when I heard these words, that I sat down and wept,
and mourned certain days; and I fasted and prayed before the God of
heaven,
Neh
1:5 and said, I beg you, Yahweh, the God of heaven, the great and
awesome God, who keeps covenant and loving kindness with those who
love him and keep his commandments:
Neh
1:6 Let your ear now be attentive, and your eyes open, that you may
listen to the prayer of your servant, which I pray before you at this
time, day and night, for the children of Israel your servants while I
confess the sins of the children of Israel, which we have sinned
against you. Yes, I and my father's house have sinned:
Neh
1:7 we have dealt very corruptly against you, and have not kept the
commandments, nor the statutes, nor the ordinances, which you
commanded your servant Moses.
Neh
1:8 Remember, I beg you, the word that you commanded your servant
Moses, saying, If you trespass, I will scatter you abroad among the
peoples:
Neh
1:9 but if you return to me, and keep my commandments and do them,
though your outcasts were in the uttermost part of the heavens, yet
will I gather them from there, and will bring them to the place that
I have chosen, to cause my name to dwell there.
Neh
1:10 Now these are your servants and your people, whom you have
redeemed by your great power, and by your strong hand.
Neh
1:11 Lord, I beg you, let your ear be attentive now to the prayer of
your servant, and to the prayer of your servants, who delight to fear
your name; and please prosper your servant this day, and grant him
mercy in the sight of this man. Now I was cup bearer to the king.
Neh
2:1 It happened in the month Nisan, in the twentieth year of
Artaxerxes the king, when wine was before him, that I took up the
wine, and gave it to the king. Now I had not been before
sad in his presence.
Neh
2:2 The king said to me, Why is your face sad, seeing you are not
sick? this is nothing else but sorrow of heart. Then I was very sore
afraid.
Neh
2:3 I said to the king, Let the king live forever: why should not my
face be sad, when the city, the place of my fathers' tombs, lies
waste, and its gates are consumed with fire?
Neh
2:4 Then the king said to me, For what do you make request? So I
prayed to the God of heaven.
Neh
2:5 I said to the king, If it please the king, and if your servant
have found favor in your sight, that you would send me to Judah, to
the city of my fathers' tombs, that I may build it.
Neh
2:6 The king said to me (the queen also sitting by him), For how
long shall your journey be? and when will you return? So it pleased
the king to send me; and I set him a time.
Neh
2:7 Moreover I said to the king, If it please the king, let letters
be given me to the governors beyond the River, that they may let me
pass through until I come to Judah;
Neh
2:8 and a letter to Asaph the keeper of the king's forest, that he
may give me timber to make beams for the gates of the castle which
appertains to the house, and for the wall of the city, and for the
house that I shall enter into. The king granted me, according to the
good hand of my God on me.
Neh
2:9 Then I came to the governors beyond the River, and gave them the
king's letters. Now the king had sent with me captains of the army
and horsemen.
Neh
2:10 When Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant, the
Ammonite, heard of it, it grieved them exceedingly, because a man had
come to seek the welfare of the children of Israel.
Neh
2:11 So I came to Jerusalem, and was there three days.
Neh
2:12 I arose in the night, I and some few men with me; neither told
I any man what my God put into my heart to do for Jerusalem; neither
was there any animal with me, except the animal that I rode on.
Neh
2:13 I went out by night by the valley gate, even toward the
jackal's well, and to the dung gate, and viewed the walls of
Jerusalem, which were broken down, and its gates were consumed with
fire.
Neh
2:14 Then I went on to the spring gate and to the king's pool: but
there was no place for the animal that was under me to pass.
Neh
2:15 Then went I up in the night by the brook, and viewed the wall;
and I turned back, and entered by the valley gate, and so returned.
Neh
2:16 The rulers didn't know where I went, or what I did; neither had
I as yet told it to the Jews, nor to the priests, nor to the nobles,
nor to the rulers, nor to the rest who did the work.
Neh
2:17 Then said I to them, You see the evil case that we are in, how
Jerusalem lies waste, and its gates are burned with fire: come, and
let us build up the wall of Jerusalem, that we be no more a reproach.
Neh
2:18 I told them of the hand of my God which was good on me, as also
of the king's words that he had spoken to me. They said, Let us rise
up and build. So they strengthened their hands for the good work.
Neh
2:19 But when Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant, the
Ammonite, and Geshem the Arabian, heard it, they ridiculed us, and
despised us, and said, What is this thing that you do? will you rebel
against the king?
Neh
2:20 Then answered I them, and said to them, The God of heaven, he
will prosper us; therefore we his servants will arise and build: but
you have no portion, nor right, nor memorial, in Jerusalem.
Neh
3:1 Then Eliashib the high priest rose up with his brothers the
priests, and they built the sheep gate; they sanctified it, and set
up its doors; even to the tower of Hammeah they sanctified it, to the
tower of Hananel.
Neh
3:2 Next to him built the men of Jericho. Next to them built Zaccur
the son of Imri.
Neh
3:3 The fish gate did the sons of Hassenaah build; they laid its
beams, and set up its doors, its bolts, and its bars.
Neh
3:4 Next to them repaired Meremoth the son of Uriah, the son of
Hakkoz. Next to them repaired Meshullam the son of Berechiah, the son
of Meshezabel. Next to them repaired Zadok the son of Baana.
Neh
3:5 Next to them the Tekoites repaired; but their nobles didn't put
their necks to the work of their lord.
Neh
3:6 The old gate repaired Joiada the son of Paseah and Meshullam the
son of Besodeiah; they laid its beams, and set up its doors, and its
bolts, and its bars.
Neh
3:7 Next to them repaired Melatiah the Gibeonite, and Jadon the
Meronothite, the men of Gibeon, and of Mizpah, that
appertained to the throne of the
governor beyond the River.
Neh
3:8 Next to him repaired Uzziel the son of Harhaiah, goldsmiths.
Next to him repaired Hananiah one of the perfumers, and they
fortified Jerusalem even to the broad wall.
Neh
3:9 Next to them repaired Rephaiah the son of Hur, the ruler of half
the district of Jerusalem.
Neh
3:10 Next to them repaired Jedaiah the son of Harumaph, over against
his house. Next to him repaired Hattush the son of Hashabneiah.
Neh
3:11 Malchijah the son of Harim, and Hasshub the son of Pahathmoab,
repaired another portion, and the tower of the furnaces.
Neh
3:12 Next to him repaired Shallum the son of Hallohesh, the ruler of
half the district of Jerusalem, he and his daughters.
Neh
3:13 The valley gate repaired Hanun, and the inhabitants of Zanoah;
they built it, and set up its doors, its bolts, and its bars, and one
thousand cubits of the wall to the dung gate.
Neh
3:14 The dung gate repaired Malchijah the son of Rechab, the ruler
of the district of Beth Haccherem; he built it, and set up its doors,
its bolts, and its bars.
Neh
3:15 The spring gate repaired Shallun the son of Colhozeh, the ruler
of the district of Mizpah; he built it, and covered it, and set up
its doors, its bolts, and its bars, and the wall of the pool of
Shelah by the king's garden, even to the stairs that go down from the
city of David.
Neh
3:16 After him repaired Nehemiah the son of Azbuk, the ruler of half
the district of Beth Zur, to the place over against the tombs of
David, and to the pool that was made, and to the house of the mighty
men.
Neh
3:17 After him repaired the Levites, Rehum the son of Bani. Next to
him repaired Hashabiah, the ruler of half the district of Keilah, for
his district.
Neh
3:18 After him repaired their brothers, Bavvai the son of Henadad,
the ruler of half the district of Keilah.
Neh
3:19 Next to him repaired Ezer the son of Jeshua, the ruler of
Mizpah, another portion, over against the ascent to the armory at the
turning of the wall.
Neh
3:20 After him Baruch the son of Zabbai earnestly repaired another
portion, from the turning of the wall
to the door of the house of Eliashib the high priest.
Neh
3:21 After him repaired Meremoth the son of Uriah the son of Hakkoz
another portion, from the door of the house of Eliashib even to the
end of the house of Eliashib.
Neh
3:22 After him repaired the priests, the men of the Plain.
Neh
3:23 After them repaired Benjamin and Hasshub over against their
house. After them repaired Azariah the son of Maaseiah the son of
Ananiah beside his own house.
Neh
3:24 After him repaired Binnui the son of Henadad another portion,
from the house of Azariah to the turning of
the wall, and to the corner.
Neh
3:25 Palal the son of Uzai repaired
over against the turning of the wall,
and the tower that stands out from the upper house of the king, which
is by the court of the guard. After him Pedaiah the son of Parosh
repaired.
Neh
3:26 (Now the Nethinim lived in Ophel, to the place over against the
water gate toward the east, and the tower that stands out.)
Neh
3:27 After him the Tekoites repaired another portion, over against
the great tower that stands out, and to the wall of Ophel.
Neh
3:28 Above the horse gate repaired the priests, everyone over
against his own house.
Neh
3:29 After them repaired Zadok the son of Immer over against his own
house. After him repaired Shemaiah the son of Shecaniah, the keeper
of the east gate.
Neh
3:30 After him repaired Hananiah the son of Shelemiah, and Hanun the
sixth son of Zalaph, another portion. After him repaired Meshullam
the son of Berechiah over against his chamber.
Neh
3:31 After him repaired Malchijah one of the goldsmiths to the house
of the Nethinim, and of the merchants, over against the gate of
Hammiphkad, and to the ascent of the corner.
Neh
3:32 Between the ascent of the corner and the sheep gate repaired
the goldsmiths and the merchants.
Aug.
6
Acts 21
Act
21:1 When it happened that we had parted from them and had set sail,
we came with a straight course to Cos, and the next day to Rhodes,
and from there to Patara.
Act
21:2 Having found a ship crossing over to Phoenicia, we went aboard,
and set sail.
Act
21:3 When we had come in sight of Cyprus, leaving it on the left
hand, we sailed to Syria, and landed at Tyre, for there the ship was
to unload her cargo.
Act
21:4 Having found disciples, we stayed there seven days. These said
to Paul through the Spirit, that he should not go up to Jerusalem.
Act
21:5 When it happened that we had accomplished the days, we departed
and went on our journey. They all, with wives and children, brought
us on our way until we were out of the city. Kneeling down on the
beach, we prayed.
Act
21:6 After saying goodbye to each other, we went on board the ship,
and they returned home again.
Act
21:7 When we had finished the voyage from Tyre, we arrived at
Ptolemais. We greeted the brothers, and stayed with them one day.
Act
21:8 On the next day, we, who were Paul's companions, departed, and
came to Caesarea. We entered into the house of Philip the evangelist,
who was one of the seven, and stayed with him.
Act
21:9 Now this man had four virgin daughters who prophesied.
Act
21:10 As we stayed there some days, a certain prophet named Agabus
came down from Judea.
Act
21:11 Coming to us, and taking Paul's belt, he bound his own feet
and hands, and said, "Thus says the Holy Spirit: 'So will the
Jews at Jerusalem bind the man who owns this belt, and will deliver
him into the hands of the Gentiles.' "
Act
21:12 When we heard these things, both we and they of that place
begged him not to go up to Jerusalem.
Act
21:13 Then Paul answered, "What are you doing, weeping and
breaking my heart? For I am ready not only to be bound, but also to
die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus."
Act
21:14 When he would not be persuaded, we ceased, saying, "The
Lord's will be done."
Act
21:15 After these days we took up our baggage and went up to
Jerusalem.
Act
21:16 Some of the disciples from Caesarea also went with us,
bringing one Mnason of Cyprus, an early disciple, with whom we would
stay.
Act
21:17 When we had come to Jerusalem, the brothers received us
gladly.
Act
21:18 The day following, Paul went in with us to James; and all the
elders were present.
Act
21:19 When he had greeted them, he reported one by one the things
which God had worked among the Gentiles through his ministry.
Act
21:20 They, when they heard it, glorified God. They said to him,
"You see, brother, how many thousands there are among the Jews
of those who have believed, and they are all zealous for the law.
Act
21:21 They have been informed about you, that you teach all the Jews
who are among the Gentiles to forsake Moses, telling them not to
circumcise their children neither to walk after the customs.
Act
21:22 What then? The assembly must certainly meet, for they will
hear that you have come.
Act
21:23 Therefore do what we tell you. We have four men who have taken
a vow.
Act
21:24 Take them, and purify yourself with them, and pay their
expenses for them, that they may shave their heads. Then all will
know that there is no truth in the things that they have been
informed about you, but that you yourself also walk keeping the law.
Act
21:25 But concerning the Gentiles who believe, we have written our
decision that they should observe no such thing, except that they
should keep themselves from food offered to idols, from blood, from
strangled things, and from sexual immorality."
Act
21:26 Then Paul took the men, and the next day, purified himself and
went with them into the temple, declaring the fulfillment of the days
of purification, until the offering was offered for every one of
them.
Act
21:27 When the seven days were almost completed, the Jews from Asia,
when they saw him in the temple, stirred up all the multitude and
laid hands on him,
Act
21:28 crying out, "Men of Israel, help! This is the man who
teaches all men everywhere against the people, and the law, and this
place. Moreover, he also brought Greeks into the temple, and has
defiled this holy place!"
Act
21:29 For they had seen Trophimus, the Ephesian, with him in the
city, and they supposed that Paul had brought him into the temple.
Act
21:30 All the city was moved, and the people ran together. They
seized Paul and dragged him out of the temple. Immediately the doors
were shut.
Act
21:31 As they were trying to kill him, news came up to the
commanding officer of the regiment that all Jerusalem was in an
uproar.
Act
21:32 Immediately he took soldiers and centurions, and ran down to
them. They, when they saw the chief captain and the soldiers, stopped
beating Paul.
Act
21:33 Then the commanding officer came near, arrested him, commanded
him to be bound with two chains, and inquired who he was and what he
had done.
Act
21:34 Some shouted one thing, and some another, among the crowd.
When he couldn't find out the truth because of the noise, he
commanded him to be brought into the barracks.
Act
21:35 When he came to the stairs, it happened that he was carried by
the soldiers because of the violence of the crowd;
Act
21:36 for the multitude of the people followed after, crying out,
"Away with him!"
Act
21:37 As Paul was about to be brought into the barracks, he asked
the commanding officer, "May I speak to you?" He said, "Do
you know Greek?
Act
21:38 Aren't you then the Egyptian, who before these days stirred up
to sedition and led out into the wilderness the four thousand men of
the Assassins?"
Act
21:39 But Paul said, "I am a Jew, from Tarsus in Cilicia, a
citizen of no insignificant city. I beg you, allow me to speak to the
people."
Act
21:40 When he had given him permission, Paul, standing on the
stairs, beckoned with his hand to the people. When there was a great
silence, he spoke to them in the Hebrew language, saying,
Aug. 7,
8
Acts 22
Act
22:1 "Brothers and fathers, listen to the defense which I now
make to you."
Act
22:2 When they heard that he spoke to them in the Hebrew language,
they were even more quiet. He said,
Act
22:3 "I am indeed a Jew, born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but brought
up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, instructed according to the
strict manner of the law of our fathers, being zealous for God, even
as you all are this day.
Act
22:4 I persecuted this Way to the death, binding and delivering into
prisons both men and women.
Act
22:5 As also the high priest and all the council of the elders
testify, from whom also I received letters to the brothers, and
traveled to Damascus to bring them also who were there to Jerusalem
in bonds to be punished.
Act
22:6 It happened that, as I made my journey, and came close to
Damascus, about noon, suddenly there shone from the sky a great light
around me.
Act
22:7 I fell to the ground, and heard a voice saying to me, 'Saul,
Saul, why are you persecuting me?'
Act
22:8 I answered, 'Who are you, Lord?' He said to me, 'I am Jesus of
Nazareth, whom you persecute.'
Act
22:9 "Those who were with me indeed saw the light and were
afraid, but they didn't understand the voice of him who spoke to me.
Act
22:10 I said, 'What shall I do, Lord?' The Lord said to me, 'Arise,
and go into Damascus. There you will be told about all things which
are appointed for you to do.'
Act
22:11 When I couldn't see for the glory of that light, being led by
the hand of those who were with me, I came into Damascus.
Act
22:12 One Ananias, a devout man according to the law, well reported
of by all the Jews who lived in Damascus,
Act
22:13 came to me, and standing by me said to me, 'Brother Saul,
receive your sight!' In that very hour I looked up at him.
Act
22:14 He said, 'The God of our fathers has appointed you to know his
will, and to see the Righteous One, and to hear a voice from his
mouth.
Act
22:15 For you will be a witness for him to all men of what you have
seen and heard.
Act
22:16 Now why do you wait? Arise, be baptized, and wash away your
sins, calling on the name of the Lord.'
Act
22:17 "It happened that, when I had returned to Jerusalem, and
while I prayed in the temple, I fell into a trance,
Act
22:18 and saw him saying to me, 'Hurry and get out of Jerusalem
quickly, because they will not receive testimony concerning me from
you.'
Act
22:19 I said, 'Lord, they themselves know that I imprisoned and beat
in every synagogue those who believed in you.
Act
22:20 When the blood of Stephen, your witness, was shed, I also was
standing by, and consenting to his death, and guarding the cloaks of
those who killed him.'
Act
22:21 "He said to me, 'Depart, for I will send you out far from
here to the Gentiles.' "
Act
22:22 They listened to him until he said that; then they lifted up
their voice, and said, "Rid the earth of this fellow, for he
isn't fit to live!"
Act
22:23 As they cried out, and threw off their cloaks, and threw dust
into the air,
Act
22:24 the commanding officer commanded him to be brought into the
barracks, ordering him to be examined by scourging, that he might
know for what crime they shouted against him like that.
Act
22:25 When they had tied him up with thongs, Paul asked the
centurion who stood by, "Is it lawful for you to scourge a man
who is a Roman, and not found guilty?"
Act
22:26 When the centurion heard it, he went to the commanding officer
and told him, "Watch what you are about to do, for this man is a
Roman!"
Act
22:27 The commanding officer came and asked him, "Tell me, are
you a Roman?" He said, "Yes."
Act
22:28 The commanding officer answered, "I bought my citizenship
for a great price." Paul said, "But I was born a Roman."
Act
22:29 Immediately those who were about to examine him departed from
him, and the commanding officer also was afraid when he realized that
he was a Roman, because he had bound him.
Act
22:30 But on the next day, desiring to know the truth about why he
was accused by the Jews, he freed him from the bonds, and commanded
the chief priests and all the council to come together, and brought
Paul down and set him before them.
