Daily Readings for October 15
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2Chronicles 5

 

1.Thus all the work that Solomon did for the house of Yahweh was finished. Solomon brought in the things that David his father had dedicated, even the silver, and the gold, and all the vessels, and put them in the treasuries of the house of God. 2.Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, and all the heads of the tribes, the princes of the fathers' households of the children of Israel, to Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of the covenant of Yahweh out of the city of David, which is Zion. 3.And all the men of Israel assembled themselves to the king at the feast, which was in the seventh month. 4.All the elders of Israel came: and the Levites took up the ark; 5.and they brought up the ark, and the Tent of Meeting, and all the holy vessels that were in the Tent; these the priests the Levites brought up. 6.King Solomon and all the congregation of Israel, that were assembled to him, were before the ark, sacrificing sheep and cattle, that could not be counted nor numbered for multitude. 7.The priests brought in the ark of the covenant of Yahweh to its place, into the oracle of the house, to the most holy place, even under the wings of the cherubim. 8.For the cherubim spread forth their wings over the place of the ark, and the cherubim covered the ark and its poles above. 9.The poles were so long that the ends of the poles were seen from the ark before the oracle; but they were not seen outside: and there it is to this day. 10.There was nothing in the ark except the two tables which Moses put at Horeb, when Yahweh made a covenant with the children of Israel, when they came out of Egypt. 11.It happened, when the priests had come out of the holy place, (for all the priests who were present had sanctified themselves, and didn't keep their divisions; 12.also the Levites who were the singers, all of them, even Asaph, Heman, Jeduthun, and their sons and their brothers, arrayed in fine linen, with cymbals and stringed instruments and harps, stood at the east end of the altar, and with them one hundred twenty priests sounding with trumpets;) 13.it happened, when the trumpeters and singers were as one, to make one sound to be heard in praising and thanking Yahweh; and when they lifted up their voice with the trumpets and cymbals and instruments of music, and praised Yahweh, saying, "For he is good; for his loving kindness endures forever!" that then the house was filled with a cloud, even the house of Yahweh, 14.so that the priests could not stand to minister by reason of the cloud: for the glory of Yahweh filled the house of God.

 

2Chronicles 6

 

1.Then Solomon said, "Yahweh has said that he would dwell in the thick darkness. 2.But I have built you a house of habitation, and a place for you to dwell in forever."

3.The king turned his face, and blessed all the assembly of Israel: and all the assembly of Israel stood. 4.He said, "Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Israel, who spoke with his mouth to David my father, and has with his hands fulfilled it, saying, 5.'Since the day that I brought forth my people out of the land of Egypt, I chose no city out of all the tribes of Israel to build a house in, that my name might be there; neither chose I any man to be prince over my people Israel: 6.but I have chosen Jerusalem, that my name might be there; and have chosen David to be over my people Israel.' 7.Now it was in the heart of David my father to build a house for the name of Yahweh, the God of Israel. 8.But Yahweh said to David my father, 'Whereas it was in your heart to build a house for my name, you did well that it was in your heart: 9.nevertheless you shall not build the house; but your son who shall come forth out of your body, he shall build the house for my name.'

10."Yahweh has performed his word that he spoke; for I have risen up in the place of David my father, and sit on the throne of Israel, as Yahweh promised, and have built the house for the name of Yahweh, the God of Israel. 11.There I have set the ark, in which is the covenant of Yahweh, which he made with the children of Israel."

12.He stood before the altar of Yahweh in the presence of all the assembly of Israel, and spread forth his hands 13.(for Solomon had made a bronze scaffold, five cubits long, and five cubits broad, and three cubits high, and had set it in the midst of the court; and on it he stood, and kneeled down on his knees before all the assembly of Israel, and spread forth his hands toward heaven;) 14.and he said, "Yahweh, the God of Israel, there is no God like you, in heaven, or on earth; you who keep covenant and loving kindness with your servants, who walk before you with all their heart; 15.who have kept with your servant David my father that which you promised him: yes, you spoke with your mouth, and have fulfilled it with your hand, as it is this day.

16."Now therefore, Yahweh, the God of Israel, keep with your servant David my father that which you have promised him, saying, 'There shall not fail you a man in my sight to sit on the throne of Israel, if only your children take heed to their way, to walk in my law as you have walked before me.' 17.Now therefore, Yahweh, the God of Israel, let your word be verified, which you spoke to your servant David.

18."But will God indeed dwell with men on the earth? Behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens can't contain you; how much less this house which I have built! 19.Yet have respect for the prayer of your servant, and to his supplication, Yahweh my God, to listen to the cry and to the prayer which your servant prays before you; 20.that your eyes may be open toward this house day and night, even toward the place where you have said that you would put your name; to listen to the prayer which your servant shall pray toward this place. 21.Listen to the petitions of your servant, and of your people Israel, when they shall pray toward this place: yes, hear from your dwelling place, even from heaven; and when you hear, forgive.

22."If a man sin against his neighbor, and an oath is laid on him to cause him to swear, and he comes and swears before your altar in this house; 23.then hear from heaven, and do, and judge your servants, bringing retribution to the wicked, to bring his way on his own head; and justifying the righteous, to give him according to his righteousness.

24."If your people Israel be struck down before the enemy, because they have sinned against you, and shall turn again and confess your name, and pray and make supplication before you in this house; 25.then hear from heaven, and forgive the sin of your people Israel, and bring them again to the land which you gave to them and to their fathers.

26."When the sky is shut up, and there is no rain, because they have sinned against you; if they pray toward this place, and confess your name, and turn from their sin, when you afflict them: 27.then hear in heaven, and forgive the sin of your servants, and of your people Israel, when you teach them the good way in which they should walk; and send rain on your land, which you have given to your people for an inheritance.

28."If there is famine in the land, if there is pestilence, if there is blight or mildew, locust or caterpillar; if their enemies besiege them in the land of their cities; whatever plague or whatever sickness there is; 29.whatever prayer and supplication be made by any man, or by all your people Israel, who shall know every man his own plague and his own sorrow, and shall spread forth his hands toward this house: 30.then hear from heaven, your dwelling place and forgive, and render to every man according to all his ways, whose heart you know; (for you, even you only, know the hearts of the children of men;) 31.that they may fear you, to walk in your ways, so long as they live in the land which you gave to our fathers.

32."Moreover concerning the foreigner, who is not of your people Israel, when he shall come from a far country for your great name's sake, and your mighty hand, and your outstretched arm; when they shall come and pray toward this house: 33.then hear from heaven, even from your dwelling place, and do according to all that the foreigner calls to you for; that all the peoples of the earth may know your name, and fear you, as does your people Israel, and that they may know that this house which I have built is called by your name.

34."If your people go out to battle against their enemies, by whatever way you shall send them, and they pray to you toward this city which you have chosen, and the house which I have built for your name; 35.then hear from heaven their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause.

36."If they sin against you (for there is no man who doesn't sin), and you are angry with them, and deliver them to the enemy, so that they carry them away captive to a land far off or near; 37.yet if they shall repent themselves in the land where they are carried captive, and turn again, and make supplication to you in the land of their captivity, saying, 'We have sinned, we have done perversely, and have dealt wickedly;' 38.if they return to you with all their heart and with all their soul in the land of their captivity, where they have carried them captive, and pray toward their land, which you gave to their fathers, and the city which you have chosen, and toward the house which I have built for your name: 39.then hear from heaven, even from your dwelling place, their prayer and their petitions, and maintain their cause, and forgive your people who have sinned against you.

40."Now, my God, let, I beg you, your eyes be open, and let your ears be attentive, to the prayer that is made in this place.

41."Now therefore arise, Yahweh God, into your resting place, you, and the ark of your strength: let your priests, Yahweh God, be clothed with salvation, and let your saints rejoice in goodness.

42."Yahweh God, don't turn away the face of your anointed. Remember your loving kindnesses to David your servant."

 

Ezekiel 41

 

1.He brought me to the temple, and measured the posts, six cubits broad on the one side, and six cubits broad on the other side, which was the breadth of the tent. 2.The breadth of the entrance was ten cubits; and the sides of the entrance were five cubits on the one side, and five cubits on the other side: and he measured its length, forty cubits, and the breadth, twenty cubits. 3.Then went he inward, and measured each post of the entrance, two cubits; and the entrance, six cubits; and the breadth of the entrance, seven cubits. 4.He measured its length, twenty cubits, and the breadth, twenty cubits, before the temple: and he said to me, This is the most holy place. 5.Then he measured the wall of the house, six cubits; and the breadth of every side room, four cubits, all around the house on every side. 6.The side rooms were in three stories, one over another, and thirty in order; and they entered into the wall which belonged to the house for the side rooms all around, that they might have hold [therein], and not have hold in the wall of the house. 7.The side rooms were broader as they encompassed [the house] higher and higher; for the encompassing of the house went higher and higher around the house: therefore the breadth of the house [continued] upward; and so one went up [from] the lowest [room] to the highest by the middle [room]. 8.I saw also that the house had a raised base all around: the foundations of the side rooms were a full reed of six great cubits. 9.The thickness of the wall, which was for the side rooms, on the outside, was five cubits: and that which was left was the place of the side rooms that belonged to the house. 10.Between the rooms was a breadth of twenty cubits around the house on every side. 11.The doors of the side rooms were toward [the place] that was left, one door toward the north, and another door toward the south: and the breadth of the place that was left was five cubits all around. 12.The building that was before the separate place at the side toward the west was seventy cubits broad; and the wall of the building was five cubits thick all around, and its length ninety cubits. 13.So he measured the house, one hundred cubits long; and the separate place, and the building, with its walls, one hundred cubits long; 14.also the breadth of the face of the house, and of the separate place toward the east, one hundred cubits. 15.He measured the length of the building before the separate place which was at its back, and its galleries on the one side and on the other side, one hundred cubits; and the inner temple, and the porches of the court; 16.the thresholds, and the closed windows, and the galleries around on their three stories, over against the threshold, with wood ceilings all around, and [from] the ground up to the windows, (now the windows were covered), 17.to [the space] above the door, even to the inner house, and outside, and by all the wall all around inside and outside, by measure. 18.It was made with cherubim and palm trees; and a palm tree was between cherub and cherub, and every cherub had two faces; 19.so that there was the face of a man toward the palm tree on the one side, and the face of a young lion toward the palm tree on the other side. [thus was it] made through all the house all around: 20.from the ground to above the door were cherubim and palm trees made: thus was the wall of the temple. 21.As for the temple, the door posts were squared; and as for the face of the sanctuary, the appearance [of it] was as the appearance [of the temple]. 22.The altar was of wood, three cubits high, and its length two cubits; and its corners, and its length, and its walls, were of wood: and he said to me, This is the table that is before Yahweh. 23.The temple and the sanctuary had two doors. 24.The doors had two leaves [apiece], two turning leaves: two [leaves] for the one door, and two leaves for the other. 25.There were made on them, on the doors of the temple, cherubim and palm trees, like as were made on the walls; and there was a threshold of wood on the face of the porch outside. 26.There were closed windows and palm trees on the one side and on the other side, on the sides of the porch: thus were the side rooms of the house, and the thresholds.

 

John 7

 

1.After these things, Jesus was walking in Galilee, for he wouldn't walk in Judea, because the Jews sought to kill him. 2.Now the feast of the Jews, the Feast of Booths, was at hand. 3.His brothers therefore said to him, "Depart from here, and go into Judea, that your disciples also may see your works which you do. 4.For no one does anything in secret, and himself seeks to be known openly. If you do these things, reveal yourself to the world." 5.For even his brothers didn't believe in him.

6.Jesus therefore said to them, "My time has not yet come, but your time is always ready. 7.The world can't hate you, but it hates me, because I testify about it, that its works are evil. 8.You go up to the feast. I am not yet going up to this feast, because my time is not yet fulfilled."

9.Having said these things to them, he stayed in Galilee. 10.But when his brothers had gone up to the feast, then he also went up, not publicly, but as it were in secret. 11.The Jews therefore sought him at the feast, and said, "Where is he?" 12.There was much murmuring among the multitudes concerning him. Some said, "He is a good man." Others said, "Not so, but he leads the multitude astray." 13.Yet no one spoke openly of him for fear of the Jews. 14.But when it was now the midst of the feast, Jesus went up into the temple and taught. 15.The Jews therefore marveled, saying, "How does this man know letters, having never been educated?"

16.Jesus therefore answered them, "My teaching is not mine, but his who sent me. 17.If anyone desires to do his will, he will know about the teaching, whether it is from God, or if I am speaking from myself. 18.He who speaks from himself seeks his own glory, but he who seeks the glory of him who sent him is true, and no unrighteousness is in him. 19.Didn't Moses give you the law, and yet none of you keeps the law? Why do you seek to kill me?"

20.The multitude answered, "You have a demon! Who seeks to kill you?"

21.Jesus answered them, "I did one work, and you all marvel because of it. 22.Moses has given you circumcision (not that it is of Moses, but of the fathers), and on the Sabbath you circumcise a boy. 23.If a boy receives circumcision on the Sabbath, that the law of Moses may not be broken, are you angry with me, because I made a man completely healthy on the Sabbath? 24.Don't judge according to appearance, but judge righteous judgment."

25.Therefore some of them of Jerusalem said, "Isn't this he whom they seek to kill? 26.Behold, he speaks openly, and they say nothing to him. Can it be that the rulers indeed know that this is truly the Christ? 27.However we know where this man comes from, but when the Christ comes, no one will know where he comes from."

28.Jesus therefore cried out in the temple, teaching and saying, "You both know me, and know where I am from. I have not come of myself, but he who sent me is true, whom you don't know. 29.I know him, because I am from him, and he sent me."

30.They sought therefore to take him; but no one laid a hand on him, because his hour had not yet come. 31.But of the multitude, many believed in him. They said, "When the Christ comes, he won't do more signs than those which this man has done, will he?" 32.The Pharisees heard the multitude murmuring these things concerning him, and the chief priests and the Pharisees sent officers to arrest him.

33.Then Jesus said, "I will be with you a little while longer, then I go to him who sent me. 34.You will seek me, and won't find me; and where I am, you can't come."

35.The Jews therefore said among themselves, "Where will this man go that we won't find him? Will he go to the Dispersion among the Greeks, and teach the Greeks? 36.What is this word that he said, 'You will seek me, and won't find me; and where I am, you can't come'?"

37.Now on the last and greatest day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, "If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink! 38.He who believes in me, as the Scripture has said, from within him will flow rivers of living water." 39.But he said this about the Spirit, which those believing in him were to receive. For the Holy Spirit was not yet given, because Jesus wasn't yet glorified.

40.Many of the multitude therefore, when they heard these words, said, "This is truly the prophet." 41.Others said, "This is the Christ." But some said, "What, does the Christ come out of Galilee? 42.Hasn't the Scripture said that the Christ comes of the seed of David,[19] and from Bethlehem,[20] the village where David was?" 43.So there arose a division in the multitude because of him. 44.Some of them would have arrested him, but no one laid hands on him. 45.The officers therefore came to the chief priests and Pharisees, and they said to them, "Why didn't you bring him?"

46.The officers answered, "No man ever spoke like this man!"

47.The Pharisees therefore answered them, "You aren't also led astray, are you? 48.Have any of the rulers believed in him, or of the Pharisees? 49.But this multitude that doesn't know the law is accursed."

50.Nicodemus (he who came to him by night, being one of them) said to them, 51."Does our law judge a man, unless it first hears from him personally and knows what he does?"

52.They answered him, "Are you also from Galilee? Search, and see that no prophet has arisen out of Galilee.[21]"

53.Everyone went to his own house,

 

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