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Daily Readings for October 13
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2Chronicles 1
1.Solomon the son of David was strengthened in his kingdom, and Yahweh1 his God2 was with him, and magnified him exceedingly. 2.Solomon spoke to all Israel, to the captains of thousands and of hundreds, and to the judges, and to every prince in all Israel, the heads of the fathers' households. 3.So Solomon, and all the assembly with him, went to the high place that was at Gibeon; for there was the Tent of Meeting of God, which Moses the servant of Yahweh had made in the wilderness. 4.But David had brought the ark of God up from Kiriath Jearim to the place that David had prepared for it; for he had pitched a tent for it at Jerusalem. 5.Moreover the bronze altar, that Bezalel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, had made, was there before the tabernacle of Yahweh: and Solomon and the assembly were seeking counsel there. 6.Solomon went up there to the bronze altar before Yahweh, which was at the Tent of Meeting, and offered one thousand burnt offerings on it. 7.In that night God appeared to Solomon, and said to him, "Ask what I shall give you." 8.Solomon said to God, "You have shown great loving kindness to David my father, and have made me king in his place. 9.Now, Yahweh God, let your promise to David my father be established; for you have made me king over a people like the dust of the earth in multitude. 10.Now give me wisdom and knowledge, that I may go out and come in before this people; for who can judge this your people, that is so great?"
11.God said to Solomon, "Because this was in your heart, and you have not asked riches, wealth, or honor, nor the life of those who hate you, neither yet have asked long life; but have asked wisdom and knowledge for yourself, that you may judge my people, over whom I have made you king: 12.wisdom and knowledge is granted to you. I will give you riches, wealth, and honor, such as none of the kings have had who have been before you; neither shall there any after you have the like."
13.So Solomon came from the high place that was at Gibeon, from before the Tent of Meeting, to Jerusalem; and he reigned over Israel. 14.Solomon gathered chariots and horsemen: and he had one thousand four hundred chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen, that he placed in the chariot cities, and with the king at Jerusalem. 15.The king made silver and gold to be in Jerusalem as stones, and cedars made he to be as the sycamore trees that are in the lowland, for abundance. 16.The horses which Solomon had were brought out of Egypt and from Kue; the king's merchants purchased them from Kue. 17.They brought up and brought out of Egypt a chariot for six hundred pieces of silver, and a horse for one hundred fifty: and so for all the kings of the Hittites, and the kings of Syria, they brought them out by their means.
2Chronicles 2
1.Now Solomon purposed to build a house for the name of Yahweh, and a house for his kingdom. 2.Solomon counted out seventy thousand men to bear burdens, and eighty thousand men who were stone cutters in the mountains, and three thousand and six hundred to oversee them. 3.Solomon sent to Huram the king of Tyre, saying, "As you dealt with David my father, and sent him cedars to build him a house in which to dwell, so deal with me. 4.Behold, I am about to build a house for the name of Yahweh my God, to dedicate it to him, and to burn before him incense of sweet spices, and for the continual show bread, and for the burnt offerings morning and evening, on the Sabbaths, and on the new moons, and on the set feasts of Yahweh our God. This is an ordinance forever to Israel.
5."The house which I build is great; for our God is great above all gods. 6.But who is able to build him a house, since heaven and the heaven of heavens can't contain him? who am I then, that I should build him a house, except just to burn incense before him?
7."Now therefore send me a man skillful to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass, and in iron, and in purple, and crimson, and blue, and who knows how to engrave engravings, to be with the skillful men who are with me in Judah and in Jerusalem, whom David my father provided.
8."Send me also cedar trees, fir trees, and algum trees, out of Lebanon; for I know that your servants know how to cut timber in Lebanon: and behold, my servants shall be with your servants, 9.even to prepare me timber in abundance; for the house which I am about to build shall be great and wonderful. 10.Behold, I will give to your servants, the cutters who cut timber, twenty thousand measures of beaten wheat, and twenty thousand measures of barley, and twenty thousand baths of wine, and twenty thousand baths of oil."
11.Then Huram the king of Tyre answered in writing, which he sent to Solomon, "Because Yahweh loves his people, he has made you king over them." 12.Huram continued, "Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Israel, that made heaven and earth, who has given to David the king a wise son, endowed with discretion and understanding, that should build a house for Yahweh, and a house for his kingdom. 13.Now I have sent a skillful man, endowed with understanding, of Huram my father's, 14.the son of a woman of the daughters of Dan; and his father was a man of Tyre, skillful to work in gold, and in silver, in brass, in iron, in stone, and in timber, in purple, in blue, and in fine linen, and in crimson, also to engrave any kind of engraving, and to devise any device; that there may be a place appointed to him with your skillful men, and with the skillful men of my lord David your father.
15."Now therefore the wheat and the barley, the oil and the wine, which my lord has spoken of, let him send to his servants: 16.and we will cut wood out of Lebanon, as much as you shall need; and we will bring it to you in floats by sea to Joppa; and you shall carry it up to Jerusalem." 17.Solomon numbered all the foreigners who were in the land of Israel, after the numbering with which David his father had numbered them; and they were found one hundred fifty-three thousand six hundred. 18.He set seventy thousand of them to bear burdens, and eighty thousand who were stone cutters in the mountains, and three thousand six hundred overseers to set the people at work.
Ezekiel 39
1.You, son of man, prophesy against Gog, and say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I am against you, Gog, prince of Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal: 2.and I will turn you around, and will lead you on, and will cause you to come up from the uttermost parts of the north; and I will bring you on the mountains of Israel; 3.and I will strike your bow out of your left hand, and will cause your arrows to fall out of your right hand. 4.You shall fall on the mountains of Israel, you, and all your hordes, and the peoples who are with you: I will give you to the ravenous birds of every sort, and to the animals of the field to be devoured. 5.You shall fall on the open field; for I have spoken it, says the Lord Yahweh. 6.I will send a fire on Magog, and on those who dwell securely in the islands; and they shall know that I am Yahweh. 7.My holy name will I make known in the midst of my people Israel; neither will I allow my holy name to be profaned any more: and the nations shall know that I am Yahweh, the Holy One in Israel. 8.Behold, it comes, and it shall be done, says the Lord Yahweh; this is the day about which I have spoken. 9.Those who dwell in the cities of Israel shall go forth, and shall make fires of the weapons and burn them, both the shields and the bucklers, the bows and the arrows, and the war clubs, and the spears, and they shall make fires of them seven years; 10.so that they shall take no wood out of the field, neither cut down any out of the forests; for they shall make fires of the weapons; and they shall plunder those who plundered them, and rob those who robbed them, says the Lord Yahweh. 11.It shall happen in that day, that I will give to Gog a place for burial in Israel, the valley of those who pass through on the east of the sea; and it shall stop those who pass through: and there shall they bury Gog and all his multitude; and they shall call it The valley of Hamon Gog. 12.Seven months shall the house of Israel be burying them, that they may cleanse the land. 13.Yes, all the people of the land shall bury them; and it shall be to them a renown in the day that I shall be glorified, says the Lord Yahweh. 14.They shall set apart men of continual employment, who shall pass through the land, and, with those who pass through, those who bury those who remain on the surface of the land, to cleanse it: after the end of seven months shall they search. 15.Those who pass through the land shall pass through; and when any sees a man's bone, then shall he set up a sign by it, until the undertakers have buried it in the valley of Hamon Gog. 16.Hamonah shall also be the name of a city. Thus shall they cleanse the land. 17.You, son of man, thus says the Lord Yahweh: Speak to the birds of every sort, and to every animal of the field, Assemble yourselves, and come; gather yourselves on every side to my sacrifice that I do sacrifice for you, even a great sacrifice on the mountains of Israel, that you may eat flesh and drink blood. 18.You shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood of the princes of the earth, of rams, of lambs, and of goats, of bulls, all of them fatlings of Bashan. 19.You shall eat fat until you be full, and drink blood until you are drunk, of my sacrifice which I have sacrificed for you. 20.You shall be filled at my table with horses and chariots, with mighty men, and with all men of war, says the Lord Yahweh. 21.I will set my glory among the nations; and all the nations shall see my judgment that I have executed, and my hand that I have laid on them. 22.So the house of Israel shall know that I am Yahweh their God, from that day and forward. 23.The nations shall know that the house of Israel went into captivity for their iniquity; because they trespassed against me, and I hid my face from them: so I gave them into the hand of their adversaries, and they fell all of them by the sword. 24.According to their uncleanness and according to their transgressions did I to them; and I hid my face from them. 25.Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Now will I bring back the captivity of Jacob, and have mercy on the whole house of Israel; and I will be jealous for my holy name. 26.They shall bear their shame, and all their trespasses by which they have trespassed against me, when they shall dwell securely in their land, and none shall make them afraid; 27.when I have brought them back from the peoples, and gathered them out of their enemies' lands, and am sanctified in them in the sight of many nations. 28.They shall know that I am Yahweh their God, in that I caused them to go into captivity among the nations, and have gathered them to their own land; and I will leave none of them any more there; 29.neither will I hide my face any more from them; for I have poured out my Spirit on the house of Israel, says the Lord Yahweh.
John 5
1.After these things, there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. 2.Now in Jerusalem by the sheep gate, there is a pool, which is called in Hebrew, "Bethesda," having five porches. 3.In these lay a great multitude of those who were sick, blind, lame, or paralyzed, waiting for the moving of the water; 4.for an angel went down at certain times into the pool, and stirred up the water. Whoever stepped in first after the stirring of the water was made whole of whatever disease he had. 5.A certain man was there, who had been sick for thirty-eight years. 6.When Jesus saw him lying there, and knew that he had been sick for a long time, he asked him, "Do you want to be made well?"
7.The sick man answered him, "Sir, I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up, but while I'm coming, another steps down before me."
8.Jesus said to him, "Arise, take up your mat, and walk."
9.Immediately, the man was made well, and took up his mat and walked.
Now it was the Sabbath on that day. 10.So the Jews said to him who was cured, "It is the Sabbath. It is not lawful for you to carry the mat."
11.He answered them, "He who made me well, the same said to me, 'Take up your mat, and walk.'"
12.Then they asked him, "Who is the man who said to you, 'Take up your mat, and walk'?"
13.But he who was healed didn't know who it was, for Jesus had withdrawn, a crowd being in the place.
14.Afterward Jesus found him in the temple, and said to him, "Behold, you are made well. Sin no more, so that nothing worse happens to you."
15.The man went away, and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had made him well. 16.For this cause the Jews persecuted Jesus, and sought to kill him, because he did these things on the Sabbath. 17.But Jesus answered them, "My Father is still working, so I am working, too." 18.For this cause therefore the Jews sought all the more to kill him, because he not only broke the Sabbath, but also called God his own Father, making himself equal with God. 19.Jesus therefore answered them, "Most certainly, I tell you, the Son can do nothing of himself, but what he sees the Father doing. For whatever things he does, these the Son also does likewise. 20.For the Father has affection for the Son, and shows him all things that he himself does. He will show him greater works than these, that you may marvel. 21.For as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, even so the Son also gives life to whom he desires. 22.For the Father judges no one, but he has given all judgment to the Son, 23.that all may honor the Son, even as they honor the Father. He who doesn't honor the Son doesn't honor the Father who sent him.
24."Most certainly I tell you, he who hears my word, and believes him who sent me, has eternal life, and doesn't come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life. 25.Most certainly, I tell you, the hour comes, and now is, when the dead will hear the Son of God's voice; and those who hear will live. 26.For as the Father has life in himself, even so he gave to the Son also to have life in himself. 27.He also gave him authority to execute judgment, because he is a son of man. 28.Don't marvel at this, for the hour comes, in which all that are in the tombs will hear his voice, 29.and will come out; those who have done good, to the resurrection of life; and those who have done evil, to the resurrection of judgment. 30.I can of myself do nothing. As I hear, I judge, and my judgment is righteous; because I don't seek my own will, but the will of my Father who sent me.
31."If I testify about myself, my witness is not valid. 32.It is another who testifies about me. I know that the testimony which he testifies about me is true. 33.You have sent to John, and he has testified to the truth. 34.But the testimony which I receive is not from man. However, I say these things that you may be saved. 35.He was the burning and shining lamp, and you were willing to rejoice for a while in his light. 36.But the testimony which I have is greater than that of John, for the works which the Father gave me to accomplish, the very works that I do, testify about me, that the Father has sent me. 37.The Father himself, who sent me, has testified about me. You have neither heard his voice at any time, nor seen his form. 38.You don't have his word living in you; because you don't believe him whom he sent.
39."You search the Scriptures, because you think that in them you have eternal life; and these are they which testify about me. 40.Yet you will not come to me, that you may have life. 41.I don't receive glory from men. 42.But I know you, that you don't have God's love in yourselves. 43.I have come in my Father's name, and you don't receive me. If another comes in his own name, you will receive him. 44.How can you believe, who receive glory from one another, and you don't seek the glory that comes from the only God?
45."Don't think that I will accuse you to the Father. There is one who accuses you, even Moses, on whom you have set your hope. 46.For if you believed Moses, you would believe me; for he wrote about me. 47.But if you don't believe his writings, how will you believe my words?"