August 2017 – Page 5 – A Walk Through The Word

August 5, 2017

The Daily Audio Bible Reading for Saturday August 5, 2017 (NIV)

Ezra 1-2

Cyrus Allows the Jews to Return from Babylon^(A)

1 The promise Yahweh had spoken through Jeremiah was about to come true in Cyrus’ first year as king of Persia. Yahweh inspired the king to make this announcement throughout his whole kingdom and then to put it in writing.

²This is what King Cyrus of Persia says: Yahweh Elohim of heaven has given me all the kingdoms of the world. Then he ordered me to build a temple for him in Jerusalem (which is in Judah). ³May Elohim be with all of you who are his people. You may go to Jerusalem (which is in Judah) and build a temple for Yahweh Elohim of Israel. He is the Elohim who is in Jerusalem. ⁴All who choose to remain behind, wherever they may be living, should provide the people who are leaving with silver, gold, supplies, livestock, and freewill offerings to be used in Elohim’s temple in Jerusalem.

Sheshbazzar Returns with the Temple Furnishings

⁵Then the heads of the families of Judah and Benjamin, the priests, and the Levites—everyone Elohim had inspired—came forward to rebuild Yahweh’s temple in Jerusalem. ⁶All their neighbors who were remaining behind provided them with articles made from silver and gold, supplies, livestock, and valuable gifts besides everything that was freely offered. ⁷King Cyrus brought out the utensils belonging to Yahweh’s temple. Nebuchadnezzar had taken these utensils from Jerusalem and put them in the temple of his own god. ⁸King Cyrus of Persia put the treasurer Mithredath in charge of bringing them out. So Mithredath made a list of them for Prince Sheshbazzar of Judah.^[a] ⁹This is the inventory:

gold dishes^[b]	30
silver dishes	1,000
knives^[c]	29
¹⁰gold bowls	30
other silver bowls	410
other utensils	1,000

¹¹The gold and silver utensils totaled 5,400.

Sheshbazzar took all these utensils with him when the exiles left Babylon to go to Jerusalem.

Those Who Returned with Zerubbabel^(B)

2 These were the people in the province. They were the ones who left the place where the exiles had been taken captive. (King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon had taken them to Babylon.) These exiles returned to Jerusalem and Judah. All of them went to their own cities. ²They went with Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, Seraiah, Reelaiah, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispar, Bigvai, Rehum, and Baanah.

Families Listed by Ancestor^(C)

This is the number of Israelite men from the people in exile:

³the descendants of Parosh	2,172
⁴of Shephatiah	372
⁵of Arah	775
⁶of Pahath Moab, that is, of Jeshua and Joab	2,812
⁷of Elam	1,254
⁸of Zattu	945
⁹of Zaccai	760
¹⁰of Bani	642
¹¹of Bebai	623
¹²of Azgad	1,222
¹³of Adonikam	666
¹⁴of Bigvai	2,056
¹⁵of Adin	454
¹⁶of Ater, that is, Hezekiah	98
¹⁷of Bezai	323
¹⁸of Jorah	112
¹⁹of Hashum	223
²⁰of Gibbar	95

Families Listed by Cities^(D)

²¹The people of Bethlehem	123
²²of Netophah	56
²³of Anathoth	128
²⁴of Azmaveth	42
²⁵of Kiriath Jearim, Chephirah, and Beeroth	743
²⁶of Ramah and Geba	621
²⁷of Michmas	122
²⁸of Bethel and Ai	223
²⁹of Nebo	52
³⁰of Magbish	156
³¹of the other Elam	1,254
³²of Harim	320
³³of Lod, Hadid, and Ono	725
³⁴of Jericho	345
³⁵of Senaah	3,630

Priests^(E)

³⁶These priests returned from exile:

the descendants of Jedaiah (through the family of Jeshua)	973
³⁷of Immer	1,052
³⁸of Pashhur	1,247
³⁹of Harim	1,017

Levites^(F)

⁴⁰These Levites returned from exile:

the descendants of Jeshua and Kadmiel, that is, of Hodaviah

⁴¹These singers returned from exile:

the descendants of Asaph

128

⁴²These gatekeepers returned from exile:

the descendants of Shallum, Ater, Talmon, Akkub, Hatita, and Shobai

139

Temple Servants^(G)

⁴³These temple servants returned from exile: the descendants of Ziha, Hasupha, Tabbaoth, ⁴⁴Keros, Siaha, Padon, ⁴⁵Lebanah, Hagabah, Akkub, ⁴⁶Hagab, Shalmai, Hanan, ⁴⁷Giddel, Gahar, Reaiah, ⁴⁸Rezin, Nekoda, Gazzam, ⁴⁹Uzza, Paseah, Besai, ⁵⁰Asnah, Meunim, Nephusim, ⁵¹Bakbuk, Hakupha, Harhur, ⁵²Bazluth, Mehida, Harsha, ⁵³Barkos, Sisera, Temah, ⁵⁴Neziah, and Hatipha.

Descendants of Solomon’s Servants^(H)

⁵⁵These descendants of Solomon’s servants returned from exile: the descendants of Sotai, Hassophereth, Peruda, ⁵⁶Jaalah, Darkon, Giddel, ⁵⁷Shephatiah, Hattil, Pochereth Hazzebaim, and Ami.

⁵⁸The temple servants and the descendants of Solomon’s servants totaled 392.

Those of Unknown Origin^(I)

⁵⁹The following people came from Tel Melah, Tel Harsha, Cherub, Addan, and Immer, but they couldn’t prove they were Israelites on the basis of their father’s family or their genealogy: ⁶⁰the descendants of Delaiah, Tobiah, and Nekoda. These people totaled 652.

⁶¹These descendants of the priests couldn’t prove their families were Israelites: the descendants of Hobaiah, Hakkoz, and Barzillai (who had married one of the daughters of Barzillai from Gilead and took that family name). ⁶²These people searched for their family names in the genealogical records, but their names couldn’t be found there. For this reason they were considered contaminated and couldn’t be priests. ⁶³The governor told them not to eat any of the most holy food until a priest could use the Urim and Thummim^[d] to settle the problem.

The Total of the People and Animals Returning from Exile^(J)

⁶⁴The whole assembly totaled 42,360. ⁶⁵In addition to the male and female servants who numbered 7,337, they also had 200 male and female singers. ⁶⁶They had 736 horses, 245 mules, ⁶⁷435 camels, and 6,720 donkeys.

Gifts Given for the Temple^(K)

⁶⁸When some of the heads of the families came to Yahweh’s temple in Jerusalem, they contributed freewill offerings to help rebuild Elohim’s temple on its former site. ⁶⁹They contributed as much as they could to the treasury for this work: 1,030 pounds of gold, 5,740 pounds of silver, and 100 robes for the priests.

⁷⁰The priests, the Levites, some of the people, the singers, the gatekeepers, and the temple servants settled in their own cities. All the other Israelites settled in their own cities.

Footnotes:

Ezra 1:8 Or “for Sheshbazzar, the leader of Judah.”
Ezra 1:9 Hebrew meaning of this word uncertain.
Ezra 1:9 Hebrew meaning of this word uncertain.
Ezra 2:63 The Urim and Thummim were used by the chief priest to determine God’s answer to questions.

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1 Corinthians 1:18-2:5

¹⁸The message about the cross is nonsense to those who are being destroyed, but it is God’s power to us who are being saved. ¹⁹Scripture says,

“I will destroy the wisdom of the wise.
I will reject the intelligence of intelligent people.”

²⁰Where is the wise person? Where is the scholar? Where is the persuasive speaker of our time? Hasn’t God turned the wisdom of the world into nonsense? ²¹The world with its wisdom was unable to recognize God in terms of his own wisdom. So God decided to use the nonsense of the Good News we speak to save those who believe. ²²Jews ask for miraculous signs, and Greeks look for wisdom, ²³but our message is that Christ was crucified. This offends Jewish people and makes no sense to people who are not Jewish. ²⁴But to those Jews and Greeks who are called, he is Christ, God’s power and God’s wisdom. ²⁵God’s nonsense is wiser than human wisdom, and God’s weakness is stronger than human strength.

²⁶Brothers and sisters, consider what you were when God called you to be Christians. Not many of you were wise from a human point of view. You were not in powerful positions or in the upper social classes. ²⁷But God chose what the world considers nonsense to put wise people to shame. God chose what the world considers weak to put what is strong to shame. ²⁸God chose what the world considers ordinary and what it despises—what it considers to be nothing—in order to destroy what it considers to be something. ²⁹As a result, no one can brag in God’s presence. ³⁰You are partners with Christ Yeshua because of God. Yeshua has become our wisdom sent from God, our approval, our holiness, and our ransom from sin. ³¹As Scripture says, “Whoever brags must brag about what the Lord has done.”

2 Brothers and sisters, when I came to you, I didn’t speak about God’s mystery^[a] as if it were some kind of brilliant message or wisdom. ²While I was with you, I decided to deal with only one subject—Yeshua Christ, who was crucified. ³When I came to you, I was weak. I was afraid and very nervous. ⁴I didn’t speak my message with persuasive intellectual arguments. I spoke my message with a show of spiritual power ⁵so that your faith would not be based on human wisdom but on God’s power.

Footnotes:

1 Corinthians 2:1 Some manuscripts and translations read “testimony.”

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Psalm 27:7-14

⁷Hear, O Yahweh, when I cry aloud.
Have pity on me, and answer me.
⁸When you said,
“Seek my face,”
my heart said to you,
“O Yahweh, I will seek your face.”^[a]
⁹Do not hide your face from me.
Do not angrily turn me away.
You have been my help.
Do not leave me!
Do not abandon me, O Elohim, my savior!
¹⁰Even if my father and mother abandon me,
Yahweh will take care of me.
¹¹Teach me your way, O Yahweh.
Lead me on a level path
because I have enemies who spy on me.
¹²Do not surrender me to the will of my opponents.
False witnesses have risen against me.
They breathe out violence.
¹³I believe that I will see the goodness of Yahweh
in this world of the living.

¹⁴Wait with hope for Yahweh.
Be strong, and let your heart be courageous.
Yes, wait with hope for Yahweh.

Footnotes:

Psalm 27:8 Hebrew meaning uncertain; Greek “My heart said to you, ‘I have sought your face. O Yahweh, I will seek your face.’”

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Proverbs 20:22-23

²²Do not say, “I’ll get even with you!”
Wait for Yahweh, and he will save you.
²³A double standard of weights is disgusting to Yahweh,
and dishonest scales are no good.

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August 5, 2017

The Daily Audio Bible Reading for Saturday August 5, 2017 (NIV)

Ezra 1-2

Cyrus Allows the Jews to Return from Babylon^(A)

Sheshbazzar Returns with the Temple Furnishings

gold dishes^[b]	30
silver dishes	1,000
knives^[c]	29
¹⁰gold bowls	30
other silver bowls	410
other utensils	1,000

¹¹The gold and silver utensils totaled 5,400.

Sheshbazzar took all these utensils with him when the exiles left Babylon to go to Jerusalem.

Those Who Returned with Zerubbabel^(B)

Families Listed by Ancestor^(C)

This is the number of Israelite men from the people in exile:

³the descendants of Parosh	2,172
⁴of Shephatiah	372
⁵of Arah	775
⁶of Pahath Moab, that is, of Jeshua and Joab	2,812
⁷of Elam	1,254
⁸of Zattu	945
⁹of Zaccai	760
¹⁰of Bani	642
¹¹of Bebai	623
¹²of Azgad	1,222
¹³of Adonikam	666
¹⁴of Bigvai	2,056
¹⁵of Adin	454
¹⁶of Ater, that is, Hezekiah	98
¹⁷of Bezai	323
¹⁸of Jorah	112
¹⁹of Hashum	223
²⁰of Gibbar	95

Families Listed by Cities^(D)

²¹The people of Bethlehem	123
²²of Netophah	56
²³of Anathoth	128
²⁴of Azmaveth	42
²⁵of Kiriath Jearim, Chephirah, and Beeroth	743
²⁶of Ramah and Geba	621
²⁷of Michmas	122
²⁸of Bethel and Ai	223
²⁹of Nebo	52
³⁰of Magbish	156
³¹of the other Elam	1,254
³²of Harim	320
³³of Lod, Hadid, and Ono	725
³⁴of Jericho	345
³⁵of Senaah	3,630

Priests^(E)

³⁶These priests returned from exile:

the descendants of Jedaiah (through the family of Jeshua)	973
³⁷of Immer	1,052
³⁸of Pashhur	1,247
³⁹of Harim	1,017

Levites^(F)

⁴⁰These Levites returned from exile:

the descendants of Jeshua and Kadmiel, that is, of Hodaviah

⁴¹These singers returned from exile:

the descendants of Asaph

128

⁴²These gatekeepers returned from exile:

the descendants of Shallum, Ater, Talmon, Akkub, Hatita, and Shobai

139

Temple Servants^(G)

Descendants of Solomon’s Servants^(H)

⁵⁸The temple servants and the descendants of Solomon’s servants totaled 392.

Those of Unknown Origin^(I)

The Total of the People and Animals Returning from Exile^(J)

Gifts Given for the Temple^(K)

⁷⁰The priests, the Levites, some of the people, the singers, the gatekeepers, and the temple servants settled in their own cities. All the other Israelites settled in their own cities.

Footnotes:

Ezra 1:8 Or “for Sheshbazzar, the leader of Judah.”
Ezra 1:9 Hebrew meaning of this word uncertain.
Ezra 1:9 Hebrew meaning of this word uncertain.
Ezra 2:63 The Urim and Thummim were used by the chief priest to determine God’s answer to questions.

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1 Corinthians 1:18-2:5

¹⁸The message about the cross is nonsense to those who are being destroyed, but it is God’s power to us who are being saved. ¹⁹Scripture says,

“I will destroy the wisdom of the wise.
I will reject the intelligence of intelligent people.”

Footnotes:

1 Corinthians 2:1 Some manuscripts and translations read “testimony.”

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Psalm 27:7-14

¹⁴Wait with hope for Yahweh.
Be strong, and let your heart be courageous.
Yes, wait with hope for Yahweh.

Footnotes:

Psalm 27:8 Hebrew meaning uncertain; Greek “My heart said to you, ‘I have sought your face. O Yahweh, I will seek your face.’”

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Proverbs 20:22-23

²²Do not say, “I’ll get even with you!”
Wait for Yahweh, and he will save you.
²³A double standard of weights is disgusting to Yahweh,
and dishonest scales are no good.

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August 4, 2017

The Daily Audio Bible Reading for Friday August 4, 2017 (NIV)

2 Chronicles 35-36

King Josiah Celebrates the Passover^(A)

35 Josiah celebrated the Passover for Yahweh in Jerusalem. The Passover lamb was slaughtered on the fourteenth day of the first month. ²Josiah appointed the priests to their duties and encouraged them to serve in Yahweh’s temple. ³He told the Levites, who instructed all Israel and performed ceremonies to make themselves holy to Yahweh, “Put the holy ark in the temple that Solomon, son of David and king of Israel, built. It shouldn’t be carried on your shoulders any longer. Serve Yahweh your Elohim and his people Israel. ⁴Get yourselves ready with the family groups of your divisions, which are listed in the records of King David of Israel and the records of his son Solomon. ⁵Stand in the holy place representing the family divisions of your relatives, the people of Israel. Let the Levites be considered a part of each family.^[a] ⁶Slaughter the Passover lamb, perform the ceremonies to make yourselves holy, and prepare the lambs for the other Israelites as Yahweh instructed us through Moses.”

⁷Josiah provided the people with 33,000 sheep and goats to be sacrificed as Passover offerings for all who were present. In addition, he provided 3,000 bulls. (These animals were the king’s property.) ⁸His officials also voluntarily gave animals to the people, priests, and Levites. Hilkiah, Zechariah, and Jehiel, the men in charge of Elohim’s temple, gave the priests 2,600 sheep and goats and 300 bulls for Passover sacrifices. ⁹Conaniah and his brothers Shemaiah and Nethanel, and Hashabiah, Jeiel, and Jozabad, the leaders of the Levites, gave the Levites 5,000 sheep and goats and 500 bulls as Passover sacrifices.

¹⁰So the service was prepared. The priests took their positions with the Levites according to their divisions, as the king had ordered. ¹¹They slaughtered the Passover lambs. The priests sprinkled the blood with their hands while the Levites skinned the lambs. ¹²They set aside the burnt offerings to give them to the laypeople according to their family divisions. The laypeople could then present them to Yahweh as written in the Book of Moses. The Levites did the same with the bulls. ¹³They roasted the Passover lambs according to the directions. They boiled the holy offerings in pots, kettles, and pans and immediately served them to all the people. ¹⁴Later, they prepared the animals for themselves and for the priests because the priests (Aaron’s descendants) were sacrificing the burnt offerings and the fat until that evening.

So the Levites prepared the animals for themselves and the priests. ¹⁵The singers (Asaph’s descendants) were in their places as David, Asaph, Heman, and the king’s seer^[b] Jeduthun had commanded. The gatekeepers were stationed at each gate. They didn’t need to leave their work, because their relatives, the Levites, prepared animals for them.

¹⁶So everything was arranged that day for the worship of Yahweh. The Passover was celebrated, and the burnt offerings were sacrificed on Yahweh’s altar as King Josiah had commanded. ¹⁷The Israelites who were present celebrated the Passover at that time. They also celebrated the Festival of Unleavened Bread for seven days.

¹⁸Never had a Passover like this been celebrated in Israel during the time of the prophet Samuel or the kings of Israel. They did not celebrate the Passover as Josiah celebrated it with priests, Levites, all of Judah, the people of Israel who could be found, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem. ¹⁹In the eighteenth year of Josiah’s reign, this Passover was celebrated.

Josiah’s Sin Leads to His Death^(B)

²⁰After all this, when Josiah had repaired the temple, King Neco of Egypt came to fight a battle at Carchemish at the Euphrates River. Josiah went to attack him. ²¹But Neco sent messengers to Josiah to say, “What’s your quarrel with me, king of Judah? I’m not attacking you. I’ve come to fight those who are at war with me. Elohim told me to hurry. Elohim is with me, so stop now or else he will destroy you.”

²²But Josiah would not stop his attack. He disguised himself as he went into battle. He refused to listen to Neco’s words, which came from Elohim, and he went to fight in the valley of Megiddo.

²³Some archers shot King Josiah. The king told his officers, “Take me away because I’m badly wounded.”

²⁴His officers took him out of the chariot and brought him to Jerusalem in his other chariot. He died and was buried in the tombs of his ancestors. All Judah and Jerusalem mourned for Josiah. ²⁵Jeremiah sang a funeral song about Josiah. All the male and female singers still sing funeral songs about Josiah today. This became a tradition in Israel. They are written in the Book of the Funeral Songs.

²⁶Everything else about Josiah—including his devotion to God by following what is written in Yahweh’s Teachings ²⁷and his acts from first to last—are written in the records of the kings of Israel and Judah.

King Jehoahaz of Judah^(C)

36 Then people of the land took Josiah’s son Jehoahaz and made him king in Jerusalem in place of his father. ²Jehoahaz was 23 years old when he became king, and he was king in Jerusalem for 3 months. ³The king of Egypt removed him from office in Jerusalem and fined the country 7,500 pounds of silver and 75 pounds of gold. ⁴The king of Egypt made Jehoahaz’s brother Eliakim king of Judah and Jerusalem and changed Eliakim’s name to Jehoiakim. Neco took Jehoahaz away to Egypt.

King Jehoiakim of Judah^(D)

⁵Jehoiakim was 25 years old when he began to rule, and he ruled for 11 years in Jerusalem. He did what Yahweh his Elohim considered evil. ⁶King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon attacked Jehoiakim and put him in bronze shackles to take him to Babylon. ⁷Nebuchadnezzar also brought some of the utensils of Yahweh’s temple to Babylon. He put them in his palace in Babylon.

⁸Everything else about Jehoiakim—the disgusting things he did and all the charges against him—is written in the Book of the Kings of Israel and Judah. His son Jehoiakin succeeded him as king.

King Jehoiakin of Judah^(E)

⁹Jehoiakin was eight years old when he began to rule as king. He was king for three months and ten days in Jerusalem. He did what Yahweh considered evil.

¹⁰In the spring King Nebuchadnezzar sent for Jehoiakin and brought him to Babylon with the valuable utensils from Yahweh’s temple. Nebuchadnezzar made Jehoiakin’s uncle Zedekiah king of Judah and Jerusalem.

King Zedekiah of Judah^(F)

¹¹Zedekiah was 21 years old when he began to rule, and he ruled for 11 years in Jerusalem. ¹²He did what Yahweh his Elohim considered evil and didn’t humble himself in front of the prophet Jeremiah, who spoke for Yahweh. ¹³Zedekiah also rebelled against King Nebuchadnezzar. Nebuchadnezzar had made Zedekiah swear an oath of allegiance to him in Elohim’s name. But Zedekiah became so stubborn and so impossible to deal with that he refused to turn back to Yahweh Elohim of Israel.

¹⁴All the officials, the priests, and the people became increasingly unfaithful and followed all the disgusting practices of the nations. Although Yahweh had made the temple in Jerusalem holy, they made the temple unclean.^[c] ¹⁵Yahweh Elohim of their ancestors repeatedly sent messages through his messengers because he wanted to spare his people and his dwelling place. ¹⁶But they mocked Elohim’s messengers, despised his words, and made fun of his prophets until Yahweh became angry with his people. He could no longer heal them.

¹⁷So he had the Babylonian king attack them and execute their best young men in their holy temple. He didn’t spare the best men or the unmarried women, the old people or the sick people. Yahweh handed all of them over to him. ¹⁸He brought to Babylon each of the utensils from Elohim’s temple, the treasures from Yahweh’s temple, and the treasures of the king and his officials. ¹⁹They burned Elohim’s temple, tore down Jerusalem’s walls, burned down all its palaces, and destroyed everything of value. ²⁰The king of Babylon took those who weren’t executed to Babylon to be slaves for him and his sons. They remained captives until the Persian Empire began to rule. ²¹This happened so that Yahweh’s words spoken through Jeremiah would be fulfilled. The land had its years of rest and was made acceptable again. While it lay in ruins, the land had its 70 years of rest.

King Cyrus Allows the Jews to Return from Babylon^(G)

²²The promise Yahweh had spoken through Jeremiah was about to come true in Cyrus’ first year as king of Persia. Yahweh inspired the king to make this announcement throughout his whole kingdom and then to put it in writing.

²³This is what King Cyrus of Persia says: Yahweh Elohim of heaven has given me all the kingdoms of the world. And he has ordered me to build a temple for him in Jerusalem (which is in Judah). May Yahweh Elohim be with all of you who are his people. You may go.

Footnotes:

2 Chronicles 35:5 Hebrew meaning of this sentence uncertain.
2 Chronicles 35:15 A seer is a prophet.
2 Chronicles 36:14 “Unclean” refers to anything that Moses’ Teachings say is not presentable to God.

Cross references:

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1 Corinthians 1:1-17

Greeting

1 From Paul, called to be an apostle of Christ Yeshua by the will of God, and from Sosthenes, our brother in the Christian faith.

²To God’s church that was made holy by Christ Yeshua and called to be God’s holy people in the city of Corinth and to people everywhere who call on the name of our Lord Yeshua Christ.

³Good will^[a] and peace from God our Father and the Lord Yeshua Christ are yours!

⁴I always thank God for you because Christ Yeshua has shown you God’s good will. ⁵Through Christ Yeshua you have become rich in every way—in speech and knowledge of every kind. ⁶Our message about Christ has been verified among you. ⁷Therefore, you don’t lack any gift as you wait eagerly for our Lord Yeshua Christ to be revealed. ⁸He will continue to give you strength until the end so that no one can accuse you of anything on the day of our Lord Yeshua Christ. ⁹God faithfully keeps his promises. He called you to be partners with his Son Yeshua Christ our Lord.

God’s Wisdom Is Better Than the World’s Wisdom

¹⁰Brothers and sisters, I encourage all of you in the name of our Lord Yeshua Christ to agree with each other and not to split into opposing groups. I want you to be united in your understanding and opinions. ¹¹Brothers and sisters, some people from Chloe’s family have made it clear to me that you are quarreling among yourselves. ¹²This is what I mean: Each of you is saying, “I follow Paul,” or “I follow Apollos,” or “I follow Cephas,”^[b] or “I follow Christ.” ¹³Has Christ been divided? Was Paul crucified for you? Were you baptized in Paul’s name? ¹⁴I thank God that^[c] I didn’t baptize any of you except Crispus and Gaius ¹⁵so that no one can say you were baptized in my name. ¹⁶I also baptized Stephanas and his family. Beyond that, I’m not sure whether I baptized anyone else. ¹⁷Christ didn’t send me to baptize. Instead, he sent me to spread the Good News. I didn’t use intellectual arguments. That would have made the cross of Christ lose its meaning.

Footnotes:

1 Corinthians 1:3 Or “Grace.”
1 Corinthians 1:12 Cephas is the Aramaic name for the Apostle Peter.
1 Corinthians 1:14 A few of the older manuscripts read “I am thankful that.”

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Psalm 27:1-6

Psalm 27

By David.

¹Yahweh is my light and my salvation.
Who is there to fear?
Yahweh is my life’s fortress.
Who is there to be afraid of?

²Evildoers closed in on me to tear me to pieces.
My opponents and enemies stumbled and fell.
³Even though an army sets up camp against me,
my heart will not be afraid.
Even though a war breaks out against me,
I will still have confidence in the Lord.

⁴I have asked one thing from Yahweh.
This I will seek:
to remain in Yahweh’s house all the days of my life
in order to gaze at Yahweh’s beauty
and to search for an answer in his temple.
⁵He hides me in his shelter when there is trouble.
He keeps me hidden in his tent.
He sets me high on a rock.
⁶Now my head will be raised above my enemies who surround me.
I will offer sacrifices with shouts of joy in his tent.
I will sing and make music to praise Yahweh.

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Proverbs 20:20-21

²⁰The lamp of the person who curses his father and mother
will be snuffed out in total darkness.^[a]
²¹An inheritance quickly obtained in the beginning
will never be blessed in the end.

Footnotes:

Proverbs 20:20 Or “snuffed out as darkness approaches.”

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August 4, 2017

The Daily Audio Bible Reading for Friday August 4, 2017 (NIV)

2 Chronicles 35-36

King Josiah Celebrates the Passover^(A)

Josiah’s Sin Leads to His Death^(B)

²³Some archers shot King Josiah. The king told his officers, “Take me away because I’m badly wounded.”

King Jehoahaz of Judah^(C)

King Jehoiakim of Judah^(D)

⁸Everything else about Jehoiakim—the disgusting things he did and all the charges against him—is written in the Book of the Kings of Israel and Judah. His son Jehoiakin succeeded him as king.

King Jehoiakin of Judah^(E)

⁹Jehoiakin was eight years old when he began to rule as king. He was king for three months and ten days in Jerusalem. He did what Yahweh considered evil.

King Zedekiah of Judah^(F)

King Cyrus Allows the Jews to Return from Babylon^(G)

Footnotes:

2 Chronicles 35:5 Hebrew meaning of this sentence uncertain.
2 Chronicles 35:15 A seer is a prophet.
2 Chronicles 36:14 “Unclean” refers to anything that Moses’ Teachings say is not presentable to God.

Cross references:

Names of God Bible (NOG)

1 Corinthians 1:1-17

Greeting

1 From Paul, called to be an apostle of Christ Yeshua by the will of God, and from Sosthenes, our brother in the Christian faith.

³Good will^[a] and peace from God our Father and the Lord Yeshua Christ are yours!

God’s Wisdom Is Better Than the World’s Wisdom

Footnotes:

1 Corinthians 1:3 Or “Grace.”
1 Corinthians 1:12 Cephas is the Aramaic name for the Apostle Peter.
1 Corinthians 1:14 A few of the older manuscripts read “I am thankful that.”

Names of God Bible (NOG)

Psalm 27:1-6

Psalm 27

By David.

¹Yahweh is my light and my salvation.
Who is there to fear?
Yahweh is my life’s fortress.
Who is there to be afraid of?

Names of God Bible (NOG)

Proverbs 20:20-21

²⁰The lamp of the person who curses his father and mother
will be snuffed out in total darkness.^[a]
²¹An inheritance quickly obtained in the beginning
will never be blessed in the end.

Footnotes:

Proverbs 20:20 Or “snuffed out as darkness approaches.”

Names of God Bible (NOG)

August 3, 2017

The Daily Audio Bible Reading for Thursday August 3, 2017 (NIV)

2 Chronicles 33:14-34:33

¹⁴After this, Manasseh rebuilt the outer wall of the City of David from west of Gihon Spring in the valley to the entrance of Fish Gate. He made the wall go around the Ophel, and he built it very high. He put army commanders in every fortified city in Judah.

¹⁵Manasseh got rid of the foreign gods and the idol in Yahweh’s temple. He got rid of the altars he had built in the temple on Yahweh’s mountain and in Jerusalem. ¹⁶He built Yahweh’s altar and sacrificed fellowship offerings and thank offerings on it. And he told Judah to serve Yahweh Elohim of Israel. ¹⁷The people continued to sacrifice at the illegal places of worship, but they sacrificed only to Yahweh their Elohim.

¹⁸Everything else about Manasseh—including his prayer to his Elohim and the words that the seers^[a] spoke to him in the name of Yahweh Elohim of Israel—are in the records of the kings of Israel. ¹⁹His prayer and how Elohim accepted it are written in the records of Hozai. The things he did before he humbled himself are also written there. This includes all his sins and unfaithfulness and the places where he built illegal worship sites and set up idols and poles dedicated to the goddess Asherah.

²⁰Manasseh lay down in death with his ancestors. They buried him in his own palace. His son Amon succeeded him as king.

King Amon of Judah^(A)

²¹Amon was 22 years old when he began to rule, and he ruled for 2 years in Jerusalem. ²²He did what Yahweh considered evil, as his father Manasseh had done. Amon sacrificed to all the idols his father Manasseh had made, and he worshiped them. ²³He didn’t humble himself in front of Yahweh as his father Manasseh had humbled himself. Instead, Amon continued to sin.

²⁴His officials plotted against him and killed him in his palace. ²⁵Then the people of the land killed everyone who had plotted against King Amon. They made his son Josiah king in his place.

King Josiah Reforms Judah’s Worship^(B)

34 Josiah was 8 years old when he began to rule, and he was king for 31 years in Jerusalem. ²He did what Yahweh considered right. He lived in the ways of his ancestor David and never stopped living this way.

³In the eighth year of his reign, while he was still a boy, he began to dedicate his life to serving the Elohim of his ancestor David. In his twelfth year as king, he began to make Judah and Jerusalem clean^[b] by destroying the illegal places of worship, poles dedicated to the goddess Asherah, carved idols, and metal idols. ⁴He had the altars of the various Baal gods torn down. He cut down the incense altars that were above them. He destroyed the Asherah poles, carved idols, and metal idols. He ground them into powder and scattered the powder over the tombs of those who had sacrificed to them. ⁵He burned the bones of the priests on their altars. So he made Judah and Jerusalem clean. ⁶In the cities of Manasseh, Ephraim, Simeon, and as far as Naphtali, he removed all their temples,^[c] ⁷tore down the altars, beat the Asherah poles and idols into powder, and cut down all the incense altars everywhere in Israel. Then he went back to Jerusalem.

King Josiah Rededicates Judah to God’s Promise^(C)

⁸In the eighteenth year of his reign as he was making the land and the temple clean, Josiah sent Shaphan, son of Azaliah, Maaseiah, the mayor of the city, and Joah, the royal historian and son of Joahaz, to repair the temple of Yahweh his Elohim. ⁹They came to the chief priest Hilkiah and gave him the money that had been brought to Elohim’s temple, the money that the Levite doorkeepers had collected from the tribes of Manasseh and Ephraim, from all who were left in Israel, from everyone in the tribes of Judah and Benjamin, and from the inhabitants of Jerusalem. ¹⁰They gave the money to the foremen who were in charge of Yahweh’s temple. These foremen gave it to the workmen who were restoring and repairing the temple. ¹¹(These workers included carpenters and builders.) They were to buy quarried stones and wood for the fittings and beams of the buildings that the kings of Judah had allowed to become run-down. ¹²The men did their work faithfully under the supervision of Jahath and Obadiah (Levites descended from Merari), and Zechariah and Meshullam (descendants of Kohath). The Levites, who were skilled musicians, ¹³also supervised the workers and directed all the workmen on the various jobs. Some of the Levites served as scribes, officials, or gatekeepers.

¹⁴When they brought out the money that had been deposited in Yahweh’s temple, the priest Hilkiah found the Book of Yahweh’s Teachings written by Moses. ¹⁵Hilkiah told the scribe Shaphan, “I have found the Book of the Teachings in Yahweh’s temple.” Hilkiah gave the book to Shaphan.

¹⁶Shaphan took the book to the king and reported, “We are doing everything you told us to do. ¹⁷We took the money that was donated in Yahweh’s temple and gave it to the supervisors and the workmen.” ¹⁸Then the scribe Shaphan told the king, “The priest Hilkiah has given me a book.” And Shaphan read it to the king.

¹⁹When the king heard what the Teachings said, he tore his clothes in distress. ²⁰Then the king gave an order to Hilkiah, Ahikam (son of Shaphan), Abdon (son of Micah), the scribe Shaphan, and the royal official Asaiah. He said, ²¹“On behalf of those who are left in Israel and Judah and me, ask Yahweh about the words in this book that was found. Yahweh’s fierce anger has been poured on us because our ancestors did not obey the word of Yahweh by doing everything written in this book.”

²²So Hilkiah and the king’s officials went to talk to the prophet Huldah about this matter. She was the wife of Shallum, son of Tokhath and grandson of Hasrah. Shallum was in charge of the royal wardrobe. Huldah was living in the Second Part of Jerusalem.

²³She told them, “This is what Yahweh Elohim of Israel says: Tell the man who sent you to me, ²⁴‘This is what Yahweh says: I’m going to bring disaster on this place and on the people living here according to the curses written in the book that was read to the king of Judah. ²⁵I will do this because they have abandoned me and sacrificed to other gods in order to make me furious. Therefore, my anger will be poured on this place and will never come to an end.’”

²⁶Huldah added, “Tell Judah’s king who sent you to me to ask Yahweh a question, ‘This is what Yahweh Elohim of Israel says about the words you heard: ²⁷You had a change of heart and humbled yourself in front of Elohim when you heard my words against this place and those who live here. You humbled yourself, tore your clothes in distress, and cried in front of me. So I will listen to you, declares Yahweh. ²⁸That is why I’m going to bring you to your ancestors. I’m going to bring you to your grave in peace, and your eyes will not see any of the disaster I’m going to bring on this place and those who live here.’”

So they reported this to the king.

²⁹Then the king sent for all the respected leaders of Judah and Jerusalem to join him. ³⁰The king, everyone in Judah, everyone living in Jerusalem, the priests, the Levites, and all the people (young and old) went up to Yahweh’s temple. He read everything written in the Book of the Promise^[d] found in Yahweh’s temple so that they could hear it. ³¹The king stood in his place and made a promise to Yahweh that he would follow Yahweh and obey his commands, instructions, and laws with all his heart and soul. He said he would live by the terms of the promise written in this book. ³²He also made all those found in Jerusalem and Benjamin join with him in the promise. Then the people of Jerusalem lived according to the promise of Elohim, the Elohim of their ancestors.

³³Josiah got rid of all the disgusting idols throughout Israelite territory. He made all people found in Israel serve Yahweh their Elohim. As long as he lived, they didn’t stop following Yahweh Elohim of their ancestors.

Footnotes:

2 Chronicles 33:18 Seers are prophets.
2 Chronicles 34:3 “Clean” refers to anything that Moses’ Teachings say is presentable to God.
2 Chronicles 34:6 Hebrew meaning of “he removed all their temples” uncertain.
2 Chronicles 34:30 Or “Covenant.”

Cross references:

Names of God Bible (NOG)

Romans 16:10-27

¹⁰Greet Apelles, a true Christian.

Greet those who belong to the family of Aristobulus.

¹¹Greet Herodion, who is Jewish by birth like me.

Greet those Christians who belong to the family of Narcissus.

¹²Greet Tryphaena and Tryphosa, who have worked hard for the Lord.

Greet dear Persis, who has worked very hard for the Lord.

¹³Greet Rufus, that outstanding Christian, and his mother, who has been a mother to me too.

¹⁴Greet Asyncritus, Phlegon, Hermes, Patrobas, Hermas, and the brothers and sisters who are with them.

¹⁵Greet Philologus and Julia, Nereus, and his sister, and Olympas, and all God’s people who are with them.

¹⁶Greet each other with a holy kiss.

All the churches of Christ greet you.

¹⁷Brothers and sisters, I urge you to watch out for those people who create divisions and who make others fall away from the Christian faith by teaching doctrine that is not the same as you have learned. Stay away from them. ¹⁸People like these are not serving Christ our Lord. They are serving their own desires. By their smooth talk and flattering words they deceive unsuspecting people.

¹⁹Everyone has heard about your obedience and this makes me happy for you. I want you to do what is good and to avoid what is evil. ²⁰The God of peace will quickly crush Satan under your feet. May the good will^[a] of our Lord Yeshua be with you!

²¹Timothy my coworker greets you; so do Lucius, Jason, and Sosipater, who are Jewish by birth like me.

²²I, Tertius, who wrote this letter, send you Christian greetings.

²³Gaius greets you. He is host to me and the whole church.

Erastus, the city treasurer, greets you.

Quartus, our brother in the Christian faith, greets you.^[b]

²⁵God can strengthen you by the Good News and the message I tell about Yeshua Christ. He can strengthen you by revealing the mystery that was kept in silence for a very long time ²⁶but now is publicly known. The everlasting God ordered that what the prophets wrote must be shown to the people of every nation to bring them to the obedience that is associated with faith. ²⁷God alone is wise. Glory belongs to him through Yeshua Christ forever! Amen.

Footnotes:

Romans 16:20 Or “grace.”
Romans 16:23 Some manuscripts and translations add verse 24: “May the good will of our Lord Yeshua Christ be with all of you. Amen.”

Names of God Bible (NOG)

Psalm 26

By David.

¹Judge me favorably, O Yahweh,
because I have walked with integrity
and I have trusted you without wavering.
²Examine me, O Yahweh, and test me.
Look closely into my heart and mind.
³I see your mercy in front of me.
I walk in the light of your truth.
⁴I did not sit with liars,
and I will not be found among hypocrites.
⁵I have hated the mob of evildoers
and will not sit with wicked people.
⁶I will wash my hands in innocence.
I will walk around your altar, O Yahweh,
⁷so that I may loudly sing a hymn of thanksgiving
and tell about all your miracles.

⁸O Yahweh, I love the house where you live,
the place where your glory dwells.

⁹Do not sweep away my soul along with hardened sinners
or my life along with bloodthirsty people.
¹⁰Evil schemes are in their hands.
Their right hands are full of bribes.
¹¹But I walk with integrity.
Rescue me, and have pity on me.
¹²My feet stand on level ground.
I will praise Yahweh with the choirs in worship.

Names of God Bible (NOG)

Proverbs 20:19

¹⁹Whoever goes around as a gossip tells secrets.
Do not associate with a person whose mouth is always open.

Names of God Bible (NOG)

August 2, 2017

7/27/2017 DAB Transcript

2 Chronicles 19:1-20:37 ~ Romans 10:14-11:12 ~ Psalm 21:1-13 ~ Proverbs 20:4-6

Today is the 27th day of July. Welcome to the Daily Audio Bible. I’m Brian. It’s great to be here with you today, as we move into the back half of this week and continue the journey forward. We’ve been reading from the Gods Word translation this week. Today second Chronicles chapter 19 verse 1 through twenty verse 37.

Commentary:

OK. So, we remember after Solomon’s reign that the kingdom of Israel split into two. The northern and the southern. Right? The northern kingdom of Israel. The Southern kingdom of Judah. And, so, we went through all those kings and all of those stories and eventually the Assyrian Empire came in and defeated Samaria. And it fell, which is the capital city of the northern Kingdom. And the ten northern tribes were carried into exile and then vanished from history. During that conquest, the Assyrian Empire was trying to take the entire land. And, so, they invaded Judah and cities were falling but Jerusalem didn’t fall. And this was in the time of king Hezekiah. And there was all this intimidation going on. And Hezekiah went into the temple and prayed. And the next thing you know, the Assyrians are withdrawing. But they leave this really nasty note behind that their coming back. And Hezekiah takes this note and spreads it before the Lord in the temple and says, there is no hope basically. There is no hope but you. You are only hope. You are the only God. Come and save us. We see a very similar story take place in today’s reading during the reign of king Jehoshaphat, who is also a good king, who was also a reformer, like Hezekiah. So, Jehoshaphat hears that a horde is coming across the Dead Sea to attack Jerusalem and it’s a multinational force, it’s a coalition that’s coming. So, if you’re standing on the shore of the Dead Sea and looking across the Dead Sea - if you’re standing in modern day Israel and you look across the Dead Sea - you will be looking into the country of modern day Jordan. But in this time, in this biblical time we are reading about, if you looked across the Dead Sea, you would be looking into the country of Moab. And to the south of Moab would be the border with Edom. People from that side of the Dead Sea were coming across the Dead Sea with the staging area at Ein Gedi because this was a fresh water source in the desert. This is one of the places that David was hanging out in and hiding when he was on the run from Saul. So, this horde is on its way over and there is no hope. So, king Jehoshaphat is in the temple, like Hezekiah, praying the same kind of prayer, hear me God because there’s no way out of this. We don’t know what we’re going to do. We’re outnumbered. We have no way. Without you we have no way. And, so, the messaging that he receives prophetically is that, all you really need to do is go out and be a witness. You not going to fight anything. You just need to go out and see the salvation of your God before you. And, so, they did. And God confused the army’s. I mean, they were allies in their proposed battle with Jerusalem but they were different countries and they weren’t all on the same page and something somewhere sparked them off. And they started fighting each-other. And, so, out in the desert they destroyed each-other. And Israel simply got all of the loot from the battle.

Over and over we see these kinds of stories. These, against all odds stories. I mean, the story of Jesus is one of those stories. All throughout the bible we see these stories where there’s no way out. Right? You’re hemmed in and there’s no way-out. And you’re going to get wiped out. But then you’re not. Then God comes. And there is salvation. In all of these stories there is salvation. So, like, the story that we read today may have, like, historical value and even metaphorical value, which is what I’m doing right now with it. But underneath it all, it’s the story of salvation - that God comes to save. That’s the whole story, all along, throughout this great book that we are journeying through together. And, so, once again we have this opportunity to take a step back from our lives, just a moment, while we’re here around the global camp fire, where it’s safe and think, ok, I have been facing these kinds of circumstances. I have faced them in the past. I am facing them now we’re I don’t know what I’m going to do. I don’t know how this is going to work out. And I’m driving myself crazy trying to figure that out. Every spare synapse in my brain, even while I’m not thinking about, is processing in my subconscious - how I’m going to get out of this - when you’re not going to get out of it by yourself, likely. And, so, the bible also brings us to this place of understanding that when there is no hope, there is no hope outside of God. Because this is how we’re made. This is what we’re made to be - intertwined and connected in relationship with God. And, so, what we learn in the scriptures is that, surrender is a part of that story, letting go is a part of that story, release is a part of that story - for a couple of reasons. All of these extra brain cells that we’re burning, trying to chomp out some sort of workable plan to extract ourselves from the impossible, it may or may not work. Even if it does though, we’ll wind up right back where we started. How many times do we have to go around this mountain? Right? I mean, how many times do we have to do this circle? Surrender offers us the opportunity to rest. It’s not ours to do. And maybe we got ourselves into this mess. And maybe it’s going to take a minute to get out of this mess. But it doesn’t have to be alone, solitary, abandoned. It’s none of those things. But when we fall in our Father’s arms a whole different thing starts to go on. It’s not ours to figure out. Our Father is with us and He is more powerful than anyone or anything on this planet. King Jehoshaphat came down toward the desert to the watch tower and saw that his enemies had destroyed themselves. And they were enriched because of it, without having to do anything. Sometimes we don’t really have to do anything but be still and know that He is God and listen and do what He says. May we take that reminder today. That’s the offer of relationship with God. We can take it or leave it. It’s up to us. But may we take it.

Prayer:

So, Father, we take it. We take Your mercy and Your grace. We take Your love and Your kindness. We accept that we have no right to any of this other than that You have adopted us into Your family and made us join hands with Jesus. That’s so mind blowing. It’s hard to even get our minds to even wrap around the concept - that You have loved us so much as Your created, as Your children, that we’re all in on this. We’re all part of the same story. You have brought us into this great story of relationship with You and moving through life in this world and moving through eternity together. And, so, why we turn to such lesser things is really confusing. But we do. But we’re not right now. We’re turning to You and You alone. You are the only hope in impossible situations and in every other situation. So, come Holy Spirit, we open ourselves to you. We fall into Your mercy. We fall into Your arms and we rest. Because it’s been so stressful lately. We rest. Come Holy Spirit. Fill us again. We ask in Jesus’ name. Amen.

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August 2, 2017

7/26/2017 DAB Transcript

2 Chronicles 17:1-18:34 ~ Romans 9:25-10:13 ~ Psalm 20:1-9 ~ Proverbs 20:2-3

Today is the 26th day of July. Welcome to the Daily Audio Bible. I’m Brian. It’s good to be here with you today, taking the next step forward in the adventure through the bible this year. This week we’ve been reading from the Gods Word translation, which is what we will continue with. And we will also continue with the book of second Chronicles today chapter 17 verse 1 through 18 verse 34.

Commentary:

OK. In the book of Romans we reach a crescendo. Since we began the book of Romans Paul’s been laying out this case. Right? Going through Abraham, going through Moses, the law, faith, righteousness, and making a distinction - the distinction between having faith and simply falling on mercy and trying to be good enough for God to approve you. And, although his letter was certainly read by Gentiles and has a Gentile audience, he is coming at this from a Jewish perspective. Because, for Paul, this is a continuation of that story. And, so, he flat out says, those of my people who are devout, who are truly devoted to God, who are thinking that if they can perfect themselves by utilizing the law, if they could just obey it perfectly, they would find their way to God. Those people, their misguided. Or to quote from Romans, I can assure you that they are deeply devoted to God but they are misguided. They don’t understand how to receive God’s approval. So, they try to set up their own way to get it. And they have not accepted God’s way for receiving his approval. Jesus is the fulfillment of Moses teachings so that everyone who has faith may receive God’s approval. That’s basically the argument that he’s been making all along, which brings us to the how. And this is huge. Because it’s ok, ok, how do I get in? I want this. How does this work? And, so, for those of us who are facing outward right now and looking at the serendipity of everything that’s happening around us because we’re paying attention to what’s going on around us now, this is important. And for those of you who are checking in and listening every day, trying to figure out what the bible says, but you don’t know what you believe, this is important. Paul says this. And let these be words to you. This message is near you. It’s in your mouth and in your heart. This is the message of faith that we spread. If you declare that Jesus is Lord and believe that God brought him back to life, you will be saved. By believing you receive God’s approval. And by declaring your faith, you are saved. Scripture says, whoever believes in him will not be ashamed. So, there is no difference between Jews and Greeks. Right? Everybody can get in on this. They all have the same Lord, Who gives His riches to everyone calls on Him. So then, whoever calls on the name of the Lord will be saved. Paul has been building this case since the beginning of his letter to the Romans. You won’t find a way to earn yourself into God’s favor. You won’t be able to stand before God at some point and say I deserve to be here because I have perfected myself and there’s nothing you can say into about it. I deserve to be here. I have been righteous in my own strength. I have rid myself of sin and its nature on my own. Nobody can do that. And as a devout Pharisee, as a person who’s trained in this and who was actually trying to achieve that, Paul knew. It is unachievable. But Jesus revealed God’s heart in a human way that was so compelling and understandable that it took Paul all the way back to the beginning of his own faith at Abraham and realized, this whole thing is built on reaching and hoping beyond hope and leaping in faith and trusting. Because there is more going on than what we can simply perceive with our physical senses. There is a spiritual reality. There is more to this. And the way we get there, the way we reconnect soul and body, spirit and body - integrated together with God’s Spirit within us - the only way to get there, the bridge that crosses that chasm, is faith. We simply believe and walk across that bridge. And when we walk across that bridge, the Spirit of God comes within us and we are no longer who we were. A line of demarcation has been drawn in the sand. There was a time that we were subhuman, as animals, without God. And then there was a time that we walked across that bridge and we were who we were made to be – integrated – spirit, mind, strength, will, everything. Because the Spirit of the risen Christ is now within us we really aren’t who we used to be. That is the story of our faith. That is what brings us here together every day.

Prayer:

So, Father, we confess, You are Lord. We believe. And we realize by looking back at our own life, we have been trying to make life work. We’ve tried to use You as an add-on to make life work. We’ve turned completely away from You trying to make life work. We’ve tried everything imaginable to be full and flourishing. And we realize, just as the apostle Paul realized for his own people, that these pursuits, no matter what kind of ritual or system we try to get ourselves into that tells us it’s going to work, that it doesn’t work. And, so, we’ve come to this precipice and it’s like, it’s too easy. All I have to do is believe? And yet, that’s the invitation. And, so, we declare. We believe. And we also declare, Lord, help our unbelief. We believe. Because, although we walk across that bridge and walk into faith and there is nothing that can separate us from Your love, we can also choose not to believe at any given moment. We can regress at any given moment and go back to old patterns and old ways. And we do. So, this belief thing isn’t a one-time thing. This is an always-on thing. It’s always turned on. It must always be turned on. And, so, forgive us Lord, for the times that we go back to that bridge and start walking across to the other side of it, trying to return to some place that tells us we can make life work on our own. Forgive us for that. Because we’ve done it. We believe and we declare there is no going back. And we invite Your Holy Spirit to come and catch us when we’re beginning to shift in that direction. Awaken us. We choose to pay attention when that’s happening, when we get into certain circumstances that bring overwhelming doubt and we begin to turn, we begin to back away, we begin to ask the questions about whether or not we’re really on our own. We believe against that. We will live into what You have offered us - that death cannot separate us, that life cannot separate, us that angels cannot separate us, that demons cannot, that nothing can separate us from You. We can simply walk away. But nothing can separate us from You. So, we choose to make our own line in the sand. We’re not going back to those places anymore. We are going to believe and believe and believe and hope against hope, no matter how long it takes, until it settles in. There is no going back. We are not who we were. We are intertwined with You. Come, Holy Spirit, we pray, in Jesus’ name. Amen.

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Hello. This is John and this is my first time calling the prayer request line. I’ve been listening to Brian since 2009 and all the prayer requests since he opened up the phones to us. I guess I’m one of the many silent DAB members but today I’ve been moved to call in. In light of the suicides that have been in the news the past couple of months. I feel like ___ neighbors. I’m calling in response to Caleb from Nashville. She asked that she be delivered from depression. So, I am asking our heavenly Father to release her from the chains that hold her down. I’m asking that she have the ability to take in the joy ___. I ask that she experience the joy of helping someone. I ask that the people of Nashville and the people of DAB join me in lifting Caleb up from the depths that she is currently in. I also___ that do not know their neighbors to wave hello to them the next time you see them. And if the Lord moves you to have a conversation with them, do it. It may take some courage on your part but remember, the Lord is not going to put you some place that he doesn’t want you. The next time you watch the sun rise or set think of Caleb and pray that she and all those who suffer from depression are able to experience where you are at that moment. Let the peace of Christ be with each and every one of you.

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August 2, 2017

The Daily Audio Bible Reading for Wednesday August 2, 2017 (NIV)

2 Chronicles 32:1-33:13

God Saves Judah from the Assyrians^(A)

32 After everything Hezekiah had done so faithfully, King Sennacherib of Assyria came to invade Judah. He set up camp to attack the fortified cities. He intended to conquer them himself.

²When Hezekiah saw that Sennacherib had come to wage war against Jerusalem, ³he, his officers, and his military staff made plans to stop the water from flowing out of the springs outside the city. They helped him do it. ⁴A large crowd gathered as they stopped all the springs and the brook that flowed through the land. They said, “Why should the kings of Assyria find plenty of water?”

⁵Hezekiah worked hard. He rebuilt all the broken sections of the wall, made the towers taller, built another wall outside the city wall, strengthened the Millo^[a] in the City of David, and made plenty of weapons and shields. ⁶He appointed military commanders over the troops and gathered the commanders in the square by the city gate. He spoke these words of encouragement: ⁷“Be strong and courageous. Don’t be frightened or terrified by the king of Assyria or the crowd with him. Someone greater is on our side. ⁸The king of Assyria has human power on his side, but Yahweh our Elohim is on our side to help us and fight our battles.” So the people were encouraged by what King Hezekiah of Judah said.

⁹After this, while King Sennacherib of Assyria and all his royal forces were attacking Lachish, he sent his officers to King Hezekiah of Judah and to all of the people in Judah who were in Jerusalem to say: ¹⁰“This is what King Sennacherib of Assyria says: Why are you so confident as you live in Jerusalem while it is blockaded? ¹¹Isn’t Hezekiah misleading you and abandoning you to die from hunger and thirst when he says, ‘Yahweh our Elohim will rescue us from the king of Assyria?’ ¹²Isn’t this the same Hezekiah who got rid of Yahweh’s places of worship and altars and told Judah and Jerusalem, ‘Worship and sacrifice at one altar?’ ¹³Don’t you know what I and my predecessors have done to the people of all other countries? Were any of the gods of these other nations ever able to rescue their countries from me? ¹⁴Were the gods of these nations able to rescue their people from my control? My predecessors claimed and destroyed those nations. Is your Elohim able to rescue you from my control? ¹⁵Don’t let Hezekiah deceive you or persuade you like this. Don’t believe him. No god of any nation or kingdom could save his people from me or my ancestors. Certainly, your Elohim will not rescue you from me!”

¹⁶Sennacherib’s officers said more against Yahweh Elohim and his servant Hezekiah. ¹⁷Sennacherib wrote letters cursing Yahweh Elohim of Israel. These letters said, “As the gods of the nations in other countries couldn’t rescue their people from me, Hezekiah’s Elohim cannot rescue his people from me.” ¹⁸Sennacherib’s officers shouted loudly in the Judean language to the troops who were on the wall of Jerusalem. They tried to frighten and terrify the troops so that they could capture the city. ¹⁹They spoke about the Elohim of Jerusalem as if he were one of the gods made by human hands and worshiped by the people in other countries.

²⁰Then King Hezekiah and the prophet Isaiah, son of Amoz, prayed about this and called to heaven. ²¹Yahweh sent an angel who exterminated all the soldiers, officials, and commanders in the Assyrian king’s camp. Humiliated, Sennacherib returned to his own country. When he went into the temple of his god, some of his own sons killed him with a sword. ²²So Yahweh saved Hezekiah and the people living in Jerusalem from King Sennacherib of Assyria and from everyone else. Yahweh gave them peace with all their neighbors.

²³Many people still went to Jerusalem to bring gifts to Yahweh and expensive presents to King Hezekiah of Judah. From then on, he was considered important by all the nations.

Other Events in Hezekiah’s Life^(B)

²⁴In those days Hezekiah became sick and was about to die. He prayed to Yahweh, who answered him and gave him a miraculous sign. ²⁵But Hezekiah was conceited, so he didn’t repay Yahweh for his kindness. Yahweh became angry with him, with Judah, and with Jerusalem. ²⁶Hezekiah and the people living in Jerusalem humbled themselves when they realized they had become conceited. So Yahweh didn’t vent his anger on them during Hezekiah’s time.

²⁷Hezekiah became richer and was highly honored. He prepared storerooms for himself to hold silver, gold, precious stones, spices, shields, and all kinds of valuables. ²⁸He made sheds to store his harvests of grain, new wine, and fresh olive oil, and he made barns for all his cattle and stalls for his flocks. ²⁹He made cities for himself because he had many sheep and cattle. Elohim had given him a lot of property. ³⁰Hezekiah was the one who stopped the water from flowing from the upper outlet of Gihon. He channeled the water directly underground to the west side of the City of David. Hezekiah succeeded in everything he did.

³¹When the leaders of Babylon sent ambassadors to ask him about the miraculous sign that had happened in the land, Elohim left him. Elohim did this to test him, to find out everything that was in Hezekiah’s heart.

³²Everything else about Hezekiah, including his devotion to Elohim, is written in the vision of the prophet Isaiah, son of Amoz, and in the records of the kings of Judah and Israel. ³³Hezekiah lay down in death with his ancestors. He was buried in the upper tombs of David’s descendants. When Hezekiah died, all of Judah and the people in Jerusalem honored him. His son Manasseh succeeded him as king.

King Manasseh of Judah^(C)

33 Manasseh was 12 years old when he began to rule, and he ruled for 55 years in Jerusalem.

²He did what Yahweh considered evil by copying the disgusting things done by the nations that Yahweh had forced out of the Israelites’ way. ³He rebuilt the illegal places of worship that his father Hezekiah had torn down. He set up altars dedicated to other gods—the Baals—and made a pole dedicated to the goddess Asherah as King Ahab of Israel had done. Manasseh, like Ahab, worshiped and served the entire army of heaven. ⁴He built altars in Yahweh’s temple, where Yahweh had said, “My name will be in Jerusalem forever.” ⁵In the two courtyards of Yahweh’s temple, he built altars for the entire army of heaven. ⁶He burned his son as a sacrifice in the valley of Ben Hinnom, consulted fortunetellers, cast evil spells, practiced witchcraft, and appointed royal mediums and psychics. He did many things that made Yahweh furious. ⁷Manasseh had a carved idol made. Then he set it up in Elohim’s temple, where Elohim had said to David and his son Solomon, “I have chosen this temple and Jerusalem from all the tribes of Israel. I will put my name here forever. ⁸I will never again remove Israel from the land that I set aside for their ancestors if they will obey all the commands, all the teachings, the ordinances, and the regulations I gave through Moses.” ⁹Manasseh misled Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem so that they did more evil things than the nations that Yahweh had destroyed when the Israelites arrived in the land.

¹⁰When Yahweh spoke to Manasseh and his people, they wouldn’t even pay attention. ¹¹So Yahweh made the army commanders of the king of Assyria invade Judah. They took Manasseh captive, put a hook in his nose, put him in bronze shackles, and brought him to Babylon.

¹²When he experienced this distress, he begged Yahweh his Elohim to be kind and humbled himself in front of the Elohim of his ancestors. ¹³He prayed to Yahweh, and Yahweh accepted his prayer and listened to his request. Yahweh brought him back to his kingdom in Jerusalem. Then Manasseh knew that Yahweh is Elohim.

Footnotes:

2 Chronicles 32:5 The exact place referred to as “the Millo” is unknown.

Cross references:

Names of God Bible (NOG)

Romans 15:23-16:9

²³But now I have no new opportunities for work in this region. For many years I have wanted to visit you. ²⁴Now I am on my way to Spain, so I hope to see you when I come your way. After I have enjoyed your company for a while, I hope that you will support my trip to Spain.

²⁵Right now I’m going to Jerusalem to bring help to the Christians there. ²⁶Because the believers in Macedonia and Greece owe a debt to the Christians in Jerusalem, they have decided to take up a collection for the poor among the Christians in Jerusalem. ²⁷These Macedonians and Greeks have shared the spiritual wealth of the Christians in Jerusalem. So they are obligated to use their earthly wealth to help them.

²⁸When the collection is completed and I have officially turned the money over to the Christians in Jerusalem, I will visit you on my way to Spain. ²⁹I know that when I come to you I will bring the full blessing of Christ.

³⁰Brothers and sisters, I encourage you through our Lord Yeshua Christ and by the love that the Spirit creates, to join me in my struggle. Pray to God for me ³¹that I will be rescued from those people in Judea who refuse to believe. Pray that God’s people in Jerusalem will accept the help I bring. ³²Also pray that by the will of God I may come to you with joy and be refreshed when I am with you.

³³May the God of peace be with you all. Amen.

Farewell

16 With this letter I’m introducing Phoebe to you. She is our sister in the Christian faith and a deacon^[a] of the church in the city of Cenchrea. ²Give her a Christian welcome that shows you are God’s holy people. Provide her with anything she may need, because she has provided help to many people, including me.

³Greet Prisca and Aquila, my coworkers in the service of Christ Yeshua. ⁴They risked their lives to save me. I’m thankful to them and so are all the churches among the nations. ⁵Also greet the church that meets in their house.

Greet my dear friend Epaenetus. He was the first person in the province of Asia to become a believer in Christ.

⁶Greet Mary, who has worked very hard for you.

⁷Greet Andronicus and Junia, who are Jewish by birth like me. They are prisoners like me and are prominent among the apostles. They also were Christians before I was.

⁸Greet Ampliatus my dear friend in the service of the Lord.

⁹Greet Urbanus our coworker in the service of Christ, and my dear friend Stachys.

Footnotes:

Romans 16:1 English equivalent difficult.

Names of God Bible (NOG)

Psalm 25:16-22

¹⁶Turn to me, and have pity on me.
I am lonely and oppressed.
¹⁷Relieve my troubled heart,
and bring me out of my distress.
¹⁸Look at my misery and suffering,
and forgive all my sins.
¹⁹See how my enemies have increased in number,
how they have hated me with vicious hatred!
²⁰Protect my life, and rescue me!
Do not let me be put to shame.
I have taken refuge in you.
²¹Integrity and honesty will protect me because I wait for you.
²²Rescue Israel, O Elohim, from all its troubles!

Names of God Bible (NOG)

Proverbs 20:16-18

¹⁶Hold on to the garment of one who guarantees a stranger’s loan,
and hold responsible the person who makes a loan on behalf of a foreigner.
¹⁷Food gained dishonestly tastes sweet to a person,
but afterwards his mouth will be filled with gravel.
¹⁸Plans are confirmed by getting advice,
and with guidance one wages war.

Names of God Bible (NOG)

August 1, 2017

7/25/2017 DAB Transcript

Chronicles 14:1-16:14 ~ Romans 9:1-24 ~ Psalm 19:1-14 ~ Proverbs 20:1

Today is the 25th day of July. Welcome to the Daily Audio Bible. I am Brian. It is great to be here with you today. I just threw another log on the global camp fire. Everything is all nice and comfy. I’ve got a good, steamy cup of coffee to my left. We are ready. And we are reading from the Gods Word translation this week - second Chronicles chapter 14 verse 1 through 16 verse 14 today.

Commentary:

OK. So, Psalm 19 makes some declarations or offers some declarations that we should pay attention to because it’s outlining a posture of heart and a way of life that will work. Like, if we will embrace these things as true and then live into these things as true then we have a model that will work. The teachings of the Lord are perfect. They renew the soul. If you believe that’s true then embrace it with heart, mind, and will. The testimony of the Lord is dependable. Right? What he says is dependable. It makes even gullible people wise. The instructions of the Lord are correct. They make the heart rejoice. In other words, we don’t have to figure out everything for ourselves. We have the instruction of the Lord through His word and through the power of His Holy Spirit within us. The instructions of the Lord are correct and they will make our heart rejoice. The command of the Lord is radiant. It makes the eyes shine. The fear of the Lord is pure. It endures forever. The decisions of the Lord are true. They are completely fair. They are more desirable than gold, even the finest gold. They are sweeter than honey, even the drippings from a honeycomb. As Your servant, which is us, I am warned by them. There is a great reward in following them. Because you can notice every mistake? Forgive my hidden faults. Keep me from sinning. And notice, that’s not us saying, ok, I’m going to redouble my efforts and not sin today in my own strength. That would be the discipline that Paul was talking about when he talked about the mosaic law, saying none of us of have been able to achieve this. We can’t achieve this on our own. What the psalmist says is, keep me from sinning, which indicates surrender. I can’t do this. I surrender to you. Keep me from sinning. And, so, we find ourselves moving away from that statement. When we find ourselves moving into sin then we can see immediately that we have assumed control. We have taken it back. We have broken apart the union and intertwining with God that was offered to us through the gospel. Do not let anyone gain control over me. Right? Don’t let anyone have undue or improper influence over me, then I will be blameless and I will be free from any great offense. May the words from my mouth and the thoughts from my heart be acceptable to you, O Lord, my rock and my redeemer. May my thoughts, words, and deeds be acceptable.

It’s so beautiful, this idea of surrender. We fight against that concept so hard. We want to be individuals, freestanding entities, that have total control over our destiny and we fight this idea of surrender when the Lord is saying, like, surrender isn’t about giving up. I am trying to care for you. You have to let Me. It’s like the analogy of a drowning person in the water. So, a person who has gotten in over their head, out beyond where they can return, strength is waning, they’re freaking out. Rescuers come. And for a person who’s about to rescue a drowning person, this is the greatest moment of danger for them because a drowning person can freak out and make it difficult or even harm the person trying to rescue them. Because their thrashing and losing control, rather than doing what they should do, relax and be rescued. Safe, easy, over. This is how we are with surrender in our lives and yet the offer of the gospel and surrender is, I don’t have to figure out everything anymore. I am not on my own. I never have been nor will be. I’m not a freestanding entity that has to be all-powerful and try to make a way in the world. That’s not even what I’m doing here. I’m intertwined in union with God. That’s what I’m doing here. And it’s a great adventure. And obstacles come my way and they’re hard. Wilderness seasons come. They’re hard but they’re forming me. I have surrendered. I am not in control, which gives such freedom. It simply requires trust, total trust. I have to trust that God is within and among and around me in all things as I surrender to Him. But at some point we have to look at our lives and say, what do I have to lose? Because every other attempt at every other thing isn’t working - not leading me to peace within, the satisfaction and contentment within. I’m always running one place to another, to another, to another, to try to fill the void. But surrender means there is no void to fill. I’m filled completely. I’m where I’m supposed to be. This is the offer of the gospel and the works. May we surrender to it today.

Prayer:

So, Father, we invite you into that. We confess that we have surrendered large portions of our lives to You but not everything. And it’s always a moving target. Because there have been times when we’ve surrendered everything because we’ve had no other choice. We’ve surrendered everything and You have come through and You have been there and You’ve been trustworthy. But then we get back up on our feet and take control again because want to be in the driver’s seat. And then we kind of end up where we started. So, Holy Spirit, show us what it looks like to live a life of surrender - not of giving up but of being empowered and in union with You. Come, Holy Spirit, we pray in Jesus’ name. Amen.

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Hi. This is Greg from Minneapolis. First time caller. Listening to the Daily Audio Bible for many years. And a little bit behind but I just listened to the June 19^th podcast and I’m calling to pray for, specifically, Marco regarding your lost job and your concern about your wife. And then also, Rich, in Little Rock, with adversity you’ve been facing and the love that you desire for the Lord. Guys, I’ve just got to say that, over a 30 ____. Marco, you’ve been many times, and I don’t even have time on this call to share how many times the Lord has delivered me from those back against the Red Sea moments. But He’s there. Guys, I just pray right now. Lord, Jesus, I pray for healing in Marco. I pray for Your wholeness and shalom, Your comfort over them and their loved ones. I pray, Lord, for Your peace, that they would know that You are in control and You would give them ____ and that they would see themselves as they close their eyes being held by You, Jesus. And they would see themselves on the other side of this desert place they’re in, this adversity, because it will pass. And I pray they would see themselves holding Your hand and praising You for being with them every step of the way. ____ protection over them, Lord, that the enemy would not rattle their faith in the midst of this adversity. And I pray for wisdom, Lord, God. That they would have that wisdom, to know that these things are temporary but they build character, Lord. ____ for You to be praised. So, I just pray that this trial will result in praise and glory and honor to You, Lord, Jesus, and that You would be the hero in their story. In Your holy name, I pray. Amen.

Hi guys. How are you doing? This is John. I ask for your prayers for my marriage. After three weeks of being gone, my wife is coming home late tonight. She’s agreed to a talk. No promises. No anything. But at least that’s something. So, a bit of a praise report. ____ prayers, I know it won’t be played until whenever but I really would love this to work out for any number of reasons because I think it’s the right thing to do. Brian married us…remarried us at the Serengeti…a while back. So, I believe it’s meant to be. If it’s meant to be it’s up to me. So, I’m just begging you all…and I’m not a guy who begs…I actually do everything by myself and all that…and that’s part of the problem. In the process of taking care of myself I ____ for support. I’ve got a long way to climb back. If you can just pray for us. And it will be if it’s God’s plan to happen. Thank you so much. Thank you for being there. I pray for you all. I can’t pray like Victoria S. or write poetry like Blind Tony but ____ any of you all…I like to have aspirations. Thank you guys. I’m just praying.

If the foundation ___ then the structure will not stand the stresses and the tolerances that the storms of life demand. It’s hard to build on granite or any kind of rock, even with the proper tools or work around-the-clock ____ drilling, boring, shaping, pouring, bracing, propping up, and shoring, and lot’s more stuff that I’m ignoring. But there is one rock that’s worth exploring. Jesus is that rock. The rock on which I stand. ___ the storms of life and all that they demand. The winds may blow, the waters rise, all on earth may die. You’ll still be safe with Jesus, the rock that’s very, very high. Blindtony1016@gmail.com. ____ haven’t heard from you in a long time. And Gigi, hope you are still hanging in there. And I’d like to give a shout out to Dean S. from Kansas. Hope all is well. And once again, my love to the Hardin family for this wonderful podcast for God’s Holy Spirit to flow. Keep it flowin’ y’all.

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August 1, 2017

The Daily Audio Bible Reading for Tuesday August 1, 2017 (NIV)

2 Chronicles 30-31

Hezekiah Celebrates the Passover

30 Hezekiah sent a message to all Israel and Judah and wrote letters to the tribes of Ephraim and Manasseh. He invited them to come to Yahweh’s temple in Jerusalem to celebrate the Passover of Yahweh Elohim of Israel.

²The king, his officials, and the whole assembly in Jerusalem decided to celebrate the Passover in the second month. ³They couldn’t celebrate it at the regular time because not enough priests had performed the ceremonies to make themselves holy and the people hadn’t gathered in Jerusalem. ⁴The king and the whole assembly considered their plan to be the right thing to do. ⁵So they decided to send an announcement throughout Israel from Beersheba to Dan. They summoned everyone to come to Jerusalem to celebrate the Passover of Yahweh Elohim of Israel. These people had not celebrated it in large numbers as the written instructions said they should.

⁶Messengers took letters from the king and his officials throughout Israel and Judah. The king’s order said, “Israelites, return to Yahweh Elohim of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel. Then he will return to the few of you who escaped from the power of the kings of Assyria. ⁷Don’t be like your ancestors and your relatives who were unfaithful to Yahweh Elohim of their ancestors. He made them something that shocks people, as you have seen. ⁸Don’t be impossible to deal with like your ancestors. Reach out for Yahweh. Come to his holy place that he made holy forever. Serve Yahweh your Elohim, and he will turn his burning anger away from you. ⁹When you return to Yahweh, your relatives and children will find compassion from those who captured them. They will return to this land. Yahweh your Elohim is merciful and compassionate. He will not turn his face away from you if you return to him.”

¹⁰So the messengers went from city to city in the territories of Ephraim and Manasseh, as far as Zebulun. But the people ridiculed them. ¹¹However, some people from Asher, Manasseh, and Zebulun humbled themselves and came to Jerusalem. ¹²Also, Elohim guided the people of Judah so that they united to carry out the command which the king and the leaders gave from Yahweh’s word.

¹³Many people gathered in Jerusalem to celebrate the Festival of Unleavened Bread in the second month. They formed a large assembly.

¹⁴Then the people got rid of the idols’ altars in Jerusalem. They got rid of all the altars for incense by dumping them in the Kidron Valley.

¹⁵They slaughtered the Passover lamb on the fourteenth day of the second month. The priests and Levites were ashamed, so they performed the ceremonies to make themselves holy. Then they brought burnt offerings to Yahweh’s temple. ¹⁶They stood in their regular places as instructed by Moses’ Teachings. (Moses was a man of Elohim.) The priests sprinkled the blood they received from the Levites. ¹⁷Many people in the assembly had not made themselves holy. So the Levites had to kill the Passover lambs for all who weren’t clean^[a] and couldn’t make their lambs holy for Yahweh.

¹⁸Many people from Ephraim, Manasseh, Issachar, and Zebulun had not made themselves clean. So they ate the Passover, but not in the way the written instructions said they should. Hezekiah prayed for them: “May the good Yahweh forgive ¹⁹those who have their hearts set on dedicating their lives to serving Elohim. May Yahweh Elohim of their ancestors do this for those who are not clean as required for the holy place.” ²⁰Yahweh listened to Hezekiah and healed the people.

²¹So the Israelites in Jerusalem celebrated the Festival of Unleavened Bread for seven days with great joy. Each day the Levites and priests praised Yahweh in song. They played Yahweh’s instruments loudly. ²²Hezekiah spoke encouraging words to all the Levites who had the skills to serve Yahweh. They ate the festival meals for seven days, sacrificed fellowship offerings, and confessed their sins to Yahweh Elohim of their ancestors.

²³Then the whole assembly decided to celebrate the festival for seven more days. So they joyfully celebrated for seven more days. ²⁴King Hezekiah of Judah provided 1,000 bulls and 7,000 sheep as sacrifices for the assembly. The leaders provided 1,000 bulls and 10,000 sheep for the assembly. So a large number of priests were able to perform the ceremonies to make themselves holy.

²⁵The whole assembly from Judah, the priests, the Levites, the whole assembly from Israel, the foreigners who came from Israel, and those who lived in Judah rejoiced. ²⁶The city of Jerusalem was filled with joy. Nothing like this had happened in Jerusalem since the days of King Solomon of Israel.

²⁷Then the Levitical priests blessed the people. Their voices were heard, and their prayers went to Elohim’s holy place in heaven.

Hezekiah Reforms Judah’s Worship

31 When this was over, all the Israelites who were there went to the cities in Judah. They crushed the sacred stones, cut down the poles dedicated to the goddess Asherah, and tore down the illegal places of worship and the altars throughout Judah, Benjamin, Ephraim, and Manasseh. The Israelites destroyed all of these things. Then all the Israelites returned to their own cities. Each person went to his own property.

²Hezekiah assigned the priests and the Levites to divisions. Each priest or Levite was put in a division based on the service he performed: sacrificing burnt offerings, sacrificing fellowship offerings, serving, giving thanks, or praising within the gates of Yahweh’s camp.

³He set aside part of the king’s property for burnt offerings, the morning and evening offerings, burnt offerings on the weekly worship days, the New Moon Festivals, and the annual festivals, as it is written in Yahweh’s Teachings. ⁴He told the people living in Jerusalem to give the priests and Levites the portions they were due so that they could devote themselves to Yahweh’s Teachings. ⁵As soon as the word spread, the Israelites brought plenty of offerings from the first of their produce: grain, new wine, fresh olive oil, honey, and every crop from the fields. They brought large quantities, a tenth of everything. ⁶The people of Israel and Judah who were living in the cities of Judah brought a tenth of their cattle and sheep and a tenth of the holy things they had dedicated to Yahweh their Elohim. They piled these holy things in heaps. ⁷In the third month they started piling them up, and in the seventh month they finished. ⁸When Hezekiah and the leaders saw the heaps, they praised Yahweh and his people Israel.

⁹Hezekiah asked the priests and the Levites about the heaps. ¹⁰The chief priest Azariah from Zadok’s family said, “Since the people started to bring the offerings to Yahweh’s temple, we have had all we wanted to eat and plenty to spare. Yahweh has blessed his people, and there’s a lot left over.”

¹¹Then Hezekiah told them to prepare storerooms in Yahweh’s temple. After they had prepared them, ¹²they faithfully brought in the contributions, the offerings of one-tenth of the crops, and the gifts dedicated to God. The Levite Conaniah was in charge of these things, and his brother Shimei was his assistant. ¹³King Hezekiah and Azariah, who was in charge of Elohim’s temple, appointed Jehiel, Azaziah, Nahath, Asahel, Jerimoth, Jozabad, Eliel, Ismachiah, Mahath, and Benaiah to serve under Conaniah and his brother Shimei. ¹⁴Kore, son of Imnah the Levite, was the gatekeeper at East Gate and had to take care of the freewill offerings made to Elohim. His responsibility was to distribute the offerings made to Yahweh and the holy gifts dedicated to God. ¹⁵Eden, Miniamin, Jeshua, Shemaiah, Amariah, and Shecaniah served under him in the cities belonging to the priests. They were to distribute the offerings faithfully to all their relatives, young and old, by their divisions. ¹⁶They were appointed to distribute them to males who were at least three years old. The way they were enrolled in the genealogical records did not matter. The six men who served under Kore were to distribute the offerings to everyone who went to Yahweh’s temple to perform the daily service that each division was responsible for. ¹⁷They were to distribute offerings to the priests who were enrolled by families and to the Levites who were at least 20 years old. Distribution was based on the way they served in their divisions. ¹⁸The priests and Levites were enrolled with their wives, sons, daughters, and other people who depended on them—the whole community. The priests and Levites had to be faithful in keeping themselves holy for the holy work. ¹⁹Men were appointed to give a portion of the offerings to all the males in the priestly families and to everyone listed in the genealogies of the Levites. These men were Aaron’s descendants, priests who lived in the pasturelands of every Levite city.

²⁰This is what Hezekiah did throughout Judah. He did what was good and right and true to Yahweh his Elohim. ²¹Hezekiah incorporated Moses’ Teachings and commands into worship and dedicated his life to serving Elohim. Whatever he did for the worship in Elohim’s temple, he did wholeheartedly, and he succeeded.

Footnotes:

2 Chronicles 30:17 “Clean” refers to anything that Moses’ Teachings say is presentable to God.

Names of God Bible (NOG)

Romans 15:1-22

15 So those of us who have a strong faith must be patient with the weaknesses of those whose faith is not so strong. We must not think only of ourselves. ²We should all be concerned about our neighbor and the good things that will build his faith. ³Christ did not think only of himself. Rather, as Scripture says, “The insults of those who insult you have fallen on me.”

God Gives Us Unity

⁴Everything written long ago was written to teach us so that we would have confidence through the endurance and encouragement which the Scriptures give us. ⁵May God, who gives you this endurance and encouragement, allow you to live in harmony with each other by following the example of Christ Yeshua. ⁶Then, having the same goal, you will praise the God and Father of our Lord Yeshua Christ.

⁷Therefore, accept each other in the same way that Christ accepted you. He did this to bring glory to God. ⁸Let me explain. Christ became a servant for the Jewish people to reveal God’s truth. As a result, he fulfilled God’s promise to the ancestors of the Jewish people. ⁹People who are not Jewish praise God for his mercy as well. This is what the Scriptures say,

“That is why I will give thanks to you among the nations
and I will sing praises to your name.”

¹⁰And Scripture says again,

“You nations, be happy together with his people!”

¹¹And again,

“Praise the Lord, all you nations!
Praise him, all you people of the world!”

¹²Again, Isaiah says,

“There will be a root from Jesse.
He will rise to rule the nations,
and he will give the nations hope.”

¹³May God, the source of hope, fill you with joy and peace through your faith in him. Then you will overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.

Paul’s Desire to Tell the Good News to the World

¹⁴I’m convinced, brothers and sisters, that you, too, are filled with goodness. I’m also convinced that you have all the knowledge you need and that you are able to instruct each other. ¹⁵However, I’ve written you a letter, parts of which are rather bold, as a reminder to you. I’m doing this because God gave me the gift ¹⁶to be a servant of Christ Yeshua to people who are not Jewish. I serve as a priest by spreading the Good News of God. I do this in order that I might bring the nations to God as an acceptable offering, made holy by the Holy Spirit. ¹⁷So Christ Yeshua gives me the right to brag about what I’m doing for God. ¹⁸I’m bold enough to tell you only what Christ has done through me to bring people who are not Jewish to obedience. By what I have said and done, ¹⁹by the power of miraculous and amazing signs, and by the power of God’s Spirit, I have finished spreading the Good News about Christ from Jerusalem to Illyricum.

²⁰My goal was to spread the Good News where the name of Christ was not known. I didn’t want to build on a foundation which others had laid. ²¹As Scripture says,

“Those who were never told about him will see,
and those who never heard will understand.”

²²This is what has so often kept me from visiting you.

Names of God Bible (NOG)

Psalm 25:1-15

Psalm 25^[a]

By David.

¹To you, O Yahweh, I lift my soul.
²I trust you, O my Elohim.
Do not let me be put to shame.
Do not let my enemies triumph over me.
³No one who waits for you will ever be put to shame,
but all who are unfaithful will be put to shame.
⁴Make your ways known to me, O Yahweh,
and teach me your paths.
⁵Lead me in your truth and teach me
because you are Elohim, my savior.
I wait all day long for you.
⁶Remember, O Yahweh, your compassionate and merciful deeds.
They have existed from eternity.
⁷Do not remember the sins of my youth or my rebellious ways.
Remember me, O Yahweh, in keeping with your mercy and your goodness.

⁸Yahweh is good and decent.
That is why he teaches sinners the way they should live.
⁹He leads humble people to do what is right,
and he teaches them his way.
¹⁰Every path of Yahweh is one of mercy and truth
for those who cling to his promise^[b] and written instructions.

¹¹For the sake of your name, O Yahweh,
remove my guilt, because it is great.
¹²Who, then, is this person that fears Yahweh?
He is the one whom Yahweh will teach which path to choose.
¹³He will enjoy good things in life,
and his descendants will inherit the land.
¹⁴Yahweh advises those who fear him.
He reveals to them the intent of his promise.

¹⁵My eyes are always on Yahweh.
He removes my feet from traps.

Footnotes:

Psalm 25:1 Psalm 25 is a poem in Hebrew alphabetical order.
Psalm 25:10 Or “covenant.”

Names of God Bible (NOG)

Proverbs 20:13-15

¹³Do not love sleep or you will end up poor.
Keep your eyes open, and you will have plenty to eat.

¹⁴“Bad! Bad!” says the buyer.
Then, as he goes away, he brags about his bargain.
¹⁵There are gold and plenty of jewels,
but the lips of knowledge are precious gems.

Names of God Bible (NOG)

Ezra 1-2

Cyrus Allows the Jews to Return from Babylon(A)

Sheshbazzar Returns with the Temple Furnishings

Those Who Returned with Zerubbabel(B)

Families Listed by Ancestor(C)

Families Listed by Cities(D)

Priests(E)

Levites(F)

Temple Servants(G)

Descendants of Solomon’s Servants(H)

Those of Unknown Origin(I)

The Total of the People and Animals Returning from Exile(J)

Gifts Given for the Temple(K)

Footnotes:

Cross references:

1 Corinthians 1:18-2:5

Footnotes:

Psalm 27:7-14

Footnotes:

Proverbs 20:22-23

Ezra 1-2

Cyrus Allows the Jews to Return from Babylon(A)

Sheshbazzar Returns with the Temple Furnishings

Those Who Returned with Zerubbabel(B)

Families Listed by Ancestor(C)

Families Listed by Cities(D)

Priests(E)

Levites(F)

Temple Servants(G)

Descendants of Solomon’s Servants(H)

Those of Unknown Origin(I)

The Total of the People and Animals Returning from Exile(J)

Gifts Given for the Temple(K)

Footnotes:

Cross references:

1 Corinthians 1:18-2:5

Footnotes:

Psalm 27:7-14

Footnotes:

Proverbs 20:22-23

2 Chronicles 35-36

King Josiah Celebrates the Passover(A)

Josiah’s Sin Leads to His Death(B)

King Jehoahaz of Judah(C)

King Jehoiakim of Judah(D)

King Jehoiakin of Judah(E)

King Zedekiah of Judah(F)

King Cyrus Allows the Jews to Return from Babylon(G)

Footnotes:

Cross references:

1 Corinthians 1:1-17

Greeting

God’s Wisdom Is Better Than the World’s Wisdom

Footnotes:

Psalm 27:1-6

Psalm 27

By David.

Proverbs 20:20-21

Footnotes:

2 Chronicles 35-36

King Josiah Celebrates the Passover(A)

Josiah’s Sin Leads to His Death(B)

King Jehoahaz of Judah(C)

King Jehoiakim of Judah(D)

King Jehoiakin of Judah(E)

King Zedekiah of Judah(F)

King Cyrus Allows the Jews to Return from Babylon(G)

Footnotes:

Cross references:

1 Corinthians 1:1-17

Greeting

God’s Wisdom Is Better Than the World’s Wisdom

Footnotes:

Psalm 27:1-6

Psalm 27

By David.

Proverbs 20:20-21

Footnotes:

2 Chronicles 33:14-34:33

King Amon of Judah(A)

Cyrus Allows the Jews to Return from Babylon^(A)

Those Who Returned with Zerubbabel^(B)

Families Listed by Ancestor^(C)

Families Listed by Cities^(D)

Priests^(E)

Levites^(F)

Temple Servants^(G)

Descendants of Solomon’s Servants^(H)

Those of Unknown Origin^(I)

The Total of the People and Animals Returning from Exile^(J)

Gifts Given for the Temple^(K)

Cyrus Allows the Jews to Return from Babylon^(A)

Those Who Returned with Zerubbabel^(B)

Families Listed by Ancestor^(C)

Families Listed by Cities^(D)

Priests^(E)

Levites^(F)

Temple Servants^(G)

Descendants of Solomon’s Servants^(H)

Those of Unknown Origin^(I)

The Total of the People and Animals Returning from Exile^(J)

Gifts Given for the Temple^(K)

King Josiah Celebrates the Passover^(A)

Josiah’s Sin Leads to His Death^(B)

King Jehoahaz of Judah^(C)

King Jehoiakim of Judah^(D)

King Jehoiakin of Judah^(E)

King Zedekiah of Judah^(F)

King Cyrus Allows the Jews to Return from Babylon^(G)

King Josiah Celebrates the Passover^(A)

Josiah’s Sin Leads to His Death^(B)

King Jehoahaz of Judah^(C)

King Jehoiakim of Judah^(D)

King Jehoiakin of Judah^(E)

King Zedekiah of Judah^(F)

King Cyrus Allows the Jews to Return from Babylon^(G)

King Amon of Judah^(A)

King Josiah Reforms Judah’s Worship^(B)

King Josiah Rededicates Judah to God’s Promise^(C)

God Saves Judah from the Assyrians^(A)

Other Events in Hezekiah’s Life^(B)

King Manasseh of Judah^(C)

Psalm 25^[a]