The Daily Audio Bible Reading for Thursday August 4, 2022 (NIV)

2 Chronicles 35-36

Josiah Celebrates the Passover(A)

35 Josiah celebrated the Passover(B) to the Lord in Jerusalem, and the Passover lamb was slaughtered on the fourteenth day of the first month. He appointed the priests to their duties and encouraged them in the service of the Lord’s temple. He said to the Levites, who instructed(C) all Israel and who had been consecrated to the Lord: “Put the sacred ark in the temple that Solomon son of David king of Israel built. It is not to be carried about on your shoulders. Now serve the Lord your God and his people Israel. Prepare yourselves by families in your divisions,(D) according to the instructions written by David king of Israel and by his son Solomon.

“Stand in the holy place with a group of Levites for each subdivision of the families of your fellow Israelites, the lay people. Slaughter the Passover lambs, consecrate yourselves(E) and prepare the lambs for your fellow Israelites, doing what the Lord commanded through Moses.”

Josiah provided for all the lay people who were there a total of thirty thousand lambs and goats for the Passover offerings,(F) and also three thousand cattle—all from the king’s own possessions.(G)

His officials also contributed(H) voluntarily to the people and the priests and Levites. Hilkiah,(I) Zechariah and Jehiel, the officials in charge of God’s temple, gave the priests twenty-six hundred Passover offerings and three hundred cattle. Also Konaniah(J) along with Shemaiah and Nethanel, his brothers, and Hashabiah, Jeiel and Jozabad,(K) the leaders of the Levites, provided five thousand Passover offerings and five hundred head of cattle for the Levites.

10 The service was arranged and the priests stood in their places with the Levites in their divisions(L) as the king had ordered.(M) 11 The Passover lambs were slaughtered,(N) and the priests splashed against the altar the blood handed to them, while the Levites skinned the animals. 12 They set aside the burnt offerings to give them to the subdivisions of the families of the people to offer to the Lord, as it is written in the Book of Moses. They did the same with the cattle. 13 They roasted the Passover animals over the fire as prescribed,(O) and boiled the holy offerings in pots, caldrons and pans and served them quickly to all the people. 14 After this, they made preparations for themselves and for the priests, because the priests, the descendants of Aaron, were sacrificing the burnt offerings and the fat portions(P) until nightfall. So the Levites made preparations for themselves and for the Aaronic priests.

15 The musicians,(Q) the descendants of Asaph, were in the places prescribed by David, Asaph, Heman and Jeduthun the king’s seer. The gatekeepers at each gate did not need to leave their posts, because their fellow Levites made the preparations for them.

16 So at that time the entire service of the Lord was carried out for the celebration of the Passover and the offering of burnt offerings on the altar of the Lord, as King Josiah had ordered. 17 The Israelites who were present celebrated the Passover at that time and observed the Festival of Unleavened Bread for seven days. 18 The Passover had not been observed like this in Israel since the days of the prophet Samuel; and none of the kings of Israel had ever celebrated such a Passover as did Josiah, with the priests, the Levites and all Judah and Israel who were there with the people of Jerusalem. 19 This Passover was celebrated in the eighteenth year of Josiah’s reign.

The Death of Josiah(R)

20 After all this, when Josiah had set the temple in order, Necho king of Egypt went up to fight at Carchemish(S) on the Euphrates,(T) and Josiah marched out to meet him in battle. 21 But Necho sent messengers to him, saying, “What quarrel is there, king of Judah, between you and me? It is not you I am attacking at this time, but the house with which I am at war. God has told(U) me to hurry; so stop opposing God, who is with me, or he will destroy you.”

22 Josiah, however, would not turn away from him, but disguised(V) himself to engage him in battle. He would not listen to what Necho had said at God’s command but went to fight him on the plain of Megiddo.

23 Archers(W) shot King Josiah, and he told his officers, “Take me away; I am badly wounded.” 24 So they took him out of his chariot, put him in his other chariot and brought him to Jerusalem, where he died. He was buried in the tombs of his ancestors, and all Judah and Jerusalem mourned for him.

25 Jeremiah composed laments for Josiah, and to this day all the male and female singers commemorate Josiah in the laments.(X) These became a tradition in Israel and are written in the Laments.(Y)

26 The other events of Josiah’s reign and his acts of devotion in accordance with what is written in the Law of the Lord 27 all the events, from beginning to end, are written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah. 36 And the people(Z) of the land took Jehoahaz son of Josiah and made him king in Jerusalem in place of his father.

Jehoahaz King of Judah(AA)

Jehoahaz[a] was twenty-three years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem three months. The king of Egypt dethroned him in Jerusalem and imposed on Judah a levy of a hundred talents[b] of silver and a talent[c] of gold. The king of Egypt made Eliakim, a brother of Jehoahaz, king over Judah and Jerusalem and changed Eliakim’s name to Jehoiakim. But Necho(AB) took Eliakim’s brother Jehoahaz and carried him off to Egypt.(AC)

Jehoiakim King of Judah(AD)

Jehoiakim(AE) was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem eleven years. He did evil in the eyes of the Lord his God. Nebuchadnezzar(AF) king of Babylon attacked him and bound him with bronze shackles to take him to Babylon.(AG) Nebuchadnezzar also took to Babylon articles from the temple of the Lord and put them in his temple[d] there.(AH)

The other events of Jehoiakim’s reign, the detestable things he did and all that was found against him, are written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah. And Jehoiachin his son succeeded him as king.

Jehoiachin King of Judah(AI)

Jehoiachin(AJ) was eighteen[e] years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem three months and ten days. He did evil in the eyes of the Lord. 10 In the spring, King Nebuchadnezzar sent for him and brought him to Babylon,(AK) together with articles of value from the temple of the Lord, and he made Jehoiachin’s uncle,[f] Zedekiah, king over Judah and Jerusalem.

Zedekiah King of Judah(AL)

11 Zedekiah(AM) was twenty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem eleven years. 12 He did evil in the eyes of the Lord(AN) his God and did not humble(AO) himself before Jeremiah the prophet, who spoke the word of the Lord. 13 He also rebelled against King Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him take an oath(AP) in God’s name. He became stiff-necked(AQ) and hardened his heart and would not turn to the Lord, the God of Israel. 14 Furthermore, all the leaders of the priests and the people became more and more unfaithful,(AR) following all the detestable practices of the nations and defiling the temple of the Lord, which he had consecrated in Jerusalem.

The Fall of Jerusalem(AS)(AT)

15 The Lord, the God of their ancestors, sent word to them through his messengers(AU) again and again,(AV) because he had pity on his people and on his dwelling place. 16 But they mocked God’s messengers, despised his words and scoffed(AW) at his prophets until the wrath(AX) of the Lord was aroused against his people and there was no remedy.(AY) 17 He brought up against them the king of the Babylonians,[g](AZ) who killed their young men with the sword in the sanctuary, and did not spare young men(BA) or young women, the elderly or the infirm.(BB) God gave them all into the hands of Nebuchadnezzar.(BC) 18 He carried to Babylon all the articles(BD) from the temple of God, both large and small, and the treasures of the Lord’s temple and the treasures of the king and his officials. 19 They set fire(BE) to God’s temple(BF) and broke down the wall(BG) of Jerusalem; they burned all the palaces and destroyed(BH) everything of value there.(BI)

20 He carried into exile(BJ) to Babylon the remnant, who escaped from the sword, and they became servants(BK) to him and his successors until the kingdom of Persia came to power. 21 The land enjoyed its sabbath rests;(BL) all the time of its desolation it rested,(BM) until the seventy years(BN) were completed in fulfillment of the word of the Lord spoken by Jeremiah.

22 In the first year of Cyrus(BO) king of Persia, in order to fulfill the word of the Lord spoken by Jeremiah, the Lord moved the heart of Cyrus king of Persia to make a proclamation throughout his realm and also to put it in writing:

23 “This is what Cyrus king of Persia says:

“‘The Lord, the God of heaven, has given me all the kingdoms of the earth and he has appointed(BP) me to build a temple for him at Jerusalem in Judah. Any of his people among you may go up, and may the Lord their God be with them.’”

Footnotes:

  1. 2 Chronicles 36:2 Hebrew Joahaz, a variant of Jehoahaz; also in verse 4
  2. 2 Chronicles 36:3 That is, about 3 3/4 tons or about 3.4 metric tons
  3. 2 Chronicles 36:3 That is, about 75 pounds or about 34 kilograms
  4. 2 Chronicles 36:7 Or palace
  5. 2 Chronicles 36:9 One Hebrew manuscript, some Septuagint manuscripts and Syriac (see also 2 Kings 24:8); most Hebrew manuscripts eight
  6. 2 Chronicles 36:10 Hebrew brother, that is, relative (see 2 Kings 24:17)
  7. 2 Chronicles 36:17 Or Chaldeans

Cross references:

  1. 2 Chronicles 35:1 : 35:1, 18-19pp — 2Ki 23:21-23
  2. 2 Chronicles 35:1 : Ex 12:1-30; S Nu 28:16
  3. 2 Chronicles 35:3 : S 2Ch 17:7
  4. 2 Chronicles 35:4 : ver 10; S 1Ch 24:1; Ezr 6:18
  5. 2 Chronicles 35:6 : S Lev 11:44
  6. 2 Chronicles 35:7 : S 2Ch 30:24
  7. 2 Chronicles 35:7 : S 2Ch 31:3
  8. 2 Chronicles 35:8 : S 1Ch 29:3; 2Ch 29:31-36
  9. 2 Chronicles 35:8 : S 1Ch 6:13
  10. 2 Chronicles 35:9 : 2Ch 31:12
  11. 2 Chronicles 35:9 : 2Ch 31:13
  12. 2 Chronicles 35:10 : S ver 4
  13. 2 Chronicles 35:10 : 2Ch 30:16
  14. 2 Chronicles 35:11 : S 2Ch 30:17
  15. 2 Chronicles 35:13 : Ex 12:2-11
  16. 2 Chronicles 35:14 : S Ex 29:13
  17. 2 Chronicles 35:15 : S 1Ch 25:1; S 26:12-19; 2Ch 29:30; Ne 12:46; Ps 68:25
  18. 2 Chronicles 35:20 : 35:20–36:1pp — 2Ki 23:28-30
  19. 2 Chronicles 35:20 : Isa 10:9; Jer 46:2
  20. 2 Chronicles 35:20 : S Ge 2:14
  21. 2 Chronicles 35:21 : S 1Ki 13:18; S 2Ki 18:25
  22. 2 Chronicles 35:22 : S 1Sa 28:8
  23. 2 Chronicles 35:23 : S 1Ki 22:34
  24. 2 Chronicles 35:25 : S Ge 50:10; Jer 22:10, 15-16
  25. 2 Chronicles 35:25 : 2Ch 34:28
  26. 2 Chronicles 36:1 : S 2Ch 22:1
  27. 2 Chronicles 36:2 : 36:2-4pp — 2Ki 23:31-34
  28. 2 Chronicles 36:4 : Jer 22:10-12
  29. 2 Chronicles 36:4 : Eze 19:4
  30. 2 Chronicles 36:5 : 36:5-8pp — 2Ki 23:36–24:6
  31. 2 Chronicles 36:5 : Jer 22:18; 25:1; 26:1; 35:1; 36:1; 45:1; 46:2
  32. 2 Chronicles 36:6 : Jer 25:9; 27:6; Eze 29:18
  33. 2 Chronicles 36:6 : Eze 19:9; Da 1:1
  34. 2 Chronicles 36:7 : ver 18; Ezr 1:7; Jer 27:16; Da 1:2
  35. 2 Chronicles 36:9 : 36:9-10pp — 2Ki 24:8-17
  36. 2 Chronicles 36:9 : Jer 22:24-28; 24:1; 27:20; 29:21; 52:31
  37. 2 Chronicles 36:10 : ver 18; S 2Ki 20:17; Ezr 1:7; Isa 52:11; Jer 14:18; 21:7; 22:25; 24:1; 27:16, 20, 22; 29:1; 34:21; 40:1; Eze 17:12; Da 5:2
  38. 2 Chronicles 36:11 : 36:11-16pp — 2Ki 24:18-20; Jer 52:1-3
  39. 2 Chronicles 36:11 : S 2Ki 24:17; Jer 27:1; 28:1; 34:2; 37:1; 39:1
  40. 2 Chronicles 36:12 : Jer 37:1-39:18
  41. 2 Chronicles 36:12 : S Dt 8:3; 2Ch 7:14; Jer 44:10
  42. 2 Chronicles 36:13 : Eze 17:13
  43. 2 Chronicles 36:13 : S Ex 32:9; S Dt 9:27
  44. 2 Chronicles 36:14 : S 1Ch 5:25
  45. 2 Chronicles 36:15 : 36:17-20pp — 2Ki 25:1-21; Jer 52:4-27
  46. 2 Chronicles 36:15 : 36:22-23pp — Ezr 1:1-3
  47. 2 Chronicles 36:15 : Isa 5:4; 44:26; Jer 7:25; Hag 1:13; Zec 1:4; Mal 2:7; 3:1; S Mt 5:12
  48. 2 Chronicles 36:15 : Jer 7:13, 25; 11:7; 25:3-4; 35:14, 15; 44:4-6
  49. 2 Chronicles 36:16 : S 2Ki 2:23; Job 8:2; Isa 28:14, 22; 29:20; 57:4; Jer 5:13; 43:2; Mic 2:11
  50. 2 Chronicles 36:16 : Ezr 5:12; Pr 1:30-31; Jer 44:3
  51. 2 Chronicles 36:16 : Ne 9:30; Pr 29:1; Jer 7:26; 20:8; 25:4; 30:12; Da 9:6; Zec 1:2
  52. 2 Chronicles 36:17 : S Ge 10:10
  53. 2 Chronicles 36:17 : Jer 6:11; 9:21; 18:21; 44:7
  54. 2 Chronicles 36:17 : S Dt 32:25; Jer 51:22
  55. 2 Chronicles 36:17 : Ezr 5:12; Jer 32:28; La 2:21; Eze 9:6; 23:47
  56. 2 Chronicles 36:18 : S ver 7; S ver 10; Jer 27:20
  57. 2 Chronicles 36:19 : Jer 11:16; 17:27; 21:10, 14; 22:7; 32:29; 39:8; La 4:11; Eze 20:47; Am 2:5; Zec 11:1
  58. 2 Chronicles 36:19 : 1Ki 9:8-9
  59. 2 Chronicles 36:19 : S 2Ki 14:13
  60. 2 Chronicles 36:19 : La 2:6
  61. 2 Chronicles 36:19 : Ps 79:1-3
  62. 2 Chronicles 36:20 : S Lev 26:44; S 2Ki 24:14; Ezr 2:1; Ne 7:6
  63. 2 Chronicles 36:20 : Jer 27:7
  64. 2 Chronicles 36:21 : S Lev 25:4
  65. 2 Chronicles 36:21 : S 1Ch 22:9
  66. 2 Chronicles 36:21 : Jer 1:1; 25:11; 27:22; 29:10; 40:1; Da 9:2; Zec 1:12; 7:5
  67. 2 Chronicles 36:22 : Isa 44:28; 45:1, 13; Da 1:21; 6:28; 10:1
  68. 2 Chronicles 36:23 : S Jdg 4:10
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1 Corinthians 1:1-17

Paul, called to be an apostle(A) of Christ Jesus by the will of God,(B) and our brother Sosthenes,(C)

To the church of God(D) in Corinth,(E) to those sanctified in Christ Jesus and called(F) to be his holy people, together with all those everywhere who call on the name(G) of our Lord Jesus Christ—their Lord and ours:

Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.(H)

Thanksgiving

I always thank my God for you(I) because of his grace given you in Christ Jesus. For in him you have been enriched(J) in every way—with all kinds of speech and with all knowledge(K) God thus confirming our testimony(L) about Christ among you. Therefore you do not lack any spiritual gift(M) as you eagerly wait for our Lord Jesus Christ to be revealed.(N) He will also keep you firm to the end, so that you will be blameless(O) on the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.(P) God is faithful,(Q) who has called you(R) into fellowship with his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.(S)

A Church Divided Over Leaders

10 I appeal to you, brothers and sisters,[a](T) in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that all of you agree with one another in what you say and that there be no divisions among you,(U) but that you be perfectly united(V) in mind and thought. 11 My brothers and sisters, some from Chloe’s household(W) have informed me that there are quarrels among you. 12 What I mean is this: One of you says, “I follow Paul”;(X) another, “I follow Apollos”;(Y) another, “I follow Cephas[b]”;(Z) still another, “I follow Christ.”

13 Is Christ divided? Was Paul crucified for you? Were you baptized in the name of Paul?(AA) 14 I thank God that I did not baptize any of you except Crispus(AB) and Gaius,(AC) 15 so no one can say that you were baptized in my name. 16 (Yes, I also baptized the household(AD) of Stephanas;(AE) beyond that, I don’t remember if I baptized anyone else.) 17 For Christ did not send me to baptize,(AF) but to preach the gospel—not with wisdom(AG) and eloquence, lest the cross of Christ be emptied of its power.

Footnotes:

  1. 1 Corinthians 1:10 The Greek word for brothers and sisters (adelphoi) refers here to believers, both men and women, as part of God’s family; also in verses 11 and 26; and in 2:1; 3:1; 4:6; 6:8; 7:24, 29; 10:1; 11:33; 12:1; 14:6, 20, 26, 39; 15:1, 6, 50, 58; 16:15, 20.
  2. 1 Corinthians 1:12 That is, Peter
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Psalm 27:1-6

Psalm 27

Of David.

The Lord is my light(A) and my salvation(B)
whom shall I fear?
The Lord is the stronghold(C) of my life—
of whom shall I be afraid?(D)

When the wicked advance against me
to devour[a] me,
it is my enemies and my foes
who will stumble and fall.(E)
Though an army besiege me,
my heart will not fear;(F)
though war break out against me,
even then I will be confident.(G)

One thing(H) I ask from the Lord,
this only do I seek:
that I may dwell in the house of the Lord
all the days of my life,(I)
to gaze on the beauty of the Lord
and to seek him in his temple.
For in the day of trouble(J)
he will keep me safe(K) in his dwelling;
he will hide me(L) in the shelter of his sacred tent
and set me high upon a rock.(M)

Then my head will be exalted(N)
above the enemies who surround me;(O)
at his sacred tent I will sacrifice(P) with shouts of joy;(Q)
I will sing(R) and make music(S) to the Lord.

Footnotes:

  1. Psalm 27:2 Or slander
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Proverbs 20:20-21

20 If someone curses their father or mother,(A)
their lamp will be snuffed out in pitch darkness.(B)

21 An inheritance claimed too soon
will not be blessed at the end.

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