Ezra’s Prayer About Intermarriage 1 After these things had been done, the leaders came to me and said, “The people of Israel, including the priests and the Levites, have not kept themselves separate from the neighboring peoples with their detestable practices, like those of the Canaanites, Hittites, Perizzites, Jebusites, Ammonites, Moabites, Egyptians and Amorites. 2 […]
Monthly Archives: July 2017
Ezra 10
The People’s Confession of Sin 1 While Ezra was praying and confessing, weeping and throwing himself down before the house of God, a large crowd of Israelites—men, women and children—gathered around him. They too wept bitterly. 2 Then Shekaniah son of Jehiel, one of the descendants of Elam, said to Ezra, “We have been unfaithful […]
2 Chronicles 1
Solomon Asks for Wisdom 1 Solomon son of David established himself firmly over his kingdom, for theLordhis God was with him and made him exceedingly great. 2 Then Solomon spoke to all Israel—to the commanders of thousands and commanders of hundreds, to the judges and to all the leaders in Israel, the heads of families— […]
2 Chronicles 2
Preparations for Building the Temple # 1 Solomon gave orders to build a temple for the Name of theLordand a royal palace for himself. 2 He conscripted 70,000 men as carriers and 80,000 as stonecutters in the hills and 3,600 as foremen over them. 3 Solomon sent this message to Hiramking of Tyre: “Send me […]
2 Chronicles 3
Solomon Builds the Temple 1 Then Solomon began to build the temple of theLordin Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where theLordhad appeared to his father David. It was on the threshing floor of Araunahthe Jebusite, the place provided by David. 2 He began building on the second day of the second month in the fourth year […]
2 Chronicles 4
The Temple’s Furnishings 1 He made a bronze altar twenty cubits long, twenty cubits wide and ten cubits high. 2 He made the Sea of cast metal, circular in shape, measuring ten cubits from rim to rim and five cubitshigh. It took a line of thirty cubitsto measure around it. 3 Below the rim, figures […]
2 Chronicles 5
1 When all the work Solomon had done for the temple of theLordwas finished, he brought in the things his father David had dedicated—the silver and gold and all the furnishings—and he placed them in the treasuries of God’s temple. The Ark Brought to the Temple 2 Then Solomon summoned to Jerusalem the elders of […]
2 Chronicles 6
1 Then Solomon said, “TheLordhas said that he would dwell in a dark cloud; 2 I have built a magnificent temple for you, a place for you to dwell forever.” 3 While the whole assembly of Israel was standing there, the king turned around and blessed them. 4 Then he said: “Praise be to theLord, […]
2 Chronicles 7
The Dedication of the Temple 1 When Solomon finished praying, fire came down from heaven and consumed the burnt offering and the sacrifices, and the glory of theLordfilled the temple. 2 The priests could not enter the temple of theLordbecause the glory of theLordfilled it. 3 When all the Israelites saw the fire coming down […]
2 Chronicles 8
Solomon’s Other Activities 1 At the end of twenty years, during which Solomon built the temple of theLordand his own palace, 2 Solomon rebuilt the villages that Hiramhad given him, and settled Israelites in them. 3 Solomon then went to Hamath Zobah and captured it. 4 He also built up Tadmor in the desert and […]