Today’s readings – Jun 7:-
NEW TESTAMENT: John 17
OLD TESTAMENT: 2 Chronicles 28,29
– Begin of daily reading for Jun 7 – Day 159
NEW TESTAMENT
John 17
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The Prayer of Jesus (Yeshua)
17 These words spake (spoke) Jesus (original name in Hebrew; Yeshua), and lifted up his (His) eyes to heaven, and said, Father, the hour is (has) come; glorify thy (Your) Son, that thy (Your) Son also may glorify thee (You):
2 As thou hast (You have) given him (Him) power over all flesh, that he (He) should give eternal life to as many as thou hast (You have) given him (Him).
3 And this is life eternal, that they might know thee (You) the only true God, and Jesus Christ (Yeshua Hamashiach / Yahusha Hamashiach), whom thou hast (You have) sent.
4 I have glorified thee (You) on the earth: I have finished the work which thou gavest me (You gave Me) to do.
5 And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was (Now, Father, glorify Me together with Yourself, with the glory and majesty that I had with You before the world existed).
6 I have manifested thy (Your) name unto the men which thou gavest me (You gave Me) out of the world: thine (Yours) they were, and thou gavest them me (You gave them Me); and they have kept thy (Your) word.
7 Now they have known that all things whatsoever thou hast (You have) given me are of thee (You).
8 For I have given unto them the words which thou gavest (You gave) me; and they have received them, and have known surely that I came out from thee (You), and they have believed that thou didst (You did) send me.
9 I pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for them which thou hast given me (You have given Me); for they are thine (Yours).
10 And all mine (Mine) are thine (Yours), and thine (Yours) are mine (Mine); and I am glorified in them.
11 And now I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to thee (You). Holy Father, keep through thine (Your) own name those whom thou hast (You have) given me (Me), that they may be one, as we (We) are.
12 While I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy (Your) name: those that thou gavest (You gave) me I have kept, and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition (destruction); that the scripture might be fulfilled (brought to completion).
13 And now come I to thee (You); and these things I speak in the world, that they might have my (My) joy fulfilled (completed) in themselves.
14 I have given them thy (Your) word; and the world hath (has) hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
15 I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world (I do not ask You to take them out of the world), but that thou shouldest (You should) keep them from the evil.
16 They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
17 Sanctify (Consecrate, Purify, Cleanse) them through thy (Your) truth: thy (Your) word is truth.
18 As thou hast sent me (You have sent Me) into the world, even so have I also sent them into the world.
19 And for their sakes I sanctify myself (Myself), that they also might be sanctified through the truth.
20 Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which (who) shall believe on me (in Me) through their word;
21 That they all may be one; as thou (You), Father, art in me (Father, You are in Me), and I in thee (You), that they also may be one in us (Us): that the world may believe that thou hast (You have) sent me (Me).
22 And the glory which thou gavest me (You gave Me) I have given them; that they may be one, even as we (We) are one:
23 I in them, and thou (You) in me (Me), that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast (You have) sent me (Me), and hast (have) loved them, as thou hast (You have) loved me (Me).
24 Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast (You have) given me (Me), be with me where I am; that they may behold my (My) glory, which thou hast given me (You have given Me): for thou lovedst me (because You loved Me) before the foundation of the world.
25 O righteous Father, the world hath (has) not known thee (You): but I have known thee (You), and these have known that thou hast (You have) sent me (Me).
26 And I have declared unto them thy (Your) name, and will declare it: that the love wherewith thou hast (You have) loved me (Me) may be in them, and I in them.
OLD TESTAMENT
2 Chronicles 28
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Ahaz Rules in Judah
28 Ahaz was twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem: but he did not that which was right in the sight of the Lord, like David his father:
2 For he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel, and made also molten images for Baalim.
3 Moreover he burnt incense in the valley of the son of Hinnom, and burnt his children in the fire, after the abominations of the heathen (unbelievers, pagans) whom the Lord had cast out (thrown out) before the children of Israel.
4 He sacrificed also and burnt incense in the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree.
5 Wherefore the Lord his God delivered him into the hand of the king of Syria; and they smote (struck) him, and carried away a great multitude of them captives, and brought them to Damascus. And he was also delivered into the hand of the king of Israel, who smote (struck) him with a great slaughter.
6 For Pekah the son of Remaliah slew (killed) in Judah an hundred and twenty thousand in one day, which were all valiant men; because they had forsaken the Lord God of their fathers.
7 And Zichri, a mighty man of Ephraim, slew (killed) Maaseiah the king’s son, and Azrikam the governor of the house, and Elkanah that was next to the king.
8 And the children of Israel carried away captive of their brethren (brothers) two hundred thousand, women, sons, and daughters, and took also away much spoil from them, and brought the spoil to Samaria.
9 But a prophet of the Lord was there, whose name was Oded: and he went out before the host that came to Samaria, and said unto them, Behold, because the Lord God of your fathers was wroth (extremely angry) with Judah, he hath (has) delivered them into your hand, and ye (you) have slain (killed) them in a rage that reacheth up unto (that has reached as far as) heaven.
10 And now ye (you) purpose to keep under the children of Judah and Jerusalem for bondmen and bondwomen unto you: but are there not with you, even with you, sins against the Lord your God?
11 Now hear me therefore, and deliver the captives again, which ye (you) have taken captive of your brethren (brothers): for the fierce wrath of the Lord is upon you.
12 Then certain of the heads of the children of Ephraim, Azariah the son of Johanan, Berechiah the son of Meshillemoth, and Jehizkiah the son of Shallum, and Amasa the son of Hadlai, stood up against them that came from the war,
13 And said unto them, Ye (You) shall not bring in the captives hither (here): for whereas we have offended against the Lord already, ye (you) intend to add more to our sins and to our trespass (guilt): for our trespass is great, and there is fierce wrath (extreme anger) against Israel.
14 So the armed men left the captives and the spoil before the princes and all the congregation.
15 And the men which were expressed by name rose up, and took the captives, and with the spoil clothed all that were naked among them, and arrayed them, and shod them, and gave them to eat and to drink, and anointed them, and carried all the feeble of them upon asses, and brought them to Jericho, the city of palm trees, to their brethren (brothers): then they returned to Samaria.
Ahaz Closes the Temple
16 At that time did king Ahaz send unto the kings of Assyria to help him.
17 For again the Edomites had come and smitten (attacked) Judah, and carried away captives.
18 The Philistines also had invaded the cities of the low country, and of the south of Judah, and had taken Bethshemesh, and Ajalon, and Gederoth, and Shocho with the villages thereof, and Timnah with the villages thereof, Gimzo also and the villages thereof: and they dwelt (lived) there.
19 For the Lord brought Judah low because of Ahaz king of Israel; for he made Judah naked, and transgressed sore against the Lord (for Ahaz had allowed unrestrained and undisciplined behavior in Judah and had been very unfaithful to the Lord).
20 And Tilgathpilneser king of Assyria came unto him, and distressed him, but strengthened him not.
21 For Ahaz took away a portion out of the house of the Lord, and out of the house of the king, and of the princes, and gave it unto the king of Assyria: but he helped him not.
22 And in the time of his distress did he trespass (sin) yet more against the Lord: this is that king Ahaz.
23 For he sacrificed unto the gods of Damascus, which smote (struck) him: and he said, Because the gods of the kings of Syria help them, therefore will I sacrifice to them, that they may help me. But they were the ruin of him, and of all Israel.
24 And Ahaz gathered together the vessels of the house of God, and cut in pieces the vessels of the house of God, and shut up the doors of the house of the Lord, and he made him altars in every corner of Jerusalem.
25 And in every several city of Judah he made high places to burn incense unto other gods, and provoked to anger the Lord God of his fathers.
26 Now the rest of his acts and of all his ways, first and last, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel.
27 And Ahaz slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city, even in Jerusalem: but they brought him not into the sepulchres (tombs) of the kings of Israel: and Hezekiah his son reigned in his stead (place).
2 Chronicles 29
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Hezekiah Rules in Judah
29 Hezekiah began to reign when he was five and twenty years old, and he reigned nine and twenty years in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Abijah, the daughter of Zechariah.
2 And he did that which was right in the sight of the Lord, according to all that David his father had done.
Hezekiah Reopens the Temple
3 He in the first year of his reign, in the first month, opened the doors of the house of the Lord, and repaired them.
4 And he brought in the priests and the Levites, and gathered them together into the east street,
5 And said unto them, Hear me, ye (you) Levites, sanctify now yourselves, and sanctify the house of the Lord God of your fathers, and carry forth the filthiness out of the holy place.
6 For our fathers have trespassed, and done that which was evil in the eyes of the Lord our God, and have forsaken him, and have turned away their faces from the habitation of the Lord, and turned their backs.
7 Also they have shut up the doors of the porch, and put out the lamps, and have not burned incense nor offered burnt offerings in the holy place unto the God of Israel.
8 Wherefore the wrath (extreme anger) of the Lord was upon Judah and Jerusalem, and he hath (has) delivered them to trouble, to astonishment, and to hissing, as ye (you) see with your eyes.
9 For, lo, our fathers have fallen by the sword, and our sons and our daughters and our wives are in captivity for this.
10 Now it is in mine (my) heart to make a covenant with the Lord God of Israel, that his fierce wrath (extreme anger) may turn away from us.
11 My sons, be not now negligent: for the Lord hath (has) chosen you to stand before him, to serve him, and that ye (you) should minister unto him, and burn incense.
12 Then the Levites arose, Mahath the son of Amasai, and Joel the son of Azariah, of the sons of the Kohathites: and of the sons of Merari, Kish the son of Abdi, and Azariah the son of Jehalelel: and of the Gershonites; Joah the son of Zimmah, and Eden the son of Joah:
13 And of the sons of Elizaphan; Shimri, and Jeiel: and of the sons of Asaph; Zechariah, and Mattaniah:
14 And of the sons of Heman; Jehiel, and Shimei: and of the sons of Jeduthun; Shemaiah, and Uzziel.
15 And they gathered their brethren (brothers), and sanctified themselves, and came, according to the commandment of the king, by the words of the Lord, to cleanse the house of the Lord.
16 And the priests went into the inner part of the house of the Lord, to cleanse it, and brought out all the uncleanness that they found in the temple of the Lord into the court of the house of the Lord. And the Levites took it, to carry it out abroad into the brook Kidron.
17 Now they began on the first day of the first month to sanctify, and on the eighth day of the month came they to the porch of the Lord: so they sanctified the house of the Lord in eight days; and in the sixteenth day of the first month they made an end.
The Temple Rededication
18 Then they went in to Hezekiah the king, and said, We have cleansed all the house of the Lord, and the altar of burnt offering, with all the vessels thereof, and the shewbread table, with all the vessels thereof.
19 Moreover all the vessels, which king Ahaz in his reign did cast away in his transgression, have we prepared and sanctified, and, behold, they are before the altar of the Lord.
20 Then Hezekiah the king rose early, and gathered the rulers of the city, and went up to the house of the Lord.
21 And they brought seven bullocks (bulls), and seven rams, and seven lambs, and seven he goats, for a sin offering for the kingdom, and for the sanctuary, and for Judah. And he commanded the priests the sons of Aaron to offer them on the altar of the Lord.
22 So they killed the bullocks (bulls), and the priests received the blood, and sprinkled it on the altar: likewise, when they had killed the rams, they sprinkled the blood upon the altar: they killed also the lambs, and they sprinkled the blood upon the altar.
23 And they brought forth the he goats for the sin offering before the king and the congregation; and they laid their hands upon them:
24 And the priests killed them, and they made reconciliation with their blood upon the altar, to make an atonement for all Israel: for the king commanded that the burnt offering and the sin offering should be made for all Israel.
25 And he set the Levites in the house of the Lord with cymbals, with psalteries, and with harps, according to the commandment of David, and of Gad the king’s seer, and Nathan the prophet: for so was the commandment of the Lord by his prophets.
26 And the Levites stood with the instruments of David, and the priests with the trumpets.
27 And Hezekiah commanded to offer the burnt offering upon the altar. And when the burnt offering began, the song of the Lord began also with the trumpets, and with the instruments ordained by David king of Israel.
28 And all the congregation worshipped, and the singers sang, and the trumpeters sounded: and all this continued until the burnt offering was finished.
29 And when they had made an end of offering, the king and all that were present with him bowed themselves, and worshipped.
30 Moreover Hezekiah the king and the princes commanded the Levites to sing praise unto the Lord with the words of David, and of Asaph the seer. And they sang praises with gladness, and they bowed their heads and worshipped.
31 Then Hezekiah answered and said, Now ye (you) have consecrated yourselves unto the Lord, come near and bring sacrifices and thank offerings into the house of the Lord. And the congregation brought in sacrifices and thank offerings; and as many as were of a free heart burnt offerings.
32 And the number of the burnt offerings, which the congregation brought, was threescore and ten (70) bullocks (bulls), an hundred (100) rams, and two hundred (200) lambs: all these were for a burnt offering to the Lord.
33 And the consecrated things were six hundred (600) oxen and three thousand (3,000) sheep.
34 But the priests were too few, so that they could not flay all the burnt offerings: wherefore their brethren (brothers) the Levites did help them, till the work was ended, and until the other priests had sanctified (consecrated) themselves: for the Levites were more upright in heart to sanctify (consecrate) themselves than the priests.
35 And also the burnt offerings were in abundance, with the fat of the peace offerings, and the drink offerings for every burnt offering. So the service of the house of the Lord was set in order.
36 And Hezekiah rejoiced, and all the people, that God had prepared the people: for the thing was done suddenly.
– End of daily reading for Jun 7 – Day 159
COMMENCEMENT OF A NEW BOOK (New Testament): Nil
BOOK OVERVIEW (New Testament): John (21 Chapters) (Original language: Greek)
Timeline: Time in the early church after Christ rose from the dead, from 50 to 85 AD.
Author: The apostle John.
Objective / Purpose:-
This book was written in order to portray Jesus (Yeshua) as:-
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- the Word made flesh (that is, as God; Yeshua is God),
- the Messiah (‘anointed one’ or ‘chosen one’),
- and the Son of God.
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Jesus Christ (Yeshua Hamashiach) has come to reveal the nature of God and to grant eternal life to everyone who believes in Him.
In Hebrew: מָשִׁיחַ, romanized : Māšīaḥ (verb: to anoint, Hamashiach = The Anointed One)
In Greek = Christos
In English = Christ
Audience / Attendees / Spectators / Listeners: Mostly Gentile followers of Jesus (Yeshua) and those who are looking for God.
> COMMENCEMENT OF A NEW BOOK (Old Testament): Nil
BOOK OVERVIEW (Old Testament): 2 Chronicles (36 Chapters) (Original language: Hebrew)
Timeline: Between 970 B.C to 586 B.C.
Author: Not known. Possibly Ezra.
Objective / Purpose: The story of Ezra’s return to Judah and Jerusalem to rebuild the temple under God’s supervision is told in this book. The Persian King Artaxerxes dispatched Ezra, a priest and scribe, with both political and religious authority. His task was to lead a party of Jewish exiles from Babylon to Jerusalem so that God’s temple could be rebuilt (Ezra 7:8, 12).
Audience / Attendees / Spectators / Listeners: The Returned People of Judah from Babylonian Exile.
> TODAY’S SCRIPTURE READINGS OVERVIEW:-
NEW TESTAMENT:-
John 17:-
1) The Prayer of Jesus (Yeshua)
OLD TESTAMENT:-
2 Chronicles 28:-
1) Ahaz Rules in Judah
2) Ahaz Closes the Temple
2 Chronicles 29:-
1) Hezekiah Rules in Judah
2) Hezekiah Reopens the Temple
3) The Temple Rededication
> TODAY’S READING TOPICS (New Testament): John 17: 1) The Prayer of Jesus (Yeshua)
> TODAY’S READING TOPICS (Old Testament): 2 Chronicles 28,29: 1) Ahaz Rules in Judah 2) Ahaz Closes the Temple 3) Hezekiah Rules in Judah 4) Hezekiah Reopens the Temple 5) The Temple Rededication
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