Reading 1 - Neh 5:14,17 "Moreover, from the twentieth year of King Artaxerxes, when I [Nehemiah] was appointed to be their governor in...

Reading 1 - Neh 4:9 "But we prayed to our God and posted a guard day and night to meet this threat" (Neh 4:9). "Nehemiah was sent to...

Reading 1 - Neh 3 Nehemiah 3 enumerates 44 teams who begin work on the wall. Each team is assigned its own portion to build. Did some...

Reading 1 - Neh 2:18 Many lessons of a very practical nature might be gleaned from the inspired diary of "the king's cupbearer" (Neh...

Reading 1 - Ezr 10:1 "While Ezra was praying and confessing, weeping and throwing himself down before the house of God, a large crowd of...

Reading 1 - Ezr 9:5-7 "Then, at the evening sacrifice, I rose from my self-abasement, with my tunic and cloak torn, and fell on my knees...

Reading 1 - Ezr 8:22 "I was ashamed to ask the king for soldiers and horsemen to protect us from enemies on the road, because we had told...

Reading 1 - Ezr 7:27,28 "Praise be to the LORD, the God of our fathers, who has put it into the king's heart to bring honor to the house...

Reading 1 - Ezr 4:24 "Thus the work on the house of God in Jerusalem came to a standstill until the second year of the reign of Darius...

Reading 1 - Ezr 1:1 "In the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, in order to fulfill the word of the LORD spoken by Jeremiah, the LORD...

Reading 1 - 2Ch 36 "This last chapter [2Ch 36] brings to a conclusion the Davidic monarchy, in the dismal environment of ecclesial...

Reading 1 - 2Ch 35:24,25 "So they took him out of his chariot, put him in the other chariot he had and brought him to Jerusalem, where he...

Reading 1 - 2Ch 34:19,33 "When the king [Josiah] heard the words of the Law, he tore his robes" (2Ch 34:19). He might easily have said,...

Reading 1 - 2Ch 33 "For fifty-five years the reign of Manasseh continued, and for most of those years it was a time of great evil and...

Reading 1 - 2Ch 32:2-4 A tunnel was constructed from the spring at Gihon -- what is now called the Virgin's Fountain -- under the city...

Reading 1 - 2Ch 31:21 "In everything that he [Hezekiah] undertook in the service of God's temple and in obedience to the law and the...

Reading 1 - 2Ch 30 It was the time of the great reformation which the zeal of Hezekiah had set going. The appeal had gone out to all the...

Reading 1 - 2Ch 29:3 "In the first month of the first year of his reign, he [Hezekiah] opened the doors of the temple of the LORD and...

Reading 1 - 2Ch 28:19-21 "The LORD had humbled Judah because of Ahaz king of Israel [that is, Judah], for he had promoted wickedness in...

Reading 1 - 2Ch 26 2Ch 26: Uzziah as a type of modern Israel: The life of Uzziah was one of great achievement through divine blessing and...