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 5; 6 "The unexpected opposition to the work of God discouraged the people. If any of the wall had been set up (Ezr 4:2),...

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 18; 19 In 2Ch 18, we see the beginnings of what amounted to Jehoshaphat's three-fold "unequal yoking" with unbelievers:...

Reading 1 - 2Ch 11:16 "Those from every tribe of Israel who set their hearts on seeking the LORD, the God of Israel, followed the Levites...

Reading 1 - 2Ch 9:30,31 "Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel forty years. Then he rested with his fathers and was buried in the...

Reading 1 - 1Ch 26 David organized the officers of the Levites as gatekeepers (1Ch 26:1-19), treasury guards (1Ch 26:20-28), and leaders...