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 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 25:6-9 "(Amaziah] also hired a hundred thousand fighting men from Israel for a hundred talents of silver. But a man of...

Reading 1 - 2Ch 23 "Jehoiada gathered his forces for a counter-revolution. It was significantly in the 'seventh year' (v 1), a type of...

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 16:7 "At that time Hanani the seer came to Asa king of Judah and said to him: 'Because you relied on the king of Aram and...

Reading 1 - 2Ch 15:2 "Listen to me, Asa and all Judah and Benjamin. The LORD is with you when you are with him. If you seek him, he will...

Reading 1 - 2Ch 12 2Ch 12: "What ominous words are spoken against Jerusalem: 'they had transgressed against Yahweh' (v 2). Yet the people...

Reading 1 - 2Ch 8 "Following the establishment of the temple and palace, King Solomon engaged on a tremendous building activity in Israel...