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 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 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...