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Bible Reading for July 01
2 Kings 15
[1] In the twenty and seventh year of Jeroboam king of Israel began Azariah
son of Amaziah king of Judah to reign. [2] Sixteen years old was he when he
began to reign, and he reigned two and fifty years in Jerusalem. And his
mother's name was Jecholiah of Jerusalem. [3] And he did that which was right
in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his father Amaziah had done;
[4] Save that the high places were not removed: the people sacrificed and
burnt incense still on the high places. [5] And the LORD smote the king, so
that he was a leper unto the day of his death, and dwelt in a several house.
And Jotham the king's son was over the house, judging the people of the land.
[6] And the rest of the acts of Azariah, and all that he did, are they not
written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? [7] So Azariah
slept with his fathers; and they buried him with his fathers in the city of
David: and Jotham his son reigned in his stead. [8] In the thirty and eighth
year of Azariah king of Judah did Zachariah the son of Jeroboam reign over
Israel in Samaria six months. [9] And he did that which was evil in the sight
of the LORD, as his fathers had done: he departed not from the sins of
Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin.
[10] And Shallum the son of Jabesh conspired against him, and smote him before
the people, and slew him, and reigned in his stead. [11] And the rest of the
acts of Zachariah, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of
the kings of Israel. [12] This was the word of the LORD which he spake unto
Jehu, saying, Thy sons shall sit on the throne of Israel unto the fourth
generation. And so it came to pass.
[13] Shallum the son of Jabesh began to reign in the nine and thirtieth year
of Uzziah king of Judah; and he reigned a full month in Samaria. [14] For
Menahem the son of Gadi went up from Tirzah, and came to Samaria, and smote
Shallum the son of Jabesh in Samaria, and slew him, and reigned in his stead.
[15] And the rest of the acts of Shallum, and his conspiracy which he made,
behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.
[16] Then Menahem smote Tiphsah, and all that were therein, and the coasts
thereof from Tirzah: because they opened not to him, therefore he smote it;
and all the women therein that were with child he ripped up. [17] In the nine
and thirtieth year of Azariah king of Judah began Menahem the son of Gadi to
reign over Israel, and reigned ten years in Samaria. [18] And he did that
which was evil in the sight of the LORD: he departed not all his days from the
sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin.
[19] And Pul the king of Assyria came against the land: and Menahem gave Pul a
thousand talents of silver, that his hand might be with him to confirm the
kingdom in his hand.
[20] And Menahem exacted the money of Israel, even of all the mighty men of
wealth, of each man fifty shekels of silver, to give to the king of Assyria.
So the king of Assyria turned back, and stayed not there in the land. [21] And
the rest of the acts of Menahem, and all that he did, are they not written in
the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel? [22] And Menahem slept with
his fathers; and Pekahiah his son reigned in his stead.
[23] In the fiftieth year of Azariah king of Judah Pekahiah the son of Menahem
began to reign over Israel in Samaria, and reigned two years. [24] And he did
that which was evil in the sight of the LORD: he departed not from the sins of
Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin. [25] But Pekah the son of
Remaliah, a captain of his, conspired against him, and smote him in Samaria,
in the palace of the king's house, with Argob and Arieh, and with him fifty
men of the Gileadites: and he killed him, and reigned in his room.
[26] And the rest of the acts of Pekahiah, and all that he did, behold, they
are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel. [27] In the
two and fiftieth year of Azariah king of Judah Pekah the son of Remaliah began
to reign over Israel in Samaria, and reigned twenty years. [28] And he did
that which was evil in the sight of the LORD: he departed not from the sins of
Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin. [29] In the days of Pekah
king of Israel came Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria, and took Ijon, and
Abel-beth-maachah, and Jonoah, and Kedesh, and Hazor, and Gilead, and Galilee,
all the land of Naphtali, and carried them captive to Assyria.
[30] And Hoshea the son of Elah made a conspiracy against Pekah the son of
Remaliah, and smote him, and slew him, and reigned in his stead, in the
twentieth year of Jotham the son of Uzziah. [31] And the rest of the acts of
Pekah, and all that he did, behold, they are written in the book of the
chronicles of the kings of Israel. [32] In the second year of Pekah the son of
Remaliah king of Israel began Jotham the son of Uzziah king of Judah to reign.
[33] Five and twenty years old was he when he began to reign, and he reigned
sixteen years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Jerusha, the daughter of
Zadok.
[34] And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD: he did
according to all that his father Uzziah had done. [35] Howbeit the high places
were not removed: the people sacrificed and burned incense still in the high
places. He built the higher gate of the house of the LORD.
[36] Now the rest of the acts of Jotham, and all that he did, are they not
written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? [37] In those
days the LORD began to send against Judah Rezin the king of Syria, and Pekah
the son of Remaliah. [38] And Jotham slept with his fathers, and was buried
with his fathers in the city of David his father: and Ahaz his son reigned in
his stead.
2 Kings 16
[1] In the seventeenth year of Pekah the son of Remaliah Ahaz the son of
Jotham king of Judah began to reign. [2] Twenty years old was Ahaz when he
began to reign, and reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem, and did not that which
was right in the sight of the LORD his God, like David his father. [3] But he
walked in the way of the kings of Israel, yea, and made his son to pass
through the fire, according to the abominations of the heathen, whom the LORD
cast out from before the children of Israel. [4] And he sacrificed and burnt
incense in the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree.
[5] Then Rezin king of Syria and Pekah son of Remaliah king of Israel came up
to Jerusalem to war: and they besieged Ahaz, but could not overcome him. [6]
At that time Rezin king of Syria recovered Elath to Syria, and drave the Jews
from Elath: and the Syrians came to Elath, and dwelt there unto this day.
[7] So Ahaz sent messengers to Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria, saying, I am
thy servant and thy son: come up, and save me out of the hand of the king of
Syria, and out of the hand of the king of Israel, which rise up against me.
[8] And Ahaz took the silver and gold that was found in the house of the LORD,
and in the treasures of the king's house, and sent it for a present to the
king of Assyria.
[9] And the king of Assyria hearkened unto him: for the king of Assyria went
up against Damascus, and took it, and carried the people of it captive to Kir,
and slew Rezin.
[10] And king Ahaz went to Damascus to meet Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria,
and saw an altar that was at Damascus: and king Ahaz sent to Urijah the priest
the fashion of the altar, and the pattern of it, according to all the
workmanship thereof.
[11] And Urijah the priest built an altar according to all that king Ahaz had
sent from Damascus: so Urijah the priest made it against king Ahaz came from
Damascus.
[12] And when the king was come from Damascus, the king saw the altar: and the
king approached to the altar, and offered thereon. [13] and he burnt his burnt
offering and his meat offering, and poured his drink offering, and sprinkled
the blood of his peace offerings, upon the altar.
[14] And he brought also the brasen altar, which was before the LORD, from the
forefront of the house, from between the altar and the house of the LORD, and
put it on the north side of the altar. [15] And king Ahaz commanded Urijah the
priest, saying, Upon the great altar burn the morning burnt offering, and the
evening meat offering, and the king's burnt sacrifice, and his meat offering,
with the burnt offering of all the people of the land, and their meat
offering, and their drink offerings; and sprinkle upon it all the blood of the
burnt offering, and all the blood of the sacrifice: and the brasen altar shall
be for me to inquire by.
[16] Thus did Urijah the priest, according to all that king Ahaz commanded.
[17] And king Ahaz cut off the borders of the bases, and removed the laver
from off them; and took down the sea from off the brasen oxen that were under
it, and put it upon a pavement of stones. [18] And the covert for the sabbath
that they had built in the house, and the king's entry without, turned he from
the house of the LORD for the king of Assyria.
[19] Now the rest of the acts of Ahaz which he did, are they not written in
the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? [20] And Ahaz slept with his
fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David: and Hezekiah
his son reigned in his stead.
2 Kings 17
[1] In the twelfth year of Ahaz king of Judah began Hoshea the son of Elah to
reign in Samaria over Israel nine years. [2] And he did that which was evil in
the sight of the LORD, but not as the kings of Israel that were before him.
[3] Against him came up Shalmaneser king of Assyria; and Hoshea became his
servant, and gave him presents.
[4] And the king of Assyria found conspiracy in Hoshea: for he had sent
messengers to So king of Egypt, and brought no present to the king of Assyria,
as he had done year by year: therefore the king of Assyria shut him up, and
bound him in prison.
[5] Then the king of Assyria came up throughout all the land, and went up to
Samaria, and besieged it three years. [6] In the ninth year of Hoshea the king
of Assyria took Samaria, and carried Israel away into Assyria, and placed them
in Halah and in Habor by the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.
[7] For so it was, that the children of Israel had sinned against the LORD
their God, which had brought them up out of the land of Egypt, from under the
hand of Pharoah king of Egypt, and had feared other gods, [8] And walked in
the statutes of the heathen, whom the LORD cast out from before the children
of Israel, and of the kings of Israel, which they had made.
[9] And the children of Israel did secretly those things that were not right
against the LORD their God, and they built them high places in all their
cities, from the tower of the watchmen to the fenced city. [10] And they set
them up images and groves in every high hill, and under every green tree:
[11] And there they burnt incense in all the high places, as did the heathen
whom the LORD carried away before them; and wrought wicked things to provoke
the LORD to anger:
[12] For they served idols, whereof the LORD had said unto them, Ye shall not
do this thing.
[13] Yet the LORD testified against Israel, and against Judah, by all the
prophets, and by all the seers, saying, Turn ye from your evil ways, and keep
my commandments and my statutes, according to all the law which I commanded
your fathers, and which I sent to you by my servants the prophets. [14]
Notwithstanding they would not hear, but hardened their necks, like to the
neck of their fathers, that did not believe in the LORD their God. [15] And
they rejected his statutes, and his covenant that he made with their fathers,
and his testimonies which he testified against them; and they followed vanity,
and became vain, and went after the heathen that were round about them,
concerning whom the LORD had charged them, that they should not do like them.
[16] And they left all the commandments of the LORD their God, and made them
molten images, even two calves, and made a grove, and worshipped all the host
of heaven, and served Baal.
[17] And they caused their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire,
and used divination and enchantments, and sold themselves to do evil in the
sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger. [18] Therefore the LORD was very
angry with Israel, and removed them out of his sight: there was none left but
the tribe of Judah only. [19] Also Judah kept not the commandments of the LORD
their God, but walked in the statutes of Israel which they made. [20] And the
LORD rejected all the seed of Israel, and afflicted them, and delivered them
into the hand of spoilers, until he had cast them out of his sight.
[21] For he rent Israel from the house of David; and they made Jeroboam the
son of Nebat king: and Jeroboam drave Israel from following the LORD, and made
them sin a great sin.
[22] For the children of Israel walked in all the sins of Jeroboam which he
did; they departed not from them;
[23] Until the LORD removed Israel out of his sight, as he had said by all his
servants the prophets. So was Israel carried away out of their own land to
Assyria unto this day.
[24] And the king of Assyria brought men from Babylon, and from Cuthah, and
from Ava, and from Hamath, and from Sepharvaim, and placed them in the cities
of Samaria instead of the children of Israel: and they possessed Samaria, and
dwelt in the cities thereof. [25] And so it was at the beginning of their
dwelling there, that they feared not the LORD: therefore the LORD sent lions
among them, which slew some of them.
[26] Wherefore they spake to the king of Assyria, saying, The nations which
thou hast removed, and placed in the cities of Samaria, know not the manner of
the God of the land: therefore he hath sent lions among them, and, behold,
they slay them, because they know not the manner of the God of the land.
[27] Then the king of Assyria commanded, saying, Carry thither one of the
priests whom ye brought from thence; and let them go and dwell there, and let
him teach them the manner of the God of the land. [28] Then one of the priests
whom they had carried away from Samaria came and dwelt in Bethel, and taught
them how they should fear the LORD. [29] Howbeit every nation made gods of
their own, and put them in the houses of the high places which the Samaritans
had made, every nation in their cities wherein they dwelt.
[30] And the men of Babylon made Succoth-benoth, and the men of Cuth made
Nergal, and the men of Hamath made Ashima, [31] And the Avites made Nibhaz and
Tartak, and the Sepharvites burnt their children in fire to Adrammelech and
Anammelech, the gods of Sepharvaim. [32] So they feared the LORD, and made
unto themselves of the lowest of them priests of the high places, which
sacrificed for them in the houses of the high places.
[33] They feared the LORD, and served their own gods, after the manner of the
nations whom they carried away from thence. [34] Unto this day they do after
the former manners: they fear not the LORD, neither do they after their
statutes, or after their ordinances, or after the law and commandment which
the LORD commanded the children of Jacob, whom he named Israel;
[35] With whom the LORD had made a covenant, and charged them saying, Ye shall
not fear other gods, nor bow yourselves to them, nor serve them, nor sacrifice
to them:
[36] But the LORD, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt with great
power and a stretched out arm, him shall ye fear, and him shall ye worship,
and to him shall ye do sacrifice.
[37] And the statutes, and the ordinances, and the law, and the commandment,
which he wrote for you, ye shall observe to do for evermore; and ye shall not
fear other gods.
[38] And the covenant that I have made with you ye shall not forget; neither
shall ye fear other gods.
[39] But the LORD your God ye shall fear; and he shall deliver you out of the
hand of all your enemies.
[40] Howbeit they did not hearken, but they did after their former manner.
[41] So these nations feared the LORD, and served their graven images, both
their children, and their children's children: as did their fathers, so do
they unto this day.
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