Today’s
Reading : 2Chronicles 6 – 8 and Galatians 1 (KJV)
2Chronicles 6
2Ch
6:1 Then said Solomon, The LORD hath said that he
would dwell in the thick darkness.
2Ch 6:2 But I have built a house of habitation for
thee, and a place for thy dwelling forever.
2Ch 6:3 And the king turned his face, and blessed the
whole congregation of Israel: and all the congregation of Israel stood.
2Ch 6:4 And he said, Blessed be the LORD God of Israel, who hath with his
hands fulfilled that which he spoke with
his mouth to my father David, saying,
2Ch 6:5 Since the day that I brought forth my people
out of the land of Egypt I chose no city among all the tribes of Israel to
build a house in, that my name might be there; neither chose I any man to be a
ruler over my people Israel:
2Ch 6:6 But I have chosen Jerusalem, that my name
might be there; and have chosen David to be over my people Israel.
2Ch 6:7 Now it was in the heart of David my father to
build a house for the name of the LORD God of Israel.
2Ch 6:8 But the LORD said to David my father,
Forasmuch as it was in thine heart to build a house
for my name, thou didst well in that it was in thine
heart:
2Ch 6:9 Notwithstanding thou shalt
not build the house; but thy son which shall come forth out of thy loins, he
shall build the house for my name.
2Ch 6:10 The LORD therefore hath performed his word
that he hath spoken: for I am risen up in the room of David my father, and am
set on the throne of Israel, as the LORD promised, and have built the house for
the name of the LORD God of Israel.
2Ch 6:11 And in it have I put the ark, wherein is the covenant of the LORD, that he made with
the children of Israel.
2Ch 6:12 And he stood before the altar of the LORD in
the presence of all the congregation of Israel, and spread forth his hands:
2Ch 6:13 For Solomon had made a brazen scaffold, of
five cubits long, and five cubits broad, and three cubits high, and had set it
in the midst of the court: and upon it he stood, and kneeled down upon his
knees before all the congregation of Israel, and spread forth his hands toward
heaven,
2Ch 6:14 And said, O LORD God of Israel, there is
no God like thee in the heaven, nor in the earth; which keepest
covenant, and showest
mercy unto thy servants, that walk before thee with all their hearts:
2Ch 6:15 Thou which hast kept with thy servant David
my father that which thou hast promised him; and spakest
with thy mouth, and hast fulfilled it
with thine hand, as it
is this day.
2Ch 6:16 Now therefore, O LORD God of Israel, keep
with thy servant David my father that which thou hast promised him, saying,
There shall not fail thee a man in my sight to sit upon the throne of Israel;
yet so that thy children take heed to their way to walk in my law, as thou hast
walked before me.
2Ch 6:17 Now then, O LORD God of Israel, let thy word
be verified, which thou hast spoken unto thy servant David.
2Ch 6:18 But will God in very deed dwell with men on
the earth? behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens cannot contain thee; how
much less this house which I have built!
2Ch 6:19 Have respect therefore to the prayer of thy
servant, and to his supplication, O LORD my God, to hearken unto the cry and
the prayer which thy servant prayeth before thee:
2Ch 6:20 That thine eyes may
be open upon this house day and night, upon the place whereof thou hast said
that thou wouldest put thy name there; to hearken
unto the prayer which thy servant prayeth toward this
place.
2Ch 6:21 Hearken therefore unto the supplications of
thy servant, and of thy people Israel, which they shall make toward this place:
hear thou from thy dwelling place, even
from heaven; and when thou hearest, forgive.
2Ch 6:22 If a man sin against his neighbour, and an
oath be laid upon him to make him swear, and the oath come before thine altar in this house;
2Ch 6:23 Then hear thou from heaven, and do, and judge
thy servants, by requiting the wicked, by recompensing his way upon his own
head; and by justifying the righteous, by giving him according to his
righteousness.
2Ch 6:24 And if thy people Israel be put to the worse
before the enemy, because they have sinned against thee; and shall return and
confess thy name, and pray and make supplication before thee in this house;
2Ch 6:25 Then hear thou from the heavens, and forgive
the sin of thy people Israel, and bring them again unto the land which thou gavest to them and to their fathers.
2Ch 6:26 When the heaven is shut up, and there is no
rain, because they have sinned against thee; yet
if they pray toward this place, and confess thy name, and turn from their sin,
when thou dost afflict them;
2Ch 6:27 Then hear thou from heaven, and forgive the
sin of thy servants, and of thy people Israel, when thou hast taught them the
good way, wherein they should walk; and send rain upon thy land, which thou
hast given unto thy people for an inheritance.
2Ch 6:28 If there be dearth in the land, if there be
pestilence, if there be blasting, or mildew, locusts, or caterpillars; if their
enemies besiege them in the cities of their land; whatsoever sore or whatsoever
sickness there be:
2Ch 6:29 Then
what prayer or what supplication soever shall be made of any man, or of all thy people
Israel, when every one shall know his own sore and his own grief, and shall
spread forth his hands in this house:
2Ch 6:30 Then hear thou from heaven thy dwelling
place, and forgive, and render unto every man according unto all his ways,
whose heart thou knowest; (for thou only knowest the hearts of the children of men:)
2Ch 6:31 That they may fear thee, to walk in thy ways,
so long as they live in the land which thou gavest
unto our fathers.
2Ch 6:32 Moreover concerning the stranger, which is
not of thy people Israel, but is come from a far country for thy great name's
sake, and thy mighty hand, and thy stretched out arm; if they come and pray in
this house;
2Ch 6:33 Then hear thou from the heavens, even from thy dwelling place, and do according to
all that the stranger calleth to thee for; that all
people of the earth may know thy name, and fear thee, as doth thy people Israel, and may know that this
house which I have built is called by thy name.
2Ch 6:34 If thy people go out to war against their
enemies by the way that thou shalt send them, and
they pray unto thee toward this city which thou hast chosen, and the house
which I have built for thy name;
2Ch 6:35 Then hear thou from the heavens their prayer
and their supplication, and maintain their cause.
2Ch 6:36 If they sin against thee, (for there is
no man which sinneth not,) and thou be angry with
them, and deliver them over before their
enemies, and they carry them away captives unto a land far off or near;
2Ch 6:37 Yet if
they bethink themselves in the land whither they are carried captive, and turn
and pray unto thee in the land of their captivity, saying, We have sinned, we
have done amiss, and have dealt wickedly;
2Ch 6:38 If they return to thee with all their heart
and with all their soul in the land of their captivity, whither they have
carried them captives, and pray toward their land, which thou gavest unto their fathers, and toward
the city which thou hast chosen, and toward the house which I have built for
thy name:
2Ch 6:39 Then hear thou from the heavens, even from thy dwelling place, their prayer and
their supplications, and maintain their cause, and forgive thy people which
have sinned against thee.
2Ch 6:40 Now, my God, let, I beseech thee, thine eyes be open, and let
thine ears be attent unto the prayer that
is made
in this place.
2Ch 6:41 Now therefore arise, O LORD God, into thy
resting place, thou, and the ark of thy strength: let thy priests, O LORD God,
be clothed with salvation, and let thy saints rejoice in goodness.
2Ch 6:42 O LORD God, turn not away the face of thine anointed: remember the mercies of David thy servant.
2Chronicles 7
2Ch
7:1 Now when Solomon had made an end of praying,
the fire came down from heaven, and consumed the burnt offering and the
sacrifices; and the glory of the LORD filled the house.
2Ch 7:2 And the priests could not enter into the
house of the LORD, because the glory of the LORD had filled the LORD's house.
2Ch 7:3 And when all the children of Israel saw how
the fire came down, and the glory of the LORD upon the house, they bowed
themselves with their faces to the ground upon the pavement, and worshiped, and
praised the LORD, saying, For he is
good; for his mercy endureth
forever.
2Ch 7:4 Then the king and all the people offered
sacrifices before the LORD.
2Ch 7:5 And king Solomon offered a sacrifice of
twenty and two thousand oxen, and a hundred and twenty thousand sheep: so the
king and all the people dedicated the house of God.
2Ch 7:6 And the priests waited on their offices: the
Levites also with instruments of music of the LORD, which David the king had
made to praise the LORD, because his mercy endureth forever, when David praised by
their ministry; and the priests sounded trumpets before them, and all Israel
stood.
2Ch 7:7 Moreover Solomon hallowed the middle of the
court that was before the house of the
LORD: for there he offered burnt offerings, and the fat of the peace offerings,
because the brazen altar which Solomon had made was not able to receive the
burnt offerings, and the meat offerings, and the fat.
2Ch 7:8 Also at the same time Solomon kept the feast
seven days, and all Israel with him, a very great congregation, from the
entering in of Hamath unto the river of Egypt.
2Ch 7:9 And in the eighth day they made a solemn
assembly: for they kept the dedication of the altar seven days, and the feast
seven days.
2Ch 7:10 And on the three and twentieth day of the
seventh month he sent the people away into their tents, glad and merry in heart
for the goodness that the LORD had showed unto David, and to Solomon, and to
Israel his people.
2Ch 7:11 Thus Solomon finished the house of the LORD,
and the king's house: and all that came into Solomon's heart to make in the
house of the LORD, and in his own house, he prosperously effected.
2Ch 7:12 And the LORD appeared to Solomon by night,
and said unto him, I have heard thy prayer, and have chosen this place to
myself for a house of sacrifice.
2Ch 7:13 If I shut up heaven that there be no rain, or
if I command the locusts to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among my
people;
2Ch 7:14 If my people, which are called by my name,
shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked
ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal
their land.
2Ch 7:15 Now mine eyes shall be open, and mine ears attent unto the prayer that
is made
in this place.
2Ch 7:16 For now have I chosen and sanctified this
house, that my name may be there forever: and mine eyes and mine heart shall be
there perpetually.
2Ch 7:17 And as for thee, if thou wilt walk before me,
as David thy father walked, and do according to all that I have commanded thee,
and shalt observe my statutes and my judgments;
2Ch 7:18 Then will I establish the throne of thy
kingdom, according as I have covenanted with David thy father, saying, There shall
not fail thee a man to be ruler in Israel.
2Ch 7:19 But if ye turn away, and forsake my statutes
and my commandments, which I have set before you, and shall go and serve other
gods, and worship them;
2Ch 7:20 Then will I pluck them up by the roots out of
my land which I have given them; and this house, which I have sanctified for my
name, will I cast out of my sight, and will make it to
be a proverb and a byword among all
nations.
2Ch 7:21 And this house, which is high, shall be an
astonishment to every one that passeth by it; so that
he shall say, Why hath the LORD done thus unto this land, and unto this house?
2Ch 7:22 And it shall be answered, Because they
forsook the LORD God of their fathers, which brought them forth out of the land
of Egypt, and laid hold on other gods, and worshiped them, and served them:
therefore hath he brought all this evil upon them.
2Chronicles 8
2Ch
8:1 And it came to pass at the end of twenty
years, wherein Solomon had built the house of the LORD, and his own house,
2Ch 8:2 That the cities which Huram
had restored to Solomon, Solomon built them, and caused the children of Israel
to dwell there.
2Ch 8:3 And Solomon went to Hamath-zobah,
and prevailed against it.
2Ch 8:4 And he built Tadmor
in the wilderness, and all the store cities, which he built in Hamath.
2Ch 8:5 Also he built Beth-horon
the upper, and Beth-horon the nether, fenced cities,
with walls, gates, and bars;
2Ch 8:6 And Baalath, and
all the store cities that Solomon had, and all the chariot cities, and the
cities of the horsemen, and all that Solomon desired to build in Jerusalem, and
in Lebanon, and throughout all the land of his dominion.
2Ch 8:7 As for all the people that
were left of the Hittites, and the
Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, which
were not of Israel,
2Ch 8:8 But of
their children, who were left after them in the land, whom the children of
Israel consumed not, them did Solomon make to pay tribute until this day.
2Ch 8:9 But of the children of Israel did Solomon
make no servants for his work; but they were
men of war, and chief of his captains, and captains of his chariots and
horsemen.
2Ch 8:10 And these were
the chief of king Solomon's officers, even
two hundred and fifty, that bore rule over the people.
2Ch 8:11 And Solomon brought up the daughter of
Pharaoh out of the city of David unto the house that he had built for her: for
he said, My wife shall not dwell in the house of David king of Israel, because the places
are holy, whereunto the ark of the LORD
hath come.
2Ch 8:12 Then Solomon offered burnt offerings unto the
LORD on the altar of the LORD, which he had built before the porch,
2Ch 8:13 Even after a certain rate every day, offering
according to the commandment of Moses, on the sabbaths,
and on the new moons, and on the solemn feasts, three times in the year, even in the feast of unleavened bread, and in the
feast of weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles.
2Ch 8:14 And he appointed, according to the order of
David his father, the courses of the priests to their service, and the Levites
to their charges, to praise and minister before the priests, as the duty of
every day required: the porters also by their courses at every gate: for so had
David the man of God commanded.
2Ch 8:15 And they departed not from the commandment of
the king unto the priests and Levites concerning any matter, or concerning the
treasures.
2Ch 8:16 Now all the work of Solomon was prepared unto
the day of the foundation of the house of the LORD, and until it was finished. So the house of the LORD was perfected.
2Ch 8:17 Then went Solomon to Ezion-geber,
and to Eloth, at the sea side in the land of Edom.
2Ch 8:18 And Huram sent him
by the hands of his servants ships, and servants that had knowledge of the sea;
and they went with the servants of Solomon to Ophir,
and took thence four hundred and fifty talents of gold, and brought them to king Solomon.
Galatians 1
Gal
1:1 Paul, an apostle, (not of men, neither by
man, but by Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who raised him from the dead;)
Gal 1:2 And all the brethren which are with me, unto
the churches of Galatia:
Gal 1:3 Grace be
to you and peace from God the Father, and from
our Lord Jesus Christ,
Gal 1:4 Who gave himself for our sins, that he might
deliver us from this present evil world, according to the will of God and our
Father:
Gal 1:5 To whom be
glory forever and ever. Amen.
Gal 1:6 I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him
that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel:
Gal 1:7 Which is not another; but there be some that
trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ.
Gal 1:8 But though we, or an angel from heaven,
preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let
him be accursed.
Gal 1:9 As we said before, so say I now again, if any
man preach any other gospel unto you
than that ye have received, let him be accursed.
Gal 1:10 For do I now persuade men, or God? or do I
seek to please men? for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of
Christ.
Gal 1:11 But I certify you, brethren, that the gospel
which was preached of me is not after man.
Gal 1:12 For I neither received it of man, neither was
I taught it, but by the revelation of
Jesus Christ.
Gal 1:13 For ye have heard of my conversation in time
past in the Jews' religion, how that beyond measure I persecuted the church of
God, and wasted it:
Gal 1:14 And profited in the Jews' religion above many
my equals in mine own nation, being more exceedingly zealous of the traditions
of my fathers.
Gal 1:15 But when it pleased God, who separated me
from my mother's womb, and called me by
his grace,
Gal 1:16 To reveal his Son in me, that I might preach
him among the heathen; immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood:
Gal 1:17 Neither went I up to Jerusalem to them which
were apostles before me; but I went into Arabia, and returned again unto
Damascus.
Gal 1:18 Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem
to see Peter, and abode with him fifteen days.
Gal 1:19 But other of the apostles saw I none, save
James the Lord's brother.
Gal 1:20 Now the things which I write unto you,
behold, before God, I lie not.
Gal 1:21 Afterwards I came into the regions of Syria
and Cilicia;
Gal 1:22 And was unknown by face unto the churches of
Judea which were in Christ:
Gal 1:23 But they had heard only, That he which
persecuted us in times past now preacheth the faith
which once he destroyed.
Gal 1:24 And they glorified God in me.