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260 Bible Reading & Devotion: January 7, 2020 – Job 1
Read chapter in full: www.biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Job+001 Job The wisdom of Proverbs describes how godly character generally leads to success. Ecclesiastes tempers this, warning that rewards are not guaranteed, since a kind of “crookedness” has come into our world. The book of Job goes further, exploring how righteous people sometimes suffer. The book of…
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260 Bible Reading & Devotion: January 6, 2020 – Esther 10
Read chapter in full: www.biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Esther+010 CHAPTER 10 (ESV) 1 King Ahasuerus imposed tax on the land and on the coastlands of the sea. 2 And all the acts of his power and might, and the full account of the high honor of Mordecai, to which the king advanced him, are they not written in…
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260 Bible Reading & Devotion: January 3, 2020 – Esther 9
Read chapter in full: www.biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Esther+009 CHAPTER 9 (ESV) 20 And Mordecai recorded these things and sent letters to all the Jews who were in all the provinces of King Ahasuerus, both near and far, 21 obliging them to keep the fourteenth day of the month Adar and also the fifteenth day of the same,…
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260 Bible Reading & Devotion: January 2, 2020 – Esther 8
Read chapter in full: www.biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Esther+008 CHAPTER 8 (ESV) 3 Then Esther spoke again to the king. She fell at his feet and wept and pleaded with him to avert the evil plan of Haman the Agagite and the plot that he had devised against the Jews. 4 When the king held out the golden…
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260 Bible Reading & Devotion: January 1, 2020 – Esther 7
Read chapter in full: www.biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Esther+007 CHAPTER 7 (ESV) 1 So the king and Haman went in to feast with Queen Esther. 2 And on the second day, as they were drinking wine after the feast, the king again said to Esther, “What is your wish, Queen Esther? It shall be granted you. And what…
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260 Bible Reading & Devotion: December 31, 2019 – Esther 6
Read chapter in full: www.biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Esther+006 CHAPTER 6 (ESV) 1 On that night the king could not sleep. And he gave orders to bring the book of memorable deeds, the chronicles, and they were read before the king. 2 And it was found written how Mordecai had told about Bigthana and Teresh, two of the…
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260 Bible Reading & Devotion: December 30, 2019 – Esther 5
Read chapter in full: www.biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Esther+005 CHAPTER 5 (ESV) 9 And Haman went out that day joyful and glad of heart. But when Haman saw Mordecai in the king’s gate, that he neither rose nor trembled before him, he was filled with wrath against Mordecai. 10 Nevertheless, Haman restrained himself and went home, and he…
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260 Bible Reading & Devotion: December 27, 2019 – Esther 4
Read chapter in full: www.biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Esther+004 CHAPTER 4 (ESV) 13 Then Mordecai told them to reply to Esther, “Do not think to yourself that in the king’s palace you will escape any more than all the other Jews. 14 For if you keep silent at this time, relief and deliverance will rise for the Jews…
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260 Bible Reading & Devotion: December 26, 2019 – Esther 3
Read chapter in full: www.biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Esther+003 CHAPTER 3 (ESV) 1 After these things King Ahasuerus promoted Haman the Agagite, the son of Hammedatha, and advanced him and set his throne above all the officials who were with him. 2 And all the king’s servants who were at the king’s gate bowed down and paid homage…
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260 Bible Reading & Devotion: December 25, 2019 – Esther 2
Read chapter in full: www.biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Esther+002 CHAPTER 2 (ESV) 16 And when Esther was taken to King Ahasuerus, into his royal palace, in the tenth month, which is the month of Tebeth, in the seventh year of his reign, 17 the king loved Esther more than all the women, and she won grace and favor…