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260 Bible Reading & Devotion: December 24, 2019 – Esther 1
Read chapter in full: www.biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Esther+001 Esther The book of Esther explains why Jews in the Persian period began celebrating a new festival called Purim. The Law of Moses had earlier described how God’s mighty acts of deliverance lay behind holidays such as Passover and Tabernacles. The book of Esther shows how God intervened once…
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260 Bible Reading & Devotion: December 23, 2019 – Nehemiah 13
Read chapter in full: www.biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Nehemiah+013 CHAPTER 13 (ESV) 23 In those days also I saw the Jews who had married women of Ashdod, Ammon, and Moab. 24 And half of their children spoke the language of Ashdod, and they could not speak the language of Judah, but only the language of each people.…
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260 Bible Reading & Devotion: December 20, 2019 – Nehemiah 12
Read chapter in full: www.biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Nehemiah+012 CHAPTER 12 (ESV) 27 And at the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem they sought the Levites in all their places, to bring them to Jerusalem to celebrate the dedication with gladness, with thanksgivings and with singing, with cymbals, harps, and lyres. 28 And the sons of…
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260 Bible Reading & Devotion: December 19, 2019 – Nehemiah 11
Read chapter in full: www.biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Nehemiah+011 CHAPTER 11 (ESV) 1 Now the leaders of the people lived in Jerusalem. And the rest of the people cast lots to bring one out of ten to live in Jerusalem the holy city, while nine out of ten remained in the other towns. 2 And the…
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260 Bible Reading & Devotion: December 18, 2019 – Nehemiah 10
Read chapter in full: www.biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Nehemiah+010 CHAPTER 10 (ESV) 32 “We also take on ourselves the obligation to give yearly a third part of a shekel for the service of the house of our God: 33 for the showbread, the regular grain offering, the regular burnt offering, the Sabbaths, the new moons, the appointed…
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260 Bible Reading & Devotion: December 17, 2019 – Nehemiah 9
Read chapter in full: www.biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Nehemiah+009 CHAPTER 9 (ESV) 9 Now on the twenty-fourth day of this month the people of Israel were assembled with fasting and in sackcloth, and with earth on their heads. 2 And the Israelites separated themselves from all foreigners and stood and confessed their sins and the iniquities of…
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260 Bible Reading & Devotion: December 16, 2019 – Nehemiah 8
Read chapter in full: www.biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Nehemiah+008 CHAPTER 8 (ESV) 9 And Nehemiah, who was the governor, and Ezra the priest and scribe, and the Levites who taught the people said to all the people, “This day is holy to the Lord your God; do not mourn or weep.” For all the people wept as…
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260 Bible Reading & Devotion: December 13, 2019 – Nehemiah 7
Read chapter in full: www.biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Nehemiah+007 CHAPTER 7 (ESV) 7 Now when the wall had been built and I had set up the doors, and the gatekeepers, the singers, and the Levites had been appointed, 2 I gave my brother Hanani and Hananiah the governor of the castle charge over Jerusalem, for he was…
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260 Bible Reading & Devotion: December 12, 2019 – Nehemiah 6
Read chapter in full: www.biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Nehemiah+006 CHAPTER 6 (ESV) 10 Now when I went into the house of Shemaiah the son of Delaiah, son of Mehetabel, who was confined to his home, he said, “Let us meet together in the house of God, within the temple. Let us close the doors of the temple,…
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260 Bible Reading & Devotion: December 11, 2019 – Nehemiah 5
Read chapter in full: www.biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Nehemiah+005 CHAPTER 5 (ESV) 14 Moreover, from the time that I was appointed to be their governor in the land of Judah, from the twentieth year to the thirty-second year of Artaxerxes the king, twelve years, neither I nor my brothers ate the food allowance of the governor. 15…