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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…
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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…