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“Listening to God” Bible Reading & Devotion: Jul 18, 2024 – Esther 004
Read chapter in full: 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…
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“Listening to God” Bible Reading & Devotion: Jul 17, 2024 – Esther 003
Read chapter in full: 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…
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“Listening to God” Bible Reading & Devotion: Jul 16, 2024 – Esther 002
Read chapter in full: 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…
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“Listening to God” Bible Reading & Devotion: Jul 15, 2024 – Esther 001
Read chapter in full: 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…
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“Listening to God” Bible Reading & Devotion: Jul 12, 2024 – Nehemiah 013
Read chapter in full: 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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“Listening to God” Bible Reading & Devotion: Jul 11, 2024 – Nehemiah 012
Read chapter in full: 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 the…
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“Listening to God” Bible Reading & Devotion: Jul 10, 2024 – Nehemiah 011
Read chapter in full: 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 people…
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“Listening to God” Bible Reading & Devotion: Jul 9, 2024 – Nehemiah 010
Read chapter in full: 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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“Listening to God” Bible Reading & Devotion: Jul 8, 2024 – Nehemiah 009
Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Nehemiah+009 CHAPTER 9 (ESV) 1 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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“Listening to God” Bible Reading & Devotion: Jul 5, 2024 – Nehemiah 008
Read chapter in full: 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…