Daily Readings for October 17
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2Chronicles 8

 

1.It happened at the end of twenty years, in which Solomon had built the house of Yahweh, and his own house, 2.that the cities which Huram had given to Solomon, Solomon built them, and caused the children of Israel to dwell there. 3.Solomon went to Hamath Zobah, and prevailed against it. 4.He built Tadmor in the wilderness, and all the storage cities, which he built in Hamath. 5.Also he built Beth Horon the upper, and Beth Horon the lower, fortified cities, with walls, gates, and bars; 6.and Baalath, and all the storage cities that Solomon had, and all the cities for his chariots, and the cities for his horsemen, and all that Solomon desired to build for his pleasure in Jerusalem, and in Lebanon, and in all the land of his dominion. 7.As for all the people who were left of the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, who were not of Israel; 8.of their children who were left after them in the land, whom the children of Israel didn't consume, of them Solomon conscripted forced labor to this day. 9.But of the children of Israel, Solomon made no servants for his work; but they were men of war, and chief of his captains, and rulers of his chariots and of his horsemen. 10.These were the chief officers of king Solomon, even two-hundred fifty, who ruled over the people.

11.Solomon brought up the daughter of Pharaoh out of the city of David to 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 where the ark of Yahweh has come are holy."

12.Then Solomon offered burnt offerings to Yahweh on the altar of Yahweh, which he had built before the porch, 13.even as the duty of every day required, offering according to the commandment of Moses, on the Sabbaths, and on the new moons, and on the set feasts, three times in the year, in the feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tents. 14.He appointed, according to the ordinance of David his father, the divisions of the priests to their service, and the Levites to their offices, to praise, and to minister before the priests, as the duty of every day required; the doorkeepers also by their divisions at every gate: for so had David the man of God commanded. 15.They didn't depart from the commandment of the king to the priests and Levites concerning any matter, or concerning the treasures. 16.Now all the work of Solomon was prepared to the day of the foundation of the house of Yahweh, and until it was finished. So the house of Yahweh was completed. 17.Then went Solomon to Ezion Geber, and to Eloth, on the seashore in the land of Edom. 18.Huram sent him ships and servants who had knowledge of the sea by the hands of his servants; and they came with the servants of Solomon to Ophir, and fetched from there four hundred fifty talents of gold, and brought them to king Solomon.

 

Ezekiel 43

 

1.Afterward he brought me to the gate, even the gate that looks toward the east. 2.Behold, the glory of the God of Israel came from the way of the east: and his voice was like the sound of many waters; and the earth shined with his glory. 3.It was according to the appearance of the vision which I saw, even according to the vision that I saw when I came to destroy the city; and the visions were like the vision that I saw by the river Chebar; and I fell on my face. 4.The glory of Yahweh came into the house by the way of the gate whose prospect is toward the east. 5.The Spirit took me up, and brought me into the inner court; and behold, the glory of Yahweh filled the house. 6.I heard one speaking to me out of the house; and a man stood by me. 7.He said to me, Son of man, [this is] the place of my throne, and the place of the soles of my feet, where I will dwell in the midst of the children of Israel forever. The house of Israel shall no more defile my holy name, neither they, nor their kings, by their prostitution, and by the dead bodies of their kings [in] their high places; 8.in their setting of their threshold by my threshold, and their doorpost beside my doorpost, and there was [but] the wall between me and them; and they have defiled my holy name by their abominations which they have committed: therefore I have consumed them in my anger. 9.Now let them put away their prostitution, and the dead bodies of their kings, far from me; and I will dwell in their midst forever. 10.You, son of man, show the house to the house of Israel, that they may be ashamed of their iniquities; and let them measure the pattern. 11.If they be ashamed of all that they have done, make known to them the form of the house, and its fashion, and its exits, and its entrances, and all its forms, and all its ordinances, and all its forms, and all its laws; and write it in their sight; that they may keep the whole form of it, and all its ordinances, and do them. 12.This is the law of the house: on the top of the mountain the whole limit around it shall be most holy. Behold, this is the law of the house. 13.These are the measures of the altar by cubits (the cubit is a cubit and a handbreadth): the bottom shall be a cubit, and the breadth a cubit, and its border around its edge a span; and this shall be the base of the altar. 14.From the bottom on the ground to the lower ledge shall be two cubits, and the breadth one cubit; and from the lesser ledge to the greater ledge shall be four cubits, and the breadth a cubit. 15.The upper altar shall be four cubits; and from the altar hearth and upward there shall be four horns. 16.The altar hearth shall be twelve [cubits] long by twelve broad, square in the four sides of it. 17.The ledge shall be fourteen [cubits] long by fourteen broad in the four sides of it; and the border about it shall be half a cubit; and its bottom shall be a cubit around; and its steps shall look toward the east. 18.He said to me, Son of man, thus says the Lord Yahweh: These are the ordinances of the altar in the day when they shall make it, to offer burnt offerings thereon, and to sprinkle blood thereon. 19.You shall give to the priests the Levites who are of the seed of Zadok, who are near to me, to minister to me, says the Lord Yahweh, a young bull for a sin offering. 20.You shall take of its blood, and put it on the four horns of it, and on the four corners of the ledge, and on the border all around: thus you shall cleanse it and make atonement for it. 21.You shall also take the bull of the sin offering, and it shall be burnt in the appointed place of the house, outside of the sanctuary. 22.On the second day you shall offer a male goat without blemish for a sin offering; and they shall cleanse the altar, as they cleansed it with the bull. 23.When you have finished cleansing it, you shall offer a young bull without blemish, and a ram out of the flock without blemish. 24.You shall bring them near to Yahweh, and the priests shall cast salt on them, and they shall offer them up for a burnt offering to Yahweh. 25.Seven days you shall prepare every day a goat for a sin offering: they shall also prepare a young bull, and a ram out of the flock, without blemish. 26.Seven days shall they make atonement for the altar and purify it; so shall they consecrate it. 27.When they have accomplished the days, it shall be that on the eighth day, and forward, the priests shall make your burnt offerings on the altar, and your peace offerings; and I will accept you, says the Lord Yahweh.

 

John 9

 

1.As he passed by, he saw a man blind from birth. 2.His disciples asked him, "Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?"

3.Jesus answered, "Neither did this man sin, nor his parents; but, that the works of God might be revealed in him. 4.I must work the works of him who sent me, while it is day. The night is coming, when no one can work. 5.While I am in the world, I am the light of the world." 6.When he had said this, he spat on the ground, made mud with the saliva, anointed the blind man's eyes with the mud, 7.and said to him, "Go, wash in the pool of Siloam" (which means "Sent"). So he went away, washed, and came back seeing. 8.The neighbors therefore, and those who saw that he was blind before, said, "Isn't this he who sat and begged?" 9.Others were saying, "It is he." Still others were saying, "He looks like him."

He said, "I am he." 10.They therefore were asking him, "How were your eyes opened?"

11.He answered, "A man called Jesus made mud, anointed my eyes, and said to me, 'Go to the pool of Siloam, and wash.' So I went away and washed, and I received sight."

He said, "I don't know."

12.Then they asked him, "Where is he?"

13.They brought him who had been blind to the Pharisees. 14.It was a Sabbath when Jesus made the mud and opened his eyes. 15.Again therefore the Pharisees also asked him how he received his sight. He said to them, "He put mud on my eyes, I washed, and I see."

16.Some therefore of the Pharisees said, "This man is not from God, because he doesn't keep the Sabbath." Others said, "How can a man who is a sinner do such signs?" There was division among them. 17.Therefore they asked the blind man again, "What do you say about him, because he opened your eyes?"

He said, "He is a prophet."

18.The Jews therefore did not believe concerning him, that he had been blind, and had received his sight, until they called the parents of him who had received his sight, 19.and asked them, "Is this your son, whom you say was born blind? How then does he now see?"

20.His parents answered them, "We know that this is our son, and that he was born blind; 21.but how he now sees, we don't know; or who opened his eyes, we don't know. He is of age. Ask him. He will speak for himself." 22.His parents said these things because they feared the Jews; for the Jews had already agreed that if any man would confess him as Christ, he would be put out of the synagogue. 23.Therefore his parents said, "He is of age. Ask him."

24.So they called the man who was blind a second time, and said to him, "Give glory to God. We know that this man is a sinner."

25.He therefore answered, "I don't know if he is a sinner. One thing I do know: that though I was blind, now I see."

26.They said to him again, "What did he do to you? How did he open your eyes?"

27.He answered them, "I told you already, and you didn't listen. Why do you want to hear it again? You don't also want to become his disciples, do you?"

28.They insulted him and said, "You are his disciple, but we are disciples of Moses. 29.We know that God has spoken to Moses. But as for this man, we don't know where he comes from."

30.The man answered them, "How amazing! You don't know where he comes from, yet he opened my eyes. 31.We know that God doesn't listen to sinners, but if anyone is a worshipper of God, and does his will, he listens to him.[28] 32.Since the world began it has never been heard of that anyone opened the eyes of someone born blind. 33.If this man were not from God, he could do nothing."

34.They answered him, "You were altogether born in sins, and do you teach us?" They threw him out.

35.Jesus heard that they had thrown him out, and finding him, he said, "Do you believe in the Son of God?"

36.He answered, "Who is he, Lord, that I may believe in him?"

37.Jesus said to him, "You have both seen him, and it is he who speaks with you."

38.He said, "Lord, I believe!" and he worshiped him.

39.Jesus said, "I came into this world for judgment, that those who don't see may see; and that those who see may become blind."

40.Those of the Pharisees who were with him heard these things, and said to him, "Are we also blind?"

41.Jesus said to them, "If you were blind, you would have no sin; but now you say, 'We see.' Therefore your sin remains.

 

John 10

 

1."Most certainly, I tell you, one who doesn't enter by the door into the sheep fold, but climbs up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber. 2.But one who enters in by the door is the shepherd of the sheep. 3.The gatekeeper opens the gate for him, and the sheep listen to his voice. He calls his own sheep by name, and leads them out. 4.Whenever he brings out his own sheep, he goes before them, and the sheep follow him, for they know his voice. 5.They will by no means follow a stranger, but will flee from him; for they don't know the voice of strangers." 6.Jesus spoke this parable to them, but they didn't understand what he was telling them.

7.Jesus therefore said to them again, "Most certainly, I tell you, I am the sheep's door. 8.All who came before me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep didn't listen to them. 9.I am the door. If anyone enters in by me, he will be saved, and will go in and go out, and will find pasture. 10.The thief only comes to steal, kill, and destroy. I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly. 11.I am the good shepherd.[29] The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep. 12.He who is a hired hand, and not a shepherd, who doesn't own the sheep, sees the wolf coming, leaves the sheep, and flees. The wolf snatches the sheep, and scatters them. 13.The hired hand flees because he is a hired hand, and doesn't care for the sheep. 14.I am the good shepherd. I know my own, and I'm known by my own; 15.even as the Father knows me, and I know the Father. I lay down my life for the sheep. 16.I have other sheep, which are not of this fold.[30] I must bring them also, and they will hear my voice. They will become one flock with one shepherd. 17.Therefore the Father loves me, because I lay down my life,[31] that I may take it again. 18.No one takes it away from me, but I lay it down by myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. I received this commandment from my Father."

19.Therefore a division arose again among the Jews because of these words. 20.Many of them said, "He has a demon, and is insane! Why do you listen to him?" 21.Others said, "These are not the sayings of one possessed by a demon. It isn't possible for a demon to open the eyes of the blind, is it?"[32]

22.It was the Feast of the Dedication³³ at Jerusalem. 23.It was winter, and Jesus was walking in the temple, in Solomon's porch. 24.The Jews therefore came around him and said to him, "How long will you hold us in suspense? If you are the Christ, tell us plainly."

25.Jesus answered them, "I told you, and you don't believe. The works that I do in my Father's name, these testify about me. 26.But you don't believe, because you are not of my sheep, as I told you. 27.My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me. 28.I give eternal life to them. They will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand. 29.My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all. No one is able to snatch them out of my Father's hand. 30.I and the Father are one."

31.Therefore Jews took up stones again to stone him. 32.Jesus answered them, "I have shown you many good works from my Father. For which of those works do you stone me?"

33.The Jews answered him, "We don't stone you for a good work, but for blasphemy: because you, being a man, make yourself God."

34.Jesus answered them, "Isn't it written in your law, 'I said, you are gods?'[34] 35.If he called them gods, to whom the word of God came (and the Scripture can't be broken), 36.do you say of him whom the Father sanctified and sent into the world, 'You blaspheme,' because I said, 'I am the Son of God?' 37.If I don't do the works of my Father, don't believe me. 38.But if I do them, though you don't believe me, believe the works; that you may know and believe that the Father is in me, and I in the Father."

39.They sought again to seize him, and he went out of their hand. 40.He went away again beyond the Jordan into the place where John was baptizing at first, and there he stayed. 41.Many came to him. They said, "John indeed did no sign, but everything that John said about this man is true." 42.Many believed in him there.

 

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