Daily Readings for November 19

Daily Readings for November 19
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Nehemiah 7

1.Now it happened, when the wall was built, and I had set up the doors, and the porters and the singers and the Levites were appointed, 2.that I put my brother Hanani, and Hananiah the governor of the castle, in charge of Jerusalem; for he was a faithful man, and feared God above many. 3.I said to them, "Don't let the gates of Jerusalem be opened until the sun is hot; and while they stand guard, let them shut the doors, and you bar them: and appoint watches of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, everyone in his watch, with everyone near his house."

4.Now the city was wide and large; but the people were few therein, and the houses were not built. 5.My God put into my heart to gather together the nobles, and the rulers, and the people, that they might be reckoned by genealogy. I found the book of the genealogy of those who came up at the first, and I found written therein: 6.These are the children of the province, who went up out of the captivity of those who had been carried away, whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away, and who returned to Jerusalem and to Judah, everyone to his city; 7.who came with Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, Azariah, Raamiah, Nahamani, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispereth, Bigvai, Nehum, Baanah. The number of the men of the people of Israel: 8.The children of Parosh, two thousand one hundred seventy-two. 9.The children of Shephatiah, three hundred seventy-two. 10.The children of Arah, six hundred fifty-two. 11.The children of Pahathmoab, of the children of Jeshua and Joab, two thousand eight hundred eighteen. 12.The children of Elam, one thousand two hundred fifty-four. 13.The children of Zattu, eight hundred forty-five. 14.The children of Zaccai, seven hundred sixty. 15.The children of Binnui, six hundred forty-eight. 16.The children of Bebai, six hundred twenty-eight. 17.The children of Azgad, two thousand three hundred twenty-two. 18.The children of Adonikam, six hundred sixty-seven. 19.The children of Bigvai, two thousand sixty-seven. 20.The children of Adin, six hundred fifty-five. 21.The children of Ater, of Hezekiah, ninety-eight. 22.The children of Hashum, three hundred Twenty-eight. 23.The children of Bezai, three hundred twenty-four. 24.The children of Hariph, one hundred twelve. 25.The children of Gibeon, ninety-five. 26.The men of Bethlehem and Netophah, one hundred eighty-eight. 27.The men of Anathoth, one hundred twenty-eight. 28.The men of Beth Azmaveth, forty-two. 29.The men of Kiriath Jearim, Chephirah, and Beeroth, seven hundred forty-three. 30.The men of Ramah and Geba, six hundred twenty-one. 31.The men of Michmas, one hundred and twenty-two. 32.The men of Bethel and Ai, a hundred twenty-three. 33.The men of the other Nebo, fifty-two. 34.The children of the other Elam, one thousand two hundred fifty-four. 35.The children of Harim, three hundred twenty. 36.The children of Jericho, three hundred forty-five. 37.The children of Lod, Hadid, and Ono, seven hundred twenty-one. 38.The children of Senaah, three thousand nine hundred thirty. 39.The priests: The children of Jedaiah, of the house of Jeshua, nine hundred seventy-three. 40.The children of Immer, one thousand fifty-two. 41.The children of Pashhur, one thousand two hundred forty-seven. 42.The children of Harim, one thousand seventeen. 43.The Levites: the children of Jeshua, of Kadmiel, of the children of Hodevah, seventy-four. 44.The singers: the children of Asaph, one hundred forty-eight. 45.The porters: the children of Shallum, the children of Ater, the children of Talmon, the children of Akkub, the children of Hatita, the children of Shobai, one hundred thirty-eight. 46.The Nethinim: the children of Ziha, the children of Hasupha, the children of Tabbaoth, 47.the children of Keros, the children of Sia, the children of Padon, 48.the children of Lebana, the children of Hagaba, the children of Salmai, 49.the children of Hanan, the children of Giddel, the children of Gahar, 50.the children of Reaiah, the children of Rezin, the children of Nekoda, 51.the children of Gazzam, the children of Uzza, the children of Paseah. 52.The children of Besai, the children of Meunim, the children of Nephushesim, 53.the children of Bakbuk, the children of Hakupha, the children of Harhur, 54.the children of Bazlith, the children of Mehida, the children of Harsha, 55.the children of Barkos, the children of Sisera, the children of Temah, 56.the children of Neziah, the children of Hatipha. 57.The children of Solomon's servants: the children of Sotai, the children of Sophereth, the children of Perida, 58.the children of Jaala, the children of Darkon, the children of Giddel, 59.the children of Shephatiah, the children of Hattil, the children of Pochereth Hazzebaim, the children of Amon. 60.All the Nethinim, and the children of Solomon's servants, were three hundred ninety-two. 61.These were those who went up from Tel Melah, Tel Harsha, Cherub, Addon, and Immer; but they could not show their fathers' houses, nor their seed, whether they were of Israel: 62.The children of Delaiah, the children of Tobiah, the children of Nekoda, six hundred forty-two. 63.Of the priests: the children of Hobaiah, the children of Hakkoz, the children of Barzillai, who took a wife of the daughters of Barzillai the Gileadite, and was called after their name. 64.These searched for their geneological records, but couldn't find them. Therefore were they deemed polluted and put from the priesthood. 65.The governor said to them, that they should not eat of the most holy things, until there stood up a priest with Urim and Thummim. 66.The whole assembly together was forty-two thousand three hundred sixty, 67.besides their male servants and their female servants, of whom there were seven thousand three hundred thirty-seven: and they had two hundred forty-five singing men and singing women. 68.Their horses were seven hundred thirty-six; their mules, two hundred forty-five; 69.their camels, four hundred thirty-five; their donkeys, six thousand seven hundred twenty. 70.Some from among the heads of fathers' households gave to the work. The governor gave to the treasury one thousand darics of gold, fifty basins, and five hundred thirty priests' garments. 71.Some of the heads of fathers' households gave into the treasury of the work twenty thousand darics of gold, and two thousand two hundred minas of silver. 72.That which the rest of the people gave was twenty thousand darics of gold, and two thousand minas of silver, and sixty-seven priests' garments. 73.So the priests, and the Levites, and the porters, and the singers, and some of the people, and the Nethinim, and all Israel, lived in their cities. When the seventh month had come, the children of Israel were in their cities.

Joel 2

1.The Word of Yahweh¹ that came to Joel, the son of Pethuel. 2.Hear this, you elders, And listen, all you inhabitants of the land. Has this ever happened in your days, or in the days of your fathers? 3.Tell your children about it, and have your children tell their children, and their children, another generation. 4.What the swarming locust has left, the great locust has eaten. What the great locust has left, the grasshopper has eaten. What the grasshopper has left, the caterpillar has eaten. 5.Wake up, you drunkards, and weep! Wail, all you drinkers of wine, because of the sweet wine; for it is cut off from your mouth. 6.For a nation has come up on my land, strong, and without number. His teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he has the fangs of a lioness. 7.He has laid my vine waste, and stripped my fig tree. He has stripped its bark, and thrown it away. Its branches are made white. 8.Mourn like a virgin dressed in sackcloth for the husband of her youth! 9.The meal offering and the drink offering are cut off from Yahweh's house. The priests, Yahweh's ministers, mourn. 10.The field is laid waste. The land mourns, for the grain is destroyed, The new wine has dried up, and the oil languishes. 11.Be confounded, you farmers! Wail, you vineyard keepers; for the wheat and for the barley; for the harvest of the field has perished. 12.The vine has dried up, and the fig tree withered; the pomegranate tree, the palm tree also, and the apple tree, even all of the trees of the field are withered; for joy has withered away from the sons of men. 13.Put on sackcloth and mourn, you priests! Wail, you ministers of the altar. Come, lie all night in sackcloth, you ministers of my God², for the meal offering and the drink offering are withheld from your God's house. 14.Sanctify a fast. Call a solemn assembly. Gather the elders, and all the inhabitants of the land, to the house of Yahweh, your God, and cry to Yahweh. 15.Alas for the day! For the day of Yahweh is at hand, and it will come as destruction from the Almighty. 16.Isn't the food cut off before our eyes; joy and gladness from the house of our God? 17.The seeds rot under their clods. The granaries are laid desolate. The barns are broken down, for the grain has withered. 18.How the animals groan! The herds of livestock are perplexed, because they have no pasture. Yes, the flocks of sheep are made desolate. 19.Yahweh, I cry to you, For the fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness, and the flame has burned all the trees of the field. 20.Yes, the animals of the field pant to you, for the water brooks have dried up, And the fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness. 1.Blow the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy mountain! Let all the inhabitants of the land tremble, for the day of Yahweh comes, for it is close at hand: 2.A day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness. As the dawn spreading on the mountains, a great and strong people; there has never been the like, neither will there be any more after them, even to the years of many generations. 3.A fire devours before them, and behind them, a flame burns. The land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them, a desolate wilderness. Yes, and no one has escaped them. 4.Their appearance is as the appearance of horses, and as horsemen, so do they run. 5.Like the noise of chariots on the tops of the mountains do they leap, like the noise of a flame of fire that devours the stubble, as a strong people set in battle array. 6.At their presence the peoples are in anguish. All faces have grown pale. 7.They run like mighty men. They climb the wall like warriors. They each march in his line, and they don't swerve off course. 8.Neither does one jostle another; they march everyone in his path, and they burst through the defenses, and don't break ranks. 9.They rush on the city. They run on the wall. They climb up into the houses. They enter in at the windows like thieves. 10.The earth quakes before them. The heavens tremble. The sun and the moon are darkened, and the stars withdraw their shining. 11.Yahweh thunders his voice before his army; for his forces are very great; for he is strong who obeys his command; for the day of Yahweh is great and very awesome, and who can endure it? 12."Yet even now," says Yahweh, "turn to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning." 13.Tear your heart, and not your garments, and turn to Yahweh, your God; for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, and relents from sending calamity. 14.Who knows? He may turn and relent, and leave a blessing behind him, even a meal offering and a drink offering to Yahweh, your God. 15.Blow the trumpet in Zion! Sanctify a fast. Call a solemn assembly. 16.Gather the people. Sanctify the assembly. Assemble the elders. Gather the children, and those who nurse from breasts. Let the bridegroom go forth from his room, and the bride out of her room. 17.Let the priests, the ministers of Yahweh, weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, "Spare your people, Yahweh, and don't give your heritage to reproach, that the nations should rule over them. Why should they say among the peoples, 'Where is their God?'" 18.Then Yahweh was jealous for his land, And had pity on his people. 19.Yahweh answered his people, "Behold, I will send you grain, new wine, and oil, and you will be satisfied with them; and I will no more make you a reproach among the nations. 20.But I will remove the northern army far away from you, and will drive it into a barren and desolate land, its front into the eastern sea, and its back into the western sea; and its stench will come up, and its bad smell will rise." Surely he has done great things. 21.Land, don't be afraid. Be glad and rejoice, for Yahweh has done great things. 22.Don't be afraid, you animals of the field; for the pastures of the wilderness spring up, for the tree bears its fruit. The fig tree and the vine yield their strength.

23."Be glad then, you children of Zion, and rejoice in Yahweh, your God; for he gives you the former rain in just measure, and he causes the rain to come down for you, the former rain and the latter rain, as before. 24.The threshing floors will be full of wheat, and the vats will overflow with new wine and oil. 25.I will restore to you the years that the swarming locust has eaten, the great locust, the grasshopper, and the caterpillar, my great army, which I sent among you. 26.You will have plenty to eat, and be satisfied, and will praise the name of Yahweh, your God, who has dealt wondrously with you; and my people will never again be disappointed. 27.You will know that I am in the midst of Israel, and that I am Yahweh, your God, and there is no one else; and my people will never again be disappointed.

28."It will happen afterward, that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh; and your sons and your daughters will prophesy. Your old men will dream dreams. Your young men will see visions. 29.And also on the servants and on the handmaids in those days, I will pour out my Spirit. 30.I will show wonders in the heavens and in the earth: blood, fire, and pillars of smoke. 31.The sun will be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and terrible day of Yahweh comes. 32.It will happen that whoever will call on the name of Yahweh shall be saved; for in Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there will be those who escape, as Yahweh has said, and among the remnant, those whom Yahweh calls.

2Thessalonians 1

1.Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy, to the assembly of the Thessalonians in God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ: 2.Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

3.We are bound to always give thanks to God for you, brothers,¹ even as it is appropriate, because your faith grows exceedingly, and the love of each and every one of you towards one another abounds; 4.so that we ourselves boast about you in the assemblies of God for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and in the afflictions which you endure. 5.This is an obvious sign of the righteous judgment of God, to the end that you may be counted worthy of the Kingdom of God, for which you also suffer. 6.Since it is a righteous thing with God to repay affliction to those who afflict you, 7.and to give relief to you who are afflicted with us, when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with his mighty angels in flaming fire, 8.giving vengeance to those who don't know God, and to those who don't obey the Good News of our Lord Jesus, 9.who will pay the penalty: eternal destruction from the face of the Lord and from the glory of his might, 10.when he comes to be glorified in his saints, and to be admired among all those who have believed (because our testimony to you was believed) in that day.

11.To this end we also pray always for you, that our God may count you worthy of your calling, and fulfill every desire of goodness and work of faith, with power; 12.that the name of our Lord Jesus² may be glorified in you, and you in him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.

2Thessalonians 2

1.Now, brothers, concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and our gathering together to him, we ask you 2.not to be quickly shaken in your mind, nor yet be troubled, either by spirit, or by word, or by letter as from us, saying that the day of Christ had come. 3.Let no one deceive you in any way. For it will not be, unless the departure comes first, and the man of sin is revealed, the son of destruction, 4.he who opposes and exalts himself against all that is called God or that is worshiped; so that he sits as God in the temple of God, setting himself up as God. 5.Don't you remember that, when I was still with you, I told you these things? 6.Now you know what is restraining him, to the end that he may be revealed in his own season. 7.For the mystery of lawlessness already works. Only there is one who restrains now, until he is taken out of the way. 8.Then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord will kill with the breath of his mouth, and destroy by the manifestation of his coming; 9.even he whose coming is according to the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, 10.and with all deception of wickedness for those who are being lost, because they didn't receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved. 11.Because of this, God sends them a working of error, that they should believe a lie; 12.that they all might be judged who didn't believe the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness. 13.But we are bound to always give thanks to God for you, brothers loved by the Lord, because God chose you from the beginning for salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief in the truth; 14.to which he called you through our Good News, for the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ. 15.So then, brothers, stand firm, and hold the traditions which you were taught by us, whether by word, or by letter.

16.Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God our Father, who loved us and gave us eternal comfort and good hope through grace, 17.comfort your hearts and establish you in every good work and word.