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Read |  Day 251 | Tuesday | September 8   Daniel 6: 1-28 Daniel 9: 1-19, 20-27 2   Chronicles 36: 22-23 Ezra 1: 1-11 1   Chronicles 3: 17-19a  Dates| October 539 BCE Reading | Daniel in the Lion's Den, King Darus of Babylon sets himself up as god - Dan refuses to worship him, lions do not kill Dan, Darus has a change of heart and says Daniel's God is God and should be worshiped by all; Dan prays for the salvation of the people; Gabriel and the vision of 7s; Cyrus allows the exiles to return to Jerusalem and restored all of the Temple's "hardware" to worship the Lord. Next |  Day 252 | Wednesday | September 9   Ezra 2: 1-70  Ezra 3: 1-7, 8-13  Ezra 4: 1-5  1   Chronicles 3: 19b-24  +++ Listen and pray the daily office with the Episcopal Parish of Garrett County - Commonwealth of Maryland, USA and Mission St Clare -  Click here

Read |  Day 250 | Monday | September 7  Daniel 7: 1-14, 15-28  Daniel 8: 1-14, 15-27  Daniel 5: 1-12, 13-31  Dates| 559 -556 BC Reading | Daniel - dreams and sees four beasts; vision explained; vision of ram and goat and also explained; Gabriel comes and explains further; the Babylonian king sees writing, Daniel explains the writing, king is slain that night. Next |  Day 251 | Tuesday | September 8   Daniel 6: 1-28 Daniel 9: 1-19, 20-27 2   Chronicles 36: 22-23 Ezra 1: 1-11 1   Chronicles 3: 17-19a  +++ Philippians 1:1-11 (NRSV) … Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. I thank my God every time I remember you, constantly praying with joy in every one of my prayers for all of you, because of your sharing in the gospel from the first day until now. I am confident of this, that the one who began a good work among you will bring it to completion by the day of Jesus Christ. It is right f...

Read |    Day 219 | Friday | August 7  Daniel 2: 1-23, 24-45, 46-49  Daniel 3: 1-18, 19-30  Jeremiah 7: 1-15, 16-29, 30– 8: 3   |  Date - 605 BC Gustave Doré [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons Reading |  Nebuchadnezzar had dreams; Daniel interprets it and is reward even to the governorship of a province; all the wise men survive; N builds a graven images and demands worship; Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego are thrown into the furnace because of faith in Yahweh; They are saved and N proclaims God as God; Jeremiah in the temple around 597 BC - Judah has done evil in the sight of the Lord and will be destroyed. Source | Tyndale | The One Year Chronological Bible NIV | ISBN 978-1-4143-5993-9 Next |  Day 220 | Saturday | August 8  Jeremiah 8: 4-17, 18– 9: 2  Jeremiah 9: 3-16, 17-26  Jeremiah 10: 1-16, 17-22, 23-25  Jeremiah 11: 1-17, 18-23 +++ Click here  to hear and pray the Daily Office via Mission ...

Read |  Day 218 | Thursday | August 6   Jeremiah 19: 1-15  Jeremiah 20: 1-6, 7-18  Daniel 1: 1-2, 3-21  Date |  605 BC Background | Center for Biblical Studies | Click here Daniel is the last of the major prophetical books and it is set in the exile, though some of the book pertains to events much later on in Israel’s history, specifically in the second century BC. This has led to the nearly universal scholarly consensus that Daniel was not written until the second century or later, even if there are older traditions included within it. As a whole, Daniel is considered to be a largely fictional account of Israel’s exilic experience, especially as it has some similarities to two other “hero” stories of the time: the Apocryphal books of Tobit and Judith. Along with Ezra, Daniel is the only other book of the Old Testament to be (largely) written in both Hebrew and Aramaic (chapters 2-7).  More - click here Reading | Under God's instructions Jeremiah ...