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King Josiah by  en:Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld Wiki Commons Images My Mini-Bible Study for 2019 Read the Bible in a Year | Come join us at anytime! Using The NRSV Daily Bible Today’s Reading 4/15/2019     Day 105 2 Chronicles 33:1 – 36:23 Reflection | Today Chapter 33 - Manasseh (698/687 - 642 BCE) 55 year reign - Took the people back to worshipping idols and then repented. Amon (641 - 609 BCE) - evil in the sight of the Lord- he was killed. Chapter 34 - Josiah (640 - 609 BCE) - great king - reformation and back to the faith of the Hebrews - Started as king at 8 years and reigned for 31 years. While doing a refurbishing they found book of the Law by Moses - when the king heard the words -he tore his clothes and asked for forgiveness and called for a national revival of the faith. Chapter 35 - The nation kept the Passover. Josiah was assassinated and died. Jeremiah lamented Josiah’s death. Chapter 36 - four last kings of Ju...

Read |  Day 214 | Sunday | August 2 | Habakkuk 1: 1, 2-4, 5-11, 12– 2: 1  Habakkuk 2: 2-20  Habakkuk 3: 1-19  Zephaniah 1: 1, 2-18  Zephaniah 2: 1-3, 4-7  Date: Habakkuk and Zephaniah's  ministry occurred some time before the fall of Judah - 612 BC. Background | Habakkuk -  We know nothing about Habakkuk other than he lived at a time of Babylonian aggression against Judah. Babylon’s capture of Jerusalem is not mentioned in this book, which suggests that Habakkuk’s prophecies deal with a time in the late sixth century BC, before the fall of Jerusalem was in the picture. The book is three chapters long. The first two chapters consist of an oracle that Habakkuk saw (1:1). Habakkuk laments the injustice of Judah’s leaders in perverting justice and calls on God to do something about it. God informs Habakkuk that God will send the Babylonians in to attack Judah as a punishment for its wickedness. More from Center of Biblical Studies ...

Read |  Day 213 | Saturday | August 1  2   Kings 23: 1-20  2   Chronicles 34: 29-33  2   Kings 23: 21-28  2   Chronicles 35: 1-19  Nahum 1: 1, 2-15  Nahum 2: 1-13  Nahum 3: 1-19 Date: Nahum  ministry occurred some time before the fall of Judah - 612 BC. Background |  Nahum The prophet Nahum lived about this time. Nahum's prophecy centered upon the hostile city of  Nineveh , where cruelty and oppression reigned supreme. The prophet pictures with horror the chariots of the rich and the horsemen rushing through the streets of the city, leaving a trail of death behind them. Denouncing the tyranny and bloodshed so rampant in Nineveh, the prophet foretells its complete annihilation; "Woe to the bloody city! It is full of lies and robbery; the prey departeth not. Hark! the whip, and hark! the rattling of wheels, and prancing horses, and bounding chariots; the horsemen charging, and the flashing sword, a...

Read | Day 212 | Friday | July 31  Jeremiah 5: 20-31  Jeremiah 6: 1-9, 10-15, 16-21, 22-30  2   Kings 22: 3-20  2   Chronicles 34: 8-28  Background |  The great prophet Jeremiah lived during the most crucial period of   Judah 's existence as a kingdom. He saw the destruction of   Jerusalem   and the holy  Temple , after he had incessantly warned his people to mend their ways before it was too late. And when the catastrophe finally overwhelmed his people, he was the one who bitterly lamented   Israel 's terrible fate in the Book of Echah (Lamentations) which we read on   Tisha B'Av , the anniversary of that catastrophe. At the same time, he proved to be a true friend in need, by helping his stricken people to bear the blow with courage and dignity, and by pointing out to them the path that would lead to restoration and redemption. Jeremiah was born of a priestly family, in the town of Anatoth in  Benjamin . Hi...