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Wednesday, February 29, 2012

Wednesday, Feb 29, 2012 - June 12 Reading "One Year Bible"

The last two days I have been sick and haven't been able to keep food down for two days.
My goal is to get to 138 but not this way..Not sure if I had a 24 hr bug or what.. I Praise God
I am feeling better..not on solid foods yet..but I will try to eat some soup today

9 am Prayer/ Devotion
Song "God, Great God"

June 12 Reading -

1 Kings 9-10:29

New Living Translation (NLT)

1 Kings 9

The LORD’s Response to Solomon
 1 So Solomon finished building the Temple of the LORD, as well as the royal palace. He completed everything he had planned to do. 2 Then the LORD appeared to Solomon a second time, as he had done before at Gibeon. 3 The LORD said to him,    “I have heard your prayer and your petition. I have set this Temple apart to be holy—this place you have built where my name will be honored forever. I will always watch over it, for it is dear to my heart.
 4 “As for you, if you will follow me with integrity and godliness, as David your father did, obeying all my commands, decrees, and regulations, 5 then I will establish the throne of your dynasty over Israel forever. For I made this promise to your father, David: ‘One of your descendants will always sit on the throne of Israel.’
 6 “But if you or your descendants abandon me and disobey the commands and decrees I have given you, and if you serve and worship other gods, 7 then I will uproot Israel from this land that I have given them. I will reject this Temple that I have made holy to honor my name. I will make Israel an object of mockery and ridicule among the nations. 8 And though this Temple is impressive now, all who pass by will be appalled and will shake their heads in amazement. They will ask, ‘Why did the LORD do such terrible things to this land and to this Temple?’
 9 “And the answer will be, ‘Because his people abandoned the LORD their God, who brought their ancestors out of Egypt, and they worshiped other gods instead and bowed down to them. That is why the LORD has brought all these disasters on them.’”
Solomon’s Agreement with Hiram
 10 It took Solomon twenty years to build the LORD’s Temple and his own royal palace. At the end of that time, 11 he gave twenty towns in the land of Galilee to King Hiram of Tyre. (Hiram had previously provided all the cedar and cypress timber and gold that Solomon had requested.) 12 But when Hiram came from Tyre to see the towns Solomon had given him, he was not at all pleased with them. 13 “What kind of towns are these, my brother?” he asked. So Hiram called that area Cabul (which means “worthless”), as it is still known today. 14 Nevertheless, Hiram paid[a] Solomon 9,000 pounds[b] of gold.
Solomon’s Many Achievements
 15 This is the account of the forced labor that King Solomon conscripted to build the LORD’s Temple, the royal palace, the supporting terraces,[c] the wall of Jerusalem, and the cities of Hazor, Megiddo, and Gezer. 16 (Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, had attacked and captured Gezer, killing the Canaanite population and burning it down. He gave the city to his daughter as a wedding gift when she married Solomon. 17 So Solomon rebuilt the city of Gezer.) He also built up the towns of Lower Beth-horon, 18 Baalath, and Tamar[d] in the wilderness within his land. 19 He built towns as supply centers and constructed towns where his chariots and horses[e] could be stationed. He built everything he desired in Jerusalem and Lebanon and throughout his entire realm.  20 There were still some people living in the land who were not Israelites, including Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites. 21 These were descendants of the nations whom the people of Israel had not completely destroyed.[f] So Solomon conscripted them for his labor force, and they serve in the labor force to this day. 22 But Solomon did not conscript any of the Israelites for forced labor. Instead, he assigned them to serve as fighting men, government officials, officers and captains in his army, commanders of his chariots, and charioteers. 23 Solomon appointed 550 of them to supervise the people working on his various projects.
 24 Solomon moved his wife, Pharaoh’s daughter, from the City of David to the new palace he had built for her. Then he constructed the supporting terraces.
 25 Three times each year Solomon presented burnt offerings and peace offerings on the altar he had built for the LORD. He also burned incense to the LORD. And so he finished the work of building the Temple.
 26 King Solomon also built a fleet of ships at Ezion-geber, a port near Elath[g] in the land of Edom, along the shore of the Red Sea.[h] 27 Hiram sent experienced crews of sailors to sail the ships with Solomon’s men. 28 They sailed to Ophir and brought back to Solomon some sixteen tons[i] of gold.

1 Kings 10

Visit of the Queen of Sheba
 1 When the queen of Sheba heard of Solomon’s fame, which brought honor to the name of the LORD,[j] she came to test him with hard questions. 2 She arrived in Jerusalem with a large group of attendants and a great caravan of camels loaded with spices, large quantities of gold, and precious jewels. When she met with Solomon, she talked with him about everything she had on her mind. 3 Solomon had answers for all her questions; nothing was too hard for the king to explain to her. 4 When the queen of Sheba realized how very wise Solomon was, and when she saw the palace he had built, 5 she was overwhelmed. She was also amazed at the food on his tables, the organization of his officials and their splendid clothing, the cup-bearers, and the burnt offerings Solomon made at the Temple of the LORD.  6 She exclaimed to the king, “Everything I heard in my country about your achievements[k] and wisdom is true! 7 I didn’t believe what was said until I arrived here and saw it with my own eyes. In fact, I had not heard the half of it! Your wisdom and prosperity are far beyond what I was told. 8 How happy your people[l] must be! What a privilege for your officials to stand here day after day, listening to your wisdom! 9 Praise the LORD your God, who delights in you and has placed you on the throne of Israel. Because of the LORD’s eternal love for Israel, he has made you king so you can rule with justice and righteousness.”
 10 Then she gave the king a gift of 9,000 pounds[m] of gold, great quantities of spices, and precious jewels. Never again were so many spices brought in as those the queen of Sheba gave to King Solomon.
 11 (In addition, Hiram’s ships brought gold from Ophir, and they also brought rich cargoes of red sandalwood[n] and precious jewels. 12 The king used the sandalwood to make railings for the Temple of the LORD and the royal palace, and to construct lyres and harps for the musicians. Never before or since has there been such a supply of sandalwood.)
 13 King Solomon gave the queen of Sheba whatever she asked for, besides all the customary gifts he had so generously given. Then she and all her attendants returned to their own land.
Solomon’s Wealth and Splendor
 14 Each year Solomon received about 25 tons[o] of gold. 15 This did not include the additional revenue he received from merchants and traders, all the kings of Arabia, and the governors of the land.  16 King Solomon made 200 large shields of hammered gold, each weighing more than fifteen pounds.[p] 17 He also made 300 smaller shields of hammered gold, each weighing nearly four pounds.[q] The king placed these shields in the Palace of the Forest of Lebanon.
 18 Then the king made a huge throne, decorated with ivory and overlaid with fine gold. 19 The throne had six steps and a rounded back. There were armrests on both sides of the seat, and the figure of a lion stood on each side of the throne. 20 There were also twelve other lions, one standing on each end of the six steps. No other throne in all the world could be compared with it!
 21 All of King Solomon’s drinking cups were solid gold, as were all the utensils in the Palace of the Forest of Lebanon. They were not made of silver, for silver was considered worthless in Solomon’s day!
 22 The king had a fleet of trading ships[r] that sailed with Hiram’s fleet. Once every three years the ships returned, loaded with gold, silver, ivory, apes, and peacocks.[s]
 23 So King Solomon became richer and wiser than any other king on earth. 24 People from every nation came to consult him and to hear the wisdom God had given him. 25 Year after year everyone who visited brought him gifts of silver and gold, clothing, weapons, spices, horses, and mules.
 26 Solomon built up a huge force of chariots and horses.[t] He had 1,400 chariots and 12,000 horses. He stationed some of them in the chariot cities and some near him in Jerusalem. 27 The king made silver as plentiful in Jerusalem as stone. And valuable cedar timber was as common as the sycamore-fig trees that grow in the foothills of Judah.[u] 28 Solomon’s horses were imported from Egypt[v] and from Cilicia[w]; the king’s traders acquired them from Cilicia at the standard price. 29 At that time chariots from Egypt could be purchased for 600 pieces of silver,[x] and horses for 150 pieces of silver.[y] They were then exported to the kings of the Hittites and the kings of Aram.
Footnotes:
  1. 1 Kings 9:14 Or For Hiram had paid.
  2. 1 Kings 9:14 Hebrew 120 talents [4,000 kilograms].
  3. 1 Kings 9:15 Hebrew the millo; also in 9:24. The meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain.
  4. 1 Kings 9:18 An alternate reading in the Masoretic Text reads Tadmor.
  5. 1 Kings 9:19 Or and charioteers.
  6. 1 Kings 9:21 The Hebrew term used here refers to the complete consecration of things or people to the LORD, either by destroying them or by giving them as an offering.
  7. 1 Kings 9:26 As in Greek version (see also 2 Kgs 14:22; 16:6); Hebrew reads Eloth, a variant spelling of Elath.
  8. 1 Kings 9:26 Hebrew sea of reeds.
  9. 1 Kings 9:28 Hebrew 420 talents [14 metric tons].
  10. 1 Kings 10:1 Or which was due to the name of the LORD. The meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain.
  11. 1 Kings 10:6 Hebrew your words.
  12. 1 Kings 10:8 Greek and Syriac versions and Latin Vulgate read your wives.
  13. 1 Kings 10:10 Hebrew 120 talents [4,000 kilograms].
  14. 1 Kings 10:11 Hebrew almug wood; also in 10:12.
  15. 1 Kings 10:14 Hebrew 666 talents [23 metric tons].
  16. 1 Kings 10:16 Hebrew 600 [shekels] of gold [6.8 kilograms].
  17. 1 Kings 10:17 Hebrew 3 minas [1.8 kilograms].
  18. 1 Kings 10:22 Hebrew fleet of ships of Tarshish.
  19. 1 Kings 10:22 Or and baboons.
  20. 1 Kings 10:26 Or charioteers; also in 10:26b.
  21. 1 Kings 10:27 Hebrew the Shephelah.
  22. 1 Kings 10:28 Possibly Muzur, a district near Cilicia; also in 10:29.
  23. 1 Kings 10:28 Hebrew Kue, probably another name for Cilicia.
  24. 1 Kings 10:29 Hebrew 600 [shekels] of silver, about 15 pounds or 6.8 kilograms in weight.
  25. 1 Kings 10:29 Hebrew 150 [shekels], about 3.8 pounds or 1.7 kilograms in weight.

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Acts 8:14-40

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 14 When the apostles in Jerusalem heard that the people of Samaria had accepted God’s message, they sent Peter and John there. 15 As soon as they arrived, they prayed for these new believers to receive the Holy Spirit. 16 The Holy Spirit had not yet come upon any of them, for they had only been baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus. 17 Then Peter and John laid their hands upon these believers, and they received the Holy Spirit.
 18 When Simon saw that the Spirit was given when the apostles laid their hands on people, he offered them money to buy this power. 19 “Let me have this power, too,” he exclaimed, “so that when I lay my hands on people, they will receive the Holy Spirit!”
 20 But Peter replied, “May your money be destroyed with you for thinking God’s gift can be bought! 21 You can have no part in this, for your heart is not right with God. 22 Repent of your wickedness and pray to the Lord. Perhaps he will forgive your evil thoughts, 23 for I can see that you are full of bitter jealousy and are held captive by sin.”
 24 “Pray to the Lord for me,” Simon exclaimed, “that these terrible things you’ve said won’t happen to me!”
 25 After testifying and preaching the word of the Lord in Samaria, Peter and John returned to Jerusalem. And they stopped in many Samaritan villages along the way to preach the Good News.
Philip and the Ethiopian Eunuch
 26 As for Philip, an angel of the Lord said to him, “Go south[a] down the desert road that runs from Jerusalem to Gaza.” 27 So he started out, and he met the treasurer of Ethiopia, a eunuch of great authority under the Kandake, the queen of Ethiopia. The eunuch had gone to Jerusalem to worship, 28 and he was now returning. Seated in his carriage, he was reading aloud from the book of the prophet Isaiah.  29 The Holy Spirit said to Philip, “Go over and walk along beside the carriage.”
 30 Philip ran over and heard the man reading from the prophet Isaiah. Philip asked, “Do you understand what you are reading?”
 31 The man replied, “How can I, unless someone instructs me?” And he urged Philip to come up into the carriage and sit with him.
 32 The passage of Scripture he had been reading was this:
   “He was led like a sheep to the slaughter.
      And as a lamb is silent before the shearers,
      he did not open his mouth.
 33 He was humiliated and received no justice.
      Who can speak of his descendants?
      For his life was taken from the earth.”[b]
 34 The eunuch asked Philip, “Tell me, was the prophet talking about himself or someone else?” 35 So beginning with this same Scripture, Philip told him the Good News about Jesus.
 36 As they rode along, they came to some water, and the eunuch said, “Look! There’s some water! Why can’t I be baptized?”[c] 38 He ordered the carriage to stop, and they went down into the water, and Philip baptized him.
 39 When they came up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord snatched Philip away. The eunuch never saw him again but went on his way rejoicing. 40 Meanwhile, Philip found himself farther north at the town of Azotus. He preached the Good News there and in every town along the way until he came to Caesarea.
Footnotes:
  1. Acts 8:26 Or Go at noon.
  2. Acts 8:33 Isa 53:7-8 (Greek version).
  3. Acts 8:36 Some manuscripts add verse 37, “You can,” Philip answered, “if you believe with all your heart.” And the eunuch replied, “I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God.”

Psalm 130:1-8

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Psalm 130

Psalm 130
    A song for pilgrims ascending to Jerusalem. 1 From the depths of despair, O LORD,
      I call for your help.
 2 Hear my cry, O Lord.
      Pay attention to my prayer.
 3 LORD, if you kept a record of our sins,
      who, O Lord, could ever survive?
 4 But you offer forgiveness,
      that we might learn to fear you.
 5 I am counting on the LORD;
      yes, I am counting on him.
      I have put my hope in his word.
 6 I long for the Lord
      more than sentries long for the dawn,
      yes, more than sentries long for the dawn.
 7 O Israel, hope in the LORD;
      for with the LORD there is unfailing love.
      His redemption overflows.
 8 He himself will redeem Israel
      from every kind of sin.

 
Proverbs 17:2-3
New Living Translation (NLT)
 2 A wise servant will rule over the master’s disgraceful son
      and will share the inheritance of the master’s children.
 3 Fire tests the purity of silver and gold,
      but the LORD tests the heart.
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Friday, February 24, 2012

Friday, February 24, 2012 - June 11 - One Year Bible

7:30 a.m. Prayer / Devotion

Song: "Desire"

5:30 pm - Cardio / Abs

June 11 - Reading

1 Kings 8:1-66

New Living Translation (NLT)

1 Kings 8

The Ark Brought to the Temple
 1 Solomon then summoned to Jerusalem the elders of Israel and all the heads of the tribes—the leaders of the ancestral families of the Israelites. They were to bring the Ark of the LORD’s Covenant to the Temple from its location in the City of David, also known as Zion. 2 So all the men of Israel assembled before King Solomon at the annual Festival of Shelters, which is held in early autumn in the month of Ethanim.[a]  3 When all the elders of Israel arrived, the priests picked up the Ark. 4 The priests and Levites brought up the Ark of the LORD along with the special tent[b] and all the sacred items that had been in it. 5 There, before the Ark, King Solomon and the entire community of Israel sacrificed so many sheep, goats, and cattle that no one could keep count!
 6 Then the priests carried the Ark of the LORD’s Covenant into the inner sanctuary of the Temple—the Most Holy Place—and placed it beneath the wings of the cherubim. 7 The cherubim spread their wings over the Ark, forming a canopy over the Ark and its carrying poles. 8 These poles were so long that their ends could be seen from the Temple’s main room—the Holy Place—but not from the outside. They are still there to this day. 9 Nothing was in the Ark except the two stone tablets that Moses had placed in it at Mount Sinai,[c] where the LORD made a covenant with the people of Israel when they left the land of Egypt.
 10 When the priests came out of the Holy Place, a thick cloud filled the Temple of the LORD. 11 The priests could not continue their service because of the cloud, for the glorious presence of the LORD filled the Temple.
Solomon Praises the LORD
 12 Then Solomon prayed, “O LORD, you have said that you would live in a thick cloud of darkness. 13 Now I have built a glorious Temple for you, a place where you can live forever![d]”  14 Then the king turned around to the entire community of Israel standing before him and gave this blessing: 15 “Praise the LORD, the God of Israel, who has kept the promise he made to my father, David. For he told my father, 16 ‘From the day I brought my people Israel out of Egypt, I have never chosen a city among any of the tribes of Israel as the place where a Temple should be built to honor my name. But I have chosen David to be king over my people Israel.’”
 17 Then Solomon said, “My father, David, wanted to build this Temple to honor the name of the LORD, the God of Israel. 18 But the LORD told him, ‘You wanted to build the Temple to honor my name. Your intention is good, 19 but you are not the one to do it. One of your own sons will build the Temple to honor me.’
 20 “And now the LORD has fulfilled the promise he made, for I have become king in my father’s place, and I now sit on the throne of Israel, just as the LORD promised. I have built this Temple to honor the name of the LORD, the God of Israel. 21 And I have prepared a place there for the Ark, which contains the covenant that the LORD made with our ancestors when he brought them out of Egypt.”
Solomon’s Prayer of Dedication
 22 Then Solomon stood before the altar of the LORD in front of the entire community of Israel. He lifted his hands toward heaven, 23 and he prayed,    “O LORD, God of Israel, there is no God like you in all of heaven above or on the earth below. You keep your covenant and show unfailing love to all who walk before you in wholehearted devotion. 24 You have kept your promise to your servant David, my father. You made that promise with your own mouth, and with your own hands you have fulfilled it today.
 25 “And now, O LORD, God of Israel, carry out the additional promise you made to your servant David, my father. For you said to him, ‘If your descendants guard their behavior and faithfully follow me as you have done, one of them will always sit on the throne of Israel.’ 26 Now, O God of Israel, fulfill this promise to your servant David, my father.
 27 “But will God really live on earth? Why, even the highest heavens cannot contain you. How much less this Temple I have built! 28 Nevertheless, listen to my prayer and my plea, O LORD my God. Hear the cry and the prayer that your servant is making to you today. 29 May you watch over this Temple night and day, this place where you have said, ‘My name will be there.’ May you always hear the prayers I make toward this place. 30 May you hear the humble and earnest requests from me and your people Israel when we pray toward this place. Yes, hear us from heaven where you live, and when you hear, forgive.
 31 “If someone wrongs another person and is required to take an oath of innocence in front of your altar in this Temple, 32 then hear from heaven and judge between your servants—the accuser and the accused. Punish the guilty as they deserve. Acquit the innocent because of their innocence.
 33 “If your people Israel are defeated by their enemies because they have sinned against you, and if they turn to you and acknowledge your name and pray to you here in this Temple, 34 then hear from heaven and forgive the sin of your people Israel and return them to this land you gave their ancestors.
 35 “If the skies are shut up and there is no rain because your people have sinned against you, and if they pray toward this Temple and acknowledge your name and turn from their sins because you have punished them, 36 then hear from heaven and forgive the sins of your servants, your people Israel. Teach them to follow the right path, and send rain on your land that you have given to your people as their special possession.
 37 “If there is a famine in the land or a plague or crop disease or attacks of locusts or caterpillars, or if your people’s enemies are in the land besieging their towns—whatever disaster or disease there is— 38 and if your people Israel pray about their troubles, raising their hands toward this Temple, 39 then hear from heaven where you live, and forgive. Give your people what their actions deserve, for you alone know each human heart. 40 Then they will fear you as long as they live in the land you gave to our ancestors.
 41 “In the future, foreigners who do not belong to your people Israel will hear of you. They will come from distant lands because of your name, 42 for they will hear of your great name and your strong hand and your powerful arm. And when they pray toward this Temple, 43 then hear from heaven where you live, and grant what they ask of you. In this way, all the people of the earth will come to know and fear you, just as your own people Israel do. They, too, will know that this Temple I have built honors your name.
 44 “If your people go out where you send them to fight their enemies, and if they pray to the LORD by turning toward this city you have chosen and toward this Temple I have built to honor your name, 45 then hear their prayers from heaven and uphold their cause.
 46 “If they sin against you—and who has never sinned?—you might become angry with them and let their enemies conquer them and take them captive to their land far away or near. 47 But in that land of exile, they might turn to you in repentance and pray, ‘We have sinned, done evil, and acted wickedly.’ 48 If they turn to you with their whole heart and soul in the land of their enemies and pray toward the land you gave to their ancestors—toward this city you have chosen, and toward this Temple I have built to honor your name— 49 then hear their prayers and their petition from heaven where you live, and uphold their cause. 50 Forgive your people who have sinned against you. Forgive all the offenses they have committed against you. Make their captors merciful to them, 51 for they are your people—your special possession—whom you brought out of the iron-smelting furnace of Egypt.
 52 “May your eyes be open to my requests and to the requests of your people Israel. May you hear and answer them whenever they cry out to you. 53 For when you brought our ancestors out of Egypt, O Sovereign LORD, you told your servant Moses that you had set Israel apart from all the nations of the earth to be your own special possession.”
The Dedication of the Temple
 54 When Solomon finished making these prayers and petitions to the LORD, he stood up in front of the altar of the LORD, where he had been kneeling with his hands raised toward heaven. 55 He stood and in a loud voice blessed the entire congregation of Israel:  56 “Praise the LORD who has given rest to his people Israel, just as he promised. Not one word has failed of all the wonderful promises he gave through his servant Moses. 57 May the LORD our God be with us as he was with our ancestors; may he never leave us or abandon us. 58 May he give us the desire to do his will in everything and to obey all the commands, decrees, and regulations that he gave our ancestors. 59 And may these words that I have prayed in the presence of the LORD be before him constantly, day and night, so that the LORD our God may give justice to me and to his people Israel, according to each day’s needs. 60 Then people all over the earth will know that the LORD alone is God and there is no other. 61 And may you be completely faithful to the LORD our God. May you always obey his decrees and commands, just as you are doing today.”
 62 Then the king and all Israel with him offered sacrifices to the LORD. 63 Solomon offered to the LORD a peace offering of 22,000 cattle and 120,000 sheep and goats. And so the king and all the people of Israel dedicated the Temple of the LORD.
 64 That same day the king consecrated the central area of the courtyard in front of the LORD’s Temple. He offered burnt offerings, grain offerings, and the fat of peace offerings there, because the bronze altar in the LORD’s presence was too small to hold all the burnt offerings, grain offerings, and the fat of the peace offerings.
 65 Then Solomon and all Israel celebrated the Festival of Shelters[e] in the presence of the LORD our God. A large congregation had gathered from as far away as Lebo-hamath in the north and the Brook of Egypt in the south. The celebration went on for fourteen days in all—seven days for the dedication of the altar and seven days for the Festival of Shelters.[f] 66 After the festival was over,[g] Solomon sent the people home. They blessed the king and went to their homes joyful and glad because the LORD had been good to his servant David and to his people Israel.
Footnotes:
  1. 1 Kings 8:2 Hebrew at the festival in the month Ethanim, which is the seventh month. The Festival of Shelters began on the fifteenth day of the seventh month of the ancient Hebrew lunar calendar. This day occurred in late September, October, or early November.
  2. 1 Kings 8:4 Hebrew the Tent of Meeting; i.e., the tent mentioned in 2 Sam 6:17 and 1 Chr 16:1.
  3. 1 Kings 8:9 Hebrew at Horeb, another name for Sinai.
  4. 1 Kings 8:13 Some Greek texts add the line Is this not written in the Book of Jashar?
  5. 1 Kings 8:65 Hebrew the festival; see note on 8:2.
  6. 1 Kings 8:65 Hebrew seven days and seven days, fourteen days; compare parallel text at 2 Chr 7:8-10.
  7. 1 Kings 8:66 Hebrew On the eighth day, probably referring to the day following the seven-day Festival of Shelters; compare parallel text at 2 Chr 7:9-10.

Acts 7:51-8:13

New Living Translation (NLT)
 51 “You stubborn people! You are heathen[a] at heart and deaf to the truth. Must you forever resist the Holy Spirit? That’s what your ancestors did, and so do you! 52 Name one prophet your ancestors didn’t persecute! They even killed the ones who predicted the coming of the Righteous One—the Messiah whom you betrayed and murdered. 53 You deliberately disobeyed God’s law, even though you received it from the hands of angels.”
 54 The Jewish leaders were infuriated by Stephen’s accusation, and they shook their fists at him in rage.[b] 55 But Stephen, full of the Holy Spirit, gazed steadily into heaven and saw the glory of God, and he saw Jesus standing in the place of honor at God’s right hand. 56 And he told them, “Look, I see the heavens opened and the Son of Man standing in the place of honor at God’s right hand!”
 57 Then they put their hands over their ears and began shouting. They rushed at him 58 and dragged him out of the city and began to stone him. His accusers took off their coats and laid them at the feet of a young man named Saul.[c]
 59 As they stoned him, Stephen prayed, “Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.” 60 He fell to his knees, shouting, “Lord, don’t charge them with this sin!” And with that, he died.

Acts 8

 1 Saul was one of the witnesses, and he agreed completely with the killing of Stephen.
Persecution Scatters the Believers
    A great wave of persecution began that day, sweeping over the church in Jerusalem; and all the believers except the apostles were scattered through the regions of Judea and Samaria. 2 (Some devout men came and buried Stephen with great mourning.) 3 But Saul was going everywhere to destroy the church. He went from house to house, dragging out both men and women to throw them into prison.
Philip Preaches in Samaria
 4 But the believers who were scattered preached the Good News about Jesus wherever they went. 5 Philip, for example, went to the city of Samaria and told the people there about the Messiah. 6 Crowds listened intently to Philip because they were eager to hear his message and see the miraculous signs he did. 7 Many evil[d] spirits were cast out, screaming as they left their victims. And many who had been paralyzed or lame were healed. 8 So there was great joy in that city.  9 A man named Simon had been a sorcerer there for many years, amazing the people of Samaria and claiming to be someone great. 10 Everyone, from the least to the greatest, often spoke of him as “the Great One—the Power of God.” 11 They listened closely to him because for a long time he had astounded them with his magic.
 12 But now the people believed Philip’s message of Good News concerning the Kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ. As a result, many men and women were baptized. 13 Then Simon himself believed and was baptized. He began following Philip wherever he went, and he was amazed by the signs and great miracles Philip performed.
Footnotes:
  1. Acts 7:51 Greek uncircumcised.
  2. Acts 7:54 Greek they were grinding their teeth against him.
  3. Acts 7:58 Saul is later called Paul; see 13:9.
  4. Acts 8:7 Greek unclean.

Psalm 129:1-8

New Living Translation (NLT)

Psalm 129

Psalm 129
    A song for pilgrims ascending to Jerusalem. 1 From my earliest youth my enemies have persecuted me.
      Let all Israel repeat this:
 2 From my earliest youth my enemies have persecuted me,
      but they have never defeated me.
 3 My back is covered with cuts,
      as if a farmer had plowed long furrows.
 4 But the LORD is good;
      he has cut me free from the ropes of the ungodly.
 5 May all who hate Jerusalem[a]
      be turned back in shameful defeat.
 6 May they be as useless as grass on a rooftop,
      turning yellow when only half grown,
 7 ignored by the harvester,
      despised by the binder.
 8 And may those who pass by
      refuse to give them this blessing:
   “The LORD bless you;
      we bless you in the LORD’s name.”
Footnotes:
  1. Psalm 129:5 Hebrew Zion.

Proverbs 17:1

New Living Translation (NLT)

Proverbs 17

 1 Better a dry crust eaten in peace
      than a house filled with feasting—and conflict.
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Thursday, February 23, 2012

Thursday, February 23, 2012 - June 10 Reading "One Year Bible" - Solomon build a temple

4:45 a.m.
Prayer/Devotion

Song "Never Would Have Made It"
5:40 am "Total Body - Weights"


June 10 Reading
1 Kings 7:1-51; Acts 7:30-50; Psalm 128:1-6; Proverbs 16:31-33;

Solomon's Temple

1 Kings 7:1-51; Acts 7:30-50; Psalm 128:1-6; Proverbs 16:31-33 (New Living Translation)


1 Kings 7:1-51

New Living Translation (NLT)

1 Kings 7

Solomon Builds His Palace
 1 Solomon also built a palace for himself, and it took him thirteen years to complete the construction.  2 One of Solomon’s buildings was called the Palace of the Forest of Lebanon. It was 150 feet long, 75 feet wide, and 45 feet high.[a] There were four rows of cedar pillars, and great cedar beams rested on the pillars. 3 The hall had a cedar roof. Above the beams on the pillars were forty-five side rooms,[b] arranged in three tiers of fifteen each. 4 On each end of the long hall were three rows of windows facing each other. 5 All the doorways and doorposts[c] had rectangular frames and were arranged in sets of three, facing each other.
 6 Solomon also built the Hall of Pillars, which was 75 feet long and 45 feet wide.[d] There was a porch in front, along with a canopy supported by pillars.
 7 Solomon also built the throne room, known as the Hall of Justice, where he sat to hear legal matters. It was paneled with cedar from floor to ceiling.[e] 8 Solomon’s living quarters surrounded a courtyard behind this hall, and they were constructed the same way. He also built similar living quarters for Pharaoh’s daughter, whom he had married.
 9 From foundation to eaves, all these buildings were built from huge blocks of high-quality stone, cut with saws and trimmed to exact measure on all sides. 10 Some of the huge foundation stones were 15 feet long, and some were 12 feet[f] long. 11 The blocks of high-quality stone used in the walls were also cut to measure, and cedar beams were also used. 12 The walls of the great courtyard were built so that there was one layer of cedar beams between every three layers of finished stone, just like the walls of the inner courtyard of the LORD’s Temple with its entry room.
Furnishings for the Temple
 13 King Solomon then asked for a man named Huram[g] to come from Tyre. 14 He was half Israelite, since his mother was a widow from the tribe of Naphtali, and his father had been a craftsman in bronze from Tyre. Huram was extremely skillful and talented in any work in bronze, and he came to do all the metal work for King Solomon.  15 Huram cast two bronze pillars, each 27 feet tall and 18 feet in circumference.[h] 16 For the tops of the pillars he cast bronze capitals, each 71⁄2 feet[i] tall. 17 Each capital was decorated with seven sets of latticework and interwoven chains. 18 He also encircled the latticework with two rows of pomegranates to decorate the capitals over the pillars. 19 The capitals on the columns inside the entry room were shaped like water lilies, and they were six feet[j] tall. 20 The capitals on the two pillars had 200 pomegranates in two rows around them, beside the rounded surface next to the latticework. 21 Huram set the pillars at the entrance of the Temple, one toward the south and one toward the north. He named the one on the south Jakin, and the one on the north Boaz.[k] 22 The capitals on the pillars were shaped like water lilies. And so the work on the pillars was finished.
 23 Then Huram cast a great round basin, 15 feet across from rim to rim, called the Sea. It was 71⁄2 feet deep and about 45 feet in circumference.[l] 24 It was encircled just below its rim by two rows of decorative gourds. There were about six gourds per foot[m] all the way around, and they were cast as part of the basin.
 25 The Sea was placed on a base of twelve bronze oxen,[n] all facing outward. Three faced north, three faced west, three faced south, and three faced east, and the Sea rested on them. 26 The walls of the Sea were about three inches[o] thick, and its rim flared out like a cup and resembled a water lily blossom. It could hold about 11,000 gallons[p] of water.
 27 Huram also made ten bronze water carts, each 6 feet long, 6 feet wide, and 41⁄2 feet tall.[q] 28 They were constructed with side panels braced with crossbars. 29 Both the panels and the crossbars were decorated with carved lions, oxen, and cherubim. Above and below the lions and oxen were wreath decorations. 30 Each of these carts had four bronze wheels and bronze axles. There were supporting posts for the bronze basins at the corners of the carts; these supports were decorated on each side with carvings of wreaths. 31 The top of each cart had a rounded frame for the basin. It projected 11⁄2 feet[r] above the cart’s top like a round pedestal, and its opening was 21⁄4 feet[s] across; it was decorated on the outside with carvings of wreaths. The panels of the carts were square, not round. 32 Under the panels were four wheels that were connected to axles that had been cast as one unit with the cart. The wheels were 21⁄4 feet in diameter 33 and were similar to chariot wheels. The axles, spokes, rims, and hubs were all cast from molten bronze.
 34 There were handles at each of the four corners of the carts, and these, too, were cast as one unit with the cart. 35 Around the top of each cart was a rim nine inches wide.[t] The corner supports and side panels were cast as one unit with the cart. 36 Carvings of cherubim, lions, and palm trees decorated the panels and corner supports wherever there was room, and there were wreaths all around. 37 All ten water carts were the same size and were made alike, for each was cast from the same mold.
 38 Huram also made ten smaller bronze basins, one for each cart. Each basin was six feet across and could hold 220 gallons[u] of water. 39 He set five water carts on the south side of the Temple and five on the north side. The great bronze basin called the Sea was placed near the southeast corner of the Temple. 40 He also made the necessary washbasins, shovels, and bowls.
   So at last Huram completed everything King Solomon had assigned him to make for the Temple of the LORD:
 41 the two pillars;
   the two bowl-shaped capitals on top of the pillars;
   the two networks of interwoven chains that decorated the capitals;
 42 the 400 pomegranates that hung from the chains on the capitals (two rows of pomegranates for each of the chain networks that decorated the capitals on top of the pillars);
 43 the ten water carts holding the ten basins;
 44 the Sea and the twelve oxen under it;
 45 the ash buckets, the shovels, and the bowls.
   Huram made all these things of burnished bronze for the Temple of the LORD, just as King Solomon had directed. 46 The king had them cast in clay molds in the Jordan Valley between Succoth and Zarethan. 47 Solomon did not weigh all these things because there were so many; the weight of the bronze could not be measured.
 48 Solomon also made all the furnishings of the Temple of the LORD:
   the gold altar;
   the gold table for the Bread of the Presence;
 49 the lampstands of solid gold, five on the south and five on the north, in front of the Most Holy Place;
   the flower decorations, lamps, and tongs—all of gold;
 50 the small bowls, lamp snuffers, bowls, dishes, and incense burners—all of solid gold;
   the doors for the entrances to the Most Holy Place and the main room of the Temple, with their fronts overlaid with gold.
 51 So King Solomon finished all his work on the Temple of the LORD. Then he brought all the gifts his father, David, had dedicated—the silver, the gold, and the various articles—and he stored them in the treasuries of the LORD’s Temple.
Footnotes:
  1. 1 Kings 7:2 Hebrew 100 cubits [46 meters] long, 50 cubits [23 meters] wide, and 30 cubits [13.5 meters] high.
  2. 1 Kings 7:3 Or 45 rafters, or 45 beams, or 45 pillars. The architectural details in 7:2-6 can be interpreted in many different ways.
  3. 1 Kings 7:5 Greek version reads windows.
  4. 1 Kings 7:6 Hebrew 50 cubits [23 meters] long and 30 cubits [13.8 meters] wide.
  5. 1 Kings 7:7 As in Syriac version and Latin Vulgate; Hebrew reads from floor to floor.
  6. 1 Kings 7:10 Hebrew 10 cubits [4.6 meters] . . . 8 cubits [3.7 meters].
  7. 1 Kings 7:13 Hebrew Hiram (also in 7:40, 45); compare 2 Chr 2:13. This is not the same person mentioned in 5:1.
  8. 1 Kings 7:15 Hebrew 18 cubits [8.3 meters] tall and 12 cubits [5.5 meters] in circumference.
  9. 1 Kings 7:16 Hebrew 5 cubits [2.3 meters].
  10. 1 Kings 7:19 Hebrew 4 cubits [1.8 meters]; also in 7:38.
  11. 1 Kings 7:21 Jakin probably means “he establishes”; Boaz probably means “in him is strength.”
  12. 1 Kings 7:23 Hebrew 10 cubits [4.6 meters] across. . . . 5 cubits [2.3 meters] deep and 30 cubits [13.8 meters] in circumference.
  13. 1 Kings 7:24 Or 20 gourds per meter; Hebrew reads 10 per cubit.
  14. 1 Kings 7:25 Hebrew 12 oxen; compare 2 Kgs 16:17, which specifies bronze oxen.
  15. 1 Kings 7:26 Hebrew a handbreadth [8 centimeters].
  16. 1 Kings 7:26 Hebrew 2,000 baths [42 kiloliters].
  17. 1 Kings 7:27 Hebrew 4 cubits [1.8 meters] long, 4 cubits wide, and 3 cubits [1.4 meters] high.
  18. 1 Kings 7:31 Hebrew a cubit [46 centimeters].
  19. 1 Kings 7:31 Hebrew 11⁄2 cubits [69 centimeters]; also in 7:32.
  20. 1 Kings 7:35 Hebrew half a cubit wide [23 centimeters].
  21. 1 Kings 7:38 Hebrew 40 baths [840 liters].

Acts 7:30-50

New Living Translation (NLT)
 30 “Forty years later, in the desert near Mount Sinai, an angel appeared to Moses in the flame of a burning bush. 31 When Moses saw it, he was amazed at the sight. As he went to take a closer look, the voice of the LORD called out to him, 32 ‘I am the God of your ancestors—the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.’ Moses shook with terror and did not dare to look.
 33 “Then the LORD said to him, ‘Take off your sandals, for you are standing on holy ground. 34 I have certainly seen the oppression of my people in Egypt. I have heard their groans and have come down to rescue them. Now go, for I am sending you back to Egypt.’[a]
 35 “So God sent back the same man his people had previously rejected when they demanded, ‘Who made you a ruler and judge over us?’ Through the angel who appeared to him in the burning bush, God sent Moses to be their ruler and savior. 36 And by means of many wonders and miraculous signs, he led them out of Egypt, through the Red Sea, and through the wilderness for forty years.
 37 “Moses himself told the people of Israel, ‘God will raise up for you a Prophet like me from among your own people.’[b] 38 Moses was with our ancestors, the assembly of God’s people in the wilderness, when the angel spoke to him at Mount Sinai. And there Moses received life-giving words to pass on to us.[c]
 39 “But our ancestors refused to listen to Moses. They rejected him and wanted to return to Egypt. 40 They told Aaron, ‘Make us some gods who can lead us, for we don’t know what has become of this Moses, who brought us out of Egypt.’ 41 So they made an idol shaped like a calf, and they sacrificed to it and celebrated over this thing they had made. 42 Then God turned away from them and abandoned them to serve the stars of heaven as their gods! In the book of the prophets it is written,
   ‘Was it to me you were bringing sacrifices and offerings
      during those forty years in the wilderness, Israel?
 43 No, you carried your pagan gods—
      the shrine of Molech,
      the star of your god Rephan,
      and the images you made to worship them.
   So I will send you into exile
      as far away as Babylon.’[d]
 44 “Our ancestors carried the Tabernacle[e] with them through the wilderness. It was constructed according to the plan God had shown to Moses. 45 Years later, when Joshua led our ancestors in battle against the nations that God drove out of this land, the Tabernacle was taken with them into their new territory. And it stayed there until the time of King David.
 46 “David found favor with God and asked for the privilege of building a permanent Temple for the God of Jacob.[f] 47 But it was Solomon who actually built it. 48 However, the Most High doesn’t live in temples made by human hands. As the prophet says,
 49 ‘Heaven is my throne,
      and the earth is my footstool.
   Could you build me a temple as good as that?’
      asks the LORD.
   ‘Could you build me such a resting place?
    50 Didn’t my hands make both heaven and earth?’[g]
Footnotes:
  1. Acts 7:34 Exod 3:5-10.
  2. Acts 7:37 Deut 18:15.
  3. Acts 7:38 Some manuscripts read to you.
  4. Acts 7:43 Amos 5:25-27 (Greek version).
  5. Acts 7:44 Greek the tent of witness.
  6. Acts 7:46 Some manuscripts read the house of Jacob.
  7. Acts 7:50 Isa 66:1-2.

Psalm 128:1-6

New Living Translation (NLT)

Psalm 128

Psalm 128
    A song for pilgrims ascending to Jerusalem. 1 How joyful are those who fear the LORD—
      all who follow his ways!
 2 You will enjoy the fruit of your labor.
      How joyful and prosperous you will be!
 3 Your wife will be like a fruitful grapevine,
      flourishing within your home.
   Your children will be like vigorous young olive trees
      as they sit around your table.
 4 That is the LORD’s blessing
      for those who fear him.
 5 May the LORD continually bless you from Zion.
      May you see Jerusalem prosper as long as you live.
 6 May you live to enjoy your grandchildren.
      May Israel have peace!

Proverbs 16:31-33

New Living Translation (NLT)
 31 Gray hair is a crown of glory;
      it is gained by living a godly life.
 32 Better to be patient than powerful;
      better to have self-control than to conquer a city.
 33 We may throw the dice,[a]
      but the LORD determines how they fall.
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