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BibleGateway: 2 Chronicles 11 ESV Text: 2 Chronicles 11 2 Chronicles 11 (Listen) Rehoboam Secures His Kingdom 11:1 When Rehoboam came to Jerusalem, he assembled the house of Judah and Benjamin, 180,000 chosen warriors, to fight against Israel, to restore the kingdom to Rehoboam. 2 But the word of the LORD came to Shemaiah the man of […]

BibleGateway: 2 Chronicles 10 ESV Text: 2 Chronicles 10 2 Chronicles 10 (Listen) The Revolt Against Rehoboam 10:1 Rehoboam went to Shechem, for all Israel had come to Shechem to make him king. 2 And as soon as Jeroboam the son of Nebat heard of it (for he was in Egypt, where he had fled from King […]

BibleGateway: Psalm 107 ESV Text: Psalm 107 Psalm 107 (Listen) Book Five Let the Redeemed of the Lord Say So 107:1   Oh give thanks to the LORD, for he is good,    for his steadfast love endures forever!2   Let the redeemed of the LORD say so,    whom he has redeemed from trouble13   and gathered in from the lands,    from the east and […]

BibleGateway: Psalm 106 ESV Text: Psalm 106 Psalm 106 (Listen) Give Thanks to the Lord, for He Is Good 106:1   Praise the LORD!  Oh give thanks to the LORD, for he is good,    for his steadfast love endures forever!2   Who can utter the mighty deeds of the LORD,    or declare all his praise?3   Blessed are they who observe justice,    who do righteousness […]

BibleGateway: Psalm 105 ESV Text: Psalm 105 Psalm 105 (Listen) Tell of All His Wondrous Works 105:1   Oh give thanks to the LORD; call upon his name;    make known his deeds among the peoples!2   Sing to him, sing praises to him;    tell of all his wondrous works!3   Glory in his holy name;    let the hearts of those who seek the LORD […]

BibleGateway: 2 Chronicles 9 ESV Text: 2 Chronicles 9 2 Chronicles 9 (Listen) The Queen of Sheba 9:1 Now when the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon, she came to Jerusalem to test him with hard questions, having a very great retinue and camels bearing spices and very much gold and precious stones. […]

BibleGateway: 2 Chronicles 8 ESV Text: 2 Chronicles 8 2 Chronicles 8 (Listen) Solomon’s Accomplishments 8:1 At the end of twenty years, in which Solomon had built the house of the LORD and his own house, 2 Solomon rebuilt the cities that Hiram had given to him, and settled the people of Israel in them. 3 And Solomon […]

BibleGateway: 2 Chronicles 7 ESV Text: 2 Chronicles 7 2 Chronicles 7 (Listen) Fire from Heaven 7:1 As soon as Solomon finished his prayer, fire came down from heaven and consumed the burnt offering and the sacrifices, and the glory of the LORD filled the temple. 2 And the priests could not enter the house of the […]

BibleGateway: 2 Chronicles 6 ESV Text: 2 Chronicles 6 2 Chronicles 6 (Listen) Solomon Blesses the People 6:1 Then Solomon said, “The LORD has said that he would dwell in thick darkness. 2 But I have built you an exalted house, a place for you to dwell in forever.” 3 Then the king turned around and blessed all […]

BibleGateway: 2 Chronicles 5 ESV Text: 2 Chronicles 5 2 Chronicles 5 (Listen) 5:1 Thus all the work that Solomon did for the house of the LORD was finished. And Solomon brought in the things that David his father had dedicated, and stored the silver, the gold, and all the vessels in the treasuries of the […]

BibleGateway: 2 Chronicles 4 ESV Text: 2 Chronicles 4 2 Chronicles 4 (Listen) The Temple’s Furnishings 4:1 He made an altar of bronze, twenty cubits1 long and twenty cubits wide and ten cubits high. 2 Then he made the sea of cast metal. It was round, ten cubits from brim to brim, and five cubits high, and […]

BibleGateway: 2 Chronicles 3 ESV Text: 2 Chronicles 3 2 Chronicles 3 (Listen) Solomon Builds the Temple 3:1 Then Solomon began to build the house of the LORD in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where the LORD1 had appeared to David his father, at the place that David had appointed, on the threshing floor of Ornan the […]

BibleGateway: 2 Chronicles 2 ESV Text: 2 Chronicles 2 2 Chronicles 2 (Listen) Preparing to Build the Temple 2:1 Now Solomon purposed to build a temple for the name of the LORD, and a royal palace for himself. 1 2 And Solomon assigned 70,000 men to bear burdens and 80,000 to quarry in the hill country, and […]

BibleGateway: 2 Chronicles 1 ESV Text: 2 Chronicles 1 2 Chronicles 1 (Listen) Solomon Worships at Gibeon 1:1 Solomon the son of David established himself in his kingdom, and the LORD his God was with him and made him exceedingly great. 2 Solomon spoke to all Israel, to the commanders of thousands and of hundreds, to the […]

BibleGateway: Psalm 103 ESV Text: Psalm 103 Psalm 103 (Listen) Bless the Lord, O My Soul Of David. 103:1   Bless the LORD, O my soul,    and all that is within me,    bless his holy name!2   Bless the LORD, O my soul,    and forget not all his benefits,3   who forgives all your iniquity,    who heals all your diseases,4   who redeems your life from the […]

BibleGateway: Psalm 102 ESV Text: Psalm 102 Psalm 102 (Listen) Do Not Hide Your Face from Me A Prayer of one afflicted, when he is faint and pours out his complaint before the LORD. 102:1   Hear my prayer, O LORD;  let my cry come to you!2   Do not hide your face from me    in the day of my distress!  Incline […]

BibleGateway: Hosea 14 ESV Text: Hosea 14 Hosea 14 (Listen) A Plea to Return to the Lord 14:1   Return, O Israel, to the LORD your God,    for you have stumbled because of your iniquity.2   Take with you words    and return to the LORD;  say to him,    “Take away all iniquity;  accept what is good,    and we will pay with bulls    the vows1 of our […]

BibleGateway: Hosea 13 ESV Text: Hosea 13 Hosea 13 (Listen) The Lord’s Relentless Judgment on Israel 13:1   When Ephraim spoke, there was trembling;    he was exalted in Israel,    but he incurred guilt through Baal and died.2   And now they sin more and more,    and make for themselves metal images,  idols skillfully made of their silver,    all of them the work of craftsmen.  It […]

BibleGateway: Hosea 12 ESV Text: Hosea 12 Hosea 12 (Listen) 12:1   Ephraim feeds on the wind    and pursues the east wind all day long;  they multiply falsehood and violence;    they make a covenant with Assyria,    and oil is carried to Egypt. The Lord’s Indictment of Israel and Judah 2   The LORD has an indictment against Judah    and will punish Jacob according to […]

BibleGateway: Hosea 11 ESV Text: Hosea 11 Hosea 11 (Listen) The Lord’s Love for Israel 11:1   When Israel was a child, I loved him,    and out of Egypt I called my son.2   The more they were called,    the more they went away;  they kept sacrificing to the Baals    and burning offerings to idols. 3   Yet it was I who taught Ephraim to […]

BibleGateway: Hosea 10 ESV Text: Hosea 10 Hosea 10 (Listen) 10:1   Israel is a luxuriant vine    that yields its fruit.  The more his fruit increased,    the more altars he built;  as his country improved,    he improved his pillars.2   Their heart is false;    now they must bear their guilt.  The LORD1 will break down their altars    and destroy their pillars. 3   For now they will say:    “We have […]

BibleGateway: Hosea 9 ESV Text: Hosea 9 Hosea 9 (Listen) The Lord Will Punish Israel 9:1   Rejoice not, O Israel!    Exult not like the peoples;  for you have played the whore, forsaking your God.    You have loved a prostitute’s wages    on all threshing floors.2   Threshing floor and wine vat shall not feed them,    and the new wine shall fail them.3   They shall not […]

BibleGateway: Hosea 8 ESV Text: Hosea 8 Hosea 8 (Listen) Israel Will Reap the Whirlwind 8:1   Set the trumpet to your lips!    One like a vulture is over the house of the LORD,  because they have transgressed my covenant    and rebelled against my law.2   To me they cry,    “My God, we—Israel—know you.”3   Israel has spurned the good;    the enemy shall pursue him. 4   They […]

BibleGateway: Leviticus 20 ESV Text: Leviticus 20 Leviticus 20 (Listen) Punishment for Child Sacrifice 20:1 The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 2 “Say to the people of Israel, Any one of the people of Israel or of the strangers who sojourn in Israel who gives any of his children to Molech shall surely be put to death. […]

BibleGateway: Leviticus 19 ESV Text: Leviticus 19 Leviticus 19 (Listen) The Lord Is Holy 19:1 And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 2 “Speak to all the congregation of the people of Israel and say to them, You shall be holy, for I the LORD your God am holy. 3 Every one of you shall revere his mother […]

BibleGateway: Leviticus 18 ESV Text: Leviticus 18 Leviticus 18 (Listen) Unlawful Sexual Relations 18:1 And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 2 “Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, I am the LORD your God. 3 You shall not do as they do in the land of Egypt, where you lived, and you shall not […]

BibleGateway: Leviticus 17 ESV Text: Leviticus 17 Leviticus 17 (Listen) The Place of Sacrifice 17:1 And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 2 “Speak to Aaron and his sons and to all the people of Israel and say to them, This is the thing that the LORD has commanded. 3 If any one of the house of Israel […]

BibleGateway: Leviticus 16 ESV Text: Leviticus 16 Leviticus 16 (Listen) The Day of Atonement 16:1 The LORD spoke to Moses after the death of the two sons of Aaron, when they drew near before the LORD and died, 2 and the LORD said to Moses, “Tell Aaron your brother not to come at any time into the […]

BibleGateway: Ezekiel 48 ESV Text: Ezekiel 48 Ezekiel 48 (Listen) 48:1 “These are the names of the tribes: Beginning at the northern extreme, beside the way of Hethlon to Lebo-hamath, as far as Hazar-enan (which is on the northern border of Damascus over against Hamath), and extending1 from the east side to the west,2 Dan, one […]

BibleGateway: Ezekiel 47 ESV Text: Ezekiel 47 Ezekiel 47 (Listen) Water Flowing from the Temple 47:1 Then he brought me back to the door of the temple, and behold, water was issuing from below the threshold of the temple toward the east (for the temple faced east). The water was flowing down from below the south […]

BibleGateway: Ezekiel 46 ESV Text: Ezekiel 46 Ezekiel 46 (Listen) The Prince and the Feasts 46:1 “Thus says the Lord GOD: The gate of the inner court that faces east shall be shut on the six working days, but on the Sabbath day it shall be opened, and on the day of the new moon it […]

BibleGateway: Ezekiel 45 ESV Text: Ezekiel 45 Ezekiel 45 (Listen) The Holy District 45:1 “When you allot the land as an inheritance, you shall set apart for the LORD a portion of the land as a holy district, 25,000 cubits1 long and 20,0002 cubits broad. It shall be holy throughout its whole extent. 2 Of this a […]

BibleGateway: Ezekiel 44 ESV Text: Ezekiel 44 Ezekiel 44 (Listen) The Gate for the Prince 44:1 Then he brought me back to the outer gate of the sanctuary, which faces east. And it was shut. 2 And the LORD said to me, “This gate shall remain shut; it shall not be opened, and no one shall enter […]

BibleGateway: Ezekiel 43 ESV Text: Ezekiel 43 Ezekiel 43 (Listen) The Glory of the Lord Fills the Temple 43:1 Then he led me to the gate, the gate facing east. 2 And behold, the glory of the God of Israel was coming from the east. And the sound of his coming was like the sound of many […]

BibleGateway: Ezekiel 41 ESV Text: Ezekiel 41 Ezekiel 41 (Listen) The Inner Temple 41:1 Then he brought me to the nave and measured the jambs. On each side six cubits1 was the breadth of the jambs.2 2 And the breadth of the entrance was ten cubits, and the sidewalls of the entrance were five cubits on either […]

BibleGateway: Ezekiel 40 ESV Text: Ezekiel 40 Ezekiel 40 (Listen) Vision of the New Temple 40:1 In the twenty-fifth year of our exile, at the beginning of the year, on the tenth day of the month, in the fourteenth year after the city was struck down, on that very day, the hand of the LORD was […]

BibleGateway: Leviticus 15 ESV Text: Leviticus 15 Leviticus 15 (Listen) Laws About Bodily Discharges 15:1 The LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying, 2 “Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, When any man has a discharge from his body,1 his discharge is unclean. 3 And this is the law of his uncleanness for a […]

BibleGateway: Leviticus 14 ESV Text: Leviticus 14 Leviticus 14 (Listen) Laws for Cleansing Lepers 14:1 The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 2 “This shall be the law of the leprous person for the day of his cleansing. He shall be brought to the priest, 3 and the priest shall go out of the camp, and the priest shall […]

BibleGateway: Leviticus 13 ESV Text: Leviticus 13 Leviticus 13 (Listen) Laws About Leprosy 13:1 The LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying, 2 “When a person has on the skin of his body a swelling or an eruption or a spot, and it turns into a case of leprous1 disease on the skin of his body, then […]

BibleGateway: Leviticus 12 ESV Text: Leviticus 12 Leviticus 12 (Listen) Purification After Childbirth 12:1 The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 2 “Speak to the people of Israel, saying, If a woman conceives and bears a male child, then she shall be unclean seven days. As at the time of her menstruation, she shall be unclean. 3 And on […]

BibleGateway: Leviticus 11 ESV Text: Leviticus 11 Leviticus 11 (Listen) Clean and Unclean Animals 11:1 And the LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying to them, 2 “Speak to the people of Israel, saying, These are the living things that you may eat among all the animals that are on the earth. 3 Whatever parts the hoof and […]

BibleGateway: Leviticus 10 ESV Text: Leviticus 10 Leviticus 10 (Listen) The Death of Nadab and Abihu 10:1 Now Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, each took his censer and put fire in it and laid incense on it and offered unauthorized1 fire before the LORD, which he had not commanded them. 2 And fire came out […]

BibleGateway: Leviticus 9 ESV Text: Leviticus 9 Leviticus 9 (Listen) The Lord Accepts Aaron’s Offering 9:1 On the eighth day Moses called Aaron and his sons and the elders of Israel, 2 and he said to Aaron, “Take for yourself a bull calf for a sin offering and a ram for a burnt offering, both without blemish, […]

BibleGateway: Leviticus 8 ESV Text: Leviticus 8 Leviticus 8 (Listen) Consecration of Aaron and His Sons 8:1 The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 2 “Take Aaron and his sons with him, and the garments and the anointing oil and the bull of the sin offering and the two rams and the basket of unleavened bread. 3 And assemble […]

BibleGateway: Leviticus 7 ESV Text: Leviticus 7 Leviticus 7 (Listen) 7:1 “This is the law of the guilt offering. It is most holy. 2 In the place where they kill the burnt offering they shall kill the guilt offering, and its blood shall be thrown against the sides of the altar. 3 And all its fat shall be […]

BibleGateway: Leviticus 6 ESV Text: Leviticus 6 Leviticus 6 (Listen) 6:1 1 The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 2 “If anyone sins and commits a breach of faith against the LORD by deceiving his neighbor in a matter of deposit or security, or through robbery, or if he has oppressed his neighbor 3 or has found something lost […]

BibleGateway: Leviticus 5 ESV Text: Leviticus 5 Leviticus 5 (Listen) 5:1 “If anyone sins in that he hears a public adjuration to testify, and though he is a witness, whether he has seen or come to know the matter, yet does not speak, he shall bear his iniquity; 2 or if anyone touches an unclean thing, whether […]

BibleGateway: Leviticus 4 ESV Text: Leviticus 4 Leviticus 4 (Listen) Laws for Sin Offerings 4:1 And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 2 “Speak to the people of Israel, saying, If anyone sins unintentionally1 in any of the LORD’s commandments about things not to be done, and does any one of them, 3 if it is the anointed […]

BibleGateway: Leviticus 3 ESV Text: Leviticus 3 Leviticus 3 (Listen) Laws for Peace Offerings 3:1 “If his offering is a sacrifice of peace offering, if he offers an animal from the herd, male or female, he shall offer it without blemish before the LORD. 2 And he shall lay his hand on the head of his offering […]

BibleGateway: Leviticus 2 ESV Text: Leviticus 2 Leviticus 2 (Listen) Laws for Grain Offerings 2:1 “When anyone brings a grain offering as an offering to the LORD, his offering shall be of fine flour. He shall pour oil on it and put frankincense on it 2 and bring it to Aaron’s sons the priests. And he shall […]