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----- Original Message ----- From: "Donnie Parrett" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, April 09, 2009 10:10 PM Subject: Daily Bible Reading For Friday April 10 >1 Kings 13-15 (The Message) > > 1 Kings 13 > 1-3 And then this happened: Just as Jeroboam was at the Altar, about to > make an offering, a holy > man came from Judah by God's command and preached (these were God's > orders) to the Altar: "Altar, > Altar! God's message! 'A son will be born into David's family named > Josiah. The priests from the > shrines who are making offerings on you, he will sacrifice-on you! Human > bones burned on you!'" At > the same time he announced a sign: "This is the proof God gives-the Altar > will split into pieces and > the holy offerings spill into the dirt." > 4-5 When the king heard the message the holy man preached against the > Altar at Bethel, he reached > out to grab him, yelling, "Arrest him!" But his arm was paralyzed and hung > useless. At the same time > the Altar broke apart and the holy offerings all spilled into the dirt-the > very sign the holy man > had announced by God's command. > > 6 The king pleaded with the holy man, "Help me! Pray to your God for the > healing of my arm." The > holy man prayed for him and the king's arm was healed-as good as new! > > 7 Then the king invited the holy man, "Join me for a meal; I have a gift > for you." > > 8-10 The holy man told the king, "Not on your life! You couldn't pay me > enough to get me to sit > down with you at a meal in this place. I'm here under God's orders, and he > commanded, 'Don't eat a > crumb, don't drink a drop, and don't go back the way you came.'" Then he > left by a different road > than the one on which he had walked to Bethel. > > 11 There was an old prophet who lived in Bethel. His sons came and told > him the story of what the > holy man had done that day in Bethel, told him everything that had > happened and what the holy man > had said to the king. > > 12 Their father said, "Which way did he go?" His sons pointed out the road > that the holy man from > Judah had taken. > > 13-14 He told his sons, "Saddle my donkey." When they had saddled it, he > got on and rode after the > holy man. He found him sitting under an oak tree. > > He asked him, "Are you the holy man who came from Judah?" > > "Yes, I am," he said. > > 15 "Well, come home with me and have a meal." > > 16-17 "Sorry, I can't do that," the holy man said. "I can neither go back > with you nor eat with you > in this country. I'm under strict orders from God: 'Don't eat a crumb; > don't drink a drop; and don't > come back the way you came.'" > > 18-19 But he said, "I am also a prophet, just like you. And an angel came > to me with a message from > God: 'Bring him home with you, and give him a good meal!'" But the man was > lying. So the holy man > went home with him and they had a meal together. > > 20-22 There they were, sitting at the table together, when the word of God > came to the prophet who > had brought him back. He confronted the holy man who had come from Judah: > "God's word to you: You > disobeyed God's command; you didn't keep the strict orders your God gave > you; you came back and sat > down to a good meal in the very place God told you, 'Don't eat a crumb; > don't drink a drop.' For > that you're going to die far from home and not be buried in your ancestral > tomb." > > 23-25 When the meal was over, the prophet who had brought him back saddled > his donkey for him. Down > the road a way, a lion met him and killed him. His corpse lay crumpled on > the road, the lion on one > side and the donkey on the other. Some passersby saw the corpse in a heap > on the road, with the lion > standing guard beside it. They went to the village where the old prophet > lived and told what they > had seen. > > 26 When the prophet who had gotten him off track heard it, he said, "It's > the holy man who > disobeyed God's strict orders. God turned him over to the lion who knocked > him around and killed > him, just as God had told him." > > 27-30 The prophet told his sons, "Saddle my donkey." They did it. He rode > out and found the corpse > in a heap in the road, with the lion and the donkey standing there. The > lion hadn't bothered either > the corpse or the donkey. The old prophet loaded the corpse of the holy > man on his donkey and > returned it to his own town to give it a decent burial. He placed the body > in his own tomb. The > people mourned, saying, "A sad day, brother!" > > 31-32 After the funeral, the prophet said to his sons, "When I die, bury > me in the same tomb where > the holy man is buried, my bones alongside his bones. The message that he > preached by God's command > against the Altar at Bethel and against all the sex-and-religion shrines > in the towns of Samaria > will come true." > > 33-34 After this happened, Jeroboam kept right on doing evil, recruiting > priests for the forbidden > shrines indiscriminately-anyone who wanted to could be a priest at one of > the local shrines. This > was the root sin of Jeroboam's government. And it was this that ruined > him. > > 1 Kings 14 > 1-3 At about this time Jeroboam's son Abijah came down sick. Jeroboam said > to his wife, "Do > something. Disguise yourself so no one will know you are the queen and go > to Shiloh. Ahijah the > prophet lives there, the same Ahijah who told me I'd be king over this > people. Take along ten loaves > of bread, some sweet rolls, and a jug of honey. Make a visit to him and > he'll tell you what's going > on with our boy." > 4-5 Jeroboam's wife did as she was told; she went straight to Shiloh and > to Ahijah's house. Ahijah > was an old man at this time, and blind, but God had warned Ahijah, > "Jeroboam's wife is on her way to > consult with you regarding her sick son; tell her this and this and this." > > 5-9 When she came in she was disguised. Ahijah heard her come through the > door and said, "Welcome, > wife of Jeroboam! But why the deception? I've got bad news for you. Go and > deliver this message I > received firsthand from God, the God of Israel, to Jeroboam: I raised you > up from obscurity and made > you the leader of my people Israel. I ripped the kingdom from the hands of > David's family and gave > it to you, but you weren't at all like my servant David who did what I > told him and lived from his > undivided heart, pleasing me. Instead you've set a new record in works of > evil by making alien > gods-tin gods! Pushing me aside and turning your back-you've made me > mighty angry. > > 10-11 "And I'll not put up with it: I'm bringing doom on the household of > Jeroboam, killing the lot > of them right down to the last male wretch in Israel, whether slave or > free. They've become nothing > but garbage and I'm getting rid of them. The ones who die in the city will > be eaten by stray dogs; > the ones who die out in the country will be eaten by carrion crows. God's > decree! > > 12-13 "And that's it. Go on home-the minute you step foot in town, the boy > will die. Everyone will > come to his burial, mourning his death. He is the only one in Jeroboam's > family who will get a > decent burial; he's the only one for whom God, the God of Israel, has a > good word to say. > > 14-16 "Then God will appoint a king over Israel who will wipe out > Jeroboam's family, wipe them > right off the map-doomsday for Jeroboam! He will hit Israel hard, as a > storm slaps reeds about; > he'll pull them up by the roots from this good land of their inheritance, > weeding them out, and then > scatter them to the four winds. And why? Because they made God so angry > with Asherah > sex-and-religion shrines. He'll wash his hands of Israel because of > Jeroboam's sins, which have led > Israel into a life of sin." > > 17-18 Jeroboam's wife left and went home to Tirzah. The moment she stepped > through the door, the > boy died. They buried him and everyone mourned his death, just as God had > said through his servant > the prophet Ahijah. > > 19-20 The rest of Jeroboam's life, the wars he fought and the way he > ruled, is written in The > Chronicles of the Kings of Israel. He ruled for twenty-two years. He died > and was buried with his > ancestors. Nadab his son was king after him. > > > 21-24 Rehoboam son of Solomon was king in Judah. He was forty-one years > old when he took the throne > and was king for seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city God selected from > all the tribes of Israel > for the worship of his Name. Rehoboam's mother was Naamah, an Ammonite. > Judah was openly wicked > before God, making him very angry. They set new records in sin, surpassing > anything their ancestors > had done. They built Asherah sex-and-religion shrines and set up sacred > stones all over the place-on > hills, under trees, wherever you looked. Worse, they had male sacred > prostitutes, polluting the > country outrageously-all the stuff that God had gotten rid of when he > brought Israel into the land. > > 25-28 In the fifth year of King Rehoboam's rule, Shishak king of Egypt > made war against Jerusalem. > He plundered The Temple of God and the royal palace of their treasures, > cleaned them out-even the > gold shields that Solomon had made. King Rehoboam replaced them with > bronze shields and outfitted > the royal palace guards with them. Whenever the king went to God's Temple, > the guards carried the > shields but always returned them to the guardroom. > > 29-31 The rest of Rehoboam's life, what he said and did, is all written in > The Chronicles of the > Kings of Judah. There was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam the whole > time. Rehoboam died and was > buried with his ancestors in the City of David. His mother was Naamah, an > Ammonite. His son Abijah > ruled after him. > > 1 Kings 15 > Abijah of Judah > 1-6 In the eighteenth year of the rule of Jeroboam son of Nebat, Abijah > took over the throne of > Judah. He ruled in Jerusalem three years. His mother was Maacah daughter > of Absalom. He continued to > sin just like his father before him. He was not truehearted to God as his > great-grandfather David > had been. But despite that, out of respect for David, his God graciously > gave him a lamp, a son to > follow him and keep Jerusalem secure. For David had lived an exemplary > life before God all his days, > not going off on his own in willful defiance of God's clear directions > (except for that time with > Uriah the Hittite). But war continued between Abijah and Jeroboam the > whole time. > 7-8 The rest of Abijah's life, everything he did, is written in The > Chronicles of the Kings of > Judah. But the war with Jeroboam was the dominant theme. Abijah died and > was buried with his > ancestors in the City of David. His son Asa was king after him. > > Asa of Judah > 9-10 In the twentieth year of Jeroboam king of Israel, Asa began his rule > over Judah. He ruled for > forty-one years in Jerusalem. His grandmother's name was Maacah. > 11-15 Asa conducted himself well before God, reviving the ways of his > ancestor David. He cleaned > house: He got rid of the sacred prostitutes and threw out all the idols > his predecessors had made. > Asa spared nothing and no one; he went so far as to remove Queen Maacah > from her position because > she had built a shockingly obscene memorial to the whore goddess Asherah. > Asa tore it down and > burned it up in the Kidron Valley. Unfortunately, he didn't get rid of the > local sex-and-religion > shrines. But he was well-intentioned-his heart was in the right place, in > tune with God. All the > gold and silver vessels and artifacts that he and his father had > consecrated for holy use he > installed in The Temple. > > 16-17 But through much of his reign there was war between Asa and Baasha > king of Israel. Baasha > king of Israel started it by building a fort at Ramah and closing the > border between Israel and > Judah so no one could enter or leave Judah. > > 18-19 Asa took all the silver and gold that was left in the treasuries of > The Temple of God and the > royal palace, gave it to his servants, and sent them to Ben-Hadad son of > Tabrimmon, the son of > Hezion king of Aram, who was ruling in Damascus, with this message: "Let's > make a treaty like the > one between our fathers. I'm showing my good faith with this gift of > silver and gold. Break your > deal with Baasha king of Israel so he'll quit fighting against me." > > 20-21 Ben-Hadad went along with King Asa and sent out his troops against > the towns of Israel. He > attacked Ijon, Dan, Abel Beth Maacah, and the entire region of Kinnereth, > including Naphtali. When > Baasha got the report he quit fortifying Ramah and pulled back to Tirzah. > > 22 Then King Asa issued orders to everyone in Judah-no exemptions-to haul > away the logs and stones > Baasha had used in the fortification of Ramah and use them to fortify Geba > in Benjamin and Mizpah. > > 23-24 A full account of Asa's life, all the great things he did and the > fortifications he > constructed, is written in The Chronicles of the Kings of Judah. In his > old age he developed severe > gout. Then Asa died and was buried with his ancestors in the City of > David. His son Jehoshaphat > became king after him. > > Nadab of Israel > 25-26 Nadab son of Jeroboam became king over Israel in the second year of > Asa's rule in Judah. He > was king of Israel two years. He was openly evil before God-he followed in > the footsteps of his > father who both sinned and made Israel sin. > 27-28 Baasha son of Ahijah of the tribe of Issachar ganged up on him and > attacked him at the > Philistine town of Gibbethon while Nadab and the Israelites were doing > battle there. Baasha killed > Nadab in the third year of Asa king of Judah and became Israel's next > king. > > 29-30 As soon as he was king he killed everyone in Jeroboam's family. > There wasn't a living soul > left to the name of Jeroboam; Baasha wiped them out totally, just as God's > servant Ahijah of Shiloh > had prophesied-punishment for Jeroboam's sins and for making Israel sin, > for making the God of > Israel thoroughly angry. > > 31-32 The rest of Nadab's life, everything else he did, is written in The > Chronicles of the Kings > of Israel. There was continuous war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel. > > Baasha of Israel > 33-34 In the third year of Asa king of Judah, Baasha son of Ahijah became > king in Tirzah over all > Israel. He ruled twenty-four years. He was openly evil before God, walking > in the footsteps of > Jeroboam, who both sinned and made Israel sin. > > > > Please join us on Skype Monday thru Friday at 8:00 EST for our Morning > Skype Prayer Time. > > > Contact Me At: > Donnie Parrett > 1956 Asa Flat Road > Annville, Kentucky 40402 > Home Phone: 606-364-3321 > Church Phone: 606-364-PRAY > Skype Name: Donnie1261 > Email: [email protected] > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Deaf-Blind Inspirational Life Group" group. 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