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----- Original Message ----- From: "Donnie Parrett" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, May 10, 2009 10:23 PM Subject: Daily Bible Reading For Monday May 11 > Ezra 1-3 (The Message) > > Ezra 1 > Cyrus King of Persia: "Build The Temple of God!" > 1-4In the first year of Cyrus king of Persia-this fulfilled the Message of > God preached by > Jeremiah-God prodded Cyrus king of Persia to make an official announcement > throughout his kingdom. > He wrote it out as follows: > From Cyrus king of Persia, a Proclamation: God, the God of the heavens, > has given me all the > kingdoms of the earth. He has also assigned me to build him a Temple of > worship in Jerusalem, Judah. > Who among you belongs to his people? God be with you! Go to Jerusalem > which is in Judah and build > The Temple of God, the God of Israel, Jerusalem's God. Those who stay > behind, wherever they happen > to live, will support them with silver, gold, tools, and pack animals, > along with Freewill-Offerings > for The Temple of God in Jerusalem. > > 5-6 The heads of the families of Judah and Benjamin, along with the > priests and Levites-everyone, > in fact, God prodded-set out to build The Temple of God in Jerusalem. > Their neighbors rallied behind > them enthusiastically with silver, gold, tools, pack animals, expensive > gifts, and, over and above > these, Freewill-Offerings. > > 7-10 Also, King Cyrus turned over to them all the vessels and utensils > from The Temple of God that > Nebuchadnezzar had hauled from Jerusalem and put in the temple of his > gods. Cyrus king of Persia put > Mithredath the treasurer in charge of the transfer; he provided a full > inventory for Sheshbazzar the > prince of Judah, including the following: > > 30 gold dishes > > 1,000 silver dishes > > 29 silver pans > > 30 gold bowls > > 410 duplicate silver bowls > > 1,000 miscellaneous items. > > 11 All told, there were 5,400 gold and silver articles that Sheshbazzar > took with him when he > brought the exiles back from Babylon to Jerusalem. > > Ezra 2 > 1-58 These are the people from the province who now returned from the > captivity, exiles whom > Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had carried off captive. They returned to > Jerusalem and Judah, each > to his hometown. They came in company with Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, > Seraiah, Reelaiah, > Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispar, Bigvai, Rehum, and Baanah. > The numbers of the returning Israelites by families of origin were as > follows: > Parosh, 2,172 > Shephatiah, 372 > Arah, 775 > Pahath-Moab (sons of Jeshua and Joab), 2,812 > Elam, 1,254 > Zattu, 945 > Zaccai, 760 > Bani, 642 > Bebai, 623 > Azgad, 1,222 > Adonikam, 666 > Bigvai, 2,056 > Adin, 454 > Ater (sons of Hezekiah), 98 > Bezai, 323 > Jorah, 112 > Hashum, 223 > Gibbar, 95. > > Israelites identified by place of origin were as follows: > Bethlehem, 123 > Netophah, 56 > Anathoth, 128 > Azmaveth, 42 > Kiriath Jearim, Kephirah, and Beeroth, 743 > Ramah and Geba, 621 > Micmash, 122 > Bethel and Ai, 223 > Nebo, 52 > Magbish, 156 > Elam (the other one), 1,254 > Harim, 320 > Lod, Hadid, and Ono, 725 > Jericho, 345 > Senaah, 3,630. > > Priestly families: > Jedaiah (sons of Jeshua), 973 > Immer, 1,052 > Pashhur, 1,247 > Harim, 1,017. > > Levitical families: > Jeshua and Kadmiel (sons of Hodaviah), 74. > > Singers: > Asaph's family line, 128. > > Security guard families: > Shallum, Ater, Talmon, Akkub, Hatita, and Shobai, 139. > > Families of temple support staff: > Ziha, Hasupha, Tabbaoth, > Keros, Siaha, Padon, > Lebanah, Hagabah, Akkub, > Hagab, Shalmai, Hanan, > Giddel, Gahar, Reaiah, > Rezin, Nekoda, Gazzam, > Uzza, Paseah, Besai, > Asnah, Meunim, Nephussim, > Bakbuk, Hakupha, Harhur, > Bazluth, Mehida, Harsha, > Barkos, Sisera, Temah, > Neziah, and Hatipha. > > Families of Solomon's servants: > Sotai, Hassophereth, Peruda, > Jaala, Darkon, Giddel, > Shephatiah, Hattil, Pokereth-Hazzebaim, and Ami. > > Temple support staff and Solomon's servants added up to 392. > > 59-60 These are those who came from Tel Melah, Tel Harsha, Kerub, Addon, > and Immer. They weren't > able to prove their ancestry, whether they were true Israelites or not: > > 61 Delaiah, Tobiah, and Nekoda, 652 in all. Likewise with these priestly > families: > Hobaiah, Hakkoz, and Barzillai, who had married a daughter of > Barzillai the Gileadite and took > that name. > > 62-63 They had thoroughly searched for their family records but couldn't > find them. And so they > were barred from priestly work as ritually unclean. The governor ruled > that they could not eat from > the holy food until a priest could determine their status with the Urim > and Thummim. > > 64-67 The total count for the congregation was 42,360. That did not > include the male and female > slaves, which numbered 7,337. There were also 200 male and female singers, > and they had 736 horses, > 245 mules, 435 camels, and 6,720 donkeys. > > > 68-69 Some of the heads of families, on arriving at The Temple of God in > Jerusalem, made > Freewill-Offerings toward the rebuilding of The Temple of God on its site. > They gave to the building > fund as they were able, about 1,100 pounds of gold, about three tons of > silver, and 100 priestly > robes. > > 70 The priests, Levites, and some of the people lived in Jerusalem. The > singers, security guards, > and temple support staff found places in their hometowns. All the > Israelites found a place to live. > > Ezra 3 > The Building Begun: "The Foundation of the Temple Was Laid" > 1-2When the seventh month came and the Israelites had settled into their > towns, the people > assembled together in Jerusalem. Jeshua son of Jozadak and his brother > priests, along with > Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, and his relatives, went to work and > built the Altar of the God of > Israel to offer Whole-Burnt-Offerings on it as written in The Revelation > of Moses the man of God. > 3-5 Even though they were afraid of what their non-Israelite neighbors > might do, they went ahead > anyway and set up the Altar on its foundations and offered > Whole-Burnt-Offerings on it morning and > evening. They also celebrated the Festival of Booths as prescribed and the > daily > Whole-Burnt-Offerings set for each day. And they presented the regular > Whole-Burnt-Offerings for > Sabbaths, New Moons, and God's Holy Festivals, as well as > Freewill-Offerings for God. > > 6 They began offering Whole-Burnt-Offerings to God from the very first day > of the seventh month, > even though The Temple of God's foundation had not yet been laid. > > 7 They gave money to hire masons and carpenters. They gave food, drink, > and oil to the Sidonians > and Tyrians in exchange for the cedar lumber they had brought by sea from > Lebanon to Joppa, a > shipment authorized by Cyrus the king of Persia. > > 8-9 In the second month of the second year after their arrival at The > Temple of God in Jerusalem, > Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua son of Jozadak, in company with > their brother priests and > Levites and everyone else who had come back to Jerusalem from captivity, > got started. They appointed > the Levites twenty years of age and older to direct the rebuilding of The > Temple of God. Jeshua and > his family joined Kadmiel, Binnui, and Hodaviah, along with the extended > family of Henadad-all > Levites-to direct the work crew on The Temple of God. > > 10-11 When the workers laid the foundation of The Temple of God, the > priests in their robes stood > up with trumpets, and the Levites, sons of Asaph, with cymbals, to praise > God in the tradition of > David king of Israel. They sang antiphonally praise and thanksgiving to > God: > Yes! God is good! Oh yes-he'll never quit loving Israel! > > 11-13 All the people boomed out hurrahs, praising God as the foundation of > The Temple of God was > laid. As many were noisily shouting with joy, many of the older priests, > Levites, and family heads > who had seen the first Temple, when they saw the foundations of this > Temple laid, wept loudly for > joy. People couldn't distinguish the shouting from the weeping. The sound > of their voices > reverberated for miles around. > > > > > > > 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. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/DBILG?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
