Day 166 - Monday after the 3rd Sunday after Pentecost

Read | Day 166 | Monday | June 15 |
2   Kings 2: 1-18, 19-25
2   Kings 4: 1-7, 8-37, 38-44 

Source | Daily Reading Guide | The One Year ® Chronological Bible | Tyndale, 2013 | Click here

Background | 
Like the books of Samuel, the books of Kings were originally one book but divided into two by the Greek translators of the original Hebrew. While 2 Samuel leaves off near the end of David’s reign, 1 and 2 Kings take us from the reign of Solomon to the catastrophic division of Israel into northern and southern factions. The northern kingdom was made up of ten tribes and often referred to in the Old Testament as Ephraim, the name of the largest tribe, or Israel. The southern kingdom was made up of the tribes of Judah and Benjamin, and was typically referred to as Judah. Even more unthinkable than the divided monarchy and the civil war that ensued was the fall of the northern kingdom to Assyria in 722 BC and then the fall and exile of the southern kingdom to Babylon in 586 BC. More | Center of Biblical Studies | Click here
Reading | Elisha succeeds Elijah; Elisha's first miracles; more miracles; heals

Source | Oxford Annotated Bible, 4th Edition | Notes pp. 534 - 

Next | Day 167 | Tuesday | June 16
2   Kings 5: 1-19a, 19b-27
2   Kings 6: 1-7, 8-23, 24– 7: 2
2   Kings 7: 3-11, 12-20
2   Kings 14: 1-14
2   Chronicles 25: 1-24
2   Kings 13: 12-13
2   Kings 14: 15-16, 23-27
2   Chronicles 25: 25-28
2   Kings 14: 17-22
2   Kings 15: 1-5
2   Chronicles 26: 1-15, 16-21
Jonah 1: 1-16, 17– 2: 10
Jonah 3: 1-10
Jonah 4: 1-11
2   Kings 8: 1-6, 7-15

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Jubilate

Be joyful in the Lord, all you lands;
serve the Lord with gladness
and come before his presence with a song.
Know this: The Lord himself is God;
he himself has made us, and we are his;
we are his people and the sheep of his pasture.
Enter his gates with thanksgiving;
go into his courts with praise;
give thanks to him and call upon his Name.
For the Lord is good;
his mercy is everlasting;
and his faithfulness endures from age to age.
Source | Mission St Clare | Book of Common Prayer | Click here

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