Day 171 - Saturday after the Third Sunday in Pentecost

Read | Day 171 | Saturday | June 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: 1-21 
Jonah 1: 1 - 4: 1-11

Date | 800 BC

Reading | Amaziah - Judah (800 - 783 BC) - life and battles - pillaged the Temple - did not listen to God; Jehoash rule ends in Israel in 786 BC; Jeroboam 2 takes over Israel and did evil in the sight of God; Uzziah - Judah - 783 to 742 - did what was right in eyes of God execept the high places;

Jonah - one who ran from God - took place during the reign of Jeroboam 2 in 760 BC; his prayer in the fish; he goes to Nivevah; tellings Nivevah to repent and they do; Jonah pouts about God's mercy - tree illustration.

Background | Outside his key role in the book of Jonah itself, the prophet Jonah is known to us by one obscure verse in 2 Kings 14:25.  The limited setting referenced in this passage seems to be the reign of Jeroboam II, king of the northern kingdom of Israel, in the middle of the eighth century BC. Unlike the other prophetic books, the book of Jonah is not a series of prophecies by the prophet himself. Rather, it is a four-chapter narrative that depicts four successive scenes in Jonah’s call by God to deliver a word of judgment against the Assyrian capital of Nineveh.

Scholars typically date Jonah after the return from exile in 539 BC. This is due partly to the theology of Jonah, which includes Jonah’s demand that the Gentiles repent and serve the God of Israel.  This theology would have certainly have been out of place during the monarchic period. (See the opposite attitude toward Nineveh in the book of Nahum.). All in all, it seems that Jonah is more story than historical account.  More from the Center of Biblical Studies - Click here
Source | Daily Reading Guide | The One Year ® Chronological Bible | Tyndale, 2013 | Click here

Next | Day 172 | Sunday | June 21

Amos 1: 1-2, 3– 2: 3
Amos 2: 4– 3: 2
Amos 3: 3-15
Amos 4: 1-13
Amos 5: 1-17, 18– 6: 14
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Opening Sentence

Thus says the high and lofty One who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy, "I dwell in the high and holy place and also with the one who has a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble and to revive the heart of the contrite." Isaiah 57:15

The Invitatory and Psalter


V: Lord, open our lips.
R: And our mouth shall proclaim your praise.
Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit:
as it was in the beginning, is now, and will be for ever. Amen.
Alleluia

Venite Psalm 95:1-7

Worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness: Come let us adore him.
Come, let us sing to the Lord; *
let us shout for joy to the Rock of our salvation.
Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving *
and raise a loud shout to him with psalms.

Worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness: Come let us adore him.
For the Lord is a great God, *
and a great King above all gods.
In his hand are the caverns of the earth, *
and the heights of the hills are his also.
The sea is his, for he made it, *
and his hands have molded the dry land.

Worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness: Come let us adore him.
Come, let us bow down, and bend the knee, *
and kneel before the Lord our Maker.
For he is our God,
and we are the people of his pasture and the sheep of his hand. *
Oh, that today you would hearken to his voice!

Worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness: Come let us adore him.
Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit:
as it was in the beginning, is now, and will be for ever. Amen.

Worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness: Come let us adore him.

Source | Forward Movement | Click here

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