Day 213 - Saturday after the Ninth Sunday after Pentecost

Read | Day 213 | Saturday | August 1 
2   Kings 23: 1-20 
2   Chronicles 34: 29-33 
2   Kings 23: 21-28 
2   Chronicles 35: 1-19 
Nahum 1: 1, 2-15 
Nahum 2: 1-13 
Nahum 3: 1-19


Date: Nahum  ministry occurred some time before the fall of Judah - 612 BC.

Background | Nahum

The prophet Nahum lived about this time. Nahum's prophecy centered upon the hostile city of Nineveh, where cruelty and oppression reigned supreme.

The prophet pictures with horror the chariots of the rich and the horsemen rushing through the streets of the city, leaving a trail of death behind them. Denouncing the tyranny and bloodshed so rampant in Nineveh, the prophet foretells its complete annihilation; "Woe to the bloody city! It is full of lies and robbery; the prey departeth not. Hark! the whip, and hark! the rattling of wheels, and prancing horses, and bounding chariots; the horsemen charging, and the flashing sword, and the glittering spear; and a multitude of slain, and a heap of carcasses; and there is no end of the corpses... Behold, I will be against thee, saith the L-rd of Hosts... and it shall come to pass, that all they that look upon thee shall flee from thee and say, 'Nineveh is laid waste; who will bemoan her?' ...All that hear the report of thee will clap hands over thee; for upon whom hath not thy wickedness passed continually?"

Source | Chabad.org | Click here

Reading | Josiah reforms worship and holds Passover with the people; Nahum - God is angry with Nineveh, judges it,  and it falls

Source | Tyndale | The One Year Chronological Bible NIV | ISBN 978-1-4143-5993-9

Next | Day 214 | Sunday | August 2 |
Habakkuk 1: 1, 2-4, 5-11, 12– 2: 1 
Habakkuk 2: 2-20 
Habakkuk 3: 1-19 
Zephaniah 1: 1, 2-18 
Zephaniah 2: 1-3, 4-7 

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A Collect for Saturdays

Almighty God, who after the creation of the world rested from all you works and sanctified a day of rest for all your creatures: Grant that we, putting away all earthly anxieties, may be duly prepared for the service of your sanctuary, and that our rest here upon earth may be a preparation for the eternal rest promised to your people in heaven; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

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