Formation Journal Reading Plan

15:1 And the Spirit of God came upon Azariah the son of Oded:

15:2 and he went out to meet Asa, and said unto him, Hear ye me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin: Jehovah is with you, while ye are with him; and if ye seek him, he will be found of you; but if ye forsake him, he will forsake you.

15:3 Now for a long season Israel was without the true God, and without a teaching priest, and without law:

15:4 but when in their distress they turned unto Jehovah, the God of Israel, and sought him, he was found of them.

15:5 And in those times there was no peace to him that went out, nor to him that came in; but great vexations were upon all the inhabitants of the lands.

15:6 And they were broken in pieces, nation against nation, and city against city; for God did vex them with all adversity.

15:7 But be ye strong, and let not your hands be slack; for your work shall be rewarded.

15:8 And when Asa heard these words, and the prophecy of Oded the prophet, he took courage, and put away the abominations out of all the land of Judah and Benjamin, and out of the cities which he had taken from the hill-country of Ephraim; and he renewed the altar of Jehovah, that was before the porch of Jehovah.

15:9 And he gathered all Judah and Benjamin, and them that sojourned with them out of Ephraim and Manasseh, and out of Simeon: for they fell to him out of Israel in abundance, when they saw that Jehovah his God was with him.

15:10 So they gathered themselves together at Jerusalem in the third month, in the fifteenth year of the reign of Asa.

15:11 And they sacrificed unto Jehovah in that day, of the spoil which they had brought, seven hundred oxen and seven thousand sheep.

15:12 And they entered into the covenant to seek Jehovah, the God of their fathers, with all their heart and with all their soul;

15:13 and that whosoever would not seek Jehovah, the God of Israel, should be put to death, whether small or great, whether man or woman.

15:14 And they sware unto Jehovah with a loud voice, and with shouting, and with trumpets, and with cornets.

15:15 And all Judah rejoiced at the oath; for they had sworn with all their heart, and sought him with their whole desire; and he was found of them: and Jehovah gave them rest round about.

15:16 And also Maacah, the mother of Asa the king, he removed from being queen, because she had made an abominable image for an Asherah; and Asa cut down her image, and made dust of it, and burnt it at the brook Kidron.

15:17 But the high places were not taken away out of Israel: nevertheless the heart of Asa was perfect all his days.

15:18 And he brought into the house of God the things that his father had dedicated, and that he himself had dedicated, silver, and gold, and vessels.

15:19 And there was no more war unto the five and thirtieth year of the reign of Asa.

18:1 For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David the servant of Jehovah, who spake unto Jehovah the words of this song in the day that Jehovah delivered him from the hand of all his enemies, and from the hand of Saul: and he said, I love thee, O Jehovah, my strength.

18:2 Jehovah is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; My God, my rock, in whom I will take refuge; My shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower.

18:3 I will call upon Jehovah, who is worthy to be praised: So shall I be saved from mine enemies.

18:4 The cords of death compassed me, And the floods of ungodliness made me afraid.

18:5 The cords of Sheol were round about me; The snares of death came upon me.

18:6 In my distress I called upon Jehovah, And cried unto my God: He heard my voice out of his temple, And my cry before him came into his ears.

18:7 Then the earth shook and trembled; The foundations also of the mountains quaked And were shaken, because he was wroth.

18:8 There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, And fire out of his mouth devoured: Coals were kindled by it.

18:9 He bowed the heavens also, and came down; And thick darkness was under his feet.

18:10 And he rode upon a cherub, and did fly; Yea, he soared upon the wings of the wind.

18:11 He made darkness his hiding-place, his pavilion round about him, Darkness of waters, thick clouds of the skies.

18:12 At the brightness before him his thick clouds passed, Hailstones and coals of fire.

18:13 Jehovah also thundered in the heavens, And the Most High uttered his voice, Hailstones and coals of fire.

18:14 And he sent out his arrows, and scattered them; Yea, lightnings manifold, and discomfited them.

18:15 Then the channels of waters appeared, And the foundations of the world were laid bare, At thy rebuke, O Jehovah, At the blast of the breath of thy nostrils.

18:16 He sent from on high, he took me; He drew me out of many waters.

18:17 He delivered me from my strong enemy, And from them that hated me; for they were too mighty for me.

18:18 They came upon me in the day of my calamity; But Jehovah was my stay.

18:19 He brought me forth also into a large place; He delivered me, because he delighted in me.

18:20 Jehovah hath rewarded me according to my righteousness; According to the cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me.

18:21 For I have kept the ways of Jehovah, And have not wickedly departed from my God.

18:22 For all his ordinances were before me, And I put not away his statutes from me.

18:23 I was also perfect with him, And I kept myself from mine iniquity.

18:24 Therefore hath Jehovah recompensed me according to my righteousness, According to the cleanness of my hands in his eyesight.

20:13 But we, going before to the ship, set sail for Assos, there intending to take in Paul: for so had he appointed, intending himself to go by land.

20:14 And when he met us at Assos, we took him in, and came to Mitylene.

20:15 And sailing from thence, we came the following day over against Chios; and the next day we touched at Samos; and the day after we came to Miletus.

20:16 For Paul had determined to sail past Ephesus, that he might not have to spend time in Asia; for he was hastening, if it were possible for him, to be at Jerusalem the day of Pentecost.

20:17 And from Miletus he sent to Ephesus, and called to him the elders of the church.

20:18 And when they were come to him, he said unto them,Ye yourselves know, from the first day that I set foot in Asia, after what manner I was with you all the time,

20:19 serving the Lord with all lowliness of mind, and with tears, and with trials which befell me by the plots of the Jews;

20:20 how I shrank not from declaring unto you anything that was profitable, and teaching you publicly, and from house to house,

20:21 testifying both to Jews and to Greeks repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.

20:22 And now, behold, I go bound in the spirit unto Jerusalem, not knowing the things that shall befall me there:

20:23 save that the Holy Spirit testifieth unto me in every city, saying that bonds and afflictions abide me.

20:24 But I hold not my life of any account as dear unto myself, so that I may accomplish my course, and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify the gospel of the grace of God.

20:25 And now, behold, I know that ye all, among whom I went about preaching the kingdom, shall see my face no more.

20:26 Wherefore I testify unto you this day, that I am pure from the blood of all men.

20:27 For I shrank not from declaring unto you the whole counsel of God.

20:28 Take heed unto yourselves, and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit hath made you bishops, to feed the church of the Lord which he purchased with his own blood.

20:29 I know that after my departing grievous wolves shall enter in among you, not sparing the flock;

20:30 and from among your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away the disciples after them.

20:31 Wherefore watch ye, remembering that by the space of three years I ceased not to admonish every one night and day with tears.

20:32 And now I commend you to God, and to the word of his grace, which is able to build you up, and to give you the inheritance among all them that are sanctified.

20:33 I coveted no man’s silver, or gold, or apparel.

20:34 Ye yourselves know that these hands ministered unto my necessities, and to them that were with me.

20:35 In all things I gave you an example, that so laboring ye ought to help the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that he himself said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.

20:36 And when he had thus spoken, he kneeled down and prayed with them all.

20:37 And they all wept sore, and fell on Paul’s neck and kissed him,

20:38 sorrowing most of all for the word which he had spoken, that they should behold his face no more. And they brought him on his way unto the ship.