Formation Journal Reading Plan

27:1 Jotham was twenty and five years old when he began to reign; and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem: and his mother’s name was Jerushah the daughter of Zadok.

27:2 And he did that which was right in the eyes of Jehovah, according to all that his father Uzziah had done: howbeit he entered not into the temple of Jehovah. And the people did yet corruptly.

27:3 He built the upper gate of the house of Jehovah, and on the wall of Ophel he built much.

27:4 Moreover he built cities in the hill-country of Judah, and in the forests he built castles and towers.

27:5 He fought also with the king of the children of Ammon, and prevailed against them. And the children of Ammon gave him the same year a hundred talents of silver, and ten thousand measures of wheat, and ten thousand of barley. So much did the children of Ammon render unto him, in the second year also, and in the third.

27:6 So Jotham became mighty, because he ordered his ways before Jehovah his God.

27:7 Now the rest of the acts of Jotham, and all his wars, and his ways, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah.

27:8 He was five and twenty years old when he began to reign, and reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem.

27:9 And Jotham slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city of David: and Ahaz his son reigned in his stead.

24:1 A Psalm of David. The earth is Jehovah’s, and the fulness thereof; The world, and they that dwell therein.

24:2 For he hath founded it upon the seas, And established it upon the floods.

24:3 Who shall ascend into the hill of Jehovah? And who shall stand in his holy place?

24:4 He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; Who hath not lifted up his soul unto falsehood, And hath not sworn deceitfully.

24:5 He shall receive a blessing from Jehovah, And righteousness from the God of his salvation.

24:6 This is the generation of them that seek after him, That seek thy face, even Jacob.[Selah

24:7 Lift up your heads, O ye gates; And be ye lifted up, ye everlasting doors: And the King of glory will come in.

24:8 Who is the King of glory? Jehovah strong and mighty, Jehovah mighty in battle.

24:9 Lift up your heads, O ye gates; Yea, lift them up, ye everlasting doors: And the King of glory will come in.

24:10 Who is this King of glory? Jehovah of hosts, He is the King of glory. [Selah

25:1 Festus therefore, having come into the province, after three days went up to Jerusalem from Cæsarea.

25:2 And the chief priests and the principal men of the Jews informed him against Paul; and they besought him,

25:3 asking a favor against him, that he would send for him to Jerusalem; laying a plot to kill him on the way.

25:4 Howbeit Festus answered, that Paul was kept in charge at Cæsarea, and that he himself was about to depart thither shortly.

25:5 Let them therefore, saith he, that are of power among you go down with me, and if there is anything amiss in the man, let them accuse him.

25:6 And when he had tarried among them not more than eight or ten days, he went down unto Cæsarea; and on the morrow he sat on the judgment-seat, and commanded Paul to be brought.

25:7 And when he was come, the Jews that had come down from Jerusalem stood round about him, bringing against him many and grievous charges which they could not prove;

25:8 while Paul said in his defense, Neither against the law of the Jews, nor against the temple, nor against Cæsar, have I sinned at all.

25:9 But Festus, desiring to gain favor with the Jews, answered Paul and said, Wilt thou go up to Jerusalem, and there be judged of these things before me?

25:10 But Paul said, I am standing before Cæsar’s judgment-seat, where I ought to be judged: to the Jews have I done no wrong, as thou also very well knowest.

25:11 If then I am a wrong-doer, and have committed anything worthy of death, I refuse not to die; but if none of those things is true whereof these accuse me, no man can give me up unto them. I appeal unto Cæsar.

25:12 Then Festus, when he had conferred with the council, answered, Thou hast appealed unto Cæsar: unto Cæsar shalt thou go.