Formation Journal Reading Plan

15:1 In the twenty-seventh year of Jeroboam king of Israel began Azariah son of Amaziah king of Judah to reign.

15:2 Sixteen years old was he when he began to reign; and he reigned fifty-two years in Jerusalem: and his mother’s name was Jecoliah of Jerusalem.

15:3 He did that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh, according to all that his father Amaziah had done.

15:4 However the high places were not taken away: the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.

15:5 Yahweh struck the king, so that he was a leper to the day of his death, and lived in a separate house. Jotham the king’s son was over the household, judging the people of the land.

15:6 Now the rest of the acts of Azariah, and all that he did, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?

15:7 Azariah slept with his fathers; and they buried him with his fathers in the city of David: and Jotham his son reigned in his place.

15:8 In the thirty-eighth year of Azariah king of Judah, Zechariah the son of Jeroboam reigned over Israel in Samaria six months.

15:9 He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, as his fathers had done: he didn’t depart from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, with which he made Israel to sin.

15:10 Shallum the son of Jabesh conspired against him, and struck him before the people, and killed him, and reigned in his place.

15:11 Now the rest of the acts of Zechariah, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.

15:12 This was the word of Yahweh which he spoke to Jehu, saying, “Your sons to the fourth generation shall sit on the throne of Israel.” So it came to pass.

15:13 Shallum the son of Jabesh began to reign in the thirty-ninth year of Uzziah king of Judah; and he reigned for a month in Samaria.

15:14 Menahem the son of Gadi went up from Tirzah, and came to Samaria, and struck Shallum the son of Jabesh in Samaria, and killed him, and reigned in his place.

15:15 Now the rest of the acts of Shallum, and his conspiracy which he made, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.

15:16 Then Menahem struck Tiphsah, and all who were therein, and its borders, from Tirzah: because they didn’t open to him, therefore he struck it; and all the women therein who were with child he ripped up.

15:17 In the nine and thirtieth year of Azariah king of Judah, Menahem the son of Gadi began to reign over Israel for ten years in Samaria.

15:18 He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh: he didn’t depart all his days from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, with which he made Israel to sin.

15:19 There came against the land Pul the king of Assyria; and Menahem gave Pul one thousand talents of silver, that his hand might be with him to confirm the kingdom in his hand.

15:20 Menahem exacted the money of Israel, even of all the mighty men of wealth, of each man fifty shekels of silver, to give to the king of Assyria. So the king of Assyria turned back, and didn’t stay there in the land.

15:21 Now the rest of the acts of Menahem, and all that he did, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?

15:22 Menahem slept with his fathers; and Pekahiah his son reigned in his place.

15:23 In the fiftieth year of Azariah king of Judah Pekahiah the son of Menahem began to reign over Israel in Samaria for two years.

15:24 He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh: he didn’t depart from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, with which he made Israel to sin.

15:25 Pekah the son of Remaliah, his captain, conspired against him, and struck him in Samaria, in the castle of the king’s house, with Argob and Arieh; and with him were fifty men of the Gileadites: and he killed him, and reigned in his place.

15:26 Now the rest of the acts of Pekahiah, and all that he did, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.

15:27 In the two and fiftieth year of Azariah king of Judah Pekah the son of Remaliah began to reign over Israel in Samaria for twenty years.

15:28 He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh: he didn’t depart from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, with which he made Israel to sin.

15:29 In the days of Pekah king of Israel came Tiglath Pileser king of Assyria, and took Ijon, and Abel Beth Maacah, and Janoah, and Kedesh, and Hazor, and Gilead, and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali; and he carried them captive to Assyria.

15:30 Hoshea the son of Elah made a conspiracy against Pekah the son of Remaliah, and struck him, and killed him, and reigned in his place, in the twentieth year of Jotham the son of Uzziah.

15:31 Now the rest of the acts of Pekah, and all that he did, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.

15:32 In the second year of Pekah the son of Remaliah king of Israel began Jotham the son of Uzziah king of Judah to reign.

15:33 He was twenty-five years old when he began to reign; and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem: and his mother’s name was Jerusha the daughter of Zadok.

15:34 He did that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh; he did according to all that his father Uzziah had done.

15:35 However the high places were not taken away: the people still sacrificed and burned incense in the high places. He built the upper gate of the house of Yahweh.

15:36 Now the rest of the acts of Jotham, and all that he did, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?

15:37 In those days Yahweh began to send against Judah Rezin the king of Syria, and Pekah the son of Remaliah.

15:38 Jotham slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David his father: and Ahaz his son reigned in his place.

23:17 Don’t let your heart envy sinners; but rather fear Yahweh all the day long.

23:18 Indeed surely there is a future hope, and your hope will not be cut off.

23:19 Listen, my son, and be wise, and keep your heart on the right path!

23:20 Don’t be among ones drinking too much wine, or those who gorge themselves on meat:

23:21 for the drunkard and the glutton shall become poor; and drowsiness clothes them in rags.

23:22 Listen to your father who gave you life, and don’t despise your mother when she is old.

23:23 Buy the truth, and don’t sell it. Get wisdom, discipline, and understanding.

23:24 The father of the righteous has great joy. Whoever fathers a wise child delights in him.

23:25 Let your father and your mother be glad! Let her who bore you rejoice!

23:26 My son, give me your heart; and let your eyes keep in my ways.

23:27 For a prostitute is a deep pit; and a wayward wife is a narrow well.

23:28 Yes, she lies in wait like a robber, and increases the unfaithful among men.

23:29 Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has strife? Who has complaints? Who has needless bruises? Who has bloodshot eyes?

23:30 Those who stay long at the wine; those who go to seek out mixed wine.

23:31 Don’t look at the wine when it is red, when it sparkles in the cup, when it goes down smoothly.

23:32 In the end, it bites like a snake, and poisons like a viper.

23:33 Your eyes will see strange things, and your mind will imagine confusing things.

23:34 Yes, you will be as he who lies down in the midst of the sea, or as he who lies on top of the rigging:

23:35 “They hit me, and I was not hurt! They beat me, and I don’t feel it! When will I wake up? I can do it again. I can find another.”

2:14 But Peter, standing up with the eleven, lifted up his voice, and spoke out to them, “You men of Judea, and all you who dwell at Jerusalem, let this be known to you, and listen to my words.

2:15 For these aren’t drunken, as you suppose, seeing it is only the third hour of the day.

2:16 But this is what has been spoken through the prophet Joel:

2:17 ‘It will be in the last days, says God, that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh. Your sons and your daughters will prophesy. Your young men will see visions. Your old men will dream dreams.

2:18 Yes, and on my servants and on my handmaidens in those days, I will pour out my Spirit, and they will prophesy.

2:19 I will show wonders in the sky above, and signs on the earth beneath; blood, and fire, and billows of smoke.

2:20 The sun will be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and glorious day of the Lord comes.

2:21 It will be, that whoever will call on the name of the Lord will be saved.’

2:22 “Men of Israel, hear these words! Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved by God to you by mighty works and wonders and signs which God did by him in the midst of you, even as you yourselves know,

2:23 him, being delivered up by the determined counsel and foreknowledge of God, you have taken by the hand of lawless men, crucified and killed;

2:24 whom God raised up, having freed him from the agony of death, because it was not possible that he should be held by it.

2:25 For David says concerning him, ‘I saw the Lord always before my face, For he is on my right hand, that I should not be moved.

2:26 Therefore my heart was glad, and my tongue rejoiced. Moreover my flesh also will dwell in hope;

2:27 because you will not leave my soul in Hades, neither will you allow your Holy One to see decay.

2:28 You made known to me the ways of life. You will make me full of gladness with your presence.’

2:29 “Brothers, I may tell you freely of the patriarch David, that he both died and was buried, and his tomb is with us to this day.

2:30 Therefore, being a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him that of the fruit of his body, according to the flesh, he would raise up the Christ to sit on his throne,

2:31 he foreseeing this spoke about the resurrection of the Christ, that neither was his soul left in Hades, nor did his flesh see decay.

2:32 This Jesus God raised up, to which we all are witnesses.

2:33 Being therefore exalted by the right hand of God, and having received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, he has poured out this, which you now see and hear.

2:34 For David didn’t ascend into the heavens, but he says himself, ‘The Lord said to my Lord, “Sit by my right hand,

2:35 until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet.”’

2:36 “Let all the house of Israel therefore know certainly that God has made him both Lord and Christ, this Jesus whom you crucified.”

2:37 Now when they heard this, they were cut to the heart, and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, “Brothers, what shall we do?”

2:38 Peter said to them, “Repent, and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

2:39 For the promise is to you, and to your children, and to all who are far off, even as many as the Lord our God will call to himself.”

2:40 With many other words he testified, and exhorted them, saying, “Save yourselves from this crooked generation!”

2:41 Then those who gladly received his word were baptized. There were added that day about three thousand souls.