Formation Journal Reading Plan

3:1 Then Solomon began to build the house of Yahweh at Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where Yahweh appeared to David his father, which he prepared in the place that David had appointed, in the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.

3:2 He began to build in the second day of the second month, in the fourth year of his reign.

3:3 Now these are the foundations which Solomon laid for the building of the house of God. The length by cubits after the first measure was sixty cubits, and the breadth twenty cubits.

3:4 The porch that was in front, its length, according to the breadth of the house, was twenty cubits, and the height one hundred twenty; and he overlaid it within with pure gold.

3:5 The greater house he made a ceiling with fir wood, which he overlaid with fine gold, and ornamented it with palm trees and chains.

3:6 He garnished the house with precious stones for beauty: and the gold was gold of Parvaim.

3:7 He overlaid also the house, the beams, the thresholds, and its walls, and its doors, with gold; and engraved cherubim on the walls.

3:8 He made the most holy house: its length, according to the breadth of the house, was twenty cubits, and its breadth twenty cubits; and he overlaid it with fine gold, amounting to six hundred talents.

3:9 The weight of the nails was fifty shekels of gold. He overlaid the upper rooms with gold.

3:10 In the most holy house he made two cherubim of image work; and they overlaid them with gold.

3:11 The wings of the cherubim were twenty cubits long: the wing of the one was five cubits, reaching to the wall of the house; and the other wing was five cubits, reaching to the wing of the other cherub.

3:12 The wing of the other cherub was five cubits, reaching to the wall of the house; and the other wing was five cubits, joining to the wing of the other cherub.

3:13 The wings of these cherubim spread themselves forth twenty cubits: and they stood on their feet, and their faces were toward the house.

3:14 He made the veil of blue, and purple, and crimson, and fine linen, and ornamented it with cherubim.

3:15 Also he made before the house two pillars of thirty-five cubits high, and the capital that was on the top of each of them was five cubits.

3:16 He made chains in the oracle, and put them on the tops of the pillars; and he made one hundred pomegranates, and put them on the chains.

3:17 He set up the pillars before the temple, one on the right hand, and the other on the left; and called the name of that on the right hand Jachin, and the name of that on the left Boaz.

10:12 Arise, Yahweh! God, lift up your hand! Don’t forget the helpless.

10:13 Why does the wicked person condemn God, and say in his heart, “God won’t call me into account?”

10:14 But you do see trouble and grief. You consider it to take it into your hand. You help the victim and the fatherless.

10:15 Break the arm of the wicked. As for the evil man, seek out his wickedness until you find none.

10:16 Yahweh is King forever and ever! The nations will perish out of his land.

10:17 Yahweh, you have heard the desire of the humble. You will prepare their heart. You will cause your ear to hear,

10:18 to judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that man who is of the earth may terrify no more.

17:1 Now when they had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where there was a Jewish synagogue.

17:2 Paul, as was his custom, went in to them, and for three Sabbath days reasoned with them from the Scriptures,

17:3 explaining and demonstrating that the Christ had to suffer and rise again from the dead, and saying, “This Jesus, whom I proclaim to you, is the Christ.”

17:4 Some of them were persuaded, and joined Paul and Silas, of the devout Greeks a great multitude, and not a few of the chief women.

17:5 But the unpersuaded Jews took along some wicked men from the marketplace, and gathering a crowd, set the city in an uproar. Assaulting the house of Jason, they sought to bring them out to the people.

17:6 When they didn’t find them, they dragged Jason and certain brothers before the rulers of the city, crying, “These who have turned the world upside down have come here also,

17:7 whom Jason has received. These all act contrary to the decrees of Caesar, saying that there is another king, Jesus!”

17:8 The multitude and the rulers of the city were troubled when they heard these things.

17:9 When they had taken security from Jason and the rest, they let them go.

17:10 The brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Beroea. When they arrived, they went into the Jewish synagogue.

17:11 Now these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of the mind, examining the Scriptures daily to see whether these things were so.

17:12 Many of them therefore believed; also of the prominent Greek women, and not a few men.

17:13 But when the Jews of Thessalonica had knowledge that the word of God was proclaimed by Paul at Beroea also, they came there likewise, agitating the multitudes.

17:14 Then the brothers immediately sent out Paul to go as far as to the sea, and Silas and Timothy still stayed there.

17:15 But those who escorted Paul brought him as far as Athens. Receiving a commandment to Silas and Timothy that they should come to him very quickly, they departed.