Formation Journal Reading Plan

27:1 Jotham was twenty-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 He did that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh, according to all that his father Uzziah had done: however he didn’t enter into the temple of Yahweh. The people still did corruptly.

27:3 He built the upper gate of the house of Yahweh, 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. The children of Ammon gave him the same year one hundred talents of silver, and ten thousand measures of wheat, and ten thousand of barley. The children of Ammon gave that much to him in the second year also, and in the third.

27:6 So Jotham became mighty, because he ordered his ways before Yahweh 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 Jotham slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city of David: and Ahaz his son reigned in his place.

24:1 A Psalm by David. The earth is Yahweh’s, with its fullness; the world, and those who dwell therein.

24:2 For he has founded it on the seas, and established it on the floods.

24:3 Who may ascend to Yahweh’s hill? Who may stand in his holy place?

24:4 He who has clean hands and a pure heart; who has not lifted up his soul to falsehood, and has not sworn deceitfully.

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

24:6 This is the generation of those who seek Him, who seek your face—even Jacob. Selah.

24:7 Lift up your heads, you gates! Be lifted up, you everlasting doors, and the King of glory will come in.

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

24:9 Lift up your heads, you gates; yes, lift them up, you everlasting doors, and the King of glory will come in.

24:10 Who is this King of glory? Yahweh of Armies is the King of glory! Selah.

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

25:2 Then the high priest and the principal men of the Jews informed him against Paul, and they begged him,

25:3 asking a favor against him, that he would summon him to Jerusalem; plotting to kill him on the way.

25:4 However Festus answered that Paul should be kept in custody at Caesarea, and that he himself was about to depart shortly.

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

25:6 When he had stayed among them more than ten days, he went down to Caesarea, and on the next day he sat on the judgment seat, and commanded Paul to be brought.

25:7 When he had come, the Jews who had come down from Jerusalem stood around him, bringing against him many and grievous charges which they could not prove,

25:8 while he said in his defense, “Neither against the law of the Jews, nor against the temple, nor against Caesar, have I sinned at all.”

25:9 But Festus, desiring to gain favor with the Jews, answered Paul and said, “Are you willing to go up to Jerusalem, and be judged by me there concerning these things?”

25:10 But Paul said, “I am standing before Caesar’s judgment seat, where I ought to be tried. I have done no wrong to the Jews, as you also know very well.

25:11 For if I have done wrong, and have committed anything worthy of death, I don’t refuse to die; but if none of those things is true that they accuse me of, no one can give me up to them. I appeal to Caesar!”

25:12 Then Festus, when he had conferred with the council, answered, “You have appealed to Caesar. To Caesar you shall go.”