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Bible Reading Plan | December 31, 2023


 

TODAY’S SCRIPTURE


Jerusalem was the capital of Judah and was where the Temple was housed. In our assigned reading for today we find that this city of God was under siege. Their doom was certain, but when the Lord took over, the enemy was defeated, and Jerusalem was spared. As you read today, trust in the Lord to fight your battles! He will never let you down!

 

(2 Kings 19) 15 And Hezekiah prayed to the Lord: “Lord, the God of Israel, enthroned between the cherubim, you alone are God over all the kingdoms of the earth. You have made heaven and earth. 16 Give ear, Lord, and hear; open your eyes, Lord, and see; listen to the words Sennacherib has sent to ridicule the living God.

 

17 “It is true, Lord, that the Assyrian kings have laid waste these nations and their lands. 18 They have thrown their gods into the fire and destroyed them, for they were not gods but only wood and stone, fashioned by human hands. 19 Now, Lord our God, deliver us from his hand, so that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that you alone, Lord, are God.”

 

20 Then Isaiah son of Amoz sent a message to Hezekiah: “This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: I have heard your prayer concerning Sennacherib king of Assyria. 21 This is the word that the Lord has spoken against him:

“‘Virgin Daughter Zion

    despises you and mocks you.

Daughter Jerusalem

    tosses her head as you flee.

22 Who is it you have ridiculed and blasphemed?

    Against whom have you raised your voice

and lifted your eyes in pride?

    Against the Holy One of Israel!

 

23 By your messengers

    you have ridiculed the Lord.

And you have said,

    “With my many chariots

I have ascended the heights of the mountains,

    the utmost heights of Lebanon.

I have cut down its tallest cedars,

    the choicest of its junipers.

I have reached its remotest parts,

    the finest of its forests.

24 I have dug wells in foreign lands

    and drunk the water there.

With the soles of my feet

    I have dried up all the streams of Egypt.”

 

25 “‘Have you not heard?

    Long ago I ordained it.

In days of old I planned it;

    now I have brought it to pass,

that you have turned fortified cities

    into piles of stone.

26 Their people, drained of power,

    are dismayed and put to shame.

They are like plants in the field,

    like tender green shoots,

like grass sprouting on the roof,

    scorched before it grows up.

 

27 “‘But I know where you are

    and when you come and go

    and how you rage against me.

28 Because you rage against me

    and because your insolence has reached my ears,

I will put my hook in your nose

    and my bit in your mouth,

and I will make you return

    by the way you came.’

 

29 “This will be the sign for you, Hezekiah:

 

“This year you will eat what grows by itself,

    and the second year what springs from that.

But in the third year sow and reap,

    plant vineyards and eat their fruit.

30 Once more a remnant of the kingdom of Judah

    will take root below and bear fruit above.

31 For out of Jerusalem will come a remnant,

    and out of Mount Zion a band of survivors.

“The zeal of the Lord Almighty will accomplish this.

 

32 “Therefore this is what the Lord says concerning the king of Assyria:

“‘He will not enter this city

    or shoot an arrow here.

He will not come before it with shield

    or build a siege ramp against it.

33 By the way that he came he will return;

    he will not enter this city,

declares the Lord.

34 I will defend this city and save it,

    for my sake and for the sake of David my servant.’”

 

35 That night the angel of the Lord went out and put to death a hundred and eighty-five thousand in the Assyrian camp. When the people got up the next morning—there were all the dead bodies! 36 So Sennacherib king of Assyria broke camp and withdrew. He returned to Nineveh and stayed there.

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