April 24

Today’s Reading is from 1 Kings Chapter 8.

1 Kings Chapter 8

1 Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel and all the heads of the tribes, the leaders of the fathers’ houses of the people of Israel, before King Solomon in Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of the covenant of the Lord out of the city of David, which is Zion.

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April 23

Today’s Reading is from 1 Kings Chapter 7.

1 Kings Chapter 7

1 Solomon was building his own house thirteen years, and he finished his entire house.

2 He built the House of the Forest of Lebanon. Its length was a hundred cubits and its breadth fifty cubits and its height thirty cubits, and it was built on four rows of cedar pillars, with cedar beams on the pillars.

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April 21

Today’s Reading is from 1 Kings Chapters 3 and 4.

1 Kings Chapter 3

1 Solomon made a marriage alliance with Pharaoh king of Egypt. He took Pharaoh’s daughter and brought her into the city of David until he had finished building his own house and the house of the Lord and the wall around Jerusalem.

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April 20

Today’s Reading is from 1 Kings Chapters 1 and 2.

1 Kings Chapter 1

1 Now King David was old and advanced in years. And although they covered him with clothes, he could not get warm. 2 Therefore his servants said to him, “Let a young woman be sought for my lord the king, and let her wait on the king and be in his service.

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April 19

Today’s Reading is from 2 Samuel Chapters 23 and 24.

2 Samuel Chapter 23

1 Now these are the last words of David:

The oracle of David, the son of Jesse,

    the oracle of the man who was raised on high,

the anointed of the God of Jacob,

    the sweet psalmist of Israel:

2 “The Spirit of the Lord speaks by me;

    his word is on my tongue.

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