April 29

Today’s Reading is from 1 Kings Chapters 18 and 19.

1 Kings Chapter 18

1 After many days the word of the Lord came to Elijah, in the third year, saying, “Go, show yourself to Ahab, and I will send rain upon the earth.”

April 28

Today’s Reading is from 1 Kings Chapters 16 and 17.

1 Kings Chapter 16

1 Then the word of the Lord came to Jehu son of Hanani concerning Baasha: 2 “I lifted you up from the dust and appointed you ruler over my people Israel, but you followed the ways of Jeroboam and caused my people Israel to sin and to arouse my anger by their sins.

April 27

Today’s Reading is from 1 Kings Chapters 14 and 15.

1 Kings Chapter 14

1 At that time Abijah son of Jeroboam became ill, 2 and Jeroboam said to his wife, “Go, disguise yourself, so you won’t be recognized as the wife of Jeroboam.

April 26

Today’s Reading is from 1 Kings Chapters 12 and 13.

1 Kings Chapter 12

1 Rehoboam went to Shechem, for all Israel had gone there to make him king. 2 When Jeroboam son of Nebat heard this (he was still in Egypt, where he had fled from King Solomon), he returned from Egypt.

April 25

Today’s Reading is from 1 Kings Chapters 9 to 11.

1 Kings Chapter 9

1 When Solomon had finished building the temple of the Lord and the royal palace, and had achieved all he had desired to do, 2 the Lord appeared to him a second time, as he had appeared to him at Gibeon.

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.

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.

April 22

Today’s Reading is from 1 Kings Chapters 5 and 6.

1 Kings Chapter 5

1 Now Hiram king of Tyre sent his servants to Solomon when he heard that they had anointed him king in place of his father, for Hiram always loved David.

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.

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.