Bible Reading Plan

Nehemiah 11

Chapter 11

Resettling Jerusalem

¹ Now the leaders of the people stayed in Jerusalem,^(a) and the rest of the people cast lots^(b) for one out of ten to come and live in Jerusalem, the holy city,^(c) while the other nine-tenths remained in their towns.^{(d) 2} The people praised all the men who volunteered^(e) to live in Jerusalem.

³ These are the heads of the province who stayed in Jerusalem^(f) (but in the villages of Judah each lived on his own property in their towns^(g)—the Israelites, priests, Levites, temple servants, and descendants of Solomon's servants^(h)— ⁴ while some of the descendants of Judah and Benjamin settled in Jerusalem):

²⁰ The rest of Israel, the priests, and the Levites were in all the villages of Judah, each on his own inherited property.^{(m) 21} The temple servants lived on Ophel;^[a](n) Ziha and Gishpa supervised the temple servants.

The Levites and Priests

²² The leader of the Levites in Jerusalem was Uzzi son of Bani, son of Hashabiah, son of Mattaniah, son of Mica, of the descendants of Asaph, who were singers for the service of God's house. ²³ There was, in fact, a command of the king regarding them, and an ordinance regulating^[b] the singers'^(o) daily tasks. ²⁴ Pethahiah son of Meshezabel, of the descendants of Zerah^(p) son of Judah, was the king's^(q) agent^[c] in every matter concerning the people.

²⁵ As for the farming settlements with their fields:

Psalms 103

Chapter 103

Psalm 103

The Forgiving God

Davidic.

Revelation 8

Chapter 8

The Seventh Seal

¹ When He opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven for about half an hour. ² Then I saw the seven angels who stand in the presence of God; seven trumpets were given to them. ³ Another angel, with a gold incense burner, came and stood at the altar. He was given a large amount of incense to offer with the prayers of all the saints on the gold altar in front of the throne. ⁴ The smoke of the incense, with the prayers of the saints, went up in the presence of God from the angel's hand. ⁵ The angel took the incense burner, filled it with fire from the altar, and hurled it to the earth; there were rumblings of thunder, flashes of lightning, and an earthquake. ⁶ And the seven angels who had the seven trumpets prepared to blow them.

The First Trumpet

⁷ The first angel^[a] blew his trumpet, and hail and fire, mixed with blood, were hurled to the earth. So a third of the earth was burned up, a third of the trees were burned up, and all the green grass was burned up.

The Second Trumpet

⁸ The second angel blew his trumpet, and something like a great mountain ablaze with fire was hurled into the sea.^(a) So a third of the sea became blood, ⁹ a third of the living creatures in the sea died, and a third of the ships were destroyed.

The Third Trumpet

¹⁰ The third angel blew his trumpet, and a great star, blazing like a torch, fell from heaven.^(b) It fell on a third of the rivers and springs of water. ¹¹ The name of the star is Wormwood, and a third of the waters became wormwood. So, many of the people died from the waters, because they had been made bitter.

The Fourth Trumpet

¹² The fourth angel blew his trumpet, and a third of the sun was struck, a third of the moon, and a third of the stars, so that a third of them were darkened. A third of the day was without light, and the night as well.^(c)

¹³ I looked again and heard an eagle^[b] flying high overhead, crying out in a loud voice, "Woe!^(d) Woe! Woe to those who live on the earth, because of the remaining trumpet blasts that the three angels are about to sound!"