This is Daniel Whyte III, president of Gospel Light Society International with the Whyte House Daily Devotional Bible Reading Episode #285. Where I read three chapters of the Holy Bible in the King James Version each day with my family as a part of our family devotions, to encourage you to read the Holy Bible in a year’s time. Today we are reading 1 Chronicles 1, 1 Chronicles 2, and Isaiah 1.
A.W. Tozer said, “The Word of God well understood and religiously obeyed is the shortest route to spiritual perfection. And we must not select a few favorite passages to the exclusion of others. Nothing less than a whole Bible can make a whole Christian.”
Johann A. Bengel said, “Apply yourself wholly to the Scriptures, and apply the Scriptures wholly to yourself.”
1 Chronicles 1
1 Ad’-am, Sheth, E’-nosh,
2 Ke’-nan, Ma-hal-a-eel, Je’-red,
3 He’-noch, Me-thu’-se-lah, La’-mech,
4 No’-ah, Shem, Ham, and Ja’-pheth.
5 The sons of Ja’-pheth; Go’-mer, and Ma’-gog, and Ma’-dai, and Ja’-van, and Tu’-bal, and Me’-shech, and Ti’-ras.
6 And the sons of Go’-mer; Ash-che’-naz, and Ri’-phath, and To-gar’-mah.
7 And the sons of Ja’-van; E-li’-shah, and Tar’-shish, Kit’-tim, and Do’-da-nim.
8 The sons of Ham; Cush, and Miz’-ra-im, Put, and Ca’-na-an.
9 And the sons of Cush; Se’-ba, and Hav’-i-lah, and Sab’-ta, and Ra’-a-mah, and Sab-te’-cha. And the sons of Ra’-a-mah; She’-ba, and De’-dan.
10 And Cush begat Nim’-rod: he began to be mighty upon the earth.
11 And Miz’-ra-im begat Lu’-dim, and An’-a-mim, and Leha’-bim, and Naph-tu’-him,
12 And Path-ru’-sim, and Cas-lu’-him, (of whom came the Phil-is-tines,) and Caph-tho-rim.
13 And Ca’-na-an begat Zi’-don his firstborn, and Heth,
14 The Jeb’-u-site also, and the Am’-o-rite, and the Gir’-gashite,
15 And the Hi’-vite, and the Ar’-kite, and the Si’-nite,
16 And the Ar’-va-dite, and the Zem’-a-rite, and the Ha’-math-ite.
17 The sons of Shem; E’-lam, and Assh’-ur, and Ar-phax’-ad, and Lud, and Ar’-am, and Uz, and Hul, and Ge’-ther, and Me’-shech.
18 And Ar-phax’-ad begat She’-lah, and She’-lah begat E’-ber.
19 And unto E’-ber were born two sons: the name of the one was Pe’-leg; because in his days the earth was divided: and his brother’s name was Jok’-tan.
20 And Jok’-tan begat Al-mo’-dad, and She’-leph, and Ha-zar-ma’-veth, and Je’-rah,
21 Ha-dor’-am also, and U’-zal, and Dik’-lah,
22 And E’-bal, and A-bim’-ael, and She’-ba,
23 And O’-phir, and Hav’-i-lah, and Jo’-bab. All these were the sons of Jok’-tan.
24 Shem, Ar-phax’-ad, She’-lah,
25 E’-ber, Pe’-leg, Reu,
26 Serug, Na’-hor, Te’-rah,
27 A’-bram; the same is A’-bra-ham.
28 The sons of A’-bra-ham; I’-saac, and Ish’-ma-el.
29 These are their generations: The firstborn of Ish’-ma-el, Ne-bai’-oth; then Ke’-dar, and Ad’-beel, and Mib’-sam,
30 Mish’-ma, and Du’-mah, Mas’-sa, Ha’-dad, and Te’-ma,
31 Je’-tur, Na’-phish, and Ke’-de-mah. These are the sons of Ish’-ma-el.
32 Now the sons of Ke-tu’- rah, A’-bra-ham’s concubine: she bare Zim’-ran, and Jok’-shan, and Me’-dan, and Mid’-i-an, and Ishbak, and Shu’-ah. And the sons of Jok’-shan; She’-ba, and De’-dan.
33 And the sons of Mid’-i-an; E’-phah, and E’-pher, and He’-noch, and A-bi’-da, and El-da’-ah. All these are the sons of Ke-tu’-rah.
34 And A’-bra-ham begat I’-saac. The sons of I’-saac; E’-sau and Is’-ra-el.
35 The sons of E’-sau; E-li’-phaz, Reu’-el, and Je’-ush, and Ja’-a-lam, and Ko’-rah.
36 The sons of E-li’-phaz; Te’-man, and O’-mar, Zephi, and Ga’-tam, Ke’-naz, and Tim’-na, and Am’-a-lek.
37 The sons of Reu’-el; Na’-hath, Ze’-rah, Sham’-mah, and Miz’-zah.
38 And the sons of Se’-ir; Lo’-tan, and Sho’-bal, and Zib’-e-on, and A’-nah, and Di’-shon, and E’-zar, and Di’-shan.
39 And the sons of Lo’-tan; Hor’-i, and Ho’-mam: and Tim’-na was Lo’-tan’s sister.
40 The sons of Sho’-bal; Al’-i-an, and Man’-a-hath, and E’-bal, She’-phi, and O’-nam. and the sons of Zib’-e-on; Ai’-ah, and A’-nah.
41 The sons of A’-nah; Di’-shon. And the sons of Di’-shon; Am’-ram, and Esh’-ban, and Ith’-ran, and Che’-ran.
42 The sons of E’-zer; Bil’-han, and Za’-van, and Ja’-kan. The sons of Di’-shan; Uz, and Ar’-an.
43 Now these are the kings that reigned in the land of E’-dom before any king reigned over the children of Is’-ra-el; Be’-la the son of Be’-or: and the name of his city was Din’-ha-bah.
44 And when Be’-la was dead, Jo’-bab the son of Ze’-rah of Boz’-rah reigned in his stead.
45 And when Jo’-bab was dead, Hu’-sham of the land of the Te’-man-ites reigned in his stead.
46 And when Hu’-sham was dead, Ha’-dad the son of Be’-dad, which smote Mid’-i-an in the field of Mo’-ab, reigned in his stead: and the name of his city was A’-vith.
47 And when Ha’-dad was dead, Sam’-lah of Mas-re’-kah reigned in his stead.
48 And when Sam’-lah was dead, Sha’-ul of Re’-ho-both by the river reigned in his stead.
49 And when Shaul was dead, Baalhanan the son of Ach’-bor reigned in his stead.
50 And when Ba’-al-ha’-nan was dead, Ha’-dad reigned in his stead: and the name of his city was Pai; and his wife’s name was Me-het’-a-bel, the daughter of Ma’-tred, the daughter of Me’-za-hab.
51 Ha’-dad died also. And the dukes of E’-dom were; duke Tim’-nah, duke Al’-i-ah, duke Je’-theth,
52 Duke A-hol-i-ba’-mah, duke E’-lah, duke Pi’-non,
53 Duke Ke’-naz, duke Te’-man, duke Mib’-zar,
54 Duke Mag’-di-el, duke I’-ram. These are the dukes of E’-dom.
1 Chronicles 2
1 These are the sons of Is’-ra-el; Reu’-ben, Sim’-e-on, Le’-vi, and Ju’-dah, Is’-sa-char, and Zeb’-u-lun,
2 Dan, Jo’-seph, and Ben’-ja-min, Naph’-ta-li, Gad, and Ash’-er.
3 The sons of Ju’-dah; Er, and O’-nan, and She’-lah: which three were born unto him of the daughter of Shu’-a the Ca’-na-an-i-tess. And Er, the firstborn of Ju’-dah, was evil in the sight of the Lord; and he slew him.
4 And Ta’-mar his daughter in law bore him Phar’-ez and Ze’-rah. All the sons of Ju’-dah were five.
5 The sons of Phar’-ez; Hez’-ron, and Ham’-ul.
6 And the sons of Ze’-rah; Zim’-ri, and E’-than, and He’-man, and Cal’-col, and Dar’-a: five of them in all.
7 And the sons of Car’-mi; A’-char, the troubler of Is’-ra-el, who transgressed in the thing accursed.
8 And the sons of E’-than; Az-a-ri’-ah.
9 The sons also of Hez’-ron, that were born unto him; Je-rah’-meel, and Ram, and Che-lu’-bai.
10 And Ram begat Am-min’-a-dab; and Am-min’-a-dab begat Nah’-shon, prince of the children of Ju’-dah;
11 And Nah’-shon begat Sal’-ma, and Sal’-ma begat Bo’-az,
12 And Bo’-az begat O’-bed, and O’-bed begat Jes’-se,
13 And Jes’-se begat his firstborn E-li’-ab, and A-bin’-a-dab the second, and Shim’-ma the third,
14 Neth’-a-neel the fourth, Rad’-dai the fifth,
15 O’-zem the sixth, Da’-vid the seventh:
16 Whose sisters were Zer-u-i’-ah, and Ab’-i-gail. And the sons of Zer-u-i’-ah; Ab’-i-shai, and Jo’-ab, and As’-a-hel, three.
17 And Ab’-i-gail bare A-ma’-sa: and the father of A-ma’-sa was Je’-ther the Ish’-mee-lite.
18 And Ca’-leb the son of Hez’-ron begat children of A-zu’-bah his wife, and of Jer’-i-oth: her sons are these; Jesh’-er, and Sho’-bab, and Ar’-don.
19 And when A-zu’-bah was dead, Ca’-leb took unto him Eph’-rath, which bare him Hur.
20 And Hur begat U’-ri, and U’-ri begat Bez’-a-leel.
21 And afterward Hez’-ron went in to the daughter of Ma’-chir the father of Gil’-e-ad, whom he married when he was threescore years old; and she bare him Se’-gub.
22 And Se’-gub begat Ja’-ir, who had three and twenty cities in the land of Gil’-e-ad.
23 And he took Ge’-shur, and A’-ram, with the towns of Ja’-ir, from them, with Ke’-nath, and the towns thereof, even threescore cities. All these belonged to the sons of Ma’-chir the father of Gil’-e-ad.
24 And after that Hez’-ron was dead in Ca-leb-eph’-ra-tah, then A-bi’-ah Hez’-ron’s wife bare him Ash’-ur the father of Te-ko’-a.
25 And the sons of Je-rah’-meel the firstborn of Hez’-ron were, Ram the firstborn, and Bu’-nah, and O’-ren, and O’-zem, and A-hi’-jah.
26 Je-rah’-meel had also another wife, whose name was At’-a-rah; she was the mother of O’-nam.
27 And the sons of Ram the firstborn of Je-rah’-meel were, Ma’-az, and Ja’-min, and E’-ker.
28 And the sons of O’-nam were, Sham’-mai, and Ja’-da. And the sons of Sham’-mai; Na’-dab and A-bi’-shur.
29 And the name of the wife of A-bi’-shur was Ab’-i-hail, and she bare him Ah’-ban, and Mo’-lid.
30 And the sons of Na’-dab; Se’-led, and Appaim: but Se’-led died without children.
31 And the sons of Ap’-pa-im; Ish’-i. And the sons of Ish’-i; She’-shan. And the children of She’-shan; Ah’-lai.
32 And the sons of Ja’-da the brother of Sham’-mai; Je’-ther, and Jon’-a-than: and Jether died without children.
33 And the sons of Jon’-a-than; Pe’-leth, and Za’-za. These were the sons of Je-rah’-meel.
34 Now She’-shan had no sons, but daughters. And She’-shan had a servant, an E’-gyp-tian, whose name was Jar’-ha.
35 And She’-shan gave his daughter to Jar’-ha his servant to wife; and she bare him At’-tai.
36 And At’-tai begat Na’-than, and Na’-than begat Za’-bad,
37 And Za’-bad begat Eph’-lal, and Eph’-lal begat O’-bed,
38 And O’-bed begat Je’-hu, and Je’-hu begat Az-a-ri’-ah,
39 And Az-a-ri’-ah begat He’-lez, and He’-lez begat El-e-a’-sah,
40 And El-e-a’-sah begat Sis’-a-mai , and Sis’-a-mai begat Shal’-lum,
41 And Shal’-lum begat Jek-a-mi’-ah, and Jek-a-mi’-ah begat E-li’-sha-ma.
42 Now the sons of Ca’-leb the brother of Je-rah’-meel were, Me’-sha his firstborn, which was the father of Ziph; and the sons of Ma-re’-shah the father of He’-bron.
43 And the sons of He’-bron; Ko’-rah, and Tap’-pu-ah, and Re’-kem, and She’-ma.
44 And She’-ma begat Ra’-ham, the father of Jor’-ko-am: and Re’-kem begat Sham’-mai.
45 And the son of Sham’-mai was Ma’-on: and Ma’-on was the father of Beth’-zur.
46 And E’-phah, Ca’-leb’s concubine, bare Ha’-ran, and Mo’-za, and Ga’-zez: and Ha’-ran begat Ga’-zez.
47 And the sons of Jah’-dai; Re’-gem, and Jo’-tham, and Ge’-sham, and Pe’-let, and E’-phah, and Sha’-aph.
48 Ma’-a-chah, Ca’-leb’s concubine, bare She’-ber, and Tir’-ha-nah.
49 She bare also Sha’-aph the father of Mad-man’-nah, She’-va the father of Mach-be’-nah, and the father of Gib’-e-a: and the daughter of Ca’-leb was Ach’-sa.
50 These were the sons of Ca’-leb the son of Hur, the firstborn of Eph’-ra-tah; Sho’-bal the father of Kir’-jath-je-a-rim.
51 Sal’-ma the father of Beth’-le-hem, Har’-eph the father of Beth’-ga-der.
52 And Sho’-bal the father of Kir’-jath-je-a-rim had sons; Haroeh, and half of the Man-a-he’-thites.
53 And the families of Kir’-jath-je-a-rim; the Ithrites, and the Pu’-hites, and the Shu’-ma-thites, and the Mish’-ra-ites; of them came the Za-re’-a-thites, and the Esh-ta-u’-lites,
54 The sons of Sal’-ma; Beth’-le-hem, and the Ne-toph’-athites, At’-a-roth, the house of Jo’-ab, and half of the Man-a-he’-thites, the Zo’-rites.
55 And the families of the scribes which dwelt at Ja’-bez; the Tir’-a-thites, the Shim’-e-a-thites, and Su’-cha-thites. These are the Ke’-nites that came of He’-math, the father of the house of Re’-chab.
Isaiah 1
1 The vision of I’-sai-ah the son of A’-moz, which he saw concerning Ju’-dah and Je-ru’-sa-lem in the days of Uz’-zi-ah, Jo’-tham, A’-haz, and He’-ze-ki-ah, kings of Ju’-dah.
2 Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth: for the Lord hath spoken, I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me.
3 The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master’s crib: but Is’-ra-el doth not know, my people doth not consider.
4 Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the Lord, they have provoked the Holy One of Is’-ra-el unto anger, they are gone away backward.
5 Why should ye be stricken any more? ye will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.
6 From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in it; but wounds, and bruises, and putrifying sores: they have not been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified with ointment.
7 Your country is desolate, your cities are burned with fire: your land, strangers devour it in your presence, and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers.
8 And the daughter of Zi’-on is left as a cottage in a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city.
9 Except the Lord of hosts had left unto us a very small remnant, we should have been as Sodom, and we should have been like unto Go’-mor-rah.
10 Hear the word of the Lord, ye rulers of So’-dom; give ear unto the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah.
11 To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? saith the Lord: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he goats.
12 When ye come to appear before me, who hath required this at your hand, to tread my courts?
13 Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me; the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot away with; it is iniquity, even the solemn meeting.
14 Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth: they are a trouble unto me; I am weary to bear them.
15 And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood.
16 Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil;
17 Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.
18 Come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.
19 If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land:
20 But if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword: for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.
21 How is the faithful city become an harlot! it was full of judgment; righteousness lodged in it; but now murderers.
22 Thy silver is become dross, thy wine mixed with water:
23 Thy princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves: every one loveth gifts, and followeth after rewards: they judge not the fatherless, neither doth the cause of the widow come unto them.
24 Therefore saith the Lord, the Lord of hosts, the mighty One of Is’-ra-el, Ah, I will ease me of mine adversaries, and avenge me of mine enemies:
25 And I will turn my hand upon thee, and purely purge away thy dross, and take away all thy tin:
26 And I will restore thy judges as at the first, and thy counsellors as at the beginning: afterward thou shalt be called, The city of righteousness, the faithful city.
27 Zi’-on shall be redeemed with judgment, and her converts with righteousness.
28 And the destruction of the transgressors and of the sinners shall be together, and they that forsake the Lord shall be consumed.
29 For they shall be ashamed of the oaks which ye have desired, and ye shall be confounded for the gardens that ye have chosen.
30 For ye shall be as an oak whose leaf fadeth, and as a garden that hath no water.
31 And the strong shall be as tow, and the maker of it as a spark, and they shall both burn together, and none shall quench them.
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When I was a teenager I wanted to get wisdom and knowledge, so I set out to read the big family Bible that many families had in those days. But I couldn’t get past Genesis 2 before I got bored with reading the Bible. I found out later in life that you have to believe on Christ and get saved before you can understand the Bible. So here is how I became a Christian and how you can too:
First, accept the fact that you are a sinner, and that you have broken God’s law. The Bible says in Romans 3:23: “For all have sinned and come short of the glory of God.”
Second, accept the fact that there is a penalty for sin. The Bible states in Romans 6:23: “For the wages of sin is death…”
Third, accept the fact that you are on the road to hell. Jesus Christ said in Matthew 18:8: “Wherefore if thy hand or thy foot offend thee, cut them off, and cast them from thee: it is better for thee to enter into life halt or maimed, rather than having two hands or two feet to be cast into everlasting fire.” Also, the Bible states in Revelation 21:8: “But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.”
Now that is bad news, but here’s the good news. Jesus Christ said in John 3:16: “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.” Just believe in your heart that Jesus Christ died for your sins, was buried, and rose from the dead by the power of God for you so that you can live eternally with Him. Pray and ask Him to come into your heart today, and He will.
Romans 10:9 & 13 says, “That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved… For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.”
If you believe that Jesus Christ died on the Cross for your sins, was buried, and rose from the dead, and you want to trust Him for your Salvation today, please pray with me this simple prayer: Holy Father God, I realize that I am a sinner and that I have done some bad things in my life. I am sorry for my sins, and today I choose to turn from my sins. For Jesus Christ sake, please forgive me of my sins. I believe with all of my heart that Jesus Christ died for me, was buried, and rose again. I trust Jesus Christ as my Savior and I choose to follow Him as Lord from this day forward. Lord Jesus, please come into my heart and save my soul and change my life today. Amen.
If you believed in your heart that Jesus Christ died on the Cross, was buried, and rose again, allow me to say, congratulations on doing the most important thing in life and that is accepting Jesus Christ as your Lord and Saviour! For more information to help you grow in your newfound faith in Christ, go to Gospel Light Society.com and read “What To Do After You Enter Through the Door”. Jesus Christ said in John 10:9, “I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture.”
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God loves you. We love you. And may God bless you.
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