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“For the bread of God is He who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.”
John 6:33

Today’s Bible Reading

On the brink of despair, Job cries to the Lord to stop afflicting him.

BibleGateway: Job 7 ESV Text: Job 7 Job 7 (Listen) Job Continues: My Life Has No Hope 7:1   “Has not man a hard service on earth,    and are not his days like the days of a hired hand?2   Like a slave who longs for the shadow,    and like a hired hand who looks for his wages,3   so I am allotted… 

In a misguided attempt to comfort Job, Eliphaz reminds Job of his faithfulness in the past. He argues that righteous people do not experience suffering. Therefore, Job must have sinned in some way to have merited his present suffering.

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BibleGateway: Job 4 ESV Text: Job 4 Job 4 (Listen) Eliphaz Speaks: The Innocent Prosper 4:1 Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said: 2   “If one ventures a word with you, will you be impatient?    Yet who can… 

In his misery, Job curses the day of his birth.

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BibleGateway: Job 3 ESV Text: Job 3 Job 3 (Listen) Job Laments His Birth 3:1 After this Job opened his mouth and cursed the day of his birth. 2 And Job said: 3   “Let the day perish on… 

Jehoahaz, son of Josiah, becomes King of Judah. The king of Egypt deposes Jehoahaz from the throne and replaces him with Jehoiakim. Nebuchadnezzar captures Jehoiakim and carries him to Babylon, along with some of the vessels of the temple. Jehoiachin, son of Jehoiakim, becomes King of Judah. Nebuchadnezzar carries him to Babylon along with the vessels of the temple. Zedekiah becomes King of Judah. Babylon captures and burns Jerusalem. The Lord raises up Cyrus, King of Persia, to rebuild His temple.

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BibleGateway: 2 Chronicles 36 ESV Text: 2 Chronicles 36 2 Chronicles 36 (Listen) Judah’s Decline 36:1 The people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah and made him king in his father’s place in…