Bread of Life - - A Daily Devotion from The Lutheran Spokesman.

“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

The inspired writer records a genealogy of the Israelites who returned to Jerusalem following the Babylonian captivity. Then he returns to the genealogy of Saul.

BibleGateway: 1 Chronicles 9 ESV Text: 1 Chronicles 9 1 Chronicles 9 (Listen) A Genealogy of the Returned Exiles 9:1 So all Israel was recorded in genealogies, and these are written in the Book of the Kings of Israel. And Judah was taken into exile in Babylon because of their breach of faith. 2 Now the first…

The captivity will last only 70 years.

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August 9, 2014

BibleGateway: Jeremiah 25:1-14 ESV Text: Jeremiah 25:1-14 KJV Text: The section starts at about 0:0 and ends at about 2:33 1 The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the people of Judah in the…

Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon took four talented captives.

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August 8, 2014

BibleGateway: Daniel 1:1-20 ESV Text: Daniel 1:1-20 KJV Text: The section starts at about 0:0 and ends at about 3:32 1 In the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah came Nebuchadnezzar…

Jeremiah’s persecutors will not prevail.

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August 7, 2014

BibleGateway: Jeremiah 20:1-13 ESV Text: Jeremiah 20:1-13 KJV Text: The section starts at about 0:0 and ends at about 2:48 1 Now Pashur the son of Immer the priest, who was also chief governor in…

God’s prophet Urijah was killed; Jeremiah was spared.

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August 6, 2014

BibleGateway: Jeremiah 26:12-24 ESV Text: Jeremiah 26:12-24 KJV Text: The section starts at about 1:52 and ends at about 4:19 12 Then spake Jeremiah unto all the princes and to all the people, saying, The…

God’s prophet Jeremiah was considered worthy of death because he foretold God’s judgment.

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August 5, 2014

BibleGateway: Jeremiah 26:1-11 ESV Text: Jeremiah 26:1-11 KJV Text: The section starts at about 0:0 and ends at about 2:1 1 In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of…

Jehoiakim, unlike Josiah, died without being lamented.

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August 4, 2014

BibleGateway: Jeremiah 22:13-23 ESV Text: Jeremiah 22:13-23 KJV Text: The section starts at about 2:4 and ends at about 3:59 13 Woe unto him that buildeth his house by unrighteousness, and his chambers by wrong;…

Josiah’s son Jehoiakim was king for eleven wicked years.

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August 3, 2014

BibleGateway: 2 Kings 23:35-24:7 ESV Text: 2 Kings 23:35-24:7 KJV Text: The section starts at about 7:24 and ends at about 8:3 35 And Jehoiakim gave the silver and the gold to Pharaoh; but he…

Weep not for Josiah, but for his son Shallum (Jehoahaz).

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August 2, 2014

BibleGateway: Jeremiah 22:1-12 ESV Text: Jeremiah 22:1-12 KJV Text: The section starts at about 0:0 and ends at about 2:13 1 Thus saith the LORD; Go down to the house of the king of Judah,…

Josiah’s son Jehoahaz was king for only three months.

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August 1, 2014

BibleGateway: 2 Kings 23:28-34 ESV Text: 2 Kings 23:28-34 KJV Text: The section starts at about 6:8 and ends at about 7:31 28 Now the rest of the acts of Josiah, and all that he…

There is no physician or medicine that can heal them now.

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July 31, 2014

BibleGateway: Jeremiah 8:14-22 ESV Text: Jeremiah 8:14-22 KJV Text: The section starts at about 2:37 and ends at about 4:7 14 Why do we sit still? assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the defenced…

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