a thread opens
Because of the sins of Jeroboam which he sinned, and which he made Israel sin, by his provocation with which he provoked the LORD God of Israel to anger.
The Vigil
Today’s scroll, one verse at a time — each linked to the last by the cross-references rather than by any model of you. The same vigil for everyone, and a different one tomorrow.
And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, and walked in the way of his father, and in his sin with which he made Israel to sin.
from I Kings 15:30
Whereupon the king took counsel, and made two calves of gold, and said to them, It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem: look, your gods, O Israel, which brought you up out of the land of Egypt.
from I Kings 15:26
And they left all the commandments of the LORD their God, and made them cast images, even two calves, and made an Asherah pole, and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served Baal.
from I Kings 12:28 · a strong link
And all the people of the land went into the house of Baal, and broke it down; his altars and his images broke they in pieces thoroughly, and slew Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars. And the priest appointed officers over the house of the LORD.
from II Kings 17:16
a thread opens
Testifying both to the Jews, and also to the Greeks, repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.
And they went out, and preached that men should repent.
from Acts 20:21
I tell you, No: but, except you repent, you shall all likewise perish.
from Mark 6:12
Then he went, and took with himself seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and they enter in and dwell there: and the last state of that man is worse than the first. Even so shall it be also to this wicked generation.
from Luke 13:3
Then he went, and took to him seven other spirits more wicked than himself; and they enter in, and dwell there: and the last state of that man is worse than the first.
from Matthew 12:45
If any man see his brother sin a sin which is not to death, he shall ask, and he shall give him life for them that sin not to death. There is a sin to death: I do not say that he shall pray for it.
from Luke 11:26
a thread opens
Be it known to you therefore, men and brothers, that through this man is preached to you the forgiveness of sins:
And that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name among all nations, beginning at Jerusalem.
from Acts 13:38 · a strong link
Then Paul and Barnabas grew bold, and said, It was necessary that the word of God should first have been spoken to you: but seeing you put it from you, and judge yourselves unworthy of eternal life, look, we turn to the Gentiles.
from Luke 24:47
And he said to me, Depart: for I will send you far hence to the Gentiles.
from Acts 13:46
But the Lord said to him, Go your way: for he is a chosen vessel to me, to bear my name before the Gentiles, and kings, and the children of Israel:
from Acts 22:21 · a strong link
For I speak to you Gentiles, inasmuch as I am the apostle of the Gentiles, I magnify my office:
from Acts 9:15
Delivering you from the people, and from the Gentiles, to whom now I send you,
from Romans 11:13
a thread opens
Because he has appointed a day, in which he will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom he has ordained; of which he has given assurance to all men, in that he has raised him from the dead.
In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to my gospel.
from Acts 17:31
By no means: for then how shall God judge the world?
from Romans 2:16
Does God pervert judgment? or does the Almighty pervert justice?
from Romans 3:6
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For truly against your holy child Jesus, whom you have anointed, both Herod, and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles, and the people of Israel, were gathered together,
And when they had bound him, they led him away, and delivered him to Pontius Pilate the governor.
from Acts 4:27 · a strong link
There were present at that season some that told him of the Galileans, whose blood Pilate had mingled with their sacrifices.
from Matthew 27:2
For the time has come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God?
from Luke 13:1
But I say to you, that it shall be more tolerable in that day for Sodom, than for that city.
from I Peter 4:17
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You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you do always resist the Holy Spirit: as your fathers did, so do you.
Circumcise yourselves to the LORD, and take away the foreskins of your heart, you men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem: lest my fury come forth like fire, and burn that none can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.
from Acts 7:51
And the LORD your God will circumcise your heart, and the heart of your seed, to love the LORD your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, that you may live.
from Jeremiah 4:4 · a strong link
And I will give them one heart, and one way, that they may fear me for ever, for the good of them, and of their children after them:
from Deuteronomy 30:6 · a strong link
By a new and living way, which he has consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh;
from Jeremiah 32:39
I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture.
from Hebrews 10:20
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And when it was day, some of the Jews banded together, and bound themselves under a curse, saying that they would neither eat nor drink till they had killed Paul.
But do not you yield to them: for there lie in wait for him of them more than forty men, who have bound themselves with an oath, that they will neither eat nor drink till they have killed him: and now are they ready, looking for a promise from you.
from Acts 23:12 · a strong link
You shall not follow a multitude to do evil; neither shall you speak in a cause to decline after many to wrest judgment:
from Acts 23:21
My son, walk not you in the way with them; refrain your foot from their path:
from Exodus 23:2
I have not sat with vain persons, neither will I go in with dissemblers.
from Proverbs 1:15
I am a companion of all them that fear you, and of them that keep your precepts.
from Psalms 26:4
Be not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship has righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion has light with darkness?
from Psalms 119:63
That is the whole thread.
Every verse the cross-references reach from I Kings 15:30 along this chain. Today’s own vigil is laid separately.
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