Amaziah, the priest of Bethel, sent word to Jeroboam, king of Israel: “Amos has conspired against you here within Israel; the country cannot endure all his words.

Seek good and not evil,/ that you may live;/ Then truly will the Lord, the God of hosts,/ be with you as you claim!/ Hate evil and love good,/ and let justice prevail at the gate;/ Then it may be that the Lord, the God of hosts,/ will have pity on the remnant of Joseph.

You alone have I favored,/ more than all the families of the earth;/ Therefore I will punish you/ for all your crimes.

I, Paul, am already being poured out like a libation, and the time of my departure is at hand.

In those days, King Herod laid hands upon some members of the Church to harm them.

Brothers and sisters: Are you unaware that we who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?

One day Elisha came to Shunem, where there was a woman of influence, who urged him to dine with her.

The Lord has consumed without pity/ all the dwellings of Jacob;/ He has torn down in his anger/ the fortresses of daughter Judah;/ He has brought to the ground in ­dishonor/ her king and her princes.

In the tenth month of the ninth year of Zedekiah’s reign, on the tenth day of the month, Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, and his whole army advanced against Jerusalem, encamped around it, and built siege walls on every side.

Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem.