Immerse: Bible Reading Experience - NLT Daily Bible In A Year

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If you are following along in the Immerse Kingdoms Bible, we are on day 49 in week 10 of the 16 week plan

Welcome to Immerse: Kingdoms!

Joshua, Judges, Ruth, Samuel–Kings Immerse: Kingdoms is the third of six volumes in Immerse: The Bible Reading Experience. Kingdoms presents a new and unique journey through the story of Israel from the time of its conquest of Canaan (Joshua) through its struggle to settle the land (Judges, Ruth) and the establishment of Israel’s kingdom, which ends in a forced exile (Samuel–Kings). The nation of Israel, commissioned to be God’s light to the nations, falls to division and then foreign conquest for rejecting God’s rule.

QUICK START GUIDE
3 ways to get the most out of your experience
  1. Use Immerse: Messiah instead of your regular chapter-and-verse Bible. This special reader’s edition restores the Bible to its natural simplicity and beauty by removing chapter and verse numbers and other historical additions. Letters look like letters, songs look like
    songs, and the original literary structures are visible in each book. 
  2. Commit to making this a community experience. Immerse is designed for groups to encounter large portions of the Bible together
    for 8 weeks—more like a book club, less like a Bible study. By meeting every week in small groups and discussing what you read in open, honest conversations, you and your community can come together to be transformed through an authentic experience with the Scriptures.
  3. Aim to understand the big story. Read through “The Stories and the Story” (p. 483) to see how the books of the Bible work together
    to tell God’s story of his creation’s restoration. As you read through Immerse: Messiah, rather than ask, “How do I fit God into my busy life?” begin asking, “How can I join in God’s great plan by living out my part in his story?”
4 Questions to get your conversations started:
  1. What stood out to you this week?
  2. Was there anything confusing or troubling?
  3. Did anything make you think differently about God?
  4. How might this change the way we live?
The Immerse Bible Series is the proud winner of the prestigious Bible of the Year award from the ECPA Christian Book Awards. Immerse: The Reading Bible is specially crafted for a distraction-free listening and reading experience, helping you dive in and get immersed in Scripture. You’ll have a great experience using Immerse by yourself. But for an even richer experience, try reading with friends.

Immerse: The Bible Reading Experience is an invitation to a different kind of community interaction with the Bible. Less like a Bible study, more like a book club.

– 8 or 16-week Bible listening plans take you through a large section of the Bible like the New Testament or the Torah
– Meet once a week for a free-flowing discussion about the text
– Wrestle with questions and celebrate ‘aha!’ moments together

Nothing impacts spiritual growth more than spending time in Scripture. Immerse removes many of the barriers that make Bible reading difficult and invites communities to become transformed together through the power of God’s word.

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What is Immerse: Bible Reading Experience - NLT Daily Bible In A Year?

Take a breath, find your place, and read deeply. Discover the joy of reading God’s word with the Immerse New Living Translation (NLT) Bible.

This daily Bible podcast will take you through the Bible in a year following the Immerse Bible Reading Experience. So grab your family and small group and go through the Bible in a year together with Immerse. Each of the 6 volumes is available online or at your favorite Christian bookstore.

Ethan: Welcome to Immerse: the
daily bible reading experience.

Day 200 and 11

solomon became king and sat on the
throne of David his father, and

his kingdom was firmly established.

One day, Adonijah, whose
mother was Haggith, came to see

Bathsheba, Solomon's mother.

Have you come with peaceful intentions?

she asked him.

Yes, he said.

I come in peace.

In fact, I have a favor to ask of you.

What is it?

she asked.

He replied, As you know, the
kingdom was rightfully mine.

All Israel wanted me to be the next king.

But the tables were turned, and the
kingdom went to my brother instead.

For that is the way the Lord wanted it.

So now I have just one
favor to ask of you.

Please don't turn me down.

What is it?

She asked.

He replied, Speak to King
Solomon on my behalf.

For I know he will do
anything you request.

Ask him to let me marry
Abishag, the girl from Shunem.

All right, Bathsheba replied, I
will speak to the king for you.

So Bathsheba went to King Solomon
to speak on Adonijah's behalf.

The king rose from his throne to meet
her, and he bowed down before her.

When he sat down on his throne again, the
king ordered that a throne be brought for

his mother, and she sat at his right hand.

I have one small request
to make of you, she said.

I hope you won't turn me down.

What is it, my mother?

he asked.

You know I won't refuse you.

Then let your brother Adonijah
marry Abishag, the girl

from Shunem, she replied.

How can you possibly ask me
to give Abishag to Adonijah?

King Solomon demanded.

You might as well ask me
to give him the kingdom.

You know that he is my older brother,
and that he has Abiathar the priest

and Joab son of Zeruiah on his side.

Then King Solomon made
a vow before the Lord.

May God strike me and even kill
me if Adonijah has not sealed

his fate with this request.

The Lord has confirmed me and placed
me on the throne of my father David.

He has established my
dynasty as he promised.

So, as surely as the Lord lives,
Adonijah will die this very day.

So King Solomon ordered Benaiah
son of Jehoiada to execute him,

and Adonijah was put to death.

Then the king said to Abiathar the
priest, Go back to your home in Anathoth.

You deserve to die, but I will not
kill you now, because you carried the

ark of the sovereign Lord for David my
father, and you shared all his hardships.

So Solomon deposed Abiathar from
his position as priest of the Lord.

thereby fulfilling the prophecy
the Lord had given at Shiloh

concerning the descendants of Eli.

Joab had not joined Absalom's
earlier rebellion, but he had

joined Adonijah's rebellion.

So when Joab heard about Adonijah's death,
he ran to the sacred tent of the Lord

and grabbed on to the horns of the altar.

When this was reported to King
Solomon, he sent Benaiah son

of Jehoiada to execute him.

Benaiah went to the sacred tent
of the Lord and said to Joab,

The king orders you to come out.

But Joab answered, No, I will die here.

So Benaiah returned to the king
and told him what Joab had said.

Do as he said, the king replied.

Kill him there beside
the altar and bury him.

This will remove the guilt of
Joab's senseless murders from

me and from my father's family.

The Lord will repay him for the
murders of two men who were more

righteous and better than he.

For my father knew nothing about the
deaths of Abner, son of Ner, commander of

the army of Israel, and of Emesa, son of
Jether, commander of the army of Judah.

May their blood be on Joab
and his descendants forever.

And may the Lord grant peace
forever to David, his descendants.

his dynasty, and his throne.

So Benaiah son of Jehoiada returned to
the sacred tent and killed Joab, and he

was buried at his home in the wilderness.

Then the king appointed Benaiah to
command the army in place of Joab,

and he installed Zadok the priest
to take the place of Abiathar.

The king then sent for Shimei and told
him, Build a house here in Jerusalem

and live there, but don't step
outside the city to go anywhere else.

On the day you so much as cross
the Kidron Valley, you will surely

die, and your blood will be on
your own head, shimmy, I replied.

Your sentence is fair.

I will do whatever my
Lord the King commands.

So Shimei lived in
Jerusalem for a long time.

But three years later, two of
Shimei's slaves ran away to King

Achish, son of Maika of Gath.

When Shimei learned where they
were, he saddled his donkey and

went to Gath to search for them.

When he found them, he brought
them back to Jerusalem.

Solomon heard that Shimei
had left Jerusalem and had

gone to Gath and returned.

So the king sent for Shimei and
demanded, Didn't I make you swear

by the Lord and warn you not to go
anywhere else or you would surely die?

And you replied, The sentence is fair.

I will do as you say.

Then why haven't you kept your oath
to the Lord and obeyed my command?

The king also said to Shimei, You
certainly remember all the wicked

things you did to my father David.

May the Lord now bring
that evil on your own head.

But may I, King Solomon, receive
the Lord's blessings, and may one of

David's descendants always sit on this
throne in the presence of the Lord.

Then, at the king's command,
Benaiah son of Jehoiada took

Shimei outside and killed him.

So the kingdom was now
firmly in Solomon's grip.

This concludes today's
Immerse Reading experience.

Thank you for joining us.