First Reading
2 Kings 17:5-8, 13-15a, 18
Read this as the first big movement of the day. Notice what God is doing, who is speaking, and what part of the story or teaching should stay with you.
5And he went through all the land: and going up to Samaria, he besieged it three years.
6And in the ninth year of Osee, the king of the Assyrians took Samaria, and carried Israel away to Assyria: and he placed them in Hala and Habor by the river of Gozan, in the cities of the Medes.
7For so it was that the children of Israel had sinned against the Lord their God, who brought them out of the land of Egypt, from under the hand of Pharao king of Egypt, and they worshipped strange gods.
8And they walked according to the way of the nations which the Lord had destroyed before the children of Israel and of the kings of Israel: because they had done in like manner.
18And the Lord was very angry with Israel, and removed them from his sight, and there remained only the tribe of Juda.