[2 Kings 23:28-37 ESV] {28} Now the rest of the acts of Josiah and all that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah? {29} In his days Pharaoh Neco king of Egypt went up to the king of Assyria to the river Euphrates. King Josiah went to meet him, and Pharaoh Neco killed him at Megiddo, as soon as he saw him. {30} And his servants carried him dead in a chariot from Megiddo and brought him to Jerusalem and buried him in his own tomb. And the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, and anointed him, and made him king in his father’s place. {31} Jehoahaz was twenty-three years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah. {32} And he did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his fathers had done. {33} And Pharaoh Neco put him in bonds at Riblah in the land of Hamath, that he might not reign in Jerusalem, and laid on the land a tribute of a hundred talents of silver and a talent of gold. {34} And Pharaoh Neco made Eliakim the son of Josiah king in the place of Josiah his father, and changed his name to Jehoiakim. But he took Jehoahaz away, and he came to Egypt and died there. {35} And Jehoiakim gave the silver and the gold to Pharaoh, but he taxed the land to give the money according to the command of Pharaoh. He exacted the silver and the gold of the people of the land, from everyone according to his assessment, to give it to Pharaoh Neco. {36} Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Zebidah the daughter of Pedaiah of Rumah. {37} And he did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his fathers had done.

[2 Kings 24:1-20 ESV] {1} In his days, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up, and Jehoiakim became his servant for three years. Then he turned and rebelled against him. {2} And the LORD sent against him bands of the Chaldeans and bands of the Syrians and bands of the Moabites and bands of the Ammonites, and sent them against Judah to destroy it, according to the word of the LORD that he spoke by his servants the prophets. {3} Surely this came upon Judah at the command of the LORD, to remove them out of his sight, for the sins of Manasseh, according to all that he had done, {4} and also for the innocent blood that he had shed. For he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, and the LORD would not pardon. {5} Now the rest of the deeds of Jehoiakim and all that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah? {6} So Jehoiakim slept with his fathers, and Jehoiachin his son reigned in his place. {7} And the king of Egypt did not come again out of his land, for the king of Babylon had taken all that belonged to the king of Egypt from the Brook of Egypt to the river Euphrates. {8} Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he became king, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Nehushta the daughter of Elnathan of Jerusalem. {9} And he did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his father had done. {10} At that time the servants of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up to Jerusalem, and the city was besieged. {11} And Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came to the city while his servants were besieging it, {12} and Jehoiachin the king of Judah gave himself up to the king of Babylon, himself and his mother and his servants and his officials and his palace officials. The king of Babylon took him prisoner in the eighth year of his reign {13} and carried off all the treasures of the house of the LORD and the treasures of the king’s house, and cut in pieces all the vessels of gold in the temple of the LORD, which Solomon king of Israel had made, as the LORD had foretold. {14} He carried away all Jerusalem and all the officials and all the mighty men of valor, 10,000 captives, and all the craftsmen and the smiths. None remained, except the poorest people of the land. {15} And he carried away Jehoiachin to Babylon. The king’s mother, the king’s wives, his officials, and the chief men of the land he took into captivity from Jerusalem to Babylon. {16} And the king of Babylon brought captive to Babylon all the men of valor, 7,000, and the craftsmen and the metal workers, 1,000, all of them strong and fit for war. {17} And the king of Babylon made Mattaniah, Jehoiachin’s uncle, king in his place, and changed his name to Zedekiah. {18} Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah. {19} And he did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, according to all that Jehoiakim had done. {20} For because of the anger of the LORD it came to the point in Jerusalem and Judah that he cast them out from his presence. And Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.

[2 Kings 25:1-12 ESV] {1} And in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, on the tenth day of the month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came with all his army against Jerusalem and laid siege to it. And they built siegeworks all around it. {2} So the city was besieged till the eleventh year of King Zedekiah. {3} On the ninth day of the fourth month the famine was so severe in the city that there was no food for the people of the land. {4} Then a breach was made in the city, and all the men of war fled by night by the way of the gate between the two walls, by the king’s garden, and the Chaldeans were around the city. And they went in the direction of the Arabah. {5} But the army of the Chaldeans pursued the king and overtook him in the plains of Jericho, and all his army was scattered from him. {6} Then they captured the king and brought him up to the king of Babylon at Riblah, and they passed sentence on him. {7} They slaughtered the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and put out the eyes of Zedekiah and bound him in chains and took him to Babylon. {8} In the fifth month, on the seventh day of the month–that was the nineteenth year of King Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon–Nebuzaradan, the captain of the bodyguard, a servant of the king of Babylon, came to Jerusalem. {9} And he burned the house of the LORD and the king’s house and all the houses of Jerusalem; every great house he burned down. {10} And all the army of the Chaldeans, who were with the captain of the guard, broke down the walls around Jerusalem. {11} And the rest of the people who were left in the city and the deserters who had deserted to the king of Babylon, together with the rest of the multitude, Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried into exile. {12} But the captain of the guard left some of the poorest of the land to be vinedressers and plowmen.

[Numbers 3:5-12 ESV] {5} And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, {6} “Bring the tribe of Levi near, and set them before Aaron the priest, that they may minister to him. {7} They shall keep guard over him and over the whole congregation before the tent of meeting, as they minister at the tabernacle. {8} They shall guard all the furnishings of the tent of meeting, and keep guard over the people of Israel as they minister at the tabernacle. {9} And you shall give the Levites to Aaron and his sons; they are wholly given to him from among the people of Israel. {10} And you shall appoint Aaron and his sons, and they shall guard their priesthood. But if any outsider comes near, he shall be put to death.” {11} And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, {12} “Behold, I have taken the Levites from among the people of Israel instead of every firstborn who opens the womb among the people of Israel. The Levites shall be mine,

[Numbers 4:1-4 ESV] {1} The LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying, {2} “Take a census of the sons of Kohath from among the sons of Levi, by their clans and their fathers’ houses, {3} from thirty years old up to fifty years old, all who can come on duty, to do the work in the tent of meeting. {4} This is the service of the sons of Kohath in the tent of meeting: the most holy things.

[2 Timothy 4:1-5 ESV] {1} I charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who is to judge the living and the dead, and by his appearing and his kingdom: {2} preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with complete patience and teaching. {3} For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, {4} and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths. {5} As for you, always be sober-minded, endure suffering, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry.

[Acts 20:1-38 ESV] {1} After the uproar ceased, Paul sent for the disciples, and after encouraging them, he said farewell and departed for Macedonia. {2} When he had gone through those regions and had given them much encouragement, he came to Greece. {3} There he spent three months, and when a plot was made against him by the Jews as he was about to set sail for Syria, he decided to return through Macedonia. {4} Sopater the Berean, son of Pyrrhus, accompanied him; and of the Thessalonians, Aristarchus and Secundus; and Gaius of Derbe, and Timothy; and the Asians, Tychicus and Trophimus. {5} These went on ahead and were waiting for us at Troas, {6} but we sailed away from Philippi after the days of Unleavened Bread, and in five days we came to them at Troas, where we stayed for seven days. {7} On the first day of the week, when we were gathered together to break bread, Paul talked with them, intending to depart on the next day, and he prolonged his speech until midnight. {8} There were many lamps in the upper room where we were gathered. {9} And a young man named Eutychus, sitting at the window, sank into a deep sleep as Paul talked still longer. And being overcome by sleep, he fell down from the third story and was taken up dead. {10} But Paul went down and bent over him, and taking him in his arms, said, “Do not be alarmed, for his life is in him.” {11} And when Paul had gone up and had broken bread and eaten, he conversed with them a long while, until daybreak, and so departed. {12} And they took the youth away alive, and were not a little comforted. {13} But going ahead to the ship, we set sail for Assos, intending to take Paul aboard there, for so he had arranged, intending himself to go by land. {14} And when he met us at Assos, we took him on board and went to Mitylene. {15} And sailing from there we came the following day opposite Chios; the next day we touched at Samos; and the day after that we went to Miletus. {16} For Paul had decided to sail past Ephesus, so that he might not have to spend time in Asia, for he was hastening to be at Jerusalem, if possible, on the day of Pentecost. {17} Now from Miletus he sent to Ephesus and called the elders of the church to come to him. {18} And when they came to him, he said to them: “You yourselves know how I lived among you the whole time from the first day that I set foot in Asia, {19} serving the Lord with all humility and with tears and with trials that happened to me through the plots of the Jews; {20} how I did not shrink from declaring to you anything that was profitable, and teaching you in public and from house to house, {21} testifying both to Jews and to Greeks of repentance toward God and of faith in our Lord Jesus Christ. {22} And now, behold, I am going to Jerusalem, constrained by the Spirit, not knowing what will happen to me there, {23} except that the Holy Spirit testifies to me in every city that imprisonment and afflictions await me. {24} But I do not account my life of any value nor as precious to myself, if only I may finish my course and the ministry that I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify to the gospel of the grace of God. {25} And now, behold, I know that none of you among whom I have gone about proclaiming the kingdom will see my face again. {26} Therefore I testify to you this day that I am innocent of the blood of all, {27} for I did not shrink from declaring to you the whole counsel of God. {28} Pay careful attention to yourselves and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to care for the church of God, which he obtained with his own blood. {29} I know that after my departure fierce wolves will come in among you, not sparing the flock; {30} and from among your own selves will arise men speaking twisted things, to draw away the disciples after them. {31} Therefore be alert, remembering that for three years I did not cease night or day to admonish every one with tears. {32} And now I commend you to God and to the word of his grace, which is able to build you up and to give you the inheritance among all those who are sanctified. {33} I coveted no one’s silver or gold or apparel. {34} You yourselves know that these hands ministered to my necessities and to those who were with me. {35} In all things I have shown you that by working hard in this way we must help the weak and remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he himself said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’” {36} And when he had said these things, he knelt down and prayed with them all. {37} And there was much weeping on the part of all; they embraced Paul and kissed him, {38} being sorrowful most of all because of the word he had spoken, that they would not see his face again. And they accompanied him to the ship.