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<h1>Ditching the Bible in a Year Reading Plan </h1>
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<h1>ditching the Bible in a year reading plan </h1>
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#christian #bible <br>
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<p>The website doesn't look how I want it to yet! </p>
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<p>I'm reading a chapter a day and digging deeper than I ever did on anyone else's pace. </p>
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<h2>experiencing the Bible in passing </h2>
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<p>Every church, every Christian friend group I've been in, they say you should read the entire Bible once every year. Tons of daily reading plan PDFs are floating around out there. As someone who deeply enjoys living under external, arbitrary structure and going through prebuilt curriculums, I took to this eagerly. I have used several, probably most often the <a href="https://static.crossway.org/excerpt/1-esv-study-biblereading-plan.3.pdf">one in the back of the ESV study Bible by Crossway</a>. </p>
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<p>This structure taught me a lot, gave me a lot of things to improve on, and was encouraging and beautiful for sure. But I never really dwelt on any particular verse or passage because of the pressure to complete the full circuit. Each chunk was a lot to read, and if I spent too long on any particular passage, the pace would get out of hand fast if any section was delayed to tomorrow. </p>
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<p>If a patch of "begots" cropped up in the same section as more dramatic or poetic literature, the temptation to skim was strong. If anything was too difficult or too rich to understand in one pass, I wanted to move on to an easier text. After all, I had prayer and journaling to manage into my schedule as well. To some extent, I was more concerned about finishing than reading. </p>
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<p>Despite all the concessions I've made over the years, I never completed a yearly plan within a year, not even once. I drowned under compounding missed Epistles and confusing Old Testament narratives, and I'd either start fresh with a new plan or take a break from Bible reading altogether. Even if I read the Bible every single day, the recurring topic of "Bible in a year" showered me with guilt because I could not read like them. If I ever did succeed, I'd imagine it would be akin to driving through a museum and thinking, "that was cool," in passing. </p>
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<h2>my pace </h2>
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<p>I'm sure all those people around me receive the maximum blessing of the daily Bible reading plan, reading the full group of passages every single time with full comprehension. And I'm sure they become full of the Word as they do it. But I'm not sure I can. I am a slow reader, a lot of passages make no sense to me the first time, and something pops up in my life at some point during each year that makes it seriously hard to focus at all. </p>
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<p>For a long time, I viewed this as a major shortcoming to force out of myself. Then, some time last year, as my mom's health sharply declined, I reassessed a lot of things in my life. As part of that, I took a topic that meant something to me, a hopeless situation, and the book that I felt spoke to that, Jeremiah, and told myself that if this one book takes an entire year, that's okay. I wanted to learn from Jeremiah's ministry. </p>
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<p>I quickly found the best goal for myself is a chapter a day. It retains that delicious arbitrary structure (because obviously the modern divisions of chapters and verses were a man's invention), and it gives me plenty of time to read slowly, pray over verses, and bring in commentaries and sermons as needed. I didn't enforce this pace, though. My goal was to understand the message, not complete the readings, so I gave the daily chapter its best study and if I got nothing out of it, I would try reading it again the next day as a wiser girl. If the chapter was so rich or my life was too distracting, I might have split it up into multiple parts over multiple days until I understood it. Jeremiah 32 took the entire week Mom was in the hospital. Under any other plan, I surely would have been in speedrunning mode or have been avoiding Scripture out of shame, but allowing myself to be slow and meditative allowed this Scripture to be one of the few things I remember from that time. </p>
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Doing this illuminated how every verse was included by the Spirit for a reason, even the "filler" and "introduction" verses. </p>
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this is how I read the Bible, from the first time I really took any interest in the Word until last year. </p>
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<h2>working on it </h2>
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<p>Iterating over the website. Lots of placeholder pages are up, but few are close to my current plan. This version will be better than ever, with embedded HTML5 applications and more artwork. </p>
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Last updated May 8, 2023 <br>
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Last updated May 8, 2023. <br>
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<h1>is Jeremiah related to Eli through Abiathar? </h1>
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#christian #bible <br>
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<p>Are they family or neighbors in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin? </p>
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<h2>Jeremiah and Abiathar have a lot in common </h2>
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<p>Jeremiah 1:1 alone is an interesting insight into his ministry. </p>
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The words of Jeremiah, the son of Hilkiah, one of the priests who were in
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Anathoth in the land of Benjamin,
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<p>Some think the priests in Anathoth may be connected to Abiathar whose estate was there (1 Kings 2:26). Abiathar was the son of Ahitub, Ichabod's brother, son of Phinehas, son of Eli (1 Samuel 14:3). Eli's family was rejected from priesthood and cursed to die for their disrespect (1 Samuel 2:27-36), but one would be spared to weep his eyes out to grieve his heart (1 Samuel 2:33). </p>
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<p>If Jeremiah is descended from him, God once again set aside this remnant of Eli's family to weep over the priests as God cut them off. </p>
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<p>These priests were just as despising of God if not worse, stealing, murdering, committing adultery, swearing falsely, making offerings to Baal, and going after other gods that they have not known, then coming and standing before Him in His house called by His name and saying, "We are delivered!" (Jeremiah 7:9-10). And Jeremiah grieved over His people, in the famous "weeping prophet" passage in Jeremiah 9: </p>
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Oh that my head were waters,
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and my eyes a fountain of tears,
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that I might weep day and night
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for the slain of the daughter of my people!
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<p>The Bible doesn't confirm Jeremiah's connection to Abiathar and outside sources aren't sure, but the mere allusion of an Anathoth priest sure brings to mind the kind of landscape the next 52 chapters will be set in. </p>
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<h2>is he or isn't he? </h2>
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<p>Without a genealogy, we can't know, but we do have a detailed generational curse all relatives of Eli inherit: the line would continue forever, they will be poor, and they will never live to old age. ESV includes "dying by the sword of men," but NASB and KJV merely indicate dying in the prime of life. </p>
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<p>It's entirely possible Jeremiah's relatives are still around today. He did not sound like he had time for starting a family in the midst of his ministry, and Tertullian holds that he was stoned shortly after being taken to Egypt. So direct relatives are extremely unlikely, but relatives through a brother or something are certainly possible. </p>
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<p>If he was very young when he began (Jeremiah 1:6) and had a ministry of about 40 years (Jeremiah 1:2-3), perhaps he died between the ages 50 and 60 by violence. To me, that is tragically young indeed. Since people consider prime to be anywhere from 18 to 30 to 50, I'm not precisely sure if 50-60 was "the flower of his age." A girl recently told me "50 is the new 30," so it's possible. </p>
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<p>Then the last question is whether he was poor. I'm not sure if Anathoth priests tended to be wealthy or not, but Jeremiah 12:6 makes it sound like he lacked family support. The rest of Jeremiah doesn't really describe him as either wealthy nor someone who has to beg for bread, but the Bible doesn't give too much information about his day-to-day life anyway. In Jeremiah 32, the LORD has him buy a field for 17 shekels of silver. That's nothing for the American land market, but I just can't decipher his financial situation. The LORD certainly provided for him, but his life was certainly not enviable by worldly standards. Maybe? </p>
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<p>To me, the weeping and grieving remnant of Eli's family sounded like it was designated for a single man, not him and all his children. His role as the weeper takes so perfectly after the word prophesied to Eli, though, I have to wonder if the Holy Spirit didn't namedrop the priests of Anathoth for a reason and if God didn't expand this role for Jeremiah. After all, we barely know some of our prophets' names (Malachi?), much less their fathers (Micah?) or places of residence (Habakkuk?) or really anything about them at all (Obadiah?). </p>
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<p>There are no extraneous details in the Bible, so I'd like to think this reference is a double reminder. When 1 Peter 2:9 calls us a royal priesthood, we need to heed the man of God's word to Eli to honor Him above all else (1 Samuel 2:29) and Jeremiah's words to know God (Jeremiah 2:8), acknowledge our guilt (Jeremiah 3:13), obey His voice, and walk in all the way He commands (Jeremiah 7:23). Because otherwise, <s>double destruction!</s> we are on the wrong side of 1 Samuel 2:30: </p>
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for those who honor me I will honor, and those who despise me shall be lightly esteemed
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<h1>ditching the Bible in a year reading plan </h1>
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#christian #bible <br>
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<br>
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<p>I'm reading a chapter a day and digging deeper than I ever did on anyone else's pace. </p>
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<h2>experiencing the Bible in passing </h2>
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<p>Every church, every Christian friend group I've been in, they say you should read the entire Bible once every year. Tons of daily reading plan PDFs are floating around out there. As someone who deeply enjoys living under external, arbitrary structure and going through prebuilt curriculums, I took to this eagerly. I have used several, probably most often the <a href="https://static.crossway.org/excerpt/1-esv-study-biblereading-plan.3.pdf">one in the back of the ESV study Bible by Crossway</a>. </p>
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<p>This structure taught me a lot, gave me a lot of things to improve on, and was encouraging and beautiful for sure. But I never really dwelt on any particular verse or passage because of the pressure to complete the full circuit. Each chunk was a lot to read, and if I spent too long on any particular passage, the pace would get out of hand fast if any section was delayed to tomorrow. </p>
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<p>If a patch of "begots" cropped up in the same section as more dramatic or poetic literature, the temptation to skim was strong. If anything was too difficult or too rich to understand in one pass, I wanted to move on to an easier text. After all, I had prayer and journaling to fit into my schedule as well. To some extent, I was more concerned about finishing than reading. </p>
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<p>Despite all the concessions I've made over the years, I never completed a yearly plan within a year, not even once. I drowned under compounding missed Epistles and confusing Old Testament narratives, and I'd either start fresh with a new plan or take a break from Bible reading altogether. Even if I read the Bible every single day, the recurring topic of "Bible in a year" showered me with guilt because I could not read like them. If I ever could have succeeded, I'd imagine it would be akin to driving quickly through a museum and thinking, "that was cool," in passing. </p>
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<h2>my pace </h2>
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<p>I'm sure all those people around me receive the maximum blessing of the daily Bible reading plan, reading the full group of passages every single time with full comprehension. And I'm sure they become full of the Word as they do it. But I'm not sure I can. I am a slow reader, a lot of passages make no sense to me the first time, and something pops up in my life at some point during each year that makes it seriously hard to focus at all. </p>
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<p>For a long time, I viewed this as a major shortcoming to force out of myself. Then, last year, as my mom's health sharply declined, I reassessed things in my life. As part of that, I took a topic that meant something to me, a hopeless situation, and the book that I felt spoke to that, Jeremiah, and told myself that if this one book takes an entire year, that's okay. I wanted to learn from Jeremiah's ministry. </p>
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<p>I quickly found the best goal for myself is a chapter a day. It retains that delicious arbitrary structure, and it gives me plenty of time to read slowly, pray over verses, and bring in related Bible passages, commentaries, and sermons. I didn't enforce this pace, though. My goal was to understand the message, not complete the readings. I gave the daily chapter its best study and if I got nothing out of it, I would try reading it again the next day as a wiser girl. If the chapter was so rich or my life was too distracting, I might have had to split it up into multiple parts over multiple days. Jeremiah 32 took the entire week Mom was in the hospital. Under any other plan, I surely would have been in speedrunning mode or avoiding Scripture out of shame, but allowing myself to be slow and meditative allowed this Scripture to be one of the few things I remember from that time. </p>
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<p>Doing this illuminated how every verse was included by the Spirit for a reason, even the "filler" and "introduction" verses. Even Jeremiah 1:1 alone are an interesting insight into his ministry. </p>
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<pre><code>
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The words of Jeremiah, the son of Hilkiah, one of the priests who were in
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Anathoth in the land of Benjamin,
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</pre></code>
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<p>Some think the priests in Anathoth may be connected to Abiathar whose estate was there (1 Kings 2:26). Abiathar is the son of Ahitub, Ichabod's brother, son of Phinehas, son of Eli (1 Samuel 14:3). Eli's family was rejected from priesthood for disrespect and cursed to die young (1 Samuel 2:27-36), but one would be spared to weep his eyes out to grieve his heart (1 Samuel 2:33). </p>
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<p>If Jeremiah is descended from him, that means God continued to set aside this remnant of Eli's family to weep over the priests as God cut them off. </p>
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<p>These priests were just as despising of God if not worse, stealing, murdering, committing adultery, swearing falsely, making offerings to Baal, and going after other gods that they have not known, then coming and standing before Him in His house called by His name and saying, "We are delivered!" (Jeremiah 7:9-10). And Jeremiah grieved over His people, in the famous "weeping prophet" passage: </p>
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Oh that my head were waters,
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and my eyes a fountain of tears,
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that I might weep day and night
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for the slain of the daughter of my people!
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</pre></code>
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<p>The Bible doesn't confirm Jeremiah's connection to Abiathar and outside sources aren't sure, but the mere allusion of an Anathoth priest sure brings to mind the kind of landscape the next 52 chapters will be set in. </p>
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<h2>is he or isn't he? </h2>
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<p>If Jeremiah is Eli's descendant, the curse would apply to him. His line would continue forever, he would be poor, and he would never live to be an old man. ESV includes "dying by the sword of men," but NASB and KJV merely indicate dying in the prime of life. </p>
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<p>It's entirely possible Jeremiah's relatives are still around today. He did not sound like he had time for starting a family in the midst of his ministry, and Tertullian holds that he was stoned shortly after being taken to Egypt. So direct relatives are extremely unlikely, but relatives through a brother or something are certainly possible. </p>
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<p>If he was very young when he began (Jeremiah 1:6) and had a ministry of about 40 years (Jeremiah 1:2-3), perhaps he died at age 50 or 60 by violence. To me, that is tragically young indeed. Since people consider prime to be anywhere from 18-50, I'm not precisely sure if 50-60 was "the flower of his age." </p>
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<p>Then the last question is whether he was poor. I'm not sure if Anathoth priests tended to be wealthy or not, but Jeremiah 12:6 makes it sound like he lacked family support. The rest of Jeremiah doesn't really describe him as either wealthy nor someone who has to beg for bread, but the Bible doesn't give too much information about his day-to-day life. In Jeremiah 32, the LORD has him buy a field for 17 shekels of silver. That's nothing for the American land market, but I just don't know. </p>
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<p>To me, his role as the weeping takes so perfectly after the word prophesied to Eli, but we just can't know. </p>
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<h1>blessfrey wiki</h1>
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<p>When I'm ready, I'll host a Bible notes wiki here and possibly more in the future. </p>
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<p>Blessfrey.me uses LazyWiki, personal wiki software with lazy linking. All wiki links are automatically generated, meaing this wiki is so lazy, it doesn't insert the links until that exact moment you are loading the page. This takes some processing power, but it enables a single person to maintain a wiki while worrying only about article writing, not the links. </p>
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<p>Developed by my husband in Bottlepy for me while we were dating. :) </p>
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<h1><a href="wiki.blessfrey.me/main_page">Bible wiki</a></h1>
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<p>My notes have citations from the Bible, sermons, academic texts, nonacademic sources, and my own thoughts. If no version is given, assume the ESV Study Bible<sup>TM</sup>, English Standard Version (ESV) by Crossway Bibles (2007). These are just study notes and personal summaries, so trust it as much as a mini-Wikipedia without peer review. </p>
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<p>As for my beliefs, I hold the Bible as the ultimate authority to take literally but in context for all topics within: Old Testament, miracles, Creation, everything. I believe in the power of the Holy Spirit, but since we are in the flesh and face unclean spirits, He must be in full agreement with Scripture (Matthew 4:1-11). This necessitates becoming full of the Word, so take and eat it (Revelation 10:8-9; Ezekiel 3:1-3). At the same time, don't fall into the trap of becoming too academic about Scripture (1 Corinthians 2:1-5) since the Gospel itself is a very simple message (1 John 2, especially the parts addressed to children). </p>
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<p>I was raised Southern Baptist, came to Jesus during the night before Barack Obama's inauguration (lol), went to a Southern Baptist high school, and now go to a nondenominational church. </p>
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<a href="wiki.blessfrey.me/main_page">wiki.blessfrey.me</a>
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