President Trump is set to participate in a marathon Bible-reading event this week. The week-long event, called “America Reads the Bible,” will take place April 19-25. “National leaders and everyday Americans will read scripture aloud from Genesis to Revelation, live from the Museum of the Bible to celebrate America’s 250th,” Great American Pure Flix wrote. “On April 21, President Trump is scheduled to read Scripture via video message from the Oval Office during the 6 p.m. EST hour,” a press release read, according to CNN. “This week, I send my best wishes to every citizen gathered at the Museum of the Bible, on the National Mall, and all across our country participating in America Reads the Bible, a historic initiative in which nearly 500 Americans will take part in a public reading, over the course of one week, of the entire Bible—from Genesis to Revelation—to celebrate 250 years of the Bible in America,” Trump said in a statement. “I applaud every citizen participating in the America Reads the Bible initiative. Together, we will honor Holy Scripture, renew our faith, usher in a historic resurgence of religion on American shores, and rededicate the United States as one Nation under God,” he continued. Trump is scheduled to read 2 Chronicles 7:11-22. President Trump will be reading the Bible, specifically 2 Chronicles 7:11–22, in the Oval Office on Tuesday, April 21, between 6 p.m. and 7 p.m. ET. pic.twitter.com/DIfAWhBi7A — Leading Report (@LeadingReport) April 18, 2026 CNN has more: Founder and president of Christians Engaged, Bunni Pounds, who helped organize the event, told Fox News that they “needed someone special to read Second Chronicles, chapter seven” and that they set aside the passage for Trump to read. Margaret Susan Thompson, professor of history and political science in the Maxwell School at Syracuse University, told CNN the verse has been seen by many Evangelical Christians as a “justification of calling upon God to bless their nation.” Read 2 Chronicles 7:11-22 below (Christian Standard Bible): 11 So Solomon finished the Lord’s temple and the royal palace. Everything that had entered Solomon’s heart to do for the Lord’s temple and for his own palace succeeded. 12 Then the Lord appeared to Solomon at night and said to him: I have heard your prayer and have chosen this place for myself as a temple of sacrifice. 13 If I shut the sky so there is no rain, or if I command the grasshopper to consume the land, or if I send pestilence on my people, 14 and my people, who bear my name, humble themselves, pray and seek my face, and turn from their evil ways, then I will hear from heaven, forgive their sin, and heal their land. 15 My eyes will now be open and my ears attentive to prayer from this place. 16 And I have now chosen and consecrated this temple so that my name may be there forever; my eyes and my heart will be there at all times. 17 As for you, if you walk before me as your father David walked, doing everything I have commanded you, and if you keep my statutes and ordinances, 18 I will establish your royal throne, as I promised your father David: You will never fail to have a man ruling in Israel. 19 However, if you turn away and abandon my statutes and my commands that I have set before you and if you go and serve other gods and bow in worship to them, 20 then I will uproot Israel from the soil that I gave them, and this temple that I have sanctified for my name I will banish from my presence; I will make it an object of scorn and ridicule among all the peoples. 21 As for this temple, which was exalted, everyone who passes by will be appalled and will say, “Why did the Lord do this to this land and this temple?” 22 Then they will say, “Because they abandoned the Lord God of their ancestors who brought them out of the land of Egypt. They clung to other gods and bowed in worship to them and served them. Because of this, he brought all this ruin on them.” “I’m looking forward to being part of America Reads the Bible, a week-long event where the entire Bible will be read aloud in honor of our nation’s 250th anniversary! I’ll be reading Luke 10, including the parable of the Good Samaritan—a passage that inspired the name and mission of @SamaritansPurse,” Franklin Graham said. I’m looking forward to being part of America Reads the Bible, a week-long event where the entire Bible will be read aloud in honor of our nation’s 250th anniversary! I’ll be reading Luke 10, including the parable of the Good Samaritan—a passage that inspired the name and mission… pic.twitter.com/rvhDywkXNo — Franklin Graham (@Franklin_Graham) April 17, 2026 Watch the opening ceremony below: WATCH LIVE: 'America Reads the Bible' opening ceremony underway https://t.co/pB5UNogQhD — Fox News (@FoxNews) April 18, 2026 Fox News shared further: Pounds said the passage, particularly verse 14, has been central to American prayer life for decades, often invoked during times of national reflection. “It comes at a time where the Israelites were experiencing hardship and God spoke and said, ‘If my people that are called by my name would humble themselves and pray,’” Pounds said. “We’ve prayed this scripture for at least the last 50 years of American history on National Day of Prayer and other moments in this country.” Verse 14 reads, “If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.” “And so we instantly said — who needs to read that? The President of the United States,” she added. “We set it aside for him and have been praying for that for the last year.” Pounds said Trump’s participation sends a broader message about faith in American life. “I think he’s sending a message that faith matters in this country, and that it’s important not only personally, but for our nation overall,” she said. She added that the selected Scripture speaks to the country’s current moment. “We’re making a statement during this week as America reads the Bible, that there is so much in the Bible that we can gain wisdom and discernment from, there is so much that can heal our families, that can rescue us from depression and anxiety and can heal our inner cities and heal our land … I believe the president’s saying that by reading this scripture specifically,” Pounds said.