Bible Reading
June 7
The World English Bible
June
7
1
Samuel 7, 8
1Sa
7:1 The men of Kiriath Jearim came, and fetched up the ark of
Yahweh, and brought it into the house of Abinadab in the hill, and
sanctified Eleazar his son to keep the ark of Yahweh.
1Sa
7:2 It happened, from the day that the ark abode in Kiriath Jearim,
that the time was long; for it was twenty years: and all the house of
Israel lamented after Yahweh.
1Sa
7:3 Samuel spoke to all the house of Israel, saying, If you do
return to Yahweh with all your heart, then put away the foreign gods
and the Ashtaroth from among you, and direct your hearts to Yahweh,
and serve him only; and he will deliver you out of the hand of the
Philistines.
1Sa
7:4 Then the children of Israel did put away the Baals and the
Ashtaroth, and served Yahweh only.
1Sa
7:5 Samuel said, "Gather all Israel to Mizpah, and I will pray
for you to Yahweh."
1Sa
7:6 They gathered together to Mizpah, and drew water, and poured it
out before Yahweh, and fasted on that day, and said there, "We
have sinned against Yahweh." Samuel judged the children of
Israel in Mizpah.
1Sa
7:7 When the Philistines heard that the children of Israel were
gathered together at Mizpah, the lords of the Philistines went up
against Israel. When the children of Israel heard it, they were
afraid of the Philistines.
1Sa
7:8 The children of Israel said to Samuel, "Don't cease to cry
to Yahweh our God for us, that he will save us out of the hand of the
Philistines."
1Sa
7:9 Samuel took a sucking lamb, and offered it for a whole burnt
offering to Yahweh: and Samuel cried to Yahweh for Israel; and Yahweh
answered him.
1Sa
7:10 As Samuel was offering up the burnt offering, the Philistines
drew near to battle against Israel; but Yahweh thundered with a great
thunder on that day on the Philistines, and confused them; and they
were struck down before Israel.
1Sa
7:11 The men of Israel went out of Mizpah, and pursued the
Philistines, and struck them, until they came under Beth Kar.
1Sa
7:12 Then Samuel took a stone, and set it between Mizpah and Shen,
and called its name Ebenezer, saying, Hitherto has Yahweh helped us.
1Sa
7:13 So the Philistines were subdued, and they came no more within
the border of Israel: and the hand of Yahweh was against the
Philistines all the days of Samuel.
1Sa
7:14 The cities which the Philistines had taken from Israel were
restored to Israel, from Ekron even to Gath; and its border did
Israel deliver out of the hand of the Philistines. There was peace
between Israel and the Amorites.
1Sa
7:15 Samuel judged Israel all the days of his life.
1Sa
7:16 He went from year to year in circuit to Bethel and Gilgal, and
Mizpah; and he judged Israel in all those places.
1Sa
7:17 His return was to Ramah, for there was his house; and there he
judged Israel: and he built there an altar to Yahweh.
1Sa
8:1 It happened, when Samuel was old, that he made his sons judges
over Israel.
1Sa
8:2 Now the name of his firstborn was Joel; and the name of his
second, Abijah: they were judges in Beersheba.
1Sa
8:3 His sons didn't walk in his ways, but turned aside after lucre,
and took bribes, and perverted justice.
1Sa
8:4 Then all the elders of Israel gathered themselves together, and
came to Samuel to Ramah;
1Sa
8:5 and they said to him, Behold, you are old, and your sons don't
walk in your ways: now make us a king to judge us like all the
nations.
1Sa
8:6 But the thing displeased Samuel, when they said, Give us a king
to judge us. Samuel prayed to Yahweh.
1Sa
8:7 Yahweh said to Samuel, Listen to the voice of the people in all
that they tell you; for they have not rejected you, but they have
rejected me, that I should not be king over them.
1Sa
8:8 According to all the works which they have done since the day
that I brought them up out of Egypt even to this day, in that they
have forsaken me, and served other gods, so do they also to you.
1Sa
8:9 Now therefore listen to their voice: however you shall protest
solemnly to them, and shall show them the manner of the king who
shall reign over them.
1Sa
8:10 Samuel told all the words of Yahweh to the people who asked of
him a king.
1Sa
8:11 He said, This will be the manner of the king who shall reign
over you: he will take your sons, and appoint them to him, for his
chariots, and to be his horsemen; and they shall run before his
chariots;
1Sa
8:12 and he will appoint them to him for captains of thousands, and
captains of fifties; and he will set
some to plow his ground, and to reap his
harvest, and to make his instruments of war, and the instruments of
his chariots.
1Sa
8:13 He will take your daughters to be perfumers, and to be cooks,
and to be bakers.
1Sa
8:14 He will take your fields, and your vineyards, and your olive
groves, even the best of them, and give them to his servants.
1Sa
8:15 He will take the tenth of your seed, and of your vineyards, and
give to his officers, and to his servants.
1Sa
8:16 He will take your male servants, and your female servants, and
your best young men, and your donkeys, and put them to his work.
1Sa
8:17 He will take the tenth of your flocks: and you shall be his
servants.
1Sa
8:18 You shall cry out in that day because of your king whom you
shall have chosen you; and Yahweh will not answer you in that day.
1Sa
8:19 But the people refused to listen to the voice of Samuel; and
they said, No: but we will have a king over us,
1Sa
8:20 that we also may be like all the nations, and that our king may
judge us, and go out before us, and fight our battles.
1Sa
8:21 Samuel heard all the words of the people, and he rehearsed them
in the ears of Yahweh.
1Sa
8:22 Yahweh said to Samuel, Listen to their voice, and make them a
king. Samuel said to the men of Israel, Every man go to his city.
Jun.
7, 8
John
12
Joh
12:1 Then six days before the Passover, Jesus came to Bethany, where
Lazarus was, who had been dead, whom he raised from the dead.
Joh
12:2 So they made him a supper there. Martha served, but Lazarus was
one of those who sat at the table with him.
Joh
12:3 Mary, therefore, took a pound of ointment of pure nard, very
precious, and anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her
hair. The house was filled with the fragrance of the ointment.
Joh
12:4 Then Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, one of his disciples, who
would betray him, said,
Joh
12:5 "Why wasn't this ointment sold for three hundred denarii,
and given to the poor?"
Joh
12:6 Now he said this, not because he cared for the poor, but
because he was a thief, and having the money box, used to steal what
was put into it.
Joh
12:7 But Jesus said, "Leave her alone. She has kept this for
the day of my burial.
Joh
12:8 For you always have the poor with you, but you don't always
have me."
Joh
12:9 A large crowd therefore of the Jews learned that he was there,
and they came, not for Jesus' sake only, but that they might see
Lazarus also, whom he had raised from the dead.
Joh
12:10 But the chief priests conspired to put Lazarus to death also,
Joh
12:11 because on account of him many of the Jews went away and
believed in Jesus.
Joh
12:12 On the next day a great multitude had come to the feast. When
they heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem,
Joh
12:13 they took the branches of the palm trees, and went out to meet
him, and cried out, "Hosanna! Blessed is he who comes in the
name of the Lord, the King of Israel!"
Joh
12:14 Jesus, having found a young donkey, sat on it. As it is
written,
Joh
12:15 "Don't be afraid, daughter of Zion. Behold, your King
comes, sitting on a donkey's colt."
Joh
12:16 His disciples didn't understand these things at first, but
when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered that these things were
written about him, and that they had done these things to him.
Joh
12:17 The multitude therefore that was with him when he called
Lazarus out of the tomb, and raised him from the dead, was testifying
about it.
Joh
12:18 For this cause also the multitude went and met him, because
they heard that he had done this sign.
Joh
12:19 The Pharisees therefore said among themselves, "See how
you accomplish nothing. Behold, the world has gone after him."
Joh
12:20 Now there were certain Greeks among those that went up to
worship at the feast.
Joh
12:21 These, therefore, came to Philip, who was from Bethsaida of
Galilee, and asked him, saying, "Sir, we want to see Jesus."
Joh
12:22 Philip came and told Andrew, and in turn, Andrew came with
Philip, and they told Jesus.
Joh
12:23 Jesus answered them, "The time has come for the Son of
Man to be glorified.
Joh
12:24 Most certainly I tell you, unless a grain of wheat falls into
the earth and dies, it remains by itself alone. But if it dies, it
bears much fruit.
Joh
12:25 He who loves his life will lose it. He who hates his life in
this world will keep it to eternal life.
Joh
12:26 If anyone serves me, let him follow me. Where I am, there will
my servant also be. If anyone serves me, the Father will honor him.
Joh
12:27 "Now my soul is troubled. What shall I say? 'Father, save
me from this time?' But for this cause I came to this time.
Joh
12:28 Father, glorify your name!" Then there came a voice out
of the sky, saying, "I have both glorified it, and will glorify
it again."
Joh
12:29 The multitude therefore, who stood by and heard it, said that
it had thundered. Others said, "An angel has spoken to him."
Joh
12:30 Jesus answered, "This voice hasn't come for my sake, but
for your sakes.
Joh
12:31 Now is the judgment of this world. Now the prince of this
world will be cast out.
Joh
12:32 And I, if I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all people
to myself."
Joh
12:33 But he said this, signifying by what kind of death he should
die.
Joh
12:34 The multitude answered him, "We have heard out of the law
that the Christ remains forever. How do you say, 'The Son of Man must
be lifted up?' Who is this Son of Man?"
Joh
12:35 Jesus therefore said to them, "Yet a little while the
light is with you. Walk while you have the light, that darkness
doesn't overtake you. He who walks in the darkness doesn't know where
he is going.
Joh
12:36 While you have the light, believe in the light, that you may
become children of light." Jesus said these things, and he
departed and hid himself from them.
Joh
12:37 But though he had done so many signs before them, yet they
didn't believe in him,
Joh
12:38 that the word of Isaiah the prophet might be fulfilled, which
he spoke, "Lord, who has believed our report? To whom has the
arm of the Lord been revealed?"
Joh
12:39 For this cause they couldn't believe, for Isaiah said again,
Joh
12:40 "He has blinded their eyes and he hardened their heart,
lest they should see with their eyes, and perceive with their heart,
and would turn, and I would heal them."
Joh
12:41 Isaiah said these things when he saw his glory, and spoke of
him.
Joh
12:42 Nevertheless even of the rulers many believed in him, but
because of the Pharisees they didn't confess it, so that they
wouldn't be put out of the synagogue,
Joh
12:43 for they loved men's praise more than God's praise.
Joh
12:44 Jesus cried out and said, "Whoever believes in me,
believes not in me, but in him who sent me.
Joh
12:45 He who sees me sees him who sent me.
Joh
12:46 I have come as a light into the world, that whoever believes
in me may not remain in the darkness.
Joh
12:47 If anyone listens to my sayings, and doesn't believe, I don't
judge him. For I came not to judge the world, but to save the world.
Joh
12:48 He who rejects me, and doesn't receive my sayings, has one who
judges him. The word that I spoke, the same will judge him in the
last day.
Joh
12:49 For I spoke not from myself, but the Father who sent me, he
gave me a commandment, what I should say, and what I should speak.
Joh
12:50 I know that his commandment is eternal life. The things
therefore which I speak, even as the Father has said to me, so I
speak."
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