Bible Reading June 7 (World English Bible)
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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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