Bible Reading June 13 (World English Bible)
1
Samuel 19, 20
1Sa
19:1 Saul spoke to Jonathan his son, and to all his servants, that
they should kill David. But Jonathan, Saul's son, delighted much in
David.
1Sa
19:2 Jonathan told David, saying, Saul my father seeks to kill you:
now therefore, please take care of yourself in the morning, and live
in a secret place, and hide yourself:
1Sa
19:3 and I will go out and stand beside my father in the field where
you are, and I will talk with my father about you; and if I see
anything, I will tell you.
1Sa
19:4 Jonathan spoke good of David to Saul his father, and said to
him, Don't let the king sin against his servant, against David;
because he has not sinned against you, and because his works have
been very good toward you:
1Sa
19:5 for he put his life in his hand, and struck the Philistine, and
Yahweh worked a great victory for all Israel: you saw it, and
rejoiced; why then will you sin against innocent blood, to kill David
without a cause?
1Sa
19:6 Saul listened to the voice of Jonathan: and Saul swore, As
Yahweh lives, he shall not be put to death.
1Sa
19:7 Jonathan called David, and Jonathan showed him all those
things. Jonathan brought David to Saul, and he was in his presence,
as before.
1Sa
19:8 There was war again: and David went out, and fought with the
Philistines, and killed them with a great slaughter; and they fled
before him.
1Sa
19:9 An evil spirit from Yahweh was on Saul, as he sat in his house
with his spear in his hand; and David was playing with his hand.
1Sa
19:10 Saul sought to strike David even to the wall with the spear;
but he slipped away out of Saul's presence, and he struck the spear
into the wall: and David fled, and escaped that night.
1Sa
19:11 Saul sent messengers to David's house, to watch him, and to
kill him in the morning: and Michal, David's wife, told him, saying,
If you don't save your life tonight, tomorrow you will be slain.
1Sa
19:12 So Michal let David down through the window: and he went, and
fled, and escaped.
1Sa
19:13 Michal took the teraphim, and laid it in the bed, and put a
pillow of goats' hair
at its head, and covered it with the clothes.
1Sa
19:14 When Saul sent messengers to take David, she said, He is sick.
1Sa
19:15 Saul sent the messengers to see David, saying, Bring him up to
me in the bed, that I may kill him.
1Sa
19:16 When the messengers came in, behold, the teraphim was in the
bed, with the pillow of goats' hair
at its head.
1Sa
19:17 Saul said to Michal, Why have you deceived me thus, and let my
enemy go, so that he is escaped? Michal answered Saul, He said to me,
Let me go; why should I kill you?
1Sa
19:18 Now David fled, and escaped, and came to Samuel to Ramah, and
told him all that Saul had done to him. He and Samuel went and lived
in Naioth.
1Sa
19:19 It was told Saul, saying, Behold, David is at Naioth in Ramah.
1Sa
19:20 Saul sent messengers to take David: and when they saw the
company of the prophets prophesying, and Samuel standing as head over
them, the Spirit of God came on the messengers of Saul, and they also
prophesied.
1Sa
19:21 When it was told Saul, he sent other messengers, and they also
prophesied. Saul sent messengers again the third time, and they also
prophesied.
1Sa
19:22 Then went he also to Ramah, and came to the great well that is
in Secu: and he asked and said, Where are Samuel and David? One said,
Behold, they are at Naioth in Ramah.
1Sa
19:23 He went there to Naioth in Ramah: and the Spirit of God came
on him also, and he went on, and prophesied, until he came to Naioth
in Ramah.
1Sa
19:24 He also stripped off his clothes, and he also prophesied
before Samuel, and lay down naked all that day and all that night.
Therefore they say, "Is Saul also among the prophets?"
1Sa
20:1 David fled from Naioth in Ramah, and came and said before
Jonathan, "What have I done? What is my iniquity?" and
"What is my sin before your father, that he seeks my life?"
1Sa
20:2 He said to him, "Far from it; you shall not die: behold,
my father does nothing either great or small, but that he discloses
it to me; and why should my father hide this thing from me? It is not
so."
1Sa
20:3 David swore moreover, and said, "Your father knows well
that I have found favor in your eyes; and he says, 'Don't let
Jonathan know this, lest he be grieved:' but truly as Yahweh lives,
and as your soul lives, there is but a step between me and death."
1Sa
20:4 Then said Jonathan to David, "Whatever your soul desires,
I will even do it for you."
1Sa
20:5 David said to Jonathan, "Behold, tomorrow is the new moon,
and I should not fail to dine with the king; but let me go, that I
may hide myself in the field to the third day at evening.
1Sa
20:6 If your father miss me at all, then say, 'David earnestly asked
leave of me that he might run to Bethlehem his city; for it is the
yearly sacrifice there for all the family.'
1Sa
20:7 If he says, 'It is well;' your servant shall have peace: but if
he be angry, then know that evil is determined by him.
1Sa
20:8 Therefore deal kindly with your servant; for you have brought
your servant into a covenant of Yahweh with you: but if there be in
me iniquity, kill me yourself; for why should you bring me to your
father?"
1Sa
20:9 Jonathan said, "Far be it from you; for if I should at all
know that evil were determined by my father to come on you, then
wouldn't I tell you that?"
1Sa
20:10 Then said David to Jonathan, "Who shall tell me if
perchance your father answers you roughly?"
1Sa
20:11 Jonathan said to David, "Come, and let us go out into the
field." They both went out into the field.
1Sa
20:12 Jonathan said to David, "Yahweh, the God of Israel, be
witness: when I have sounded my father
about this time tomorrow, or
the third day, behold, if there be good toward David, shall I not
then send to you, and disclose it to you?
1Sa
20:13 Yahweh do so to Jonathan, and more also, should it please my
father to do you evil, if I don't disclose it to you, and send you
away, that you may go in peace: and Yahweh be with you, as he has
been with my father.
1Sa
20:14 You shall not only while yet I live show me the loving
kindness of Yahweh, that I not die;
1Sa
20:15 but also you shall not cut off your kindness from my house
forever; no, not when Yahweh has cut off the enemies of David
everyone from the surface of the earth."
1Sa
20:16 So Jonathan made a covenant with the house of David, saying,
Yahweh will require it at the hand of David's enemies.
1Sa
20:17 Jonathan caused David to swear again, for the love that he had
to him; for he loved him as he loved his own soul.
1Sa
20:18 Then Jonathan said to him, Tomorrow is the new moon: and you
will be missed, because your seat will be empty.
1Sa
20:19 When you have stayed three days, you shall go down quickly,
and come to the place where you did hide yourself when the business
was in hand, and shall remain by the stone Ezel.
1Sa
20:20 I will shoot three arrows on its side, as though I shot at a
mark.
1Sa
20:21 Behold, I will send the boy, saying,
Go, find the arrows. If I tell the boy, Behold, the arrows are on
this side of you; take them, and come; for there is peace to you and
no hurt, as Yahweh lives.
1Sa
20:22 But if I say thus to the boy, Behold, the arrows are beyond
you; go your way; for Yahweh has sent you away.
1Sa
20:23 As touching the matter which you and I have spoken of, behold,
Yahweh is between you and me forever.
1Sa
20:24 So David hid himself in the field: and when the new moon was
come, the king sat him down to eat food.
1Sa
20:25 The king sat on his seat, as at other times, even on the seat
by the wall; and Jonathan stood up, and Abner sat by Saul's side: but
David's place was empty.
1Sa
20:26 Nevertheless Saul didn't say anything that day: for he
thought, Something has happened to him. He is not clean. Surely he is
not clean.
1Sa
20:27 It happened on the next day after the new moon, which
was the second day,
that David's place was empty: and Saul said to Jonathan his son, Why
doesn't the son of Jesse come to meat, neither yesterday, nor today?
1Sa
20:28 Jonathan answered Saul, David earnestly asked leave of me to
go to Bethlehem:
1Sa
20:29 and he said, Please let me go, for our family has a sacrifice
in the city; and my brother, he has commanded me to
be there: and now, if I have found favor
in your eyes, let me get away, I pray you, and see my brothers.
Therefore he is not come to the king's table.
1Sa
20:30 Then Saul's anger was kindled against Jonathan, and he said to
him, You son of a perverse rebellious woman, don't I know that you
have chosen the son of Jesse to your own shame, and to the shame of
your mother's nakedness?
1Sa
20:31 For as long as the son of Jesse lives on the earth, you shall
not be established, nor your kingdom. Therefore now send and bring
him to me, for he shall surely die.
1Sa
20:32 Jonathan answered Saul his father, and said to him, "Why
should he be put to death? What has he done?"
1Sa
20:33 Saul cast his spear at him to strike him. By this Jonathan
knew that his father was determined to put David to death.
1Sa
20:34 So Jonathan arose from the table in fierce anger, and ate no
food the second day of the month; for he was grieved for David,
because his father had done him shame.
1Sa
20:35 It happened in the morning, that Jonathan went out into the
field at the time appointed with David, and a little boy with him.
1Sa
20:36 He said to his boy, Run, find now the arrows which I shoot. As
the boy ran, he shot an arrow beyond him.
1Sa
20:37 When the boy was come to the place of the arrow which Jonathan
had shot, Jonathan cried after the boy, and said, Isn't the arrow
beyond you?
1Sa
20:38 Jonathan cried after the boy, Go fast! Hurry! Don't delay!
Jonathan's boy gathered up the arrows, and came to his master.
1Sa
20:39 But the boy didn't know anything: only Jonathan and David knew
the matter.
1Sa
20:40 Jonathan gave his weapons to his boy, and said to him, Go,
carry them to the city.
1Sa
20:41 As soon as the boy was gone, David arose out of a
place toward the South, and fell on his
face to the ground, and bowed himself three times: and they kissed
one another, and wept one with another, until David exceeded.
1Sa
20:42 Jonathan said to David, Go in peace, because we have sworn
both of us in the name of Yahweh, saying, Yahweh shall be between me
and you, and between my seed and your seed, forever. He arose and
departed: and Jonathan went into the city.
John 15
Joh 15:1
"I am the true vine, and my Father is the farmer.
Joh 15:2
Every branch in me that doesn't bear fruit, he takes away. Every
branch that bears fruit, he prunes, that it may bear more fruit.
Joh 15:3
You are already pruned clean because of the word which I have spoken
to you.
Joh 15:4
Remain in me, and I in you. As the branch can't bear fruit by itself,
unless it remains in the vine, so neither can you, unless you remain
in me.
Joh 15:5
I am the vine. You are the branches. He who remains in me, and I in
him, the same bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.
Joh 15:6
If a man doesn't remain in me, he is thrown out as a branch, and is
withered; and they gather them, throw them into the fire, and they
are burned.
Joh 15:7
If you remain in me, and my words remain in you, you will ask
whatever you desire, and it will be done for you.
Joh 15:8
"In this is my Father glorified, that you bear much fruit; and
so you will be my disciples.
Joh 15:9
Even as the Father has loved me, I also have loved you. Remain in my
love.
Joh 15:10
If you keep my commandments, you will remain in my love; even as I
have kept my Father's commandments, and remain in his love.
Joh 15:11
I have spoken these things to you, that my joy may remain in you, and
that your joy may be made full.
Joh 15:12
"This is my commandment, that you love one another, even as I
have loved you.
Joh 15:13
Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for
his friends.
Joh 15:14
You are my friends, if you do whatever I command you.
Joh 15:15
No longer do I call you servants, for the servant doesn't know what
his lord does. But I have called you friends, for everything that I
heard from my Father, I have made known to you.
Joh 15:16
You didn't choose me, but I chose you, and appointed you, that you
should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain; that
whatever you will ask of the Father in my name, he may give it to
you.
Joh 15:17
"I command these things to you, that you may love one another.
Joh 15:18
If the world hates you, you know that it has hated me before it hated
you.
Joh 15:19
If you were of the world, the world would love its own. But because
you are not of the world, since I chose you out of the world,
therefore the world hates you.
Joh 15:20
Remember the word that I said to you: 'A servant is not greater than
his lord.' If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If
they kept my word, they will keep yours also.
Joh 15:21
But all these things will they do to you for my name's sake, because
they don't know him who sent me.
Joh 15:22
If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have had sin;
but now they have no excuse for their sin.
Joh 15:23
He who hates me, hates my Father also.
Joh 15:24
If I hadn't done among them the works which no one else did, they
wouldn't have had sin. But now have they seen and also hated both me
and my Father.
Joh 15:25
But this happened so that the word may be fulfilled which was written
in their law, 'They hated me without a cause.'
Joh 15:26
"When the Counselor has come, whom I will send to you from the
Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, he will
testify about me.
Joh 15:27
You will also testify, because you have been with me from the
beginning.
Political
correctness is running amok in American civilization. This irrational,
self-contradictory ideology is virtually ensconced in culture. Millions
have been victimized by this propaganda and intimidated into silence
when confronted by ideas and behaviors that are immoral or destructive.
This sinister ideology began to assert itself with a vengeance during
the turbulent 1960s. In seemingly conspiratorial fashion, socialistic
forces strategized means by which to bully mainstream Americans into
silent passivity. As Cuban producer, director, and author Agustin
Blazquez explains: “Change their speech and thought patterns by
spreading the idea that vocalizing your beliefs is disrespectful to
others and must be avoided to make up for past inequities and
injustices” (2002). While accusing the status quo of censorship,
attempting to stifle free speech, and oppress the left, ironically, the
left now uses the very tactics they mistakenly imagined in their
opponents. Hence, the social liberals in politics, education, and beyond
launched “a sophisticated and dangerous form of censorship and
oppression, imposed upon the citizenry with the ultimate goal of
manipulating, brainwashing and destroying our society” (Blazquez). They
have worked their agenda with a shrewd precision that would be the envy
of the most sinister dictators of human history—from Nero to Hitler to
Stalin.
Practically
everyone understands that the term “day” can be used in various ways,
both within and without Scripture. It can be used to refer to the
opposite of night (Genesis 1:5). It can be used to refer to a literal,
24-hour period (or even a part of that 24-hour period—cf. Matthew 12:40;