Bible Reading for June 23 and 24
World English Bible
June
23
2
Samuel 10-12
2Sa
10:1 It happened after this, that the king of the children of Ammon
died, and Hanun his son reigned in his place.
2Sa
10:2 David said, I will show kindness to Hanun the son of Nahash, as
his father showed kindness to me. So David sent by his servants to
comfort him concerning his father. David's servants came into the
land of the children of Ammon.
2Sa
10:3 But the princes of the children of Ammon said to Hanun their
lord, Do you think that David honors your father, in that he has sent
comforters to you? Hasn't David sent his servants to you to search
the city, and to spy it out, and to overthrow it?
2Sa
10:4 So Hanun took David's servants, and shaved off the one half of
their beards, and cut off their garments in the middle, even to their
buttocks, and sent them away.
2Sa
10:5 When they told it to David, he sent to meet them; for the men
were greatly ashamed. The king said, Wait at Jericho until your
beards have grown, and then return.
2Sa
10:6 When the children of Ammon saw that they were become odious to
David, the children of Ammon sent and hired the Syrians of Beth
Rehob, and the Syrians of Zobah, twenty thousand footmen, and the
king of Maacah with one thousand men, and the men of Tob twelve
thousand men.
2Sa
10:7 When David heard of it, he sent Joab, and all the army of the
mighty men.
2Sa
10:8 The children of Ammon came out, and put the battle in array at
the entrance of the gate: and the Syrians of Zobah and of Rehob, and
the men of Tob and Maacah, were by themselves in the field.
2Sa
10:9 Now when Joab saw that the battle was set against him before
and behind, he chose of all the choice men of Israel, and put them in
array against the Syrians:
2Sa
10:10 The rest of the people he committed into the hand of Abishai
his brother; and he put them in array against the children of Ammon.
2Sa
10:11 He said, If the Syrians are too strong for me, then you shall
help me; but if the children of Ammon are too strong for you, then I
will come and help you.
2Sa
10:12 Be of good courage, and let us be strong for our people, and
for the cities of our God: and Yahweh do that which seems him good.
2Sa
10:13 So Joab and the people who were with him drew near to the
battle against the Syrians: and they fled before him.
2Sa
10:14 When the children of Ammon saw that the Syrians had fled, they
likewise fled before Abishai, and entered into the city. Then Joab
returned from the children of Ammon, and came to Jerusalem.
2Sa
10:15 When the Syrians saw that they were defeated by Israel, they
gathered themselves together.
2Sa
10:16 Hadadezer sent, and brought out the Syrians who were beyond
the River: and they came to Helam, with Shobach the captain of the
army of Hadadezer at their head.
2Sa
10:17 It was told David; and he gathered all Israel together, and
passed over the Jordan, and came to Helam. The Syrians set themselves
in array against David, and fought with him.
2Sa
10:18 The Syrians fled before Israel; and David killed of the
Syrians the men of
seven hundred chariots, and forty thousand horsemen, and struck
Shobach the captain of their army, so that he died there.
2Sa
10:19 When all the kings who were servants to Hadadezer saw that
they were defeated before Israel, they made peace with Israel, and
served them. So the Syrians feared to help the children of Ammon any
more.
2Sa
11:1 It happened, at the return of the year, at the time when kings
go out to battle,
that David sent Joab, and his servants with him, and all Israel; and
they destroyed the children of Ammon, and besieged Rabbah. But David
stayed at Jerusalem.
2Sa
11:2 It happened at evening, that David arose from off his bed, and
walked on the roof of the king's house: and from the roof he saw a
woman bathing; and the woman was very beautiful to look on.
2Sa
11:3 David send and inquired after the woman. One said, Is not this
Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite?
2Sa
11:4 David sent messengers, and took her; and she came in to him,
and he lay with her (for she was purified from her uncleanness); and
she returned to her house.
2Sa
11:5 The woman conceived; and she sent and told David, and said, I
am with child.
2Sa
11:6 David sent to Joab, saying,
Send me Uriah the Hittite. Joab sent Uriah to David.
2Sa
11:7 When Uriah was come to him, David asked of him how Joab did,
and how the people fared, and how the war prospered.
2Sa
11:8 David said to Uriah, Go down to your house, and wash your feet.
Uriah departed out of the king's house, and there followed him a mess
of food
from the king.
2Sa
11:9 But Uriah slept at the door of the king's house with all the
servants of his lord, and didn't go down to his house.
2Sa
11:10 When they had told David, saying, Uriah didn't go down to his
house, David said to Uriah, Haven't you come from a journey? why did
you not go down to your house?
2Sa
11:11 Uriah said to David, The ark, and Israel, and Judah, abide in
booths; and my lord Joab, and the servants of my lord, are encamped
in the open field; shall I then go into my house, to eat and to
drink, and to lie with my wife? as you live, and as your soul lives,
I will not do this thing.
2Sa
11:12 David said to Uriah, Stay here today also, and tomorrow I will
let you depart. So Uriah abode in Jerusalem that day, and the next
day.
2Sa
11:13 When David had called him, he ate and drink before him; and he
made him drunk: and at even he went out to lie on his bed with the
servants of his lord, but didn't go down to his house.
2Sa
11:14 It happened in the morning, that David wrote a letter to Joab,
and sent it by the hand of Uriah.
2Sa
11:15 He wrote in the letter, saying, Set Uriah in the forefront of
the hottest battle, and retreat from him, that he may be struck, and
die.
2Sa
11:16 It happened, when Joab kept watch on the city, that he
assigned Uriah to the place where he knew that valiant men were.
2Sa
11:17 The men of the city went out, and fought with Joab: and there
fell some of the people, even of the servants of David; and Uriah the
Hittite died also.
2Sa
11:18 Then Joab sent and told David all the things concerning the
war;
2Sa
11:19 and he commanded the messenger, saying, "When you have
finished telling all the things concerning the war to the king,
2Sa
11:20 it shall be that, if the king's wrath arise, and he asks you,
'Why did you go so near to the city to fight? Didn't you know that
they would shoot from the wall?
2Sa
11:21 who struck Abimelech the son of Jerubbesheth? Didn't a woman
cast an upper millstone on him from the wall, so that he died at
Thebez? Why did you go so near the wall?' then you shall say, 'Your
servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also.' "
2Sa
11:22 So the messenger went, and came and showed David all that Joab
had sent him for.
2Sa
11:23 The messenger said to David, The men prevailed against us, and
came out to us into the field, and we were on them even to the
entrance of the gate.
2Sa
11:24 The shooters shot at your servants from off the wall; and some
of the king's servants are dead, and your servant Uriah the Hittite
is dead also.
2Sa
11:25 Then David said to the messenger, Thus you shall tell Joab,
Don't let this thing displease you, for the sword devours one as well
as another; make your battle more strong against the city, and
overthrow it: and encourage him.
2Sa
11:26 When the wife of Uriah heard that Uriah her husband was dead,
she made lamentation for her husband.
2Sa
11:27 When the mourning was past, David sent and took her home to
his house, and she became his wife, and bore him a son. But the thing
that David had done displeased Yahweh.
2Sa
12:1 Yahweh sent Nathan to David. He came to him, and said to him,
"There were two men in one city; the one rich, and the other
poor.
2Sa
12:2 The rich man had very many flocks and herds,
2Sa
12:3 but the poor man had nothing, except one little ewe lamb, which
he had bought and raised. It grew up together with him, and with his
children. It ate of his own food, drank of his own cup, and lay in
his bosom, and was to him like a daughter.
2Sa
12:4 A traveler came to the rich man, and he spared to take of his
own flock and of his own herd, to dress for the wayfaring man who had
come to him, but took the poor man's lamb, and dressed it for the man
who had come to him."
2Sa
12:5 David's anger was greatly kindled against the man, and he said
to Nathan, "As Yahweh lives, the man who has done this is worthy
to die!
2Sa
12:6 He shall restore the lamb fourfold, because he did this thing,
and because he had no pity!"
2Sa
12:7 Nathan said to David, "You are the man. This is what
Yahweh, the God of Israel, says: 'I anointed you king over Israel,
and I delivered you out of the hand of Saul.
2Sa
12:8 I gave you your master's house, and your master's wives into
your bosom, and gave you the house of Israel and of Judah; and if
that would have been too little, I would have added to you many more
such things.
2Sa
12:9 Why have you despised the word of Yahweh, to do that which is
evil in his sight? You have struck Uriah the Hittite with the sword,
and have taken his wife to be your wife, and have slain him with the
sword of the children of Ammon.
2Sa
12:10 Now therefore the sword will never depart from your house,
because you have despised me, and have taken the wife of Uriah the
Hittite to be your wife.'
2Sa
12:11 This is what Yahweh says: 'Behold, I will raise up evil
against you out of your own house; and I will take your wives before
your eyes, and give them to your neighbor, and he will lie with your
wives in the sight of this sun.
2Sa
12:12 For you did it secretly, but I will do this thing before all
Israel, and before the sun.' "
2Sa
12:13 David said to Nathan, "I have sinned against Yahweh."
Nathan said to David, "Yahweh also has put away your sin. You
will not die.
2Sa
12:14 However, because by this deed you have given great occasion to
Yahweh's enemies to blaspheme, the child also who is born to you
shall surely die."
2Sa
12:15 Nathan departed to his house. Yahweh struck the child that
Uriah's wife bore to David, and it was very sick.
2Sa
12:16 David therefore begged God for the child; and David fasted,
and went in, and lay all night on the earth.
2Sa
12:17 The elders of his house arose, and
stood beside him, to raise him up from
the earth: but he would not, neither did he eat bread with them.
2Sa
12:18 It happened on the seventh day, that the child died. The
servants of David feared to tell him that the child was dead; for
they said, Behold, while the child was yet alive, we spoke to him,
and he didn't listen to our voice: how will he then harm himself, if
we tell him that the child is dead!
2Sa
12:19 But when David saw that his servants were whispering together,
David perceived that the child was dead; and David said to his
servants, Is the child dead? They said, He is dead.
2Sa
12:20 Then David arose from the earth, and washed, and anointed
himself, and changed his clothing; and he came into the house of
Yahweh, and worshiped: then he came to his own house; and when he
required, they set bread before him, and he ate.
2Sa
12:21 Then said his servants to him, What thing is this that you
have done? you fasted and wept for the child while he was alive; but
when the child was dead, you rose up and ate bread.
2Sa
12:22 He said, While the child was yet alive, I fasted and wept: for
I said, Who knows whether Yahweh will not be gracious to me, that the
child may live?
2Sa
12:23 But now he is dead, why should I fast? can I bring him back
again? I shall go to him, but he will not return to me.
2Sa
12:24 David comforted Bathsheba his wife, and went in to her, and
lay with her: and she bore a son, and he called his name Solomon.
Yahweh loved him;
2Sa
12:25 and he sent by the hand of Nathan the prophet; and he named
him Jedidiah, for Yahweh's sake.
2Sa
12:26 Now Joab fought against Rabbah of the children of Ammon, and
took the royal city.
2Sa
12:27 Joab sent messengers to David, and said, I have fought against
Rabbah; yes, I have taken the city of waters.
2Sa
12:28 Now therefore gather the rest of the people together, and
encamp against the city, and take it; lest I take the city, and it be
called after my name.
2Sa
12:29 David gathered all the people together, and went to Rabbah,
and fought against it, and took it.
2Sa
12:30 He took the crown of their king from off his head; and its
weight was a talent of gold, and in it
were precious stones; and it was set on
David's head. He brought forth the spoil of the city, exceeding much.
2Sa
12:31 He brought forth the people who were therein, and put them
under saws, and under iron picks, and under axes of iron, and made
them pass through the brick kiln: and he did so to all the cities of
the children of Ammon. David and all the people returned to
Jerusalem.
June
24
2
Samuel 13-15
2Sa
13:1 It happened after this, that Absalom the son of David had a
beautiful sister, whose name was Tamar; and Amnon the son of David
loved her.
2Sa
13:2 Amnon was so troubled that he fell sick because of his sister
Tamar; for she was a virgin; and it seemed hard to Amnon to do
anything to her.
2Sa
13:3 But Amnon had a friend, whose name was Jonadab, the son of
Shimeah, David's brother; and Jonadab was a very subtle man.
2Sa
13:4 He said to him, Why, son of the king, are you so sad from day
to day? Won't you tell me? Amnon said to him, I love Tamar, my
brother Absalom's sister.
2Sa
13:5 Jonadab said to him, Lay down on your bed, and pretend to be
sick: and when your father comes to see you, tell him, Please let my
sister Tamar come and give me bread to eat, and dress the food in my
sight, that I may see it, and eat it from her hand.
2Sa
13:6 So Amnon lay down, and feigned himself sick: and when the king
was come to see him, Amnon said to the king, Please let her sister
Tamar come, and make me a couple of cakes in my sight, that I may eat
from her hand.
2Sa
13:7 Then David sent home to Tamar, saying, Go now to your brother
Amnon's house, and dress him food.
2Sa
13:8 So Tamar went to her brother Amnon's house; and he was laid
down. She took dough, and kneaded it, and made cakes in his sight,
and did bake the cakes.
2Sa
13:9 She took the pan, and poured them out before him; but he
refused to eat. Amnon said, Have out all men from me. They went out
every man from him.
2Sa
13:10 Amnon said to Tamar, Bring the food into the chamber, that I
may eat from your hand. Tamar took the cakes which she had made, and
brought them into the chamber to Amnon her brother.
2Sa
13:11 When she had brought them near to him to eat, he took hold of
her, and said to her, Come, lie with me, my sister.
2Sa
13:12 She answered him, No, my brother, do not force me; for no such
thing ought to be done in Israel. Don't you do this folly.
2Sa
13:13 I, where shall I carry my shame? and as for you, you will be
as one of the fools in Israel. Now therefore, please speak to the
king; for he will not withhold me from you.
2Sa
13:14 However he would not listen to her voice; but being stronger
than she, he forced her, and lay with her.
2Sa
13:15 Then Amnon hated her with exceeding great hatred; for the
hatred with which he hated her was greater than the love with which
he had loved her. Amnon said to her, Arise, be gone.
2Sa
13:16 She said to him, Not so, because this great wrong in putting
me forth is worse
than the other that you did to me. But he would not listen to her.
2Sa
13:17 Then he called his servant who ministered to him, and said,
Put now this woman out from me, and bolt the door after her.
2Sa
13:18 She had a garment of various colors on her; for with such
robes were the king's daughters who were virgins dressed. Then his
servant brought her out, and bolted the door after her.
2Sa
13:19 Tamar put ashes on her head, and tore her garment of various
colors that was on her; and she laid her hand on her head, and went
her way, crying aloud as she went.
2Sa
13:20 Absalom her brother said to her, Has Amnon your brother been
with you? but now hold your peace, my sister: he is your brother;
don't take this thing to heart. So Tamar remained desolate in her
brother Absalom's house.
2Sa
13:21 But when king David heard of all these things, he was very
angry.
2Sa
13:22 Absalom spoke to Amnon neither good nor bad; for Absalom hated
Amnon, because he had forced his sister Tamar.
2Sa
13:23 It happened after two full years, that Absalom had
sheepshearers in Baal Hazor, which is beside Ephraim: and Absalom
invited all the king's sons.
2Sa
13:24 Absalom came to the king, and said, See now, your servant has
sheepshearers; please let the king and his servants go with your
servant.
2Sa
13:25 The king said to Absalom, No, my son, let us not all go, lest
we be burdensome to you. He pressed him: however he would not go, but
blessed him.
2Sa
13:26 Then said Absalom, If not, please let my brother Amnon go with
us. The king said to him, Why should he go with you?
2Sa
13:27 But Absalom pressed him, and he let Amnon and all the king's
sons go with him.
2Sa
13:28 Absalom commanded his servants, saying, Mark now, when Amnon's
heart is merry with wine; and when I tell you, Smite Amnon, then kill
him; don't be afraid; haven't I commanded you? be courageous, and be
valiant.
2Sa
13:29 The servants of Absalom did to Amnon as Absalom had commanded.
Then all the king's sons arose, and every man got him up on his mule,
and fled.
2Sa
13:30 It happened, while they were in the way, that the news came to
David, saying, Absalom has slain all the king's sons, and there is
not one of them left.
2Sa
13:31 Then the king arose, and tore his garments, and lay on the
earth; and all his servants stood by with their clothes torn.
2Sa
13:32 Jonadab, the son of Shimeah, David's brother, answered, Don't
let my lord suppose that they have killed all the young men the
king's sons; for Amnon only is dead; for by the appointment of
Absalom this has been determined from the day that he forced his
sister Tamar.
2Sa
13:33 Now therefore don't let my lord the king take the thing to his
heart, to think that all the king's sons are dead; for Amnon only is
dead.
2Sa
13:34 But Absalom fled. The young man who kept the watch lifted up
his eyes, and looked, and behold, many people were coming by way of
the hillside behind him.
2Sa
13:35 Jonadab said to the king, Behold, the king's sons are come: as
your servant said, so it is.
2Sa
13:36 It happened, as soon as he had made an end of speaking, that
behold, the king's sons came, and lifted up their voice, and wept:
and the king also and all his servants wept very sore.
2Sa
13:37 But Absalom fled, and went to Talmai the son of Ammihur, king
of Geshur. David
mourned for his son every day.
2Sa
13:38 So Absalom fled, and went to Geshur, and was there three
years.
2Sa
13:39 the soul of
king David longed to go forth to Absalom: for he was comforted
concerning Amnon, seeing he was dead.
2Sa
14:1 Now Joab the son of Zeruiah perceived that the king's heart was
toward Absalom.
2Sa
14:2 Joab sent to Tekoa, and fetched there a wise woman, and said to
her, please act like a mourner, and put on mourning clothing, Please,
and don't anoint yourself with oil, but be as a woman who has a long
time mourned for the dead:
2Sa
14:3 and go in to the king, and speak on this manner to him. So Joab
put the words in her mouth.
2Sa
14:4 When the woman of Tekoa spoke to the king, she fell on her face
to the ground, and did obeisance, and said, Help, O king.
2Sa
14:5 The king said to her, What ails you? She answered, Of a truth I
am a widow, and my husband is dead.
2Sa
14:6 Your handmaid had two sons, and they two strove together in the
field, and there was none to part them, but the one struck the other,
and killed him.
2Sa
14:7 Behold, the whole family has risen against your handmaid, and
they say, Deliver him who struck his brother, that we may kill him
for the life of his brother whom he killed, and so destroy the heir
also. Thus will they quench my coal which is left, and will leave to
my husband neither name nor remainder on the surface of the earth.
2Sa
14:8 The king said to the woman, Go to your house, and I will give a
command concerning you.
2Sa
14:9 The woman of Tekoa said to the king, My lord, O king, the
iniquity be on me, and on my father's house; and the king and his
throne be guiltless.
2Sa
14:10 The king said, Whoever says anything to you, bring him to me,
and he shall not touch you any more.
2Sa
14:11 Then said she, Please let the king remember Yahweh your God,
that the avenger of blood destroy not any more, lest they destroy my
son. He said, As Yahweh lives, there shall not one hair of your son
fall to the earth.
2Sa
14:12 Then the woman said, Please let your handmaid speak a word to
my lord the king. He said, Say on.
2Sa
14:13 The woman said, Why then have you devised such a thing against
the people of God? for in speaking this word the king is as one who
is guilty, in that the king does not bring home again his banished
one.
2Sa
14:14 For we must needs die, and are as water split on the ground,
which can't be gathered up again; neither does God take away life,
but devises means, that he who is banished not be an outcast from
him.
2Sa
14:15 Now therefore seeing that I have come to speak this word to my
lord the king, it is because the people have made me afraid: and your
handmaid said, I will now speak to the king; it may be that the king
will perform the request of his servant.
2Sa
14:16 For the king will hear, to deliver his servant out of the hand
of the man who would destroy me and my son together out of the
inheritance of God.
2Sa
14:17 Then your handmaid said, Please let the word of my lord the
king be comfortable; for as an angel of God, so is my lord the king
to discern good and bad: and Yahweh your God be with you.
2Sa
14:18 Then the king answered the woman, Please don't hide anything
from me that I shall ask you. The woman said, Let my lord the king
now speak.
2Sa
14:19 The king said, Is the hand of Joab with you in all this? The
woman answered, As your soul lives, my lord the king, none can turn
to the right hand or to the left from anything that my lord the king
has spoken; for your servant Joab, he bade me, and he put all these
words in the mouth of your handmaid;
2Sa
14:20 to change the face of the matter has your servant Joab done
this thing: and my lord is wise, according to the wisdom of an angel
of God, to know all things that are in the earth.
2Sa
14:21 The king said to Joab, Behold now, I have done this thing: go
therefore, bring the young man Absalom back.
2Sa
14:22 Joab fell to the ground on his face, and did obeisance, and
blessed the king: and Joab said, Today your servant knows that I have
found favor in your sight, my lord, king, in that the king has
performed the request of his servant.
2Sa
14:23 So Joab arose and went to Geshur, and brought Absalom to
Jerusalem.
2Sa
14:24 The king said, Let him turn to his own house, but let him not
see my face. So Absalom turned to his own house, and didn't see the
king's face.
2Sa
14:25 Now in all Israel there was none to be so much praised as
Absalom for his beauty: from the sole of his foot even to the crown
of his head there was no blemish in him.
2Sa
14:26 When he cut the hair of his head (now it was at every year's
end that he cut it; because it was heavy on him, therefore he cut
it); he weighed the hair of his head at two hundred shekels, after
the king's weight.
2Sa
14:27 To Absalom there were born three sons, and one daughter, whose
name was Tamar: she was a woman of a beautiful face.
2Sa
14:28 Absalom lived two full years in Jerusalem; and he didn't see
the king's face.
2Sa
14:29 Then Absalom sent for Joab, to send him to the king; but he
would not come to him: and he sent again a second time, but he would
not come.
2Sa
14:30 Therefore he said to his servants, Behold, Joab's field is
near mine, and he has barley there; go and set it on fire. Absalom's
servants set the field on fire.
2Sa
14:31 Then Joab arose, and came to Absalom to his house, and said to
him, Why have your servants set my field on fire?
2Sa
14:32 Absalom answered Joab, Behold, I sent to you, saying, Come
here, that I may send you to the king, to say, Why am I come from
Geshur? it were better for me to be there still. Now therefore let me
see the king's face; and if there be iniquity in me, let him kill me.
2Sa
14:33 So Joab came to the king, and told him; and when he had called
for Absalom, he came to the king, and bowed himself on his face to
the ground before the king: and the king kissed Absalom.
2Sa
15:1 It happened after this, that Absalom prepared him a chariot and
horses, and fifty men to run before him.
2Sa
15:2 Absalom rose up early, and stood beside the way of the gate:
and it was so, that when any man had a suit which should come to the
king for judgment, then Absalom called to him, and said, What city
are you from? He said, Your servant is of one of the tribes of
Israel.
2Sa
15:3 Absalom said to him, Behold, your matters are good and right;
but there is no man deputized of the king to hear you.
2Sa
15:4 Absalom said moreover, Oh that I were made judge in the land,
that every man who has any suit or cause might come to me, and I
would do him justice!
2Sa
15:5 It was so, that when any man came near to do him obeisance, he
put forth his hand, and took hold of him, and kissed him.
2Sa
15:6 In this manner Absalom did to all Israel who came to the king
for judgment: so Absalom stole the hearts of the men of Israel.
2Sa
15:7 It happened at the end of forty years, that Absalom said to the
king, please let me go and pay my vow, which I have vowed to Yahweh,
in Hebron.
2Sa
15:8 For your servant vowed a vow while I abode at Geshur in Syria,
saying, If Yahweh shall indeed bring me again to Jerusalem, then I
will serve Yahweh.
2Sa
15:9 The king said to him, Go in peace. So he arose, and went to
Hebron.
2Sa
15:10 But Absalom sent spies throughout all the tribes of Israel,
saying, As soon as you hear the sound of the trumpet, then you shall
say, Absalom is king in Hebron.
2Sa
15:11 With Absalom went two hundred men out of Jerusalem, who were
invited, and went in their simplicity; and they didn't know anything.
2Sa
15:12 Absalom sent for Ahithophel the Gilonite, David's counselor,
from his city, even from Giloh, while he was offering the sacrifices.
The conspiracy was strong; for the people increased continually with
Absalom.
2Sa
15:13 There came a messenger to David, saying, The hearts of the men
of Israel are after Absalom.
2Sa
15:14 David said to all his servants who were with him at Jerusalem,
Arise, and let us flee; for else none of us shall escape from
Absalom: make speed to depart, lest he overtake us quickly, and bring
down evil on us, and strike the city with the edge of the sword.
2Sa
15:15 The king's servants said to the king, Behold, your servants
are ready to do whatever my lord the king shall choose.
2Sa
15:16 The king went forth, and all his household after him. The king
left ten women, who were concubines, to keep the house.
2Sa
15:17 The king went forth, and all the people after him; and they
stayed in Beth Merhak.
2Sa
15:18 All his servants passed on beside him; and all the
Cherethites, and all the Pelethites, and all the Gittites, six
hundred men who came after him from Gath, passed on before the king.
2Sa
15:19 Then said the king to Ittai the Gittite, Why do you also go
with us? return, and stay with the king: for you are a foreigner, and
also an exile; return
to your own place.
2Sa
15:20 Whereas you came but yesterday, should I this day make you go
up and down with us, seeing I go where I may? return, and take back
your brothers; mercy and truth be with you.
2Sa
15:21 Ittai answered the king, and said, As Yahweh lives, and as my
lord the king lives, surely in what place my lord the king shall be,
whether for death or for life, even there also will your servant be.
2Sa
15:22 David said to Ittai, Go and pass over. Ittai the Gittite
passed over, and all his men, and all the little ones who were with
him.
2Sa
15:23 All the country wept with a loud voice, and all the people
passed over: the king also himself passed over the brook Kidron, and
all the people passed over, toward the way of the wilderness.
2Sa
15:24 Behold, Zadok also came,
and all the Levites with him, bearing the ark of the covenant of God;
and they set down the ark of God; and Abiathar went up, until all the
people had done passing out of the city.
2Sa
15:25 The king said to Zadok, Carry back the ark of God into the
city: if I shall find favor in the eyes of Yahweh, he will bring me
again, and show me both it, and his habitation:
2Sa
15:26 but if he say thus, I have no delight in you; behold, here am
I, let him do to me as seems good to him.
2Sa
15:27 The king said also to Zadok the priest, "Aren't you a
seer? Return into the city in peace, and your two sons with you,
Ahimaaz your son, and Jonathan the son of Abiathar.
2Sa
15:28 Behold, I will stay at the fords of the wilderness, until word
comes from you to inform me."
2Sa
15:29 Zadok therefore and Abiathar carried the ark of God again to
Jerusalem: and they abode there.
2Sa
15:30 David went up by the ascent of the Mount
of Olives, and wept as he went up; and
he had his head covered, and went barefoot: and all the people who
were with him covered every man his head, and they went up, weeping
as they went up.
2Sa
15:31 One told David, saying, Ahithophel is among the conspirators
with Absalom. David said, Yahweh, please turn the counsel of
Ahithophel into foolishness.
2Sa
15:32 It happened that when David had come to the top of
the ascent, where God was worshiped,
behold, Hushai the Archite came to meet him with his coat torn, and
earth on his head.
2Sa
15:33 David said to him, If you pass on with me, then you will be a
burden to me:
2Sa
15:34 but if you return to the city, and tell Absalom, I will be
your servant, O king; as I have been your father's servant in time
past, so will I now be your servant; then will you defeat for me the
counsel of Ahithophel.
2Sa
15:35 Don't you have Zadok and Abiathar the priests there with you?
therefore it shall be, that whatever thing you shall hear out of the
king's house, you shall tell it to Zadok and Abiathar the priests.
2Sa
15:36 Behold, they have there with them their two sons, Ahimaaz,
Zadok's son, and Jonathan, Abiathar's son; and by them you shall send
to me everything that you shall hear.
2Sa
15:37 So Hushai, David's friend, came into the city; and Absalom
came into Jerusalem.
Jun.
23, 24
John 20
Joh
20:1 Now on the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene went early,
while it was still dark, to the tomb, and saw the stone taken away
from the tomb.
Joh
20:2 Therefore she ran and came to Simon Peter, and to the other
disciple whom Jesus loved, and said to them, "They have taken
away the Lord out of the tomb, and we don't know where they have laid
him!"
Joh
20:3 Therefore Peter and the other disciple went out, and they went
toward the tomb.
Joh
20:4 They both ran together. The other disciple outran Peter, and
came to the tomb first.
Joh
20:5 Stooping and looking in, he saw the linen cloths lying, yet he
didn't enter in.
Joh
20:6 Then Simon Peter came, following him, and entered into the
tomb. He saw the linen cloths lying,
Joh
20:7 and the cloth that had been on his head, not lying with the
linen cloths, but rolled up in a place by itself.
Joh
20:8 So then the other disciple who came first to the tomb also
entered in, and he saw and believed.
Joh
20:9 For as yet they didn't know the Scripture, that he must rise
from the dead.
Joh
20:10 So the disciples went away again to their own homes.
Joh
20:11 But Mary was standing outside at the tomb weeping. So, as she
wept, she stooped and looked into the tomb,
Joh
20:12 and she saw two angels in white sitting, one at the head, and
one at the feet, where the body of Jesus had lain.
Joh
20:13 They told her, "Woman, why are you weeping?" She
said to them, "Because they have taken away my Lord, and I don't
know where they have laid him."
Joh
20:14 When she had said this, she turned around and saw Jesus
standing, and didn't know that it was Jesus.
Joh
20:15 Jesus said to her, "Woman, why are you weeping? Who are
you looking for?" She, supposing him to be the gardener, said to
him, "Sir, if you have carried him away, tell me where you have
laid him, and I will take him away."
Joh
20:16 Jesus said to her, "Mary." She turned and said to
him, "Rhabbouni!" which is to say, "Teacher!"
Joh
20:17 Jesus said to her, "Don't touch me, for I haven't yet
ascended to my Father; but go to my brothers, and tell them, 'I am
ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.' "
Joh
20:18 Mary Magdalene came and told the disciples that she had seen
the Lord, and that he had said these things to her.
Joh
20:19 When therefore it was evening, on that day, the first day of
the week, and when the doors were locked where the disciples were
assembled, for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in the midst,
and said to them, "Peace be to you."
Joh
20:20 When he had said this, he showed them his hands and his side.
The disciples therefore were glad when they saw the Lord.
Joh
20:21 Jesus therefore said to them again, "Peace be to you. As
the Father has sent me, even so I send you."
Joh
20:22 When he had said this, he breathed on them, and said to them,
"Receive the Holy Spirit!
Joh
20:23 Whoever's sins you forgive, they are forgiven them. Whoever's
sins you retain, they have been retained."
Joh
20:24 But Thomas, one of the twelve, called Didymus, wasn't with
them when Jesus came.
Joh
20:25 The other disciples therefore said to him, "We have seen
the Lord!" But he said to them, "Unless I see in his hands
the print of the nails, and put my hand into his side, I will not
believe."
Joh
20:26 After eight days again his disciples were inside, and Thomas
was with them. Jesus came, the doors being locked, and stood in the
midst, and said, "Peace be to you."
Joh
20:27 Then he said to Thomas, "Reach here your finger, and see
my hands. Reach here your hand, and put it into my side. Don't be
unbelieving, but believing."
Joh
20:28 Thomas answered him, "My Lord and my God!"
Joh
20:29 Jesus said to him, "Because you have seen me, you have
believed. Blessed are those who have not seen, and have believed."
Joh
20:30 Therefore Jesus did many other signs in the presence of his
disciples, which are not written in this book;
Joh
20:31 but these are written, that you may believe that Jesus is the
Christ, the Son of God, and that believing you may have life in his
name.
