Bible Reading for June 25 - 27
World English Bible
June
25
2
Samuel 16-18
2Sa
16:1 When David was a little past the top of
the ascent, behold, Ziba the servant of
Mephibosheth met him, with a couple of donkeys saddled, and on them
two hundred loaves of bread, and one hundred clusters of raisins, and
one hundred summer fruits, and a bottle of wine.
2Sa
16:2 The king said to Ziba, What do you mean by these? Ziba said,
The donkeys are for the king's household to ride on; and the bread
and summer fruit for the young men to eat; and the wine, that such as
are faint in the wilderness may drink.
2Sa
16:3 The king said, Where is your master's son? Ziba said to the
king, Behold, he abides at Jerusalem; for he said, Today will the
house of Israel restore me the kingdom of my father.
2Sa
16:4 Then said the king to Ziba, Behold, all that pertains to
Mephibosheth is yours. Ziba said, I do obeisance; let me find favor
in your sight, my lord, O king.
2Sa
16:5 When king David came to Bahurim, behold, a man of the family of
the house of Saul came out, whose name was Shimei, the son of Gera.
He came out, and cursed still as he came.
2Sa
16:6 He cast stones at David, and at all the servants of king David:
and all the people and all the mighty men were on his right hand and
on his left.
2Sa
16:7 Thus said Shimei when he cursed, Be gone, be gone, you man of
blood, and base fellow:
2Sa
16:8 Yahweh has returned on you all the blood of the house of Saul,
in whose place you have reigned; and Yahweh has delivered the kingdom
into the hand of Absalom your son; and behold, you are caught by your
own mischief, because you are a man of blood.
2Sa
16:9 Then said Abishai the son of Zeruiah to the king, "Why
should this dead dog curse my lord the king? Please let me go over
and take off his head."
2Sa
16:10 The king said, What have I to do with you, you sons of
Zeruiah? Because he curses, and because Yahweh has said to him, Curse
David; who then shall say, Why have you done so?
2Sa
16:11 David said to Abishai, and to all his servants, Behold, my
son, who came forth from my bowels, seeks my life: how much more may
this Benjamite now do it?
let him alone, and let him curse; for Yahweh has invited him.
2Sa
16:12 It may be that Yahweh will look on the wrong done to me, and
that Yahweh will requite me good for his
cursing of me this day.
2Sa
16:13 So David and his men went by the way; and Shimei went along on
the hillside over against him, and cursed as he went, and threw
stones at him, and cast dust.
2Sa
16:14 The king, and all the people who were with him, came weary;
and he refreshed himself there.
2Sa
16:15 Absalom, and all the people, the men of Israel, came to
Jerusalem, and Ahithophel with him.
2Sa
16:16 It happened, when Hushai the Archite, David's friend, was come
to Absalom, that Hushai said to Absalom, Long
live the king, Long
live the king.
2Sa
16:17 Absalom said to Hushai, Is this your kindness to your friend?
Why didn't you go with your friend?
2Sa
16:18 Hushai said to Absalom, No; but whom Yahweh, and this people,
and all the men of Israel have chosen, his will I be, and with him
will I abide.
2Sa
16:19 Again, whom should I serve? Shouldn't I serve in the presence
of his son? as I have served in your father's presence, so will I be
in your presence.
2Sa
16:20 Then said Absalom to Ahithophel, Give your counsel what we
shall do.
2Sa
16:21 Ahithophel said to Absalom, Go in to your father's concubines,
that he has left to keep the house; and all Israel will hear that you
are abhorred by your father: then the hands of all who are with you
will be strong.
2Sa
16:22 So they spread Absalom a tent on the top of the house; and
Absalom went in to his father's concubines in the sight of all
Israel.
2Sa
16:23 The counsel of Ahithophel, which he gave in those days, was as
if a man inquired at the oracle of God: so was all the counsel of
Ahithophel both with David and with Absalom.
2Sa
17:1 Moreover Ahithophel said to Absalom, Let me now choose out
twelve thousand men, and I will arise and pursue after David this
night:
2Sa
17:2 and I will come on him while he is weary and exhausted, and
will make him afraid; and all the people who are with him shall flee;
and I will strike the king only;
2Sa
17:3 and I will bring back all the people to you: the man whom you
seek is as if all returned: so
all the people shall be in peace.
2Sa
17:4 The saying pleased Absalom well, and all the elders of Israel.
2Sa
17:5 Then said Absalom, Call now Hushai the Archite also, and let us
hear likewise what he says.
2Sa
17:6 When Hushai was come to Absalom, Absalom spoke to him, saying,
Ahithophel has spoken after this manner: shall we do after
his saying? if not, speak up.
2Sa
17:7 Hushai said to Absalom, The counsel that Ahithophel has given
this time is not good.
2Sa
17:8 Hushai said moreover, You know your father and his men, that
they are mighty men, and they are fierce in their minds, as a bear
robbed of her cubs in the field; and your father is a man of war, and
will not lodge with the people.
2Sa
17:9 Behold, he is hid now in some pit, or in some other
place: and it will happen, when some of them are fallen at the first,
that whoever hears it will say, There is a slaughter among the people
who follow Absalom.
2Sa
17:10 Even he who is valiant, whose heart is as the heart of a lion,
will utterly melt; for all Israel knows that your father is a mighty
man, and those who are with him are valiant men.
2Sa
17:11 But I counsel that all Israel be gathered together to you,
from Dan even to Beersheba, as the sand that is by the sea for
multitude; and that you go to battle in your own person.
2Sa
17:12 So shall we come on him in some place where he shall be found,
and we will light on him as the dew falls on the ground; and of him
and of all the men who are with him we will not leave so much as one.
2Sa
17:13 Moreover, if he be gotten into a city, then shall all Israel
bring ropes to that city, and we will draw it into the river, until
there not be one small stone found there.
2Sa
17:14 Absalom and all the men of Israel said, The counsel of Hushai
the Archite is better than the counsel of Ahithophel. For Yahweh had
ordained to defeat the good counsel of Ahithophel, to the intent that
Yahweh might bring evil on Absalom.
2Sa
17:15 Then Hushai said to Zadok and to Abiathar the priests,
Ahithophel counseled Absalom and the elders of Israel that way; and I
have counseled this way.
2Sa
17:16 Now therefore send quickly, and tell David, saying, Don't
lodge this night at the fords of the wilderness, but by all means
pass over; lest the king be swallowed up, and all the people who are
with him.
2Sa
17:17 Now Jonathan and Ahimaaz were staying by En Rogel; and a
female servant used to go and tell them; and they went and told king
David: for they might not be seen to come into the city.
2Sa
17:18 But a boy saw them, and told Absalom: and they went both of
them away quickly, and came to the house of a man in Bahurim, who had
a well in his court; and they went down there.
2Sa
17:19 The woman took and spread the covering over the well's mouth,
and strewed bruised grain thereon; and nothing was known.
2Sa
17:20 Absalom's servants came to the woman to the house; and they
said, Where are Ahimaaz and Jonathan? The woman said to them, They
have gone over the brook of water. When they had sought and could not
find them, they returned to Jerusalem.
2Sa
17:21 It happened, after they had departed, that they came up out of
the well, and went and told king David; and they said to David, Arise
and pass quickly over the water; for thus has Ahithophel counseled
against you.
2Sa
17:22 Then David arose, and all the people who were with him, and
they passed over the Jordan: by the morning light there lacked not
one of them who had not gone over the Jordan.
2Sa
17:23 When Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he
saddled his donkey, and arose, and got him home, to his city, and set
his house in order, and hanged himself; and he died, and was buried
in the tomb of his father.
2Sa
17:24 Then David came to Mahanaim. Absalom passed over the Jordan,
he and all the men of Israel with him.
2Sa
17:25 Absalom set Amasa over the army instead of Joab. Now Amasa was
the son of a man, whose name was Ithra the Israelite, who went in to
Abigail the daughter of Nahash, sister to Zeruiah, Joab's mother.
2Sa
17:26 Israel and Absalom encamped in the land of Gilead.
2Sa
17:27 It happened, when David was come to Mahanaim, that Shobi the
son of Nahash of Rabbah of the children of Ammon, and Machir the son
of Ammiel of Lodebar, and Barzillai the Gileadite of Rogelim,
2Sa
17:28 brought beds, and basins, and earthen vessels, and wheat, and
barley, and meal, and parched grain,
and beans, and lentils, and parched pulse,
2Sa
17:29 and honey, and butter, and sheep, and cheese of the herd, for
David, and for the people who were with him, to eat: for they said,
The people are hungry, and weary, and thirsty, in the wilderness.
2Sa
18:1 David numbered the people who were with him, and set captains
of thousands and captains of hundreds over them.
2Sa
18:2 David sent forth the people, a third part under the hand of
Joab, and a third part under the hand of Abishai the son of Zeruiah,
Joab's brother, and a third part under the hand of Ittai the Gittite.
The king said to the people, I will surely go forth with you myself
also.
2Sa
18:3 But the people said, You shall not go forth: for if we flee
away, they will not care for us; neither if half of us die, will they
care for us: but you are worth ten thousand of us; therefore now it
is better that you are ready to help us out of the city.
2Sa
18:4 The king said to them, I will do what seems best to you. The
king stood beside the gate, and all the people went out by hundreds
and by thousands.
2Sa
18:5 The king commanded Joab and Abishai and Ittai, saying, Deal
gently for my sake with the young man, even with Absalom. All the
people heard when the king commanded all the captains concerning
Absalom.
2Sa
18:6 So the people went out into the field against Israel: and the
battle was in the forest of Ephraim.
2Sa
18:7 The people of Israel were struck there before the servants of
David, and there was a great slaughter there that day of twenty
thousand men.
2Sa
18:8 For the battle was there spread over the surface of all the
country; and the forest devoured more people that day than the sword
devoured.
2Sa
18:9 Absalom happened to meet the servants of David. Absalom was
riding on his mule, and the mule went under the thick boughs of a
great oak, and his head caught hold of the oak, and he was taken up
between the sky and earth; and the mule that was under him went on.
2Sa
18:10 A certain man saw it, and told Joab, and said, Behold, I saw
Absalom hanging in an oak.
2Sa
18:11 Joab said to the man who told him, Behold, you saw it, and why
didn't you strike him there to the ground? and I would have given you
ten pieces of
silver, and a sash.
2Sa
18:12 The man said to Joab, Though I should receive a thousand
pieces of
silver in my hand, I still wouldn't put forth my hand against the
king's son; for in our hearing the king commanded you and Abishai and
Ittai, saying, Beware that none touch the young man Absalom.
2Sa
18:13 Otherwise if I had dealt falsely against his life (and there
is no matter hid from the king), then you yourself would have set
yourself against me.
2Sa
18:14 Then said Joab, I may not wait thus with you. He took three
darts in his hand, and thrust them through the heart of Absalom,
while he was yet alive in the midst of the oak.
2Sa
18:15 Ten young men who bore Joab's armor surrounded and struck
Absalom, and killed him.
2Sa
18:16 Joab blew the trumpet, and the people returned from pursuing
after Israel; for Joab held back the people.
2Sa
18:17 They took Absalom, and cast him into the great pit in the
forest, and raised over him a very great heap of stones: and all
Israel fled everyone to his tent.
2Sa
18:18 Now Absalom in his lifetime had taken and reared up for
himself the pillar, which is in the king's dale; for he said, I have
no son to keep my name in memory: and he called the pillar after his
own name; and it is called Absalom's monument, to this day.
2Sa
18:19 Then said Ahimaaz the son of Zadok, Let me now run, and bear
the king news, how that Yahweh has avenged him of his enemies.
2Sa
18:20 Joab said to him, You shall not be the bearer of news this
day, but you shall bear news another day; but this day you shall bear
no news, because the king's son is dead.
2Sa
18:21 Then said Joab to the Cushite, Go, tell the king what you have
seen. The Cushite bowed himself to Joab, and ran.
2Sa
18:22 Then said Ahimaaz the son of Zadok yet again to Joab, But come
what may, Please let me also run after the Cushite. Joab said, Why
will you run, my son, seeing that you will have no reward for the
news?
2Sa
18:23 But come what may, said he,
I will run. He said to him, Run. Then Ahimaaz ran by the way of the
Plain, and outran the Cushite.
2Sa
18:24 Now David was sitting between the two gates: and the watchman
went up to the roof of the gate to the wall, and lifted up his eyes,
and looked, and, behold, a man running alone.
2Sa
18:25 The watchman cried, and told the king. The king said, If he be
alone, there is news in his mouth. He came apace, and drew near.
2Sa
18:26 The watchman saw another man running; and the watchman called
to the porter, and said, Behold, another
man running alone. The king said, He also brings news.
2Sa
18:27 The watchman said, I think the running of the foremost is like
the running of Ahimaaz the son of Zadok. The king said, He is a good
man, and comes with good news.
2Sa
18:28 Ahimaaz called, and said to the king, All is well. He bowed
himself before the king with his face to the earth, and said, Blessed
be Yahweh your God, who has delivered up the men who lifted up their
hand against my lord the king.
2Sa
18:29 The king said, Is it well with the young man Absalom? Ahimaaz
answered, When Joab sent the king's servant, even me your servant, I
saw a great tumult, but I don't know what it was.
2Sa
18:30 The king said, Turn aside, and stand here. He turned aside,
and stood still.
2Sa
18:31 Behold, the Cushite came; and the Cushite said, News for my
lord the king; for Yahweh has avenged you this day of all those who
rose up against you.
2Sa
18:32 The king said to the Cushite, Is it well with the young man
Absalom? The Cushite answered, The enemies of my lord the king, and
all who rise up against you to do you hurt, be as that young man is.
2Sa
18:33 The king was much moved, and went up to the chamber over the
gate, and wept: and as he went, thus he said, my son Absalom, my son,
my son Absalom! would I had died for you, Absalom, my son, my son!
June
26
2
Samuel 19-21
2Sa
19:1 It was told Joab, Behold, the king weeps and mourns for
Absalom.
2Sa
19:2 The victory that day was turned into mourning to all the
people; for the people heard say that day, The king grieves for his
son.
2Sa
19:3 The people got them by stealth that day into the city, as
people who are ashamed steal away when they flee in battle.
2Sa
19:4 The king covered his face, and the king cried with a loud
voice, my son Absalom, Absalom, my son, my son!
2Sa
19:5 Joab came into the house to the king, and said, You have shamed
this day the faces of all your servants, who this day have saved your
life, and the lives of your sons and of your daughters, and the lives
of your wives, and the lives of your concubines;
2Sa
19:6 in that you love those who hate you, and hate those who love
you. For you have declared this day, that princes and servants are
nothing to you: for this day I perceive that if Absalom had lived,
and all we had died this day, then it had pleased you well.
2Sa
19:7 Now therefore arise, go out, and speak to comfort your
servants; for I swear by Yahweh, if you don't go out, not a man will
stay with you this night: and that would be worse to you than all the
evil that has happened to you from your youth until now.
2Sa
19:8 Then the king arose, and sat in the gate. They told to all the
people, saying, Behold, the king is sitting in the gate: and all the
people came before the king. Now Israel had fled every man to his
tent.
2Sa
19:9 All the people were at strife throughout all the tribes of
Israel, saying, The king delivered us out of the hand of our enemies,
and he saved us out of the hand of the Philistines; and now he is
fled out of the land from Absalom.
2Sa
19:10 Absalom, whom we anointed over us, is dead in battle. Now
therefore why don't you speak a word of bringing the king back?
2Sa
19:11 King David sent to Zadok and to Abiathar the priests, saying,
Speak to the elders of Judah, saying, Why are you the last to bring
the king back to his house? seeing the speech of all Israel is come
to the king, to bring him
to his house.
2Sa
19:12 You are my brothers, you are my bone and my flesh: why then
are you the last to bring back the king?
2Sa
19:13 Say to Amasa, Aren't you my bone and my flesh? God do so to
me, and more also, if you aren't captain of the army before me
continually in the room of Joab.
2Sa
19:14 He bowed the heart of all the men of Judah, even as the
heart of one man; so that they sent to
the king, saying,
Return, you and all your servants.
2Sa
19:15 So the king returned, and came to the Jordan. Judah came to
Gilgal, to go to meet the king, to bring the king over the Jordan.
2Sa
19:16 Shimei the son of Gera, the Benjamite, who was of Bahurim,
hurried and came down with the men of Judah to meet king David.
2Sa
19:17 There were a thousand men of Benjamin with him, and Ziba the
servant of the house of Saul, and his fifteen sons and his twenty
servants with him; and they went through the Jordan in the presence
of the king.
2Sa
19:18 A ferry boat went to bring over the king's household, and to
do what he thought good. Shimei the son of Gera fell down before the
king, when he was come over the Jordan.
2Sa
19:19 He said to the king, Don't let my lord impute iniquity to me,
neither do you remember that which your servant did perversely the
day that my lord the king went out of Jerusalem, that the king should
take it to his heart.
2Sa
19:20 For your servant does know that I have sinned: therefore,
behold, I have come this day the first of all the house of Joseph to
go down to meet my lord the king.
2Sa
19:21 But Abishai the son of Zeruiah answered, Shall Shimei not be
put to death for this, because he cursed Yahweh's anointed?
2Sa
19:22 David said, What have I to do with you, you sons of Zeruiah,
that you should this day be adversaries to me? shall there any man be
put to death this day in Israel? for don't I know that I am this day
king over Israel?
2Sa
19:23 The king said to Shimei, You shall not die. The king swore to
him.
2Sa
19:24 Mephibosheth the son of Saul came down to meet the king; and
he had neither dressed his feet, nor trimmed his beard, nor washed
his clothes, from the day the king departed until the day he came
home in peace.
2Sa
19:25 It happened, when he was come to Jerusalem to meet the king,
that the king said to him, Why didn't you go with me, Mephibosheth?
2Sa
19:26 He answered, My lord, O king, my servant deceived me: for your
servant said, I will saddle me a donkey, that I may ride thereon, and
go with the king; because your servant is lame.
2Sa
19:27 He has slandered your servant to my lord the king; but my lord
the king is as an angel of God: do therefore what is good in your
eyes.
2Sa
19:28 For all my father's house were but dead men before my lord the
king; yet you set your servant among those who ate at your own table.
What right therefore have I yet that I should cry any more to the
king?
2Sa
19:29 The king said to him, Why do you speak any more of your
matters? I say, You and Ziba divide the land.
2Sa
19:30 Mephibosheth said to the king, yes, let him take all, because
my lord the king is come in peace to his own house.
2Sa
19:31 Barzillai the Gileadite came down from Rogelim; and he went
over the Jordan with the king, to conduct him over the Jordan.
2Sa
19:32 Now Barzillai was a very aged man, even eighty years old: and
he had provided the king with sustenance while he lay at Mahanaim;
for he was a very great man.
2Sa
19:33 The king said to Barzillai, Come over with me, and I will
sustain you with me in Jerusalem.
2Sa
19:34 Barzillai said to the king, How many are the days of the years
of my life, that I should go up with the king to Jerusalem?
2Sa
19:35 I am this day eighty years old: can I discern between good and
bad? can your servant taste what I eat or what I drink? can I hear
any more the voice of singing men and singing women? why then should
your servant be yet a burden to my lord the king?
2Sa
19:36 Your servant would but just go over the Jordan with the king:
and why should the king recompense it me with such a reward?
2Sa
19:37 Please let your servant turn back again, that I may die in my
own city, by the grave of my father and my mother. But behold, your
servant Chimham; let him go over with my lord the king; and do to him
what shall seem good to you.
2Sa
19:38 The king answered, Chimham shall go over with me, and I will
do to him that which shall seem good to you: and whatever you shall
require of me, that will I do for you.
2Sa
19:39 All the people went over the Jordan, and the king went over:
and the king kissed Barzillai, and blessed him; and he returned to
his own place.
2Sa
19:40 So the king went over to Gilgal, and Chimham went over with
him: and all the people of Judah brought the king over, and also half
the people of Israel.
2Sa
19:41 Behold, all the men of Israel came to the king, and said to
the king, Why have our brothers the men of Judah stolen you away, and
brought the king, and his household, over the Jordan, and all David's
men with him?
2Sa
19:42 All the men of Judah answered the men of Israel, Because the
king is a close relative to us: why then are you angry for this
matter? have we eaten at all at the king's cost? or has he given us
any gift?
2Sa
19:43 The men of Israel answered the men of Judah, and said, We have
ten parts in the king, and we have also more right
in David than you: why then did you despise us, that our advice
should not be first had in bringing back our king? The words of the
men of Judah were fiercer than the words of the men of Israel.
2Sa
20:1 There happened to be there a base fellow, whose name was Sheba,
the son of Bichri, a Benjamite: and he blew the trumpet, and said, We
have no portion in David, neither have we inheritance in the son of
Jesse: every man to his tents, Israel.
2Sa
20:2 So all the men of Israel went up from following David, and
followed Sheba the son of Bichri; but the men of Judah joined with
their king, from the Jordan even to Jerusalem.
2Sa
20:3 David came to his house at Jerusalem; and the king took the ten
women his concubines, whom he had left to keep the house, and put
them in custody, and provided them with sustenance, but didn't go in
to them. So they were shut up to the day of their death, living in
widowhood.
2Sa
20:4 Then said the king to Amasa, Call me the men of Judah together
within three days, and be here present.
2Sa
20:5 So Amasa went to call the men of
Judah together; but he stayed longer than the set time which he had
appointed him.
2Sa
20:6 David said to Abishai, Now will Sheba the son of Bichri do us
more harm than did Absalom: take your lord's servants, and pursue
after him, lest he get him fortified cities, and escape out of our
sight.
2Sa
20:7 There went out after him Joab's men, and the Cherethites and
the Pelethites, and all the mighty men; and they went out of
Jerusalem, to pursue after Sheba the son of Bichri.
2Sa
20:8 When they were at the great stone which is in Gibeon, Amasa
came to meet them. Joab was girded with his apparel of war that he
had put on, and thereon was a sash with a sword fastened on his waist
in its sheath; and as he went forth it fell out.
2Sa
20:9 Joab said to Amasa, Is it well with you, my brother? Joab took
Amasa by the beard with his right hand to kiss him.
2Sa
20:10 But Amasa took no heed to the sword that was in Joab's hand:
so he struck him therewith in the body, and shed out his bowels to
the ground, and didn't strike him again; and he died. Joab and
Abishai his brother pursued after Sheba the son of Bichri.
2Sa
20:11 There stood by him one of Joab's young men, and said, He who
favors Joab, and he who is for David, let him follow Joab.
2Sa
20:12 Amasa lay wallowing in his blood in the midst of the highway.
When the man saw that all the people stood still, he carried Amasa
out of the highway into the field, and cast a garment over him, when
he saw that everyone who came by him stood still.
2Sa
20:13 When he was removed out of the highway, all the people went on
after Joab, to pursue after Sheba the son of Bichri.
2Sa
20:14 He went through all the tribes of Israel to Abel, and to Beth
Maacah, and all the Berites: and they were gathered together, and
went also after him.
2Sa
20:15 They came and besieged him in Abel of Beth Maacah, and they
cast up a mound against the city, and it stood against the rampart;
and all the people who were with Joab battered the wall, to throw it
down.
2Sa
20:16 Then cried a wise woman out of the city, "Hear, hear!
Please say to Joab, 'Come near here, that I may speak with you.' "
2Sa
20:17 He came near to her; and the woman said, Are you Joab? He
answered, I am. Then she said to him, Hear the words of your
handmaid. He answered, I do hear.
2Sa
20:18 Then she spoke, saying, They were wont to speak in old time,
saying, They shall surely ask counsel
at Abel: and so they ended the matter.
2Sa
20:19 I am of those who are peaceable and faithful in Israel: you
seek to destroy a city and a mother in Israel: why will you swallow
up the inheritance of Yahweh?
2Sa
20:20 Joab answered, Far be it, far be it from me, that I should
swallow up or destroy.
2Sa
20:21 The matter is not so: but a man of the hill country of
Ephraim, Sheba the son of Bichri by name, has lifted up his hand
against the king, even against David; deliver him only, and I will
depart from the city. The woman said to Joab, Behold, his head shall
be thrown to you over the wall.
2Sa
20:22 Then the woman went to all the people in her wisdom. They cut
off the head of Sheba the son of Bichri, and threw it out to Joab. He
blew the trumpet, and they were dispersed from the city, every man to
his tent. Joab returned to Jerusalem to the king.
2Sa
20:23 Now Joab was over all the army of Israel; and Benaiah the son
of Jehoiada was over the Cherethites and over the Pelethites;
2Sa
20:24 and Adoram was over the men subject to forced labor; and
Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud was the recorder;
2Sa
20:25 and Sheva was scribe; and Zadok and Abiathar were priests;
2Sa
20:26 and also Ira the Jairite was chief minister to David.
2Sa
21:1 There was a famine in the days of David three years, year after
year; and David sought the face of Yahweh. Yahweh said, It is for
Saul, and for his bloody house, because he put to death the
Gibeonites.
2Sa
21:2 The king called the Gibeonites, and said to them (now the
Gibeonites were not of the children of Israel, but of the remnant of
the Amorites; and the children of Israel had sworn to them: and Saul
sought to kill them in his zeal for the children of Israel and
Judah);
2Sa
21:3 and David said to the Gibeonites, What shall I do for you? And
with what shall I make atonement, that you may bless the inheritance
of Yahweh?
2Sa
21:4 The Gibeonites said to him, It is no matter of silver or gold
between us and Saul, or his house; neither is it for us to put any
man to death in Israel. He said, What you shall say, that will I do
for you.
2Sa
21:5 They said to the king, The man who consumed us, and who devised
against us, that
we should be destroyed from remaining in any of the borders of
Israel,
2Sa
21:6 let seven men of his sons be delivered to us, and we will hang
them up to Yahweh in Gibeah of Saul, the chosen of Yahweh. The king
said, I will give them.
2Sa
21:7 But the king spared Mephibosheth, the son of Jonathan the son
of Saul, because of Yahweh's oath that was between them, between
David and Jonathan the son of Saul.
2Sa
21:8 But the king took the two sons of Rizpah the daughter of Aiah,
whom she bore to Saul, Armoni and Mephibosheth; and the five sons of
Michal the daughter of Saul, whom she bore to Adriel the son of
Barzillai the Meholathite:
2Sa
21:9 He delivered them into the hands of the Gibeonites, and they
hanged them in the mountain before Yahweh, and they fell all
seven together. They were put to death in the days of harvest, in the
first days, at the beginning of barley harvest.
2Sa
21:10 Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth, and spread it for
her on the rock, from the beginning of harvest until water was poured
on them from the sky; and she allowed neither the birds of the sky to
rest on them by day, nor the animals of the field by night.
2Sa
21:11 It was told David what Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, the
concubine of Saul, had done.
2Sa
21:12 David went and took the bones of Saul and the bones of
Jonathan his son from the men of Jabesh Gilead, who had stolen them
from the street of Beth Shan, where the Philistines had hanged them,
in the day that the Philistines killed Saul in Gilboa;
2Sa
21:13 and he brought up from there the bones of Saul and the bones
of Jonathan his son: and they gathered the bones of those who were
hanged.
2Sa
21:14 They buried the bones of Saul and Jonathan his son in the
country of Benjamin in Zela, in the tomb of Kish his father: and they
performed all that the king commanded. After that God was entreated
for the land.
2Sa
21:15 The Philistines had war again with Israel; and David went
down, and his servants with him, and fought against the Philistines.
David grew faint;
2Sa
21:16 and Ishbibenob, who was of the sons of the giant, the weight
of whose spear was three hundred shekels
of brass in weight, he being girded with a new sword,
thought to have slain David.
2Sa
21:17 But Abishai the son of Zeruiah helped him, and struck the
Philistine, and killed him. Then the men of David swore to him,
saying, You shall go no more out with us to battle, that you don't
quench the lamp of Israel.
2Sa
21:18 It came to pass after this, that there was again war with the
Philistines at Gob: then Sibbecai the Hushathite killed Saph, who was
of the sons of the giant.
2Sa
21:19 There was again war with the Philistines at Gob; and Elhanan
the son of Jaareoregim the Bethlehemite killed Goliath the Gittite's
brother, the staff of whose spear was like a weaver's beam.
2Sa
21:20 There was again war at Gath, where there was a man of great
stature, who had on every hand six fingers, and on every foot six
toes, four and twenty in number; and he also was born to the giant.
2Sa
21:21 When he defied Israel, Jonathan the son of Shimei, David's
brother, killed him.
2Sa
21:22 These four were born to the giant in Gath; and they fell by
the hand of David, and by the hand of his servants.
June
27
2
Samuel 22-24
2Sa
22:1 David spoke to Yahweh the words of this song in the day that
Yahweh delivered him out of the hand of all his enemies, and out of
the hand of Saul:
2Sa
22:2 and he said, Yahweh is my rock, my fortress, and my deliverer,
even mine;
2Sa
22:3 God, my rock, in him I will take refuge; my shield, and the
horn of my salvation, my high tower, and my refuge. My savior, you
save me from violence.
2Sa
22:4 I will call on Yahweh, who is worthy to be praised: So shall I
be saved from my enemies.
2Sa
22:5 For the waves of death surrounded me. The floods of ungodliness
made me afraid.
2Sa
22:6 The cords of Sheol were around me. The snares of death caught
me.
2Sa
22:7 In my distress I called on Yahweh. Yes, I called to my God. He
heard my voice out of his temple. My cry came
into his ears.
2Sa
22:8 Then the earth shook and trembled. The foundations of heaven
quaked and were shaken, because he was angry.
2Sa
22:9 Smoke went up out of his nostrils. Fire out of his mouth
devoured. Coals were kindled by it.
2Sa
22:10 He bowed the heavens also, and came down. Thick darkness was
under his feet.
2Sa
22:11 He rode on a cherub, and flew. Yes, he was seen on the wings
of the wind.
2Sa
22:12 He made darkness pavilions around himself: gathering of
waters, and thick clouds of the skies.
2Sa
22:13 At the brightness before him, coals of fire were kindled.
2Sa
22:14 Yahweh thundered from heaven. The Most High uttered his voice.
2Sa
22:15 He sent out arrows, and scattered them; lightning, and
confused them.
2Sa
22:16 Then the channels of the sea appeared. The foundations of the
world were laid bare by the rebuke of Yahweh, At the blast of the
breath of his nostrils.
2Sa
22:17 He sent from on high and he took me. He drew me out of many
waters.
2Sa
22:18 He delivered me from my strong enemy, from those who hated me,
for they were too mighty for me.
2Sa
22:19 They came on me in the day of my calamity, but Yahweh was my
support.
2Sa
22:20 He also brought me out into a large place. He delivered me,
because he delighted in me.
2Sa
22:21 Yahweh rewarded me according to my righteousness. He rewarded
me according to the cleanness of my hands.
2Sa
22:22 For I have kept the ways of Yahweh, and have not wickedly
departed from my God.
2Sa
22:23 For all his ordinances were before me. As for his statutes, I
did not depart from them.
2Sa
22:24 I was also perfect toward him. I kept myself from my iniquity.
2Sa
22:25 Therefore Yahweh has rewarded me according to my
righteousness, According to my cleanness in his eyesight.
2Sa
22:26 With the merciful you will show yourself merciful. With the
perfect man you will show yourself perfect.
2Sa
22:27 With the pure you will show yourself pure. With the crooked
you will show yourself shrewd.
2Sa
22:28 You will save the afflicted people, But your eyes are on the
haughty, that you may bring them down.
2Sa
22:29 For you are my lamp, Yahweh. Yahweh will light up my darkness.
2Sa
22:30 For by you, I run against a troop. By my God, I leap over a
wall.
2Sa
22:31 As for God, his way is perfect. The word of Yahweh is tested.
He is a shield to all those who take refuge in him.
2Sa
22:32 For who is God, besides Yahweh? Who is a rock, besides our
God?
2Sa
22:33 God is my strong fortress. He makes my way perfect.
2Sa
22:34 He makes his feet like hinds' feet,
and sets me on my high places.
2Sa
22:35 He teaches my hands to war, so that my arms bend a bow of
brass.
2Sa
22:36 You have also given me the shield of your salvation. Your
gentleness has made me great.
2Sa
22:37 You have enlarged my steps under me. My feet have not slipped.
2Sa
22:38 I have pursued my enemies and destroyed them. I didn't turn
again until they were consumed.
2Sa
22:39 I have consumed them, and struck them through, so that they
can't arise. Yes, they have fallen under my feet.
2Sa
22:40 For you have armed me with strength for the battle. You have
subdued under me those who rose up against me.
2Sa
22:41 You have also made my enemies turn their backs to me, that I
might cut off those who hate me.
2Sa
22:42 They looked, but there was none to save; even to Yahweh, but
he didn't answer them.
2Sa
22:43 Then I beat them as small as the dust of the earth. I crushed
them as the mire of the streets, and spread them abroad.
2Sa
22:44 You also have delivered me from the strivings of my people.
You have kept me to be the head of the nations. A people whom I have
not known will serve me.
2Sa
22:45 The foreigners will submit themselves to me. As soon as they
hear of me, they will obey me.
2Sa
22:46 The foreigners will fade away, and will come trembling out of
their close places.
2Sa
22:47 Yahweh lives! Blessed be my rock! Exalted be God, the rock of
my salvation,
2Sa
22:48 even the God who executes vengeance for me, who brings down
peoples under me,
2Sa
22:49 who brings me away from my enemies. Yes, you lift me up above
those who rise up against me. You deliver me from the violent man.
2Sa
22:50 Therefore I will give thanks to you, Yahweh, among the
nations. Will sing praises to your name.
2Sa
22:51 He gives great deliverance to his king, and shows loving
kindness to his anointed, to David and to his seed, forevermore.
2Sa
23:1 Now these are the last words of David. David the son of Jesse
says, the man who was raised on high says, the anointed of the God of
Jacob, the sweet psalmist of Israel:
2Sa
23:2 The Spirit of Yahweh spoke by me. His word was on my tongue.
2Sa
23:3 The God of Israel said, the Rock of Israel spoke to me, one who
rules over men righteously, who rules in the fear of God,
2Sa
23:4 He shall be
as the light of the morning, when the sun rises, a morning without
clouds, When
the tender grass springs
out of the earth, Through clear shining after rain.
2Sa
23:5 Most certainly my house is not so with God, yet he has made
with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things, and sure, for
it is all my salvation, and all my
desire, although he doesn't make it grow.
2Sa
23:6 But all of the ungodly shall be as thorns to be thrust away,
because they can't be taken with the hand,
2Sa
23:7 But the man who touches them must be armed with iron and the
staff of a spear. They shall be utterly burned with fire in their
place.
2Sa
23:8 These are the names of the mighty men whom David had: Josheb
Basshebeth a Tahchemonite, chief of the captains; the same was Adino
the Eznite, against eight hundred slain at one time.
2Sa
23:9 After him was Eleazar the son of Dodai the son of an Ahohite,
one of the three mighty men with David, when they defied the
Philistines who were there gathered together to battle, and the men
of Israel were gone away.
2Sa
23:10 He arose, and struck the Philistines until his hand was weary,
and his hand froze to the sword; and Yahweh worked a great victory
that day; and the people returned after him only to take spoil.
2Sa
23:11 After him was Shammah the son of Agee a Hararite. The
Philistines were gathered together into a troop, where there was a
plot of ground full of lentils; and the people fled from the
Philistines.
2Sa
23:12 But he stood in the midst of the plot, and defended it, and
killed the Philistines; and Yahweh worked a great victory.
2Sa
23:13 Three of the thirty chief men went down, and came to David in
the harvest time to the cave of Adullam; and the troop of the
Philistines was encamped in the valley of Rephaim.
2Sa
23:14 David was then in the stronghold; and the garrison of the
Philistines was then in Bethlehem.
2Sa
23:15 David longed, and said, Oh that one would give me water to
drink of the well of Bethlehem, which is by the gate!
2Sa
23:16 The three mighty men broke through the army of the
Philistines, and drew water out of the well of Bethlehem, that was by
the gate, and took it, and brought it to David: but he would not
drink of it, but poured it out to Yahweh.
2Sa
23:17 He said, Be it far from me, Yahweh, that I should do this:
shall I drink
the blood of the men who went in jeopardy of their lives? therefore
he would not drink it. These things did the three mighty men.
2Sa
23:18 Abishai, the brother of Joab, the son of Zeruiah, was chief of
the three. He lifted up his spear against three hundred and killed
them, and had a name among the three.
2Sa
23:19 Wasn't he most honorable of the three? therefore he was made
their captain: however he didn't attain to the first
three.
2Sa
23:20 Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the son of a valiant man of
Kabzeel, who had done mighty deeds, he killed the two sons
of Ariel of Moab: he went down also and
killed a lion in the midst of a pit in time of snow.
2Sa
23:21 He killed an Egyptian, a goodly man: and the Egyptian had a
spear in his hand; but he went down to him with a staff, and plucked
the spear out of the Egyptian's hand, and killed him with his own
spear.
2Sa
23:22 These things did Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and had a name
among the three mighty men.
2Sa
23:23 He was more honorable than the thirty, but he didn't attain to
the first
three. David set him over his guard.
2Sa
23:24 Asahel the brother of Joab was one of the thirty; Elhanan the
son of Dodo of Bethlehem,
2Sa
23:25 Shammah the Harodite, Elika the Harodite,
2Sa
23:26 Helez the Paltite, Ira the son of Ikkesh the Tekoite,
2Sa
23:27 Abiezer the Anathothite, Mebunnai the Hushathite,
2Sa
23:28 Zalmon the Ahohite, Maharai the Netophathite,
2Sa
23:29 Heleb the son of Baanah the Netophathite, Ittai the son of
Ribai of Gibeah of the children of Benjamin,
2Sa
23:30 Benaiah a Pirathonite, Hiddai of the brooks of Gaash.
2Sa
23:31 Abialbon the Arbathite, Azmaveth the Barhumite,
2Sa
23:32 Eliahba the Shaalbonite, the sons of Jashen, Jonathan,
2Sa
23:33 Shammah the Hararite, Ahiam the son of Sharar the Ararite,
2Sa
23:34 Eliphelet the son of Ahasbai, the son of the Maacathite, Eliam
the son of Ahithophel the Gilonite,
2Sa
23:35 Hezro the Carmelite, Paarai the Arbite,
2Sa
23:36 Igal the son of Nathan of Zobah, Bani the Gadite,
2Sa
23:37 Zelek the Ammonite, Naharai the Beerothite, armor bearers to
Joab the son of Zeruiah,
2Sa
23:38 Ira the Ithrite, Gareb the Ithrite,
2Sa
23:39 Uriah the Hittite: thirty-seven in all.
2Sa
24:1 Again the anger of Yahweh was kindled against Israel, and he
moved David against them, saying, Go, number Israel and Judah.
2Sa
24:2 The king said to Joab the captain of the army, who was with
him, Go now back and forth through all the tribes of Israel, from Dan
even to Beersheba, and number you the people, that I may know the sum
of the people.
2Sa
24:3 Joab said to the king, Now Yahweh your God add to the people,
however many they may be, one hundred times; and may the eyes of my
lord the king see it: but why does my lord the king delight in this
thing?
2Sa
24:4 Notwithstanding, the king's word prevailed against Joab, and
against the captains of the army. Joab and the captains of the army
went out from the presence of the king, to number the people of
Israel.
2Sa
24:5 They passed over the Jordan, and encamped in Aroer, on the
right side of the city that is in the middle of the valley of Gad,
and to Jazer:
2Sa
24:6 then they came to Gilead, and to the land of Tahtim Hodshi; and
they came to Dan Jaan, and around to Sidon,
2Sa
24:7 and came to the stronghold of Tyre, and to all the cities of
the Hivites, and of the Canaanites; and they went out to the south of
Judah, at Beersheba.
2Sa
24:8 So when they had gone back and forth through all the land, they
came to Jerusalem at the end of nine months and twenty days.
2Sa
24:9 Joab gave up the sum of the numbering of the people to the
king: and there were in Israel eight hundred thousand valiant men who
drew the sword; and the men of Judah were five hundred thousand men.
2Sa
24:10 David's heart struck him after that he had numbered the
people. David said to Yahweh, I have sinned greatly in that which I
have done: but now, Yahweh, put away, I beg you, the iniquity of your
servant; for I have done very foolishly.
2Sa
24:11 When David rose up in the morning, the word of Yahweh came to
the prophet Gad, David's seer, saying,
2Sa
24:12 Go and speak to David, Thus says Yahweh, I offer you three
things: choose one of them, that I may do it to you.
2Sa
24:13 So Gad came to David, and told him, and said to him, Shall
seven years of famine come to you in your land? or will you flee
three months before your foes while they pursue you? or shall there
be three days' pestilence in your land? Now answer, and consider what
answer I shall return to him who sent me.
2Sa
24:14 David said to Gad, I am in distress. Let us fall now into the
hand of Yahweh; for his mercies are great; and let me not fall into
the hand of man.
2Sa
24:15 So Yahweh sent a pestilence on Israel from the morning even to
the time appointed; and there died of the people from Dan even to
Beersheba seventy thousand men.
2Sa
24:16 When the angel stretched out his hand toward Jerusalem to
destroy it, Yahweh relented of the disaster, and said to the angel
who destroyed the people, It is enough; now stay your hand. The angel
of Yahweh was by the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.
2Sa
24:17 David spoke to Yahweh when he saw the angel who struck the
people, and said, Behold, I have sinned, and I have done perversely;
but these sheep, what have they done? Please let your hand be against
me, and against my father's house.
2Sa
24:18 Gad came that day to David, and said to him, Go up, rear an
altar to Yahweh in the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.
2Sa
24:19 David went up according to the saying of Gad, as Yahweh
commanded.
2Sa
24:20 Araunah looked forth, and saw the king and his servants coming
on toward him: and Araunah went out, and bowed himself before the
king with his face to the ground.
2Sa
24:21 Araunah said, Why is my lord the king come to his servant?
David said, To buy the threshing floor of you, to build an altar to
Yahweh, that the plague may be stopped from afflicting the people.
2Sa
24:22 Araunah said to David, Let my lord the king take and offer up
what seems good to him: behold, the cattle for the burnt offering,
and the threshing instruments and the yokes of the oxen for the wood:
2Sa
24:23 all this, king, does Araunah give to the king. Araunah said to
the king, Yahweh your God accept you.
2Sa
24:24 The king said to Araunah, No; but I will most certainly buy it
of you at a price. Neither will I offer burnt offerings to Yahweh my
God which cost me nothing. So David bought the threshing floor and
the oxen for fifty shekels of silver.
2Sa
24:25 David built there an altar to Yahweh, and offered burnt
offerings and peace offerings. So Yahweh was entreated for the land,
and the plague was stayed from Israel.
Jun. 25
John 21
Joh
21:1 After these things, Jesus revealed himself again to the
disciples at the sea of Tiberias. He revealed himself this way.
Joh
21:2 Simon Peter, Thomas called Didymus, Nathanael of Cana in
Galilee, and the sons of Zebedee, and two others of his disciples
were together.
Joh
21:3 Simon Peter said to them, "I'm going fishing." They
told him, "We are also coming with you." They immediately
went out, and entered into the boat. That night, they caught nothing.
Joh
21:4 But when day had already come, Jesus stood on the beach, yet
the disciples didn't know that it was Jesus.
Joh
21:5 Jesus therefore said to them, "Children, have you anything
to eat?" They answered him, "No."
Joh
21:6 He said to them, "Cast the net on the right side of the
boat, and you will find some." They cast it therefore, and now
they weren't able to draw it in for the multitude of fish.
Joh
21:7 That disciple therefore whom Jesus loved said to Peter, "It's
the Lord!" So when Simon Peter heard that it was the Lord, he
wrapped his coat around him (for he was naked), and threw himself
into the sea.
Joh
21:8 But the other disciples came in the little boat (for they were
not far from the land, but about two hundred cubits away), dragging
the net full of fish.
Joh
21:9 So when they got out on the land, they saw a fire of coals
there, and fish laid on it, and bread.
Joh
21:10 Jesus said to them, "Bring some of the fish which you
have just caught."
Joh
21:11 Simon Peter went up, and drew the net to land, full of great
fish, one hundred fifty-three; and even though there were so many,
the net wasn't torn.
Joh
21:12 Jesus said to them, "Come and eat breakfast." None
of the disciples dared inquire of him, "Who are you?"
knowing that it was the Lord.
Joh
21:13 Then Jesus came and took the bread, gave it to them, and the
fish likewise.
Joh
21:14 This is now the third time that Jesus was revealed to his
disciples, after he had risen from the dead.
Joh
21:15 So when they had eaten their breakfast, Jesus said to Simon
Peter, "Simon, son of Jonah, do you love me more than these?"
He said to him, "Yes, Lord; you know that I have affection for
you." He said to him, "Feed my lambs."
Joh
21:16 He said to him again a second time, "Simon, son of Jonah,
do you love me?" He said to him, "Yes, Lord; you know that
I have affection for you." He said to him, "Tend my sheep."
Joh
21:17 He said to him the third time, "Simon, son of Jonah, do
you have affection for me?" Peter was grieved because he asked
him the third time, "Do you have affection for me?" He said
to him, "Lord, you know everything. You know that I have
affection for you." Jesus said to him, "Feed my sheep.
Joh
21:18 Most certainly I tell you, when you were young, you dressed
yourself, and walked where you wanted to. But when you are old, you
will stretch out your hands, and another will dress you, and carry
you where you don't want to go."
Joh
21:19 Now he said this, signifying by what kind of death he would
glorify God. When he had said this, he said to him, "Follow me."
Joh
21:20 Then Peter, turning around, saw a disciple following. This was
the disciple whom Jesus sincerely loved, the one who had also leaned
on Jesus' breast at the supper and asked, "Lord, who is going to
betray You?"
Joh
21:21 Peter seeing him, said to Jesus, "Lord, what about this
man?"
Joh
21:22 Jesus said to him, "If I desire that he stay until I
come, what is that to you? You follow me."
Joh
21:23 This saying therefore went out among the brothers, that this
disciple wouldn't die. Yet Jesus didn't say to him that he wouldn't
die, but, "If I desire that he stay until I come, what is that
to you?"
Joh
21:24 This is the disciple who testifies about these things, and
wrote these things. We know that his witness is true.
Joh
21:25 There are also many other things which Jesus did, which if
they would all be written, I suppose that even the world itself
wouldn't have room for the books that would be written.
Jun.
26, 27
Acts 1
Act 1:1
The first book I wrote, Theophilus, concerned all that Jesus began
both to do and to teach,
Act 1:2
until the day in which he was received up, after he had given
commandment through the Holy Spirit to the apostles whom he had
chosen.
Act 1:3
To these he also showed himself alive after he suffered, by many
proofs, appearing to them over a period of forty days, and speaking
about God's Kingdom.
Act 1:4
Being assembled together with them, he commanded them, "Don't
depart from Jerusalem, but wait for the promise of the Father, which
you heard from me.
Act 1:5
For John indeed baptized in water, but you will be baptized in the
Holy Spirit not many days from now."
Act 1:6
Therefore, when they had come together, they asked him, "Lord,
are you now restoring the kingdom to Israel?"
Act 1:7
He said to them, "It isn't for you to know times or seasons
which the Father has set within his own authority.
Act 1:8
But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you.
You will be witnesses to me in Jerusalem, in all Judea and Samaria,
and to the uttermost parts of the earth."
Act 1:9
When he had said these things, as they were looking, he was taken
up, and a cloud received him out of their sight.
Act
1:10 While they were looking steadfastly into the sky as he went,
behold, two men stood by them in white clothing,
Act
1:11 who also said, "You men of Galilee, why do you stand
looking into the sky? This Jesus, who was received up from you into
the sky will come back in the same way as you saw him going into the
sky."
Act
1:12 Then they returned to Jerusalem from the mountain called
Olivet, which is near Jerusalem, a Sabbath day's journey away.
Act
1:13 When they had come in, they went up into the upper room, where
they were staying; that is Peter, John, James, Andrew, Philip,
Thomas, Bartholomew, Matthew, James the son of Alphaeus, Simon the
Zealot, and Judas the son of James.
Act
1:14 All these with one accord continued steadfastly in prayer and
supplication, along with the women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and
with his brothers.
Act
1:15 In these days, Peter stood up in the midst of the disciples
(and the number of names was about one hundred twenty), and said,
Act
1:16 "Brothers, it was necessary that this Scripture should be
fulfilled, which the Holy Spirit spoke before by the mouth of David
concerning Judas, who was guide to those who took Jesus.
Act
1:17 For he was numbered with us, and received his portion in this
ministry.
Act
1:18 Now this man obtained a field with the reward for his
wickedness, and falling headlong, his body burst open, and all his
intestines gushed out.
Act
1:19 It became known to everyone who lived in Jerusalem that in
their language that field was called 'Akeldama,' that is, 'The field
of blood.'
Act
1:20 For it is written in the book of Psalms, 'Let his habitation be
made desolate. Let no one dwell therein;' and, 'Let another take his
office.'
Act
1:21 "Of the men therefore who have accompanied us all the time
that the Lord Jesus went in and out among us,
Act
1:22 beginning from the baptism of John, to the day that he was
received up from us, of these one must become a witness with us of
his resurrection."
Act
1:23 They put forward two, Joseph called Barsabbas, who was surnamed
Justus, and Matthias.
Act
1:24 They prayed, and said, "You, Lord, who know the hearts of
all men, show which one of these two you have chosen
Act
1:25 to take part in this ministry and apostleship from which Judas
fell away, that he might go to his own place."
Act
1:26 They drew lots for them, and the lot fell on Matthias, and he
was numbered with the eleven apostles.
